Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2020-03-24
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Call Details
- Date: 2020-03-24
- Time: 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 5pm CET
- Chair: Hilary Thorsen, Wikimedian in Residence, Linked Data for Production project
- Topic: Wikidata and Wikipedia Google Sheets Add-On and Wikidata WikiProject COVID 19
Presentation Materials
Notes
- Announcement: LD4 2020 Conference is moving to a virtual format, announcements will come after a settling in period
- A series of events will be planned
- A platform for hosting sessions and recordings will be launched
- Virtual presentations are a possibility, but stay tuned for details -- if you have an accepted talk and haven’t heard from LD4, email them for details
- Updates will be shared with this group as well as more widely New Wikidata:WikiProject for COVID19, currently under construction
- If you’re interested in contributing, there’s a set of tasks that have been moved to their own task page
- Different topics that need curation
- Publications that need to be added
- Wikidata Working Hour last Friday focused on this project and adding citations, etc.
- H. is adding more info to past Working Hour page on what can be added, etc.
- Feel free to reach out via email, Slack, or project page
- Has anyone started editing already or contributing? Some have
- Adding authors to articles
- Adding hospitals (coverage of hospitals varies by area)
- Adding new laws: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87722315 and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88286009
- Working on 3D printed mask prototypes: COVID-19 Response: 3D Printing PPE Equipment
- Interest from several in another COVID19 working hour
- A faceshield uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with description: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Visor_frame_v10.stl
- There’s also a Meta-Wiki page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19
- Also kaggle.com/covid19 to consider Wikidata Google sheets plugin
- See item in Agenda section above for links and details
- In a Google sheet, look for Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools under Add-ons menu in order to install it
- Clarification: if there’s no Wikipedia article, there won’t be a reconciled item returned
- Works very well when people want to edit metadata collaboratively, perhaps before moving it into OpenRefine, and you can use it with QuickStatements
- Can also be used for various queries as shown in slides: WIKIDATAQID, WIKIDATASEARCH, WIKIDATALABELS, WIKIDATADESCRIPTIONS, WIKIDATAFACTS, WIKIDSYNONYMS, WIKITRANSLATE, WIKIGEOCOORDINATES, WIKICATEGORIES, WIKICATEGORYMEMBERS, WIKIPAGEVIEWS
- H. is demonstrating this with names of institutional libraries (see slides)
- Clarification: the label needs to match the Wikidata item exactly in order for it to pull the QID (OpenRefine is much more flexible)
- Watch out for items that have the same alias, because you might get the wrong one
- Documentation available in the add-on tab that opens in a sidebar menu, helpful for seeing how the syntax works
- Questions over QID and whether or not you need a Wikipedia article on the term to get a P31 value returned -- Hilary to clarify in slides
- Also see A.L.’s spreadsheet linked in Agenda item
- Formulas added for seeing how well-defined articles are about women scientists (and STEM professionals more broadly)
- Could be adapted for an edit-a-thon by making a copy and playing around with it.
- Next time Hilary will talk more about the ORES ranking column, and give some more examples of what you can do with the Google Sheets add-on
- Question: Has there been an LD4 call about how to build a Wikipedia info box from Wikidata?
- we can talk about this and Wikidata Bridge on a future call
- R.F.’s slides on Infoboxes:
- Alex is working on an infobox that pulls from Wikidata’s “archives at” property; willing to share on that call as a guest