The #Wikidata workshop

At the #CEE meeting in #Modra, it was a pleasure to inform about the latest about Wikidata. At the conference the idea of a workshop was launched. The question posed was: "show us what is already there, show us what we can already do".

Wikidata workshop from Gerard Meijssen

There is a lot to show. There is the progress that is made by the development team, there are the many tools created by Magnus and, there are the templates used on several Wikipedias. People are impressed but for many purposes it is not good enough. This is understandable, Wikidata is not feature complete. Many things we want to do are under development.

If there is one thing I wanted to achieve is that people understand that while Wikidata is incomplete, it is already functional. There are great tools that emulate what people are looking for. There are things that do make a difference today .. Tipping points have been reached for several uses and as more people make use of Wikidata and include the data that is relevant to them, more tipping points will be reached.
Thanks,
       GerardM

#Wikidata HOWTO - Lists are evil

Ivan Gašparovič is the current president of #Slovakia. During a demonstration of Wikidata in Slovakia, it became clear that he was linked for the office he holds to "list of presidents of Slovakia". This was considered to be wrong as there is an article and therefore an item for the "president of Slovakia".

It did not long to fix this and fix this for the former presidents of Slovakia as well. So now the labels associated with the list is wrong in many languages and, there is no label in languages like French and German for the office Mr Gašparovič is holding.

All in all, many Wikipedias refer to lists. In Wikidata this does not really work.
Thanks,
        GerardM