Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Submissions/Wikidata Under the Hood
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This is an Open submission for WikidataCon 2017 that has not yet been reviewed by the members of the Program Committee.
- Submission no. 94
- Title of the submission
- Wikidata Under the Hood - how it works, and why it's all so complicated.
- Author(s) of the submission
- Daniel Kinzler
- E-mail address
- daniel.kinzlerwikimedia.de
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- WMDE
- Type of session
- Talk (the usual conference format. 45min, large audience)
- Length of session
- 60m including discussion
- Ideal number of attendees
- 20
- EtherPad for documentation
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataCon-Wikidata_Under_the_Hood
- Abstract
- This talk gives an overview of how Wikidata works under the hood. Some aspects covered:
- Storage as one wiki page per subject.
- Storage as JSON.
- The API.
- Change propagation.
- Lua interface
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- A basic understanding of the technology that underlies Wikidata
- Slides or further information
- File:Under the Hood of Wikidata (wdcon 2017).pdf - Google Drive
- Special requests
- Kittens. Or better, baby goats. Yea, goats would be nice!
Interested attendees
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