Hi, everyone!
I hope you're doing well.
I don't know for you, but I have the feeling
that I was just a few minutes before on this stage
doing the opening session,
and now it's already finished.
(pretend sounds of disappointment)
But yeah, this is indeed the closing session
of the WikidataCon 2019.
We are going to stay for about one more hour stuck in this room
before we go to more interesting things to do.
I will try to keep it entertaining, though.
Let's have a look.
First of all, I would like to try to make a little summary
of what I take from the conference--
the highlights that I've been noticing or that people have been sharing with me,
or that I could take from the notes and documentation.
Don't expect it to be comprehensive and getting into details
because that would need more than 20 minutes, definitely,
but I will try to give you some interesting anecdotes and things.
After that, we're going to go actually a bit more into details
about the workshop that happened yesterday
that was about envisioning Wikidata in the future,
because we think that it is important that you can learn a bit more
what happened during this workshop.
So we let my colleague, Raya, explain to you
what are the outcomes of the workshop.
Then, I will have a bit more practical information,
especially about what's happening tonight,
because the conference is not entirely over,
although this is the closing session.
We're still going to gather tonight in a very nice venue.
So we'll make sure that you have all the information to access it.
And, of course, we will go through the usual round of "thank you,"
because there is actually a lot,
and a lot of people to thank.
And maybe at the end a few announcements.
Let's see.
Let's get started.
- So, um... - (man laughs) Damn it.
(audience laughs)
(Léa) You consented. (laughs)
All right. So one of the things that I really find awesome
during this kind of conferences
is the fact that it's a place where people gather,
and people who are mostly working online most of the time
are actually meeting each other.
And my favorite thing that I spot at this conference
is actually when two people are looking at each other's badge and being like,
"Oh, it's you! Oh, it's you! Awesome!
Let's talk about this thing we've been discussing on Wiki forever."
And that's been happening once again a lot at this conference,
and that always makes me very happy.
But we also noticed that some people from institutions, for example,
took the opportunity of this conference
to meet and to discuss various topics
that they wanted to discuss--
maybe to start some new projects together,
and that, of course, make us very, very happy
because that was also one of the goals of this conference--
to help you networking, and exchanging,
and meeting new contacts for future collaborations.
We also learned more from how some organizations
are reusing Wikidata's data, both the data and also the software,
and how also they can contribute back to the community and to the content.
That's very important to us.
So we're very happy that we could learn a bit more about this.
And, in general, I always enjoy very much that people take some time
to share knowledge with others,
and we had various workshops or just very informal discussions
where people could explain to others some tool that they use.
For example, we had a SPARQL workshop,
we had a meetup about how to build maps, based on Wikidata.
This is just two examples out of many.
I really, really enjoy the fact
that people are keen to share what they know
and not just to keep it for themselves.
So it's really awesome.
Of course, during the conference, we worked on all kinds of projects.
So there was a lot of spontaneous gatherings
in these spontaneous, self-organized sessions,
a lot of meetups around specific projects.
We got, for example, stuff about schemas,
chemical compounds, [inaudible] paintings and so on.
I also learned the difference between the wiki spore
and the wiki sprouts.
Do you know the difference?
If not, go and have a look.
What's also very interesting is that we had various meetups
about how to connect Wikidata to other Wikimedia projects.
So we had things about the Wikidata powered infoboxes
on Wikipedia, on Commons, and also on other projects.
We had, if I remember correctly, a Wikisource meetup,
and we had, of course, various discussions
about the very, very exciting structured day on Commons project.
Speaking about that, there was also a challenge running with the ISA tool
to structured data on pictures related to [inaudible].
And I heard that the results of this challenge will be announced
at the end of this closing session, around 6 o'clock on Telegram, I think.
So, stay tuned.
So, languages.
It was one of the main topics of this conference.
Of course, a lot of sessions and discussions
took place around languages.
We learned, for example, more about how underserved languages communities
can use Wikidata for their specific needs,
and also how maybe we can improve the Wikidata, the processes of Wikidata
to make sure that we engage even more people
and even more of these communities.
Of course, we discussed a lot about lexical graphical data on Wikidata,
and more generally how collecting and describing words
can help build technological solutions to support endangered languages.
So plenty of very interesting topics in that regard.
The second main topic of the conference was Wikibase.
So with Wikimedia Germany over the past year
we noticed that the interest in Wikibase was growing and growing,
and I think that we can say for sure that Wikibase is the new thing
that's going on and everyone is talking about.
So it was really amazing to see various and different people and organizations
and learn about how they use Wikibase and adapt it to their own needs--
from libraries to [illuminatists]--
and also in the fields of biology, digital and non-digital art, and so on.
It was really, really great to have such an overview of all the projects
running with Wikibase.
We also question a bit the idea of a Wikibase community.
Is there even one? Does that even exist?
If so, how can we increase it, how can we strengthen it?
And how can we onboard
even more people in this Wikibase ecosystem?
So what was very great during the meetup is that this topic was discussed,
and already several ideas for actions were mentioned.
So I'm pretty sure that over the next weeks, months, and so on,
some of the ideas will be done.
Yeah, we can connect even more people and have them using Wikibase.
One thing that I really, really enjoy about these kinds of events,
and especially in the Wikidata community,
is all of this excitement that people have around their projects
and all of the appreciation that they share with each other.
So, for example, we could see both of them during the sessions yesterday evening
during the Birthday Presents demo and during the Award Ceremony.
It was really, really awesome to see.
We saw plenty of new tools that we're creating to fulfill new needs.
Maybe that emerged during the previous months,
or old needs that we're still waiting to be solved somehow.
And that really shows how both the Wikidata and the Wikibase communities
are resourceful and autonomous,
and when they see a problem, they want to solve it,
and not only for themselves, but actually share the solution that they found
to everyone, so they can also share their own problem.
I really like the enthusiasm that we have during these events.
Because people are all together, I heard some discussions like,
"Oh, yeah, we could do this tool.
Yeah, maybe we could do it over the weekend.
What? No way. I can do it during the break.
Oh, fine. Let's do it." (laughter)
It was really, really awesome.
And, generally, I really enjoyed that people were very cheerful
and praising each other for the work that they've been doing
and all the efforts that they put into their projects.
I really think that this is an awesome culture to have
in a community.
But what I also liked is that during this conference
we also tried to address some of the problems,
and we tried to reflect a bit on the current state of the data,
of the community, of the processes,
and tried to find what the issues are and also some ideas for solutions.
So we talked about data quality, of course.
We discussed what are the different ways to measure it,
and what are the existing and future features
that can help improving data quality.
We had some very interesting thoughts and reflections about how we can improve--
how we process and organize the data.
Because at the same time, we want to describe even better
the diversity of the world.
We want to strengthen our ontologies, the way we organize the data,
and how we classify the data.
But we also want to acknowledge
that the way we represent the world on Wikidata
can be harmful by reinforcing some oppression systems,
and we tried to highlight what are the problems
and what needs to be improved.
And finally, I want to thank you a thousand times
for the super great atmosphere that we had here.
Going to a Wikidata event, in general, feels always super great.
But the WikidataCon, this year's WikidataCon
is special in the sense that it was at the same time
some kind of a family meeting feeling where you meet some faces
that maybe you see only once a year,
but you're super happy to see them.
And also, at the same time, you see and meet plenty of people
that you didn't know before, and you get to know them,
you get to know the projects they're working on, and so on.
So I hope that each of you both met some people
that you already knew
and got in touch with some new people.
I really enjoy seeing the little ritual from the rituals
from the Wikidata community going on.
I'm thinking about this birthday party, Birthday Presents thing.
Of course, the Cuteness Association,
the plushes that are here, having their own little meetup.
Very small things like the nail polish, all this kind of stuff.
It looks kind of inside jokey, nerdy,
but it's been actually shared with all of you.
And at the same time, I see every one of you
making the effort of including more people,
because that was the case at this conference--
we also had people who are not yet part of the Wikidata community,
and I actually hope that they feel a bit more
like inside a community right now
and, in general, embracing all the diversity
of this Wikidata plus Wikibase ecosystem.
From an organization team perspective,
I want to thank you for-- how to say this--
letting us the space to actually experiment on things.
Some of you may be super used to Wikimedia events
or conferences in general,
and I really appreciated the fact that you were always super positive
when we tried some new things,
when something didn't work exactly as expected.
You've been super understanding and positive,
so I really, really loved that.
And, in general, I think and also heard from many, many of you
that people here have been very, very kind, and helpful, and supportive,
and super laid back.
So I wanted to thank you for that.
So, I think that was it for a very short wrap-up
of what happened during the conference.
If you want to know more, if you want to get more into details,
you can definitely go and watch the videos of the sessions,
look at the documentation, and so on.
I will show you the link later.
But for now, I'm going to welcome Raya,
who's going to present a bit what happened during this workshop
about the future of Wikidata.
Thank you, Léa.
And welcome everyone.
So you saw that workshop probably in the program yesterday at 4 p.m.
It was called Envisioning Wikidata in the Future
and Creating Idea Concepts in an Interactive Session.
And it was really interactive.
You can see the agenda here, so it was a lot about brainstorming,
idea generation, and then also prototyping.
And I would like to present what came out of that.
So the focus
and the brainstorming question that we had
was how can we support the creation of more diverse
and underrepresented knowledge.
We have talked about that a lot at this conference,
and this is also why we took that topic.
Also from Wikimedia Germany, we're looking into that.
But, of course, we're very interested what the community, what their ideas,
and from all of you what the ideas would be.
So there were 14 participants in four groups
working under different items of the agenda that you have seen.
So there were some silent brainstorming sessions,
there was some sharing, clustering,
and then, in the end, there was the prototyping.
These are some of the ideas.
So just that we get an impression that there's a lot.
So the idea was that everybody writes down
everything that comes to their mind.
And then, for the prototyping-- to prototype their favorite idea.
We saw several things that were related to UI/UX things.
So thinking that it probably would help to make the user experience easier,
so that would also help others to get into that.
But we're also seeing that it was about structural issues that were there.
And also we're looking at how to include oral citations or videos.
So there were several ideas into different directions.
Then, in the end, the four groups presented the prototypes.
And I have now the difficult task to tell all of you
what they have represented,
and I hope I do that correctly.
If not, please comment in the notes of this session.
This is what I at least took from it
and, hopefully, together with Jan discuss that and hope that this fits.
So we had the idea that--
One of the groups had the idea
that there should be diverse topic challenges
and also including leaderboards.
So the ideas is that there could be challenges
that draw the attention from other people.
So, for example, fashion data is probably not so much represented
at Wikidata at the moment.
So there could be a challenge to add more fashion designers, for example.
And then that could be also combined with a leaderboard
that, yes, has a bit of a challenging thing,
and who is the competitor here?
But on the other hand, also to see who's interested in that topic,
and that could also support the networking,
and that people know, "Ah, there's this person interested in that topic.
So let's work on these things together and improve on that."
So we got from that that this was really a gamification idea
and how we can make these things that we see in other gaming.
Also, show social networking things
that we could maybe include this.
Another idea was an easy creation of a Wikibase instance and ontology
for underrepresented knowledge
so that people could create a new Wikibase instance in the community,
for the community that is not represented.
And it should be as easy as on the left side--
to just click and say, "Yeah, now this is my Wikibase instance."
And then create an ontology based on fluid ontologies
that can also be extended by the community,
and then also annotate existing web content
to include it this way into your instance.
As I said, I hope I got that correctly.
If not, please comment on that.
Another idea was called a bit in the end-- Reasonator on Steroids.
So the idea to say, "Bringing our projects together on one page."
So at the moment, all of the different Wikimedia projects
have their own pages.
They need to be edited in a certain way,
and that's obviously difficult for newcomers
and also people in different communities
that they would just edit in one of the projects.
And so the idea is to have widgets, as you can see here on that side,
coming from the different projects.
So it could be images, and maps, also videos.
Also, the kind of medium should be different,
how it is represented.
And then this way, you have all the different ways
to contribute on one page,
which could also make it easier for others to represent another [chair].
And then, we had an idea or more a concept that said,
"Let's wait before we jump into solutions and tools.
We should understand non-Western knowledge better."
Because currently, our Wikidata has a lot of fact-oriented data.
Maybe people need more practical data.
So the structure of the data that we have is also a problem.
So before we are thinking about tools,
we need to understand from the local communities
what kind of knowledge has helped them in the past,
and then ask them, "How can we help you to transport your knowledge?"
And this way, from learning from that,
then understand better how this knowledge can be included.
I think that's it already, yeah. (chuckles)
(applause)
(Léa) Than you very much, Raya.
So, otherwise, as I was telling you earlier,
if you want to watch or rewatch maybe one of the sessions of the conference,
everything that took place in Kleist, Kepler, and Einstein
is or will be very soon available on this link
that I will, obviously, share everywhere on all the social networks that I watch.
Feel free to share it, of course, with other people.
And I also wanted to mention that in the next weeks and months
we will try to add subtitles-- first in English and then, hopefully,
in other languages.
And also, we will make sure
that if you also want to contribute with translation,
you will be able to translate these titles
to make the content of this conference even more accessible to the outside world
and to people who aren't necessarily super comfortable with English.
Now, documentation.
Documentation-- yeah, I know--
it's an effort that everyone should make, ideally.
After the conference, it's going to be the moment
where we're going to try to gather all the things.
What you can do to help is if you're a speaker
and you didn't add your slides on Commons yet, please do so
and also link them from the session speech on Wiki.
There's a category for that.
You can, of course, upload the pictures that you took on Commons.
Please mind, of course, the photo policy that we already presented.
Again, there's a category for that.
And feel free also, when you come back home,
to write about your experience at the conference
and especially what you enjoyed or what were your own highlights
of the conference.
And if you're writing, I don't know, reviews, blog posts, scholarly articles--
all kinds of things,
help us collecting them all, so we have a list of all the things.
I put the link here, but that's basically the page-- Documentation--
that is on the link from the main page of the WikidataCon on Wiki.
So you can find it easily.
And with all this documentation collected, don't forget to share it around you,
and especially if you come back to a local Wikimedia community,
or to an organization, or such group.
Tell the others about what you did during the conference
and share with them all this documentation that we prepared together.
Now, another boring topic but not that boring, actually.
On Monday, you will receive in your mailbox the Satisfaction Survey,
post-conference survey, whatever.
If you don't on Monday, then write to us,
because maybe something went wrong,
but we will make sure that you receive the link that is just for you.
It's not going to be too long to fill out,
maybe ten minutes of intense focusing, not more.
It's not just a random thing that we're never going to use.
We are actually looking very carefully at what you write on the survey.
It helps us to evaluate the conference, how it went.
It helps us to understand better your needs,
and, of course, to take all of this feedback to improve the next event,
and also to share with the rest of the Wikimedia community
and other communities organizing events
on what are the good practices for events.
This is truly going to be useful,
so please take ten minutes to fill out the Satisfaction Survey.
And if you also want to leave a public comment,
we have a page on Wiki for that.
Both are awesome,
but I would say that, probably, the survey is more important.
All right. Now, let's go to the practical details
about what's going to happen tonight
because I said, "The event is not over yet!"
First of all, we're going to have food.
So as you're used to now, we're going to have dinner
in both on the ground floor in Arnheim-Foyer
and in the Cafeteria until eight.
Starting at eight, we're actually going to go outside of the venue
take a bit of fresh air
and go to a new place that is called Alte Pumpe.
Before that, what's going to happen-- the session rooms like this one
and the two others are going to be closed.
So please check that you don't forget anything in the rooms.
The venue and also the wardrobe will close maximum at 8:30.
So again, make sure that you go and take all of your belongings.
Don't forget, I don't know, electronic devices, chargers,
your luggage, if you have one,
the beautiful wallets that you got at the conference,
your plushes, of course, don't!
All of these kinds of things.
Make sure that you have everything with you, because after 8:30,
it's not going to be possible to go back to the venue.
So please double-check.
At the registration desk, you will find the "Lost and Found,"
if you ever lost something or found something.
And it's going to be open until around eight.
If you need to print something, for example, a plane ticket
or something important,
you can have it printed by sending the document at *info@wikidatacon.org*
Again, until eight, after that, we're going to be already quite busy
tеаring down the venue.
So please do that before eight.
Now, about this "goodbye" gathering that we're having.
First of all, very important--
keep your badge if you're planning to attend
because you're going to need it in order to get inside a venue.
Without a badge, you cannot enter.
So please keep it.
However, if you have to leave before going to the Alte Pumpe,
you can leave your badge at the registration desk.
We try to collect the--
We don't really care about the paper inside,
but we collect the plastic and the lanyards to reuse them.
So please leave them here.
And if you go to the event, you will also have a box to leave them
when you get out of the event, when you leave for good, basically.
Alte Pumpe is really not far away; it's accessible by walking, actually,
around ten minutes.
We're going to have our first departure to there from here,
starting down there, next to the registration desk at eight.
We're going to have some lights, so we're very visible,
and you can follow us.
And after that, you can also go a bit later,
but keep in mind that at 8:30 we're going to close the venue,
so we're going to push you out basically.
You can access here the route to Alte Pumpe.
It's on the travel page on the Wiki.
So just to show you very quickly.
Basically, when you go out of Urania,
you take the right,
you walk until after the big street,
then on the right and then, yeah.
Basically, it's quite straightforward.
And when you arrive at Alte Pumpe, it should look like this.
You're going to enter through this little area under trees,
and then there is basically just one door.
And we're going to be there for you at the entrance anyway.
You're going to recognize us.
I hope that no one will get lost in the dark streets of Berlin.
(laughter)
So, last thing.
At the social event, you're going to get a few coupons
for alcoholic beverages.
So it's going to be different coupons from the one from yesterday.
It's not the same.
And you're going to get unlimited access to non-alcoholic beverages.
I can only encourage you to be, once again, responsible
about your alcohol consumption,
especially if you're not really used to that.
The event is going to run until 11 p.m.
After that, actually, the venue will stay open,
and you can continue to party if you want,
but it's going to be, of course, at your own responsibility.
All right. Now, if you're still not done with hanging around with Wikimedians,
you can attend some of these side events
that are going to take place tomorrow and on Monday.
Sadly, I have to announce
that the Visit of Berlin with a Wikimedian is canceled
because Martin, who was supposed to organize it,
is very, very sick, so he cannot do it.
However, if you want to, you can still do a spontaneous gathering
and just visit Berlin by yourself.
I think that the original meeting point was here, in front of Urania, at nine.
So, if you want to do that or organize yourself to do something else,
feel free to do so.
Other than that, tomorrow there will be the Wikibase workshop.
So the goal of this workshop is for people who want to learn
how to install their own Wikibase instance.
It's going to take place during the whole day
at Wikimedia Germany's office that you possibly already know.
It's open to everyone.
The condition is mostly that you're already kind of a bit familiar
with installing software or--
and that you have already an idea,
even, ideally, a dataset that you can actually use to practice.
It's going to be a practical workshop,
so you're definitely going to do some stuff and need some data for it.
There will also be iNaturalist workshop.
Basically, it's going to be about both going outside
and collecting data and pictures
and then uploading them later on iNaturalist and the data on Wikidata.
The meeting point is at nine tomorrow, at Wikimedia Germany's office.
Hopefully, the weather will be nice, and you will also gather outside
to contribute about things related to plants.
And if you're still there on Monday, we also have a night together
with the Open Knowledge Foundation, especially the OKLabs
that are some open data meetups that are happening every Monday evening
at Wikimedia Germany.
They nicely offered to have the one from Monday
dedicated to Wikidata.
So it's going to be a very nice gathering to meet people
working on other open data or civic text stuff,
not necessarily on Wikidata.
I think it's going to be a great moment to maybe share some knowledge or tools
that you or the other people don't know.
Finally, a reminder: we're going to change time tonight,
during the night, actually, at 3 a.m.
It's going to be 2 a.m. again.
So the good news is, actually, that makes the night longer,
so that makes your sleeping time longer.
But please, if you want to attend one of these side events,
or if you have a plane or train to catch,
please make sure that you know what time it is.
Your digital devices usually switch time by themselves
if they're connected to the Internet.
But that can be a bit tricky,
so feel free to check.
You can actually type in your favorite search engine:
"What time is it in Berlin?" and you're going to get the answer.
I hope that works for you.
All right. Now, let's go to the thank-you round.
First of all, I would like to thank all the organizations
that have been our partners or supporting the conference.
Thank you so much.
(applause)
Then, I would like to thank warmly all the people
who contributed very intensively to the content of the event
and to create both the formal program and also all the self-organized sessions.
So we had speakers, we had workshop runners,
we had a lot of discussion facilitators,
and, in general, everyone who helped gather interesting content
and meaningful discussions.
Thank you!
(applause)
Now, I would love
all the volunteers and also the organization team,
if you don't mind being on the camera,
to come a bit on the front of this stage, because--
Come. Start coming.
I would like to thank a lot all the people who contributed
to the success of this event.
This event cannot be run without all kinds of volunteers
who are helping at every stage of the conference.
So we have, for example, "room angels" who've been doing an amazing job!
(applause)
Thanks to them the sessions have been running exactly on time,
the speakers had their slides.
Everything has been running smoothly.
We also had people who supported with the streaming, thank you very much!
(applause)
We had people who helped with logistics, and it was very, very useful
both at the registration desk to carry all kinds of stuff.
So thank you for your help!
We also had a lot of people taking care of the documentation.
As it said, it should be a task for everyone,
but we had people especially
who put a lot of effort into gathering, and taking notes,
and all kinds of stuff.
So thank you for that as well!
(applause)
I would like to thank all the people who spontaneously jumped in
into volunteer roles.
It's been especially important because we've been having
a few people being sick or having various issues,
and we had a bit of stress in finding volunteers.
And it was pretty amazing to see all kinds of people just saying,
"Yeah, I can do it!"
Or not even announcing it but just actually coming and helping.
And this is really, really awesome!
So thank you very much all of you for that!
(applause)
And, of course, a warm thank you to the people who made sure
that the "friendly space" policy was enforced
and who were available to take care of anyone having some issues.
And thank you to the people who've been working on the program
and on the scholarship.
It's been a lot of work ahead of the conference.
So thank you very, very much for that!
(applause)
Thank you also to our official photographers
and everyone who took pictures during the event.
Thank you!
(applause)
And, of course, thank you to the amazing organization team.
It's been a blast to organize stuff with you.
Where are they?
Here, oh, some--
Thank you so much! You're awesome!
(applause)
All right. Do we have a picture of this beautiful gathering?
Let's do that!
(laughter)
(woman) Thank you, Léa!
(audience) Yes!
(applause)
(Léa) Okay? Anymore? (laughter)
(photographer) Can you say, "Cheese!"
(group) Cheese!
(Léa) Please look not tired!
(laughter) (overlapping chatter)
(Léa) All right. Thank you.
All right. Now, on the top of that,
I would like to give some special "thank yous."
First of all, I would like to thank the amazing people
who've been running this streaming service.
It's not the first time we've been working with them, already two years ago.
It's the team from the Chaos Computer Club
and the C3VOC team, whatever they pronounce that.
And every time we work with them, the quality is absolutely amazing.
The streaming works well, the sound is great,
the videos are already online.
How many events do you wait for months that the videos are online? Right?
And now they're already here!
So, please, a very warm thank you to the team!
(applause and cheers)
(Léa) Thank you.
I also wanted to thank Julien, User Jitrixis,
for the mobile app or mobile version that we had for the program.
I think it's really, really, important
that we have a mobile version of our program.
This tool, it's been already used for other Wikimedia events.
Its aim is to be used even more.
So actually, if you're organizing an event,
you can discuss with Julien about using it,
and especially if you think that you can contribute to the code,
to the documentation, also to the translation of the things,
because the app, as far as I remember, was based in French
and then it has been translated in English, and so on.
Feel free to go to him and to offer your help--
it will be very appreciated.
Thank you very much for that!
(applause)
And, of course, thank you to all of you
for a very positive mood, for all the great discussions that we had,
for your active participation in the event.
Yet, another thing I like is that almost all of you
were actively involved in at least one little thing at the event,
and I found it really, really great!
And, of course, for your future help with documentation!
Thank you!
(laughter and applause)
(Léa) All right. Now, it's time for a few announcements.
So, what's coming next?
What's coming next year, in 2020?
So, in 2020, we're going to celebrate Wikidata's 8th birthday.
Maybe you know, but last year,
we had this Wikidata around the world thing
where actually 36 or maybe even more, at least 36 on the list,
groups of people around the world organized something
to celebrate the birthday.
I'm wondering, can we have even more in 2020?
If nothing happened around you last year,
maybe you could start one with your community?
Here's the thing.
In 2020, we're going to do this Wikidata birthday
around the world again.
We would love to build something that is actually decentralized,
that is happening everywhere,
and it is all connected.
And that especially allows everyone,
including people who for various reasons
cannot just drive to Berlin and attend the WikidataCon.
We want to have that for everyone.
So please start thinking about it right now if you want.
Talk to people around you,
talk to your local chapter if you have one,
talk to your community,
talk maybe to your local partners, libraries, museums,
everyone you're already in contact with.
Because there are plenty of things that you can do around Wikidata.
It doesn't have to be a huge conference. Not at all, actually.
It can be just a meetup in a bar or in a library.
It can be sharing cake, of course.
We had awesome pictures of cakes last year,
and I'm already looking forward to all the pictures
that we will have next year of delicious and beautiful cakes.
That could be an introduction of Wikidata to your local Wikipedia community
or your colleagues, if you're working somewhere
where they could be interested,
or just to the audience where you live.
It can be a workshop, it can be an edit-a-thon,
so adding more data into Wikidata.
It could even be, why not, a Wikibase install party,
because Wikibase is a new thing, as you remember.
So basically, these are all the kinds of things that you can do.
We can support you with communication,
and we will try to get all of this connected together
under this banner of the Wikidata's 8th birthday.
Now, a very quick note about money.
The Wikimedia Foundation can also support you if you need it.
They have these grant processes that are running,
and the one that will be connected to the date of the Wikidata birthday
which is on October 29, just like every year.
The grant round is actually going to start in February, this year.
So if you don't want to miss it, start thinking about it,
start gathering your ideas right now if you want to get some funding.
Now, what could happen in 2021?
Very good question.
I cannot tell a lot right now, but what I can tell you
is that the WikidataCon will be back in two years.
Stay tuned, more information will come.
We have-- maybe that date, it is not really fixed yet,
but that's already something
that you can write in your calendar already for in two years,
around the Wikidata birthday, as usual.
Stay tuned, more information will come on your regular channels.
(applause and cheers)
All right. Thank you again, everyone!
Enjoy the dinner, enjoy the goodbye evening tonight,
and I hope that I can see all of you very soon! Thank you!
(cheers and applause)