Art+Feminism: Intro to Wikidata and Archives

Intro to Wikidata + Archives a hands-on training session (29th January 2026) organised by Art+Feminism in partnership with Wikimedia Deutschland to introduce how Wikidata and archives work together (cf. https://artandfeminism.org/edit_a_thon/intro-to-wikidata-archives/). Video available on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vRrasGCifE).

Materials

Introduction to Wikidata

2026 Intro to Wikidata & Archives

Editing Wikidata

Editing Wikidata, presentation slides by Epìdosis

Further materials: Introduction to the use of Wikidata for archives, presentation slides (in Italian) by Epìdosis

Suggestions for your account

create an account and login;
create your userpage adding to it a babel (you can copy and personalize the following text):

{{#babel:en-N|es-3|fr-2|de-1|it-0}}

turn on the following gadgets in Preferences > Gadgets:
- Merge
- labelLister
- moveClaim
- KeyShortcuts
- DuplicateReferences
- currentDate
- relateditems
- Rearrange Values
add to your common.js the following gadgets (you can copy the following text, create the page, paste the code into it and save it):


importScript( 'User:Magnus Manske/mixnmatch gadget.js' );

importScript( 'User:Bargioni/UseAsRef.js' );

importScript( 'User:Nikki/ExpandReferences.js' );

importScript( 'User:Bargioni/moreIdentifiers defaultconf.js' );

importScript( 'User:Bargioni/moreIdentifiers.js' );

importScript( 'User:Bargioni/viaf.js' );

importScript( 'User:Bargioni/PrefRank.js' );

importScript( 'User:Bargioni/PrefRank config.js' );

importScript( 'User:Epìdosis/highlight WP references.js' );

importScript( 'User:Difool/WikidataCleanup.js' );

add to your common.css the following lines (you can copy the following text, create the page, paste the code into it and save it):




#P31 { border: 2px solid aqua; }

#P21 { border: 2px solid silver; }

#P569, #P19, #P570, #P20 { border: 2px solid greenyellow; }

#P106 { border: 2px solid yellow; }

#P39 { border: 2px solid orange; }

#P166 { border: 2px solid orchid; }

Brief explanation of all the above suggestions

Babel

All the languages added to the babel, included those with level 0, are shown in the termbox (i.e. labels, descriptions, aliases) in all items and properties, in order of language code, after the interface language, which is always shown at the top.

Preferences

Merge: enables a button (between the watchlist star and the search bar) that allows to easily merge duplicate items (cf. d:Help:Merge#Gadget)
labelLister: enables a button (between the watchlist star and the search bar) that allows to easily edit labels-descriptions-aliases in languages that aren't in your "termbox" and haven't been used yet in the item
moveClaim: enables a green button (on each statement value) that allows to easily move or copy a statement to another item, or change the property of the statement
KeyShortcuts: provides some keyboard shortcuts, i.e. L and D to start editing an entity's label and description respectively, S, I and J to scroll to the statements, sitelinks and identifiers sections respectively, A to start adding a new statement
DuplicateReferences: allows you to easily copy references from one statement value to others
currentDate: autocompiles retrieved (P813) in references
relateditems: enables a button (below identifiers) that shows inverse statements
Rearrange Values: enables a blue button (on each property) that allows to easily reorder the values of a property

Common.js

Mix'n'match gadget (d:User:Magnus Manske/mixnmatch gadget.js): enables a box allowing to confirm or remove automatches from Mix'n'match
UseAsRef (d:User:Bargioni/UseAsRef.js): enables a button on each property value that allows to copy an identifier value as reference and to paste it on one or more statements
ExpandReferences (d:User:Nikki/ExpandReferences.js): enables a button on the "Statements" section that expands all references
moreIdentifiers (d:User:Bargioni/moreIdentifiers defaultconf.js + d:User:Bargioni/moreIdentifiers.js): enables a box allowing to easily extract VIAF member IDs from VIAF cluster ID (P214)
viaf.js (d:User:Bargioni/viaf.js): enables a preview of the IDs contained in VIAF cluster ID (P214) hovering on each value
PrefRank (d:User:Bargioni/PrefRank.js + d:User:Bargioni/PrefRank config.js): enables a button on place of birth (P19) place of death (P20) date of birth (P569) date of death (P570) that allows to easily set one value as preferred if there are many values with normal rank
Highlight WP references (d:User:Epìdosis/highlight WP references.js): highlights in light yellow all statement values having a reference to a Wikimedia project page (which should all be substituted by a reference to an external source: cf. w:en:Wikipedia:Don't cite Wikipedia on Wikipedia)
WikidataCleanup (d:User:Difool/WikidataCleanup.js): enables a gadget which, when the item is opened, checks if it contains redundant data that can be removed, shows them if present and allows to remove them in one click

Common.css

these lines change the color of the borders of 9 properties; for a list of HTML colors, see e.g. https://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm

Disclaimer: if you try to load a very big item (e.g. above 200k bytes of size) with these gadgets activated, it might be slow; if so, either be patient or try to reload the item adding ?safemode=1 at the end of the URL (this will load the page without loading any gadget, and it will load much faster)

Tools

Mix'n'Match (MnM): https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/
- function to create new items from different catalogues: https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/?#/top_missing/5076,4129,4162
OpenRefine (OR): downloadable at https://openrefine.org/
QuickStatements (QS): https://quickstatements.toolforge.org/
- QuickStatements 3.0 (QS 3.0): https://qs-dev.toolforge.org/
PetScan: https://petscan.wmcloud.org/

Queries

Missing statements

Conflicting statements

Missing references

Users

Trainers

d:Alan Ang (WMDE)
d:User:Epìdosis
- d:User:Dìdaxis (account used by Epìdosis for training sessions)

Participants

cf. Dashboard