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Hello, everyone.

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It's awesome that you're all here,[br]so many of you.

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It's really, really great.

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So Lea already talked a lot [br]about this event,

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and I'm going to talk a bit [br]about Wikidata itself

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and what has been happening [br]around it over the last year

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and where we are going.

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So... what is this? Sorry.

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So... where are we?[br]Where are we going?

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Over the last year there has been [br]so much to celebrate

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and I want to highlight some of that

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because sometimes it goes unnoticed.

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And first I want to take you through[br]some statistics around editors

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and our content and how our data is used.

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Over the last year, [br]we have grown our community

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which is amazing.

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We have around 3,000 new people

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who edit once or more in 30 days.

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So that's 3,000 new Wikidatans, yay!

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Now if you look at people who do more,[br]like five edits in 30 days,

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we've got an additional 1,200 roughly.

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And if you look [br]at the people who do 100 edits or more--

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I hope many of you in this room--

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we have 300 more.

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Raise your hand [br]if you're in this last group.

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Woot! You're awesome!

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And while the number of edits [br]is usually not something

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we pay a lot of attention to,

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we did cross [br]the 1 billion edits mark this year.

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(applause)

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Alright, let's look at content.

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So, we're now at 65 million items,

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so entities to describe the world,

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and we're doing this [br]with around 6,700 properties.

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Of those, around 4,300 [br]are external identifiers,

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which gives us a lot of linking[br]to other catalogues, databases,

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websites and more

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and really makes Wikidata [br]the central place

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in a linked open data web.

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So using those properties and items,

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we have around 800 million statements now,

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and compared to last year,[br]we know about half a statement more

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about every single item.

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(laughter)

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So, yeah, Wikidata got smarter.

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But we don't just have items[br]and properties,

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we also have new stuff [br]like lexemes

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and we are now at 204,000 lexemes[br]that describe words

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in many different languages.

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It's very cool.

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I will talk more about this[br]in a session later today.

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Last, the latest addition [br]are entity schemas

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that help us figure out [br]how to consistently model data

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across a certain area.

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And of those, we have around 140 now.

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Now numbers aren't everything [br]around content, right,

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amount of content--we also care[br]about quality of the content.

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And what we've done now is [br]we've trained a machine learning system

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to judge the quality of an item.

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Now this is far from perfect,[br]but it gives you an idea.

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So every item in Wikidata gets a score[br]between 1 and 5.

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One is pretty terrible; five is amazing.

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And it looks at things[br]like how many statements does it have,

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how many external identifiers[br]does it have,

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how many references are there,

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how many different labels are there[br]in different languages,

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and so on.

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And then we looked at Wikidata over time,

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and as you can see, [br]based on these measures,

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we went from pretty terrible[br]to much better.

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(laughter)

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So that's good.

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But what you can also see,[br]there's still a lot of room to 5.

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Now I don't think [br]this is where we will get to, right?

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Not every item will be absolutely perfect

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according to these measures [br]that we have taken.

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But I'm really happy to see [br]that consistently the quality of our data

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is getting better and better.

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Okay, but creating that data isn't enough.

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We want this--we do this for a reason.

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We want it to be used.

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And now we looked at how many articles

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on each of the other Wikimedia projects[br]use data from Wikidata,

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and we looked at the percentage [br]of all articles on those projects.

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Now if you look across all of Wikimedia

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and all of the articles there,

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then 56.35% of them today[br]make use of some data from Wikidata.

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Which I think is pretty good,

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but of course, [br]there's still a lot of room to 100.

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And then I looked at which projects[br]are actually making most use

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of Wikidata's data,

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and I split this [br]by language versions and so on.

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And now what do you think[br]the top five projects--

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which ones are all of them?

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Which project family do they belong to?

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(several in audience) Commons.

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Okay, that's pretty uniformly Commons.

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You would actually be wrong.

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All of the top five are Wikivoyage.

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(audience) Oh!

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(laughter)

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So yeah, applause to Wikivoyage.

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(applause)

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If you would like to check [br]where Commons actually is

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and where all of your other projects are,

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there is a dashboard.

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Come to me and we can check it out.

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Of course, inside Wikimedia is [br]not the only place where our data is used.

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It's also used outside,[br]and so much has happened.

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I can't begin to mention it all,[br]but to highlight some

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there are great uses of our data [br]at the Met, at the Wellcome Trust,

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at the Library of Congress,

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in GeneWiki and so many more.

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And if you go through some of the sessions[br]later in the program,

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you will hear about some of them.

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Alright, enough statistics.

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Let's look at some other highlights.

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So we already talked [br]about data quality improving,

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and when you look at data quality,[br]there are a lot of dimensions

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that you can look at,[br]and we've improved on some of those,

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like how accurate is the data,

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how trustworthy is the data,

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how referenced is it,

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how consistent is it modeled,

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how completed is it and so on.

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Just to pick out one-- [br]for consistency for example,

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we have created the ability to store [br]entity schemas now in Wikidata

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so that you can describe[br]how certain domains should be modeled.

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So you can find--

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you can create an entity schema,[br]say, for Dutch painters,

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and then you can look how--

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which items that are for Dutch painters

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do not, for example, [br]have a date of birth but should

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and similar things like that.

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And I hope that a lot more [br]wiki projects and so on

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will be able to make use [br]of entity schemas to take good care

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of their data, and if you want [br]to learn how to do that,

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there's a session later[br]in the program as well

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by people who know all about this[br]and will make this less

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of a black box for you.

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Alright.

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Another thing that really got traction

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over the last year [br]is the Wikibase ecosystem, right?

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This idea that not all open data [br]should and has to happen

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in Wikidata, but instead, we want[br]a thriving ecosystem

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of different places, of different actors,

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like institutions, companies,

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volunteer projects opening up their data[br]in a similar way

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that Wikidata does it [br]and then connecting all of it,

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exchanging data between those,[br]linking that data.

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And over the last year,[br]the interest in that

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and the interest in institutions[br]and people running

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their own Wikibase instance [br]has really exploded,

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and especially in the sector[br]of libraries.

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There's a lot of testing, evaluating,

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and to be honest, trailblazing,

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going on there at the moment[br]where adventurous institutions

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work with us to really figure out[br]how Wikibase can work

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for their collections, [br]for their catalogues and so on.

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Among them, the German National Library,

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the French National Library,

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OCLC and it's really exciting to see.

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One of the reasons[br]why I think this is so exciting

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is that we are helping these institutions [br]open up data in a way that is

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not just putting it on a website [br]and someone can access it

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but really thinking about this--[br]the next step after that, right?

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Letting people help you maintain[br]that data, augment that data,

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enrich it, and that's really a shift

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that I hope will bring good things.

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And the other thing it helps us with

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is that it lets experts curate the data

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in their space, keep it in good shape [br]so that we can then set up

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synchronizing processes [br]to Wikidata, for example,

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instead of having to take care of it [br]ourselves all the time.

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And at the end of the day,[br]I hope it will take some pressure

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off of Wikidata to be that place [br]where everything has to go.

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Lexicographical data--

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Over the last year, [br]people started describing words

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in their language in Wikidata[br]so that we can build things

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like automated translation tools,

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and we are at the point [br]where in some languages

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we are starting to get nearer [br]to reaching that critical mass

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that is needed to actually [br]build a serious application.

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In a lot of languages, [br]we still have a long way to go,

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but in some, [br]we're really starting to get there,

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and that's really great to see.

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If you want to know more about this,[br]come to my session later today.

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And, of course, not to forget,

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structured data on Commons.

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(audience member whistles)

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Yes! (laughs)

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(applause)

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The structured data on Commons [br]seen at the foundation

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has really gotten...

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everything together and made it possible

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to add statements to files [br]on Commons over the last year,

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and people are starting to add[br]those statements to images

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to then make it easier to find [br]to build better applications on top of it,

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and so much more.

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It's really exciting to see how [br]that is growing,

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and I think what's really important

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for the Wikidata community [br]to understand here

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is that when you see "depicts"

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or "house cat" or "sitting," "lizard"[br]and "wall" here,

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those are links to Wikidata items[br]and properties.

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That means when we create items [br]and properties,

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those are no longer just providing [br]the vocabulary for Wikidata itself.

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They are providing the vocabulary[br]for Commons as well.

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And this will only get more and more so,

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so we have to pay a lot more attention

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to how our ontology, our vocabulary

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is actually used in other places[br]than we had before.

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And the last one I have is that[br]we've started building stronger bridges

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to the other Wikimedia projects.

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My team and I are working [br]on a project called the Wikidata Bridge,

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and you should totally come [br]to the UX booth

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and do some testing of the current state

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that will have [br]for example Wikipedia editors

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edit Wikidata directly [br]from their projects

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without having to go to Wikidata

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and having to understand [br]everything around it.

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I hope that this will take away [br]one more hurdle that makes it difficult

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for Wikimedia projects [br]to adopt more data from Wikidata.

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Alright, now to strategies [br]and where are we going?

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Since December, the Wikidata team[br]at Wikimedia Deutschland,

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and people from the Wikimedia Foundation[br]have been working on strategies,

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papers around Wikidata.

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It's basically writing down

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what a lot of us have been [br]talking about already

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over the last four or five years.

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And I don't know if all of you[br]have read those papers.

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They're published on Meta Commons[br]until the end of the month.

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It would be great [br]if you haven't read them,

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go read them, [br]leave your comments and so on.

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Now the very quick overview[br]of what is in there

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is that we think about Wikidata [br]and Wikibase in three pieces.

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The first one is Wikidata as a platform.

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You can see it in the lower corner,

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and that is really around [br]Wikidata enables every person

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to access and share information

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regardless of their language [br]and technology,

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and we do that by providing [br]general purpose data about the world.

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So basically what you do every day.

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The second thing is [br]the Wikibase ecosystem part

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where Wikibase, the software [br]running Wikidata, powers

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not just Wikidata, but a thriving [br]open data web that is the backbone

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of free and open knowledge.

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And the third and last thing[br]is Wikidata for the Wikimedia projects

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at the top where Wikidata is there

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to help the Wikimedia projects--

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help make them ready for the future.

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Concretely, what does that mean[br]for the near or midterm future?

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Wikidata as a platform--

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We want to have better data quality,[br]so we will continue working

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on better tools, [br]improving the tools we have and so on.

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We need to make our data [br]more accessible

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through better APIs, [br]a more robust SPARQL endpoint

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but also things like more consistently[br]modeling our data

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so it actually is easy to reuse[br]in applications.

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And the last thing I had was [br]setting up feedback processes

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with our partners.

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Unlike Wikipedia, Wikidata is not

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what I call a destination project, right?

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Someone goes to Wikipedia and reads it

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whereas Wikidata is usually not

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someone goes to Wikidata and reads it.

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It would be awesome,

0:17:54.309,0:17:57.834
but realistically [br]it's not what it is, right?

0:17:57.882,0:18:00.520
A lot of the people who are exposed

0:18:00.520,0:18:02.719
to our data are not on Wikidata itself,

0:18:02.770,0:18:06.838
but they are seeing it through Wikipedia[br]and many other places.

0:18:07.847,0:18:12.238
Now these other places do get feedback [br]on that data, right?

0:18:12.238,0:18:14.635
Their users tell them, [br]"Hey, here's something that's wrong,"

0:18:16.775,0:18:20.952
and I would like to have that[br]so that we can make it available

0:18:20.958,0:18:24.179
to the people who actually edit [br]on Wikidata, meaning you.

0:18:24.374,0:18:27.212
And figuring out how to do that [br]in a meaningful way

0:18:27.212,0:18:31.679
without overwhelming everyone[br]will be one of the things to do

0:18:31.679,0:18:33.143
over the next year.

0:18:34.623,0:18:37.127
Alright, Wikibase ecosystem.

0:18:37.127,0:18:40.925
There, we will continue to work [br]with the libraries,

0:18:41.055,0:18:46.192
but also look into science, [br]for example, and more.

0:18:46.278,0:18:51.641
There is a Wikibase showcase later today[br]that you should totally go to

0:18:51.641,0:18:52.951
and see what's already there

0:18:52.951,0:18:55.852
and what people are already doing[br]with Wikibase.

0:18:55.875,0:18:57.281
It's really worth it.

0:18:57.682,0:19:00.832
And what's needed there is

0:19:00.832,0:19:03.181
also setting up [br]good processes around that.

0:19:04.384,0:19:08.138
Helping people figure out[br]who to talk to about what,

0:19:08.138,0:19:10.467
where they can find help,

0:19:10.467,0:19:11.831
all these kinds of things.

0:19:13.474,0:19:17.395
And, of course, making it easier[br]to install and maintain

0:19:17.395,0:19:20.309
a Wikibase because that's still [br]a bit of a pain.

0:19:21.144,0:19:24.617
And the last thing is federation[br]which is basically

0:19:24.617,0:19:27.245
what we've been talking about[br]for Commons earlier

0:19:27.245,0:19:30.704
where Commons uses [br]Wikidata's items and properties

0:19:30.704,0:19:33.514
but for other Wikibase instances out there

0:19:33.514,0:19:36.488
so they can also use [br]Wikidata's vocabulary.

0:19:37.742,0:19:42.107
And that, as I was saying earlier,[br]increases yet again

0:19:42.107,0:19:48.228
the need to be mindful[br]of how our vocabulary is used out there

0:19:48.228,0:19:51.055
more than we have had to so far.

0:19:53.792,0:19:56.556
And Wikidata for the Wikimedia projects--

0:19:57.132,0:20:00.580
of course, tighter integration[br]through the Wikidata Bridge

0:20:00.580,0:20:04.154
and helping people edit directly [br]from their projects

0:20:04.154,0:20:08.999
and the other thing that we all need[br]to think about together, I think,

0:20:08.999,0:20:14.684
is figuring out how to reduce [br]the language barriers.

0:20:15.484,0:20:19.096
The more Wikidata is integrated [br]in the Wikimedia projects,

0:20:19.096,0:20:22.472
the more people will have[br]a need to talk to each other

0:20:22.472,0:20:25.705
about that data without [br]speaking the same language,

0:20:25.705,0:20:31.680
and we have to figure out [br]how to deal with that.

0:20:33.276,0:20:36.634
If people have smart ideas,[br]I would love to talk to you.

0:20:38.790,0:20:41.365
And with that, [br]I come to the end of my talk.

0:20:41.618,0:20:44.248
Thank you, everyone, for giving[br]more people more access

0:20:44.248,0:20:46.305
to more knowledge every day.

0:20:46.688,0:20:48.914
(applause)

0:20:58.015,0:20:59.902
We have some time for questions

0:20:59.902,0:21:01.774
so if there are any questions [br]in the audience

0:21:01.774,0:21:04.975
or if you are remotely watching [br]the livestream--Hi, Mom--

0:21:04.992,0:21:08.072
you can ask the question[br]on the EtherPad

0:21:08.072,0:21:11.387
or on the Telegram Channel[br]and we'll do our best.

0:21:11.387,0:21:13.233
So anything?

0:21:15.516,0:21:16.655
Ah.

0:21:21.133,0:21:25.208
(person 1) Hi, everyone, this is more[br]of a meme than a question,

0:21:25.243,0:21:32.341
so when the time extension[br]will be able to also to get

0:21:32.341,0:21:35.509
hours and minutes and seconds

0:21:35.509,0:21:38.376
because up till now [br]the position is just to date.

0:21:38.376,0:21:41.610
- I know... it's not my question--[br]- (laughing)

0:21:41.610,0:21:44.230
That's why I said it's a meme.

0:21:44.230,0:21:46.093
Every time is always like that,

0:21:46.093,0:21:48.738
but it comes always from remote so...

0:21:50.001,0:21:53.188
I do not have a very good answer to that.

0:21:53.260,0:21:54.443
I'm sorry.

0:21:55.678,0:22:01.636
But maybe as some background,[br]people need it even more

0:22:01.636,0:22:07.531
to describe images on Commons[br]so it might bubble up the long list

0:22:07.531,0:22:11.071
of things that need to be done[br]a bit faster through that.

0:22:14.713,0:22:16.236
Any more questions?

0:22:24.686,0:22:27.655
(person 2) [Linda] from Wikimedia [br]Foundation's research team--

0:22:27.655,0:22:31.080
I have a question about your thoughts

0:22:31.080,0:22:37.763
on patrolling, and that may be related[br]to quality of content on Wikidata,

0:22:37.803,0:22:39.756
but if you can speak to that

0:22:39.756,0:22:43.542
like how do you see the near medium term[br]patrolling efforts changing,

0:22:43.542,0:22:45.557
especially with the Bridge project

0:22:45.559,0:22:48.147
which I'm looking forward to[br]going out and trying it.

0:22:48.147,0:22:49.433
Yeah, thank you.

0:22:52.298,0:22:56.812
So as you say, with things [br]like we did at Bridge,

0:22:58.812,0:23:03.287
a lot more effort will have to be spent[br]on patrolling, I think.

0:23:04.482,0:23:08.554
But we are at a size where this [br]is probably not feasible

0:23:08.554,0:23:10.922
to do it by hand, by a human,

0:23:10.922,0:23:15.090
so we need to spend a lot more effort [br]on improving, for example,

0:23:15.090,0:23:18.387
ORES, the machine learning system[br]to help us with that,

0:23:18.407,0:23:24.588
to help us figure out which edits[br]a human really needs to look at

0:23:24.588,0:23:26.493
and which is probably just like yeah,

0:23:26.493,0:23:29.792
the regular stuff [br]I don't need to look at this.

0:23:33.777,0:23:38.878
Currently, ORES is not super good [br]at judging what--

0:23:38.878,0:23:41.459
if an edit on Wikidata is good or bad.

0:23:41.459,0:23:44.549
There's currently a campaign going on

0:23:44.549,0:23:50.280
that is training [br]the machine learning system,

0:23:51.062,0:23:52.474
with your help,

0:23:53.141,0:23:55.550
to teach it basically what a good edit is

0:23:55.550,0:23:57.078
and what a bad edit is,

0:23:57.109,0:24:02.774
and we haven't reached the threshold [br]of enough humans teaching it yet

0:24:02.774,0:24:08.025
to really improve it,[br]but if you have a few minutes,

0:24:08.025,0:24:11.098
it would be great if you help teach ORES

0:24:11.098,0:24:13.586
make better judgements[br]about Wikidata edits.

0:24:13.768,0:24:15.837
And it's really simple--[br]it shows you an edit,

0:24:15.842,0:24:17.584
and you say this is a good edit,

0:24:17.584,0:24:19.658
this is a bad edit, and that's it.

0:24:20.041,0:24:23.193
You can do this in front of the TV[br]in the evening on the couch.

0:24:25.588,0:24:27.021
(person 3) Share a link.

0:24:28.000,0:24:31.059
We will share a link [br]in the Telegram Group, yes.

0:24:32.239,0:24:36.239
And once we've reached [br]the threshold we need--

0:24:36.239,0:24:39.269
I think it's around 7,000,[br]but I might be wrong--

0:24:40.223,0:24:44.359
then we can rerun the training[br]for ORES and then it will be

0:24:44.374,0:24:48.484
hopefully considerably better [br]at judging the edits on Wikidata.

0:24:49.909,0:24:52.063
And then I hope more of you can use that

0:24:52.063,0:24:56.029
to filter recent changes, for example,[br]or your watch list

0:24:56.029,0:24:58.333
for edits that really need your attention.

0:24:59.093,0:25:00.227
Yeah.

0:25:02.899,0:25:04.004
Hi.

0:25:07.116,0:25:09.964
(person 4) I'm just curious to know,[br]and this is a question not from me,

0:25:09.964,0:25:12.729
but from partners [br]that I've been working with,

0:25:12.729,0:25:16.190
the more partners we have joining Wikidata

0:25:16.190,0:25:19.916
and starting to experiment with queries,

0:25:19.916,0:25:23.079
the more issues we are having [br]with timeout of queries

0:25:23.147,0:25:25.766
so what's happening with that?

0:25:27.732,0:25:30.170
So, some people [br]at the Wikimedia Foundation

0:25:30.170,0:25:34.355
are looking into that,[br]and--small spoiler--

0:25:34.355,0:25:36.988
be there for the birthday present session.

0:25:37.142,0:25:38.181
(laughter)

0:25:43.384,0:25:46.201
(person 5) Hello, I'm Bart Magnus[br]from Belgium (PACKED).

0:25:46.201,0:25:48.620
I would like to know [br]what the current state of affairs is

0:25:48.620,0:25:52.115
regarding federation [br]so raising your properties

0:25:52.115,0:25:53.752
in your own Wikibase instance--

0:25:53.752,0:25:56.887
is there anything to mention about that?

0:25:56.898,0:26:01.425
So over the last year, [br]a lot of people have told us

0:26:01.425,0:26:03.996
that they want federation, right?

0:26:03.996,0:26:06.866
But the problem was[br]that a lot of people understood

0:26:06.866,0:26:09.318
very different things [br]when they said federation.

0:26:10.566,0:26:13.533
Some of those things [br]were very easily doable.

0:26:13.533,0:26:15.664
Some of those things were [br]really, really hard.

0:26:16.934,0:26:22.148
And my team and I have been talking[br]to a lot of people, for example,

0:26:22.148,0:26:27.193
the partners we work with at libraries[br]to figure out what is it actually

0:26:27.193,0:26:28.836
precisely that they need.

0:26:30.111,0:26:33.893
And we finished that now,[br]though, of course, I'm happy

0:26:33.893,0:26:37.850
to take more feedback [br]if you want to talk to me about that,

0:26:37.850,0:26:41.397
and now I'm at a stage where [br]I'm comfortable to say,

0:26:41.397,0:26:43.480
"Okay, we're going to start with that."

0:26:44.606,0:26:48.197
And that will happen over the next[br]I would say two or three months

0:26:48.197,0:26:51.243
that we actually write [br]the first lines of code

0:26:51.243,0:26:53.793
and then hopefully have people able

0:26:53.793,0:26:56.533
to test it early next year, I would say.

0:26:59.661,0:27:01.023
(presenter) Okay, last questions.

0:27:02.457,0:27:05.603
(person 6) Finn Årup Nielsen [br]from Copenhagen, Denmark.

0:27:05.973,0:27:09.833
In relation to the other language,[br]there's been a sort of discussion

0:27:09.833,0:27:13.617
in the WikiCite community[br]about whether we should continue

0:27:13.617,0:27:15.765
to put more scientific papers in there--

0:27:15.768,0:27:19.913
this relates to how much data[br]we can put into Wikidata.

0:27:19.913,0:27:23.032
Timeout in the Wikidata Query Service[br]is one issue

0:27:23.032,0:27:24.468
but also the maintaining

0:27:24.468,0:27:30.300
so what are your thoughts about...

0:27:31.060,0:27:35.173
Is the size of Wikidata[br]beginning to be a problem

0:27:35.173,0:27:36.237
in general?

0:27:36.237,0:27:38.666
Should we stop putting in lexeme data?

0:27:38.666,0:27:41.222
Should we stop putting[br]in scientific data

0:27:41.222,0:27:45.717
into Wikidata or do we have [br]any research on this

0:27:45.717,0:27:50.053
or technical problems inflating?

0:27:50.292,0:27:51.445
Yeah...

0:27:53.266,0:27:57.419
Wikidata is definitely coming[br]to some...

0:27:58.906,0:28:02.732
scalability boundaries, let's say,

0:28:03.740,0:28:05.975
both technically and socially.

0:28:05.975,0:28:09.197
And for both we need solutions, right?

0:28:09.197,0:28:12.518
Socially, we have things like more editors

0:28:12.518,0:28:15.689
and recent changes to the point [br]where it's completely unfeasible

0:28:15.689,0:28:19.623
for a human to patrol that[br]because it's simply too much.

0:28:21.246,0:28:26.205
But also technically, [br]and we've been addressing some of that.

0:28:26.205,0:28:29.958
For example, some database [br]re-architecturing

0:28:29.958,0:28:33.718
around database view-turned table,[br]if that says anything for anyone.

0:28:35.900,0:28:38.366
But those only get us so far,

0:28:38.516,0:28:41.343
and one of the things we want[br]to look at next year

0:28:41.343,0:28:45.968
is where the other pain points are[br]and what to do about them

0:28:45.968,0:28:47.585
on the technical side.

0:28:49.085,0:28:50.728
So that's a general picture.

0:28:50.728,0:28:54.455
At the same time, I am very hesitant

0:28:54.455,0:28:58.387
to tell anyone, "No, no, no,[br]stop putting data into Wikidata."

0:28:58.400,0:29:02.408
That would kind of defeat the purpose.

0:29:04.311,0:29:07.061
But, for example, the Wikibase ecosystem

0:29:07.061,0:29:09.220
is one way to address that, right,

0:29:09.220,0:29:13.952
to not require everything [br]in Wikidata.

0:29:13.952,0:29:16.267
That's the whole beauty [br]of linked open data.

0:29:16.267,0:29:18.298
You don't have [br]to have it all in the same place.

0:29:18.298,0:29:19.642
You can connect different places.

0:29:19.642,0:29:20.859
It's amazing.

0:29:21.957,0:29:28.309
So around WikiCites specifically, yes--

0:29:29.644,0:29:34.718
okay, WikiCites specifically,[br]I think we need

0:29:34.718,0:29:36.256
to look at in proportion.

0:29:36.256,0:29:40.548
I don't have an exact percentage[br]of what percentage

0:29:40.548,0:29:44.511
of the items in Wikidata [br]are around WikiCite topics,

0:29:44.511,0:29:46.696
but it's a big percentage.

0:29:46.696,0:29:49.869
And maybe that's the thing[br]we need to talk about...

0:29:50.356,0:29:52.442
in the break.

0:29:53.191,0:29:54.766
Well, thank you very much!

0:29:54.845,0:29:56.281
(applause)