2023:Program/Wikidata

Here's the page to gather discussions and submissions about Wikidata at Wikimania 2023. The full program is available 2023:Program. An interactive version is available on Eventyay, where you can add sessions to your personal calendar and see more info about speakers.

360 View of Rooms : 307 | 308 | 309 | 310 | 311 | 324 | 325 | 326

Tuesday, August 15, Pre-conference workshops, no live streaming

No livestream out to virtual event platform. Speakers can still dial-in to present remotely.

Room 324

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
10:00	11:00	2:00	3:00	Wikidata Basics: A Workshop for Beginners	Asaf Bartov (WMF)	Basic Workshops	en
11:15	12:45	3:15	4:45	SPARQL: access and analyze data from Wikidata	Asaf Bartov (WMF)	Basic Workshops	en
13:45	14:45	5:45	6:45	Introduction to Open Data: Tools and Techniques for Data Sharing and Collaboration	Joris Darlington Quarshie	Open Data	en
14:45	15:45	6:45	7:45	Creating a Lexeme Database from Scratch	Leon Liesener	Open Data	en
15:45	16:30	7:45	8:30	Using Wikibase and Wikidata for Community Archives	My Community	Open Data	en
17:00	18:00	9:00	10:00	Data use and reuse: Unlocking the Potential of Frictionless Data for Wikidata	Open Knowledge Foundation, Nikesh Balami, Shashi Gharti	Technology	en

Wednesday, August 16

Room 324

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
14:15	16:30	6:15	8:30	How not to lose a volunteer after the first edit: volunteer retention strategies	LetsConnect Working group, Leadership Development Working Group	Community Initatives	en

Thursday, August 17

Plenary Hall, Halls 401/402

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
12:15	12:45	4:15	4:45	State of machine learning on the Wikimedia projects	Santhosh Thottingal	Technology	en
14:15	14:55	6:15	6:55	OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia: Awesome Together!	Eugene Alvin Villar (seav), Dennis Raylin Chen	Open Data	en
14:55	15:15	6:55	7:15	Giving Contexts to Places We Love - The Power of OpenStreetMap and Wikidata	James Amattey	Open Data	en

Room 309

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
10:00	11:00	2:00	3:00	AI advancements and the Wikimedia projects	Maryana Pinchuk, Lydia Pintscher, Shaun Spalding, Leila Zia	Technology	en
11:55	12:15	3:55	4:15	Intensive Wikidata usage in Wikivoyage - problems, experiences, wishes	DerFussi	Technology	en
15:30	16:30	7:30	8:30	Wikifunctions is here	James Forrester & Denny Vrandečić	Technology	en
17:00	18:00	9:00	10:00	Event Organizer Tools Meetup

Room 310

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
14:45	15:15	6:45	3:15	WikiCite and Scholia for medicine and beyond	Lane Rasberry	Research, Science and Medicine	en
15:30	16:30	7:30	8:30	Let us upgrade medical practice with Wikidata	Houcemeddine Turki, Daniel Mietchen, James Heilman, Mossab Banat	Research, Science and Medicine	en

Room 311

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
10:40	11:00	2:40	3:00	Teaching with Wikidata: A Resource for Educators and Students	Carla Toro	Education	en
11:15	12:15	3:15	3:15	Secrets of effective editing workshops	antanana	Education	en
12:15	12:45	3:15	3:45	WikiLearn: a learning and training space for the Wikimedia movement	Asaf Bartov (WMF)	Education	en
16:00	16:30	8:00	8:30	IP Masking: Big Change to Protect Editor Privacy	Niharika Kohli, Madi Moss	Legal, Advocacy and Risks	en

Room 325

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
10:20	10:40	2:20	2:40	From cross-linking multilingual articles to database entries, how does Wikidata link to the whole world's knowledge - Taiwan Experience	Dennis Raylin Chen	ESEAP (East, South East Asia, and the Pacific) Region	en
10:40	11:00	2:40	3:00	"臺灣 GLAM 的 Wikidata 回顧與展望：以李梅樹紀念館與新樂園藝術空間為例"	Allen Wang	ESEAP (East, South East Asia, and the Pacific) Region	zh-hant

Room 326

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
10:00	11:00	2:00	3:00	Lessons from the Organizer Lab? How should we train the next generation of campaign organizers in the Wikimedia Movement	Alex Stinson	Community Initiatives	en
11:15	11:35	3:15	3:35	Empowering Participation: A User-Centered Approach to Low-Stakes Edit-a-thons	Michelle Chin	Community Initiatives	en
15:30	16:15	7:30	8:15	The effects of IP address range blocking on contribution to the free knowledge	Tochi Precious, Antoni Mtavangu, Bobby Shabangu	Equity and Community Health	en

Friday, August 18

Plenary Hall, Halls 401/402

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
18:00	18:05	10:00	10:05	Lightning Talk Showcase on Linked Open Data, Research, Science and Medicine	Annie Rauwerda
18:15	18:20	10:15	10:20	Another year for Partnering Up for Wikidata! Collaborations for Wikidata Software Development	Maria Heuschkel	Open Data	en
18:20	18:25	10:20	10:25	PopulationFromWikidata' module for place articles	Maia Williams	Open Data	en
18:25	18:30	10:25	10:30	Lightning Talk Showcase on Linked Open Data, and Wild Ideas	Wojciech Pędzich
18:30	18:35	10:30	10:35	Wikidata Software Collaboration project, first year retrospective from Wikimedia Indonesia	Raisha Abdillah	Open Data	en

Room 309

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
11:45	12:45	3:45	4:45	Modelling, mapping and bridging knowledge gaps in gender and diversity	Netha Hussain, Galder Gonzalez, Daniele Metilli, Chiara Paolini, Masana Mulaudzi	Equity and Community Health	en
15:30	16:00	7:30	8:00	Wikispecies and Wikidata: Where next?	Andy Mabbett	Open Data	en
16:15	16:30	8:15	8:30	It's on Meta, but discoverable – organizational knowledge in a structured form	Tore Danielsson, Alicia Fagerving	Open Data	en

Room 310

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
16:10	16:30	8:10	8:30	Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory	Jan Ainali, Abbe98	Open Data	en

Room 311

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
10:20	11:00	2:20	3:00	Co-creating platforms and products: how the Wikimedia Cloud Services team works with the larger Wikimedia technical community to build and maintain Cloud VPS, Toolforge, Quarry, PAWS, and more	Bryan Davis, Andrew Bogott, Taavi Väänänen, YiFei Zhu	Technology	en
16:00	16:30	8:00	8:30	Empowering Wikidata and Wikipedia with Generative AI: Unlocking the Potential of Scholarly Publications	Houcemeddine Turki	Technology	en

Room 324

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
10:30	11:00	2:30	3:00	What I've learned from my 5-years PhD journey: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform	Shani Evenstein Sigalov	Research, Science and Medicine	en
14:35	14:55	6:35	6:55	A Nation's Dissertations: The New Zealand Thesis Project	DrThneed/Tamsin Braisher	ESEAP (East, South East Asia, and the Pacific) Region	en

Room 325

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
11:15	11:35	3:15	3:35	Internet Archive: The Annual Wikimania Update	Mark Graham	GLAM, Heritage and Culture	en
11:35	11:55	3:35	3:55	100,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects: A new strategy to activate in a simple way all the institutions around the world	Iolanda Pensa	GLAM, Heritage and Culture	en
15:30	15:50	7:30	7:50	Engaging With Underrepresented Languages	Dnshitobu, Goodness Ignatius	Equity and Community Health	en

Room 326

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
10:10	10:30	2:10	2:30	The whole GLAM package: a workflow for turning the richness of GLAM knowledge and collections into great wiki contribution	Heidi Meudt (Stitchbird2), Lucy Schrader	ESEAP (East, South East Asia, and the Pacific) Region	en
14:15	14:45	6:15	6:45	Scaling Wikidata Query Service - unlimited access to all the world’s knowledge for everyone is hard	Lydia Pintscher	Open Data	en
14:45	15:15	6:45	7:15	Attributing the sum of all human knowledge: WikiCite discussion	Phoebe Ayers	Open Data	en
15:50	16:20	7:50	8:20	Wikidata for Education	Dnshitobu	Education	en

Room 307 (No livestreaming, No cameras)

No livestream out to virtual event platform, no recording. Speakers can still dial-in to present remotely.

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
11:45	12:45	3:45	4:45	Let’s get closer - Let us show you how you can already benefit from Wikidata in your Wikimedia project and chat about how to make it even better	Lydia Pintscher, chukwuahachie Sylvester, Alan Ang	Open Data	en
15:30	15:50	7:30	7:50	wikidata for Korean Qitems	Margaret Donald	ESEAP (East, South East Asia, and the Pacific) Region	en

Saturday, August 19

Plenary Hall, Halls 401/402

Room 309

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
10:00	10:30	2:00	2:30	Duplicating Everywhere All at Once	Alex Lum / Canley	Open Data	en
10:45	11:00	2:45	3:00	semanticClimate: Making climate knowledge accessible using Wikidata	Shweata N. Hegde	Open Data	en
15:30	16:30	7:30	8:30	10 Research Findings and How You Can Use Them in Your Work	Leila Zia	Research, Science and Medicine	en

Room 310

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
10:00	10:30	2:00	2:30	What we can learn from large commercial users	Liam Wyatt, Lane Becker	Technology	en
10:30	11:00	2:30	3:00	Lift Wing: WMF's machine learning model serving infrastructure	Wikimedia Machine Learning Team	Technology	en
11:15	12:00	3:15	4:00	The Future of the Wishlist Survey	Runa Bhattacharjee, Sam Wilson, Natalia Rodriguez	Technology	en
12:00	12:45	4:00	4:45	Structured Data Across Wikimedia: Successes and Learnings	Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF), Flavia Doria, Carly Bogen, Marco Fossati, Sofia Matias	Technology	en
14:15	14:55	6:15	6:55	Wiki Loves SDC – making cultural heritage photos more accessible together	Alicia Fagerving	GLAM, Heritage and Culture	en

Room 311

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
14:15	14:25	6:15	6:25	Reusing Open Data from various sources to assess gender inequality: from street and school eponyms, to researchers and research	quelet	Open Data	en
14:45	15:15	6:45	7:15	Data Partnerships and the Future of Linked Open Data	Kris Litson, Alan Ang	Open Data	en

Room 324

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
12:00	12:45	4:00	5:45	The challenges of volunteer committees in the movement	Ivan Martinez	Equity and Community Health	en
15:50	16:30	7:50	8:30	Livestreaming editing	Jan Ainali	Community Initatives	en

Room 308 (Tools Lab/ Hacking Space, No livestreaming, No cameras)

No livestream out to virtual event platform, no recording. Speakers can still dial-in to present remotely.

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
15:30	15:45	7:30	7:45	The Impact of Wikidata-powered Infoboxes on Minority and Low-resourced Language Wikipedias in Africa	Sadik Shahadu	Open Data	en
15:45	16:00	7:45	8:00	Biodiversity in underrepresented languages using crowdsourcing	Dnshitobu, AgnesAbah	Open Data	en
16:00	16:30	8:00	8:30	Wikidata pink pony session	Lydia Pintscher, Alan Ang	Open Data	en

Post-conference (National Library)

Venue will be at the Imagination Room, National Library of Singapore (Lee Kong Chian Reference Library) on August 20. This is not live streamed and a separate registration was done.

Start time	End time	Start time in UTC	End time in UTC	Session Title	Presenter(s)	Track	Language
14:00	14:30	6:00	6:30	Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata: A Semantic Web Approach to Information Discovery	Omorodion Okuonghae	Libraries	en
14:30	15:30	6:30	7:30	Connecting National Library Board Metadata	DrThneed/Tamsin Braisher, Pru Mitchell	Libraries	en
15:45	16:05	7:45	8:05	When African Librarians met Wikidata	Alice Kibombo-Ekanya, Nkem Osuigwe PhD, Human Capacity Development & Training (Director), AfLIA	Libraries	en