Hey all,

Wikimedia Deutschland and the Wikimedia Foundation hosted the WikiCite https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016 event in Berlin last week, bringing together a large group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016#Participant_list of Wikidatans, Wikipedians, librarians, developers and researchers from all over the world.

The event built a lot of momentum around the definition of data models, workflows and technology needed to better represent source and citation data from Wikimedia projects, Wikidata in particular.

While we're still drafting a human-readable report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Report, I thought I'd share a preview of the notes from the various workgroups, to give you a sense of what we worked on and to let everyone join the discussion: Main workgroups Modeling bibliographic source metadata https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_1

Discuss and draft data models to represent different types of sources as Wikidata items Reference extraction and metadata lookup tools https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_2

Design or improve tools to extract identifiers and bibliographic data from Wikipedia citation templates, look up and retrieve metadata Representing citations and citation events https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_3

Discuss how to express the citation of a source in a Wikimedia artifact (such as a Wikipedia article, a Wikidata statements etc.) and review alternative ways to represent them (Semi-)automated ways to add references to Wikidata statements https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_4

Improve tools for semi-automated statement and reference creation (StrepHit, ContentMine) Use cases for source-related queries https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_5

Identify use cases for SPARQL queries involving source metadata. Obtain a small open licensed bibliographic and citation graph dataset to build a proof-of-concept of the querying and visualization potential of source metadata in Wikidata. Additional workgroups Wikidata as the central hub on license information on databases https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_6

Add license information to Wikidata to make Wikidata the central hub on license information on databases Using citations and bibliographic source metadata https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_7

Merge groups working on citation structure and source metadata models and integrate their recommendations Citoid-Wikidata integration https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_8

Extend Citoid to write source metadata into Wikidata

We're opening up the wikicite-discuss@wikimedia.org mailing list to anyone interested in interacting with the participants in the event (we encouraged them to use the official wikidata list for anything of interest to the broader community). Phabricator also has a dedicated tag https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikicite/ for related initiatives.

The event was generously funded https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016#Funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Crossref. We'll be exploring the feasibility of a follow-up event in the next 6-12 months to continue the work we started in Berlin and bring in more people than we could host due to funding/capacity.

Best,

Dario on behalf of the organizers