2024:Program/Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory

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Session title: Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory

Session type: Poster

Track: Open Data

Language: en

This poster will be a step-by-step guide for adding a country to WikiProject Govdirectory. It will cover what kind of general information and sources would be beneficial to document. It will also help people get started on the kind of queries useful to review if the data in Wikidata is complete and correct.

Description

WikiProject Govdirectory is an effort to document and model all public organizations of the world, on all levels, on Wikidata. It is a huge project in the sense that the number of organizations is high, and it is a difficult project since figuring out how the public organizations in a country relate to each other usually requires specific local knowledge. These challenges make it a perfect fit for a WikiProject!

With this poster, we will show how you get started with a country in the WikiProject Govdirectory - a project to gather all public organizations in the world - of all levels - on Wikidata. It will look at some of the existing ones to show what are some good practices in dividing the task into smaller, manageable chunks. There are already several different SPARQL-queries that can be used as an inspiration to see what coverage Wikidata has and how to determine when something is “done”. Finally, it will show a few different tools for tracking changes and coverage, which helps users stay on top of the progress and ensure that the quality stays high.

How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?

It is a guide to join a WikiProject which is a core collaboration method.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Speakers

• Jan Ainali

Jan Ainali started editing in 2006 and is an administrator on Swedish Wikipedia. He helped found the Swedish chapter and later became part of the board, the chair person and the first Executive Director. Just before Wikimania in Stockholm, he became co-host of the podcast Wikipediapodden and has now recorded over 200 episodes. In 2019, he co-founded the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development. Together with User:Abbe98, he has made over 100 livestreamed Wikidata editing sessions. For work, he runs a consultancy: Open By Default.