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)[reply]
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

Guidelines for Labels

Guidelines for Aliases

Guidelines for Description

Wikidata Living Person Policy

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

Michelle Alexander (Q3701413)

Bryan Stevenson (Q2698978)

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)

Innocence Project (Q1664111)

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