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According to the programme, there is space available for online speakers, open to free submissions and community feedback. This year, the rebooted conference has focused on themes such as authors' profiles, authority control, data-round tripping and Wikibase, so there may be a need to introduce a broader balance of topics.[1].

Deadline for these suggestions is August, 15th

Awards

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All invited speakers and guests in Bern (coming from different background) will be asked to evaluate the talks and activities proposed by the community on Saturday and Sunday. During the final wrap-up session on the evening of Sunday, August 31st, two special awards will be presented to the contributions considered most interesting and engaging. These awards, offered by Wikimedia Switzerland, consist of prizes of 300 CHF and 200 CHF, respectively.

Possible slots

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All proposals are merged in one type of module to simplify monitoring and evaluation.

  • a Community themes section (English) offers six 15-minute slots (two of which can be combined into a 30-minute slot)
  • a lighting talks section (English) offers eight 7-minute slots (two of which can be combined into a 15-minute slot)
  • two Do-a-Thon sections (English) offer twelve 15-minute slots
  • a joint French/German section offers four 15-minute slots for each language

Evaluation

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Jury

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The proposals will be evaluated and allocated by a revised version of the organizing committee, if possible ensuring representation for users from communities that cannot travel to Europe.

The composition is as follows:[2]

  • / Alessandro Marchetti (Università di Pisa, link to the academic committee)
  • Camillo Pellizzari (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, link to the academic committee)
  • / Lorenzo Gobbo (Università della Svizzera italiana, WMCH)
  • User:Kolja21 (expert user)

Meetings

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  • On July 17th 17:00 CEST the 4 jurors met for the first time and pre-approved some of the proposals.
  • On August 16th 16:00 CEST the 4 jurors met for the secondo time and approved all the proposals with a final suggestion for the programme.

Insertion in the programme

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Once approved, proposals are inserted in the Abstracts page and linked from the final Programme[3]

How to

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Please copy and fill this code. Add a section below the last one

== Title == * language: ISO language code (e.g. en/fr/de/pt/es) * preferred time slot(s) (e.g ''Saturday afternoon'', ''Saturday 16:00-18:00 UTC'', ''Do-a-Thon'' section) * main author(s): (max two names, use username or full name) * abstract or description: ===Comments=== ===Review and Feedback from the Commission===

Proposals should be inserted below this header.
The proposal submission period has concluded

Scholarly profiling in Wikidata: Creating a knowledge graph for the SEEKCommons open science research network

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): most likely will have to join virtually from the U.S., e.g. New York (ET), if virtual slots available
  • main author(s): Dorothy Howard, User:Hexatekin, Lane Rasberry User:bluerasberry
  • abstract or description:

What are best practices of constructing a knowledge graph of a research network? This presentation will focus on our work to use Wikidata to improve the discoverability of research publications, datasets, and technologies in open science produced by members of the SEEKCommons network, and creating these workflows. Profiling research projects is not only useful for generating metrics about research outputs, it can also produce insights to help the community learn about itself and notice gaps. Members of our group will discuss data representations for different scholarly outputs. Name disambiguation challenges with labeling authors will also be discussed, including how we’ve employed the Scholia ecosystem to make disambiguation more efficient. We are inspired by existing work to bridge conversations across academic publishing, open science, and GLAMs.

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Status of user groups

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): Saturday afternoon, Lighting talks section
  • abstract or description:

It’s a rather "dry" topic, but since I heard that some users want to propose an "Ontology User Group", I mentioned that I had drafted a possible "Connectivity User Group" years ago. Getting critical mass is challenging, so I imagined that we could merge the two ideas.

This though led me to explore the different user groups at the meta level related to Wikidata. While this isn’t a concrete planning, it’s worth considering how the situation might (not) evolve and I am just curious to hear the overall feedback on this.

Which Wikidata-related themes do you think might require dedicated representation through a thematic affiliate in the long term? What about a WikiCite User Group for example?

How do you see the future development of these thematic groups?

Comments

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  • As a member of the evaluating commission, I want to highlight that this idea has primarily been included as a test and a useful placeholder in case we don’t receive enough submissions. However, I still hope to see positive feedback on it.--Alexmar983 (talk) 20:06, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Le projet d'import UNINE-LIBRA

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  • Langue: fr
  • Horaire(s) de préférence : dimanche matin
  • Résumé ou description : Ce projet, mené entre avril 2023 et novembre 2024, a permis d'importer et d'aligner les données de Libra, le dépôt institutionnel de l'Université de Neuchâtel, vers Wikidata. Grâce à cette initiative, 1310 identifiants LIBRA (P11710) ont été ajoutés, souvent accompagnés de la création de Qid pour les scientifiques concerné-e-s. D'autres identifiants, tels qu'ORCID ou SCOPUS, ainsi que des données biographiques comme le genre, la profession ou la langue d'expression, ont également été intégrés lorsque cela était possible. À l'issue du projet, les chercheurs de l'Université de Neuchâtel sont bien représentés sur Wikidata, facilitant l'extraction de statistiques démographiques sur leur production scientifique via le langage SPARQL. Wikidata sert également de hub d'identifiants, permettant un contrôle renforcé des données d'autorité, notamment en cas d'homonymie. Ce projet ouvre des perspectives bibliométriques en facilitant l'association des chercheurs à leurs publications et permet, via SPARQL, de comparer et d'améliorer conjointement les données de Wikidata et d'IdRef, la base de données d'autorités utilisée pour le catalogage à l'université de Neuchâtel.

Comments

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  • Il s'agit de la même présentation figurant dans le programme principal pour le vendredi (en anglais), mais l'idée est de la proposer également en français, sous une forme plus courte, en sautant certaines diapositives introductives, puisqu'elle est orientée vers la communauté.
C'est aussi une configuration différente : la présentation de vendredi pourrait ne pas être diffusée en ligne directement. De plus, étant donné la nature régionale de la Suisse, une présentation dans la langue du canton n'est pas une mauvaise idée.
Cela me convient parfaitement. Mon conseil serait que, si d'autres propositions sont soumises, celle-ci devrait avoir une priorité moindre--Alexmar983 (talk) 18:41, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikiproject Personal collections

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): Saturday morning, Lighting talks section
  • abstract or description:

Personal collections are organic complexes of published and/or unpublished materials collected and/or produced by significant people in the world of culture, professions and the arts, mainly from the second half of the 19th century onwards. ( Source) The current descriptions of personal collection in WD are afflicted by a marked fragmentation, both terminological and structural, and lack of standardization. The aim of the Wikiproject personal collections is to build a set of controlled terms and create specific items for the description of personal collections, author libraries and personal archives, ensuring semantic coherence with the various linguistic versions of Wikimedia projects. A dedicated Wikidata WikiProject and a standard data model for personal collections will enhance data consistency, interoperability, and GLAM professionals’ engagement, promoting richer, multilingual metadata and integration with catalogs and information sources.

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Update on the Citation Typing Ontology citation intention annotations

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): no preference
  • main author(s): User:Egon Willighagen
  • abstract or description:

This lightning talk gives an update on the use of Wikidata to capture and disseminate citation intention annotations with the Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO). It will cover the main information sources (data sets, journal articles/preprints, and nanopublications, Rogue Scholar blog posts) and the use of Scholia to visualize citation intentions for works and venues (like journal articles and journals).

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Retracted articles in Wikidata and how to use them

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): no preference
  • main author(s): User:Egon Willighagen
  • abstract or description:

This lightning talk will review the approximately 22 thousand retracted articles in Wikidata and shows how this knowledge can be used. It will cover how information from the Retraction Database is included in Wikidata using the CrossRef API and a custom script. It will show how Wikidata SPARQL queries from https://bigcat-um.github.io/sparql-examples/examples/WikidataRetractions/ can be used to get more insight on the impact of these retractions on Wikidata, Wikipedia, and science itself.

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Status of bots for WikiCite

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): lighting talk section
  • main author(s): User:Alexmar983
  • abstract or description: I would like to review the main bots currently editing article items on Wikidata. Could we monitor them in some subpages? Additionally, I’d like to know if we can list any minor issues or past discussions regarding their activities. I primarily edit manually, so I don’t actively monitor this aspect. However, I’m curious to hear the community’s perspective.

Comments

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  • This is just another "placeholder" suggestion. If there’s a free slot at the end, it can be used, but the community should always take precedence. I’m curious to gather some feedback on the current use of bots.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:35, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Review and Feedback from the Commission

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I forgot to make it clear to you, "fellow jurors", during our evaluation on Saturday the 16th: I decided to withdraw this proposal. Given the limited time, I chose to move forward with only two submissions coupled together.--Alexmar983 (talk) 19:21, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wait we can put it in the do-a-thon. We have time andit can be in the morining slot which is less important since many volunteers in the Americas are still asleep.--Alexmar983 (talk) 21:18, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Making GLAM resources more accessible and reusable: a FAIR case study on European Literary Bibliography

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  • language: en/es
  • preferred time slot(s): Saturday afternoon, lightning talk
  • main author(s): Gustavo Candela, Cezary Rosiński, Arkadiusz Margraf
  • abstract or description: This study presents a reproducible framework for publishing and reusing bibliographic metadata from GLAM, focusing on the European Literary Bibliography. It employs Linked Open Data transformation, metadata enrichment by means of Wikidata, and computational reuse via Jupyter Notebooks. The work has been recently published in the form of a research article and presented in several conferences.

Comments

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  • I add here a link to the related publication.

Review and Feedback from the Commission

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In the end WMPL proposed another topic, this remians a lighting talk.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:07, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WDQS Graph Split — Overview and Query-a-thon

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): Afternoon Do-a-thon session
  • main author(s): User:TiagoLubiana
  • abstract or description:

The graph split happened for real in May 2025, creating quirks for applications relying on the Wikidata Query Service. This session will present some simplified, WikiCite-focused documentation and create a space for collective work on adapting queries to the new system. Bring your questions and your queries and let's navigate the split together.

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Federation and data governance in Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem - What’s happening? Where are we going?

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): Saturday
  • abstract or description: Scalability and sustainability of Wikidata is top of mind for the development team. We will talk about the current and future work around federation and data governance and how they relate to WikiCite. In the remainder of the session we’d like to discuss possible future scenarios for the scholarly article corpus in Wikidata and their consequences.

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Review and Feedback from the Commission

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  • The do-a-thon is scheduled on Sunday, so the jury suggested it for the do-a-thon on Sunday. It seems that WMDE wants to discuss the Linked Data Policy in the affliates slot, so there might still some superposition with that discussion which is taking place on Saturday.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:12, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Date of death of researchers and academic staff

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  • language:en
  • preferred time slot(s): lighting talks (maybe do a thon)
  • main author(s): Alessandro Marchetti (Camillo Pellizzari)
  • abstract or description: I am one of the few users in Italy who regularly monitors local news sources and adds concise, well-referenced information about the dates of death of academics. When the deceased is not a moderately famous politician, litetary author, or media figure, you’re often the first person to notice and document it the "date of death" (P570) property. Since Pisa is a university town, the local press generally covers these topics efficiently, for other town this might not be the case. I am curiuos to monitor how this could go in other areas.
We held a class with Camillo in Pisa with the Univeristy Librarians, where my session focused on managing data related to researchers. I specifically used queries for unusually old professors to check whether P570 was missing and insert proper values and sources as an exercise. It’s something that can easily go unnoticed for several years.
In the field of humanities, integration with national authority databases can help. However, if no books have been published, those databases often fail to provide reliable sources for avarage researchers. In many cases, when local news cannot serve as a source, the available information is often indirect — a puzzle composed of private web pages or obituary-style mailing list messages. In theory, we could upload on Commons images of public obituary posters.
Sometimes the authority record that should be updated (besides Wikidata item) is not available in the Italian system, but may exist in another library network or national archive that provides more specialized profiling—such as records for theses completed abroad or book chapters—or simply has more resources to catalog a wider range of individuals than the italian national OPAC SBN system. Some users with access to national authority files from other countries, however, may not consider various indirect sources sufficiently reliable to update their record. As a result, crucial information can remain overlooked for years even with proper good will and a note can be left in the talk pages of the item.
Let’s discuss a few case studies or examples. What strategies do you think are most effective in addressing this issue?

Comments

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  • As with the others, this proposal has no priority if other users suggest more themse, and we need more space, it can be skipped.

Review and Feedback from the Commission

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Améliorer des notices d’autorités grâce aux requêtes fédérées : le cas d’IdRef

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  • language: fr
  • preferred time slot(s) : Sunday morning
  • main author(s): Thomas Kerboul
  • abstract or description:

Les requêtes fédérées permettent de fusionner les données entre les bases de données : lorsque leurs contenus se recoupent, il est ainsi possible d’identifier des erreurs ou des manques dans l’une ou l’autre de ces bases. La Bibliothèque de Genève utilise des requêtes fédérées SPARQL entre Wikidata et IdRef, un fichier d'autorité français utilisé pour le catalogage bibliographique, afin d'améliorer les notices des individus liés à Genève. En utilisant l'identifiant IdRef comme lien commun, plusieurs requêtes modulaires ont été conçues, permettant de découvrir des corrections pertinentes à apporter.

Le processus de correction est toutefois essentiellement manuel, ce qui est crucial, en particulier dans les cas d'homonymie. En effet, les identifiants IdRef, souvent ajoutés à Wikidata par l'intermédiaire des clusters VIAF, peuvent être associés à tort aux mauvaises personnes. La curation manuelle permet d'éviter la propagation des erreurs, notamment entre les membres d'un groupe VIAF donné, préservant ainsi l'intégrité des données. En outre, la comparaison a révélé que Wikidata avait tendance à être plus précis et plus à jour qu'IdRef, ce qui montre tout son intérêt pour la curation de bases plus professionnelles.

Cette présentation vise à démontrer la fiabilité des bases de données créées par les communautés et la puissance des requêtes fédérées, en particulier grâce à l'utilisation de SPARQL, pour améliorer la précision et l'intégration des données à travers de multiples sources. En partageant ces connaissances, j’espère encourager d'autres institutions à adopter des méthodologies similaires pour améliorer leurs pratiques de gestion des données d’autorité.

Planning the Wikimedia Science Hub

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Science Hub

Within the Wikimedia ecosystem, Hubs are intended to facilitate community interactions among existing wiki community organizations within a certain scope. The scope can be regional, thematic or linguistic, and the Science Hub is a thematic one, to be officially proposed later this year. It seeks to facilitate Wikimedia activities relating to scientific and other scholarly content from all disciplines of systematic inquiries. In terms of knowledge domains, this includes the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, mathematics, medicine and so on. On the wiki side, it includes all content, communities and infrastructure of Wikimedia wikis as well as supporting activities.

The goal of the Science Hub is to serve as an administrative and grantmaking center for the scientific community of affiliates and user groups in the Wikimedia Ecosystem. Our goal is to develop networks in each of the Wikimedia Regions, especially to help community members find partners for projects and granting opportunities in general. The hub is especially set up to support community members in finding partners, finding grants, and administering grants. This assistance can be for instance to develop standard ways for Wikimedia affiliates to report their science based activity, developing regular reports of the scientific initiatives and efforts that Wikimedia is undertaking, providing example inter-university grant agreements, and even serving as a fiscal sponsor where it makes sense.

In this session, we want to explore in what ways the proposed Science Hub could assist ongoing and future WikiCite-related activities.

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Wikimedia projects as Diamond Open Access platforms

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s) earlier is better than later
  • main author(s): Daniel Mietchen
  • abstract or description:

Diamond open access is a concept commonly referring to an arrangement in which academic publications are funded such that neither the readers nor the authors have to pay and the costs are instead borne by some other entity (e.g. a research funder, an institution or a scholarly society). In this session, we will explore this concept through the lens of WIkimedia projects. This will include, for instance, books published via Wikibooks, journals published via Wikiversity, legacy publications archived and annotated on Wikisource, media files published on WIkimedia Commons or structured data being published and curated on Wikidata. We will also touch upon how Wikimedia platforms provide background information on Diamond open access more generally, from individual publications to the stakeholders involved in the matter and relevant legal and policy frameworks. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 07:38, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Nanopublications and the Wikidata/ Wikibase ecosystem

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s) earlier is better than later
  • main author(s): Daniel Mietchen
  • abstract or description:

Knowledge graphs like Wikidata and other Wikibase projects are powerful tools for creating and sharing knowledge. In this talk, we'll explore how nanopublications can be used to improve how these projects work. Nanopublications are a simple way to publish small pieces of information, such as a single claim, along with details on its origin and who published it. Think of them as tiny, verifiable data packages, or mini versions of knowledge graphs. We'll discuss several ways in which nanopublications can connect with the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. For example, they can be used to:

  • Add new information to Wikibase.
  • Export data from Wikibase.
  • Reference an external source for a Wikibase statement.
  • Track and report errors in Wikibase statements, as well as confirm when those errors have been fixed.
  • Synchronize information across different knowledge graphs.
  • Report on inconsistencies between different knowledge graphs or different parts of the same knowledge graphs.
  • Thank someone for some contribution to a knowledge graph or to a resource cited from it.

During this session, we will look at real-world examples and open up a discussion about the potential of nanopublications to enhance the WikiCite community's work. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 07:39, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Hi. I wanted to discuss how nanopublications could also support the "peer review" of personal information that is in that specific moment still scattered across low-quality, unstable, private, or local sources. The example I have in mindi is my request regarding the dates of death of researchers... cases in which, as peers, we may reasonably agree that a colleague has passed away and how, even if there's not yet solid public "coverage" with top-tier source. We touched on this briefly in Florence
So —how about organizing a full do-a-thon session around it? It would give us more time than a lightning talk and is scheduled earlier in the day, which might help with focus and participation.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:36, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think a dedicated do-a-thon session would be nice. Pinging User:Tobias Kuhn to see what their time preferences are. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 21:02, 17 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Cite Q: citing a work using metadata from Wikidata

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): Saturday or Sunday afternoon; Do-a-Thon
  • main author(s): Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
  • abstract or description: The Cite Q template was launched at WikiCite 2017, and has undergone much development since. There is still more to do.

Session will cover:

  • What is Cite Q, how does it work and how can it be used
  • Reuse & translation on sibling projects
  • Outstanding issues
  • Future development pathway

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The State of Librarybase

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): between 09:00-17:00 Pacific Daylight Time on any day
  • main author(s): James Hare
  • abstract or description: Librarybase is a Wikibase created in 2023 to serve as a general purpose bibliographic metadata repository. It can be used alongside Orb Open Graph, a private deployment of the Wikidata Query Service without the graph split and without timeouts. This presentation will discuss the project's vision, the projects making use of it, and possible future plans.

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Using Citation Watchlist to monitor source addition and removal from articles

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): between 09:00-17:00 Pacific Daylight Time on any day
  • main author(s): Jake Orlowitz, James Hare
  • abstract or description: Citation Watchlist is an interactive tool developed by the nonprofit organization Hacks/Hackers with support from Wikimedia CH. It adds visual indicators to watchlists, recent changes, user contributions pages, and page histories when unreliable sources are added to articles. Recently, it gained a new feature: tracking the removal of any URL. This presentation will include a demonstration of Citation Watchlist and discussion of ideas for the future.

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Introducing the Wikipedia Citations Database

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s): between 09:00-17:00 Pacific Daylight Time on any day
  • main author(s): James Hare
  • abstract or description: The Wikipedia Citations Database seeks to create a structured database around the unstructured citation strings that appear in articles. Because Wikipedia itself does not have a structured database of citations, the citations that appear on articles can be formatted in different ways and may be ambiguous references (like a last name and a page number with context provided elsewhere). This project represents the first step of separating out the citations from the non-citations. Matching citation to with actual known publications is left to subsequent derivation steps.

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Use of images as sources

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  • language: en
  • preferred time slot(s):
  • main author(s): User:Alexmar983
  • abstract or description: A brief discussion exploring user experiences with image usage as source in Wikidata. The focus is on the application of property P10253 as a qualifier, potential copyright concerns related to Wikimedia Commons upload, and the existence (or absence) of dedicated guidelines. Can we identify and compare different citation styles or usage patterns that have emerged so far?

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Review and Feedback from the Commission

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  • This proposal was not formally submitted before the jury convened for the second time, but it had already been discussed—either in person or within a Telegram group—so it is included here. It will be approved if merged with my previous proposal concerning the sourcing of personal information about researchers. While I had other cases in mind, some of the examples presented also touch on this aspect, so its good enough for me. Other jurors approve if I don't take any more time to other users.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:57, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It can be at the do-a-thon, we have space!--Alexmar983 (talk) 21:16, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

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  1. to name a few: analysis on gender distribution, graph split, Scholia, Entity Explosion, Wikisource...
  2. Various request to join have been posted on Wikimedians Telegram channels in the months of May, June and July
  3. If you are an invited speaker from the jury, already inserted on the final programme, please insert your abstract on the dedicated page directly. Thank you.