Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2024)/Wikidata

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How:
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 * 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.

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Once you are registered with the event and signed up for the Dashboard, 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 2023 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 during an editing session for help finding your first editing task.

2. Edit or create items for Black Canadians from the BHE Wikidata task list. Please review the Wikidata 101 edit-a-thon slides first, if you are not familiar with Wikidata.

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 enhancing or creating Wikidata 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 and their achievements.

Note these potential sources for data when editing:
 * Library of Congress Names: Authoritative data for names of persons, organizations, events, places, and titles for identification and controlled vocabulary.
 * VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) combines multiple name authority files into one name authority service. Search VIAF with a person's name to potentially find a list of their works and under the About section, their field of activity, occupation, and external links on them.
 * ORCID: ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) for researchers that allows them to own and control their information while distinguishing themselves and their works from others. Search for a person's name to potentially find their affiliations, grants, publications, and more.
 * University faculty profiles - most faculty departments will have webpages dedicated to their faculty and may include their C.V. or list of selected publications.

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