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Workshop
Beginner
Data
Create, Contribute, Edit: A Wikidata Workshop
Short thesis
This workshop will be a general orientation workshop about Wikidata - a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database that can be read and edited by anyone in the world.
Description
Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database that collects structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world. Wikidata aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.
This workshop will be a general orientation workshop; the following will be discussed:
- Introduction to Wikidata and its importance
- Wikidata items
- Wikidata labels, descriptions
- Property and statement
- Complete structure of a Wikidata item
- Wikidata references
- Using Wikidata in Wikipedia, using statement, property
- Wikidata gadgets
- A couple of Wikimedia labs tools