Collaboration Space

If you are interested in collaborating on the Wikibase instance, you can send an email to pietro.ortimini@phd.unipi.it or pietro.ortimini@gmail.com.

How to Collaborate

Areas where you can make a contribution include (but are not limited to):

• Discussing the data model on the page Talk:Data model - description of data
  • you can propose an alternative modeling for already modeled data
  • you can propose new data to be modeled
• Creating new items
• Completing already created items
• Writing new queries (you can propose new queries on the page Talk:Query - access to data)
• Modifying / improving existing queries
• Translating Wikibase instance pages into other languages / improving existing translations

See the To-do List for some tasks currently required.

How to Contribute - Guidelines

• editing the pages
• modeling data
• writing the queries
  • SPARQL tutorial
• writing EntitySchemas
  • Wikidata:Schemas
  • ShEx - Shape Expression
  • Shape Expression Language

see:

Wikibase/Wikibase.cloud - information

Wikibase/Wikibase.cloud - user documentation

Wikidata e Wikibase per strutturare i dati (Camillo Pellizzari di San Girolamo)

Wikidata per la ricerca (Camillo Pellizzari di San Girolamo)

Wikidata and Wikibase for research in Classics (Pietro Ortimini)

To-do List

Completing already created items

• inscriptions
  • data that may be missing (see the query):
    • concordances, either in the labels or through P24 edition(s) (see Data model - description of data#Bibliographic references) - Query: concordances
    • the information 'dating as in the edition' (see Data model - description of data#Dating) - Query:
    • length of the text (see Data model - description of data#Length of the text (P19)) - Query:
• editions - publications - databases
  • Starting from the information that can be obtained from the following queries you can fill in the missing data (empty fields) in each item. Next to the query, you can find a complete element to use as an example for completing the data.
    • editions see I.Egypte métriques (Q33)
    • publications see Robert 1940 (Q681)
    • databases see MAPPOLA (Q1081)
• types of inscription
  • Starting from the information that can be obtained from the following query, you can fill in the missing data (empty fields) in each item and translate the labels into the missing languages. Next to the query, you can find a complete element to use as an example for completing the data.
    • types of inscription see funerary inscription (Q10)
• geographic provenance
  • Starting from the information that can be obtained from the following queries, you can fill in the missing data (empty fields) in each item and translate the labels into the missing languages. Next to each query, you can find a complete element to use as an example for completing the data.
    • macro-areas (Q85)
    • macro-regions (Q84)
    • regions (Q90)
    • sub-regions (Q97)
    • cities (Q74) see Naples (Q728)
    • places (Q365)
• objects
  • Starting from the information that can be obtained from the following query, you can fill in the missing data (empty fields) in each item and translate the labels into the missing languages. Next to the query, you can find a complete element to use as an example for completing the data.
    • objects see stele (Q13)
• meters
  • Starting from the information that can be obtained from the following query, you can fill in the missing data (empty fields) in each item and translate the labels into the missing languages. Next to the query, you can find a complete element to use as an example for completing the data.
    • verses (Q100) see hexameter (Q24)
    • rhytmic units (Q101)

Creating new items

• inscriptions (for a list of inscriptions to be added, see Inscriptions - Wikibase GMI)
• geographic provenance
  • regions
  • sub-regions
  • cities
  • places

Dissemination

• L’istanza di Wikibase Greek Metrical Inscriptions per lo studio delle iscrizioni metriche greche di età imperiale (fine I sec. a.C.-inizio IV sec. d.C.): raccolta, analisi e pubblicazione di dati, Encoding Metrical Inscriptions Workshop, University of Foggia, November 14th-15th, by Pietro Ortimini - slides
• Wikibase e Wikidata per lo studio dell'epigrafia greca, SAEG IX, Rome, 10 January 2025, by Pietro Ortimini, Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini, Epìdosis - slides

Past and present contributors

User List

• Pietro Ortimini (University of Pisa)

• Camillo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
• Kirthana Wigneswaran (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)

see also: Active user list, User contributions, User rights