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Wikidata in brief
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Wikidata Query Service in brief
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Wikidata Lexem in brief
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Claim: Item – Property – Value

Item	: Q Number
Property	: P Number

Item	Property	Value
Marie Curie (Q7186)	field of work (P101)	chemistry (Q2329)
Q7186	P101	Q2329

Wikidata item basics

Label, description, aliases – human friendly language-specific strings
Statements – includes identifiers, sitelinks at bottom of an item
Qualifiers – adds details to claims (ie. dates, distinctions, etc)
Copyright - all content in Wikidata is Creative Commons CC0 (public domain)

Critical concepts

Basic membership properties - instance of (P31) vs subclass of (P279)
Sources - Adding references, use "stated in" or "reference URL"

Displaying items

Reasonator and SQID – rich visual display of Wikidata items
Wikidata Graph Builder – show connectedness of items based on properties

Querying

Wikidata Query Service – SPARQL interface. Explore example queries and display options. CTRL-Space auto-expands item and property names to Q/P numbers.
VizQuery – simple query using rules without requiring coding

Simple editing tools

Distributed Game – contribute through Yes/No/Skip micro-decisions
Mix-n-Match – connect external identifiers to Wikidata items

Bulk editing

QuickStatements – use tab-delimited claims to edit
PetScan – powerful toolbox for Wikipedia categories and Wikidata
OpenRefine – open source tool for cleaning messy data, reconciliation
Data donation - how and why to contribute, and guidelines for institutions

Other tools

TABernacle – inspect and edit Wikidata interactively in table format
Google Spreadsheet Wikipedia Tools – query Wikipedia and Wikidata from spreadsheet cells
External tools – comprehensive list of all Wikidata tools
WikiBase – open source software extension to MediaWiki that runs Wikidata. Available as a Docker container to create a custom structured data repository

Community and news

Wikidata:Project chat – discussion forum
Wikidata:Status updates – weekly summary newsletter

Test what you've learned in the Wikidata:Tours

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Other resource

Wikidata in Brief by User:Fuzheado. Original English version can be copied, modified and translated. The author would appreciate knowing about derivative works to track how useful this is.
- Language versions:
  - English (original): Wikidata in Brief (PDF) by Andrew Lih; Google Draw file (warning: privacy concerns; version 1.3, 2018-11-28)
  - German translation/Deutsche Übersetzung: Wikidata kurzgefasst von Zuphilip (November 2017); Google Draw file: warning: privacy concerns erlaubt Kommentierungen
  - Swedish translation/Svensk översättning: Wikidata i korthet av Ainali (December 2017); Google Draw file: warning: privacy concerns kommentarer tillåtna
  - Italian translation/Traduzione italiana: Wikidata in breve by Sabas88 (February 2018) Google Draw file: warning: privacy concerns
  - Ukrainian translation/Український переклад: Коротко про Вікідані by JTs (May 2018) Google Draw file: warning: privacy concerns
  - Japanese translation/日本語翻訳版: ウィキデータ編集概略 by Suisui (September 2018) Google Draw file: warning: privacy concerns
  - Norwegian Bokmål translation/Oversettelse til norsk bokmål: Wikidata kort oppsummert av Jon Harald Søby (WMNO) (September 2018); Google Draw-fil: warning: privacy concerns, kommentarer tillatt
  - Spanish translation / traducción al español por ProtoplasmaKid - Archivo de Google Draw; New version of Spanish translation/nueva versión de la traducción al español: Wikidata en breve por Mlemusrojas
  - Traditional Chinese translation/繁體中文翻譯: 維基數據(Wikidata)概觀 by Huang (October 2018); Google Draw file: warning: privacy concerns
  - Malayalam translation / മലയാള തർജ്ജമ:വിക്കിഡേറ്റ ചുരുക്കത്തിൽ by Jinoytommanjaly (October 2018); Google Draw file: warning: privacy concerns
  - Dutch, Hebrew in progress
  - Originally used at Smithsonian training in June 2017 and Wikiconference North America 2017 at Wikimania