Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Wikidata and public domain day

Join the MIT Libraries for a Wikidata edit-a-thon on Friday, January 8th! We will introduce Wikidata, manual editing, and editing using QuickStatements. We will share some of the work we have been doing with Wikidata around MIT related items and will provide content for editing. Experienced Wikipedia editors and librarians will be on hand to answer questions and help; new and experienced editors are welcome.

We will also celebrate Public Domain Day and encourage edits using public domain materials. January 1st, 2021 is Public Domain Day – the day when works published in 1925 go out of copyright in the United States and enter the public domain, making them available for anyone to reuse and remix. We will highlight recently uploaded images from the Digital Public Library of America and works that are newly in the public domain.

Schedule:

 * 1:00-2:15 - introduction to the editathon and editing Wikidata
 * 2:15-2:30 - introduction to the public domain works
 * 2:30-3:00 - editing breakout groups: editing Wikidata | learning QuickStatements | public domain images and materials
 * 3:00-4:00 - editing groups continue (check-in/wrap up at 3:45) | 3:00-4:00: Public domain day workshop

Join us to learn how to edit Wikidata and share your research skills and expertise with the world!

Adding award winners!

 * Adding info on the winners of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT to the items about the winners, the item about the awards, and the Wikipedia articles about the winners
 * How to do it:
 * Pick a winner from the McDermott winners list.
 * Add property P166 - award received - and fill in the value with Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Adding info on MIT departments

 * Adding information from the MIT history site on chairs and more to Wikidata:WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/MIT/Items Created or Edited
 * How to do it:
 * Pick an item and source from the table below. Add your name to the "signup" column so other people know you are working on it!
 * Add property "chairperson" (P488) and fill in the value with the name of the chair (if an item for that faculty member doesn't exist, you'll need to create an item)
 * Add qualifiers: start time and end time and fill in the appropriate years
 * see an example here
 * MIT Wikidata project data model for departments, labs, centers

Other tasks
Go through these newly released public domain photographs of Boston and the Commonwealth and select good photos to put in Wikipedia articles!
 * How to do it:
 * Go through the Commons category and look for good images that clearly show a specific subject
 * look to see if there is a Wikipedia article for that topic, and/or a Wikidata item
 * In Wikipedia, add the image to the article with this code: filenameoncommons
 * On Wikidata, add an image with the P18 (image) property
 * You can also edit the structured data on Commons to add the "depicts" property


 * Add links to works =mediatype:%22texts%22&sort=-downloads newly in the public domain on Internet Archive] and HathiTrust on Wikidata and Wikipedia
 * How to do it:
 * see if there is an existing item for the work or author in Wikidata
 * if not create a new item - make sure to link to other identifiers for authors
 * on Wikipedia, link to the full text

There are also some newly uploaded 1925 issues of the MIT Technology Review on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikidata Queries

 * Departments, labs, centers that are a part of MIT and their listed chairpersons - [Https://w.wiki/tZk https://w.wiki/tZk]
 * People that have won the McDermott Award - [Https://w.wiki/tZo https://w.wiki/tZo]
 * People with archives at MIT, birth dates, birth places - [Https://w.wiki/tZv https://w.wiki/tZv]

Resource - Wikidata:SPARQL_tutorial

QuickStatements
Creating a new item Adding a statement to already existing item

Resources:
 * How to Use QuickStatements - A video tutorial on how to use QuickStatements to bulk upload data onto Wikidata by Dr Sara Thomas, Scotland Programme Coordinator, Wikimedia UK.
 * Help:Quickstatements

Sign up
Everyone is welcome, whether you are experienced with Wikipedia or Wikidata or are just beginning. However, please register to get the Zoom link