A reminder: This showcase is happening now. Join us if you have time or watch it later: YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-ULyARpU4
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 7:01 AM Emily Lescak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at > 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. Find your local time here > <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1666197004>. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-ULyARpU4 > > Members of the Research team will collect questions on IRC at > #wikimedia-research and YouTube. > > This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating > Wikidata's 10th birthday! > > October 2022 marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of Wikidata ( > www.wikidata.org). In ten years, this project has become the largest > community-driven free knowledge graph in the world, enabling a common > knowledge base for Wikimedia projects. The language-independent nature of > Wikidata has greatly improved the maintenance and consistency of knowledge > across Wikipedia language editions, fostering knowledge equity in > Wikimedia. In addition, since Wikidata is a collaborative project that can > be read and edited by humans and machines alike, it is also widely used in > third-party applications delivering knowledge as a service for all. The > Wikimedia Research community has devoted significant effort and resources > in studying the foundations, capabilities and applications of Wikidata, > from the complex requirements of representing real-world knowledge in a > multilingual environment to the needs to assess the quality of data and > sources in Wikidata. To learn more about the state of the art of Wikidata > and research challenges in the era of AI/ML, we will celebrate this tenth > anniversary with a panel that will bring together established > researchers/practitioners in this field. > > The panel will be moderated by Denny Vrandečić (WMF) with panelists Lydia > Pintscher (WMDE), Elena Simperl (King's College London), Katherine Thornton > (Yale), and Markus Krötzsch (Technical University of Dresden). > > You can also watch our past research showcases here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase > > We hope you can join us! > > Warm regards, > > Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research team > > -- > Emily Lescak (she / her) > Senior Research Community Officer > The Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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