Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Internal Wikidata Workshop at Pratt Institute

The Semantic Lab at Pratt, in collaboration with Wikimedia NYC, presents the first workshop of a Wikidata workshop series. Wikidata is a collaboratively edited knowledge base hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, which serves as a common source of data for Wikimedia and linked data projects.

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Workshop outcomes

 * Understand how Wikidata supports other Wikimedia projects, particularly Wikipedia
 * Understand Wikidata's data structure model and grasp Wikidata-specific terminology
 * Edit existing items by adding labels, descriptions, qualifiers, references, identifiers, and/or statements
 * Create new items

Wikidatathon
Question: Which authors have received a Lambda Literary Award?

Wikidata's answer? *It's incomplete


 * Let others know what year(s) you want to edit/create on the etherpad
 * List of Lammy Award Recipients
 * WikiProject Books
 * List of properties: Human
 * List of properties: books

Additional Resources

 * Wikidata Glossary
 * One page guide to Wikidata by Andrew Lih
 * Wikidata data model
 * Wikidata tour
 * Wikidata Games


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