Submissions:2024/Adding authority control properties in Wikidata for writer and artist biographies
This submission has been noted and is pending review for WikiConference North America 2024.
Title:
- Adding authority control properties in Wikidata for writer and artist biographies
Type of session:
- Lecture (15-30 min)
Session theme(s):
- Open Data, Reliable Sources
Abstract:
This will cover the work flow of creating or expanding a Wikidata item for a biography. It will include going over and explaining:
- How the authority control template is used in enwiki, eswiki, and frwiki The authority control template draws its data from Wikidata.
- Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers.
- The areas most well-represented by identifiers are, broadly speaking:
- authors and artists
- politicians
- post-1500 British history
- The areas most well-represented by identifiers are, broadly speaking:
- Template:Authority control properties
- viaf.org
- Wikidata:VIAF/type/human
- Wikidata:List_of_properties/Summary_table/en (inactive and for historical reference)
- WorldCat Entities – WorldCat Entities ID (P10832)
Author name(s):
Wikimedia username(s):
- Peaceray
E-mail address:
- peaceray@duck.com
Affiliated organization(s):
- Cascadia Wikimedians
Estimated length of session
- 30 minutes
Will you be presenting remotely?
- I will present in-person
Okay to livestream?
- Livestreaming is okay
Previously presented?
- No
Special requests:
- I would like this to precede Submissions:2024/Using Wikipedia films and film makers red links to seed Wikidata. I would also like this to be on a different day than my Wikipedia referencing presentations, Submissions:2024/Expanding book citations by using WorldCat and linking to archived online copies and Submissions:2024/Using shortened footnote templates for book references.