| content | "<h3><strong>Wikidata is a Powerful Tool for Lists</strong></h3>
<p>Because Wikidata items are both multilingual and connected with many different properties (descriptive characteristics about a topic), they are useful for creating lists.</p>
<p>Wikidata lists have the following benefits:</p>
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<li>They can gather data from the entire multilingual Wikimedia community</li>
<li>They are easy to update and use in a multilingual setting</li>
<li>You can ask questions that combine the characteristics of a topic (i.e. Give me Wikidata items that are related to a particular country AND described as a city).</li>
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<h2>Types of Wikidata Lists</h2>
<h3>Manual use of Wikidata</h3>
<p>Campaigns focused on translation between several languages will frequently use the Wikidata item to generate several different templates on Meta Wiki that help people identify missing Wikipedia articles in their language. These templates use the interwiki links on Wikidata to highlight missing content.</p>
<p>For example, CEE spring every year generates manual lists using Wikidata that include all the languages of communities who participate.</p>
<h3>Automatically Updated Queries Wikidata</h3>
<p>The main limitation to using Wikidata is that you have to learn how to query wikidata, using the Wikidata query builder. Though technically complicated, these lists can be...</p>
<p>If you would like to learn how to create a Wikidata Query, we recommend trying <a href="tutorial-link">this tutorial</a> that Alex Stinson wrote in 2017. Learning how to Query Wikidata takes about 2 hours, and we don’t expect you to do that in this course. However, it is an important skill to have on your team when running a campaign.</p>
<p>An example of an automatically updated list from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index" target="[object Object]">WikiProject Women and Red’s Wikidata list index.</a></p>
<p><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/875/1*G8XSbdud6ME5oF_gMwJIjA.png" /></p>
<p><em>The map of North African Women Writers created as part of the blog <a href="https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/writing-a-wikidata-query-discovering-women-writers-from-north-africa-d020634f0f6c" target="[object Object]">tutorial that Alex Stinson wrote in 2017</a>. <br />Providing engaging formats of lists with Wikidata can help make an event more entertaining and active.</em></p>" |
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