Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2021-08-10

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Call details[edit]

Presentation material[edit]

  • Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon
    • Slides (these are PowerPoint, and will look better if downloaded and opened in the Powerpoint app)
  • Wikidata and Comic Edit-a-thon

Notes[edit]

  • Wikidata Edit-a-thons
    • Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon hosted by Harvard Library and Boston Public Library, Christine Fernsebner Eslao, Metadata Management, Harvard Library and Dory Klein, Community History Librarian, Boston Public Library
      • Slides (these are PowerPoint, and will look better if downloaded and opened in the Powerpoint app)
      • Freedman Collection--came from donor Artie (Arthur Freedman)
        • Audio and video materials--many genres of rock and punk
      • Goals
        • Work with expert communities
        • Create data useful to scholars and fans
        • Build community during the pandemic
        • Tell local history meaningful and accessible way
        • Try out Wikidata
      • Entities
        • Bands, venues, musicians, shows, record labels
      • BPL work/tasks
        • Connection to public--extend to virtual environment
        • Logistical questions
        • Communication
          • More targeted communication to specific audiences and coordination with Harvard’s communication team
        • Turnout significant, but manageable
      • Harvard
        • Documentation
        • Data modeling
        • Instructional materials
        • Volunteers tested instructions
      • Workflow
        • Needed to figure out workflow ahead of time
        • Created items to query and locate pain points
        • Reconciliation ahead of time, so could use experts for creating new items and disambiguating tricky items
        • Options to in depth or basic editing depending on preference of attendees
      • Gig
        • Tools and platforms
          • Discord--like Slack, but originally for gaming community
            • (Also used by Wikimedia NYC)
          • Zoom
            • How to navigate finding aids--useful for everyone involved regardless of experience
          • Google spreadsheets and query driven lists
          • Visualizations
      • What rocked?
        • 135 registered and 85+ attendees
        • Memory sharing on Discord
        • Artie attended with his cockatiel La Belle et la Bete!
        • Instructional video shared in advance to get familiarity ahead of time
        • Volunteers to help answer questions
        • Boston Rock City playlist--shared experience
          • Shared audio and video resources in chat
      • Data
        • Measured items created, items edited, references, total edits
        • Used item quality evaluator to help with clean up and identify points where modeling could be improved
      • What’s next
        • BPL would love to again in person or as blended event
        • Any idea if participants continued editing after the event?
      • Interested in creating documentation for Wikidata edit-a-thons
    • Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon hosted by Michigan State University, Kate Topham, Digital Humanities Archivist
      • Slides
      • Comics as data dataset
        • Started to move into linked data
        • Reconciliation in OpenRefine
          • Publishers and authors
        • Graphic Possiblities workshop--worked with them on edit-a-thon
        • Edit-a-thon held virtually--Oct 8-9, 2020
          • Learn basic Wikidata
          • Participants around the U.S.
          • Will Kent shared tools and how to edit
          • Had participants do the basic Wikidata training
          • Started with Gold Age and Had to get more data for day 2 so moved to Silver Age
          • Used Mix’n’match
            • Can create new items quickly
          • Used Discord
            • Social/comm. Platform that wasn’t Zoom
            • Put people into working groups based on comic squads
            • Links and resources channel
            • Could have public and private channels
          • Had almost all authors and publishers matched in a couple datasets
          • Used Wikidata event dashboard
          • People corrected errors in metadata
          • Spring 2021
            • Visualizing data created in fall
            • Wikidata graph builder
              • Start at root item and look at connections to other items
            • Wikidata SPARQL query service
              • Gave people example queries they could use to fill in with items interested
            • Not many connections between Graphic Possibilities linked data and the Grand Comics Database--maybe look at at fall event
      • Wiki-Relays hosted by University of California, San Diego, Liz Miraglia, Assistant Program Director & Head of Books & Serials, Metadata Services  and Aislinn Sotelo, Program Director, Metadata Services
        • Identity management workflows beyond NACO
          • UCSD interest in Wikidata
          • UCSD edit-a-thons Women in STEM
        • Metadata Services created Wikidata items for Wikipedia edit-a-thons happening at UCSD
        • Notability harder in Wikipedia than Wikidata, but still comes up in Wikidata
          • How to make sure properties don’t get removed
        • Wikidata quicker to create than Wikipedia articles
        • Come back to Wikidata items to identify enhancements after the event
        • Interested in adding visualizations--work beyond Wikipedia article--creates opportunity for collaboration
          • Got back of house people at public facing event--created collaboration--share information/outreach opportunity
        • Question: Do you ever teach the /wikidata options for infoboxes? In my opinion that has helped us show the impact of Wikidata on an instant basis, apart from discussing findability and SEO.
          • Had not done that, but thinks great idea

Questions[edit]

  • How have editathons dealt with the possibility that Wikidata editors may subsequently challenge the items created and call for their deletion? Was there a way to preclude that possibility?
    • Comics--didn’t try to prevent--get as many as possible in Wikidata and learn from it
    • Rock City--had to embrace that might happen--haven’t audited yet if lost statement; used on focus list statements
    • Advice from chat: check your watchlist every day and see when the warnings occur
  • Any idea if participants continued to add info after the event?
    • Wiki-Relays has seen some items updated with new statements
    • Boston Rock City hasn’t done deliberate assessment, but heard people continued or were interested after the fact
  • Resource that may be of interest from Philadelphia WikiSalon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/Demonstrations#Wikipedia_infoboxes_and_Wikidata
  • Article that may be of interest: article may be of interest re: bias against articles about women: https://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=1015754856
  • Interest in talking more about running hybrid Wikipedia/Wikidata events
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