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Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata

Session Notes (etherpad)SpeakersLydia Pintscher is the product manager of Wikidata. She studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe before joining Wikimedia in 2012. She is a long-time…

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OABOT: Making Wikipedia's Citations Accessible - Jake Orlowitz

Wikipedia's citations are the largest curated bibliography in the world. They are the foundation of Wikipedia's reliability and verifiability. They are also the top-6 referrer to all…

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Citation Hunt - Guilherme Gonçalves at WikiCite 2017

Citation Hunt (Guilherme Gonçalves, slides: http://ggp.name/citationhunt/wikicite2017/slides.html)Citation Hunt is a tool for #1lib1ref and, in general, for finding citations for statements…

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Citoid (the box on Wikipedia that resolves citations): State of the art and Wikidata integration - Katie Filbert, James Forrester

Citoid: runs the box on Wikipedia that resolves citations - currently can resolve PMID/PMCID, DOI, ISBN, URL - via Zotero, CrossRef (DOIs), WorldCat (ISBN: added recently) URL (web page) scraping:…

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Open Citations - David Shotton and Silvio Peroni at WikiCite 2017

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,…

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What WikiCite can learn from biomedical citation networks - Jodi Schneider

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,…

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Crossref Event Data: Transparency First - Joe Wass at WikiCite 2017

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,…

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Wikidata: current trends and priorities - Lydia Pintscher at Wikicite 2017

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,…

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Is Wikipedia a gateway to biomedical research? - Lauren Maggio at WikiCite 2017

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,…

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The social life of (Wikipedia) sources - Heather Ford at Wikicite 2017

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,…

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WikiCite: The journey and the road ahead - Dario Taraborelli (Wikimedia Research)

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,…

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#1Lib1Ref - Getting Started: Creating a Wikipedia Account

Wikipedia celebrates its 18th birthday on January 15th 2019. To mark the occasion, the Wikimedia Library is calling on librarians all round the world to add one reference to Wikipedia between Jan…

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Wikipedia #1Lib1Ref Campaign - 1 Librarian adding to 1 Reference to Wikipedia for its 22nd birthday.

Wikipedia celebrates its 22nd birthday on January 15th 2023. To mark the occasion, the Wikipedia Library is calling on information professionals & educators all round the world to add one…

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Wikipedia: #FactsMatter

The fact that information spreads quickly means that truth can spread quickly, and lies can spread quickly. And Wikipedia is that place you go when you've got a moment to reflect and say, OK,…

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Wikimania 2016 - Verifiability of Wikipedia by Alex Stinson

Alex Stinson is the GLAM Wiki strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation. For the last two years, he has been supporting the Wikipedia Library program developing partnerships with publishers and…

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