Wikidata:Training/Five minutes outline
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Possible outline of what would go into a 5 minute training video/session.
- Problem
- Knowledge is currently scattered across different Wikipedia editions - inconsistent in accuracy and completeness
- Content in Wikipedia is "unstructured" - factual information is entangled in written prose. Names, dates, locations, dollar amounts, population figures, et al. aren't easily searched or extractable.
- Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects could benefit with connecting to external databases, but cannot do so easily
- Solution
- A database to "structure" the data in Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects
- Benefits
- This new knowledge base can be queried quickly and efficiently
- Consistency of information across all Wikimedia projects
- New powerful tools can be built using databases
- Demonstration
- Show what a Wikidata entry looks like
- Show a complete Wikipedia article, and corresponding Wikidata entry
- Claim = property, value, qualifier
- Editing an item directly in Wikidata
- What can be done with Wikidata
- Inter-language links already implemented
- SPARQL query
- Wikidata Timeline
- Histropedia
- Reasonator
- Infoboxes generated for Wikipedia
- Alternative ways of editing Wikidata
- Wikidata Game
- Show what a Wikidata entry looks like
- Takeaways
- Consider showing and turning on Preferences->Gadgets
- DuplicateReferences
- EasyQuery
- Recoin
- Consider showing and turning on Preferences->Gadgets
- Ideas/questions
- How to describe Wikidata properties and relation to Wikipedia categories?