2025:Program/Adding Our World in Data (OWID) Visualizations to Wikipedia
Session title: Adding Our World in Data (OWID) Visualizations to Wikipedia
- Session type: Lecture
- Track: Open Data
- Language: en
đ„ Session recording: https://w.wiki/FC4w đ„
Will provide an overview of our most recent efforts to add high quality data visulizations to Wikipedia.
One can view these efforts in a functioning format on MDWiki.org https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:OWID#Way_3_(current_effort)
Description
We have been working on efforts to bring data visualization into Wikipedia for more than a decade. Prior efforts have run into unsurpassable blocks; however, with the support of further software engineers we have finally manage to make significant progress.
The benefit of our current approach is that it will permit translation of this material into other languages. And all the underlying data will be sourced from Commons.
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Wikimania@20 â Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
We are building the ability to port more than 14,000 interactive graphs into Wikipedia, and make them multilingual.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Resources
Speakers
- Doc James
- James M. Heilman is a Canadian emergency physician, Wikipedian, and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia's health-related content. He encourages other clinicians to contribute to the online encyclopedia.
- With the Wikipedia username Doc James, Heilman is an active contributor to WikiProject Medicine and a volunteer Wikipedia administrator. He was the president of Wikimedia Canada between 2010 and 2013, and founded and is the current president of Wiki Project Med Foundation.