Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Submissions/The role of Wikidata in emergency response

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Submission no. 62

Title of the submission

The role of Wikidata in emergency response

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Author(s) of the submission

Daniel Mietchen

E-mail address

daniel.mietchenvirginia.edu

Country of origin

Germany

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

Data Science Institute, University of Virginia

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Type of session

Lightning talk

Length of session

• 10min

Ideal number of attendees

112

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Tracked in Phabricator
Task T175448

Abstract

Following up on my Wikimania talk on the role of Wikimedia in emergency response, I will zoom in here specifically on how Wikidata can help

• educate about emergencies, their causes and effects as well as responses and prevention
• document emergencies
• document emergency preparedness
• enhance emergency preparedness
• respond to emergencies

What will attendees take away from this session?

1. A better awareness of the actual and/ or potential role of Wikidata in the context of emergencies

Slides or further information

• The Wikimedia community collects and curates information related to disasters
  • WikiProject Disaster management
  • Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for Ebola Information
• Wikimania session on how to make Wikimedia activities in this space more systematic
  • collection of ideas
    • vote
    • ranked responses so far
    • Ideas relevant to Wikidata
      • Encourage providers of disaster-related data to use Wikidata identifiers
      • Load disaster-related information into Wikidata
      • Index the disaster-related literature in Wikidata
      • Seek content donations from providers of disaster-related data
      • Propose a Wikidata property for magnitude of an earthquake
        • They exist:
          • earthquake magnitude on the moment magnitude scale (P2527)
          • earthquake magnitude on the Richter magnitude scale (P2528)
      • Prepare Wikidata queries around disaster-related information
• Some draft Wikidata queries around disaster response
• Provide mechanism(s) to avoid WDQS timeouts for certain pre-approved queries
• Events around Wikimedia and disaster response

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1. Andrawaag (talk) 16:51, 31 July 2017 (UTC)