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WikidataCon 2025 | Connecting People through Linked Open Data | Online Conference format | 31 October - 02 November 2025

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Program

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Session Replays

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In the table below, you will find the links to videos of the sessions on YouTube and Wikimedia Commons, once they will have been added by the organizers. Session notes are available at the event etherpad.

Friday, October 31st - Notes

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Session Details Title, description and Speakers

15min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Opening Session - On Pretalx
Room rules and information related to the WikidataCon 2025 event

Speaker: Kris Litson (WMDE)

15min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

What if Wikidata had a "WikiProjects" first philosophy? - On Pretalx

Speaker: Jan Ainali

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

How can we make it easy to access Wikidata's data - On Pretalx
Details on the Wikibase Reuse Team's work on making data access easier on Wikidata

Speaker: Ifrahkhanyaree WMDE

15min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

WikiProject Stolpersteine goes Wikidata - On Pretalx
Stolpersteine goes Wikidata

Speaker: Max Kristen

15min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Como: A crowdsourcing platform for Digital Humanities
Como

Speaker: Max Kristen

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Observations on Lexeme Modelling Across Languages - On Pretalx
Observations on Lexeme Modeling Across Languages

Speakers: Raisha Abdillah

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Wikibase as a Data Sharing Space: Connecting Rights, Communities, and GLAM through Federated Infrastructures - On Pretalx

File:Wikibase as a Data Sharing Space.pdf Speaker: Daniel Antal

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Wikidata and Biodiversity: A match made for Earth - On Pretalx
Presentation for WikidataCon 2025

Speaker: Tiago Lubiana

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Paulina: A cool tool for Exploring the Public Domain - On Pretalx
Slides from the session "Paulina: A Cool Tool for Exploring the Public Domain", presented at WikidataCon 2025

Speaker: Jorge Gemetto

45min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

A Call to Improve the Wikidata Ontology - On Pretalx

Speakers: Peter Patel-Schneider, Egezort

45min
English

Game Time - On Pretalx

Speaker: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)

Saturday, November 1st - Notes

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Session Details Title, description and Speakers

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Robust authority control systems for Africa using Wikibase - On Pretalx
A presentation at WikidataCon 2025

Speakers: Nkem Osuigwe PhD, Doreen Appiah, Stanley Boakye-Achampong

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Wikidata and authority files: an overview - On Pretalx
Slides

Speaker: Camillo Pellizzari

60min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube (starts at 1:04:21)

Rewrite scholarly SPARQL queries for the graph split + Federating SPARQL involving Wikibase - On Pretalx
Presentation by Tiago Lubiana and Daniel Mietchen at WikidataCon 2025 (virtual)

Speakers: Tiago Lubiana, Daniel Mietchen

-> Notes for this session <-

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Current State of Scholia - On Pretalx
Slides

Speakers: Daniel Mietchen, Finn Årup Nielsen, Egon Willighagen, Lane Rasberry

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia: the Now and the Future - On Pretalx
Slides

Speakers: Genoveva Galarza Heredero

15min
English
▶️ Live on Jitsi and YouTube

Mapping Temples, Mapping Memory: A street-level Wikidata & Wikimedia Commons Expedition in Taiwan

Speaker: 王文岳 Allen Wang

15min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Arabic Wikidata Days: Growing a Regional Community around Linked Open Data - On Pretalx
A presentation of the Arabic Wikidata Days at WikidataCon 2025

Speakers: Houcemeddine Turki, Nanour Garabedian

15min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Very Small GLAM: pilot experience and current results - On Pretalx
WikidataCon 2025 presentation

Speaker: Olea

15min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

AletheiaFact.org - On Pretalx
AletheiaFact.org WikidataCon 2025 presentation

Speakers: Mateus Santos, Tamiris Volcean, Eduardo Neves

45min
English

Game Time - On Pretalx

Speaker: Danny Benjafield (WMDE)

Sunday, November 2nd - Notes

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Session Details Title, description and Speakers

30min English ▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

The State of Wikidata - On Pretalx
slides for a talk at WikidataCon 2025

Speaker: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)

45min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Wikidata 4 Social Good - On Pretalx

Speakers: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Jona, Jan Ainali, Mateus Santos, Friedrich Lindenberg

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Wikidata MCP: Exploring Wikidata with AI - On Pretalx
WikidataCon Nov 2025 - Wikidata MCP

Speaker: Philippe Saadé (WMDE)

45min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

PoliLoom: Verification-First AI for Political Data in Wikidata - On Pretalx

Speakers: Brenna Maeve, Johan Schujit

30min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

SmartGuide: Creating immersive personalised experiences on top of Wikidata - On Pretalx

Speaker: Jan Dolezal

45min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Mad Libs with Wikidata Lexemes and Abstract Content - On Pretalx

Speaker: Mahir Morshed

15min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Training Hearing with Lexemes - On Pretalx
Dacit: Training Hearing with Lexemes

Speakers: Max Kristen, Thomas Kristen

15min
English
▶️ Rewatch on YouTube

Closing Session - On Pretalx
The last session of WikidataCon 2025. Wrap up and handy links for futher info.

Speaker: Danny Benjafield (WMDE)

90min
English

GLAM Wiki 2025: Selection of Lightning Talks - On Pretalx

Speakers: See Pretalx for details

Livestream and replay of the conference on Youtube

Pretalx offers many features, including:

  • easily access the program from mobile
    (enter pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/schedule in your browser)
  • change the display of the times to adapt to your own time zone
  • mark some sessions as favorite by clicking on the start icon, and viewing your own custom schedule by clicking on the star button next to the time zone field
  • export the schedule in other formats: iCal, Json, XML, etc.

Languages

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English is the official language of the event, however we are assessing the possibility for providing real-time translation in a number of languages. Please check back periodically on the contribute page if you are interested in helping us translate contents (program, wikipages, session-captions).