Wikidata:WikiProject Linked Data for Production/2020-07-10 Wikidata Working Hour
July 10, 2020 Wikidata Working Hour edit
Friday, July 10, 2020 at 12pm PDT / 3:00 pm EDT / 19:00 UTC / 9:00 pm CEST
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You're welcome to work on your own projects, but if you're looking for things to work on, consider working on editing and creating items related to Art + Feminism + Activism.
Spreadsheet edit
We'll be working off of a spreadsheet today with a list of artists, activists, and organizations. This is not by any means comprehensive. Please add to the list if you would like.
- Additionally, here is a spreadsheet that I made for editWikipedia4BlackLives earlier this week that you are welcome to work from. --Librarian lena (talk) 15:37, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- Lena shared an updated spreadsheet with us to work from.
- And yet more additionally, here's a list of articles and other resources on "Disrupting Whiteness in Libraries and Librarianship". I'm interested in creating items for articles and books, especially older ones that aren't like to be creating by bots that work on recent journal articles, as well as their authors, where possible. --User:Fernsebner
Add your initials or some other marker to indicate that you are working on a person or organization in the "Initials" column.
If you can't find enough information about an entity to create an item or encounter another obstacle, you can add it to the "Notes" column.
Relevant Wikidata Policies and guidelines edit
Ways to Contribute edit
Edit or create items for artists edit
1. Search Wikidata to see if your artist already has an item.
2. Create an item with label, aliases, and description or enhance one.
3. Possible properties to include:
Property | Value | Example |
---|---|---|
instance of (P31) | human (Q5) | |
sex or gender (P21) | sex or gender | male (Q6581097), female (Q6581072), intersex (Q1097630), trans woman (Q1052281), trans man (Q2449503) |
occupation (P106) | occupation | painter (Q1028181), photographer (Q33231), sculptor (Q1281618), etc. |
country of citizenship (P27) | country of citizenship | United States of America (Q30) |
date of birth (P569) | date of birth | 4 March 1973 |
place of birth (P19) | place of birth | Chicago (Q1297) |
date of death (P570) | date of death | 14 December 2017 |
place of death (P20) | place of death | Boise (Q35775) |
educated at (P69) | educated at | University of Chicago (Q131252) |
movement (P135) | movement | Black Arts Movement (Q4920294) |
official website (P856) | official website | http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/ with required qualifier language of work or name (P407) English |
Examples and resources edit
LaToya Ruby Frazier (Q19667999) Sonia Boyce (Q7561695)
Helpful page on WikiProject Stanford Libraries with information about describing people.
Cradle Tool edit
You can also create items for artists with the Cradle Tool. If you are interested in creating your own form in Cradle you can follow these instructions.
Edit or create items for activists edit
1. Search Wikidata to see if your activist already has an item.
2. Create an item with label, aliases, and description or enhance one.
3. Possible properties to include:
Property | Value | Example |
---|---|---|
instance of (P31) | human (Q5) | |
sex or gender (P21) | sex or gender | male (Q6581097), female (Q6581072), intersex (Q1097630), trans woman (Q1052281), trans man (Q2449503) |
occupation (P106) | occupation | human rights activist (Q1476215), university teacher (Q1622272), lawyer (Q40348), etc. |
country of citizenship (P27) | country of citizenship | United States of America (Q30) |
date of birth (P569) | date of birth | 4 March 1973 |
place of birth (P19) | place of birth | Chicago (Q1297) |
date of death (P570) | date of death | 14 December 2017 |
place of death (P20) | place of death | Boise (Q35775) |
employer (P108) | employer | Stanford University (Q41506) |
work location (P937) | location of work | Chicago (Q1297) |
field of work (P101) | field of work | prison reform (Q7245788), etc. |
educated at (P69) | educated at | University of Chicago (Q131252) |
official website (P856) | official website | http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/ with required qualifier language of work or name (P407) English |
Examples and resources edit
Helpful page on WikiProject Stanford Libraries with information about describing people.
Edit or create items for organizations edit
1. Search Wikidata to see if your organization already has an item.
2. Create an item with label, aliases, and description or enhance one.
3. Possible properties to include:
Property | Value | Example |
---|---|---|
instance of (P31) | organization (Q43229), nonprofit organization (Q163740), advocacy group (Q431603), etc. | |
official website (P856) | official website | http://www.innocenceproject.org/ with required qualifier language of work or name (P407) English |
country (P17) | country | United States of America (Q30) |
headquarters location (P159) | headquarters location | New York City (Q60) |
inception (P571) | inception | 4 March 1973 or 1973 |
founded by (P112) | founded by | Barry Scheck (Q4864713) |
field of work (P101) | field of work | prison reform (Q7245788), climate justice (Q1291678), etc. |
Examples edit
Audre Lorde Project (Q4820083)
Add references to people and organizations that already have items in Wikidata edit
References edit
Most statements on Wikidata should be verifiable in some source of information. They point to a source that supports the data in a statement. References have a property and value like statements. The value is the source. The property is usually:
stated in (P248) for publications and media reference URL (P854) for websites and online databases
References are not required in some circumstances: edit
- Statement represents common knowledge that isn’t disputed
George Washington (Q23) → instance of (P31) → human (Q5)
- Statement refers to an external source of information that can be easily verified
Mary Jo White (Q6779939) → ISNI (P213) → 0000 0000 4948 7201
- Item itself is a source for the statement
References for Websites edit
The most common sources in Wikidata are probably websites. Use reference URL (P854) with the website as the value and retrieved (P813) with the date you accessed the website.
Helpful Resources about References edit
- Help:Sources includes a good overview as well as steps for adding different types of resources as sources.
- Wikidata:Verifiability discusses what Wikidata considers are verifiable sources.
- LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group slides on references includes steps for adding an article and a book as a source for a reference.
- Stanford Libraries page on references including a list of properties used with references
- DuplicateReferences and currentDate gadgets