Wikimedia in Scotland/DataFest Aberdeen 19.03.19

Working with Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata - In a nutshell Where?: Taylor Building, Aberdeen When?: Tuesday 19th March 18:30-21:00 Point of contact: sara.thomas@wikimedia.org.uk Twitter: #ScotWiki Cost: Free

About the Event

This event is part of the DataFest Fringe.

It is an introduction to using Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, designed to get participants interested in engaging with the Wikimedia projects and using some of the volunteer-made tools which make the Wikimedia projects more fun.

We Can Edit

Trainers

Sara Thomas, Scotland Programme Coordinator at Wikimedia UK

Task list

• Can you add a photo of a listed building using WikiShootMe or Monumental?
• Can you create your userpage on English Wikipedia?
• Can you fix a typo on English Wikipedia? Wikipedia:Community portal
• Can you add a sentence to a stub article? Wikipedia:Community portal
• Have you listened to Wikipedia?
• Have you uploaded a picture to Wikimedia Commons?
• Have you found a picture in Geograph that could be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, using the Geograph to Commons tool?
• Have you found a picture on Flickr that could be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, using the Flickr2Commons tool?
• Could you make a timeline of Category A Listed buildings in Aberdeen, using Histropedia?
• Could you add items to that timeline from the List of Category A listed buildings in Aberdeen on Wikipedia?
• Could you explore example queries on Wikidata
• Could you add the instance of Cairn property to one of these wikidata items, and help to better describe Scotland?
• Have you played The Wikidata Game?
• Have you explored your location with the Wikipedia Text Adventure? Could you add a location?
• Can you help us figure out what's missing? What do we need to do to describe Aberdeen better? (please edit section below)

What's missing on the projects about Aberdeen?

Please add your suggestions below, and sign your comments by adding 4 tildes~~~~ at the end of your comment

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Resources

• Editing Wikipedia
• Illustrating Wikipedia
• Evaluating Wikipedia
• Reasonator - Wikidata in pretty

Further Resources

• Video intro to Wikidata
• Donating Data to Wikidata
• Importing data to Wikidata

External links

• Wikipedia Help pages
• Wikipedia key policies & guidelines