WikiProject Govdirectory is an effort to document and model all public organizations of the world, on all levels, on Wikidata. It is a huge project in the sense that the number of organizations is high, and it is a difficult project since figuring out how the public organizations in a country relate to each other usually requires specific local knowledge. These challenges make it a perfect fit for a WikiProject!

With this poster, we will show how you get started with a country in the WikiProject Govdirectory - a project to gather all public organizations in the world - of all levels - on Wikidata. It will look at some of the existing ones to show what are some good practices in dividing the task into smaller, manageable chunks. There are already several different SPARQL-queries that can be used as an inspiration to see what coverage Wikidata has and how to determine when something is “done”. Finally, it will show a few different tools for tracking changes and coverage, which helps users stay on top of the progress and ensure that the quality stays high.