Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2017/Programme/Submission/Lua for your wiki

Title of your proposal

Name(s) and/or username(s)

Tobias Schönberg, User:Tobias1984

Topic

Wikidata and wikidata related projects
Content Contests (Article writing contests/challenges, Photo contests)
CEE input to the Wikimedia movement strategy

Type of submission (Please choose one)

Workshop (work in groups)

Summary

We will dive straight into how Lua is used on Wikipedia to populate infoboxes, lists and other templates with information from Wikidata. For this we will learn what modules we need on the Wiki and how to invoke them. The session will be a workshop where we will quickly assess the current situation on your home wiki(s) and then dive into improving the Lua module structure or convert an existing template to Lua. Ideally we can find better ways to collaborate on modules that are useful for the whole CEE region.

Expected outcomes

Create a CEE Lua community that can collaborate in the future.
Identify key areas where the use of Lua and Wikidata can help the quality of a Wiki.
Get a good overview over the connection between Wikidata, Lua-modules and Wikipedia.
Learn things about data complexity and sourcing and how to tackle these issues.

Duration (without Q&A)

1.5 hours

Specific requirements

Should not overlap with this session: Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2017/Programme/Submission/SPARQL for absolute beginners
A workshop room with tables and a projector would be good.

Slides or further information

The session did not use slides but followed this tutorial: d:Wikidata:Infobox Tutorial
You should have a little experience with programming.
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Lua

Interested co-instructors

If you want to get involved in the planning / co-instructing of the session

Interested attendees (Please add yourself, and you may indicate your questions to the presenter).

If possible, please analyze the situation in the Bashkir Wikipedia and make recommendations. We do not have technical volunteers. Thank you. --Рөстәм Нурыев (talk) 11:59, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]