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Wikidata in your language
Wikimania 2019

From the beginning, Wikidata has been conceived as a real multilingual website where label and description can be translated and made available in 438+ languages. It is a wonderful site to have a good and up-to-date description of an item in these languages. Data from Wikidata can be used to fill infoboxes in articles and have up-to-date information. It is specially interesting for minority languages with small communities. The problem is that if the item has no description in this language in Wikidata, it will appear as "Qxxxxxx" in Wikipedia and won't be explicit for the readers. Another part of the problem is that people from minority languages communities may find difficult to contribute in Wikidata as there are few descriptions and properties written in their own language. The purpose of this presentation is to present tools that can be easily used to translate [[Category:2019:Languages submissions]] labels or descriptions ([[toolforge:wikidata-terminator/#/|Wikidata Terminator]], VIP's Label...). Simple queries using [https://query.wikidata.org/ Query Service] and [[toolforge:quickstatements/#/|QuickStatements]] will also be presented. The last part of the presentation will explain how the interface can be translated using [https://translatewiki.net/ Translatewiki]. The presentation will be about 15 to 20 minutes.After the presentation of these tools, the second part of the session will be a workshop where contributors will be invited to train in their own language. Workshop part will a least be 30 to 40 minutes.

Speakers: Pymouss