Wikidata:Events/Kampala

Wikidata connects information about everything creating a hive of connected data. Join us for an introduction to using and contributing to Wikidata, the central storage for the unstructured data of Wikipedia and related projects. No prior experience necessary! Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda members will give a brief introduction to Wikidata, current Wikidata projects and initiatives, and how you can contribute to Wikidata.

Wikidata Hack-a-thon - May 2018

Resource persons

• Geoffrey Kateregga
• Erina Mukuta
• Douglas Ssebaggala

Time

Saturday May 26, 14:00 - 17:00 EAT

Location

Goethe Zentrum Kampala (map)

Schedule

1. General Introduction to Wikidata
2. Getting started with Wikidata
3. Contributing new data to Wikidata
   1. Adding tags to Wikidata
   2. Create new Wikidata items
   3. Finding Wikipedia articles with no Wikidata items
4. Embed data from Wikidata into pages on other wikis
5. Hands on improving the Wikidata item on notable women in Uganda

Resources

• Presentation slides
• Wikidata:Tours
• Event Dashboard
• Wikidata:Main Page
• Wikidata Query system
• Wikidata:List of properties
• Wikidata Games

1. Wikidata-game
2. The Distributed Game

• Finding Wikipedia articles with no Wikidata item

1. 'No item game' by Magnus Manske
2. Wikipedia:Category: Articles without Wikidata item
3. User scripts: Display Wikidata Info on sister projects

Participants

Kateregga1 (talk) 11:59, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Geoffrey Kateregga

• Alice Kibombo
• Hillary Musundi (talk) 14:09, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Hillary Musundi