Username or display name (will be displayed publicly):
Csisc
Categories/Tags/Keywords (up to 5):
Gadgets, WIkidata, Wikimedia Categories, Maintenance, SPARQL
Session type (select one):
- Presentation (including Q/A) - 25 mins
Venue (select one):
- I would like to be on the main track
When are you available to have the session?
Afternoons UTC
Session Details
Short description of the session (~150 words):
In this technical presentation, I show how Wikidata statements can be used to provide interesting insights about categories in Wikipedia and sister projects. I describe the technology that can be used for this, particularly the Wikidata List Template, JavaScript and the SPARQL endpoint of Wikidata and I give a detailed overview of the output of the analysis of Wikimedia Categories using Wikidata Statements.
Target audience:
People interesting in working on Wikidata or Wikimedia Categories as well as people interested in the cross-validation of Wikimedia Projects.
What will participants get out of this session? (~50 words)
The attendees will learn about the value of Wikidata to identify gaps in the representation of Wikimedia Category members, to generate automatic descriptions for categories and to emphasize works on maintaining categories and Wikidata. The attendees will also learn the value of categories in a Wikimedia Project.
(Optional) Additional resources:
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Structured_Categories
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Categories
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0952197616000373?casa_token=G_0vrDPkbRwAAAAA:L8qlzcpUw11ixzdqhd86CvD47-7Jy2CCfYBKNqc8pZKSLKYgr71GzUGqnqh93N2vUf1ht3Nr0SDa
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_names
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_versus_lists
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Categories
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Category
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Categories