WikiCite 2017 was a 3-day conference, summit and hack
day hosted in Vienna, Austria, on May 23-25, 2017. It expands 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. Its goal is to bring 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.
Talk Notes:
300 new properties, and an extra million items, in the last year.
Other projects using Wikibase:
Many items still have no statements, but fewer over time.
“ecosystem where editable open data happens”, not just Wikidata
most common data types: external identifiers and item links
Current numbers: 25M items, 3475 properties, 5.8 statements per item; 7.07 million SPARQL requests per day.
@WikidataFacts: interesting and crazy queries
Priorities:
- Healthy community (WikidataCon @ Berlin, Germany, next October 2017 - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017 )
- Data quality: constraints, fact checking against external databases, machine learning (ORES: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service), mismatches with other data sources
- Multimedia data: structured data on Commons
- Lexicographical data.
Trivia:
- Work with most citations: CIVIC database (runner up: phosphoinositides: tiny lipids with giant impact on cell regulations)
- Scientific article with most authors: Combined measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in p p Collisinos at s = 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments (5102 authors)
- Most-cited author: Webb Miller (9412) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb_Miller
- Most-cited work: Coot: model-building tools for molecular graphics (runner ups: The CCP4 suite; Refinement of macromolecular structures by the …)