This presentation was used as part of a lightning talk at Wikicite 2017 promoting the plan by the WMDE community tech team to implement an extends attribute for the ref tag in wikitext.
The aim of the presentation was to prompt questions and discussion.
The Open Data Weekend was fringe event to the Wikimania conference this year. It took place in Frobisher Room One at The Barbican Centre in London on the 5 & 6th of July and was well attended.
The weekend included:
Discussion about how open data, specifically Wikidata, is helping the Wikimedia movement as a whole covering its current integration with sister projects such as Wikipedia and Wikisource as well as future integration with these as well as Wikimedia Commons.
A general discussion on open data and the philosophy and the Semantic Web technologies.
Exploring various tools and applications that run and depend on the data stored within Wikidata and Wikimedia projects.
Unfortunately I am writing this post in 2015 and various details have fallen out of my mind… Luckily there is an EtherPad that contains lots of notes!
Spaghetti Open Data is made up of a group of Italian citizens interested in the release of public data in open formats, in order to make it easy to access and reuse.
Starting in 2010 they have had yearly conferences.
I was lucky enough to be invited to their conference this year (SOD14) as the keynote speaker talking about Wikidata, paid for by Wikimedia Italy.
I attended representing the Wikidata API. Also in attendance wereAxel Springer, storyful, Der Spiegel, sanoma, watchmi, Getty Images and embed.ly. It was in a great location, the food and rinks were great and it was generally well planned by the organizes and a pretty competitive crowd turned up.
At noon on the following day all hacks were presented to the API partners and all other attendees. The ‘News sightseeing’ hack was awarded a swag pack from Wikidata for making the best use of the API. They were also awarded the Axel Springer iPool and Getty Images prizes.
Firstly it is important to say that at the time of the hackathon Wikidata didn’t really provide any good way to query the data it help, simply retrieve it, but luckily there was a query tool available that is currently located at https://wdq.wmflabs.org.
Initially the code uses the 3rd party query tool to find a list of items matching the criteria in the query, the current query in an editor can be seen here(Service now offline, text link included below) or in the image below. The criteria basically look for items in Munich that are NOT roads but do have images and coordinate locations.
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