 Welcome to my presentation. I'm Toby known as 99 of nine. I've been editing across various wiki projects since 2004 I mostly started on the English Wikipedia and then took up encyclopedic photography on commons But recently have shifted focus to wiki data in a fairly big way Here's a couple of my pictures. I like to think of the wiki community like a coral community You are what makes me beautiful I'm one of many in the hive mind and we are best when we're working together and relying on one another's work Today's aim is to get you all to install and benefit from my browser extension Entity explosion so that you can enhance and navigate the web using wiki data without ever visiting wiki data So here's my one-liner on what entity explosion does While reading a website Discover links and information about the same topic on other sites with a single click You don't have to be an expert at wiki data for this. In fact, you don't even need to know that wiki data exists and It works in every language. So please do share You've probably heard that wiki data is the Rosetta stone of the internet This edict translated into three languages Allowed archaeologists to decipher the ancient Egyptian scripts wiki data allows that not just with languages but also across identifiers and websites So today I'm going to put that stone in your pocket Roughly 90% of properties in wiki data are identifiers, but they do very little inside the database Their value is to connect to external sites and connect them to one another and In this way wiki data is the backbone the central hub of the internet So for example in chemistry We have a different online database for all different kinds of measurements of a molecule But if you're on the crystal structure website How do you find that exact same molecule in the thermal properties database? Well, we're going to find out that EE Entity explosion solves this problem in one click Here's what database linking looks like on an internet scale. This is the linked open data cloud Where the points represent? Structured linked databases and the connections are the connections between those databases wiki data can have links to as many of these as we like and is quickly becoming the central repository of identifiers The way this is done on wiki data is by making a property for each database we link to and Listing things like the formatter URL. You can see that down here For example a youtube property has youtube.com slash channel slash dollar one to indicate the value of this identifier Which gets put in to give the whole URL string for a particular item identified That URL string is what entity Explosion users but in reverse So let me show you how the Browser extension works When you're browsing around and come across a site that wiki data has links to the entity explosion Icon up here in the top of your browser will light up red When you click it so you actually go on to this Icon it sends the URL to the wiki data query system to find out whether there's a wiki data item with this exact value of the identifier If so it returns a stack of information about the item So here's an example of the pop-up in this case. It's about the Australian curiosity the platypus Here's another example if you are on Spotify and came across this Australian musician You could again click on to the browser extension This time I've set my language to Chinese And we see all of these same wiki data Items and Data, but it has been translated now into Chinese these Interface and property translations are themselves from wiki data You can try this out in on all kinds of databases almost anything you're interested in people places Organisations publications organisms, etc Here are some of the specific sites you might use For example, you might want to find out who some prominent person on twitter really is For the wikipedia here it also works from almost all wikipedia sites So it's a really quick way of cross-checking your article with wiki data Hopefully you're convinced I might have a moment at the end to show you a live example, but first let me tell you how to get involved I made this because I want wiki data to be useful to you all It's free open source works in every language Protects your privacy and is improved every time you edit wiki data. So you are already improving this Here's the nitty-gritty of how the extension works. So if any of you want to help improve the software, please do let me know What I'd appreciate most from all of you who install it is a review, especially in other languages, because This seems to be the thing that attracts the most attention in the extension stores I mentioned that you improve entity explosion every time you edit wiki data. Thank you But if you want to help even more here are some of my top tips I guess I view this as a virtuous cycle because users of entity explosion will naturally want to improve wiki data And users of wiki data. I hope will be convinced to use entity explosion There is yeah, there are some tips on how you can help But I'll go through a couple of final tips because I do have a couple of minutes left I care a lot about identifiers obviously And so I do want to just show you a survey methodology I have for How I conceive of integrating and institutions metadata with wiki data And hence integrating it with entity explosion It might be a little bit hard to read on your screen But it lays out some checkpoints along the way and allows you to do a bit of an audit On how your country's institutions are going If you want the details of this they're in the slides which are linked from the isopad and I'll answer questions on the isopad at the end Because entity explosion was a lockdown project I've made a habit of putting up and updating this slide in all my presentations since covet started The aim is to show solidarity among amidst our diversity Wikimania is the best for this my country has been doing well on both wiki data properties and covet 19 cases But right now covet is almost at the worst We've had it and I'm actually talking to you from the second lockdown in Sydney But the point is we're all Facing these challenges as a team effort and we're all in it together So there are some acknowledgments and in the last minute. I'd love to just show you this Working real time. So I'll give you two quick examples One is on iNaturalist. Remember this fly that I love because it has the Image of entity explosions logo on its wing. Well, I I saw one of these flies In my backyard. This this was it. I got a nice photo If I want to know more about this type of fly I can go up to the taxon bar The taxon thing and I can actually click into the explosion here See what it tells me about this genus of fly And you can see some examples there. We might go off to another site bug guide and see over here What what is um This looking like and we might be able to identify it So please contact me or continue the conversation over on the Unconference. I'll come into this room very soon. I think that's all from me So thank you for watching and thank you for participating. Bye for now