Wikidata:How to create Wikidata Tours
Wikidata:Tours are short interactive lessons which show people how Wikidata works including concepts and functions and how to do specific tasks like adding data to different kinds of items e.g people. Wikidata Tours help people gain new skills and help grow the Wikidata community, both for new people to Wikimedia and Wikimedians new to Wikidata. Each tour takes between 5 to 10 minutes to complete, a list of tours are available at Wikidata:Tours. Please suggest tours you would like to see available in the table below.
Parts
A Wikidata Tour consists of the following parts:
- A wiki page where all text in the tour is stored that anyone can edit, no technical knowledge is required to create and improve these pages.
- A JavaScript page which stores data about the tour including a unique name of the tour, wiki page name, base Wikidata item to load and the startup data for base item as well as data and behaviour for each step.
- Tour item is a dedicated Wikidata item for the tour, the item is not used for anything else.
Working together to create tours
Many skills are needed to create a tour which will mean working with others. Each step will explain which skills are required, but the general workflow starts with content creation then gradually moves towards more technical tasks. These can be broadly divided into two required skills:
- Content creation - Designing and writing the tour content.
- JavaScript configuration - Tour setup and configuration.
Content creation
Writing the instructions for the tour requires you to know how to edit a wiki page. For basic tours this step can be completed entirely in the visual editor, but most tours are greatly enhanced by using appropriate templates, images and other content that require more advanced knowledge of Wiki text. Ideally someone with experience writing instructions should complete this step, or offer some guidance and feedback on the plan. Note: If you are planning to write a tour for an event or campaign please give yourself at least a week between write the tour and it being published.
JavaScript configuration
Basic knowledge of JavaScript and CSS is required in order to complete the JavaScript configuration file for a tour. You will also need the help of an Interface Administrators to deploy a tour for testing or final publishing, as the configuration file needs to be saved in a location that normal user accounts cannot write to (the "MediaWiki namespace"). This will be fully explained once you reach the JavaScript step, but you can use this list of Interface Administrators to find someone to help at an earlier stage if you're concerned about having to wait for responses.
Tours in progress
Many skills are needed to create tours so contributors should work together to create them. If you would like to learn about an aspect of Wikidata that doesn't have a tour you can add it to the table below. If you know of any existing resources that could be turned into a tour please add them in the notes section of the relevant tour.
| Tour name | Description | Content | Javascript configuration | Completed Tour | |||||||
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| Design | Write | Tour item | Javascript | Test | Publish | Translate | Troubleshoot | Notes | |||
| Coordinates | How to add coordinate location (P625) statements to items |  Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Phabricator task: T243825 | Live working tour | |
| Official Website | How to add official website (P856) statements to items | Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Phabricator task: T244467 | Live working tour | |
| References | How to add references to statements using reference URL (P854) and stated in (P248) properties | Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Phabricator task: T165902
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Live working tour | |
| Images | How to add image (P18) statements to items | Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Phabricator task: T244469 | Live working tour | |
| Inception | How to add inception (P571) statements to items | Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Done
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Phabricator task: T244468 | Live working tour | |
| Administrative territory | How to add located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) statements to items | Done
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Done
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Phabricator task: T243829 | Live working tour | |
| Company | Tour about how to create an item for a company | Outline (in progress) | |||||||||
| Person | Tour on how to create an item about a person with most common properties (link to schema when its available) | ||||||||||
| Book | Tour on how to create an item about a book with most common properties (link to schema when its available) | Started here | |||||||||
| Profession | How to add professions to items about people | ||||||||||
| Properties | Tour which explains what a property is and how to find the right ones | Possible resources from Wiki Education Foundation here | |||||||||
| Statements | Explain what a statement is | Possible resources from Wiki Education Foundation here | |||||||||
| Qualifiers | Tour explaining what qualifiers are and how to use them | Possible resources from Wiki Education Foundation here | |||||||||
| City, Town or Village | A Tour that explains how to create an item for a city, town or village with the most common statements (link to schema when its available) | ||||||||||
| Species / Taxon | Tour on how to create an item about a species or other taxon with the most common properties (link to schema when its available) | ||||||||||
| Building / architectural structure | Tour on how to create an item about a building or other architectural structure with the most common properties (link to schema when its available) | ||||||||||
| Event / occurrence | Tour on how to create an item about an event with the most common properties (link to schema when its available) | ||||||||||
| Chemical compound | Tour on how to create an item about a chemical compound with the most common properties (link to schema when its available) | ||||||||||
| Film | Tour on how to create an item about a film with the most common properties (link to schema when its available) | ||||||||||
| Road / thoroughfare | Tour on how to create an item about a road with the most common properties (link to schema when its available) | ||||||||||
| Astronomical object | Tour on how to create an item about an astronomical object with the most common properties (link to schema when its available) | ||||||||||
| Special values | Tour explaining what special values are and how to use them | Done
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Draft | Phabricator task T165972 | |||||||
| Lexicographical data | Tour explaining what lexigraphical data is and how to use it (probably more tours on lexographical data are needed) | Phabricator task T203717 | |||||||||
| Ranks | Tour explaining what ranks are and how to use them | Done
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Phabricator task T165971 | ||||||||
| Create a new item | Tour explaining how to create a new item (currently technical issues blocking this tour) | There are technical issues blocking this tour | |||||||||
| External identifiers | Tour explaining what external identifiers are and how to use them | Draft Outline | Phabricator task T243828 | ||||||||
| Properties | Tour explaining what external properties are and how to use them | Phabricator task T243895 | |||||||||
| Qualifiers | Tour explaining what qualifiers are and how to use them | Done
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Draft | Phabricator task T165970 | |||||||
| Translation | I'm sure there are many translation related tours that could be made e.g translating labels | ||||||||||
| Constraints | Explaining what constraints are and how to use them | Possible resources from Wiki Education Foundation here | |||||||||
| GeoJSON | How to capture/express coordinate polygons (ie. the footprint of a building or structure) | Wikidata:Map data mw:Help:Map Data | |||||||||
| Updating | How to update data on existing items | Would be useful to integrate with Wikipedia editnotices for articles that draw from Wikidata | |||||||||