Event talk:WikidataCon 2025

On this page, you will find the WikidataCon updates posted before the event, and you can also ask questions or make suggestions.

If you have any questions regarding the WikidataCon 2025, feel free to ask here or to reach out to info@wikidatacon.org.

Save the date! WikidataCon returns 31 October - 2 November, 2025

Hello all,

I am excited to announce the next edition of the WikidataCon, taking place over three days from 31st October to 2nd November, 2025.

Organised by Wikimedia Germany, this event celebrates the entire Wikidata Community in all of its aspects; editors, tool builders, patrollers, data reusers, members of GLAM and other organisations that use and contribute to Wikidata. This year, the event format will be an online-style conference with a full program that attendees can join and participate with content from anywhere in the world.

We also encourage local chapters and community user groups to organise in-person meetups alongside the event to bring people together and also celebrate Wikidata becoming a teenager for its 13th Birthday (October 29th).

What kind of sessions to expect at WikidataCon 2025?

• Learn more about basic and advanced editing skills
• Workshops, live-editing, games and discussions
• Exchange tips and tricks with Wikidata experts
• Discover community-built tools and gadgets
• Hear about new WikiProjects and initiatives

In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be revealing more details on the program content, call for proposals, daily schedule, themes and program tracks. Please check the event pages regularly for updates.

Questions? Please don’t hesitate to reach out to the organisers at info@wikidatacon.org or by leaving a message on the event talk page.

Hope to see you all at WikidataCon 2025! Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 12:49, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

WikidataCon update - May 2025

Hello all,

Here comes an update about WikidataCon 2025! As a reminder, this conference dedicated to the Wikidata community takes place from October 31 - November 2, 2025, the conference will take place entirely online and all sessions, presentations and workshops will be accessible through our remote event platform Pretalx.

We are also working a lot on the concept of the conference, the structure it could have, taking into account the challenge of the online format (conferencing software, tools, accessibility, time zones…) as well as the program and its main themes, of which we'd like to share below...

This year's WikidataCon Programme Tracks are:

• The Future of Wikidata
  • From changes in AI, re-working Notability Policy, changes in the Query Service, how does Abstract Wikipedia fit in.
• Lexemes and Languages
• Linked Open Data Ecosystem
• Reuse and Data Partnerships
• Providing the World with High Quality Data
• Other (your idea doesn't fit into any of the above? We still want to hear about it!)

Hopefully I will provide more information in the next few weeks but in the meantime, you can already start thinking about how you could contribute to WikidataCon 2025 based on the Track names above!

If you’re involved in a local group or chapter, you can also note down the date in your calendar, and start discussing with your group members about your possible involvement in the WikidataCon. We are very excited to onboard local organizers in the process, and we will definitely gather ideas and wishes in the next few months about how we can connect the local communities together during the online event, and what support we can provide to bring local events to a global scale.

Thanks for reading this update! If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out to us by leaving a comment below or contacting infowikidatacon.org. For the WikidataCon 2025 organization team, - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 11:37, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

WikidataCon 2025: Call for Proposals is now open!

The Wikidata flagship event of the year, Wikidatacon 2025 is now open to receive your proposals!

This year we are celebrating the connections Wikidata promotes and creates, whether between Wikimedia Projects, WikiProjects, institutions and data reusers, across languages and communities. This year, we have 6 programme tracks waiting to receive your proposals.

The call for proposals is open until September 1st AoE. The 6 Tracks are:

• The future of Wikidata
• Lexemes and languages
• Linked open data ecosystem
• Reuse and data partnerships
• Providing the world with high-quality data
• Others (e.g. Linked Open Data/ Wikibase)

Submit here! : Pretalx: WikidataCon 2025

Looking forward to your proposals, thank you - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 10:57, 30 June 2025 (UTC)