Let’s get closer

Let us show you how you can already benefit from Wikidata in your Wikimedia project and chat about how to make it even better

Chukwu Sylvester - Sylvesterchukwu04

Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) - @nightrose

We are here to show you some ways to make good use of Wikidata in your Wikimedia project

Let’s dive right in!

Filling an infobox or authority control box

• Benefit from shared work in Wikidata
• Use Parser Functions and Lua calls to build Lua modules and templates to show data from Wikidata in your articles
• How to: [[d:Wikidata:How to use data on Wikimedia projects]]
• [[d:Module:Databox]] is a ready-made infobox Lua module that you can copy to your wiki

Categorizing

• You can code your Lua modules and templates in a way that they automatically put pages into categories for you, e.g.:
• “instance of: space probe” -> put the article into “Category:Space probes”
• IMDB ID in the article doesn’t match the one on Wikidata? -> put it into “Category:Local value different from Wikidata”
• Check if your wiki has something like [[en:Category:Wikipedia categories tracking Wikidata differences]]

Querying

• Find and fill gaps in your wiki by querying
• Some meaningful examples to query for:
• people with no article in my language but at least 5 others
• people without a photo but with a social media account (so you can reach out and ask for one)
• Query with SPARQL directly on query.wikidata.org or by clicking together a query with the Query Builder

Making lists

• [[d:Wikidata:Listeria]]
• Write a query, have a bot regularly update a wiki page with the query result
• Great for:
• monitoring changes (put the page on your watchlist and get a diff of the change in the query result whenever an edit on Wikidata affects it)
• organizing editing activity in wiki projects or at editathons (e.g. list of women without an article in my Wikipedia but at least 5 others)

Understanding our content better

• Wikidata can build the basis for analysing the content of our projects and better understanding what we are covering
• e.g. Wikipedia Diversity Observatory

Fighting vandalism and other bad edits

• Wikidata Vandalism Dashboard is useful to monitor Wikidata edits relating to your language/project
• You can also turn on showing Wikidata edits in your Recent changes and Watchlist to see Wikidata edits affecting articles in your wiki there

Making things more useful for your language

• Having more labels for highly used Items and Properties is important so people speaking your language can understand Wikidata’s content also in your wiki
• Terminator helps with adding labels to important Items
• [[d:Special:ListProperties]] is useful for adding labels to important Properties (start with the ones with data type “Item”)

Finding out where data is coming from

• On an article you find the “Page information” link in the sidebar
• When clicking it you will find see a lot of metadata about the article, incl. which Items, Properties and Lexemes are contributing data to the article
• You can do the same thing on Wikidata to see which projects use data from a specific Item, Property or Lexeme

Let’s talk about how to make it even better!

What are your ideas and wishes for integrating Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects better?