2023:Program/Submissions/Let's get closer - Wikidata and the Wikimedia projects - FPMTRU

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Title: Let's get closer - Wikidata and the Wikimedia projects

Speakers:

Mohammed Sadat Abdulai (User:Masssly)

I’m a Ghanaian Wikidata enthusiast, and Wikimedia community member since 2011. I started the Dagbani Wikipedia project and worked as Art+Feminism co-lead in the past. I’m currently a member of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter editorial team, and in my professional capacity I work as Community Communications Manager for Wikidata.

Lydia Pintscher

Lydia Pintscher is the portfolio lead for Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland. She has been with Wikidata since its start over a decade ago.

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Type: Roundtable / open discussion

Track: Open Data

Submission state: submitted

Duration: 90 minutes

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Presentation language: en

Abstract & description

Abstract

One of Wikidata's primary goals is to support the other Wikimedia projects by providing structured data in a central place. Let's talk about how we can increase the connection between the projects for everyone's benefit.

Description

One of Wikidata's primary goals is to support the other Wikimedia projects by providing structured data in a central place. Today a lot of projects already make extensive use of data from Wikidata and Wikidata benefits from contributions by editors from the other Wikimedia projects. There are however still barriers to much wider use of Wikidata's data inside Wikimedia. In this roundtable we want to talk about what needs to happen to make sure that more and more editors can rely on Wikidata to reduce their workload and improve the content in their projects.

Further details

Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?

Wikidata is a vital tool for collaborating on content across project and language boundaries in our movement. We need to increase this collaboration.

Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Average knowledge about Wikimedia projects or activities

Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?

• Onsite in Singapore
• Remote online participation, livestreamed
• Remote from a satellite event
• Hybrid with some participants in Singapore and others dialing in remotely
• Pre-recorded and available on demand