Wikidata:WikiProject Events

WikiProject Events is a wikiproject for supporting the integration of event information into Wikidata and Wikimedia projects. Supported events include academic conferences, political speeches, parades and activist marches, and community demonstrations.

About informative events edit

This project supports the collection of data about "informative events". Common elements of informative events include the following:

An informative event has a primary purpose other than entertainment
An informative event is public or shares information of interest to more people than only the attendees
An informative event communicates public speaking, presentations, and statements which, if recorded in media, might be an authoritative source to cite
Traditionally occurrences at informative events were ephemeral experiences but increasingly more people treat public states and activities an element of the presenters' publications or works

For Wikidata support in collecting data about other types of events, such as festivals, sports games, cultural events, and other events which have a primary purpose other than informing the participants and audience, see Wikidata:WikiProject Cultural events, Wikidata:WikiProject Sports, or explore the list of Wikidata:WikiProjects.

List of informative events edit

These models can describe events which are a subclass of (P279) or instance of (P31) the following:

List of common properties edit

Project goals edit

Collect the information contained in academic conference programs
- Create citations for every talk at every conference, including presenter/author, title of the talk, and the conference itself as the venue or publication
- Anticipate that conference presentations should be compatible in queries with similar works, like traditional academic publications
- Interconnect Wikidata items for individual conference presentations with a main Wikidata item for the conference itself
- Encourage academic conferences to better structure the data of their conference programs
Using academic conferences as the model, structure data for comparable events
- Political speeches, including town hall events at the local level or speaking engagements of politicians
- Activist marches, typically including a speech, commentators, and communication by walking collectively in a public place
- Community demonstrations including local grassroots protesting to any larger event which communicates a message

Motivation edit

The traditional way of publishing event programming records as ephemera is less reasonable as Wikidata presents options to use structured data to note the content, significance, and participation of events. Historically the information at conferences, speeches, marches, and demonstrations is lost as soon as the event is over. In the same way that digital publishing has made broadcasting news, journal articles, and video permanent when previously these things were more bound to their time, metadata for events makes the information from the event more lasting and useful.

Academics benefit by having better records of the presentations they have made. People want more data about the public activities and statements of their government officials. Parades and marches seek to communicate information in a collaborative way but often do not produce an impact record of what support or opposition the message received. Protests seek to communicate in a confrontational way and too often have their impact records lost due to protests by nature advocating for a minority, disenfranchised, or dis-empowered demographic.

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