Wikidata:Events
Do you want to meet other Wikidata editors, attend a workshop or organize one? Don't hesitate to add a section on this page or use the talk page to suggest ideas! To help us advertise the event, please consider adding it to the next issue of the weekly newsletter.
If you are planning a workshop for Wikidata editors, see Wikidata:Planning a Wikidata workshop. You can also join the Wikidata Events Telegram group.
Upcoming eventsEdit
If you're adding an event here, please consider adding it to the next issue of the newsletter as well!
Data Reuse Days 2022 is March 14th to 24th!
Some events (conferences) can be entered in Wikidata. You can find them on this page on Scholia, as well as related submission deadlines.
- Cultural Venues Datathon, April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
- International Museum Day 2022 - Wikidata competition, May 4 - May 18, 2022. On occasion of this year's International Museum Day there will be a global Wikidata competition to improve data on museums (and objects, events and people related to the museums).
- Wikidata para principiantes (online workshop in Spanish on May 3rd, 2022)
- Wikidata for beginners (online workshop in English on May 9th, 2022)
- Wikidata für Neulinge (online workshop in German on May 11th, 2022)
Active regular meetupsEdit
- Paris every third Friday of the month. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Paris.
- Wikidata workshops and meetings in Vienna. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Vienna and Wikidata:Events/Vienna/WikidataWednesday
- Wikidata workshops and meetings in Taiwan. See the detailed program on meta:Wikidata Taiwan 2022 event and Wikidata:Events/Taiwan.
- Regular Wikidata Talks events in Istanbul. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Istanbul.
- Weekly meetings in Swedish online. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Swedish online editathon.
Other meetupsEdit
These groups may not be active, or maybe the pages are not up-to-date. Feel free to contact the editors to revive the meetups!
- Wikidata:Events/Kampala
- Wikidata meetup in Berlin
- Regular Wikidata events are held in Tartu. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Tartu.
- Regular meetups in Zürich: Wikidata:Events/Wikidata Zurich Meetup
- Events in the rest of Switzerland on Wikidata:Events/Switzerland
- Events and workshops in Mexico on Wikidata:Events/Mexico
- Events and workshops in Argentina on Wikidata:Events/Argentina
- Ada Lovelace Day and Women Scientists 2021
Office hoursEdit
The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
They are announced on the Wikidata mailing list and in the Weekly Summary.
- Next: 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 27th July 2022 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group
- Previous: April 20th (see also the list of all previous sessions and notes)
Wikidata bug triage hourEdit
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. This experiment is part of the improvements on the support process, starting in February 2021.
The event is open to anyone who is interested in the development of Wikidata. When joining the event, the participants commit on following the Code of Conduct for technical spaces.
- Date and time: Thursday, May 5th, at 18:00 CEST (16:00 UTC, see other time zones), during one hour
- Place: Jitsi Meet
- Topic: open discussion, come with your favorite Phabricator task
- Speaker: Lydia Pintscher
- Moderation and time-keeping: Léa Lacroix
- Language: English (German and French also possible)
- Preparation: bring your favorite task! Feel free to pick a Phabricator task that you'd like to see improved
- Main rules: In order to keep the discussions easy to follow, please keep your microphone muted, and interact in the text chat.
- Recording and documentation: the event is not recorded, collaborative notes can be taken by participants here
This event is in an experimental phase: the format, tools used, and many other things are still going to evolve in the future. If you have ideas, suggestions or issues, feel free to contact Léa.
- Documentation of previous sessions: Etherpad
Past eventsEdit
You can find a (probably incomplete) list of past events and office hours on the archive page.