Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Documentation

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28 – 29 October 2017 | Berlin, Germany

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Welcome

Documentation

Volunteer

Program

Attend

Organization

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Overview

Video replay

Commons category

Follow-up

Grant report

Videos and pictures

• Wikidata: State of the Project
• Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: what's coming, and how to be involved as Wikidatans
• Wikidata & Wiktionary: lexicographical data for everyone
• Wikidata as the future of cultural heritage data − for Wiki Loves Monuments and beyond
• Birthday celebration (demo of presents)
• Keynote #2: Michael Kreil, datajournalist at Data Sciences and Stories
• Lightning talk session 1
• Lightning talk session 2
• Lightning talk session 3
• Lightning talk session 4

find all videos here

• pictures on Commons
• recordings of the sessions happening in room A

Blog posts and reviews

Link here what you wrote about the event!

• 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

Social media

• Twitter #WikidataCon, #WikidataBirthday
• Selection of tweets about the WikidataCon
• Selection of tweets about the 5th birthday
• Selection of tweets by Ewan McAndrew

Official reports

• Participant survey report
• Grant Report

Slides, notes and videos

Note: all files and videos are released under CC BY-SA 4.0, unless a file on Commons has another mention.

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.