Wikidata:Training/Five minutes outline

Possible outline of what would go into a 5 minute training video/session.

Problem
- Knowledge is currently scattered across different Wikipedia editions - inconsistent in accuracy and completeness
- Content in Wikipedia is "unstructured" - factual information is entangled in written prose. Names, dates, locations, dollar amounts, population figures, et al. aren't easily searched or extractable.
- Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects could benefit with connecting to external databases, but cannot do so easily
Solution
- A database to "structure" the data in Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects
Benefits
- This new knowledge base can be queried quickly and efficiently
- Consistency of information across all Wikimedia projects
- New powerful tools can be built using databases
Demonstration
- Show what a Wikidata entry looks like
  - Show a complete Wikipedia article, and corresponding Wikidata entry
- Claim = property, value, qualifier
- Editing an item directly in Wikidata
- What can be done with Wikidata
  - Inter-language links already implemented
  - SPARQL query
  - Wikidata Timeline
  - Histropedia
  - Reasonator
  - Infoboxes generated for Wikipedia
- Alternative ways of editing Wikidata
  - Wikidata Game
Takeaways
- Consider showing and turning on Preferences->Gadgets
  - DuplicateReferences
  - EasyQuery
  - Recoin