Submissions:2019/Limits of Wikidata

This session is part of the WikiCite track.

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This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2019.

Etherpad

Title:

Limits of Wikidata

Theme:

Reliability of Information
+ Relationship Building & Support
+ Inclusion and Diversity
+ Editor Recruitment & Retention
+ Tech & Tools
+ Harassment Civility & Safety
+ Other

Type of session:

Workshop

Abstract:

Wikidata is one of the most active Wikimedia projects, and growing both with the other Wikimedia projects and independently of them.

In this session, we would like to zoom in on what is known or could be extrapolated about the limits of Wikidata both today and about a decade into the future.

The session will be hands-on, building on documentation started by WikiProject Limits of Wikidata. It will cover aspects such as design, content, infrastructure and communities within and around Wikidata, with special attention to areas that are very prominent already (e.g. WikiCite), have the potential to become very prominent (e.g. lexemes and forms) or that are not very prominent yet (e.g. oral citations or underserved languages).

Academic Peer Review option:

No

Author name:

Daniel Mietchen

E-mail address:

daniel.mietchenvirginia.edu

Wikimedia username:

Daniel Mietchen

Affiliated organization(s):

WikiCite; University of Virginia

Estimated time:

75 min

Preferred room size:

20-30

Special requests:

Support for remote participation; slot early in the program, so other sessions can build on it

Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:

no

If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session)

Yes