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Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five on the Wikimedia Foundation blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez
Blog post by geraki (Greek)
Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members by Jan Dittrich (WMDE).
Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language. -Theklan
Report about the 1st WikidataCon in Hungarian language for Hungarian Wikipedia community. --Texaner
Benutzer:MB-one/WikidataCon 2017 (in German)
Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries Geertivp
Report about the 2017 WikidataCon (in Polish) Yarl
Wikidata: A growing community behind open data John Samuel
Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community (Armenian), Workshop introducing WikidataCon 2017 - Kareyac
WikidataCon - my résumé Ahoerstemeier
WikidataCon 2017 on WMDE's blog by Jens Ohlig
Wikidata con 2017 by Greta, user Margott, WoALUG
Facto_Post, WikidataCon issue by Charles Matthews
Well structured political data for the whole world - impossible Utopia or Wikidata at its best by Lucy Chambers
WikidataCon 2017 by ArmAg Armineaghayan
Blog post on Wikimedia Greece's blog (in Greek)
Convent(ion)s (in French) by User:Ash_Crow
Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
Podcast about the WikidataCon in WikipediaWeekly, by Andrew Lih, with Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge by Peter Kraker
Report about WikidataCon 2017 for Latvian community by Papuass

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Slides, notes and videos

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Opening

Keynote #1: Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on YAGO – Notes, Slides.
Wikidata: State of the Project – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Main problems and challenges of Wikidata – Abstract + Notes, Video.

Technical track

Wikidata Under the Hood - how it works, and why it's all so complicated – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
Wikibase: How to survive the install and data normalization to get pretty research information – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
Integrating a custom Wikibase Instance (Rhizome) and Wikidata via SPARQL – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
Lua for beginners – Notes, Slides.
Advanced Lua tutorial – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
Wikidata-powered infoboxes on the Basque, Catalan and English Wikipedias – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
ArticlePlaceholder: Increasing Access to Information for Small Language Wikipedias – Abstract

Query track

Inventaire: tale of a Wikidata-centered linked open contributive database on resources – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Wikidata Toolkit: How to use Wikidata in Java – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
WikidataJS: query, parse, and edit Wikidata data in Javascript – Abstract + Notes, Video.
Query Wikidata - Basics Workshop – Abstract + Notes, Video.
Wikidata Query Service and SPARQL - Advanced Workshop – Abstract + Notes, Slides, (Google Slides), Video.
Combining Wikidata with other linked databases – Abstract + Notes, Video.
The future of the Query Service – Abstract, Video.
Using Wikidata Query and QuickStatements to automatically amend Wikidata items – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.

Education track

Wikidata & Education: Using Wikidata as an Educational Platform – Abstract + Notes, Video.
Using Wikidata for Author Disambiguation – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Understanding Differences between Power and Standard Users in Editing Behaviour over Time – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
WikiCite: Wikidata as a structured repository of bibliographic data – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Scholia – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.

GLAM track

Structured Data: How can GLAMs grab the low hanging fruit? – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Fostering the cooperation between Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) and Wikidata – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Wikidata loves GLAMs – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Wikidata as universal (library) thesaurus – Abstract + Notes, slides, Video.
OpenRefine demo – Abstract, Video.
GLAMpipe demo – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Wikidata as the future of cultural heritage data – for Wiki Loves Monuments and beyond – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
GLAM meetup – Notes

Quality track

How to tackle the Global South systemic bias – Abstract + Notes.
Wikidata quality: a data consumers' perspective – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Data completeness: How to know what Wikidata knows? – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Using Shape Expressions for data quality and consistency in Wikidata – Abstract + Notes, Video, Slides.

Research track

WikifactMine – Abstract, Video.
Wikidata for digital preservation: A Wikidata Portal – Abstract + Notes, Video.
Describing Software So We Can Cite Software – Abstract, Video (partial), Video.
Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Research meetup – Abstract, Video.

Donation track

Data donations: The process to get your data into Wikidata – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Soliciting Data Donations: A Beginners' Guide – Abstract + Notes, Video.
Data import: An overview of the current system, and idea exchange for the future direction – Slides, Abstract + Notes, Video.
Data donation discussion – Notes, Video.

Politics track

Wikidata and Open Government (Meta)Data - A missing link? – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best? – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Politics Meetup – Abstract + Notes.

Ontology track

FRBR and Ontologies of Popular Music in Wikidata – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
Creating a collaborative ontology for Wikidata – Abstract + Notes.
Ontology Cleanup – Abstract + Notes.

UX track

Share and document workflows to improve Wikidata’s use experience – Abstract + Notes, Video.

Tools 1

The New SQID: Improving Wikidata Made Easy – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
Wembedder: Wikidata entity embedding web service – Abstract, Slides.
entity-fishing: an open source tool for fishing Wikidata entities in text and PDF documents – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
Crotos and the use of Wikidata in visual arts – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
Wikidata painting catalog workshop – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Catalogs.

Tools 2

ClassRank: discovering the relevance of each class in Wikidata – Abstract + Notes, Slides.
Wikidata Integrator Demo – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
wikidata-cli demo: read and write Wikidata from the command-line! – Abstract + Notes, Video.
Maps in wiki by interlinking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Documentation, Video.

Wikidata and the Wikimedia projects

Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: what's coming, and how to be involved as Wikidatans – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Wikidata & Wiktionary: lexicographical data for everyone – Abstract + Notes, Slides, Video.
Extracting a database of etymological relationships from Wiktionary - Abstract, Slides.

Other

Keynote #2: Michael Kreil, data journalist at Data Sciences and Stories – Notes, Video.
Languages in Wikidata – Abstract + Notes, Video.
Keys to organize a successful Wikidata workshop – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Closing – Video

Fifth Birthday Celebration

Wikidata’s presents – Video.

Lightning talks

session 1

3 million historical place names in Wikibase – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Using Wikipedia Zero to increase coverage of Suriname in Wikidata – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Leaping over languages: Connecting the world with multilingual maps! – Abstract, Slides, Video.
State of identifiers in Wikidata – Abstract, Slides, Video.
The Pleasure of Ontologies: balancing perfection and usability – Abstract, Video.
The role of Wikidata in emergency response – Abstract, Video.

session 2

Improving access to Culture Heritage: data.cervantesvirtual.com – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Documenting Philippine heritage through Wikidata – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Employing Wikidata for Fostering Scholarly Research – Abstract, Video
When a wikipedian experiments Wikidata: updating the French communities of communes – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Inserting data to Wikivoyage templates: solutions, problems, and needs – Slides, Video.
Expanding classical Wikimedia outreach efforts to include Wikidata – Abstract, Video.

session 3

Monumental: visualizing cultural heritage stored in Wikidata – Monumental app, Video.
Subdivision of Thailand and Wikidata – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Extracting a database of etymological relationships from Wiktionary – Abstract,Slides, etytree tool, Video.
Harvesttemplates, your best frenemy – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Wikispecies and Wikidata - a match made in heaven, or hell (redux)? – Abstract, Video.

session 4

Collaborative dataset annotation in paleoclimate science – Video
Using Wikidata to make research data FAIR – Abstract, Video
Linked Data Generation for Rare Disease in Japanese – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Wikidata and OpenStreetMap – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Report on a distributed Wikidata editing campaign in the GLAM sector – Abstract, Slides, Video.
Wikidata and biographical identifiers - Wikidata as authority control – Abstract, Slides, Video.