The interlinking of the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia projects are all about connections and wiki-linking to find out more. So the projects all interlink with one another too. Click through to view Robert Louis Stevenson’s Wikipedia page. We found a text called Edinburgh (1914). This was a text recently uploaded to Wikisource from a djvu […]

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Welcome to our Wikidata workshop! Pull up a chair and get comfy. First steps – Introductions Create a Wikidata account if you have not done so already (you can use the same login details as Wikipedia). Have a look at our Wikidata pages on our University of Edinburgh IS Skills site. Email me ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk if […]

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What is Wikidata? Wikidata is a free linked database of secondary data that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others. NB: You can access the other projects from the foot of Wikipedia’s […]

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