Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Artsy ArtAndFeminism

This meetup page is an archive of a past event. Please do not edit the contents of this page.

Artsy / ArtAndFeminism Edit-a-thon + Wikidata Hackathon will be held Saturday July 8, 2017.

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Event information edit

“

Join us at Artsy HQ, 401 Broadway, on Saturday, July 8, 2017 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to learn how to edit Wikipedia and add to Wikidata.

Edit-a-thon | We will provide trainings for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and refreshments. Bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries that need updating related to gender, feminism, and art.

Wikidata Hackathon | Technologists are especially welcome at this Edit-a-thon! We'll be utilizing data from The Art Genome Project—a vocabulary for describing the characteristics of art, design, and architecture which powers search and discovery on Artsy—to create structured Wikidata. The goal is to enhance the accessibility of the metadata Artsy’s created by cataloging 27,000 artists.

People of all gender identities and expressions welcomed and encouraged to attend.

Organized by Art+Feminism, Artsy, the New York Arts Practicum and Wikimedia NYC.

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— Eventbrite

Wikidata resources edit

Frida Kahlo (Q5588)
Artsy gene
Artsy artist ID
- - Mix'n'match - Artsy artist ID
  - Sara Abdu (Q32593205)
Wikidata game
Wikidata VizQuery (simplified version of Wikidata Query)
Wikidata Propbrowse (property browser)
- women sculptors
- women artists depicting women at the Met
Wikidata QuickStatements for mass editing (and QuickStatements2)

Artsy correspondences

Artsy structured data

Outcomes edit

Updating Wikidata with data from Artsy edit

After spending some time familiarizing ourselves with the process of manually creating and editing Items, we moved onto some basic QuickStatement updates.

By the end of the day we were able to enter basic biographical facts from Artsy's CSVs into Wikidata in one fell swoop, by batching up several QuickStatement instructions as follows:

# COMPACT VERSION -- see below for annotated version
CREATE
LAST	Len	"Amina Benbouchta"
LAST	Den	"Moroccan contemporary artist"
LAST	P2042	"amina-benbouchta"
LAST	P106	Q483501	S2042	"amina-benbouchta"
LAST	P106	Q1281618	S2042	"amina-benbouchta"
LAST	P21	Q6581072	S2042	"amina-benbouchta"
LAST	P27	Q1028	S2042	"amina-benbouchta"
LAST	P569	+1963-01-01T00:00:00Z/9	S2042	"amina-benbouchta"

# ANNOTATED VERSION

# create new Item
CREATE

# add a label in English to the last created item
LAST	Len	"Amina Benbouchta"

# add a description in English
LAST	Den	"Moroccan contemporary artist"

# add an Artsy Artist ID
LAST	P2042	"amina-benbouchta"

# add occupation (e.g. artist: Q483501, painter: Q1028181, sculptor: Q1281618, photographer: Q33231)
# and source these statements to Artsy (source 2042)
LAST	P106	Q483501	S2042	"amina-benbouchta"
LAST	P106	Q1281618	S2042	"amina-benbouchta"

# add sex or gender (e.g. female: Q6581072; nonbinary: not in Wikidata yet)
LAST	P21	Q6581072	S2042	"amina-benbouchta"

# add country of citizenship (e.g. USA: Q30, Morocco: Q1028)
LAST	P27	Q1028	S2042	"amina-benbouchta"

# add birthdate (precision: /9=year /10=month /11=day)
LAST	P569	+1963-01-01T00:00:00Z/9	S2042	"amina-benbouchta"

Using pywikibot to update Wikidata edit

We created a PAWS Python script that would take metadata from the CSVs Artsy provided on Genes and added that data to existing Wikidata documents. You can get our bot on GitHub.

This should provide enough structure for further expansion to multiple genes, and recurring uploads.