Bring projects led as professor, Wikimedian and researcher and try to distill understanding of how we are crossing a frontier in education--computational communications
Less theoretical than it is practical
Have strong theoretical sense of what we are doing
Show how we’ve been exploring Wikidata in Brazil
Ederporto, GiFontenelle and EricaAzzellini and others
Why talking about a need--not so clear what can be achieved with Wikidata?
Know how to achieve metrics in Wikipedia
With Wikidata exploring new phase of Wikimedia projects and education
Explore Wikidata as a solution through 3 projects
Wikidata has become solution to solve 3 needs
How can we improve efficiently and effectively content on municipal elections in Brazil on Wikipedia?
Good sources of information are hard for people to access and understand
How can we reconcile data from heterogenous databases on killed and disappeared in Brazilian military dictatorship?
Disagreeing data--4 databases that disagree--how to reconcile data?
How can we map if monuments in São Paulo are where they are claimed to be?
How to think of Wikidata as creating new information architecture
Accessory use
Wikidata as a resource for Wikimedia projects
Human editors can get bored
Start to make mistakes that could be prevented with use of automated resources
Interesting connection between bots and humans--need human editors to make reasonable decision about content
Structuring Wikidata with intentionality
Students working on articles in Wikipedia
Creating a template to create output of electoral results in table form in Wikipedia sandbox using data from Wikidata
Discussion about making process easier for users
Gives student structure for working on article
Introduction written with templates, can see infobox, tables (brought in automatically)
Students can work on analysis part of article now that the rest has been automated
Wikibook in Portuguese
Book created on famous photographer
Create digital book with images uploading
Creating Reasonator illustration of the page with photograph
Descriptive elements
Queries
Set of tools you can connect with
Code behind this one line--only important element is the Wikidata item--everything being transcluded from Wikidata
Can converge several tools that have been created by people in several countries to one place
Wikidata Art Explorer--can describe image with depicts statements
Power of Wikidata as an accessory for very cool projects
Question: In the election page process, is the introductory paragraph also generated from Wikidata?
Yes--use a structured narrative template for it
Do the students edit Wikidata?
Yes
How do you check any mistaken description added to an image?
Trust community
Museums check what’s added and whether
AI can help
Towards a structured Wikimedia
Have people work on what requires intelligence and creativity
Azzellini et al. (2019)
Vrandecic (2020)
Metadata curation
Wikidata as a solution for disagreeing data
Statements could all be true, so not necessarily choose one over other, but interconnect them
Need a language across the databases--language of reconciliation
Human editors reasonable--able to solve data conundra
This is where students are editing
Military dictatorship databases
Can completely disagree
Who is right the worst question to ask
Need to assume everyone right and create dialog
List generated by ListeriaBot
Transclusion of references--depends on database
Edits done by students
Disagreeing data--checked where information coming from
Is it a typo?--look at birth certificates, primary sources
Actual disagreement that can’t be solved--keep both data
Students have worked on editing the people on Wikipedia who have been killed during the dictatorship
Using Wikidata to create common language
Developed a game
Check the museum collection
How many of these things are seen in image?
Museum can collect information and see if what has been done as community is useful and then can bring back to local database
Question: Could the form for game be designed to work with Cradle and Schema (ShEx)?
Can follow up with Eder
Roundtripping--use structured data on commons with hope of eventually rountripping
Ex. this item in Wikicommons M74329853 same as File:Manifestação estudantil contra a Ditadura Militar 577.tif we need to define an easy way like ORCID or DOI to add the location of a picture(s) so we can easy check the M74329853 were we find other pictures and can then extracmetadata from more places t
Less about creating new objects, but checking investigative elements
Data can be visually investigated and can lead to creating new digital objects
Journalism objects created based on Wikidata
Queries
City government stating where monuments located--public database
Could check to see if monuments were there--not stolen, moved, mistaken location
Student went to check that monument location was where it should be and edited in Wikidata
Can then use query to generate map
Can see irregularity of monuments across the city--cultural deserts in poorer communities
Not an initial thought from project, but emerged and was used in São Paulo newspapers
Could check how many women depicted on monument?
9 of 1200 monuments depicted them
By using Wikidata your content can continually improve
Map done from Wikimedia to check dams that were at risk
Yellow dots considered dams that could lead to disaster
Green and blue okay or almost okay
Check each dam with students
Call dams and communicate with technicians
Some missing information--doesn’t exist
Investigative use of Wikidata
Items already exist on Wikidata
Done as hackathon
Using Wikidata as element to organize references
Articles used on Wikipedia in Portuguese and brought to Wikidata
Relies on Scholia
Can check most frequent keywords that journal has
Check images of authors and which authors published the mosts and visualize their connections
Had Wikidata lab on this work
Accessibility
Spoken Wikipedia
Through Wikidata having students create audible versions of paintings that are then associated with the Wikidata entry and eventually show up in Wikipedia infoboxes
Can provide very quickly a set of products that museums, NGOs could rely on
Language determined at this point--only have Brazilian Portuguese
Structure depicts so audible versions can be available in any language
Query based media production
Can distill more theoretical points
Structuring Wikipedia--structured gambiarra--workaround--not sure just try it
Interconnecting databases
Querying
Innovations in process, objects/product
Thinking about Wikidata as part of ecology in digital world
Data literacy included in academic curriculum
Received 300,000 images that know nothing about because were censored during military dictatorship
Structured data on Commons as first step to see what is in picture
Can eventually find when image was taken
Hopes will be able to query in future
Invitation to Wikidata Lab XXIII--Shani Evanstein--thinking about Wikidata and education connection--working on Ph.D.
Question: How to transclude Wikibooks from wikidata items?
Question: What advice do you have for people hosting wikidata hackathons for undergraduate students?
Think about need--less about learning technology--don’t make good use of technology they know how to use
Need that they can solve--empowerment
Could be more meaningful as framing as solving issue--festival--people engage with project because of making a difference in world--not based around technology
Make sure that doesn’t get boring--need to automate part of the work, so can build upon that
Development hackathon--empowering student to present development
Wikidata Labs usually very technical--choose an undergrad or recent grad student to present--have 3-4 months to prepare presentation--everyone can learn it and learn to the point where you can collaboratively share it
Tec
Question: is it possible to automate data insertion using some technology together with curriculo lattes?
Academic curriculum database in Brazil--should be able to provide in CSV, but doesn’t work
Should be possible--data is available, but there are some political barriers
Requires real technical investment--don’t make easy for automatic scraping
Often scrape databases--contact institutions if cannot get through the government