The Wikidata community

  • Everybody can participate
  • No central “committee” or decision structure
  • Desisions are made via discussion and community consensus

Project chat

  • Main entry point for all kind of discussions
  • Resolved discussions archived after 7 days - searchable
  • Beginner’s questions welcome (but please try to find the answer online before, particularly in the FAQ, which has a search link to the help pages)
  • Compared to Wikipedia, the overall atmosphere is constructive (though exceptions exist sometimes in some sub-communities)
  • English is the lingua franca, but a few questions show up in other languages, and receive comments, too

User page and user talk page

  • Introduce yourself - especially if you work in a professional context with Wikidata (example)
  • Activate notifications to your email address
  • Be responsive to comments on your talk page
  • You can address other users on their talk page, too

Talk pages of properties

  • Questions on the use of a certain property
  • Suggestions for changes or enhancements of the property definition (example)
  • Consider adding properties you are interested in to your watchlist

WikiProjects

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  • Current WikiProjects on Wikidata
  • Often a great source to find documentation about the community consensus in certain fields
  • Many WikiProjects pages contain data structuring recommendations - see, e.g., for periodicals

Thank you - questions welcome!

Joachim Neubert
j.neubert@zbw.eu
Jneubert on WD