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Background
A little more than a year ago User:Denny created a made-up restaurant menu to show what Wikidata could be used for. When we were thinking on a way to show off the possibilities with Wikidata we stumbled upon this and thought, why not put this to the test, and try the menu out in the real world? With real restaurants and real menus used by real customers. But what would be needed for the digital menu to be useful for people? What added benefit could it create? We figured that the menus would be very interesting if we could add more languages and the possibility to include images and pronunciation recordings. The Menu Challenge is designed to create that added value!
Now there is a food festival (Q1435951), Smaka på Stockholm (Taste Stockholm), in Stockholm (Q1754) in June 2015 (Q16726272). Around 30 restaurants have special tasting menus for the occasion and from these we have compiled a list of food related items. Through this list we can create this sort of menus for the restaurants to show off the power of Wikidata to all the thousands of visitors. We want to visualize how open data can be used and benefit many actors in society. By focusing on restaurants, we show that it is not just tech companies that can benefit from the opportunities of open data and crowdsourcing.
The Menu Challenge will be based around translations of the Wikidata labels, adding images and pronunciation audio to the items of the ingredients.
Please help us prepare the menu by translating all the ingredients and the dishes to your language and by photographing and recording as much as possible. Let's get some #tastydata!
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