Further to what Lydia has written, I have also had a session proposal
accepted for Wikimania:

https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Building_up_Wikidata,_country_by_country


Per the current schedule, it looks as if there is going to be a
"Wikidata morning" on Saturday in Room D:


10 am -- Lydia
     "State of Wikidata - giving more people more access to more
knowledge one edit at a time"

(10:30 coffee break)

11:00 am -- panel, led by Lydia
     "Ask Us Anything About Wikidata"

      All your questions about Wikidata will be answered. Editors and
the development team will be around to answer your most pressing
questions about Wikidata.


11:30 am -- panel
     "Building up Wikidata, country by country"

      What can national chapters and local Wiki-projects do to build up
Wikidata?

      This session will ask a panel from different countries what works
to build up awareness and skills, and how to deepen the quality of
Wikidata's coverage of a particular part of the world -- its people,
places, history, events, organisations, culture, and every other related
thing that ought to have a detailed comprehensive Wikidata item.

      *  What face-to-face events work, to build up knowledge and an
active community?
      *  How to assess current coverage, identify priority areas, and
help groups to self-organise to improve them?
      *  Are there special 'tentpole' projects the country has
identified -- eg highlight focus areas, or particularly good data
sources to align or assimilate?
      *  What are the best tools and workflows to get things done?


(12:30 lunch)


I should stress that I proposed this session because these are questions
that I would really like to hear some thought about -- not because
they're questions I think I have any answers to!

I had hoped we might have been able to build up some experience in the
UK, as to how to build up community structures to help editors to work
on things -- but it hasn't really gone forward here.

On the other hand, I have been hugely impressed by some of the
initiatives that Dutch-language Wikipedia seems to have taken, that
people have mentioned in the last few weeks, to get people to make sure
articles they have worked on on nl-wiki are properly described on
Wikidata; and also what seems to have been quite an active and
successful community engagement programme by Wikimedia France.

I'm sure there are a lot of other good tales to tell from other
countries/languages as well.

So it would be great to have an idea of who might be likely to be going
to be at Wikimania in Mexico who could take part in this workshop/panel,
and present some of the things that have been going on -- and also
(whether you're going to be in Mexico or not), what other tales are
there, from different countries, that people should hear about ?


(for one thing, something I don't know, do we even know what information
has been harvested from Wikipedia categories for
people/places/things/events related to a particular country?  And how
comprehensive that harvesting has been?)

This session will only be as good as the community can make it, so it
would be really good to know what ought to be in it.


All best,

    James.




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