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 <[email protected]> > Date: 22 February 2014 10:48:23 GMT > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Using Wikidata for your projects > Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> > > 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 > > List of Indian actors - > http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/index.html?&q=1291621 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
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