Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2020-07-28

Call Details

• Date: 2020-07-28
• Topic: WikiCite
• Speakers: Liam Wyatt, liamwyatt@gmail.com

Presentation Materials

• Call Agenda
• WikiCite

Meeting Notes

• Wikicite
  • Sloan foundation’s 3-year grant to focus on open citations in service of free knowledge
  • In past 3 years: international conferences
    • Nature of program changed in 2019 from “one big conference to rule them all” to “grants program for many equivalent events in local context”
      • Local context: specific languages, cultures, publishers, bibliographic records
  • Scholia: One of the best known outputs of Wikicite (not the equivalent, but a successful and visible component). Pulls from Wikidata to display corpuses of data in a user-friendly manner.
    • Zika virus corpus
  • For this year, the WikiCite steering committee is providing funding to encourage development of training materials (tutorials, etc) and also the development of e-scholarships, which are like “virtual travel scholarships” that would allow people funding to devote time as they would to attend a conference in times when they could travel. This would allow people to stay home but together undertake a project in the spirit of WikiCite. Experimental!
    • Draft overview of program (submit test grant proposals!):
      • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/e-scholarship
      • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/grants
  • Wikidata’s eighth birthday! Suggest a WikiCite event here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJOh9BtsLUprzv3fKXrEaeV1b6udadR0f8ax-WPYQ7oPJm2w/viewform
  • Funding video tutorials for critical tools (like Mix’n’Match) which have limited documentation