Wikidata:Events/Vienna/WikidataWednesday
What we do
editA monthly meeting for Wikidata newbies, enthusiats and everybody in between. We meet for about two hours in the evening to work on Wikidata projects together, develop new ideas or help each other with questions and problems. Everybody who wants to learn more about Wikidata is welcome!
A list of ideas and topics we came up with during out first meeting:
- Developing an audio interface for Wikidata => learning with an audio interface
- Integrating podcasting data base panoptikum, expanding the information on podcasts
- Integrating OpenGridMap
- Expanding Austria / Vienna related properties and catalogues
- ALL THE VIENNA PUBLIC PARKS
We also want to use the WikidataWednesdays to
- connect with other Wikimedia communities (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource)
- give newcomers ideas how to contribute
- prepare upcoming workshops and events
Where and when?
editThe second Wednesday every month is WikidataWednesday from 18:00-20:00 (we can stay a little longer if we want to)
Location: Wikimedia Österreich, Stolzenthalergasse 7/1, 1080 Wien
Good to know
editLanguage: English
We are an international group and speak mainly English. But there are always German-speakers around who are able to explain or translate things into German.
Friendly Space:
Wikimedia Österreich's event guidelines apply to these meetings. They’re designed to make everyone feel welcome and to actively encourage a safe, friendly space for learning. Please read them – by attending, you’ll be accepting those rules of respecting each other.
We provide some drinks and small snacks so people stopping by straight after work don't have to starve. You can also bring some snacks for yourself and others of course :-)
- Wikidata-Broschüre (German, Wikimedia Deutschland, 6. August 2019)
Also see Wikidata:WikiProject Austria
What should I bring/ prepare?
editPlease bring...
- your laptop (not older than 10 years) + power supply
...which has installed a
- JavaScript capable browser (= basically the newest Firefox or Chrome)
If you don’t have one already, please
- create your Wikimedia user account before the workshop. You need it to make edits in Wikidata.
Calendar
editNo Wikidata Wednesdays until further notice
editBecause of current coronavirus pandemic restrictions.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
editAttention: Third Wednesday this month!
- Agenda
This time we want to participate in the FindingGLAMs Challenge – a Wikidata editing competition taking place in the week of February 17th – February 23rd 2020: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs_Challenge
- Participants
- Claudia.Garad (talk) 11:56, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
- Mfchris84 (talk) 13:18, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
- Jean-Fred (talk)
- User:StagiaireMGIMO
- Outcomes
- New Mix’n’match catalogue for Upper Austria Museum ID (P7858): 3411
- Dashboard of museums per federal state
- located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) added to ~30 Austrian GLAMs which were missing it
- Added or completed all museums in Burgenland listed in Kultur Burgenland (Q85680859). Using described by source (P1343) for small databases instead of creating a new property.
#Museums in Burgenland listed in the "database" "Kultur Burgenland"
#defaultView:Map
SELECT ?museum ?museumLabel ?url ?code ?coords WHERE {
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
?museum p:P1343 ?kulturBurgenland.
?kulturBurgenland ps:P1343 wd:Q85680859;
pq:P2699 ?url;
pq:P3295 ?code.
?museum wdt:P625 ?coords.
}
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
edit- Agenda
This Wednesday we will model the new Austrian Government on Wikidata - unless other people are quicker ;-) So please also bring your own ideas and projects!
- maintain old and new ministers (start/end date, replaces/replaced by in both entries, ...)
- maintain ministries (actual labels, add native label (P1705) especially with start/end-time qualifiers for past labels
- or even discuss how to model the Austrian ministries with its changing "labels" and changing fields of works over time.
- check/create objects for each (former or new) ministry (including start/end, successor/predecessor, official website, ...), also see:
- maintain the already existing new objects for the nine new members of the national council, replacing the ministers (including replaces/replaced by in both entries)
- maintain commonscats (e.g. add categories for ministers, check wikidata-infoboxes, ...)
New proposals for Austria related properties:
- Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wien Geschichte Wiki ID - Property:P7842 - convert and mass import from template de:Vorlage:Wien Geschichte Wiki (1849 articles using the template) ?
- Wikidata:Property proposal/Museen in OÖ ID
- Wikidata:Property proposal/Museums in Salzburg (AT) ID
- Wikidata:Property proposal/Museen in Burgenland (AT) ID
- Participants
- Outcomes
-
- Small stab at fleshing out Wikidata:WikiProject every politician/Austria/Cabinet/Q80810433 and cleaning up Wikidata:WikiProject_every_politician/Austria/Cabinet/Q64170336.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
edit- Participants
- Outcomes
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
edit- Agenda
- This wednesday we want to focus on the relation of Semantic MediaWiki, Wikidata and WikiBase
- What are the different approaches of Managing data in MediaWiki?
- What is Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) and what is its relevance in times of Wikidata and Wikibase?
- How could we use Wikidata within SMW and bring SMW data to Wikidata?
- Feel free to add your own questions....
- Participants
- Paloma
- Bernhard Krabina
- --Claudia.Garad (talk) 13:10, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
- Pebaryan (talk) 12:00, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- +6
- Outcomes
-
- Discussions around association football data, and potential bridges between football.db − free open public domain football data and Wikidata
- Introduction to Semantic MediaWiki as a potential alternative / complement to Wikidata
- Discussion around TU Wien’s ReposiTUm and bridges to Wikidata (potentially relevant: the in-progress data-donation from ISSN)
- already 370 articles from reposiTUm available on Wikidata https://w.wiki/C24 (Mfchris84 (talk) 21:26, 13 November 2019 (UTC))
- Tools mentioned/presented: Property browser, QuickStatements, Wikidata Graph Builder, Wikidata reconciliation service for OpenRefinen
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
editAchtung! This time third Wednesday of the month
- Participants
- Braveheart (talk) 13:08, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
- Jean-Fred (talk) 13:48, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
- --Claudia.Garad (talk) 16:14, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
- --Funke (talk) 16:40, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
- Outcomes
-
- Work on the Mix'n'match for ÖsterreichWiki (Q32752205)
- Identification of an Austria-related database of movies: sixpackfilmdata (Q67883980) (property proposal)
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
editAchtung! This time because of holiday season it will be the last Wednesday of the month
- Participants
- zu 90% --Emu (talk) 23:15, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
- –Boshomi (talk) 16:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
- + 3
- Outcomes
-
- Added an query for deprecated statements to the Query Service example
- Started a project regarding importing Austrian municipalities census data (from Q66810166) using OpenRefine
- @Jean-Frédéric: sounds very interesting, is it possible to share the OpenRefine project file, or is it already done? Mfchris84 (talk) 05:04, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
editAchtung! This time because of holiday season it will be the third Wednesday of the month
- Participants
- --Claudia.Garad (talk) 09:29, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- --Zentibel (talk) 22:20, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Clara 15:42, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
- +3
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
edit- Participants
- --Claudia.Garad (talk) 14:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Jean-Fred (talk) 13:59, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Pebaryan (talk) 07:10, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- Herzi Pinki (talk) 13:24, 6 June 2019 (UTC) a bit later, 19:00. Due to Austrian and German mayors.
- Informatom (talk) 04:19, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
- Christoph (talk) 09:11, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
- Mardetanha (talk) 10:37, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
- Zentibel (talk) 23:02, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
- Braveheart (talk) 08:36, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
edit- Participants