User:1ucyp/witchydata
What is witchydata? Why are we doing this?[edit]
How to participate[edit]
Create a Wikimedia account[edit]
If you don't already have a Wikimedia account, it was possible create one here. The same account can be used to edit Wikidata, Wikipedia in any language, Wikimedia Commons and all the other Wikimedia projects.
Choose your source[edit]
Wikidata is a secondary database that gathers knowledge by collecting information from and links to external references. To build data about the witch hunts and the people they targetted in wikidata, we need authoritative sources that describe them. Feel free to use any source material you know of, or to research source material for specific cases you know of.
Otherwise, can offer the book, unschuldig - Hexenverfolgung südlich des Thüringer Waldes (Q121092251) by Kai Lehmann as a source. The book describes over 500 cases of people accused of witchcraft over the 16th and 17th centuries is a region south of the Thüringer Wald. Cases are organised by Amtsgebiet. Pick one from the list, change status to “
In progress” and sign with your username.
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Use these templates to mark progress and avoid duplication.
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Model the people accused of witchcraft from your source in wikidata[edit]
Be critical of what kind of bias you might create in the data.
- First check whether the person already exists in wikidata - we don't want to make duplicates
- If not, create a new item and see what structured data you can extract from your source material. You could consider the following properties (in bold are essential).
| Property | Value | Usage infos |
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| Label | The person's name as it appears in the records | |
| Description | any guidelines for this? | |
| instance of (P31) | human (Q5) | |
| sex or gender (P21) | Understand that prescribing a historical person's gender is complicated | |
| given name (P735) | ||
| family name (P734) | ||
| occupation (P106) | Please not “witch”, unless you're sure that's how they self-described | |
| date of birth (P569) | If known | |
| place of birth (P19) | If known | |
| date of death (P570) | ||
| place of death (P20) | be as specific as possible | |
| manner of death (P1196) | capital punishment (Q8454) | |
| cause of death (P509) | ||
| convicted of (P1399) or exonerated of (P7781) | witchcraft (Q259745) | |
| on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) | Wikiproject Witches (Q97293037) |
Check https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Witches/Properties for further inspiration.
Be sure to reference your statements to ensure you fulfill the wikidata notability criteria:
| Example: |
Additional tasks[edit]
- Check through the wikidata items for this list and see how they can be improved Kategorie:Opfer_der_Hexenverfolgung
- Check through the wikidata items from this query and see how they can be improved https://w.wiki/74yj