Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/December Wikidata

The NYC Wikidata Workshop and Skill Share was held with the Wikimedia NYC community on Sunday December 14, 1-5pm at 55 Washington Street in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood.

Details
Date:: Sunday December 14

Time: 1-5pm

Location: BLIP Outpost (room 321). 55 Washington Street. DUMBO neighborhood, downtown Brooklyn.

Nearest subway stations: York Street, High Street, Clark Street, Court Street – Borough Hall, Jay Street – MetroTech

Afterwards at 5pm, we will maybe walk to a social wiki-dinner or other activity together.

Questions, comments, follow-up from the event? Message us on the talk page.

Activities for the Wikidata-thon
Bring your own ideas!
 * For starters, playing the Wikidata Game! (description))
 * Wikidata Tours
 * Fixing issues reported in Wikidata constraint violations
 * Adding descriptions to items with the Wikidata Terminator
 * Exploring Wikidata classes and properties.
 * Look for external databases or ontologies that are available under CC0/ Public Domain
 * WikiProject Wikidata for research and especially the research proposal currently being drafted there (see blog post)
 * Bringing bibliographic metadata onto Wikidata
 * Phrasing out the specs for how to handle bibliographic metadata on Wikidata
 * Review, test or improve/ expand the bib2wikidata code aimed at bringing bibliographic metadata onto Wikidata
 * Setting up a Wikidata adventure (inspired by the WP:Wikipedia Adventure)
 * Try to pull information from Wikidata into pages on other Wikimedia projects
 * Test Wikidata-related tools and write about that in a Tool testing report
 * Work on some Showcase items
 * And in general, messing around with fun Wikidata external tools.

Resources

 * Merilee Profitt and Max Klein's Wikidata and authority control video.

Speakers, special workshops and roundtable discussions
(perhaps as lightning talks and as skill shares)
 * Up and running with Wikidata. Emw (talk) 01:38, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Sign up

 * You may also sign up at Meetup.com, especially if you are new and aren't sure how to comment on the wiki.

Likely attendees

 * Pharos (talk) 14:12, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * -kosboot (talk) 15:05, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * OR drohowa (talk) 15:43, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * BrillLyle (talk) 17:21, 8 December 2014 (UTC) -- coming apologies a little late
 * Rangilo Gujarati ( talk ) 19:50, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Megs (talk) 04:21, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Emw (talk) 01:31, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * CmdrDan (talk) 17:56, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Jeremyb (talk) 21:39, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Jim.henderson (talk) 15:29, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 *  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  16:25, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Dispenser 21:40, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Possible attendees

 * I'm in New York this week. I might come. Multichill (talk) 14:45, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 20:28, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Regrets

 * Would like to attend but can't make it this time. Some things I'd consider working on if I'd be there:
 * WikiProject Wikidata for research and especially the research proposal currently being drafted there (see blog post)
 * bringing bibliographic metadata onto Wikidata
 * phrasing out the specs for how to handle bibliographic metadata on Wikidata
 * review, test or improve/ expand the bib2wikidata code aimed at bringing bibliographic metadata onto Wikidata
 * setting up a Wikidata adventure (inspired by the WP:Wikipedia Adventure)
 * look for external databases or ontologies that are available under CC0/ Public Domain
 * try to pull information from Wikidata into pages on other Wikimedia projects
 * test Wikidata-related tools and write about that in a Tool testing report
 * work on some Showcase items
 * Have fun! -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 20:48, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks User:Daniel Mietchen! I've added your suggestions to our activities list! OR drohowa (talk) 16:27, 11 December 2014 (UTC)