Help:Event

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Introduction

An event or fact is a only once happening activity or “thing that happens”.

Below you find all the properties, explained in the context of this page. If you click on the title, you get more information from the Property page.

Header

Label*

  • The name of the event as it is known now
  • This will only be translated if the organisation itself uses a translation of their name.

Description

  • You can give a short (max 30 words) description.

Also known as

  • This field is used to facilitate searching.
  • When other or previous names are used for the same event, you can add an alias
  • In case of previous names, clarify in [Context]] property

General information

Field (P19)*

  • The field the event is performed in
Field Value list (Q37)

Type of information (P11)*

  • Is always “event”
  • Type of event (P60)
    • Refers to the type of event
    • This is a obligatory qualifier
Type of event value list (Q30779)

Importance (P20)

  • defines how important this collection is for the history of technical theatre, it is used to select items for large visualisations.
Importance value list (Q8)

Context (P47)

  • Can be used to give more information about the event, the importance, etc.
  • Text length is limited, if needed add a second value.
  • Language is mandatory (fill the language of the text.)
  • If the information is retrieved from an existing source, add a qualifier source (P63) or source URL (P64)
  • Context can also be used as a qualifier to give detail about a specific entry in a property.

Link to internal Wikipage (P23)

  • This is a link to a wiki-page that will appear on top of the page, with more detailed information about the person.
  • Language (P35)
    • Language of the wiki-page.
    • This is a obligatory qualifier
Language value list (Q14)

Dates

Point in time (P45)

  • Use this property in case of a one day event

Start time (P38)

  • Use this property in case of a multiple day event

End time (P39)

  • Use this property in case of a multiple day event

Significant date (P237)

  • Use this property other moments that are relevant to the event
  • For example the decision to organise something

Relations

Took place in (P226)

  • refers to the place where the event happened
  • Vallues can be buildings, or geographic areas like cities, countries, etc.

worked here (inverse property label of Has worked in (P227))

  • Refers to an person that worked for the event.

significant person (inverse property label of Was significant person for (P87))

  • A person that had a significant influience or attribution to the event.
  • Add information on the person side.
  • Describe the significance in a context (P47) qualifier.

See also (P22)

  • Refers to other items that are related to this event, but where there is no property to relate them.
  • The property works both ways (The inverse label is also "see also".

Media

Image (P2) or Internal image (P24)

  • A picture representing the event.
  • An [image] refers to a picture in the wiki repository of images (commons.wikimedia.org) You can link by copying the name of the file from wikipedia or from the repository.
  • An [Internal image] refers to a picture in our own repository. Upload the document first and copy the link here. (You have to be sure that the picture is open source.)
  • Wikicommons images are preferable
  • if you add a qualifier Instance of (P1) with value “featured image" (Q105), the picture will show automatically on top of the page.

Youtube video (P116)

  • A video on youtube about this event.
  • If the video mentions multiple persons, businesses or subjects, make a separate source for it and use the mentions property to refer to the person.
  • Copy the string after ?v= in the Youtube url and paste it in the [Youtube video] property.

Internal video or Wikicommons media

  • A video on about this event.
  • If the video mentions multiple persons, businesses or subjects, make a separate source item for it and use the mentions property to refer to the person.
  • An Wikicommons media refers to a picture in the wiki repository of videos (commons.wikimedia.org) You can link by copying the name of the file from wikipedia or from the repository.
  • An Internal video refers to a video in our own repository. Upload the video first and copy the link here. (You have to be sure that the picture is open source.)

Commons gallery (P181)

  • A link to the commons gallery
  • Copy the last part of the domain name into the property
  • Large videos are preferably stored outside of the platform due the limitations of file size.

Geographic

Country (P29)

  • The country where the event took place.
Country value list (Q440)

City (P68)

Sources

Source URL (P64)

  • A web resource that is used as an information source for this item.
  • If specific information is retrieved from a source, add this property as qualifier

is mentioned in (inverse property label of mentions, P78)

  • describes the source a busness is mentioned in.
  • the input is done on the source side.

References

Wikidata source (P16)

  • Refers to an entry in Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org )
  • If the event exists in Wikidata, add Q-number from Wikidata
  • The information from wikidata will partly be displayed at the bottom of the page.
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