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About this page

This page explains how to describe a project (Q2) in Metabase, including WikiProjects, and how to link a project to its activities.

What counts as a project?

A project can be:

• formal: run officially by an organization, such as a Wikimedia chapter or a GLAM institution
• informal: run by a self-organized group, such as the participants in a WikiProject, or by an individual volunteer

The model on this page is based on how Wikimedia Sverige (Q9) structures its projects. See Wikidata for authority control (Q14) for an example. Projects from Wikimedia Sverige also use two extra properties, described in Wikimedia Sverige projects below.

Projects and their parts

A project often includes smaller activities, such as events. Link these with has part(s) (P35).

A project (Q2) is a type of activity (Q8). This means that everything you add as a part of a project must also be a type of activity (Q8).

• Do add activities organized within the project, for example a presentation (Q48), workshop (Q37) or edit-a-thon (Q41).
• Do not add documents published within the project. Link these from the document instead, with produced in the scope of the project (P36). See Help/Documents.

Example: Gothenburg museums – 2021 images year 2021 (Q21932) has three events as parts: Q21931, Q21928 and Q21924.

WikiProjects

A WikiProject is a group of editors who work together on a topic on a Wikimedia wiki, for example on Wikipedia or Wikidata. WikiProjects are usually informal and ongoing, without a fixed end date.

To describe a WikiProject:

• Add instance of (P5) with the value WikiProject (Q22926)
• Add described at Wikimedia-page (P11) with a link to the WikiProject page, using an interwiki prefix. Example: :m:Wiki Project Med

Example: WikiProject Med Foundation (Q25465)

Properties

Required

• instance of (P5)
  • Value: project (Q2)
• organizer (P14)
  • Example: Wikimedia Sverige (Q9)
  • Who organized the project. This can be a formal organization such as a Wikimedia chapter, a self-organized group, or an individual.

Required if the project has no Wikidata item

• start time (P6)
  • Example: 2020-02-01
  • When the project started. A full date, a year and month, or only a year is fine.
• title (P8)
  • Example: Wikidata för auktoritetskontroll 2020 (sv)
  • The official name of the project, with its language.
  • The official name is kept separate from the labels, because labels can be translated into any language at any time.

Required if it exists

• same as on Wikidata (P1)
  • Example: Q98809073
  • Add this if the project has an item on Wikidata.

Optional: people and dates

• manager / leader (P32)
  • Example: André Costa (Q30)
  • The project manager, or the person responsible for the project.
• end time (P7)
  • Example: 2021-09-01
  • When the project ended. A full date, a year and month, or only a year is fine.

Optional: topics and structure

• keyword (P15)
  • Example: museum collection (Q18)
  • Keywords that describe what the project focuses on.
• part of the series (P86)
  • Example: 1Lib1Ref 2018 at State Library of Queensland (Q24504)
  • The series the project belongs to, for example a project that is run every year.
• follows (P24)
  • Example: Strategic Inclusion of Library Data in Wikidata 2018 (Q34)
  • The previous project in a series.
• followed by (P25)
  • Example: Strategic Inclusion of Library Data in Wikidata 2019 (Q33)
  • The next project in a series.
• has part(s) (P35)
  • Example: LD4 Conference 2021 ‒ presentation by WMSE (Q21974)
  • A part of the project. The value must be a activity (Q8) or a subclass of it. See Projects and their parts.
• final report (P54)
  • Example: Wikidata för genealogi 2021 ‒ final report (Q22177)
  • The final report of the project.

Optional: links

• described at Wikimedia-page (P11)
  • Example: wmse:Projekt:Stöd för innehållspartnerskap 2021
  • A Wikimedia page that describes the project. Write the link with an interwiki prefix.
• described at URL (P12)
  • The URL of a website outside the Wikimedia wikis that describes the project.

Wikimedia Sverige projects

Projects run by Wikimedia Sverige also need these two properties:

• WMSE project ID (P9)
  • Example: 123456
  • The internal code that Wikimedia Sverige uses to identify each project.
• sorted under programmatic area (P10)
  • Example: WMSE-Access (Q7)
  • The thematic area the project belongs to. Every Wikimedia Sverige project belongs to one of these four:
    • WMSE-Access (Q7)
    • WMSE-Enabling (Q4)
    • WMSE-Community (Q5)
    • WMSE-Use (Q6)

SPARQL

All projects, with dates, keywords and organizers

PREFIX wd: <https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/entity/>
PREFIX wdt: <https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/prop/direct/>

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?start ?end (GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ?mainsubjectLabel; SEPARATOR = ", ") AS ?topics) (GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ?organizerLabel; SEPARATOR = ", ") AS ?organizers)
WHERE
{
  ?item wdt:P5 wd:Q2 .
  OPTIONAL {  ?item wdt:P6 ?start.}
  OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P7 ?end.}
  OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P15 ?mainsubject.}
  OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P14 ?organizer.}
  SERVICE wikibase:label {
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "sv".
    ?item rdfs:label ?itemLabel.
    ?mainsubject rdfs:label ?mainsubjectLabel.
    ?organizer rdfs:label ?organizerLabel
  }
}
GROUP BY ?item ?itemLabel ?start ?end
ORDER BY ?itemLabel

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