Help:Event

Help index

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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

Images

Generally, Wikicommons images are preferable.

If the images depicts multiple items, make a separate source item for it and use the mentions (P78) property to refer to the items. For more information, see Creating items: special cases.

Wikicommons image (P2)

A picture of this item stored in the Wiki respository (commons.wikimedia.org)

• You can link by copying the name of the file the Wiki repository or from Wikipedia.

Example: The file name of the picture is File:Arles Amphitheatre gallo romain pano.jpg. 
[Wikicommons image] = Arles Amphitheatre gallo romain pano.jpg.

• If you add a qualifier Instance of (P1) with value “featured image" (Q105), the picture will show automatically on top of the page.

Wikicommons gallery (P181)

A collection of pictures of this item stored in the Wiki respository (commons.wikimedia.org)

• You can link by copying the name of the gallery in the Wiki repository. It is the last part of the URL after /wiki/.

Example: The gallery name is Maxim-Gorki-Theater. The URL to this gallery is: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maxim-Gorki-Theater
[Wikicommons gallery] = Maxim-Gorki-Theater

Canon image (P74)

An image of the item, stored in the Canon repository.

• Upload the video picture to the repository (you have to be sure that the picture is open source). For more information about uploading media to the repository, visit the help page about uploading media.
• Copy the Media ID and paste it in the value for the [Canon image] property.
• If you add a qualifier Instance of (P1) with value “featured image" (Q105), the picture will show automatically on top of the page.

Video

If the video mentions multiple items, make a separate source item for it and use the mentions (P78) property to refer to the items. For more information, see Creating items: special cases.

Wikicommons video (P8)

A video about this item, stored in the Wiki repository (commons.wikimedia.org).

• Copy the name of the file from Wikicommons and paste it in the value of the [Wikicommons video] property.

Youtube video (P116)

A video about this item on Youtube.

• Copy the string after ?v= in the Youtube url and paste it in the [Youtube video] property.

Example: the url of the Youtube video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxW4EWi86TY
[Youtube video] = nxW4EWi86TY

Vimeo video (P351)

A video about this item on Vimeo.

• Copy the string after .com/ from the Vimeo url and paste it in the [Vimeo video] property.

Example: the url of the Vimeo video is: https://vimeo.com/1141817451
[Vimeo video] = 1141817451

Canon video (P76)

A video about this item, stored in the Canon repository.

• Upload the video first to the repository (you have to be sure that the video is open source). For more information about uploading media to the repository, visit the help page about uploading media.
• Copy Media ID and paste it in the value for the [Canon video] 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)

• The city where the event took place.
• add start date (P38) and end date (P39 as qualifiers if apropriate

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.