Wikidata:Reimagining Wikidata from the margins/WikidataCon 2021
WikidataCon is the conference for the Wikidata community. In 2021, the conference will be co-organized by Wikimedia Deutschland and Wiki Movimento Brasil. This collaboration brings avenues of discussions and experimentation and we’re glad to share with you the vision for this year’s program below, which includes the Reimagining Wikidata from the margins process:
For the past nine years, Wikidata has been rapidly growing: more data, more contributors, more reuse of the data by various stakeholders. Where are we headed? What is our compass point? Who is doing this journey with us? Who should be with us and is not yet?
During the WikidataCon 2021, we want to envision a sustainable future for Wikidata and address challenges the Wikidata ecosystem faces while Wikidata is growing. We are especially interested in tackling four interrelated points in the conference:
- Technical infrastructure;
- Data quality;
- Community health; and
- Diversity.
We especially want to raise awareness on the issues encountered by communities in the Global South and marginalized communities in the Global North, and their hopes on how Wikidata’s structure, content and community could represent the diversity of the world in a more inclusive way. Before, during and after the conference, we will lead discussions about how to decenter Wikidata from its current focus on Europe and North America and how to address the biases that currently exist in the structure of the data and in the community.
During the WikidataCon 2021, we would like to discuss all of these topics together, frame the problems and explore possible solutions. The conference will be distributed, which means that its content will be available online and accessible from everywhere, while local onsite events might take place to bring people together. While the main program will be curated by the program committee, contributions to the community sessions are welcome from all locations, projects or individuals.
You can find the conference page here.