It's on Meta, but discoverable
Organizational knowledge in a structured form
2023-08-18
Wikimedia Sverige
Tore Danielsson
Alicia Fagerving
Managing our own knowledge
A Wikimedia chapter does a lot of things and generates a lot of documention:
Wikimedia Sverige's own wiki keeps growing!
Alicia Fagerving
Tore Danielsson
Wikibase in a box – for everyone!
metabase.wikibase.cloud
What goes there?
…and what doesn't?
We don't need, or want, to duplicate what's on Wikidata.
If there's an equivalent Wikidata item, we use a sameAs on Wikidata property to link there.
Power of federation
This enables us to use federated SPARQL queries to retrieve more information from Wikidata.
Such as the coordinates of the cities where we've had edit-a-thons.
https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/query/
Browse the example queries to see it in action!
Filling it with data
Right now, there isn't much actual data in there.
Just a couple example items for each type.
We've focused on creating an onthology from scratch that both:
…as well as compiling documentation pages.
Now what?
Fall 2023: the model we developed will be tested in practice as we put all the data from our wiki in Metabase.
We love that QuickStatements works on Wikibase.cloud!
That way we'll learn whether our idea – and the documentation :) – is any good.
And in the future?
Will others join us?