Excellent, thanks. I’ll come.
Maybe you could liaise with the WMUK office to sort out a date and a room.
Many thanks for that.
Michael
On 22 Feb 2014, at 13:23, Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have been an editor there for a couple of years. I
would be willing.
Joe
On 22 Feb 2014 12:58, "Michael Maggs" <michael(a)maggs.name> wrote:
The developments in Wikidata are looking fascinating. It would be great if someone who
knows a bit about them could run a workshop for those if us who would like to find out
more.
Anyone like to volunteer?
Michael
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 22 February 2014 10:48:23 GMT
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Using Wikidata for your projects
> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Hoi,
>
> The tooling that Magnus has developed is gaining in maturity. It now has
> the functionality to enrich and visualise the data in Wikidata from the
> content of categories and lists in Wikipedias.
>
> It is possible to make sure that the subjects of *YOUR* project includes
> all the statements implied by categories. Adding statements to Wikidata
> items in this way is something that you can iterate over the many
> Wikipedias (the content of the categories is different in the many
> languages).
>
> Reasonator, the tool that makes information from the Wikidata data, is now
> able to show the content of that list in near real time. Such a list makes
> it exceedingly easy to add labels in *YOUR* language; it only takes a
> click, writing the label and one more click.
>
> Obviously, you will develop *YOUR* project and consequently Wikidata will
> be biased towards your data. The alternative worse; it is not having data.
>
> I have been adding information to Wikidata in this way and frankly it is
> really compelling to add this category or that category as well and
> consider consequences.
> What I am curious about is:
>
> - what you would like to see for your project.
> - how this works when many people work together in this way on Wikidata
> - how this translates to other Wikimedia projects.
>
> Thanks,
> GerardM