Wikidata:Wikimania 2021
Wikimania 2021 is taking place online from August 13th to August 17th. On this page, we are gathering all the information and elements related to Wikidata and Wikibase during Wikimania. Feel free to improve this page and help us keep it up to date!
Community gatherings edit
In the online space provided for Wikimania (using the software Remo), some areas are available for Wikidata and Wikibase folks to gather and discuss. You can find the following tables in the community village during the times lots opened for the tables.
- Wikidata table - Building 1, Floor 1
- Wikibase table - Building 1, Floor 1
A Wikidata meetup will take place during the hackathon on August 13th at 08:00 UTC.
The Wikidata Pink Pony Session, a discussion about your wishes for Wikidata, is scheduled on Day 1 (August 13th at 12:00 UTC) during the hackathon.
Hackathon edit
The Wikimania hackathon is taking place on Day 1 of the conference (August 13th). All contributions related to Wikidata and Wikibase are of course welcome. You can find more information about it on this page, interact with other participants on the social channels and add sessions in the schedule.
In this section, we are curating the sessions of the Wikimania program, the unconference, the hackathon schedule. and the on-demand program that are directly related to Wikidata or Wikibase. As the program is still under construction, please be aware that the information presented here may need an update. Your help is very welcome!
| Date and time (UTC) | Title of the session and speaker(s) | Room |
|---|---|---|
| August 13th, 08:00 | Wikidata meetup
Facilitation: Mohammed Sadat, Lydia Pintscher, Léa Lacroix |
Hacking Room 1 (Jitsi) |
| August 13th, 10:00 | Olympics Edit-a-Thon. Uploading historical medal's data using OpenRefine - Theklan (1 hour) | Hacking Room 1 (Jitsi) |
| August 13th, 12:00 | Wikidata Pink Pony Session (notes-taking here)
Facilitation: Mohammed Sadat, Lydia Pintscher, Léa Lacroix |
Hacking Room 1 (Jitsi) |
| August 13th, 17:00 | Developing a bot to add mass information from APIs to Wikidata: OpenCitations Bot Houcemeddine Turki, Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit and Wikimedia TN User Group, Tunisia Dennis Priskorn, Mid Sweden University, Sweden |
Hacking Room 1 (Jitsi) |
| August 13th, 19:00 | Getting started on Lingua Libre - Poslovitch | Hacking Room 1 (Jitsi) |
| August 13th, 19:00 | Introduction on modelling Witches in Wikidata by User:Ciell and Natt | Hacking Room 2 (Jitsi) |
| Date and time (UTC) | Title of the session and speaker(s) | Building or room |
|---|---|---|
| August 14th, 12:45 | Lingua Libre workshop (WikiLucas00) | Building 4 |
| August 14th, 16:25 | Documenting Women Artists in the University of Salford Art Collection Through Wikidata (Enrique Tabone) | Building 3 |
| August 14th, 17:00 | Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia (Denny Vrandečić et. al.) | Building 2 |
| Date and time (UTC) | Title of the session and speaker(s) | Building or room |
|---|---|---|
| August 15th, 15:00 | WikiCite-Recent achievements, what happens next? (Liam Wyatt & Phoebe Ayers) | Building 4 |
| August 15th, 19:45 | Structured data on Commons: today and tomorrow (Fiona Romeo, Giovanna Fontenelle, Carly Bogen & Andrew Lih) | Building 5 |
| Date and time (UTC) | Title of the session and speaker(s) | Building or room |
|---|---|---|
| August 16th, 08:00 | Add a pinch of Wikidata to your web browser: Entity Explosion (Toby Hudson) | Building 3 |
| August 16th, 09:30 | Making feedback loops work for Wikidata (Lydia Pintscher) | Building 4 |
| August 16th, 09:40 | Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q (Mike Peel & Andy Mabbett) | Building 4 |
| August 16th, 10:55 | Wikidata: What happened? Where are we going? (Lydia Pintscher) | Building 3 |
| Date and time (UTC) | Title of the session and speaker(s) | Building or room |
|---|---|---|
| August 17th, 14:30 | Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects (Mike Peel, Ammar Abdulhamid & Nirali Sahoo) | Building 3 |
| August 17th, 15:00 | Hackathon showcase (more info TBA) | Parallel livestream (link TBA) |
| August 17th, 17:00 | Ask Us Anything About Search or Wikidata Query Service (Trey Jones (WMF) | Building 1, Floor 2 |
| August 17th, 17:40 | Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata (Lydia Pintscher) | Building 4 |
On-demand program:
- links to videos here (TBD)
I'm attending Wikimania edit
If you want to let other people know that you will be attending, feel free to sign up there. Please note that registration is necessary to attend Wikimania and receive your link to the online event venue.
- Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 09:45, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 16:04, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
- 99of9 (talk) 03:58, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
- Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 07:00, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
- Manuel (WMDE) (talk) 13:13, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
- Oravrattas (talk) 19:25, 12 August 2021 (UTC)