Workshop Wikidata SUPSI

A wikidata workshop organised at SUPSI in Switzerland 6-9 February 2017. This workshop is developed in the frame of the project Wikipedia Primary School. Overall question How to identify knowledge gaps on the Wikimedia projects? which knowledge is missing on the wikimedia projects from Africa? which knowledge is missing from the South African primary school curriculum (please refer to our selection of articles/topics)? Hypothesis Wikidata is the best tool to trace what is available on the wikimedia projects. By comparing data from wikidata and other data it is possible to define the knowledge gaps on the wikimedia projects. Outcome Visualisation of a knowledge gaps in the wikimedia projects. Skills to gain during the workshop: uploading content on Wikidata extrapolating data from Wikidata confronting data from Wikidata and other databases visualizations based on Wikidata		Visualizing Knowledge Gaps - SUPSI workshop on Wikidata - Lefleat Comparison between people born in Africa and Europe with an article on Wikipedia Women born in Africa with an article on Wikipedia according to Wikidata
Location Atelier of Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction Design, Building A, level -1. University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland SUPSI Campus Trevano, Canobbio, Switzerland	Contacts Leading the workshop: Dr. Serena Cangiano, Giovanni Profeta Participants: Marco Lurati, Fabian Frei, Giovanni Profeta, Dr. Iolanda Pensa, Florence Devouard (online), Michele Mauri (Tuesday). Thanks for the Wikidata Q&A to Jens Ohlig, Software Communication Strategist, Wikimedia Deutschland. Thanks for the workshop at the museum to Ilario Valdelli, community manager Wikimedia CH.
Schedule Monday 6 10:00 Introduction / Serena & Iolanda 10:30 -11:10 Florence Devouard: the desiderata 11:10 - 11:20 Questions analysis. The work is based on these desiderata 11:20 - 11:45 Coffee break 11:45 - 13:00 Exercise. Data retrieval session 1. Find on Wikidata the city with more and better data. Pick the question, explore, document 14:00 - 15:00 present, comment, ask questions 15:00 - 16:00 Data retrieval session 2 Pick the question, explore, document 16:00 - 16:30 present, comment, ask questions 16:30 - 17:00 break 17:00 - 18:00 Visualizations concepts Iolanda: 10-16 Tuesday 7 10:00 - 11:00 Concepts validation - data retrieval - questions for the experts 11:00 - 12:30 External participants (TBC) - Tobias Schoenwetter / Florence Devouard 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch with Ilario Valdelli to plan the Wikipedia workshop Thursday 9 February at the Natural History Museum of Lugano - promoted by Wikimedia CH and SUPSI in the frame of a project of the Laboratory of visual culture 13:30 - 16:30 Q&A wikidata Berlin session with Jens Ohlig (Wikimedia Deutschland, Software Communication Strategist) 16:30 - 17:00 break 17:00 - 18:00 Queries development Iolanda: 10-14 Michele Mauri: 10-17 Wednesday 8 10:00 - 12:30 Recap 13:30 - 14:00 Refinement of the visualizations 14:00 - 16:30 Documentation 16:30 - 17:00 break 17:00 - 18:00 Presentation and next steps (further refinement? more visualizations?) Iolanda 10-18 Thursday 9 9:00 - 11:00 Making or refinement (at the same time workshop of Ilario Valdelli at the Natural History Museum of Lugano - promoted by Wikimedia CH and SUPSI in the frame of a project of the Laboratory of visual culture) 11:00 - 12:30 Presentation 14:00 - 17:00 Refinement, documentation and reporting. Iolanda: 9-14		Report Taking notes to prepare the report https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Workshop_Wikidata_SUPSI; back up of the report on a google doc. Folder with all the documentation related to the workshop. Category on Wikimedia Commons with the visualizations produced during the workshop. Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Using Visualizations based on WikiData to Identify Knowledge Gaps on Wikipedia. Blog post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/23/digest-data-visualization/ Next steps New workshop Workshop Wiki SUPSI - Chapter 2: 3-6 April 2017 (with a meeting the 3rd, 14:00-15:00) What to do between 10 February and 3 Aprile 2017 What to do 3-6 April 2017
Related projects and initiatives Wikipedia Primary School WikiAfrica Wikidata Human Gender Indicators (WHGI) http://whgi.wmflabs.org Whose Knowledge? and Grants:Project/Whose Knowledge? Visualizations by the Oxford Internet Institute related to http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk Open Archival Data Hackathon will take place on 9 June 2016 at the State Archives of the Canton of Zurich (Winterthurerstrasse 170). http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/glam:2017-06 News about Women on Wikipedia http://www.tio.ch/News/Svizzera/Attualita/1130269/Wikipedia-dominata-dai-maschi-il-Vallese-contrattacca/ Wikidata external tools https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Workshop (video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaMdh4fXy18) Tutorials related to Wikidata and GLAMs https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donating_data_to_Wikidata.webm https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_donation Tutorial by Asaf Bartov 3-hour Wikidata tutorial. It covers what Wikidata is (00:00), how to contribute new data to Wikidata (1:09:34), how to create an entirely new item on Wikidata (1:27:07), how to embed data from Wikidata into pages on other wikis (1:52:54), tools like the Wikidata Game (1:39:20), Article Placeholder (2:01:01), Reasonator (2:54:15) and Mix-and-match (2:57:05), and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples) (starting 2:05:05). on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Gentle_Introduction_to_Wikidata_for_Absolute_Beginners_(including_non-techies!).webm on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA the slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_-_A_Gentle_Introduction_for_Complete_Beginners_(WMF_February_2017).pdf Video about GLAMs and Wikidata https://vimeo.com/198330871