Hi Folks,
We encourage each and everyone of you to create a program submission. You can submit an interactive workshop or panel, a lecture, a short lighting talk or a poster for our dedicated poster session. Submissions are catered to both onsite and online (live or pre-recorded) or a hybrid combination. We at the Core Organizing Team would like to see a program submission related to projects and initiatives in adding, validating citations on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.
The theme for this year's Wikimania is Diversity, Collaboration, Future. Topics that strengthen collaboration and campaigns are topics we like to see this year such as workshop on citation tools, demonstration of an automation processes, panels on reliable sources and many others. We also secured partnership with the National Library of Singapore and we see this an opportunity for Wikimedians to also do citation contests, showcase and interact with cultural institutions in Singapore.
For participants joining virtually, we also have allocated online hours for you too to allow you to participate & present.
Session submissions for Wikimania 2023 are open until 28 March.
Visit the following links for further info:
Wiki page: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions
Diff post: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/28/be-part-of-the-wikimania-2023-program/
Program Submission Form: https://pretalx.com/wm2023/cfp
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
Chair, Program Subcommittee
Event lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
Hello!
The Wikimedia Developer Summit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit> is the annual
meeting to push the evolution of MediaWiki and other technologies
supporting the Wikimedia movement. The next edition will be held in San
Francisco on January 9-11, 2017.
We welcome all Wikimedia technical contributors, third party developers,
and users of MediaWiki and the Wikimedia APIs. We specifically want to
increase the participation of volunteer developers and other contributors
dealing with extensions, apps, tools, bots, gadgets, and templates.
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- Monday, October 24: This is the last day to request travel
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Srishti
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Srishti Sethi
ssethi(a)wikimedia.org
Hi!
Just today my pull request was merged in which allows wider set of OAuth
libraries to authenticate against Wikipedia/Wikidata. This means it is
possible to easier develop nice interfaces around Wikidata. For example,
interfaces which allow better managing of bibliographic data.
One such project is bib2wikidata:
https://github.com/mitar/bib2wikidata
The idea is simple: you copy-paste on the left side bibliographic entries
in in preferably any format, we detect the format, parse it, display on the
right side the parsed structure. You can then verify and if you want to
change something, you edit the left side in your native format you pasted
in. Once you are satisfied with the right side, you press import and it
goes to Wikidata.
This is the idea. It is not yet developed. (I got stuck because of the
OAuth limitations.)
Also we had a hackathon a month ago in SF on creating schema then for
Wikidata. You can see report here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Bibliogr…
So this is then how we would map bibliographic data to Wikidata entries.
If anyone is interested in helping here, that would be great. For example,
we need now some JavaScript code which would take text as input and display
it mapped into those fields we will send to Wikidata. We can start with one
input format, but it would be good to support multiple in the future.
Mitar
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