Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Program/Ideas

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28 – 29 October 2017 | Berlin, Germany

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Here is a list of ideas of events that you'd like to see happening during the WikidataCon!

Feel free to:

• add some ideas in the list
• ping people that you would recommend for a topic
• submit a talk related to one of these ideas :)

List of ideas

• How to organize a Wikidata workshop (discussion) => submitted
• SPARQL workshop for beginners
• SPARQL workshop advanced
• The future of the Query Service
• QuickStatements (workshop or demo) (see this workshop proposal)
• Mix’n’Match (workshop or demo)
• OpenRefine (workshop or demo) => submitted
• WikidataIntegrator (workshop or demo) => submitted
• Ontology for beginners (talk) (should be covered in this submission for a workshop)
• Insight in technical infrastructure. How is it done? (talk)
• Wikidata in blind spots; how to cover blind spots globally? (discussion)
• An overview on how Wikidata is used in Wikipedia (talk)
• Why are some skeptical about Wikidata, and how can we answer to their concerns? (talk)
• Free licenses and how to deal with mixing different databases (talk or discussion)
• Structured Data on Commons: presenting the project (talk)
• Wikidata for Wiktionary: presenting the project (talk)
• The future of Wikidata + update on Wikidata:Development plan (talk)
• Wikidata used outside Wikidata / federation with Wikidata (roundtable presenting a lot of projects) (partially covered by this submission)
• Wikidata + GLAM (meetup)
• WikiCite meetup
• WikiCite: presentation of the results, issues (talk or discussion)
• Data partnerships: an overview of experiences, success and issues (talk or discussion)
• Data import workflows: what are different methods you can use? (workshop / demo / talk)
• Data quality: how high is quality in Wikidata? What we have done so far? What can we do to improve it? (talk or discussion)
• UI/UX: how is the reading experience with the current interface? And editing? (discussion)
• Data models: standard type of data like the point 6 of this wishlist (discussion)
• How Wikidata deals with vandalism, patrol and edit wars
• Wikisource meetup
• Wikibase: how to set up an instance for your project, and make it as interoperable as possible with Wikidata => (may be covered in this talk?)
• Tabular data: can we use it now in wikidata, or are more standards and/or tools needed? (talk or discussion)
• Introduction to Lua
• Machine Learning used in wikidata projects