WikiCite 2017

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WikiCite 2017 was a 3-day conference, summit and hack day hosted in Vienna, Austria, on May 23-25, 2017. It expanded efforts started with WikiCite 2016 to design a central bibliographic repository, as well as tools and strategies to improve information quality and verifiability in Wikimedia projects. We brought together Wikimedia contributors, data modelers, information and library science experts, software engineers, designers and academic researchers who have experience working with Wikipedia's citations and bibliographic data.

Program

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(Check out the complete program)

22 May 2017: Travel day, attendees arrive in Vienna
23 May 2017: Day 1. (Conference) – present progress on existing work and initiatives for citations and bibliographic data across Wikimedia projects
24 May 2017: Day 2. (Summit) – discuss technical, social, outreach and policy directions
25 May 2017: Day 3. (Hack) – get together to build, based on new ideas and applications
26 May 2017: Travel day, attendees leave

Attendees

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This is the final list of participants, as of May 1, 2017 (see also this list of Twitter handles)

Organizations

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The list of organizations and projects WikiCite 2017 participants are affiliated with includes:

Aarhus University
American Physical Society
American University
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Bruno Kessler Foundation
Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University
Columbia University Libraries
Collaborative Knowledge Foundation
ContentMine
Crossref
Dissemin
Drexel University
eLife Sciences
Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
German National Library of Economics (ZBW)
Genewiki
Google
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Haifa University
Harvard University
Hatnote
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis University Library
Internet Archive
Inventaire.io
Knowledge Lab, University of Chicago
Leeds University
L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover
Mannheim University Library
Micelio
MIT Libraries
OCLC
Ontotext Corp
Open Foundation West Africa
Open Knowledge Austria
Open Knowledge Maps
OpenCitations
ORCID
Plazi
Politecnico di Milano (DensityDesign Lab.)
Public libraries network of Romagna (Rete Bibliotecaria di Romagna e San Marino)
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Schloss Dagstuhl LZI, dblp computer science bibliography
Simons Foundation
Studio Calibro
Technical University of Denmark
The Library.Link Network
University of Bologna
University of Bonn
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Leeds
University of Oxford
University of Tsukuba
University of Würzburg
University of Zaragoza
Wikimedia Argentina
Wikimedia Australia
Wikimedia Deutschland
Wikimedia District of Columbia
Wikimedia España
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Italia
Wikisource Community User Group
Yale University Library

Attending the event

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WikiCite is a hands-on event. These are examples of skills we looked for:

I am a regular Wikipedia contributor
I have contributed data, data models, or new property proposals to Wikidata
I am a regular contributor to other Wikimedia projects
I write code and web applications
I have experience with SPARQL
I have experience writing bots / automated agents
I have experience writing text and markup parsers
I have worked with tools and applications for citations
I have written tools to extract or analyze citations
I have translated technical documentation
I have experience visualizing data
I have experience with bibliographic / citation standards and data models
I work for an organization that will directly benefit from these efforts

These are examples of contributions we expected from participants:

defining a technical roadmap / strategic directions for efforts focused on citations and source metadata
mapping Wikimedia source metadata and Wikidata properties to existing bibliographic data models
designing, product managing or developing tools/software
conducting research and data analysis on citation and bibliographic data in Wikimedia projects
performing user testing and/or writing documentation
review existing quality control mechanisms
organizing community outreach and engagement within Wikimedia communities

Important dates

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February 9, 2017: applications open
February 27, 2017: applications close, waitlist opens
March 10, 2017: all final notifications of acceptance are issued, waitlist processing begins
March 31, 2017: attendee list is finalized

Venue

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WikiCite '17 was held at JUFA Wien City Hotel in Vienna, Austria.

JUFA Wien City Hotel

on OpenStreetMap

Mautner-Markhof-Gasse 50, 1100 Wien

Nearest underground station: Enkplatz

of line U3

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 was held at the same location on May 19-21.

Funding

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WikiCite '17 was hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation and logistically supported by Wikimedia Austria. The event was generously supported by:

the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative.

These restricted gifts to cover the cost of the event, and related development and outreach activities, were approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.