Submissions:2015/An ambitious Wikidata tutorial


 * Title: An ambitious Wikidata tutorial


 * Theme: Technology


 * Type of submission: Workshop


 * Author: Emw


 * E-mail address: emw.wiki@gmail.com


 * Username: Emw


 * Affiliation:

This tutorial will be an ambitious survey of Wikidata for hackers and humans, as taught by an experienced volunteer.
 * Abstract:

Attendees will learn:


 * Wikidata vocabulary and conventions. Learn the lingo: statements, items, properties, and qualifiers, P31, Q5, instance of, subclass of, and part of.


 * How to edit Wikidata. This isn't your grandpa's wiki.  Editing Wikidata is not a hairball of prose and square brackets like the classic Wikipedia user interface, nor a more familiar WSIWYG like VisualEditor.  Wikidata's smooth UI introduces some novel features.  This section will quickly get you up to speed.


 * How to find things and where to get help: Handy tricks in the search UI, where different community discussions occur, how to do background research on Wikidata topics, how to reach Wikidata developers and the director.


 * Advanced querying. Find all humans.  Find all genes.  Find all municipalities in the United States with a population between 5,000 and 20,000.  Find all European nobility who died in a hunting accident.  Find all kinds of footwear.


 * Programming with the Wikidata API. A quick demo using Python.


 * How to use the Wikidata RDF and OWL exports. Explore official data dumps in applications for the Semantic Web.


 * The promise and peril of ontologies. What was the cause of the American Civil War?  Can a cat be a mayor?  Is Harry Potter a human?  Meaning matters, and bit of linguistic precision in Wikidata can open opportunities for automatically answering common, non-trivial questions.


 * What Wikidata means for Wikipedia and the future of human knowledge.


 * Length of presentation: 60 minutes


 * Special schedule requests: Saturday or Sunday, please


 * Will you attend WikiConference USA if your submission is not accepted?: Yes

Interested attendees
'''If you are interested in attending this session, please sign with your username below. This will help reviewers to decide which sessions are of high interest. Sign with four tildes. ( ~ ).'''


 * 1) Add your username here.