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 Introduction

Metabase is a platform (a Wikibase instance in Wikibase Cloud) managed by Wikimedia Sverige. The goal is to collect information about the activities and documents of the Wikimedia movement as Linked Open Data to enhance searchability and findability of the knowledge and experience the Wikimedia Movement have.

The first stage of its development, which is currently ongoing as of 2023, is to focus on the content produced by Wikimedia Sverige, such as data about its reports, events, projects etc. This data is currently stored on the chapter's wiki in text form. By making the data structured, we hope to be able to get a better overview of what the chapter has done over the years.

In later stages, once the experimental ingestion and modelling of WMSE's data is done, we hope we can build further on this foundation to invite other Wikimedia chapters, user groups and interest groups, to join in and contribute with their data.

Get started by learning about what sort of data is included and how it is modeled.

 Find data

You can use these queries to find all the data of a particular type that's already in Metabase:

Index terms

Locations
Document types
Types of activities and events

Organizations

Humans
Projects
Events

Documents

 Example items

Here are some examples of the types of items Metabase works with.

project (Q2)

• Content partnerships support (Q1)

document (Q21)

• application (Q43): Strategic Inclusion of Library Data in Wikidata 2018 ‒ application (Q74)
• final report (Q76): GLAM 2021 ‒ final report (Q21951)
• slide deck (Q62): Wikidata at the museum (Q21958)
• WMSE white paper on Structured Data on Commons (Q89): WMSE white paper on Structured Data on Commons (Q89)
• annual report (Q53): Annual Report 2021 (Q21992)
• poster (Q44): Wikidata as an open, collaborative bibliographic database: the case of the National Library of Sweden (Q45)
• guide (Q21954): A guide to Wikimedia Commons uploads (Q21955)
• story (Q21993): Investigating what the Wikimedia movement is wishing for regarding partnerships (Q21994)
• fail fest (Q21996): Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting struggling to find its form (Q21997)

event (Q40)

• conference (Q42): DHNB2023 (Q21956)
• presentation (Q48): Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world (Q21980)
• edit-a-thon (Q41): Metadata edit-a-thon at the Swedish Air Force Museum (Q82)
• photo contest (Q142): Wiki Loves Earth 2022 in Sweden ‒ contest (Q788)
• workshop (Q37): Cultural Heritage Data, OpenRefine and Wikidata (Q36)
• annual general meeting (Q51): Annual General Meeting of Wikimedia Sverige, 2022 (Q52)

index term (Q12)

• linked open data (Q70)

human (Q23)

• With Wikidata equivalent: Tore Danielsson (Q64)
• Without Wikidata equivalent: Karin Glasemann (Q21985)

organization (Q13)

• organization (Q13): Wikimedia Sverige (Q9)

location (Q66)

• Linköping (Q83)

 Resources

Useful links and resources

• Query interface: https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/query/
• Query examples
• Sandbox (Q21897)
• Quickstatements - Manual

In other places

• Wikimania 2023 presentation: It's on Meta, but discoverable – organizational knowledge in a structured form

 Background

Metabase is being developed as part of Wikimedia Sverige's work on the Content Partnerships Hub.