Wikidata:WikidataCon 2019/Program
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Thursday, October 24th
[edit]On the day before the conference, Wikimedia Deutschland will host a welcome meetup in the office.
| Time | Event | Audience | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18:00-19:00 | Scholars get-together | WMDE scholars | Wikimedia Deutschland's office 1st floor, room Mosaik |
The first hour of the evening is reserved to Wikimedia Deutschland scholars (people who got their accommodation and travel booked by the organization team). You will have the opportunity to have dinner together, start discussing with others and get in the mood for the conference. |
| 19:00-22:00 | Welcome meetup & early registration | All WikidataCon participants and Wikimedia Deutschland staff | Wikimedia Deutschland's office 1st floor, room Mosaik |
You're already in Berlin on Thursday? Come and start meeting the other WikidataCon participants! We will meet in WMDE's office for a relaxed and informal meetup.
Joining the welcome meetup you will also be able to get your badge, avoiding the queue on Friday morning. Snacks will be served onsite, as well as non-alcoholic drinks and beer. In order to help us organizing this event, please sign up here if you plan to attend! |
Friday, October 25th
[edit]Location: Urania Berlin
| Time | Arnheim-Foyer
(main hallway) |
Cafeteria (1st floor) |  Kleist
(1st floor) |
Einstein
(1st floor) |
Kepler
(1st floor) |
Darwin
(workshop room, 2nd floor) |
Edison
(hacking zone, 2nd floor) |
Austen
(meetup room, 2nd floor) |
Hallway
2nd floor |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:00 | Registration,
wardrobe, welcome, coffee, Posters |
Closed | Closed | Closed | Closed | Closed | Closed | 9:00-10:00 | ||
| 10:00-10:25 | Opening session | 10:00-10:25 | ||||||||
| 10:30-10:55 | Glimpse over Wikidata | 10:30-10:55 | ||||||||
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | Hacking,
Project tables, Booths, Self-organized area |
Discussions,
Self-organized area |
Discussions,
Self-organized area |
11:00-11:30 | |||||
| 11:30-12:25 | Keynote: Why is collecting lexical data one of the best ways we can help support underserved and endangered languages? Benjamin Yang (PanLex) |
11:30-12:25 | ||||||||
| 12:30-12:55 | New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities | Wikidata Commons contribution strategies for GLAM organizations | #HerNaturalHistory | 12:30-12:55 | ||||||
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Break | Break | Break | Break | 13:00-14:30 | |||
| 14:30-14:55 | Infodesk,
wardrobe, Coffee Posters |
Wikibase inspiration panel | Lightning talks #1 | Experimenting with Wikidata in the Saami languages Kimberli Mäkäräinen et al. |
Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: hands-on workshop | 14:30-14:55 | ||||
| 15:00-15:25 | Wikibase for Canadian Indigenous Content | 15:00-15:25 | ||||||||
| 15:30-16:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | 15:30-16:00 | |||||
| 16:00-16:25 | Wikidata and languages | Lightning talks #2 | Wikidata works for Wales - Wikidata and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography | Envisioning Wikidata in the future: creating idea concepts in an interactive session Raja Gumienny et al. |
Data federation and integration meetup Ina Blümel et al. |
16:00-16:25 | ||||
| 16:30-16:55 | 16:30-16:55 | |||||||||
| 17:00-17:25 | Break | Break | Break | Break | 17:00-17:25 | |||||
| 17:30-17:55 | GLAM panel : The Role of Wikidata within Data Ecosystems that Extend Beyond the Realm of Wikimedia Projects Susanna Ånäs et al. |
Wikidata for Emerging Communities & knowledge gaps SGill (WMF) et al. |
Project WikiLoop | 17:30-17:55 | ||||||
| 18:00-18:30 | Reinstating Female Artists to the Cultural Record via Wikidata | Inventaire : What we learnt from reusing and extending Wikidata shifting data Maxlath et al. |
Break | 18:00-18:30 | ||||||
| 18:30-19:00 | Dinner | Dinner | Break | Closed | Closed | 18:30-19:00 | ||||
| 19:00-19:55 | 19:00-19:55 | |||||||||
| 20:00-20:55 | Infodesk,
wardrobe, Coffee Posters |
Birthday celebration & presents demo | Discussions, self-organized area | Social event: light and sound installation | 20:00-20:55 | |||||
| 21:00-21:55 | WikidataCon Award Ceremony Birgit Müller et al. |
21:00-21:55 | ||||||||
| 22:00-22:55 | 22:00-22:55 | |||||||||
| 23:00-23:55 | 23:00-23:55 | |||||||||
| Time | Arnheim-Foyer
(main hallway) |
Cafeteria (1st floor) | Kleist
(1st floor) |
Einstein
(1st floor) |
Kepler
(1st floor) |
Darwin
(workshop room, 2nd floor) |
Edison
(hacking zone, 2nd floor) |
Austen
(meetup room, 2nd floor) |
Hallway
2nd floor |
Time |
Saturday, October 26th
[edit]Location: Urania Berlin
Before the sessions start, we're offering you to relax and clean your mind with yoga or meditation.
Both start at 8:45 on the 3rd floor of the conference venue. 20 participants max. More details and sign up on each session's page.
| Time | Arnheim-Foyer
(main hallway) |
Cafeteria (1st floor) | Kleist
(1st floor) |
Einstein
(1st floor) |
Kepler
(1st floor) |
Darwin
(workshop room, 2nd floor) |
Edison
(hacking zone, 2nd floor) |
Austen
(meetup room, 2nd floor) |
Hallway
2nd floor |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:00 | Infodesk,
wardrobe, Coffee Posters |
Closed | Closed | Closed | Closed | Hacking,
Project tables, Booths, Self-organized area |
Discussions,
Self-organized area |
9:00-10:00 | ||
| 10:00-10:55 | Keynote: Questioning Wikidata Os Keyes |
Libraries panel Hilary Thorsen et al. |
Closed | OpenRefine workshop | 10:00-10:55 | |||||
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break | 11:00-11:30 | ||||
| 11:30-12:25 | Indigenous knowledge meet-up | Data import process overview Navino Evans et al. |
Education panel Shani Evenstein et al. |
Data quality panel Cristina Sarasua et al. |
Wikidata lexemes: now and in the future ArthurPSmith et al. |
Wikibase meetup | 11:30-12:25 | |||
| 12:30-12:55 | Structuring GLAM-Wiki initiatives with Wikidata | OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Edward Betts et al. |
Open data panel Alice Wiegand et al. |
First experiments of Lexeme imports in Basque and Occitan Galder Gonzalez (Theklan) et al. |
12:30-12:55 | |||||
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break | 13:00-14:30 | ||
| 14:00-14:30 | Group photo - meeting point in the backyard of the venue (access through Tesla-Foyer on ground floor) | Break | ||||||||
| 14:30-14:55 | Infodesk,
wardrobe, Coffee Posters |
Libraries meetup
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Wikidata Statistics: What, Where, and How? | Barriers to Using Wikidata as a Knowledge Base | Infoboxes panel Andrew Lih et al. |
Introduction to the Query Service | GLAM meetup | 14:30-14:55 | ||
| 15:00-15:25 | Wikidata knowledge base completion using multilingual Wikipedia fact extraction Anders Sandholm et al.
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Surviving marriage using Wikidata Nicolás Giorgetti et al. |
15:00-15:25 | |||||||
| 15:30-16:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break | 15:30-16:00 | ||||
| 16:00-16:25 | Wikicite panel Elizabeth Seiver et al. |
Analysing Translation of Wikidata Properties | Teaching SPARQL as a Foreign Language | Shape Expressions workshop EricP et al. |
Commons meetup | 16:00-16:25 | ||||
| 16:30-16:55 | Sum of All video games − 2019 edition Jean-Frédéric Berthelot et al. |
All the world’s GLAM institutions – and how we tried to find them | Cheminformatics to improve Wikidata on chemical compounds | 16:30-16:55 | ||||||
| 17:00-18:00 | Closing session | Closed | Closed | 17:00-18:00 | ||||||
| 18:30-20:00 | Dinner | Dinner | Closed | Closed | Closed | Closed | Closed | Closed | Closed | 18:00-19:00 |
| 20:00-23:00 | Venue closed - Social event at Alte Pumpe, Lützowstraße 42, 10785 Berlin | |||||||||
| Time | Arnheim-Foyer
(main hallway) |
Cafeteria (1st floor) | Kleist
(1st floor) |
Einstein
(1st floor) |
Kepler
(1st floor) |
Darwin
(workshop room, 2nd floor) |
Edison
(hacking zone, 2nd floor) |
Austen
(meetup room, 2nd floor) |
Hallway
2nd floor |
Time |
Side events
[edit]Some side events may be organized before, during or after the WikidataCon. They are not part of the conference itself, can be open to external guests and can be organized by other stakeholders. For a more detailed list, see the page side events.
| Winter time starts on October 27th! In Europe, a change from summer to standard time happens on the last week-end of October. This transition will happen during the night between Saturday, October 26th and Sunday 27th: at 03:00, the new time will be 02:00. Don't forget to take it in account! |
- Sunday, October 27th: Wikibase workshop, 10:00 to 16:30
- Sunday, October 27th: iNaturalist workshop, 9:00 to 16:30 - Etherpad
Sunday, October 27th: Visit of Berlin with a Wikimedian, 9:30 to 19:00(canceled due to illness of volunteer guide)- Monday, October 28th: Meetup with Open Knowledge Labs (open data/civic tech), 19:00 to 22:00
Other versions of the program
[edit]- Mobile app
- Json file
- Scholia on WikidataCon 2019
- Wikibase instance & query service. The prototype has been shut down at the end of November. If you have questions or want to access the data, feel free to contact its operator, Andra (andra@micel.io)