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