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* '''Why Wikidata matters'''. What is this thing? Has anybody done anything with it? We'll briefly cover what kinds of projects people have built atop Wikidata in not only Wikipedia, but also and external projects for biology, history, libraries, archives, museums and beyond. Get ideas for how Wikidata can be used in your project.
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* '''What people have been building with Wikidata'''. We'll briefly cover what kinds of projects people have developed atop Wikidata in not only Wikipedia, but also external projects for biology, history, libraries, archives, museums and beyond. Get ideas for how Wikidata can enhance and extend your project's reach.
   
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[[File:Wikidata_statement.svg|thumb|right|300px|We'll cover [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary#Claims_and_statements Wikidata basics] and beyond.]]
 
* '''Wikidata vocabulary and conventions'''. Learn the lingo: statements, items, properties, qualifiers, references. In addition to covering those elements of the Wikidata data model, I will also introduce you to useful everyday properties and basic membership properties like ''instance of'' (P31), ''subclass of'' (P279), and ''part of'' (P361).
  
* '''Wikidata vocabulary and conventions'''. Learn the lingo: statements, items, properties, qualifiers, references. In addition to covering those elements of the Wikidata data model, I will also introduce you to useful everyday properties and basic membership properties like ''instance of'' (P31), ''subclass of'' (P279), and ''part of'' (P361).
   
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* '''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.
  
* '''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.
   
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* '''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.
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* '''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. We'll use tools from Magnus Manske as well as SPARQL endpoints.
   
 
* '''Programming with the Wikidata API'''. A quick demo using Python.
  
* '''Programming with the Wikidata API'''. A quick demo using Python.
   
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* '''How to use the Wikidata RDF and OWL exports'''. Explore official data dumps in applications for the Semantic Web.
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* '''How to use the Wikidata RDF and OWL exports'''. Explore the project's structured data dumps in [http://protege.stanford.edu/ Protege], the browser of the Semantic Web.
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[[File:St GaudensShaw Mem.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Wikidata can represent [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Modeling_causes why things happen].]]
   
 
* '''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.
  
* '''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.
   
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* '''What Wikidata means for the future of human knowledge'''. Clay Shirky popped a bubble with his 2003 essay ''[http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/semantic_syllogism.html The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview]''. Over a decade thereafter, [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~golbeck/LBSC690/SemanticWeb.html that vision of Tim Berners-Lee] continues to be a distant prospect. In the meantime, [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:English_Wikipedia_active_editor_statistics#/media/File:Enwp_retention_vs_active_editors.png Wikipedia's human editor base has been in decline since March 2007]. This section will take a look at where Wikidata fits in historical context, how it can mitigate declining editor engagement in Wikipedia, and how it can address Shirky's critiques while becoming the centralized knowledge base and reasoning platform for the Semantic Web.
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# [[User:Gaurav|Gaurav]] ([[User talk:Gaurav|talk]]) 17:29, 29 August 2015 (EDT) (<span style="font-variant: small-caps">this sounds AWESOME!</span>)
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Latest revision as of 12:25, 14 October 2015

Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/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
Abstract

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

Attendees will learn:

  • What people have been building with Wikidata. We'll briefly cover what kinds of projects people have developed atop Wikidata in not only Wikipedia, but also external projects for biology, history, libraries, archives, museums and beyond. Get ideas for how Wikidata can enhance and extend your project's reach.
We'll cover Wikidata basics and beyond.
  • Wikidata vocabulary and conventions. Learn the lingo: statements, items, properties, qualifiers, references. In addition to covering those elements of the Wikidata data model, I will also introduce you to useful everyday properties and basic membership properties like instance of (P31), subclass of (P279), and part of (P361).
  • How to edit Wikidata. This isn't your grandpa's wiki. Wikidata's editing interface is not a hairball of prose and square brackets like the classic Wikipedia, nor a more familiar WSIWYG like VisualEditor. Wikidata's editing UI is casual-user-friendly but has some novel features. We will collaboratively edit an example Wikidata item to 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. We'll use tools from Magnus Manske as well as SPARQL endpoints.
  • Programming with the Wikidata API. A quick demo using Python.
  • How to use the Wikidata RDF and OWL exports. Explore the project's structured data dumps in Protege, the browser of the Semantic Web.
Wikidata can represent why things happen.
  • 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.


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. Rhododendrites (talk) 23:40, 28 August 2015 (EDT)
  2. Gaurav (talk) 17:29, 29 August 2015 (EDT) (this sounds AWESOME!)
  3. emitraka aka lv_ra
  4. Samantha (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:47, 3 September 2015 (EDT)
  5. Soupvector Stuart Ray (talk) 23:20, 4 September 2015 (EDT)
  6. Rosiestep (talk) 01:43, 6 September 2015 (EDT)
  7. Kosboot (talk) 10:56, 4 October 2015 (EDT)
  8. Pjtabit (talk) 01:22, 7 October 2015 (EDT)
  9. LeezaRodriguez (talk) 20:27, 8 October 2015 (EDT)
  10. DavidT8 (talk) 08:50, 10 October 2015 (EDT)
  11. Add your username here.
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