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Wikidata one year in Taiwan, what is our results and what is our future plan
abstract
Wikidata Taiwan Community is developing for one year. Several years ago the project manager of Wikidata give a talk on COSCUP, but after the talk there were few action outside the Wikipedia movement circle. Until 2019 there is a change, once a topic belong to related project like Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap, Wikidata in Taiwan finally have the chance to run as a booming community. It is easy for interested people to edit Wikidata, and for developers it is also very easy to access by API using query language to retrieve stuff you want. So there are many Wikidata-powered application.
Wikidata is not only a knowledge system, but also have a lexema system for storing words and terms of any given languages. This talk will reflect the achievement of last year, like waterway data, school data, village data, and looking into the future possibility , things such as local language restoration, gender issue and local studies.
This talk will review Wikidata activities of 10 years in Taiwan. From the very beginning of Wikidata project Manager's talk in COSCUP. But Wikidata does not have much to do in Taiwan, only linked-data scholar care about. And recent years Wikidata was rediscovered by Taiwan Wikimedian. We will talk about our experience and future overview.
Dennis is a Community member of Wikidata Taiwan and OpenStreetMap Taiwan. A former media workers, but still have connection with editing due to participate in OpenStreetMap community news publication weeklyOSM team. He follows closely with the trend of open content and open data in Taiwan, sometimes also pay attention to digital rights.