Task: Add WikiTree Categories to Wikidata for Swedish Parishes and see how WikiTree can get enriched by the data in Wikidata/Wikipedia better
Status: Done and test will be deleted... see T237353: Request a new Property WikiTreeCategory - P7607
Next step:

• Get feedback from WikiTree --> see T236340#5634478
  • T237353: Request a new Property WikiTreeCategory - P7607
• As WikiTree now gets coordinates for categories they can start create maps for people in a family tree and plot the location of connected categories. Maybe doing a small step direction Linked Data is to start connect Categories to events in a persons life
  • This category
    • • is associated with birth place
      • is associated with cemetery
      • is associated with work place
    • ....

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See T201404: familysearch.org create a Proof of Concept with a template and how we changed the template [T200515#4683374]

WikiTree is since 2016 a property in wikidata that is connected > 70 000 times for people.

This is a POC that Wikitree also can connect WikiTree categories to Wikidata

The benefit is then that WikiTree can get enriched by the metadata and Wikipedia articles WIkipedia/Wikidata has in > 290 languages.

WikiTree get more connected and can

• display maps using coordinates in Wikidata
• links to Swedish WIkipedia with articles about > 6000 "församlingar/socknar" parishes
• easy retrieve snippets of Wikipedia text to display inside WikiTree
• use Wikidata as a hub see https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub
  • to navigate WikiTree > Wikidata > Swedish National Archive and the free Swedish church books
  • as Wikidata has the coordinate a link to external maps
  • Wikidata has also a connection to "socknar" Swedish Administrative parishes. You can then also access
    • SOFI name registers for all "socknar"
    • Anbytarforum a discussion groups for every parish

• Example
  • Category: Landskrona (M)
    • same as Wikidata Q10553938
      • • Swedish free churchbooks https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P2949:Category:Landskrona_%28M%29?property=P5324
        • Map for parish https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P2949:Category:Söderala_(X)?property=P778
      • Swedish free churchbooks https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P2949:Category:Landskrona_%28M%29?property=P5324

SPARQL

• List Item Swedish Parish and have WIkitree property < 2720
  • on a map
  • list of Swedish Church parishes not matched to a WikiTree category > 860
    • as Swedish church parishes are splitted and merged it can be ok to have a difference
    • if a church parish is "changing" county WikiTree (me ;) decided to have 2 categories see list
      • Wikidata "Almunge församling" Q10406579 has WikiTree categories
        • Category:Almunge_(AB)
        • Category:Almunge_(C)

API

as we now have a connection WikiTree categories Wikidata we also have access to

1. Pictures used /associated with the parish
2. Wikipedia articles about the parish, that we with the Wikipedia API can "reuse"
   1. Example Wikipedia API -> fetch 10 rows of text from the article sv.wikipedia.org Landskrona_församling
      1. API: Extension:TextExtracts, example Landskrona_församling
      2. Category: Pokopališče Žale, Ljubljana, Slovenija same as Q338245 same as en:Wiki same as sl:Wiki
         1. JSON en:Wiki
         2. JSON sl:Wiki

1. Video how to get Python code from a SPARQL query in WIkidata
2. JSFiddler how to send in a SPARQL query and get a map
   1. JSFiddler query Wikidata for WikiTree Swedish Categories
      

Swedish Church parish and Swedish Administrative parish

We are now trying to "connect" Swedish Church Parish with Swedish Administrative parish (sv. församlingar/ socknar). This is a "loose" connection as we have no formal sources on this but its useful as we have useful information connected to Swedish Administrative parishes like nameregisters and "Anbytarforum" a site with a discussion group were highly skilled genealogy interested people participate

• List Swedish church parishes and related Swedish administrative parishes "församlingar/socknar"
  • example Abilds församling Wikidata Q10397979
    • is related to Abilds socken Wikidata Q4667745
      • that has
        • nameregister in SOFI for the "Abild socken"
        • discussion group "Abild" anbytarforum