Edit 2024/Using Wikipedia films and film makers red links to seed Wikidata: 2024/Main Page

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2024.

Many editors may not have the time and inclination to create full-fledged articles out of a Wikipedia red link. However, it is easy to create a Wikidata item and collect facts about the film or film maker. Additionally, Wikidata may already have the existing item and perhaps even links to other languages. Wikipedia editors may then link to these by using the {{ill}} template.

Wikidata editors may wish to enable Recoin at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets.

The slide deck is at File:Using Wikipedia films and film makers red links to seed Wikidata.pdf.

This workshop will demonstrate a workflow:

• Create the label and description.
• Enter core properties that are knows for films and human properties that are known for film makers (see also the inactive Wikidata:List of properties/Summary table/en#Person that is retained for historical reference).
• Do a Google or other search for the film or film maker name in quotes. When necessary, add any other search term or filters to limit the search.
• Scroll through the results looking for external identifiers that you can then enter.

Note that some Wikipedia templates can grab specific identifiers from Wikidata, such as {{IMDb title}}, {{IMDb name}}, {{Rotten Tomatoes}}, and {{AllMovie name}}.