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* '''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 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. |
+ | * '''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. |
* '''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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* '''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 Wikipedia and the future of human knowledge'''. |
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Revision as of 22:28, 28 August 2015
- 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:
- 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.
- 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
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- Add your username here.