Erika, Well, any authority record for each event could capture location, date, and links to the invitation and any generated products externally to wiki worlds. Would that not be constructive in the context of establishing wikidatan notability?
> On Jan 6, 2018, at 10:42 AM, Brill Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi LeadSongDog, > > Yes that is an article that is part of the press list that the Black Lunch > Table has generated > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Press > > Again, not a huge fan of using refs to justify an outreach initiative. Plus > would it be necessary to use this ref to justify including Wikidata entries > as BLT? I guess I am confused as to the need to reference things, where to > reference things, and how that would work exactly. References to establish > notability on Wikidata seems like a nightmarish requirement with the current > interface. I would much prefer to use established identifiers via VIAF and > other sources to establish notability.... It builds notability on top of > established library science canons, and provides disambiguation, etc. Sorry > I'm obsessed with this stuff, so I digress.... > > I am not sure an authority control item -- I understand this conceptually but > what form does it take in practical terms? -- will provide a solution to the > problem these various outreach efforts are requiring. > > An authority control item for each editathon might be a large set of "dirty > data" on Wikidata, wouldn't it? I think the idea was to use something > lightweight, already existing, and efficient to provide a SPARQL > query/Listeria task list -- and not impinge on existing metadata > significantly. > > Having a Wikimedia project-centered maintenance (for lack of a better word) > property might be a solution, too. But I think this is the issue that came up > in the main discussion and why catalog was suggested by consensus, because a > maintenance project for the WikiWorld would be a somewhat big step > organizationally to implement, I think? Apologies, I defer to Gerard's > expertise and knowledge-base on this. > > Best, > > - Erika > > Erika Herzog > Wikipedia User:BrillLyle > >> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:45 AM, LeadSongDog <[email protected]> wrote: >> Erika, >> You might consider using >> https://www.artsy.net/article/the-art-genome-project-why-are-all-the-black-artists-sitting-together-in-the-cafeteria >> as a ref. There must be something usable there. >> >> From what I've seen it seems that BLT is principally a series of informal >> meetings, only some of which pertain to the editathons. Each meeting has >> distinct constituency and subject. As such, each could in principle get its >> own authority control, as for a convention. The individual artists attending >> may often already be so described, but as they may edit pseudonymously one >> must be careful to avoid outing. > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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