# A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (including non-techies!)

A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners \[including non-techies!\] This talk introduces the Wikimedia Movement's latest major wiki project: Wikidata. It covers what Wikidata is (00:00), how to contribute new data to Wikidata (1:09:34), how to create an entirely new item on Wikidata (1:27:07), how to embed data from Wikidata into pages on other wikis (1:52:54), tools like the Wikidata Game (1:39:20), Article Placeholder (2:01:01), Reasonator (2:54:15) and Mix-and-match (2:57:05), and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples) (starting 2:05:05). The slides used in this talk

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 3 h 4 min
- By: Asaf Bartov
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Gentle_Introduction_to_Wikidata_for_Absolute_Beginners_(including_non-techies!).webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Asaf Bartov
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/56118124?play=1)