_Structured Data_ �_on Wikimedia_ _Commons_

Who we are

Alicia Fagerving

John Cummings

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Wikimedia Sverige, supporting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects

_Wikipedia__

• 500 million people read 20 billion Wikipedia articles every month�
• Available in 300 languages�

_Wikidata__

• Wikidata is a free and open knowledge database that can be read and edited by both humans and machines

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• Over 93 million different articles (called items)�
• Multilingual labels, 300 languages

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• Links to other databases for each topic, collating knowledge on a topic across the web

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• You can do queries (SPARQL)

All Wikidata items with coordinates, millions of items

• Add Adam Shortland maps in here

Detail

Query for specific types of content: �Map of all cultural institutions on Wikidata, 85,000 worldwide (interactive map)

_Wikimedia Commons__

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Wikimedia Commons, the multimedia file repository used by Wikipedia

Contains more than 70 million files, 90% are images

We are implementing the Structured Data approach of Wikidata in Commons

All ‘featured picture’ quality photos of hummingbirds on Commons

Photos on Commons in 1km radius from National Library of Switzerland

Photos from ‘Wiki Loves Monuments’ photography competition in Sweden

Map of maps found in the medieval Atlas De Wit

_Hackathon__

Hackathon

If you’re interested in:

1. Learn how to use the Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons query service and make interesting queries
2. Design complex queries (we can get help making them)
3. Talk and learn about adding data, manually, mass uploads etc
4. Plan projects
5. Anything else

Challenge name: Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data�mrjohncummings@gmail.com

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