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Wikidata and Public Domain Day editathon
Join us to edit Wikidata!
When and Where
HostMIT Libraries
Time1:00pm to 4:00pm ET
AddressVirtual: Please register for more information
City, StateBoston, Massachusetts (Virtual)
DateJanuary 8, 2021

Join the MIT Libraries for a Wikidata edit-a-thon on Friday, January 8th! We will introduce Wikidata, manual editing, and editing using QuickStatements. We will share some of the work we have been doing with Wikidata around MIT related items and will provide content for editing. Experienced Wikipedia editors and librarians will be on hand to answer questions and help; new and experienced editors are welcome.

We will also celebrate Public Domain Day and encourage edits using public domain materials. January 1st, 2021 is Public Domain Day – the day when works published in 1925 go out of copyright in the United States and enter the public domain, making them available for anyone to reuse and remix. We will highlight recently uploaded images from the Digital Public Library of America and works that are newly in the public domain.


Schedule:

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  • 1:00-2:15 - introduction to the editathon and editing Wikidata
  • 2:15-2:30 - introduction to the public domain works
  • 2:30-3:00 - editing breakout groups: editing Wikidata | learning QuickStatements | public domain images and materials
  • 3:00-4:00 - editing groups continue (check-in/wrap up at 3:45) | 3:00-4:00: Public domain day workshop

Join us to learn how to edit Wikidata and share your research skills and expertise with the world!

Possible items to work on

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Adding award winners!

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Adding info on MIT departments

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Signup Wikidata Item Source
--JJDear33 (talk) 19:32, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply] Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture (Q104148856) MIT History Dept. of Architecture
MIT Department of Economics MIT History Dept. of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies and Planning MIT History Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aero Astro MIT History Dept. of Aero Astro
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Chemical Engineering MIT History Dept. of Chem Eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering MIT History Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Materials Science and Engineering MIT History Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering MIT History Dept. of Mech Eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering MIT History Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Ocean Engineering MIT History Dept. of Ocean Engineering
Spazolot (talk) 19:36, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply] Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Political Science MIT History Dept. of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mathematics Department MIT History Department of Mathematics
Vyshu18 (talk) 19:33, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply] Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chemistry Department MIT History Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department EECS Department Facts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Biology MIT History Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics MIT History Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences MIT EAPS (does not have chair list)

Other tasks

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Go through these newly released public domain photographs of Boston and the Commonwealth and select good photos to put in Wikipedia articles!

  • How to do it:
  • Go through the Commons category and look for good images that clearly show a specific subject
  • look to see if there is a Wikipedia article for that topic, and/or a Wikidata item
  • In Wikipedia, add the image to the article with this code: [[File:filenameoncommons|thumb|right|caption that describes image]]
  • On Wikidata, add an image with the P18 (image) property
  • You can also edit the structured data on Commons to add the "depicts" property
  • Add links to works [=mediatype:%22texts%22&sort=-downloads newly in the public domain on Internet Archive] and HathiTrust on Wikidata and Wikipedia
  • How to do it:
  • see if there is an existing item for the work or author in Wikidata
  • if not create a new item - make sure to link to other identifiers for authors
  • on Wikipedia, link to the full text

There are also some newly uploaded 1925 issues of the MIT Technology Review on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikidata Queries

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Resource - Wikidata:SPARQL_tutorial

QuickStatements

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Creating a new item

Item Property Value Qualifier or Reference Value
Create
Last Len "Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Linguistics and Philosophy"
Last Den "Academic department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology"
Last P31 (instance of) Q43229 (organization)
Last P31 (instance of) Q2467461 (academic department)
Last P361 (part of) Q49108 (MIT)
Last P361 (part of) Q16977777 (SHASS)
Last P101 (field of work) Q8162 (linguistics)
Last P101 (field of work) Q5891 (philosophy)
Last P856 (website) "https://linguistics.mit.edu/" P407 (language) Q1860 (English)
Last P5008 (on focus list of Wikimedia project) Q103827632 (WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/MIT)
Last P244 (LC authority) "n87801434"
Last P485 (archives at) Q6784299 (MIT Libraries) S854 (reference URL) "https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/392"

Adding a statement to already existing item

Item Property (archives at) Value (MIT Libraries) Reference URL Value (URL)
Q3120860 P485 Q6784299 S854 "https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1021"
Q312977 P485 Q6784299 S854 "https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1170"

Resources:

Sign up

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Everyone is welcome, whether you are experienced with Wikipedia or Wikidata or are just beginning. However, please register to get the Zoom link