English subtitles for clip: File:Donating data to Wikidata.webm

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We explain how data donations to Wikidata work.

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This is Rachel.

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She works at a museum and loves her job,

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because it means bringing knowledge to people.

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However the museum is limited to one city.

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Shouldn't the knowledge collected in museums and archives

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be accessible to people all over the world?

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Rachel heard about Wikidata,

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a multilingual free knowledge base that can be read

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and edited by humans and machines alike.

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Cool!

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Wikidata contains millions of items,

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each representing different information—

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a person, a place or a piece of art.

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The community of volunteers maintains this data

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but the information has to be contributed.

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Like many other galleries, libraries and archives,

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Rachel decides to contribute to Wikidata.

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First, she collects, cleans and prepares the data for digitising.

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Then, Rachel talks to the contributors of Wikidata that take care of data uploads.

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With their help,

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Rachel can now add her museum's treasured chest of data to Wikidata.

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Data shared in Wikidata becomes free knowledge.

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Released into the public domain,

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others can query Wikidata and build upon it.

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Wikidata is used by the Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia,

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and also by many other websites and applications,

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like a mobile app that can give information on pieces of art around the user.

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Because Rachel likes to see the different ways of uploaded data is used,

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she regularly checks the data and updates it, if necessary.

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Rachel is happy.

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The knowledge that her museum offers is now available worldwide

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in almost 300 languages, ready to be used by anyone.

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By donating data to Wikidata,

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she has helped to get more people more access to more knowledge.

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The museum is now much larger than the city it is located in.

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If you also want to learn how to contribute and donate your data,

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visit wmde.org/datadonation.