Wikidata:Wikimania 2016

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See also wm2016:Programme.

Hi all! I was asked to get the ball rolling with organizing the Wikidata sessions for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario (Q43049) (meta:Wikimania 2016). Basically we should gather

  1. things we are interested in for a presentations/talks
  2. things we would like to learn (tutorial/hackathon)
  3. ideas for speakers (especially for the user-digest presentation, i.e. "introduction to, and state of Wikidata").

Please dispatch this message to as many languages of the project chat as possible. Thank you for your help! --Tobias1984 (talk) 22:35, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions[edit]

User-Digest[edit]

Suggest a person (or yourself) to give a user-digest presentation. Needs to be eloquent, interesting, easy-to-follow and mesmerizing :)

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Suggest guest speaker[edit]

Suggest a guest speaker that should be invited that is not directly involved with Wikidata (Wikidata is a Game is a good example of a guest speaker).

Talks[edit]

Add topics for presentations and who should give them (also yourself):

Lighting talks[edit]

Suggest topics for shorter presentations ("lighting talks"):

Learning and Hacking[edit]

Add things you would like to learn (e.g. SPARQL, running a bot) and add your name to the topic if you can teach it:

Discussions[edit]

What discussions/forums should be organized?

  • What can we do to protect data against vandalism and bad data manipulation ? I think everyone knows about vandalism but I think we should take care about data manipulation. I spot the problem of bot work (data import, data cleaning, correction) modifying human contributions due to lack of data analysis: minimal checks before doing any modification are necessary and this should be a requirement for bots to be able to work in WD. (PS: I don't have any problem with bots but as WD is more accessible to bots, potential damages are bigger).
Another discussion we could have is if we want to create proofed data sets which will be used as reference to identify data changes. For data from online databases this can be done by a tool or a boot on-line but for other data we should find a solution to keep data integrity aver the time. Snipre (talk) 13:52, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Posters[edit]

Post the topic of a poster that you would like to present:

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Anything Else[edit]

What else are you expecting from Wikimania 2016?

  • For me, as a sysop in Arabic (AR) Wikipedia I find a lot of information in wikidata when an AR article is linked to other wikis. The problem is we have let's say 33% of the articles in AR without interwikis. So the Wikidata pages for those articles are completely empty. We need to wait for an interwiki to EN or FR to have the page boosted with other elements (gender, citizenship, commons, .. ). For example, this village in Yemen, it's gonna take years before we get an EN article about it, so its wikidata page will stay empty for a long time. And it's the same problem for the 31 199 other villages in Yemen. So what we need is a simple tool to help non-Latin based wikis to add wikidata data for articles without interwikis. May be by infoboxes or stub templates. I don't know. --Helmoony (talk) 16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • As we move beyond providing interwikis, external identifiers and coordinates, good samples of infoboxes with data entirely from Wikidata could be showcased. --- Jura 11:17, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Given some of the questions about sourcing (and quality), maybe the differences in approaches between some of the Wikipedia (one fact) and Wikidata (a series of ranked statements) need to be explained. --- Jura 11:17, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Questions[edit]

Post questions here.