Wikidata:Events/Africa Open Data Conference, Accra

A Wikidata workshop organised by Wikimedia Ghana usergroup as part of the second Africa Open Data Conference held in Accra between 17-21 July 2017. After attending the session, participants will be able to edit existing Wikidata pages and create new items. A pre-conference Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place on Saturday July 15 focused on improving Wikipedia entries related to feminism in Africa.

Wikidata Hack-a-thon

Resource person

• Mohammed Sadat Abdulai

Time

Saturday July 15, 10:00 - 14:00 UTC

Location

iSpace Foundation (map)

Schedule

1. General Introduction to Wikidata
2. Getting started with Wikidata
3. Contributing new data to Wikidata
   1. Adding tags to Wikidata
   2. Create new Wikidata items
   3. Finding Wikipedia articles with no Wikidata items
4. Embed data from Wikidata into pages on other wikis ( 12:00 - 14:00 UTC)
5. Hands on improving the Wikidata item on Accra (Q3761)

Resources

• Presentation slides
• Wikidata:Main Page
• Wikidata Query system
• Wikidata:List of properties
• Wikidata Games

1. Wikidata-game
2. The Distributed Game

• Finding Wikipedia articles with no Wikidata item

1. 'No item game' by Magnus Manske
2. Wikipedia:Category: Articles without Wikidata item
3. User scripts: Display Wikidata Info on sister projects

Next steps

Discuss future plans about another workshop on querying Wikidata

• Introduction to Wikidata query

1. Available tools
2. SPARQL basics

• Querying Wikidata with SPARQL(hands-on session)

1. Run Wikidata query examples
2. Write own queries

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Monday July 17,10:00 - 14:00 UTC

Resource person

• Felix Nartey

Schedule

• Wikipedia editing tutorial

1. Basic rules
2. Referencing
3. Making simple edits

• Edit-a-thon focused on improving Wikipedia entries related to

1. Biographies of notable women
2. Female-dominated occupations, eg. Kayayei

Reservation

Please bring a laptop with power cord.

Add your name by signing with ~~~~

1. —M@sssly^✉ 14:33, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
2. User:randybaah
3. --Celestinesucess (talk) 11:01, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
4. Justice Okai-Allotey --Owula kpakpo (talk) 12:27, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
5. Cobby Baidoo-Mensah --Kobemens
6. Joy Agyepong --Joy Agyepong (talk) 22:18, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
7. Sandister Tei / Sandiooses (talk) 16:11, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
8. Usman Ibrahim Khalilulahi 06:06, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
9. SitsofeOfori (talk) 17:41, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
10. SAgbley --SAgbley (talk) 06:18, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

See also

• Grants:Project/Rapid/WMGUG/Africa Open Data Conference