NYC Wikidata workshop and hackathon Sunday 1-5pm in DUMBO

[Jeremy Baron]

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-Jeremy

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From: "Emw" <emw....@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 11, 2014 10:00 PM
Subject: [Wikidata-l] NYC Wikidata workshop and hackathon this Sunday!
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org>

> Hi all,
>
> Wikimedia New York City will be hosting a Wikidata hackathon and beginners workshop this coming Sunday.  This will be a good event to meet Wikimedians involved with cultural institutions, structure a bunch of data, and help new users.
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> If you're in the area, come!
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> When:
> Sunday, December 14, 1:00 - 5:00 PM
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> Where:
> 55 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
> Room 321 (BLIP Outpost)
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> Details and sign up:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/December_Wikidata
>
> Cheers,
> Eric
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Emw
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[Jeremy Baron]

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From: "Emw" <emw....@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 15, 2014 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] NYC Wikidata workshop and hackathon this Sunday!
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org>

> If anyone is looking for slide material for a broad introduction to Wikidata, the deck from yesterday's New York City Wikidata workshop is available at http://www.slideshare.net/_emw/up-and-running-with-wikidata. 
>
> There were at least 15 participants (with only a week's notice beforehand), and lots of interest in Wikidata.  Wikimedia NYC is a great crowd!
>
> Miscellaneous notes:
> Someone with a big collection of NYC civic / community / OSM data wanted to know how to get information into something like Wikidata.  I recommended a separate Wikibase deployment and loading it there, and searching for existing ontologies.
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> Someone wanted a way to edit Wikidata using only keyboard shortcuts.  It looks like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Tools#Keyboard_shortcuts is the best we've got in that regard.  A nice-to-have: keyboard shortcuts baked into the UI, noted via HTML title attributes that display on hover (like the search box at upper right).
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> Wikidata Game: classifying humans in native language was easy, making claims about sex/gender was not
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> "Why can't we just import all infobox data right now?"  A discussion about general vs. specific properties (e.g. "Products"), linguistics, etc. followed.  Somewhat of a microcosm of longer-running discussions on Wikidata.  Nevertheless, larger-scale creation of properties for infobox parameters would probably be worthwhile.
> Eric