2024:Program/Climate policy in Wikidata

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Session title: Climate policy in Wikidata

Session type: Poster

Track: Open Data

Language: en

In 2020, a WikiProject started importing policy documents from the Swedish Parliament open data set. Since then, the items have been enriched and through this poster some of these connections will be highlighted.

Description

WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents started in 2020 and have imported over 150,000 items from the open data set from the Swedish Parliament. The items range from laws to motions, reports and some more. Through careful mapping in the import, the data became discoverable and queryable in new ways just through the import, but since then, there have been tens of thousands of edits that have enriched the data. Most prominently, main subject has been added to almost a third of the items already, making it possible to see which subjects the parliament is working on. More interesting, perhaps, is also the edits adding causality, making it possible to see which external events influenced politics and what effects they in turn had on other items. This poster will show an example of these linked items, using the item for the Swedish climate law as a centerpiece.

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

The WikiProject has been possible through both on- and off-wiki collaboration and can hopefully be an inspration for projects of similar kind or scale.

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

Some experience will be needed

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.