Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2020-01-14
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- 2020-01-14
- Topic: Getting started in Wikidata, labels, aliases, description
- 9am PST / 12pm EST / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter)
- Chair: Hilary Thorsen, Wikimedian in Residence, Linked Data for Production project
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- Wikidata working hour Monday Feb 3 8am PST /11am EST
- Send an email to Hilary if you want to be invited through the calendar invite
- Funding for Wikicite initiatives
- Promoting free and open access to citation info, structured data!!
- Two ways to get $$
- Conferences: deadline end of month
- Smaller events: rolling grant
- Happy to help promote Wikicite community events
- Contact Merrilee or others on the WikiCite steering committee if questions, and for more info.
- Wikimedia - DPLA Collaborations
- Black Women and the Suffrage Movement first collection
- LD4 Community Meeting
- May 13-14, Texas A&M
- Call for proposals is out now, see conf site
Let’s have a bunch of Wikidata content at the conference! If you have a project, have a group, propose a discussion session, speak up! Some scholarship funding available.
- Hoping for participants from a broad range of institutions, not just academic. Public, archives, cultural heritage, community spaces…
- Promoting practical, hands on ways to get involved with linked data in order to draw broad audience
- Last year’s conf had plenty on wikidata, see web site (also some good tutorials)
- User scripts
- Mix n match gadget
- To see possible matches
- OpenStreetMap
- Mw.loader.load
- To see new item immediately if your search not found
- Mw.loader.load
- Mix n match gadget
- Trying to compile resources/ training guides around wikidata. Add your favorites to agenda! Hilary will add to our wikidata project page
- Slides of what Hilary has compiled so far:
- Overview of wikidata in one page, how to get started, query service, etc.
- Wikidata training site includes presentations folks have done. Exercises, how to plan a workshop…
- Dan Scott page on creating/editing libraries in Wikidata
- Lots of good stuff
- Labels (for items)
- Info Included in resource slides above
- Most common name of an item, not unique
Combo of label and description allows you to differentiate the item
- No wars, add an alias
- Add differentiating info in the description (e.g. if adding “John Smith”)
- General principles in slides (when to include date or namespace, capitalization)
- How are name changes handled? Maybe add an alias? Hilary will find examples
- Cliff: List old names as aliases
- Lori: uses official property name and date
- Example: Jekyll Island Museum
- Pseudonym examples needed also
- Guidelines for items without pages for finding/making common name
- Every language has its own guidelines
- Guidelines for items without pages for finding/making common name
Unresolved label issue for books (edition info in parentheses in label). This goes against general label guidelines. No community consensus.
- What are we doing??
- Arcadia: thinks edition info belongs in the description
- Makes it a bit difficult for searching, have to go into each one to find right one
- Aliases (also known as) (for items)
- Help page with guidelines in slides
- Searchable
- No limit. Not required.
- Other common names, alternative names, acronyms, abbreviations, transliterations, unicode-free versions if label contains Unicode. **Etc!!
- NOT for alternative capitalization, spelling mistakes, alternate word order for people’s names
- Follow namespace conventions
- Description (for items)
- See slides
- Disambiguates items with same labels
- A good example is Pride and Prejudice
- Avoid info that will change, opinionated/biased/promotional
- 2-12 words long, not full sentences, common formulas
- Next time will some have examples of how organizations are dealt with, pseudonyms, maybe conferences.