Wikidata:Training

Training

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Tips and limitations

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This page is to collect the best materials and ideas for training those unfamiliar with Wikidata. Feel free to update and improve it!

When you plan a Wikidata event, don't forget to add it on Wikidata:Events!

Resources

• Wikidata: Giving more people more access to more knowledge - Lydia Pintscher, Digikult 2016. Video.
• A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov, Feb 9, 2017 at the Wikimedia Foundation. Video, three hours.
• One page guide - Wikidata:In one page (PDF and editable Google Draw file). Available in English, and more than 10 other languages.
• Keys to organizing a successful Wikidata workshop - Lea Lacroix, WikidataCon 2017
• Wikidata Training Modules on WikiEdu
• Query Service tutorial in English and Hebrew developed by Wikimedia Israel
• Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners, a detailed video tutorial by Asaf Bartov (in English, 2 hours)
• Teaching notes on Wikidata by User:Einebillion
• Videos of introduction to Wikidata and useful tools during the Wikidata Leveling Up Days 2024

Presentations

• Wikidata training for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. – Andrew Lih, 2017 (Google Slides below)
  • Session 1 – Introduction to Wikidata, June 29, 2017
  • Session 2 – Working with Wikidata: A practical workshop, July 31, 2017
  • Session 3 – Wikidata Clinic: Discovering and modeling knowledge in Wikidata, December 1, 2017 (with Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, User:Rosiestep)
• A brief guide to Wikidata for Wikimedians – Andrew Lih, August 10, 2017 at Wikimania/Wikiconference North America (Google Slides)
• Wikidata: Knowledge as a service – Martin Poultier, February 2018. (PDF and Powerpoint file)
• Wikicite 2018 - Wikidata 101: An introduction for the citation-oriented, Andrew Lih
• OCLC - Works in Progress Webinar: Introduction to Wikidata for Librarians, June 12, 2018 - Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
• Wikidata 201: Advanced Wikidata for LD4 - Andrew Lih, LD4 Conference, May 10, 2019

Slides There are also additional trainings and presentations available in a variety of languages on Commons.

• Map Making Workshop with Wikidata by Olaf Janssen
• Archival Authority Records as Linked Data thanks to Wikidata, schema.org and the Records in Context Ontology by Francesco Gelati
• Documenting our languages with Lexeme, by Asaf Bartov, 2022

Possible exercises

• Start with a Wikidata Query and add labels, descriptions, alias and images to Wikidata entries. For example. for foods
• Go to items with no statements, add descriptions and basic statements - Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site/enwiki

Examples

• Histropedia
• Wikidata Timeline