Wikifying Westminster Workshop

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. It’s the structured sister to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and it provides a common place to gather and re-distribute data that can be reused by anyone.

In this short event we’ll be examining what it is possible to do with Wikidata - using UK political data as a springboard. Whether you are interested in building an application, doing some analysis, or just experimenting, this is for you.

This workshop will be divided into two parts:

• A brief introduction to Wikidata: cool tools and tricks for using it

• A hackathon to use, visualise and improve the data

Join us if you’re interested in learning some new tricks, or to understand how Wikidata can be useful to your work or your organisation. If you’re interested in political data, or have experience in visualising or building tools to work with data, come along!

Instructions for attendees

If you haven’t registered for Wikipedia or another Wikimedia project, please do so in advance – it takes only a few minutes and it’s completely free!

Please, remember to bring your own laptop. Tablets and smartphones are not recommended – they make editing hard :)

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