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Pouring coastal water on Wikidata - Can we add more?

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Pouring coastal water on Wikidata - Can we add more?
Wikimania 2019

Background: During 2015-2019 Wikimedia Sweden, Swedish water management authorities and Sweden’s meteorological and hydrological institute (SMHI) have [[W:sv:Wikipedia:Projekt Kustvatten|collaborated]] around facilitating the description of water management, the Water framework directive and ecological status classification on Wikidata and Wikipedia. New Wikidata properties and templates for info-boxes utilizing reported ecological status have been created to facilitate the use of information about ecological status classification in Wikipedia articles about lakes and coastal water. This submission sets up a workshop to map more countries status classification data to Wikidata as well as evaluating whether new properties are needed to properly describe the data. Questions we want to raise are * What are the first steps one has to take to introduce status classification data from a new country to Wikidata? ** Are spatial and geographical data surrounding the classification data readily available? ** Is there any license issues with the data? ** What information is there about the implementation of the water framework directive in other countries? * What wikidata properties are most suitable to describe the relationship between geographical objects and Water framework directive objects on Wikidata? ** Are new properties needed to properly describe the relationship? Especially where the overlap is only partial. '''Complementary reading:''' Algotsson J, Van Der Stelt F, Abdoush D. ''[http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:smhi:diva-5233 Swedish coastal water bodies on Wikidata Combining WFD data with Wikidata]''. 2019.

Speakers: Axel Petterson Josefina Algotsson Alicia Fagerving