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2024:Program/Wikidata Query Service - the way forward for getting the most out of Wikimedia's knowledge graph

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Session title: Wikidata Query Service - the way forward for getting the most out of Wikimedia's knowledge graph

Session type: Lecture
Track: Open Data
Language: en

Wikidata Query Service is an integral part of Wikidata, both for editing Wikidata as well as building applications with Wikidata's data. Over the past years Wikidata has become the largest and most edited Wikimedia project. It has grown to a size that the Wikidata Query Service can not handle anymore. In this talk we will give an overview of where we are with improving the situation as well as an outlook to the future.

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Wikidata Query Service is an integral part of Wikidata, both for editing Wikidata as well as building applications with Wikidata's data. Over the past years Wikidata has become the largest and most edited Wikimedia project. It has grown to a size that the Wikidata Query Service can not handle anymore. In this talk we will give an overview of what the problems are, what we have done over the last year to address them and how we want think the future of querying Wikidata's data should look like.

Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z075DihKGPQ&t=1380

How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?

Wikidata Query Service is central to collaborating on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. It is a tool that helps editors in their day-to-day work on Wikidata but is also used to for example generate worklists for Wiki Projects like Women in Red. That makes the Wikidata Query Service an often invisible but crucial piece of infrastructure for the movement.

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

This session is for an experienced audience

Etherpad link

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WM2024_Day2_Dilijan_Room3

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Speakers

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  • Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)
Lydia Pintscher is the portfolio lead for Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland. She has been with Wikidata since its start over a decade ago. In her free time she supports the KDE community as the vice president of KDE e.V.