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About
[edit]This page lists potential educational activities that have or could have a Wikidata-related component. The activity is then described further at a dedicated subpage, such that course pages can transclude or otherwise reuse relevant activities more readily and in any order. The listing here is not based on any assumptions about specific audiences or educational formats, nor on the duration of the coursework or its granularity but the expectation is that combinations of individual items from this list can be tailored to specific values of such parameters in a relatively straightforward manner.
List
[edit]The list in this section is automatically generated based on the existence of subpages to this page. These subpages usually contain pointers to more detailed information available elsewhere. Entries in italics denote redirects, which are included to increase discoverability. This infrastructure is provisional — we are looking into using Wikidata items and properties or setting up a dedicated Wikibase instance for describing educational activities like these. For this to be effective, we need some seed content and some suitable data models.
- Add affiliation information to items about scholars
- Add labels to items
- Add links to Scholia profiles from relevant pages on Wikimedia projects
- Add screenshots to some example queries
- Analyze the history of popular items on Wikidata
- Annotate publication items with their main topic
- Ask WDAqua
- Ask Wikidata
- Catalog a book collection in Inventaire
- Catalog the usage of Wikidata in other Wikimedia projects
- Check out the IRC of the Wikidata developers
- Complete some subset of Wikidata
- Consider what could be done with Listeria lists that have grown too large
- Contribute a Wikidata-related report to This Month in Education
- Contribute to the Wikidata report in This Month in GLAM
- Contribute to the next Wikidata status update
- Create some lexemes
- Design a Wikidata bot
- Disambiguate some author name strings
- Document an exploration of Wikidata in a Jupyter notebook
- Document some aspect of the history of Wikidata
- Explain the abundance of references to goats in Wikidata folklore to someone unfamiliar with it
- Explore Crotos
- Explore Everything is connected
- Explore Histropedia
- Explore Lexemes
- Explore Lingua Libre
- Explore Mix'n'Match
- Explore ORCIDator
- Explore OSM Sophox
- Explore OpenRefine
- Explore Ordia
- Explore PAWS
- Explore PetScan
- Explore Platypus
- Explore Reasonator
- Explore SQID
- Explore Scholia
- Explore SourceMD
- Explore Special:LongPages
- Explore Special:Nearby
- Explore Special:NewPages
- Explore Special:Notifications
- Explore Special:Preferences
- Explore Special:Random
- Explore Special:RecentChanges
- Explore Special:SiteMatrix
- Explore Special:SpecialPages
- Explore Special:Statistics
- Explore Special:Tags
- Explore Sum of all Knowledge
- Explore Sum of all Paintings
- Explore Tempo-spatial display
- Explore User boxes
- Explore WikiCite
- Explore WikiProjects in your fields
- Explore Wikidata-related Quarry queries
- Explore Wikidata-related categories on other Wikimedia projects
- Explore Wikidata-related resources at OpenML
- Explore Wikidata:Tools
- Explore Wikidata query log data
- Explore Wikidata showcase items
- Explore database reports for quality control
- Explore how information related to news events is finding its way into Wikidata
- Explore some SPARQL queries to check data quality
- Explore some of the Easter eggs in Wikidata identifiers
- Explore the ArticlePlaceholder functionality on some wikis that have enabled it
- Explore the Wikibase registry
- Explore the different options for accessing Wikidata data
- Export the results of a Wikidata query into an analytical tool
- Find Commons Creator page without Commons category
- Fix some Wikidata-related bugs
- Identify some gaps in Wikidata
- Import a dataset with OpenRefine
- Import an external database into a Wikibase instance
- Improve Wikidata:Introduction
- Improve Wikidata:Tours
- Improve Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control
- Improve the Wikidata Main page in a given language
- Learn the basics of SPARQL
- Link some subsets of Wikidata
- Listen to Wikidata
- Play Guessr
- Post some responses to Wikidata-related questions on StackOverflow
- Pywikibot
- Pywikibot/Missing label in target language
- Pywikibot/Missing label in target language/code
- Read about Wikidata
- Respond to a Request a Query post
- Review Wikidata's Notability policy
- Review Wikidata's policy on Biographies of Living People
- Review Wikidata-related activities at past, present and future events
- Review active property proposals
- Review some Wikidata policies
- Review some ongoing discussions on Wikidata
- Review some research proposals related to Wikidata
- Review the example SPARQL queries
- Subscribe to a Wikidata mailing list
- Subscribe to the Wikidata status updates
- Take a Wikidata Tour
- Take a published dataset and reconcile it using Wikidata identifiers
- Thank another user for an edit on Wikidata
- Translate a restaurant menu using Wikidata
- Translate descriptions of Wikidata items
- Translate descriptions of Wikidata properties
- Translate labels of Wikidata items
- Translate labels of Wikidata properties
- Tweet about Wikidata-related events
- Tweet about a Wikidata edit
- Tweet about a Wikidata property
- Tweet about a Wikidata query
- Tweet about some Wikidata-related statistics
- Upload a Zotero library to Wikidata
- Upload a screenshot of some aspect of Wikidata to Wikimedia Commons
- Use WikiShootMe to upload some images to Wikimedia Commons and use them on Wikidata
- Visualize some academic trees
- Work on some Wikidata-related feature requests
Further ideas
[edit]The ordering in this section is intentionally not alphabetical, so as to leave more room for inspiring new thoughts. Ideas already appearing in the automatic list above may appear again below in blue and should be removed from this section.
- Imagine how Wikidata could be useful in research in your fields
- Describe what we would be missing if Wikidata were down for good
- Integrate Wikidata with some workflows relevant in your fields
- Review some Wikidata items in your areas of expertise
- Explore how the Wikidata example queries could be made more useful
- Improve documentation of the different options for accessing Wikidata data
- Customize explanations of the Wikidata data model to your domains
- Play some Wikidata games
- Add some pronunciation audio files to lexeme items in languages that you speak
- Engage non-Wikimedia online communities with WikiProjects on Wikidata
- Propose some Wikidata-related projects for an upcoming do-a-thon
- Review some Wikidata properties in your areas of expertise
- Document what and how you are learning about Wikidata
- Explain the key differences between Wikipedia(s) and Wikidata
- Write some federated queries from the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint
- Explore who funds Wikidata and similar projects
- Participate in a Wikidata-centric do-a-thon
- Assess the costs associated with running a live copy of Wikidata
- Improve the findability of a given piece of Wikidata-related information
- Contribute something Wikidata-related as part of an editing contest
- Assess the FAIRness of some subset of Wikidata
- Explain the general concept of Wikidata to someone not familiar with it
- Write some federated queries between two Wikibase SPARQL endpoints
- Translate research questions into SPARQL queries
- Explore biases in Wikidata content
- Integrate information from curricula into Wikidata
- Explore why some WikiProjects on Wikidata are more active than others
- Review the Wikidata Main page in a given language for potential improvements
- Assess the FAIRness of a Wikibase instance
- Record a screencast while you are doing something Wikidata-related on your desktop
- Explore where machine learning could be used on or around Wikidata
- Explore ways to integrate Wikidata with other participatory projects
- Explore how to integrate Wikidata with your local open data portal
- Assess technical issues related to the multilingual nature of Wikidata
- Describe what we would be missing if Wikidata were down for a day
- Write down some Shape Expressions to define a data model for a certain class of Wikidata items
- Add statements to items
- Analyze Request a Query posts from the past to improve documentation and tutorials around the Wikidata Query Service, SPARQL and Blazegraph
- Design some new Wikidata games
- Thank other users for Wikimedia edits outside Wikidata that improved non-Wikidata content using Wikidata content
- Set your language preferences on Wikidata
- Contribute some Wikidata-related news to The Signpost
- Use Wikidata to find potential collaborators
- Analyze Wikidata-based citation networks in your fields of expertise
- Review some constraint violation reports
- Explore the NEARBY feature in the Wikidata Query Service
- Explore examples where Wikidata has been used in journalism
- Review Wikidata-related Twitter lists
- Explore which kinds of events are attended by people active on Wikidata
- Explore which kinds of events are organized by people active on Wikidata
- Use some machine learning techniques to analyze Wikidata edits
- Explore how the Wikidata user interface could be improved
- Create lexeme forms for missing grammatical structures
- Annotate texts and use the annotations as references for the corresponding statements on Wikidata
- Document the questions you have about Wikidata
- Create some timelines based on Wikidata queries
- Create some maps based on Wikidata queries
- Improve some Wikidata showcase properties
- Explore where machine learning is used on or around Wikidata
- Create some materials reusable in presentations about Wikibase
- Improve the documentation for a WikiProject on Wikidata
- Add references to statements
- Create a data model for a class of Wikidata items
- Illustrate some key Wikidata-related concepts
- Review some Wikipedia-based coursework and suggest a Wikidata-related contribution to it
- Try to include information from Wikidata into an infobox on a Wikipedia page
- Review some Wikidata items outside your areas of expertise
- Improve documentation of the usage of Wikidata data outside Wikidata
- Add some Wikidata tags to OpenStreetMap in places where this is useful
- Imagine how Wikidata could be useful in disaster management contexts
- Index some Wikidata-related publications in Wikidata
- Annotate some media items as to what they depict
- Document the usage of some Wikidata tools
- Use Wikidata to find reviewers for some research output
- Consider whether your mobile phone does (or could have) apps that provide data that could be used on Wikidata
- Document behavior of Wikidata tools that new users find odd
- Create a non-digital game inspired by Wikidata
- Participate in a Wikidata-centric editing contest
- Review some Wikidata properties outside your areas of expertise
- Adapt an existing curriculum to use Wikidata
- Index some publications on a given topic in Wikidata
- Assess social issues related to the growth of Wikidata
- Integrate information from syllabi into Wikidata
- Suggest some Wikidata-related activities for the annual plan of an organization outside Wikimedia
- Adapt some example queries to new contexts
- Explore how the Wikidata Query Service's user interface could be improved
- Test content negotiation when accessing Wikidata
- Assess the FAIRness of Wikidata
- Create some Wikidata-powered Listeria lists on a given subject on a given Wikimedia wiki
- Review the Code of Conduct for a Wikidata-related event
- Explain the difference between the historical Wikimedia Commons and Structured Commons
- Try to include bibliographic metadata from Wikidata when adding a reference on another wiki
- Illustrate some key Wikidata-related workflows
- Improve some Scholia profiles
- Make some batch edits
- Improve some entries in the Wikibase registry
- Explore which kinds of events feature Wikidata-related content or activities
- Team up with people from your place's sister cities to enhance Wikidata entries on both sides
- Explore what Wikidata activities can be done outdoors while offline
- Assess technical issues related to the growth of Wikidata
- Modernize some help pages
- Narrow some gaps in Wikidata
- Write some SPARQL queries suitable for the SPARQL queries example page
- Assess social issues related to the multicultural nature of Wikidata
- Use Scholia's BibTeX plugin for reference management
- Use other open source AI systems to populate descriptors on Wikidata
- Set up a Twitter bot that posts interesting stuff about Wikidata
- Customize explanations of the Wikidata data model to your language(s)
- Improve the user experience for blind users of Wikidata
- Help organize a Wikidata-related event
- Work on some Wikibase-related bugs
- Document options to interact with Wikidata via the command line
- Suggest some Wikidata-related activities for the annual plan of a Wikimedia organization
- Use Wikidata to find speakers for an event
- Discuss the content of recent Wikidata status updates
- Play with the language settings in the Reasonator interface
- Organize a Wikidata-centric editing contest
- Document the hardware requirements for running the Wikidata Query Service
- Document the hardware requirements for running Structured Commons
- Take the 100 wikidays challenge on Wikidata
- Document the hardware requirements for running a Wikibase instance
- Assess the sustainability of Wikidata
- Improve documentation of the data engineering aspects of Wikidata
- Consider how digitization projects could benefit from integration with Wikidata
- Document behavior of the Wikidata Query Service that new users find odd
- Document behavior of Wikidata that new users find odd
- Consider implications of a change in Wikidata's growth trajectory
- Imagine events outside Wikidata that would trigger an acceleration in Wikidata growth
- Imagine events outside Wikidata that would trigger its demise
- Test different clustering algorithms on subsets of Wikidata data
- Try to collaborate with someone on Wikidata with whom you do not share a common language
- Comment on a Request for Comments on Wikidata
- Explore biases in Wikidata tools
- Explain the role of Wikidata in the Semantic Web
- Try to use some Wikidata tools from a mobile phone
- Use ShapeExpressions to check whether a certain corpus in a given Wikibase instance conforms to a given data model
- Document the provenance of Wikidata swag
- Take pictures, video or audio recordings at an event with a Wikidata component
- Write a Code of Conduct for a Wikidata-related event
- Create some materials reusable in presentations about Wikicite
- Deploy a Wikidata-powered infobox on a non-Wikidata page that does not have an infobox yet and would benefit from the addition
- Visualize some etymological trees
- Review some Wikidata-related discussions outside Wikidata
- Suggest ways to make the Wikidata user interface more user friendly
- Catalog the usage of Wikidata outside Wikimedia projects
- Devise strategy for an external database to become compatible with integration into Wikidata
- Give a talk about Wikidata at an open education meetup
- Give a talk about Wikidata at a Wikimedia-centric meetup
- Post some responses to Wikidata-related questions on a mailing list
- Annotate some publication items as to what they are about
- Create a property proposal
- Improve the documentation for a Wikidata-related WikiProject outside of Wikidata
- Visualize some aspects of a Wikidata dump
- Add statements to some lexemes
- Tweet about a Wikidata item
- Create some materials reusable in presentations about Wikidata
- Match (parts of) a catalog in Mix'n Match
- Review other contributors' edits
- Explain the general concept of Wikidata to someone familiar with it
- Read the most recent Wikidata status update(s)
- Visualize some phylogenetic trees
- Try to import an external ontology into Wikidata
- Write a blog post about some aspect of Wikidata
- Analyze revision histories of Wikidata pages
- Try to edit Wikidata from a mobile phone
- Review Wikidata-related Twitter bots
- Improve the documentation of the code underlying some Wikidata tool
- Visualize cultural collections through Wikidata queries
- Compare SPARQL and SQL
- Explore biases in the Wikidata community
- Try to query Wikidata from a mobile phone
- Explain the key differences between Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata
- Write some federated queries from a non-Wikidata Wikibase SPARQL endpoint that include the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint
- Give a talk about Wikidata at an open science meetup
- Attend a Wikidata meetup
- Review some non-Wikidata coursework on a given topic and suggest a Wikidata-related contribution to it
- Switch off the query optimizer in some SPARQL queries
- Review statements on a given item
- Add descriptions to items
- Write some SPARQL queries
- Create some Wikidata showcase properties
- Take a slice out of Wikidata to put into another open data portal where this would be useful
- Subscribe to the Wikibase mailing list
- Add Wikidata-related information to external websites that welcome such information
- Assess social issues related to the multilingual nature of Wikidata
- Double the number of active contributors to a specific Wikidata-related intiative
- Explain some Wikidata-related concepts to someone not familiar with them
- Give a talk about Wikidata at a Wikidata-centric meetup
- Integrate an external Wikibase with Wikidata
- Document keyboard shortcuts that are useful for Wikidata-related activities
- Engage offline communities with WikiProjects on Wikidata
- Improve the documentation of the code underlying some Wikidata component
- Generate some statistics for a given subset of Wikidata edits
- Play with the language settings in the Wikidata interface
- Document the hardware requirements for running Wikidata
- Translate some Wikidata policies
- Explore some statistics about Wikidata
- Play around with some Wikidata sandbox items
- Explore what Wikidata activities can be done outdoors while online
- Improve some Wikidata showcase lexemes
- Create some Wikidata showcase lexemes
- Replace the Blazegraph of a Wikibase instance with another graph engine
- Document the energy consumption of Wikidata
- Categorize images with Wikidata socks on Wikimedia Commons
- Greet some new Wikidata users
- Give a talk about Wikidata at a conference
- Post some responses to Wikidata-related questions on non-Wikidata Wikimedia wikis
- Organize a Wikidata-centric do-a-thon
- Create a Wikidata-related WikiProject outside of Wikidata
- Tweet about a Wikidata property proposal
- Review constraint statements
- Analyze some Wikidata-related discussions in relation to the language(s) they took place in
- Explain some Wikidata-related concepts to someone familiar with them
- Write some federated queries from an external SPARQL endpoint that include the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint
- Give a talk about Wikidata at an open data meetup
- Document the user experience for blind users of Wikidata
- Compare Wikidata to some (other) citizen science projects
- Work on some Wikibase-related feature requests
- Document the hardware requirements for running the Wikidata Query Service of a given Wikibase
- Create a YouTube playlist for some aspects of Wikidata
- Analyze some Wikidata-related discussions in relation to where they took place
- Use Wikidata to add translations to the terms of a monolingual ontology
- Write some SPARQL Recent Changes queries on a given topic
- Subscribe to the Wikicite mailing list
- Participate in an office hour with the Wikidata team
- Respond to some posts on the Wikidata project chat
- Document example queries with screenshots
- Set up a Wikibase instance
- Review some bot requests on Wikidata
- Explore what the licensing of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap means in terms of integration between the two sites
- Document the installation of a Wikibase instance
- Design new Wikidata swag
- Design a new Wikidata T shirt
- Post some responses to Wikidata-related questions on Twitter
- React to some Wikidata-related tweets
- Review some batch edits
- Create a WikiProject on Wikidata
- Import a RDF dataset into a given Wikibase
- Play with the language settings in the SQID interface
- Analyze some Wikidata-related discussions in relation to who participated
- Organize a Wikidata meetup
- Build a tool to edit Wikidata
- Post a bot request on Wikidata
- Review the specifications of the SPARQL query language
- Review Wikidata-related bug reports
- Tweet about a Wikidata lexeme
History
[edit]The idea for this list, the seed content and its initial ordering came out of sessions at WikidataCon 2017 and FSCI 2018.