UPCOMING EVENTS
Using Duplicity: Create Missing Wikidata Items From Wikipedia
This session will introduce the Wikidata tool Duplicity, which helps identify Wikipedia articles that do not have a Wikidata item, and match them to an existing item or create a new one.
Participants will learn how Wikipedia and Wikidata are connected, how to use the Duplicity tool to find missing Wikidata items, how to create accurate, well-sourced items directly from the tool, and best practices for item creation and linking articles across projects.
The session will be hands-on and beginner-friendly, with time to explore the tool together and make real contributions. It’s ideal for editors who are curious about Wikidata but unsure where to start, or for anyone who wants to improve Wikidata coverage using content that already exists in English Wikipedia.
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About Joseph Anthony
Josef Anthony is a Wikimedia volunteer and contributor with experience in Wikidata, Wikipedia, and technical projects within the Wikimedia movement.
How To Calmly Edit In Controversial Areas
Editing in controversial areas can be daunting. In this session, I’ll talk about strategies to avoid conflict, bring these articles through the ‘good article’ or ‘featured article’ process and if conflict does arise, which dispute resolution process works best at resolving the issues. Examples will be drawn from climate and health-related editing.
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About Femke Njise
Femke Nijsse is an experienced editor who has worked on a range of tricky and sometimes controversial topics, from climate change and net zero to contested illnesses. She’s helped several of these articles make it through the Good Article and Featured Article processes.
Wikisource Transcribe-a-thon
This event will introduce Wikisource: a community that is building a huge library of freely available texts. Together we will transcribe a pamphlet or paper and explore how 1) contributing to Wikisource can be a rewarding hobby and 2) how transcribe-a-thon events can be part of a campaign to highlight kinds of literature and knowledge.
DR MARTIN POULTER
20 Nov | Time TBC
Duration: 2 hrs
About Dr. Martin Poulter
Dr. Martin Poulter is a trainer for Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikisource who helps professionals, students, and newcomers to share open knowledge. He has held Wikimedia-related placements at the Khalili Foundation, the Bodleian Libraries and the educational charity Jisc.
Wikimedia projects and smell-related content: ideas on where, how, and why to add it
Mulled wine and oranges, the piney scent of indoor spruce, cloves and other spices … no it’s not a description of a new scented candle, but some of the smells that come to mind for people who celebrate Christmas in the UK! Join editor Lucy Moore a Seasonal Sandbox Session to explore how smell-related information can enrich Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata!
The session will involve a short introduction to why olfactory experiences are essential for human knowledge, as well as demonstrations of how to add scent and smell to Wikidata, and ways to incorporate it into Wikimedia Commons. The session also includes open time for editing, using either a suggested list or your own ideas. Incorporating smell-related data is not widely used across projects yet, so there’s lots of potential for new ideas and contributions. Interested? You can find more information here and here, or on this TikTok.
About Lucy Moore
Lucy Moore is an experienced Wikipedia editor, who mostly edits about women. She got interested in smell in 2023 and has been promoting its inclusion in Wikimedia projects since then. You can see her describe some of her editing here.