Wiki Techstorm/Programme

Thursday
On Thursday afternoon, we'll start with a cultural and social event. If it's your first time at a technical event, first time in Amsterdam or the first time meeting other Wikimedians, we welcome you to join us for our culture crawl.

In the evening we'll move on to a restaurant where we can eat dinner together and maybe have a drink. This will be at your own expense.

Friday
On Friday and Saturday, we have 2 different focusses: Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. If there isn't a workshop of your interest, you can "Techstorm": work in one of the free spaces. Our mentors will be available and around to help you with any questions.

We tried to color-indicate our sessions below accordingly.

Thursday 21st of November
- Social event: We are working on a great cultural and social event for Thursday afternoon. We're in Amsterdam, so we have some great opportunities to visit. Details will be announced short before the event.

Friday 22nd of November
Morning

- Opening: We would like to welcome all of you at the opening ceremony. This will be a plenary session.

- Intro Commons: For those of you who want to dive into Wikimedia Commons - the huge Wiki media repository -, we start with this overview of what Commons is, what you can do with it and why it is important to have information in it.

- Intro Wikidata: For those of you who want to dive into Wikidata - an enormous database hub with Linked Open Data - we start with this overview of what Wikidata is, what you can do with it and why it is important to have high quality information in Wikidata.

- Poster session: For those who want to see what sessions can be worked on during the Techstorming afternoon we will create A4 posters together with the mentors

- Wikimedia Commons & Pattypan: Let's get working! Pattypan is an easy to use tool to prepare online and offline photos or videos, add metadata and upload the files in batches to Wikimedia Commons

- Wikidata and OpenRefine: Let's get going! OpenRefine is a multi-faceted data wrangling and cleaning tool with which you can tidy up, enrich and reconcile big batches of data and upload them to Wikidata. In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to use OpenRefine to prepare batches of (meta)data and upload them to Wikidata.

Afternoon

- Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: In this hands on workshop you will learn more on the recently introduced structured data on Wikimedia Commons; this workshop will teach you how to add the structured data (Linked Open Data) to the images and videos on Wikimedia Commons

- SPARQL: In this hands on workshop you will get intoduced to SPARQL, an RDF query language that is used to retrieve and manipulate data stored in Wikidata. In other words, this is not a workshop on putting data in Wikidata; this is about getting data out of the database again to make for example overviews, lists and get insight into the data that are available in databases of organisations all over the world.

Saturday 23rd of November
- Creating maps: Hands-on workshop to learn how to use geographical data on Wikidata to create your own maps. What tools are there avaiable, what data do you need to place your own information on a map?

- Scraping websites: The sum of all data is not yet available on Wikidata: a lot is still on a multitude of websites. If you want to learn how to scrape these websites to gather all the available data in order to upload those data to Wikidata, this is a very practical workshop for you.

- Listeria: using SPARQL queries this is a tool to create lists and overviews of data on Wikidata. If you want to learn how to make sense of the 60 million data on Wikidata and create neat lists of it, this is a practical workshop for you. Since all the wikipedias are connected to Wikidata you can also create a handy insight into what articles are on which wikipedia for example.

- Regex: regular expressions (or regex) can be used in a lot of tools (for example OpenRefine) to automate or simplify actions that are performed on a regular basis. You will learn how to create

- Showcase: The showcase are the presentations on Saturday, big or small, of the results participants made during the event. You are all invited to show what you did, whether it was fixing a typing error or building a complete app. Whether you failed or succeeded, whether you're finished or just getting started. At the Techstorm it's about the learning and the experience: please share and be proud.