Newbies guide to Wikidata

[ekoner]

A session to introduce anyone new to Wikidata: What it is, how to use it, current projects and potential uses.

[goodwingibbins]

How do I check if certain data is up yet? Take this for example, one of the most central climate observation data sets.

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

[Daniel-Mietchen]

@goodwingibbins

1. check whether a Wikidata item exists to which such data might fit, e.g. atmosphere of Earth (Q3230) or Mauna Loa (Q159762). If it does not, then consider creating a suitable item by way of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewItem
2. check whether a suitable Wikidata property exists for this data type by going through https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties or https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Chemical_compound_properties or related listings. If you don't find any, consider proposing such a property via https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposals .

To get an idea as to whether creating such new items or properties would be appropriate, take a look at related items and properties or ask at the talk page of one of the relevant WikiProjects or at the project chat

[Daniel-Mietchen]

The observations of the group that looked into this are now available via
https://github.com/sparcopen/open-research-doathon/blob/master/wikidata_for_newbies.md .

[Daniel-Mietchen]

I notified the Wikidata mailing list about this: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-March/010379.html .

[wetneb]

I've made a diagram to explain how "instance of" (P31) and "subclass of" (P279) work together:

https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/static/explanation_types_wikidata.svg

[Daniel-Mietchen]

I've added this team's issue to the discussion about an upcoming Wikidata documentation sprint.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Just noticed that the video of Edafe's pitch has not been listed here yet, so here's a quick fix: https://twitter.com/OKFN/status/838011416598700033 .

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Wikidata now has https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Welcome .