Hello all, [sorry for cross-posting!]
The first international conference dedicated to the Wikidata community took place in Berlin, in October 2017. The organizing team is very happy to share with you the report of this event: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMDE/WikidataCon/Report
In this document, we share a brief overview of the conference, its program and outcomes, our lessons learned, and we focus on two topics that we found really important for the organization of such an event: inclusiveness and documentation.
We hope that you enjoy reading this document as much as we enjoyed preparing it.
You may wonder now, what are the next steps for WikidataCon? As announced at the end of the 2017 edition, *WikidataCon will return in October 2019*, scaled up and improved to welcome even more Wikidata enthusiasts to share knowledge and appreciation.
In 2018, we encourage the local communities who would like to spread the word about Wikidata to organize their own event for the *6th birthday of Wikidata*. We would love to see a multilingual, multicultural, decentralized but connected event happening all around the world for this occasion. Each local group, chapter or individual willing to organize something can already write about their project on this page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday You will also find some examples of event formats, documentation about how to organize a Wikidata workshop, and how to request funding. Wikimedia Deutschland will take care of the overall communication, and some logistical support.
We’re very excited about celebrating a new year of Wikidata all around the world!
If you have any question or idea, feel free to reach out to me.
For the WikidataCon organizing team,