Datathon Wikidata Days 2023
This is our organizational repo for the Datathon of Wikidata Days 2023. It contains a few projects to work on and reference documentation about Wikidata and some related tools.
Challenges to work on:
- Gathering data about Festival da Canção - technical level required: low
- Put Portugal on the map of Wiki Loves Living Heritage - technical level required: moderate to high
- Data modelling of MARCMUS - technical level required: low; knowledge management required: high
Documentation, tools and guides
- Wikidata REST API - permite aceder a conteúdo Wikidata, via pedidos URL específicos
- List of programmer tools for Wikidata
Tools for extracting data from Wikidata using CLI
- Wikibase-CLI — Permite aceder a e editar objectos no Wikidata ou instâncias Wikibase
- wikidata-taxonomy — Tool for extracting taxonomies
- wikidata-dl — Python library to download data from Wikidata through SPARQL queries
- More programmer tool for extracting data
Documentation for Wikidata Query Service (WQS) and SPARQL
- Wikidata Query Service help portal
- Documentation for SPARQL queries syntax on WQS
- Examples od SPARQL queries on Wikidata
- Technical limits of queries on WQS
Tools for batch edit and upload of data:
- Quick Statements - allows to edit Wikidata in batches (no install required)
- OpenRefine - allows you to bulk edit Wikidata through a spreadsheet-like interface (requires installation)
Wikimedia technical services and other useful tools
- Phabricator - bug/tiucket tracker for Wikimedia platforms
- Gerrit - version control system for Wikimedia projects (documentation)
- Toolforge (servers for Wiki-related tools/platform as a service)
- PyWikiBot - Python library and collection of scripts that automate work on MediaWiki sites
- Mix 'n' Match - reconciliation tool for catalogues on Wikidata