Wikidata / SUB Do-A-Thon

14 February 2018 SUB Zentralgebäude, Großer Seminarraum 1. OG

15 February 2018, SUB Zentralgebäude, Großer Konferenzraum 3.03 a

When?

14 February: 1 pm - 5pm

15 February: 9am - 1pm

What is this event about?

We invite you to join us for a two-day introductory event about Wikidata, a free and open knowledge base. Our aim is to bring together members from the Göttingen Campus and the Wikidata community to pilot projects that improve re-use from and contributions to Wikidata.

How does it work?

This event is organised as a do-a-thon. After a brief introduction into Wikidata, we will pitch ideas for new projects and challenges. You are free to join any team to get a project started.

We'll be using this GitHub repository for documenting and discussing ideas before, during, and after the event, both for remote participants and everyone else who is interested.

• Share a project for others to get engaged with, or a challenge using the issue tracker
• Find a project or challenge to get engaged with using the issue tracker

Anyone can propose ideas and is invited to contirbute, with or without coding or prior Wikidata experiences!

What is a do-a-thon?

Sparc Open has created a great summary of what a do-a-thon is about:

• https://github.com/sparcopen/doathon/blob/master/.github/contributing.md

In summary, do-a-thons have three main goals:

1. Focus on doing, rather than just hacking.

2. Explore problems deeply and thoughtfully.

3. Encourage collaboration across skillsets. Build solutions together.

Some background on Wikidata

• Wikidata for newbees

Meta

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Contact

Najko Jahn (najko.jahn@sub.uni-goettingen.de)