Wikidata for wizards
A new post has come out on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, introducing Wikidata and explaining why institutions should share data with it. The authors use the Harry Potter universe as an example of a world that can be explored with Wikidata queries, but also as a nice analogy for learning. People can improve Wikidata whatever their level of database skill, whether “wizard” or “muggle”; they just need to be patient and prepared to learn.
It’s a nice example of playing-with-Wikidata-but-not-the-day-job, just as I’m trying to do here with Wiki Playtime.
I contributed one query: the chart of group membership in the HP universe. Personally, I preferred the version showing group membership as a network, which I’ll add below. Consider it a “DVD extra” to the Wikimedia blog post.
Needless to say, I’d like to use this sort of query with real-world groups like scholarly societies.
