Research in programming Wikidata

Research in programming Wikidata (with code listing, figures and tests) is a project concerned with learning activities for SPARQL and Wikidata. This course's audience includes researchers, students and teachers of technical universities.

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This course was originally developed by graduate students as part of a research course taught by Andrew Krizhanovsky at Petrozavodsk State University (2017-2021).

Topics

Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners

• Title of topic [[User:nickname|Name Surname]]
• Introduction Andrew Krizhanovsky

• Academic institution — Horolskiy Egor
• Aircraft — Rybin, Artem Potes
• Anime — Boollieva Daria
• Archive — Anisimova Mary
• Banks — Oksana Panfiova
• Business Enterprise — Nikolaev Nikita
• Cities — Alexander Kurbeev, Menshikova Ekaterina
• Countries — Smykova Elizaveta, Maria Balakireva
• National park — Bazhenov Nikita
• Natural disaster — Ekaterina Azarenkova
• Programming languages — Kovalchuk Denis, Gregory Burdin
• Protected area — Stepanov Mihail
• Radio programs — Dyatlova Alexandra
• Subjects of Russia — Khudorozhnikova Maria
• Tennis — WillIams Ukpere
• University — Mamaev Vladislav
• Musical Compositions — Vershinin Ilya
• Newspapers — Bodryakova Anastasia
• Institutes of Russian Academy of Science — Laitinen Nikita
• Human settlements — Eparskaya Anna
• Ships — Max Klyuchnikov, Dmitry Larionov
• Schools — Arina Demidova
• Spacecraft and stations — Rego Grigorij
• Operating systems — Mary Kornysheva

Games based on Wikidata

The goal is to create computer games based on data extracted from Wikidata. There are the following requirements to the game:

• it is an educational game;
• it is available online, e.g. Android game (see Artolela), Scratch, or created via Game Editor, Pygame, Kivy;
• the game has interface in English and in Russian, or there are two game versions: in Russian and in English;
• the program is open source, with an open license, the program code is available online at GitHub or other source code repository.

List of developed games:

• Artolela-web — Ipatova Yulia

Links

• Wikidata Query Service tutorial
• b:SPARQL manual on Wikibooks
• A. Krizhanovsky, Russia report: WikiProjects of students of Petrozavodsk State University // This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VI, June 2017
• A. Krizhanovsky, The first students of Russia with diplomas of Wikimedia and Petrozavodsk State University // This Month in Education – Volume 4, Issue 5, May 2018