Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Submissions/Wikidata-powered infoboxes on the English Wikipedia

 This is an Open submission for WikidataCon 2017 that has not yet been reviewed by the members of the Program Committee.

Submission no. 99

Title of the submission

Wikidata-powered infoboxes on the English Wikipedia

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Author(s) of the submission

User:Mike Peel

E-mail address

Special:EmailUser/Mike_Peel (I am not willing to post my email address on-wiki to avoid spamming, but I can be contacted through the EmailUser page, and I am happy to share my email address privately)

Country of origin

Currently Brazil, originally UK

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

Volunteer (formerly WMUK trustee and FDC member)

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Type of session

Depending on the interest of the audience, and others making submissions on Wikidata infoboxes, this could be organised as a talk, workshop, demo, round table, or discussion. In particular, if others working on Wikidata infoboxes also want to present on their work, then this would work as a comparison of approaches/discussion about Wikidata infoboxes in Wikipedias more generally.

Length of session

30 minutes

Ideal number of attendees

Around 20-30 or more - this depends on the number of interested people at the conference!

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Abstract

Data from Wikidata is now being used live in a number of infoboxes on the English Wikipedia to display pictures, coordinates, links, numbers with automatically-converted units, location maps, even references. Over 600 700 800 900 1,000 infoboxes are completely Wikidata-driven, and many more are partially Wikidata-driven. A good live example of this is the en:South Pole Telescope, where everything shown in the infobox is fetched from Wikidata (see the picture on the right).

We aren't doing this perfectly yet - there are limitations in the data storage and the programming logic that need to be improved. Community consensus about how to appropriately include Wikidata information is also very important here.

This session will cover the technical process of including Wikidata information on the English Wikipedia (through en:Module:Wikidata and en:Module:WikidataIB), the technical limitations that have been encountered whilst doing so, and the social issues that are also present in this transition. It will also cover the different approaches to Wikidata infoboxes across the different language Wikipedias.

What will attendees take away from this session?

1. How Wikidata information is being included in English Wikipedia infoboxes
2. What are the main technical and social limitations with this work
3. How does this vary across different language Wikipedias

Slides or further information

This will follow on from my Wikimania 2016 talk on the same topic, but will be more focused to an audience that knows more about Wikidata.

Special requests

I am applying for a scholarship to attend the conference. If this is not accepted, then I could do this presentation remotely instead. I will be attending thanks to a scholarship. :-)

Interested attendees

If you are interested in attending this session, please sign with your username below. This will help reviewers to decide which sessions are of high interest.

1. --Lucyfediachambers (talk) 07:37, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
2. Fuzheado (talk) 14:27, 3 July 2017 (UTC) - Incredibly useful and already dividends being paid on en.wp with Infobox Artwork. Need to discuss critical issues in getting buy-in or running into cultural conflicts with existing Wikimedia communities. -- Fuzheado (talk) 14:27, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
3. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits
4. ArthurPSmith (talk) 20:37, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
5. Jsamwrites (talk)
6. seav (talk) 18:19, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
7. Daniel Mietchen (talk) 08:18, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
8. Jklamo (talk) 00:09, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
9. Carlojoseph14 (talk) 15:55, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
10. Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 19:53, 2 September 2017 (UTC)