Hey all,
We have some important news to share on behalf of the WikiCite organizers.
First off–in case you missed it–we released our annual report
<https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5648233> last week, and it's been
getting a lot of traction
<https://twitter.com/Wikicite/status/938778592653332480>.
So much has happened over the past 12 months: interest in creating a
collaborative knowledge base of sources to support free knowledge is
growing among libraries, linked data organizations, tool developers, and
many groups in the Wikimedia movement. New contributors and organizations,
that were not part of this community these past 2 years, are now joining us
and we need to make sure WikiCite remains sustainable in years to come.
For this reason, we're working with our funders to ensure the next cycle of
WikiCite events is well supported. We have decided to move our main annual
event <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018> from the spring to
the *fall of 2018*, in order to concentrate our efforts on fundraising and
creating a long term strategic plan.
Ahead of WikiCite 2018, we'll be supporting local events to continue to
grow the community. We'll be present at the *Wikimedia Hackathon* in
Barcelona. We will submit a session proposal to *Wikimania 2018*, and we'll
attend other events of interest to the movement. If you know of any
satellite session or event where WikiCite should have a presence, please let
us know <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/News>.
Should you have any questions for the organizing committee, you can get in
touch at wikicite(a)wikimedia.org.
Best,
Dario and Sarah
We just published the WikiCite 2017 annual report, giving a comprehensive – while definitely not complete – overview of what the community has achieved in the past 12 months in building a structured repository of sources in Wikidata.
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5648233https://twitter.com/wikicite/status/938778592653332480
Thanks to everyone who contributed, to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Science Sandbox initiative at the Simons Foundation for their generous support, and everyone at Wikimedia Austria and WMF who helped getting this off the ground.
We’ll be posting soon an update about our plans for 2018. Stay tuned!
Dario, on behalf of the WikiCite organizers.