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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> 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 <[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
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