Event:WikidataCon 2025/Program
Session Replays
[edit]In the table below, you will find the links to videos of the sessions on YouTube and Wikimedia Commons, once they will have been added by the organizers. Session notes are available at the event etherpad.
| Session Details | Title, description and Speakers |
|---|---|
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15min |
Opening Session - On Pretalx  Speaker: Kris Litson (WMDE) |
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15min |
What if Wikidata had a "WikiProjects" first philosophy? - On Pretalx
Interactive slides available @ Aina.li/wikidatacon2025 |
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30min |
How can we make it easy to access Wikidata's data - On Pretalx
 Speaker: Ifrahkhanyaree WMDE |
|
15min |
WikiProject Stolpersteine goes Wikidata - On Pretalx
 Speaker: Max Kristen |
|
15min |
Como: A crowdsourcing platform for Digital Humanities
 Speaker: Max Kristen |
|
30min |
Observations on Lexeme Modelling Across Languages - On Pretalx
 Speakers: Raisha Abdillah |
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30min |
Wikibase as a Data Sharing Space: Connecting Rights, Communities, and GLAM through Federated Infrastructures - On Pretalx
 Speaker: Daniel Antal |
|
30min |
Wikidata and Biodiversity: A match made for Earth - On Pretalx
 Speaker: Tiago Lubiana |
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30min |
Paulina: A cool tool for Exploring the Public Domain - On Pretalx
 Speaker: Jorge Gemetto |
|
45min |
A Call to Improve the Wikidata Ontology - On Pretalx
 Speakers: Peter Patel-Schneider, Egezort |
|
45min |
Game Time - On Pretalx
Speaker: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) |
| Session Details | Title, description and Speakers |
|---|---|
|
30min |
Robust authority control systems for Africa using Wikibase - On Pretalx
 Speakers: Nkem Osuigwe PhD, Doreen Appiah, Stanley Boakye-Achampong |
|
30min |
Wikidata and authority files: an overview - On Pretalx
.pdf/page1-250px-Wikidata_and_authority_files_(WikidataCon_2025).pdf.jpg) Speaker: Camillo Pellizzari |
|
60min |
Rewrite scholarly SPARQL queries for the graph split + Federating SPARQL involving Wikibase - On Pretalx
 Speakers: Tiago Lubiana, Daniel Mietchen -> Notes for this session <- |
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30min |
Current State of Scholia - On Pretalx
 Speakers: Daniel Mietchen, Finn Årup Nielsen, Egon Willighagen, Lane Rasberry |
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30min |
Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia: the Now and the Future - On Pretalx
 Speakers: Genoveva Galarza Heredero |
| Mapping Temples, Mapping Memory: A street-level Wikidata & Wikimedia Commons Expedition in Taiwan
Link to slides | |
|
15min |
Arabic Wikidata Days: Growing a Regional Community around Linked Open Data - On Pretalx
 Speakers: Houcemeddine Turki, Nanour Garabedian |
|
15min |
Very Small GLAM: pilot experience and current results - On Pretalx
 Speaker: Olea |
|
15min |
AletheiaFact.org - On Pretalx
 Speakers: Mateus Santos, Tamiris Volcean, Eduardo Neves |
|
45min |
Game Time - On Pretalx
Speaker: Danny Benjafield (WMDE) |
| Session Details | Title, description and Speakers |
|---|---|
|
30min English ▶️ Rewatch on YouTube |
The State of Wikidata - On Pretalx
 Speaker: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) |
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45min |
Wikidata 4 Social Good - On Pretalx
Speakers: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Jona, Jan Ainali, Mateus Santos, Friedrich Lindenberg |
|
30min |
Wikidata MCP: Exploring Wikidata with AI - On Pretalx
 Speaker: Philippe Saadé (WMDE) |
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45min |
PoliLoom: Verification-First AI for Political Data in Wikidata - On Pretalx
Speakers: Brenna Maeve, Johan Schujit |
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30min |
SmartGuide: Creating immersive personalised experiences on top of Wikidata - On Pretalx
Speaker: Jan Dolezal |
|
45min |
Mad Libs with Wikidata Lexemes and Abstract Content - On Pretalx
Speaker: Mahir Morshed |
|
15min |
Training Hearing with Lexemes - On Pretalx
 Speakers: Max Kristen, Thomas Kristen |
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15min |
Closing Session - On Pretalx
 Speaker: Danny Benjafield (WMDE) |
|
90min |
GLAM Wiki 2025: Selection of Lightning Talks - On Pretalx
Speakers: See Pretalx for details |
Pretalx offers many features, including:
- easily access the program from mobile
(enter pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/schedule in your browser) - change the display of the times to adapt to your own time zone
- mark some sessions as favorite by clicking on the start icon, and viewing your own custom schedule by clicking on the star button next to the time zone field
- export the schedule in other formats: iCal, Json, XML, etc.
Languages
[edit]English is the official language of the event, however we are assessing the possibility for providing real-time translation in a number of languages. Please check back periodically on the contribute page if you are interested in helping us translate contents (program, wikipages, session-captions).