2023:Program/Open Data/WJSMEA-Integrating Our World in Data into Mediawiki
Title: Integrating Our World in Data into Mediawiki
Speakers:
Galder Gonzalez
Wikimedian since 2006, member of the Basque Wikimedians User Group and currently working as a staff member in projects and education.
James Heilman
James Heilman is an ER physician and long time Wikipedian. He is a founder and the current chair of Wiki Project Med Foundation.
Tim Moody
Member of WikiProjectMed Volunteer on Internet in a Box
Room: Room 311
Start time: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:25:00 +0800
End time: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:45:00 +0800
Type: Lecture
Track: Open Data
Submission state: confirmed
Duration: 20 minutes
Do not record: false
Presentation language: en
Abstract & description
[edit source]Abstract
[edit source]Our World in Data does amazing work around data visualization. This will be a look at a multi year effort to integrate this material into Mediawiki and by extension Wikipedia. And future improvements we hope to make.
Description
[edit source]Tools for data visualization within Wikipedia are currently limited. This talk will look at efforts to leverage work by Our World in Data and integrate their interactive graphs within the Mediawiki environment.
Currently we have a mirror running on WMF servers and the graphs live on MDWiki, an example of which can be seen here https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Asthma#Epidemiology
There is consensus to add these graphs to Basque Wikipedia. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303853 There are still a few technical hurdles before this can be realized.
Further details
[edit source]Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?
This effort is a collaboration between Wiki Project Med Foundation, OWID, and Basque Wikipedia.
Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?