Wikidata talk:WikiProject Humanitarian Wikidata

Showcase item

It would be nice to have a showcase item mentioned under the heading Disaster outbreaks so that it easier to see how to model that item. Do have any good candidates that we could use as a start to bring to towards that status? Ainali (talk) 08:36, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps we can use the current COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910) for data modelling? But since this is changing on a daily basis, perhaps picking a past one like 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic (Q21686043) might be more conducive to exploring a data model. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 03:02, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject COVID-19

is now live at Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 03:00, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

Has anyone from this project reached out to (or is anyone involved in) the "Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:23, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Their Executive Director Tyler Radford gave one of the Wikimania 2019 keynotes, while I ran a session at the HOT Summit 2017, gave a similar talk at State of the Map 2018 and am on some of their mailing lists. Not enough interaction, though, in my view. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 18:03, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Emergency Management Agencies

They exist for many places, but we have not indexed them systematically. To get things started, here is a list for the US. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 17:50, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Do we have example of any Emergency Management Agency that is decently modeled? Ainali (talk) 17:58, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

@Ainali: Not really, but here is a first shot. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 18:09, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

I filtered out humans, I believe that's an improvement. Ainali (talk) 18:17, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

We now have a Listeria list based off that subquery for non-humans with a field of work (P101) of emergency management (Q1460420) or disaster preparedness (Q4583103). Only 15 results so far — further improvements most welcome. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 11:10, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

I'm doing a major review on this to add more agencies at regional and world level in the last weeks. The Listeria list already changed a lot. From the 15 cited by @Daniel Mietchen: at the moment is 73, but I will keep going further. I found it strange that Q5039374 was so perfect, until I saw now that Jura had worked on it. --- EmericusPetro (talk) 03:48, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

• I completed Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (Q5039374) and its participating agencies. --- Jura 15:53, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

New UN-led report on Hazard Definition & Classification

The report Hazard Definition & Classification Review: Technical Review (Q98038661) was published last week and covered in a dedicated launch event. It is rich in definitions of hazards, provides assorted lists of hazards as well as glossaries and related bits of information. Good starting points for bringing that information into Wikidata are the annexes 2 and 6. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 10:57, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks!!! Really, really relevant link! Question: did there exist any change that this work has a machine-readable format? Most of the time I find glossaries or vocabularies supposed to help consistency, an problem is not even being monolingual, but they're on PDFs or images. EmericusPetro (talk) 01:32, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Weather Database and WikiProject Weather

Hi, I would like to bring your attention to a proposal for a WikiProject Weather, to organize all weather articles under a single project umbrella. There are many areas that Wikipedia has missed, maybe because it was a long time ago, or it is in a country that doesn't speak English. Also, given climate denialism, we believe it is important to establish a Worldwide Weather Database. Google already uses Wikipedia's infoboxes for their search results, and Alexa often uses Wikipedia (partly because it's more accurate, partly because of how comprehensive it is). I'm not exactly sure the best way to implement it, but we believe that WikiData, and the proposed Abstract Wikipedia, could be a part of this endeavor.

As part of uniting all weather articles, each event would be tagged with categories such as location, date, fatalities, injuries, damage total, and weather event - all the basic stuff we usually include in infoboxes. The international disasters database - [1] - already kinda does this, but not everyone knows to look there. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is known as an institution at this point.

Thanks for your time reading this. Any thoughts and feedback would be appreciated. If this proposal is in the wrong place, please feel free to direct me to the correct location. Thanks a lot.Jason Rees (talk) 21:00, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

ReliefWeb

As reliefweb.int has sometimes short profiles and reports on organizations, I added these entries with described at URL (P973). Maybe you want to create a dedicated property for it. Similarly preventionweb.net but its profiles seem sometimes a bit empty. --- Jura 10:29, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:23, 10 August 2018 (UTC) Geraki (talk) 16:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC) Ainali (talk) 15:32, 16 August 2018 (UTC) ❙❚❚❙❙ JinOy ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 18:10, 25 January 2020 (UTC) EthanRobertLee (talk) 20:15, 27 December 2020 (UTC) Mathieu Kappler (talk) 01:15, 27 March 2021 (UTC) EmericusPetro (talk) 01:38, 23 February 2022 (UTC) Danysan1 (talk) 19:46, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Notified participants of WikiProject Humanitarian Wikidata --- Jura 10:30, 4 February 2021 (UTC)