Help:How do I present a research project on FactGrid?

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How do I state my own research on FactGrid?

• automatically as we have only registered users. Whatever you do it leaves a trace in "Version histories" and "User contributions"
• Create a research statement like Item:Q11305 and fix that with the Property:P131 on all data sets that have noteworthy work of yours to show
• Use Property:P17 on any individual statement you cannot yet make with more than the knowledge of present research and risk estimates and working hypotheses!

How do I see who is doing what of FactGrid

Click "Recent changes" in the menu or explore the "Version history" of any item.

What do I do with conflicting information

Wikibase allows the input of conflicting statements. A person can have two different birth dates. That is not undesirable - quite the contrary, it allows you to represent the wealth of documents which you have processed.

You can, however, bring clarity into the future handling of the specific situation:

1. If it remains impossible to determine the correct date — make both statements with the respective references. They will now both occur in searches.
2. If you can decide which of two dates research should continue to use — state both dates but upgrade or downgrade the alternatives by setting the arrows before the respective input fields before saving.
3. If you can give reasons for your preference — use qualifying statements on each date: Property:P155 "How sure is this" - you can add here a predefined statement from this list or you create an new Item which should be included in this list. Use Property:P73 to set additional free notes on the case.
4. If the proper answer should be acknowledged as your research upgrarde your choice and downgrade the alternatives (as stated in 2). Use Property:P155 to characterise your knowledge and add a Property:P196 "reasoning" link to a new Item which you now create in order to refer to your personal thesis. Let us say this Q-Number is Q1234567.

• use Property:P2 in order to mark the new Item as a "FactGrid thesis"
• state yourself with Property:P21 as the author
• date your FactGrid thesis with Property:P106
• set a link to a blank page, which you will open with Property:P99 and the prospective title https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/T-Q1234567. This will create a page of the respective Q-Number and here will now be free to write a complete article about the problem with your view. Your article can have chapters, it can refer to documents and research done in the field, it can have footnotes and images (format-wise just as any Wikipedia-article). It will be your article on the problem and people can use the article's Discussion page to offer their views on your work.

Creating larger numbers of items in a mass input via QuickStatements

There are YouTube videos available that show how you create inputs with QuickStatements

• https://youtu.be/L0TYQ9LRRTQ
• https://youtu.be/bUpJN4IklJ8

The tough part is to prepare your data. If you add individual statements you will always get autocomplete suggestions as soon as the database already has the item which you want to refer to. If you run a mass input your data will have to be precise: the Q-numbers, dates in the exact format definitions, geo-coordinates in the input standard (which by the way differs from the SPARQL output!) - all this will cause extra work. You will have a lot to do if you come from an old database which allowed text input as here you will find that cells have been filled in various formats and with additional statements which you have to transfer into separate qualifying statements...

Once you have transformed your data in a table format you can run a QuickStatement (left menue) "Version 1" input by filling big blocks of columns into the input field. Press "Version 1" input. As far your data are machine readable you will get a preview of the upcoming input. Look into it to see whether there are "unknown" fields. These will create error message in the input.

You can also transform your input lines into comma-separated-values, csv data. The csv input is faster but it is also tricky as soon as you have double quotes " within text passages.

The following links give detailed help:

• Wikidata QuickStatements help. This page give the exact input commands for Quickstatements
• http://openrefine.org/ Former Google refine, tool to transform information for a data input (does not yet run on FactGrid.