Hello all,

We’re glad to announce that WikidataCon’s program is out https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/schedule/#! 🎉

This year, WikidataCon is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland and Wiki Movimento Brasil with “a sustainable future for Wikidata” as the main theme and is taking place online on October 29-31.

For this Friday (starting at 12:00 UTC), you can expect a program curated by the organization team https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_1_-_Main_program of the WikidataCon 2021 including discussions around decolonizing Wikidata and knowledge justice, Igbo and Abstract Wikipedia, GLAMs in Brazil, what happened around Wikidata and Wikibase, and more. We’ll also have a social space, the ceremony of the WikidataCon Community Awards https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Contribute/Community_awards and the Latin America and Caribbean scholars https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Latin_America_and_Caribbean_grants gathering.

And for the weekend (running through October 30 and 31 to accommodate various time zones), we’ll have a program built by the community https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3_-_Community_tracks in the following tracks:

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Tips & Tools -

Sister projects -

Sustainable future -

Reusable data -

GLAM -

Reimagining Wikidata from the margins -

Asia-Pacific -

Wikibase -

Education & Science -

WikiCite

A special thanks for the track curators that gathered so many people from different places to present new perspectives and share cool projects with the community! We’ll also have plenty of room for celebrating Wikidata’s 9th anniversary.

You can find the complete schedule here. https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/schedule/#2021-10-30 Small changes can still happen, as there are more than 100 sessions in the program across different time zones. Make sure to take a look at the schedule in advance so you don’t miss your favorite ones.

Important: WikidataCon will take place in a virtual conference space - don’t forget to register here https://pretix.eu/WDCon21/WDCon21/ to have access to the conference platform, attend the sessions and interact with participants!

Thanks for reading this update. Hope you’re as excited as we are for WikidataCon this year! You can find out more about the WikidataCon on this page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021, and read the previous updates on the talk page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2021. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out to us by leaving a comment below or contacting info{{@}}wikidatacon.org.

On behalf of the organization team,

*Érica Azzellini | User:EAzzellini (WMB)* *Communications Manager | **Wiki Movimento Brasil* *wmnobrasil.org http://wmnobrasil.org/*