Modelling/Events and activities
Modelling an event
Examples of types of activities and events: workshop (Q37), lecture (Q65), conference (Q42).
Some particular event considerations
Conferences
EXAMPLE: GLAM Wiki 2023 (Q22660)
conference (Q42), consisting of many different kinds of sessions and participants, are a special type of event. See a separate modeling page for them.
Campaigns
campaign (Q22217) is a common type of activity organized by Wikimedians. For example WikiGap 2021 (Q22430) or Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in Italy (Q22600). A campaign takes place within a particular, often longer, time frame, and can include parts such as edit-a-thon (Q41), seminar (Q61) or competition (Q22295). Those parts are linked using has part(s) (P35), and in reverse, part of (P17).
Sometimes a campaign will have several such parts, such as WikiGap 2021 in Sweden (Q22508), where several edit-a-thons are included under has part(s) (P35); sometimes only one.
For example Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in Sweden (Q22623), which has one part under it, Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in Sweden ‒ contest (Q22384). So realistically, we can think of them as one and the same.
But it is possible to imagine a national Wiki Loves Monuments campaign that also encompasses edit-a-thons, seminars, etc.
For this reason it is preferable to always model campaigns and their constituent parts this way, even when there's only one constituent part. This makes it easier to query the data and remember one data model to use.
Online/offline events
It is valuable to indicate whether an event took place physically or was online (or hybrid). That's why the item should have two instance of (P5), one for the type of the event (conference (Q42), edit-a-thon (Q41)...) and one for how it was conducted (see list of possibilities in table below).
Properties used
| Required | Property | Example value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF EXISTS | sameAs on Wikidata (P1) | Q123 | |
| REQUIRED | instance of (P5) (describing the type of event) | workshop (Q37) | Should be a subclass of event (Q40). See all available. |
| REQUIRED | instance of (P5) (describing how the event is held) | hybrid event (Q79) | Should be one of: |
| REQUIRED | point in time (P23) | 2022-04-31 | When the event took place |
| REQUIRED | organizer (P14) | Wikimedia Sverige (Q9) | Organization or person responsible for organizing the event |
| REQUIRED FOR PHYSICAL EVENTS if no sameAs on Wikidata (P1) | location (P27) | Stockholm (Q78) | Should not be more granular than town level |
| REQUIRED | language used (P52) | English (Q32) | The language in which the event was held |
| REQUIRED for presentation (Q48) and its subclasses | speaker (P33) | Josefine Hellroth Larsson (Q85) | Applicable to lecture (Q65) and similar; the person (passively) delivering the content. |
| REQUIRED for workshop (Q37) | manager / leader (P32) | Josefine Hellroth Larsson (Q85) | Applicable to workshop (Q37) and similar; the person (actively) leading / facilitating the activity. |
| main subject (P15) | public art (Q39) | ||
| part of (P17) | GLAM Wiki 2023 (Q22660) | If the event is part of a larger one, eg. a conference. | |
| has part(s) (P35) | Open Refine Wikimedia Commons training session (Q22697) | If the event includes sub-events with their own items. | |
| image (P26) | Wikimedia Sveriges årsmöte, 2022-04-23, 05.jpg | Filename of a relevant illustration on Wikimedia Commons | |
| video (P31) | Wikimedia Sveriges årsmöte 2022.webm | Filename of the video recording of the event on Wikimedia Commons | |
| YouTube video ID (P59) | oPib9P3f4b0 | ID of the video recording on Youtube | |
| described at Wikimedia-page (P11) | sv:Wikipedia:Skrivstuga/Kvinnor,_arkitektur_och_design | Link to a Wikimedia page where the project is described, using an interwiki prefix. | |
| described at URL (P12) | https://www.kbr.be/en/agenda/linked-data-and-international-standards-for-cultural-heritage/ | URL of website (not a Wikimedia wiki) with a description of the event | |
| Commons category (P37) | Wikimedia Sverige - årsmöte 2023 | ||
| uses (P43) | Q21967 | Something that the event uses, e.g. a slide deck | |
| Phabricator task (P47) | T12345 | ID of corresponding task in Wikimedia's Phabricator | |
| relevant notes at URL (P51) | https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6tesprotokoll/%C3%85rsm%C3%B6tesprotokoll_2023-04-22 | URL of notes relevant to the event, such as minutes from a board meeting. The qualifier applies to part (P50) can be used to specify the nature of the notes, eg. minutes (Q57) | |
| duration (P61) | 45 min. | How long the event took | |
| Event outcomes | |||
| number of participants (P28) | 13 | ||
| Wikimedia platform(s) affected (P13) | Swedish Wikipedia (Q26) | Applicable to edit-a-thon (Q41) and other types of events where editing on the Wikimedia platforms takes place. Different from main subject (P15) when the platform is not the focus of the event (like in the case of a lecture about Wikipedia itself) but rather a tool to run the activity. | |
| Outreach Dashboard URL (P48) | WikiProject_Sweden/Kopplingssprint_21_augusti_2022 | ID of the relevant entry on the Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard | |
SPARQL
All events, their dates and locations:
PREFIX wb: <https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/entity/>
PREFIX wbt: <https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/prop/direct/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?where ?whereLabel ?when
WHERE
{
?item wbt:P5/wbt:P4* wb:Q40 .
OPTIONAL {?item wbt:P23 ?when}
OPTIONAL {?item wbt:P27 ?where}
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "sv,en". }
}
See also
- Event Entity schema and Cradle