Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/Tom Tom Festival 2018

Presenter Lane Rasberry, user:bluerasberry, invites attendees of the Tom Tom Founders Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia to attend his talk Intro to Wikidata, the Database for Wikipedia and Beyond on Thursday 12 April 2018 at 4:35 in the Violet Crown - Theater 5.

Abstract
For a generation, Wikipedia has been the world's single most popular general information resource, nonprofit media outlet, and source of free and open content. As Wikipedia's almost one billion unique annual users have demanded more and better content, the wiki community has increasingly relied on Wikidata as the wiki database to design every user experience. As with all things "wiki", anyone can edit Wikidata, leading to 8,000 people making multiple contributions to Wikidata's 40 million data items in every month of 2017. Wikidata as a platform offers opportunities for any organization to federate their data into the wiki network as a means to achieve distribution and enjoy crowdsourced data enrichment. This talk showcases projects in art, science, and medicine which anyone could replicate to bring new audiences to their own data.

Media

 * slides
 * script

Thanks
Thanks to the organizations and projects which are supporting this event!

Links

 * Intro to Wikidata, the Database for Wikipedia and Wiki Projects
 * event page