Oh. My. God. I love this. I'll be sure to attend, no matter what. This is a great idea!
L. 2015-06-10 13:10 GMT+02:00 James Heald <[email protected]>: > Further to what Lydia has written, I have also had a session proposal > accepted for Wikimania: > > https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Building_up_Wikidata,_country_by_country > > > Per the current schedule, it looks as if there is going to be a "Wikidata > morning" on Saturday in Room D: > > > 10 am -- Lydia > "State of Wikidata - giving more people more access to more knowledge > one edit at a time" > > (10:30 coffee break) > > 11:00 am -- panel, led by Lydia > "Ask Us Anything About Wikidata" > > All your questions about Wikidata will be answered. Editors and the > development team will be around to answer your most pressing questions about > Wikidata. > > > 11:30 am -- panel > "Building up Wikidata, country by country" > > What can national chapters and local Wiki-projects do to build up > Wikidata? > > This session will ask a panel from different countries what works to > build up awareness and skills, and how to deepen the quality of Wikidata's > coverage of a particular part of the world -- its people, places, history, > events, organisations, culture, and every other related thing that ought to > have a detailed comprehensive Wikidata item. > > * What face-to-face events work, to build up knowledge and an active > community? > * How to assess current coverage, identify priority areas, and help > groups to self-organise to improve them? > * Are there special 'tentpole' projects the country has identified -- > eg highlight focus areas, or particularly good data sources to align or > assimilate? > * What are the best tools and workflows to get things done? > > > (12:30 lunch) > > > I should stress that I proposed this session because these are questions > that I would really like to hear some thought about -- not because they're > questions I think I have any answers to! > > I had hoped we might have been able to build up some experience in the UK, > as to how to build up community structures to help editors to work on things > -- but it hasn't really gone forward here. > > On the other hand, I have been hugely impressed by some of the initiatives > that Dutch-language Wikipedia seems to have taken, that people have > mentioned in the last few weeks, to get people to make sure articles they > have worked on on nl-wiki are properly described on Wikidata; and also what > seems to have been quite an active and successful community engagement > programme by Wikimedia France. > > I'm sure there are a lot of other good tales to tell from other > countries/languages as well. > > So it would be great to have an idea of who might be likely to be going to > be at Wikimania in Mexico who could take part in this workshop/panel, and > present some of the things that have been going on -- and also (whether > you're going to be in Mexico or not), what other tales are there, from > different countries, that people should hear about ? > > > (for one thing, something I don't know, do we even know what information has > been harvested from Wikipedia categories for people/places/things/events > related to a particular country? And how comprehensive that harvesting has > been?) > > This session will only be as good as the community can make it, so it would > be really good to know what ought to be in it. > > > All best, > > James. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
