[GLAM] Success stories of data dumps into Wikidata

[Jean-Philippe Béland]

Good day,

Do any of you have success stories of data dumps, especially from
governmental sources, into Wikidata that have been used to create something
useful after that, especially on Wikipedia?

Thank you,

Jean-Philippe Béland
Vice President, Wikimedia Canada

[Alex Stinson]

Sum of all paintings is one of the best examples, that a lot of us fall
back on, because of Crotos: http://zone47.com/crotos/

I also have a tendency to fall back on scholia as an example, which is
underpinned by a bunch of data from PubMed -- though that hasn't been well
documented anywhere.

You might check with WMSV on their work with COH:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage

Cheers,

Alex

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Jean-Philippe Béland <

Post by Jean-Philippe Béland
Good day,
Do any of you have success stories of data dumps, especially from
governmental sources, into Wikidata that have been used to create something
useful after that, especially on Wikipedia?
Thank you,
Jean-Philippe Béland
Vice President, Wikimedia Canada
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[Daniel Mietchen]

I do not think it's helpful to talk of "dumping" data into Wikidata.
At least to me, the term implies a throw-away attitude of not caring
much about what happens to the data once it's in Wikidata.

The "Sum of all paintings" and WikiCite initiatives are good examples
of how the community is working on a continuous basis with data
imported into Wikidata, and enriching or otherwise curating it or
using it to help people find information or learn in a variety of
ways.
That both have dedicated Wikidata frontends is perhaps no accident -
this helps the Wiki community to engage with the respective corners of
Wikidata and to reach out to communities that are interested in data
of the types that reside in those corners.

Re Scholia, there is some basic documentation now at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Scholia ,
and at the Wikimedia Hackathon this week, documentation of Scholia and
related workflows is amongst the things we plan to work on:
https://github.com/fnielsen/scholia/projects/1 .

Help with any of that is most welcome.

Cheers,

Daniel

Sum of all paintings is one of the best examples, that a lot of us fall back
on, because of Crotos: http://zone47.com/crotos/
I also have a tendency to fall back on scholia as an example, which is
underpinned by a bunch of data from PubMed -- though that hasn't been well
documented anywhere.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage
Cheers,
Alex
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Jean-Philippe Béland

Post by Jean-Philippe Béland
Good day,
Do any of you have success stories of data dumps, especially from
governmental sources, into Wikidata that have been used to create something
useful after that, especially on Wikipedia?
Thank you,
Jean-Philippe Béland
Vice President, Wikimedia Canada
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Wikimedia Foundation
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[JUDY ARLISS]

don't understand you sorry. i am a positive person. i believe in glass half full.
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I do not think it's helpful to talk of "dumping" data into Wikidata.
At least to me, the term implies a throw-away attitude of not caring
much about what happens to the data once it's in Wikidata.

The "Sum of all paintings" and WikiCite initiatives are good examples
of how the community is working on a continuous basis with data
imported into Wikidata, and enriching or otherwise curating it or
using it to help people find information or learn in a variety of
ways.
That both have dedicated Wikidata frontends is perhaps no accident -
this helps the Wiki community to engage with the respective corners of
Wikidata and to reach out to communities that are interested in data
of the types that reside in those corners.

Re Scholia, there is some basic documentation now at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Scholia ,
and at the Wikimedia Hackathon this week, documentation of Scholia and
related workflows is amongst the things we plan to work on:
https://github.com/fnielsen/scholia/projects/1 .

Help with any of that is most welcome.

Cheers,

Daniel

Sum of all paintings is one of the best examples, that a lot of us fall back
on, because of Crotos: http://zone47.com/crotos/
I also have a tendency to fall back on scholia as an example, which is
underpinned by a bunch of data from PubMed -- though that hasn't been well
documented anywhere.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage
Cheers,
Alex
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Jean-Philippe Béland

Post by Jean-Philippe Béland
Good day,
Do any of you have success stories of data dumps, especially from
governmental sources, into Wikidata that have been used to create something
useful after that, especially on Wikipedia?
Thank you,
Jean-Philippe Béland
Vice President, Wikimedia Canada
_______________________________________________
GLAM mailing list
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam

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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
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[Estermann Beat]

Hi,

A couple of days ago, Wikimedia CH ran a campaign for the International Museums day which was based on data that had been ingested into Wikidata a couple of years ago from the museums database maintained by the Swiss Museums Association: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Museum_Day_2018

And as a «would be» example, of course Wiki Loves Monuments<https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/>. I’m writing “would be”, because Wikidata wasn’t there yet when the contest was run for the first time in most countries. Had it been there, we would have ingested the data into Wikidata and run the contest based on this data instead of ingesting the data first into Wikipedia before harvesting it into an external monuments database. I believe that in the meanwhile, parts of the contest are run directly on the basis of Wikidata.

Cheers,
Beat





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Subject: [GLAM] Success stories of data dumps into Wikidata

Good day,
Do any of you have success stories of data dumps, especially from governmental sources, into Wikidata that have been used to create something useful after that, especially on Wikipedia?
Thank you,
Jean-Philippe Béland
Vice President, Wikimedia Canada

[JUDY ARLISS]

yes. I learned loads about nhs stuff and as my lovely husband has just died I could be jeremy hunt and would love to tell a positive story
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Good day,
Do any of you have success stories of data dumps, especially from governmental sources, into Wikidata that have been used to create something useful after that, especially on Wikipedia?
Thank you,
Jean-Philippe Béland
Vice President, Wikimedia Canada