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The NYC Wikidata Workshop and Skill Share was held with the Wikimedia NYC community on Sunday December 14, 1-5pm at 55 Washington Street in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood.

Details

Date:: Sunday December 14

Time: 1-5pm

Location: BLIP Outpost (room 321). 55 Washington Street. DUMBO neighborhood, downtown Brooklyn.

Nearest subway stations: York Street, High Street, Clark Street, Court Street – Borough Hall, Jay Street – MetroTech

Afterwards at 5pm, we will maybe walk to a social wiki-dinner or other activity together.

Questions, comments, follow-up from the event? Message us on the talk page.

Activities for the Wikidata-thon

Vive la Wikidata!

Bring your own ideas!

• For starters, playing the Wikidata Game! (description))
• Wikidata Tours
• Fixing issues reported in Wikidata constraint violations
• Adding descriptions to items with the Wikidata Terminator
• Exploring Wikidata classes and properties.
• Look for external databases or ontologies that are available under CC0/ Public Domain
• WikiProject Wikidata for research and especially the research proposal currently being drafted there (see blog post)
• Bringing bibliographic metadata onto Wikidata
• Phrasing out the specs for how to handle bibliographic metadata on Wikidata
• Review, test or improve/ expand the bib2wikidata code aimed at bringing bibliographic metadata onto Wikidata
• Setting up a Wikidata adventure (inspired by the WP:Wikipedia Adventure)
• Try to pull information from Wikidata into pages on other Wikimedia projects
• Test Wikidata-related tools and write about that in a Tool testing report
• Work on some Showcase items
• And in general, messing around with fun Wikidata external tools.

Resources

• Merilee Profitt and Max Klein's Wikidata and authority control video.

Speakers, special workshops and roundtable discussions

(perhaps as lightning talks and as skill shares)

• Up and running with Wikidata. Emw (talk) 01:38, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Sign up

You may also sign up at Meetup.com, especially if you are new and aren't sure how to comment on the wiki.

Likely attendees

• Pharos (talk) 14:12, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
• -kosboot (talk) 15:05, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
• OR drohowa (talk) 15:43, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
• BrillLyle (talk) 17:21, 8 December 2014 (UTC) -- coming apologies a little late
• Rangilo Gujarati (talk) 19:50, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
• Megs (talk) 04:21, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
• Emw (talk) 01:31, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
• CmdrDan (talk) 17:56, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
• Jeremyb (talk) 21:39, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
• Jim.henderson (talk) 15:29, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
• Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:25, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
• Dispenser 21:40, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Possible attendees

• I'm in New York this week. I might come. Multichill (talk) 14:45, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
• Rhododendrites 20:28, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Regrets

• Would like to attend but can't make it this time. Some things I'd consider working on if I'd be there:
  • WikiProject Wikidata for research and especially the research proposal currently being drafted there (see blog post)
  • bringing bibliographic metadata onto Wikidata
    • phrasing out the specs for how to handle bibliographic metadata on Wikidata
    • review, test or improve/ expand the bib2wikidata code aimed at bringing bibliographic metadata onto Wikidata
  • setting up a Wikidata adventure (inspired by the WP:Wikipedia Adventure)
  • look for external databases or ontologies that are available under CC0/ Public Domain
  • try to pull information from Wikidata into pages on other Wikimedia projects
  • test Wikidata-related tools and write about that in a Tool testing report
  • work on some Showcase items

Have fun! -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 20:48, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks User:Daniel Mietchen! I've added your suggestions to our activities list! OR drohowa (talk) 16:27, 11 December 2014 (UTC)