Wikidata
is a free linked database of secondary data (facts and statements) that can be
read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata
acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister
projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource,
and others.
This session was a practical workshop at Repository Fringe 2017 demonstrating how to add statements to Wikidata manually as follows:
What
are we doing?
Adding
some missing data to Wikidata items for ‘Fellows
of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.’ Each Wikidata editor will receive a batch
with 5 fellows.
What data to add?
Our practical session
will focus on adding the field: award
received (P166)
●Open your selected batch of data from the
batches
spreadsheet
Finding the item
1.
Go to Wikidata.org
2.
Search for a Q
number on your list and click on the result
Adding the ‘award
received’ statement
1.
Click “+
statement” button above the identifiers section.
2.
Type “award
received” and select it.
3.
Type “Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh”
and Select.
4.
If appropriate
add a qualifier underneath.
5.
Click ‘add qualifier’ and type ‘point of
time’
6.
Add year of
election in the value field (provided in the batch spreadsheet).
7.
Click Save
Extension exercise – adding reference information.
To add a reference:
- Click on a statement and select ‘Add reference’.
- Type ‘Reference URL’ as the property for the reference and paste in
the RSE url address of the reference (provided in batch spreadsheet) in
the value field. Hit return to save the reference.
Further data you can
add:
- Add the statement member (P463) of Royal
Society of Edinburgh (Q117467) if it is not there.
·
Add Date of birth (P569) data as a statement if
date of birth information is available. This will help visualise the
information in timeline form.
·
Add Place of birth (P19) data as a statement if
place of birth information is available. This will help visualise the
information in map form.
Part 2: Create missing items and add basic statements.
1.
Click here to go to the item creation
page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewItem
2.
Use the person’s name (provided in the
Batch spreadsheet) as the English label for this new data item.
3.
Click ‘create’ at the bottom of
the page.
4.
Add 3 statements to this new data item
by clicking on the ‘+ Add statement’ button.
i) ‘Instance of’(P31)
with a value of ‘human’ (Q5)
ii) ‘Gender’ (P21)
with a value of ‘female’ (Q6581072)
iii) ‘award received’
(P166) with a value of ‘Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’ (Q5438598).
Hit return to save each time.
Congratulations you are now a Wikidata editor!