Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2024)/Wikidata
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FAQ
[edit]I'm editing for the first time! How do I get started?
[edit]Attend our 101 training or use the Wikidata interactive tours you can use to get started.
I'm not sure what I should edit. Do you have any suggestions?
[edit]Always! For inspiration on what to edit, you can:
1. Ask a facilitator during an editing session for help finding your first editing task.
2. Edit or create items for Black Canadians from the BHE Wikidata task list. Please review the Wikidata 101 edit-a-thon slides first, if you are not familiar with Wikidata.
3. Look at the Wikipedia task list; you can edit or create a Wikidata item for any Wikipedia person. (To find the Wikidata item for a Wikipedia article, see a Wikipedia page's left side bar > Tools > Wikidata item.)
4. Gain inspiration from other community task lists:
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Lists_of_Articles#Black_Lunch_Table_Project_Wikidata_task_list
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Scientists_-_Kenya
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Black_history
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/African_artists
Application Profiles
[edit]You can use the below application profiles to get started in enhancing or creating Wikidata items. Each profile is intended to be a starting point and does not represent a complete item. These Wikidata items feed into https://scholia.toolforge.org/ to enhance the visibility of Black scholars and their achievements.
Note these potential sources for data when editing:
- Library of Congress Names: Authoritative data for names of persons, organizations, events, places, and titles for identification and controlled vocabulary.
- VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) combines multiple name authority files into one name authority service. Search VIAF with a person's name to potentially find a list of their works and under the About section, their field of activity, occupation, and external links on them.
- ORCID: ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) for researchers that allows them to own and control their information while distinguishing themselves and their works from others. Search for a person's name to potentially find their affiliations, grants, publications, and more.
- University faculty profiles - most faculty departments will have webpages dedicated to their faculty and may include their C.V. or list of selected publications.
Person
[edit]| Property | Value | Usage Note |
|---|---|---|
| Label | Text value. Person's name, e.g. "Mark Thompson" | Use the most common name the person is known for the item. Use First Name Last Name order, with a middle name or initial if that is how the person is commonly known (in this case, known academically). |
| Description | Text value, e.g. "Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator" or "professor of psychology" or "author" | A short phrase designed to disambiguate items with the same or similar labels. General guidelines in Wikidata for description:
For a person: [country] [career the person is known for] |
| Aliases | Text value. | Any alternative names for the person, including middle names and initials. |
| instance of (P31) | Link to Wikidata item human (Q5) | |
| occupation (P106) | Link to Wikidata item(s). Scholars will usually be both University teacher (Q1622272) and Academic(Q3400985)
Optional to add more specific occupations like “chemist”, if applicable. |
Link to occupation Wikidata item(s) to designate a specifric profession or occupation. Use field of work (P1010) to indicate the area in which a person worked, e.g. theology. |
| educated at (P69) | Link to Wikidata item(s). E.g. University of Toronto
if known, add qualifiers:
|
List the university as a whole, as opposed to the specific school or department. |
| employer (P108) | Link to Wikidata item(s). E.g. University of Toronto
if known, add qualifiers:
|
List the university as a whole, as opposed to the specific school or department. Use position held (P39) where possible to document specific positions that have a Wikidata entity. Add as many employers as known. |
| position held (P39) | Link to Wikidata item(s). if known, add qualifiers: | Optional. Use on its own if referring to a position of public office or an elected appointment (e.g. "Board Member", "President")
For example: Jean Augustine (Q3170455) |
| award received (P166) | Link to a Wikidata item. If known, include the qualifier point in time (P585) | Property requires a reference. |
| field of work (P101) | Link to a Wikidata item, e.g. physics (Q413) | Use the specialization/discipline of a person or organization. |
| official website (P856) | Text value of a URL of the person's personal website. | Include retrieved on date. |
| described at URL (P973) | Text value of a URL where the person is described, such as the university website. e.g. "https://www.ryerson.ca/creativeindustries/people/faculty/cthompson/" | |
| on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) | Link to Wikidata item Q110879833 | Add to indicate relationship to the project and allow for easier querying of Black Canadians |
| VIAF ID (P214) | e.g. "43683365" | Include if known. Go to http://viaf.org/ and search for the person. Use VIAF permalink as reference URL. |
| ORCID ID (P496) | e.g. "0000-0002-6003-980X" | Include if known. Go to https://orcid.org/ and search for the person. Use their ID found in the URL. |
| SNAC ARK ID (P3430) | e.g. "w6g165pt" | Include if known. Go to https://snaccooperative.org/ and search for the person. Use the Ark ID value found at the bottom right corner of a person's page. |
The above application profile is inspired by
Journal
[edit]| Property | Value | Usage Note |
|---|---|---|
| Label | journal title | Use the most common name for the item |
| Description | "academic journal on [subject area]" | A short phrase designed to disambiguate items with the same or similar labels. |
| instance of (P31) | scientific journal (Q5633421) and academic journal (Q737498) | |
| title (P235) | text value | specify language |
| publisher (P123) | Link to the Wikidata item. | The publisher must already exist as a Wikidata item or else exclude this property. |
| ISSN (P236) | e.g. "1744-1692" |
See Wikidata:WikiProject_Periodicals#Venue_item_properties for more appropriate properties. For our purposes, we just need to create a Wikidata item to link journal articles to, not create the most robust Wikidata item for the journal.
Journal article
[edit]| Property | Value | Usage Note |
|---|---|---|
| Label | article title | Use the most common name for the item |
| Description | "scholarly article by [name] ([year])" | A short phrase designed to disambiguate items with the same or similar labels. |
| instance of (P31) | scholarly article (Q13442814) | |
| author (P50) | Link to author's Wikidata item | If there are co-authors, either create an item for them as well or leave blank and make sure to include them in the below "author name string" as well |
| author name string (P2093) | Text value, e.g. "Cheryl Thompson" | Use this only when a Wikidata item for author does not exist. Name strings in direct order, not inverted. Include all co-authors. |
| published in (P1433) | Link to the journal's Wikidata item | Journal item must exist already in Wikidata before linking |
| volume (P478) | Text value, .e.g "2" | Do not include any "vol." prefix, only the number |
| issue (P433) | Text value, e.g. "1" | Do not include any punctuation or quotation marks, just the number |
| page (P304) | Text value, e.g. "29-32" | Do not include quotation marks, just the number |
| title (P1476) | Text value | Set language: en |
| publication date (P577) | Format as "DD Month YYYY", e.g. "18 June 2020" | If full date is not known, include just month and year or just year. |
| language of work or name (P407) | English (Q1860) | |
| DOI (P356) | Text value. Digital object identifier: serial code used to uniquely identify digital objects like academic papers. e.g. "10.3390/healthcare8020176" | Do not include the "https://doi.org/" part; Wikidata will convert the text value into a URL to the DOI URL automatically. |
Examples
The application profiles above were drawn from the following sources: