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Event:Wikidata and Sister Projects
Wikidata and Sister Projects
Organized by: Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
Start and end time
16:00, 29 May 2025 to 13:30, 1 June 2025
Location
Online event
The link will be made available by the organizer.
Wikis
This event is open to all wikis.
- Welcome!
- This Wikidata and Sister Projects event is an online event focusing on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects.
During 4 days of discussions, workshops, sessions and social events, a broad range of benefits, challenges, existing and potential integrations of Wikidata will be covered. This event offers a space for editors of all experience levels and all Wikimedia projects.
- Register to the event
- We encourage you to sign up to the event on this page to receive updates and access links. In order to register, you need to be logged in with your Wikimedia account, and click on the "register for event" button at the top of this page.
- Participation
- The sessions are open to everyone involved in the Wikimedia community who currently use Wikidata in their project, would like to, or want to learn more about how Wikidata can support the sister projects.
Sessions will take place online only between the 29th May - 1st June and will be accessible on the online conferencing platform. Most sessions will be streamed live and recorded, and the videos as well as any slides and collaborative notes will be made available on Commons or below to view or read afterwards.
If you are interested in attending the event, please register here.
Please note that the entire initiative, including the presentations and discussions on various channels, is covered by the Code of Conduct for technical spaces. Please contribute in making the discussion spaces safe and welcoming for everyone.
- Discussions and help
- If you have questions or suggestions about the event, feel free to use the talk page. Announcements about the event are taking place on the same talk page, and on Wikidata Telegram group. If you want to reach out to the organizers directly, feel free to contact Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (danny.benjafield
wikimedia.de or @Benny.Danjerfield on Telegram).
Sessions
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The event is now over, soon links to rewatch individual sessions will be added below or you can see full daily videos on YouTube.
Want to take notes? Use the dedicated event etherpad.
| Session details | Title, description and speakers |
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30min |
 Introduction to the team and Information about the event and how to participate Speakers: Danny Benjafield (WMDE) |
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60min |
 A discussion with the community on the known challenges and benefits of Wikidata Integration. Presenting the team's frameworks and focus areas for 2025. Speakers: Ifeatu Nnaobi (WMDE), Neslihan Turan (WMDE) |
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30min |
 After presenting the mission of the Abstract Wikipedia project, we describe the Wikifunctions platform which has been developed to support it (and other uses). We then show how Wikifunctions provides access to Wikidata content and how these building blocks can be used to construct Natural Language Generation capabilities, towards our scope of realising Abstract Wikipedia. Speakers: DMartin (WMF), Sannita (WMF) |
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60min |
Games
Let's play some games and have a chat! Speakers: None |
Friday, May 30th
edit| Session details | Title, description and speakers |
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30min |
 I will summarise the current best practices with using Wikidata's data across various Wikimedia projects using Module:WikidataIB, including the Wikidata Infobox on Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata-powered infoboxes on Wikipedias, Listeria, and more. I will highlight successes and ongoing issues, and possible solutions for the future, both technical and social. Speakers: Mike Peel |
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30min |
 This session seeks to demonstrate how to install and use Wikidata powered infoboxes for any language Wikipedia and even for incubator platforms to have the most beautiful and informative infobox ever which changes when the values of properties on Wikipedia change. It prevents the repetitive action of manually editing infoboxes and also reduces the overall time wasted in doing so. Speakers: Shahadusadik, Dnshitobu |
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15min |
Wikivoyage: Connecting Wikivoyage with Wikidata
This session will showcase how Wikivoyage listings and listing editor help synchronize tourists points of interest, travel information and photos between Wikivoyage and Wikidata. The session will also talk about what happens when backend MediaWiki updates (e.g. parser) can break the listing editor. Speakers: OhanaUnited |
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60min |
Wikidata Clinic: come and ask us questions!
Do you have questions about Wikidata that never got answered? Are you struggling with something? Are you an experienced editor and want to support newcomers? The Wikidata Clinic is a live session where we're answering questions together and helping each other. Facilitators: Danny Benjafield (WMDE), Ifeatu Nnaobi (WMDE), Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Neslihan Turan (WMDE) |
| Session details | Title, description and speakers |
|---|---|
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30min |
Using the Beam-me-up tool to fuse Wikidata information into FactGrid
Tim Holzheim's Beam-me-up tool is one of the most used gadgets in FactGrid. It fuses Wikidata information into FactGrid on selective requests. It understands the languages of both Wikibases, and it is able to create or augment items where needed. The tight alignment with Wikidata speeds up work on FactGrid, it helps us to avoid double records (as our Wikibase does not allow to link to a same Wikidata item from two of our items), and it enhances our readability in the upcoming world of federated queries and knowledge graphs. Not everyone, however, is happy with the consequences since FactGrid is not designed to act as a Wikidata copy - nor do we know whether we want to support the Wikidata data modelling throughout our base. Speakers: Olaf Simons |
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30min |
 The presentation will explore why and how Wikisource community has embraced Wikidata to its workflow of metadata management of its contents. The audience will also learn how Wikisource has been leveraging the power of Wikidata in different ways and exploring some of its future plans. The presentation will also open up discussions for new ideas from the audiences which can be implemented in future into the project. Speakers: VIGNERON, Bodhisattwa |
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30min |
Wikisource: When two cool kids play together! (Workshop)
After the presentation will work on Wikisource metadata on Wikidata. Demonstrating and using some tools and gadgets. Speakers: VIGNERON, Bodhisattwa |
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30min |
Games & Social Time
Let's have a chat and play some Wikidata-powered games! Speakers: None |
| Session details | Title, description and speakers |
|---|---|
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30min |
 We will look at tools that help you use Wikidata to create lists for article creation or improvement on Wikipedia. This can be really helpful when you are running an event and want to create an event page with some target pages to be worked on. We will discuss the pros and cons of each tool, and how to use it in a workflow. Tools will include Listeria, the Wikilist tool, and Petscan. DrThneed will present her workflows for using the tools, and allow time for discussion to participants can also contribute their ideas and experiences so we can all learn from each other. Speakers: DrThneed |
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30min |
Grab a drink and stretch your legs, have a snack, a prerecorded session from a previous event will run in the background. Facilitators: Ifeatu Nnaobi (WMDE) |
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30min |
Bug Triage Hour - Watchlists / Recent Changes
The bug triage hour is an online event where the product manager of Wikidata publicly works on triaging development tasks (typically on Phabricator), improving their descriptions, defining their priority, and collecting the wishes and needs from the Wikidata community. The session is open to everyone, and you can bring a Phabricator task that need improvement so we can work on it together! Speakers: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) |
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30min |
Wiktionary: powering content pages with lexicographical data
This session will showcase how information from Wikidata lexemes can be used with a Scribunto module to populate pages on the Bengali Wiktionary—and, with some effort, maybe even another language's Wiktionary! Speakers: Mahir256 |
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30min |
 We'll import Portuguese Wikipedia lists into Wikidata using QuickStatements. Then, we will edit the Wikipedia article to fetch the data from Wikidata using Listeria. Speakers: ACorrêa (WMB) |
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60min |
Wikidata Live Editing - adding maps to Wikipedia
We are making Wikidata queries (and perhaps some editing) to add Wikidata powered maps to Wikipedia. Speakers: Ainali, Abbe98 |
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30min |
 During this session, we will have a look back at the topics and discussions we covered during the event and talk about next steps including how to leave feedback on the event survey. Speakers: Danny Benjafield (WMDE) |
See also
edit🧩 Related WikiProjects or other groups from the Sessions?
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidata
- WikiFunctions
- (feel free to add more here!)
💬 Telegram groups: Wikidata (general) / Wikidata (Help)
🖋️ Related documentation pages
- Collaborative Notetaking (EtherPad)
- Meta: Wikidata in the Wikimedia Projects - about the team who organised this event
- Ways to access and use Wikidata's data in the Sister projects
- Wikidata Help - Sitelinks and connecting Projects and Languages
- Commons - Wikidata Infobox Template., see also: Dresden street Template