Help:Organisation

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Introduction

On organisation is a social entity established to meet needs or pursue goals. In most cases organisations in this sense will be non-for-profit.

We organise organisations in subclasses depending on their activity. Each subclass can have specific properties to descrive their activity.

Header

Label*

• The name of the organisation, as it is known now, in it's original language
• 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 of the organisation.
• FIXME: Do we defina a syntax? f.e.: country + type of organisation + explanation.

For example: Belgian professional association of producers, designers and technicians of the arts and event sector. 
For example: Higher education college in south-east London, with degree courses in theatre, performance, live and mediated events, and related subjects.

• This will (not always) be translated

Also known as

• This field is used to facilitate searching.
• Add abreviations
• Add alternative spelling
• Add nicknames
• FIXME: add the following?: Add still commonly used/known historical names.

Basic information

Field (P19)*

• This is used to define in what field the organisation is active and makes it possible to find all persons in a specific field of interest.
• Multiple entries are possible, but avoid to use to many fields.

Field Value list (Q37)

Type of information (P11)*

The [type of information] is always "organisation (Q87)".

• Add the qualifier Type of organisation (P149) to specify the type of organisation.
  • This is a obligatory qualifier

Type of organisation value list (Q30778)

Historical name (P274)

Previous names of the organisation. If appropriate:

• Add qualifiers start time (P38) and end time (P39) to specify when the historical name was the official name.
• Extra information about the historical name can be added with a qualifier context (P47).

Importance (P20)

• defines how important this organisation was 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 organisation, 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)

Link to internal Wikipage (P23)

A link to a wiki-page that will appear on top of the page, with more detailed information about the item.

• Language (P35)
  • Language of the wiki-page.
  • This is a obligatory qualifier

Language value list (Q14)

Dates

Founding date (P115)

The date the organisation is founded, the date it starts to exist.

dissolved or abolished (P320)

The date the organisation ceased to exist.

Significant date (P237)

A date that is significant for the organisation, and is not captured in the standard set of date properties available.

• Needs a qualifier timeline label (this is shown on the timeline and in lists to make the date visible.)
• Describe the event in a context qualifier.

Relations

Founded by (P54)

Persons (or organisations or businesses) that founded the business.

founder of (inverse property label of founded by (P54))

Another organisation or business that the organisation has founded.

• Add a statement with the property founded by on the item page of the organisation that was founded.

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

A person that worked for the organisation.

• Add a stattement with the property [[property:P227||has worked in (P227) to the item page of the person. When done, the statement [worked here] will automatically appear on the item page of the organisation.

Significant person (P56)

A person that was significant for the organisation.

• Describe the significance in a context (P47) qualifier.

Member of (P46)

An organisation or business the organisation is member of.

has member (inverse property label of Member of (P46))

Members of the organisation.

• Add a statement with the property member of (P46) to the item page of the person that is the member. When done, [has member] will appear as a statement on the item page of the organisation.

Has board members (P284)

Persons in the Board or management functions of the organisation.

• Describe the exact function in a context (P47) qualifier.
• Add start tieme (P38) and end time (P39 as qualifiers if appropriate.

Is part of (P138)

Organisations merge of split sometimes, or become part of a larger organisation or consortium. This property can be used to note these relations.

• add start time (P38) and end time (P39 as qualifiers if appropriate.

has part (inverse property label of is part of (P138))

Other organisations that are part of this organisation. FIXME: what is the difference with member of? Do we need some extra explanation?

Works

author of (inverse property label of author, (P41))

A document the organisation has written.

• Add a statement with the property [[property:P41|author (P41)] to the item page of the document and link from there to the organisation that is the author. When done, [author of] will appear as a statement on the item page of the organisation.

has published (inverse property label of publisher (P62))

A document the organisation (or business ) has published.

• Add a statement with the property publisher (P62) to the item page of the document and link from there to the organisation that is the publisher. When done, [publisher of] will appear as a statement on the item page of the orgasation.

has produced (inverse property label of producer (P386))

Productions the organisation has produced FIXME: do we need to detail that this is specifically for theatre companies?

• Add a statement with the property [[property:P386|producer (P386}] to the item page of the production. Link there to the organisation that is the producer. When done, [has produced] will appear as a statement on the item page of the organisation.

Media

Images

Images refer to pictures representing the organisation, for example a logo.

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

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 of the seat of the organisation.

Country value list (Q440)

City (P68)

The city of the seat of the organisation

• Add start time (P38) and end time (P39 as qualifiers, if appropriate.

Postal code (P168)

The postal code of the seat of the organisation.

Address (P164)

The address of the seat of the organisation

• Add start date (P38) and end date (P39 as qualifiers, if appropriate

Historic address (P236)

A historic adres is a previous name of the street or number of the same physical place. Not to confuse with an change of adress due a move.

• Add start date (P38) and end date (P39 as qualifiers if apropriate

Sources

Archive is kept at (P221)

• The place or organisation where (parts of) the organisation's archive is kept
• Can be multiple values, in this case describe with a context qualifier the exact situation.

keeps archive of (inverse property label of Archive is kept at, P221)

• Describes the the archive of another organisation kept in this organisation.
• The input is done on the source side.

Web (P182)

A web resource that is dedicated to this item only.

Source URL (P64)

A web resource that is used a information source for this item.

• Extra information about the source can be added with a context qualifier.
• If specific information is retrieved from a source, add this with a quote qualifier.

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

Describes the source the item is mentioned in.

• The input is done on the source side. Add a statement with the property mentions (P78) to the item page of the source. When done, [is mentioned in] will appear as a statement on the item page of the mentioned item.

References

Wikidata source (P16)

Refers to an entry in Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org )

• If the item exists in Wikidata, add Q-number from Wikidata
• The information from Wikidata will partly be displayed at the bottom of the page.

Visualisations