Wikipedia:Workshop/Wikipedia for researchers (Gothenburg)

This page is created for adding practice material for teaching Wikipedia to researchers.

Program

 * Monday, 12:00-12:30 : Demonstration of Wikidata
 * Monday, 12:30-13:00 : Hands-on session on Wikidata
 * Tuesday,12:00- 12:30 : Demonstration of Wikipedia
 * Tuesday,12:30- 13:00 : Hands-on workshop where you write an article on the test page

Introduction to Wikidata

 * An example query and briefly about Wikidata
 * Structure of a Wikidata item (Eg: Annika Strandhäll, Anna Blomberg)
 * SPARQL query
 * Visualizing data
 * Downloading data
 * Missing data and adding data

Sample queries

 * List of notable women from Gothenburg (Timeline of year of birth)
 * 1) instance of:human
 * 2) sex or gender: female
 * 3) place of birth: Gothenburg
 * Filter by DOB
 * Plot a timeline with DOB
 * Save the info into a csv file
 * Compare it with notable men
 * List of hospitals in Sweden
 * 1) instance of: hospital
 * 2) country: Sweden
 * 3) show coordinate location and images
 * Illustrate on the map
 * List of monarchs of Sweden
 * 1) instance of: human
 * 2) position held: monarch of Sweden
 * 3) Show educated at
 * Examples button

Questions

 * Get the map of locations of battles all over the world (Example item)
 * Get the list of songs recorded by ABBA
 * Get the images of notable domesticated cats (house cats)
 * Get the list of fictional physicians
 * Get the list of Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine or Physiology
 * Get the list of mains voltage of all countries of the world
 * Get the items named after Albert Einstein
 * From examples: Politicians who died of cancer

Introduction to Wikipedia

 * Creating a user account
 * Editing an article (visual editor and source editor)
 * Text format and citations
 * Brief introduction about Wikipedia's policies
 * Page views

Points to remember

 * 1) Wikipedia Cheatsheet
 * 2) Kvinnliga_huvudpersoner-Gothenburg
 * 3) Notable Swedish women lexicon
 * 4) WikiGap
 * 5) Wikipedia  för forskare, Gothenburg University
 * 6) Wikimania 2019 in Sweden
 * 7) Scholia