Grants:TPS/Bodhisattwa/Wikimania/2019/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2019!

Participant

Bodhisattwa

Bengali Wikisource

Outcome

Learning Pattern

I attended the following sessions-

• Mini Keynote: What we did when the National Museum in Brazil burned
• Mini Keynote: State of Wikidata in 2019
• Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata
• wikimania:2019:Technology outreach & innovation/Tools for partnerships – developing the technology our partners need
• From a messy spreadsheet to Wikidata: start mass data uploads with OpenRefine
• The Met Museum and New Frontiers in Wikidata engagement
• Map making workshop – from Wikidata to interactive off-wiki maps in three steps

New Creation

Wikisource Index scrapper

Upon my request, Pmlineditor worked on a python script to scrape Wikisource index namespace and generate tsv file, which can be used for data ingestion in Wikidata, thus increasing bibliographical data there.

Anything else

Wikidata in India co-presented by KCVelaga and me

I have presented the following sessions in Wikimania

• Sharing best practices among Wikisource communities co-presented by me and Ankry.
• Growing Wikidata in Emerging Communities (India as a case study) co-presented by KCVelaga and me.