Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Submissions/Data donations: The process to get your data into Wikidata
This is an Open submission for WikidataCon 2017 that has not yet been reviewed by the members of the Program Committee.
- Submission no. 13
- Title of the submission
- Data donations: The process to get your data into Wikidata
- Author(s) of the submission
- User:Jens_Ohlig_(WMDE)
- E-mail address
- jens.ohlig
wikimedia.de
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Wikimedia Deutschland
- Type of session
- Talk (the usual conference format. 45min, large audience)
- Length of session
- 45
- Ideal number of attendees
- 23
- EtherPad for documentation
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataCon-13
- Abstract
After you have convinced an institution to donate data (or, if you are an institution: after you have been convinced) the real fun starts — how to upload all the data? Wikidata lacks a big friendly upload button, but that should not put you off. We'll look at various parts of a typical workflow:
- collecting data (copyright! data base right! fun!)
- cleaning data (repairing faulty data with Google Spreadsheets and/or OpenRefine)
- upload (QuickStatements, PyWikibot and everything else)
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- ...
- Slides or further information
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Km8orRFm8EnesF5oaebbwIxjOs8PRWdeM9xM77IZfxA/edit?usp=sharing
- Special requests
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