Wikidata:Events

Do you want to meet other Wikidata editors, attend a workshop or organize one? Don't hesitate to add a section on this page or use the talk page to suggest ideas!

If you are planning a workshop for Wikidata editors, see Wikidata:Planning a Wikidata workshop.

Sixth birthday

Around October 2018, a lot of local events will happen for Wikidata's birthday. Have a look at the list or create yours!

Next events

The Rare WikiKitten seen in its natural habitat.

Uganda

• Wikidata:Events/Kampala

Germany

• Monthly: Open Source Ladies, meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software.
• Monthly: Wikidata meetup in Berlin. Next meetup: to be decided

France

• Wikidata Workshop in Paris every third Friday of the month. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Paris.

Austria

• Wikidata Workshops in Vienna. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Vienna.

Estonia

• Regular Wikidata events are held in Tartu. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Tartu.

Switzerland

• Regular meetups in Zürich: Wikidata:Events/Wikidata Zurich Meetup
• September 8 in Zürich Wikidata:Events/Wikidata Zurich Hackathon a hacking event to code with and for Wikidata.
• Début 2019 Journée professionnelle «GLAM & Wikimedia : bilan des projets en cours en Suisse et perspectives avec Wikidata» [[1]]

United States of America

• August 8 in Harvard University Wikidata:Events/Harvard - a Wikidata Training Workshop.
• November 9 at University of South Florida Wikidata:Events/Tampa - an introduction to Wikidata for librarians.

Israel

• A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian Shani Evenstein. Isn't this a perfect gift for WD's Bday? :)
• A Wikidata workshop will be led by Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel & and the Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.

IRC office hours

There are regular Wikidata office hours on IRC where everyone can ask questions and discuss important issues. They will be announced on the Wikidata mailing list and meta:Special:MyLanguage/IRC office hours and will take place in the Wikidata IRC channel #wikimedia-office^connect on freenode.

• Next: tba
• Previous: September 25th at 18:00

Past events

You can find a (probably incomplete) list of past events and office hours on the archive page.

See also

• Wikidata:WikiProject Events