Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2022)/Wikidata

To join a virtual event
If you do wish to join a virtual event (kick-off event or weekly editing hours), please register to receive video call links.

Wikidata 101 training will be provided in the at the half-way point of each virtual editing session.
 * February 4, 2:30pm - 3:30pm ET
 * February 11, 11:30am - 12:30pm ET
 * February 18, 2:30pm - 3:30pm ET
 * February 25, 11:30am - 12:30pm ET

To edit
Log in or sign up for an account through this Outreach Dashboard.

How:
 * If you have an account, log in and click under Actions (bottom right section) to register.
 * If you don't have an account, click at the top of the page to request one. You will then obtain an account registered with the edit-a-thon.

If you run into any difficulties, you can email us.

Once you are registered with the event, you can begin editing! See the for an overview of what you can help with and how. You can edit in any language.

You can register with the event anytime. We can count your relevant edits for the duration of February 2021 as long as you are registered by the end of the month. At the end of the event, we will supplement Dashboard counts with data from Event Metrics.

I'm editing for the first time! How do I get started?
Attend our 101 training or use the Wikidata interactive tours you can use to get started.

I'm not sure what I should edit. Do you have any suggestions?
Always! For inspiration on what to edit, you can:

1. Ask a facilitator for help finding your first editing task if you are attending a virtual editing session

2. Edit or create items for Black academics and their scholarly works. This task list and the application profiles below have been created to help you get started!

3. Look at the Wikipedia task list; you can edit or create a Wikidata item for any Wikipedia person. (To find the Wikidata item for a Wikipedia article, see a Wikipedia page's left side bar > Tools > Wikidata item.)

4. Gain inspiration from other community task lists:
 * Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Lists_of_Articles
 * WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Scientists_-_Kenya
 * WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Black_history
 * WikiProject_Women_in_Red/African_artists

Application Profiles
You can use the below application profiles to get started in creating items. Each profile is intended to be a starting point and does not represent a complete item. These Wikidata items feed into https://scholia.toolforge.org/ to enhance the visibility of Black scholars.

Person
The above application profile is inspired by
 * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archives_Linked_Data_Interest_Group/Describing_People

Journal
See Wikidata:WikiProject_Periodicals#Venue_item_properties for more appropriate properties. For our purposes, we just need to create a Wikidata item to link journal articles to, not create the most robust Wikidata item for the journal.

Journal article
Examples
 * Evidence for a distant giant planet in the solar system (Q22255407)

The application profiles above were drawn from the following sources:
 * Wikidata:Wikiproject_Periodicals
 * Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot/University_of_San_Francisco