Wikidata:WikiProject Documentation

Welcome to Wikidata's WikiProject Documentation, where we create, maintain and improve documentation about Wikidata.

This WikiProject was born at the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna, to continue the work during the Wikidata documentation sprint there. Google Drive folder with notes from that weekend.

Tasks

Wikidata's Main Page

Improve and maintain Wikidata's Main page.

Wikidata front page design recommendations on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165737

High-traffic documentation pages linked from the Main Page

Statistics of page views of documentation pages that are linked from the Main Page

The documentation pages that are linked from the front page and that receive most visits are

All these pages should be clear for newcomers. Help:Contents and the Community portal must probably contain a very friendly and legible starters' guide.

Wikidata documentation for beginners

The following tours are not operational yet - someone has been preparing some of them though. Let's continue and make our set of interactive tours complete.

Create a Wikidata Tour on References
Create a Wikidata Tour on Qualifiers
Create a Wikidata Tour on Ranks
Create a Wikidata Tour on Special Values

Participants

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Spinster 💬 12:16, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Fuzheado (talk) 12:17, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
JakobVoss (talk) 13:51, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel Mietchen (talk) 13:59, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
ArthurPSmith (talk) 07:51, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Pintoch (talk) 10:03, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Usually interested in translatability. --Nemo 13:57, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Jens Ohlig (WMDE) (talk) 12:06, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
ChristianKl (talk) 17:47, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Mtmlan84 (talk) 08:12, 1 June 2017 (UTC) specially interested in (and somewhat skilled at:) designing graphs, flow charts and other illustrations[reply]
Jmabel (talk) 22:49, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 12:14, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
John Samuel 17:44, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:06, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Eihel (talk) 21:30, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Waldyrious (talk) 16:29, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata:WikiProject Documentation

Tasks

Wikidata's Main Page

High-traffic documentation pages linked from the Main Page

Wikidata documentation for beginners

Wikidata:Introduction

Wikidata:Community portal

Help:Contents

Wikidata Tours

Participants