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Overview for 'wikimania'

    Wikidata & Wikibase for National Libraries: the inaugural meeting
    Title:
    Kungliga Biblioteket, lässalen, kapitel
    Creator:
    Holger.Ellgaard
    Date:
    2012-12-14
    News Created: 25 September 2019 Wendy Byrne Liam Wyatt

    Wikidata & Wikibase for National Libraries: the inaugural meeting

    This is the second part of our reporting on the recent events for all things Wikimedia – the annual Wikimania conference, held this year in Stockholm – where Europeana held several associated events. Following the main conference, Europeana convened the inaugural meeting of National Libraries (and equivalent consortium organisations) who are currently working directly with Wikidata and its underlying software Wikibase. This event was organised by our Wikimedia liaison Liam Wyatt and hosted by our partners the National Library of Sweden. Liam updates us here on the meeting content.

    Wikimania 2019
    Title:
    Wikimania 2019 Opening Ceremony
    Creator:
    Mike Peel
    Date:
    2019
    News Created: 23 September 2019 Wendy Byrne Liam Wyatt

    Wikimania 2019

    Every year during the Northern summer holidays, approximately 1,000 members of the Wikimedia community – the worldwide group of volunteers and professionals behind projects including Wikipedia and Wikidata – gather for their annual event: Wikimania. This year’s event, hosted in Stockholm, had as its theme the relationship of open-access information to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The event's program was chaired for the second year running by Europeana’s own Wikimedia liaison Liam Wyatt, in a voluntary capacity. Today he fills us in on this year’s gathering.

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