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Wikidata Edit-a-Thon: Mary Vaux Walcott Illustrations (Smithsonian Staff and Affiliates Only)


Mary Vaux Walcott - Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) - 1970.355.601 - Smithsonian American Art Museum

when

November 16th (training) and November 18th (edit-a-thon) 2021
3:00pm-4:30pm Eastern (both days)

where

Virtual!

details

This event is internal to Smithsonian staff and affiliates.
During this event participants will learn what Wikidata is, why Smithsonian units are editing Wikidata, and how to edit Wikidata. Participants will also learn about adding images to the Wikimedia Commons.
This event is planned in conjunction with AWHI Open Knowledge Coordinator Kelly Doyle, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Get started[edit]

Tuesday, November 16th[edit]

Thursday, November 18th[edit]

  • Login to Wikimedia Commons or Wikidata to complete one or both tasks outlined below (click "show" to expand). If working on both tasks, please complete them in order.
  • You will need the Editathon Worklist Spreadsheet as well as the partially pre-filled Walcott Metadata Template.
Task 1: Upload Images of Walcott’s Paintings to Wikimedia Commons
  • Open the Edit-a-thon Worklist spreadsheet.
  • Go to the URL2Commons tool (Thank you to Andrew Lih for sharing this!!!): https://url2commons.toolforge.org/
  • Login using your Wikimedia/Wikidata/Wikipedia account information
  • Copy the information from the URLs column of the Edit-a-thon Worklist spreadsheet and paste into the URLs box. The text you pasted includes the download link as well as the file name.

  • Some parts of the template are prefilled. Edit the template by copying and pasting the information from the following columns on the spreadsheet into corresponding parts of the template:
    • Title
    • Wikidata
    • Description
    • Year
    • Accession Number
    • Source
  • Scroll down to click “simulate” to check there are no issues with the data entry (recommended the first few times through this workflow). Then click “upload.”
  • Copy the file name of the image you just uploaded. You will need that to paste into the Wikidata item. If you are not adding the image to Wikidata, paste the filename into the spreadsheet in the “image file name” column.


Task 2: Add image to the corresponding Wikidata item
  • Log into Wikimedia/Wikidata/Wikipedia account
  • Go to the link in the “Wikidata URL” column on the Editathon Worklist spreadsheet.
  • Scroll down past the sets of information in boxes until you see a small “+ add statement” link on the right.

  • A new box will pop up. In property text box, type “image” and select it from the autosuggest drop-down menu when you see it.

  • Once image is suggested in the property box, a new text box will appear. Paste the short code of image you recently uploaded, or if you are only attaching images to Wikidata items, find the short code in the “Image Filename” column (column N) of the Spreadsheet.

  • Click “+ add reference”
  • In the text box that appears, type “reference url” and select that option from the drop down when it appears.

  • Another text box will appear. Copy the URL from the “reference url” column in the Spreadsheet.
  • Click “+add”
  • In the box that appears, type “retrieve” and select that option from the drop-down menu. Add today’s date, or if you have the date gadget, it will be added automatically.

  • Click publish

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