Contributing to Wikidata (and Wikipedia)
John Samuel
XLDB 2017, Royat, 12
th
October, 2017
Wikidata
is
free
,
open
,
linked
,
structured
,
collaborative
and
multilingual
Q-number
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/
Q1765672
P-number
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:
P31
Contributing
to
Wikidata
QuickStatements
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:QuickStatements
E.g.,
Q1765672
P31
Q166142
E.g.,
Q1765672
P856
"http://userbase.kde.org/Akregator"
E.g. (precision: year),
Q1765672
P577
+2016-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
E.g. (precision: month),
Q1765672
P577
+2016-04-00T00:00:00Z/10
E.g. (precision: day),
Q1765672
P577
+2016-04-14T00:00:00Z/11
E.g.,
Q3669835
P625
@043.26193/010.92708
E.g. (qualifiers),
Q1765672
P348
"16.04.0"
P577
+2016-04-14T00:00:00Z/11
E.g.,
Q1765672
Len
"Akregator"
Q1765672
Lfr
"Akregator"
E.g.,
Q1765672
Den
"feed reader"
Q1765672
Dfr
"logiciel informatique"
Creating new items
CREATE
LAST Len "Software Name"
LAST Lfr "Nom du logiciel"
LAST Den "description"
LAST Dfr "description"
LAST P31 Q?
2.
What to edit?
instance of
P31
image
P18
logo image
P154
GUI toolkit or framework
P1414
software version
P348
...
All those numbers!!!
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informatics/Software/Properties
Wikidata Projects
WikiProject Informatics/
Software
WikiProject Informatics/
Operating System
WikiProject Informatics/
Programming Language
...
3.
Wikipedia Infoboxes
KDE Plasma 5 (English, Spanish, Italian, German)
HarvestTemplates
HarvestTemplates
Import data from Wikipedia Templates (e.g.,
Infoboxes
)
Template Name, Property Name, P-Number
Writing bots
Bots using
MediaWiki API
Bots using
MediaWiki API
Bots using
pywikibot
4.
Wikipedia or Wikidata?
Integration between Wikipedia infoboxes and Wikidata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra
Automated article generation
Akregator
is a
news aggregator
application in
KDE
. It was developed in
QT
GUI framework.
Conclusion
Automation and Collaboration
Linguistic Diversity
References
Wikidata in Wikipedia, Mike Peel, Wikimania 2016
Wikimedia Commons
MediaWiki API (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page)
Article Placeholder (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder)
Quickstatements (https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php)
HarvestTemplates (https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/harvesttemplates/)
PetScan (http://petscan.wmflabs.org/)
Pywikibot (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot)
Acknowledgements
Wikimedia Hackathon 2017
Wikidata community members
Q19279214!
Gracias! Thanks! Merci!