Workshop Wikidata for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums by Sebastiaan ter Burg and Maarten Dammers. In this workshop are - the basics of Wikidata and the relation to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects explained, - some exercises of single item edits given, - batch edits explained.

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Wikidata for GLAMs
WIKIMEDIA
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Sebastiaan ter Burg & Maarten Dammers
With thanks to Gerardm & FakirNL

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Welcome GO TO
www.wikidata.org
LOG IN!

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Program
Time
10:30 Welcome
10:50 Introduction Wikidata
11:10 Tools
11:30 Break
11:45 Edit single properties
12:15 Lunch
12:45 Batch editing properties
14:00 Batch item creation
15:00 Break
15:15 Wikidata Queries
15:45 Wikidata Queries hands-on
16:30 Discussion
17:15 Drinks

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Objectives
Know what Wikidata is
Basic knowledge of how Wikidata works
Basic idea what volunteers are doing with Wikidata at the moment
Did manual edits
Know how Wikidata can benefit your organisation
Know how Wikidata can be used to crowdsource data
Know how Wikidata can bring open knowledge back to your organisation
Know the steps to undertake mass edits
Know the steps to undertake mass donations
Know where to look up statements
Made a list of differences in statements from your organisation
Have seen Wikidata Queries
Discussed the potential of Wikidata for your organisation/sector
Socialised

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Who’s who?

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Introduction Wikidata

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Wikidata is a free linked database that can be
read and edited by both humans and machines.

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Wikidata acts as central storage for the
structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects
including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and
others.

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Data in Wikidata is in the public domain

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You’ve been using it already
The BIG Interwiki problem

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https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachen_(gedrag)

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https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachen_(gedrag)

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Notability
Not everything is notable data

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Structure Wikidata

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Wikidata processes

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Wikipedia Wikidata
Governance structure Mature Immature
Sources and references Mature Immature
Determination of appropriate content Community Growing
Quality control Mature Growing
Village pump (community debate) Mature Growing
Example of determination of notability: Constraint reports

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Properties
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties/all

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Properties: artwork

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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties/Works#Specialized_properties

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Proposing properties
The community determines the properties
Search, search, search
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal

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semantics? Taxonomy?
The community determines the properties
Solution: make a mapping
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal

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Tools

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Reasonator
http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/

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Reasonator gadget

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STEP 2
STEP 3

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Languages shown

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Babel

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Autolist 2
http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/index.php

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WiDar

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Oauth Because of Oauth you can edit tools
with your own global account

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Pywikibot
Wikidata is being run by bots

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Toolscript
Run javascript from your browser
https://tools.wmflabs.org/toolscript/index.html

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Wikidata results
Find Wikidata on Wikipedia
(not installed in nl.wikipedia.org yet)
Let’s go to the Tamil Wikipedia….
and search for hagelslag.
https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/!l_அைமp'

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http://www.histropedia.com

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Wikidata the game
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/

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http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/

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BREAK

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Single edit

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Let’s edit
Pick a not so famous person/item/building/…
Look for inspiration at a very famous person/item/building/…

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Batch editing

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Why
Batch editing
Correcting / improving a property

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Why
Batch editing
Example:
AdLib > Europeana Data Model > GLAMwiki Toolset

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Why
Batch editing
Example:
AdLib > Europeana Data Model > GLAMwiki Toolset
Data lost Data lost

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Why
Batch editing
Batch creation
Example:
AdLib > Europeana Data Model > GLAMwiki Toolset
Data lost Data lost

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Human / Machine
Batch editing

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Human
Batch editing

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Human
Batch editing
Case: University alumni
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/11/wikidata-wikipedia-categories.html

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https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q8884100

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Current language Wikipedias
en Category:University of Notre Dame
alumni
Big Wikipedias
es Categoría:Alumnado de la
Universidad de Notre Dame
fr Catégorie:Étudiant de l'université
Notre-Dame-du-Lac
pt Categoria:Ex-alunos da
Universidade de Notre Dame
Wikimedia Commons
commons Category:Alumni of the University
of Notre Dame
Other Wikipedias
gl Categoría:Alumnos da
Universidade de Notre Dame
ko 분류:노터데임 대학교 동문
la Categoria:Alumni Universitatis
Dominae Nostrae a Lacu
ro Categorie:Absolvenți ai University
of Notre Dame
sl Kategorija:Diplomiranci Univerze
Notre Dame
zh Category:聖⺟母⼤大學校友
people who studied at
the university of Notre Dame

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Currently there are items for 2,406,128 categories.
Many of those items refer to categories in multiple Wikipedias. One random
example is item Q8884100, it refers to categories in 10 Wikipedias.
All of them categorize people who studied at the university of Notre Dame. Many
of them know about people only known in that Wikipedia. In addition to this there
may be articles that are not categorised or references to articles that are not in
one of the 10 categories known at this time.
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/11/wikidata-wikipedia-categories.html

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When multiple categorised are "harvested" in Wikidata, Wikidata knows
about more items than any of the individual categories. This enables the
use of the data in new ways.
• suggest categories based on the presence of statements in the Wikidata
category
• suggest statement when an article is included in a category
• include red links in a category when a Wikipedia does not have articles.
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/11/wikidata-wikipedia-categories.html

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en Category:University of Notre Dame
alumni
Big Wikipedias
es Categoría:Alumnado de la
Universidad de Notre Dame
fr Catégorie:Étudiant de l'université
Notre-Dame-du-Lac
pt Categoria:Ex-alunos da
Universidade de Notre Dame
Wikimedia Commons
commons Category:Alumni of the University
of Notre Dame
Other Wikipedias
gl Categoría:Alumnos da
Universidade de Notre Dame
ko 분류:노터데임 대학교 동문
la Categoria:Alumni Universitatis
Dominae Nostrae a Lacu
ro Categorie:Absolvenți ai University
of Notre Dame
sl Kategorija:Diplomiranci Univerze
Notre Dame
zh Category:聖⺟母⼤大學校友

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en Category:University of Notre Dame
alumni
Big Wikipedias
es Categoría:Alumnado de la
Universidad de Notre Dame
fr Catégorie:Étudiant de l'université
Notre-Dame-du-Lac
pt Categoria:Ex-alunos da
Universidade de Notre Dame
Wikimedia Commons
commons Category:Alumni of the University
of Notre Dame
Other Wikipedias
gl Categoría:Alumnos da
Universidade de Notre Dame
ko 분류:노터데임 대학교 동문
la Categoria:Alumni Universitatis
Dominae Nostrae a Lacu
ro Categorie:Absolvenți ai University
of Notre Dame
sl Kategorija:Diplomiranci Univerze
Notre Dame
zh Category:聖⺟母⼤大學校友

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ES + FR + PT + =
EN
Wikidata
Let’s compare categories
people who studied at
the university of Notre Dame

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There’s a difference between wiki's
ES + FR + PT + =
EN
Wikidata

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ES + FR + PT + =
EN
Person A
Person B
Person C
……
Person D
Person X
Person Z
……
Person A
Person F
Person K
…… Person D
Person X
…..
Wikidata
Missing articles can be red links

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What if a new article is added?
ES + FR + PT + =
EN
Person A
Person B
Person C
……
Person D
Person X
Person Z
……
Person A
Person F
Person K
…… Person D
Person X
…..
Wikidata
Person + Person +

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Well, suggest it to the wiki’s…
ES + FR + PT + =
EN
Person A
Person B
Person C
……
Person D
Person X
Person Z
……
Person A
Person F
Person K
…… Person D
Person X
…..
Wikidata
Person + Person + Person + Person + Person +

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Human
Batch editing
Case: merging

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STEP 2
STEP 3

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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge/enwiki-nlwiki

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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ivan_A._Krestinin/To_merge/nlwiki

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LUNCH

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Scenario
What kind of information would you probably batch edit?
What is available in your sources?
What are the properties on Wikidata?
What should the code look like?

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Item drafting
What kind of information would you probably batch edit?
What is available in your sources?
What are the properties on Wikidata?
What should the code look like?

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Machine
Batch editing

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Batch data import
Mass addition and integration of data into Wikidata

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Batch data import
Example projects

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By Sebastiaan ter Burg (Flickr: Domtoren in Utrecht) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Hans Bollongier (fl. 1623–1672) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sum of all paintings
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings

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By Rob Bogaerts / Anefo (Nationaal Archief)
[CC-BY-SA-3.0-nl (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons

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By Didier Descouens (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Remember…
Data in Wikidata is in the public domain

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First:
What’s in the dataset?
What’s the quality?
What …
By Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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How can an item be identified?

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How can an item be identified?
With unique
identifiers

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Inventory numbers are usable
as identifiers

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Clean your data Before you import:
By Sherif9282 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or
GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Start up your robot Demonstration
By Ian McKellar from San Francisco, CA, USA [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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19264 > Q1545193

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SK-A-5003 > Q3090610

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Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-49993-0006 /
CC-BY-SA [CC-BY-SA-3.0-de
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)],
via Wikimedia Commons

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There is an array
Trust me…
[[eggs, bananas],catfood, toiletpaper] An array is like grocery list in your head…

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Example of what’s running
https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/labs%2Ftools%2Fmultichill.git/e6a873ea1d397e22965b2a69d08a2cd7b410d562/bot%2Fwikidata%2Frijksmuseum_import.py
https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/labs%2Ftools%2Fmultichill.git/HEAD/bot%2Fwikidata

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Empty items = no fun
Fill her up!
By Jocelyn Augustino (This image is from the FEMA Photo Library.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Start matching

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Batch creation:
1.Adding items is easy
2.Deleting or changing
items is difficult
Henri Brispot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
First come
First served

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Setting up batches
1. Create a bot account
2. Discuss bot tasks
3. Get a bot flag
4. Run your bot
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot

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BREAK

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Wikidata queries

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Tools for queries

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Discussion

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Uses:
Feedback loop
(List of differences)

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Small steps
Small errors, human edits,
drafting code

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DRINKS

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Wikidata for GLAMs
WIKIMEDIA
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Sebastiaan ter Burg & Maarten Dammers
With thanks to Gerardm & FakirNL