[Epic] Organize WikiCite16 event
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We're looking to organize a small, technically-focused event in the summer bringing together people and organizations working on technology to improve the coverage, quality, standard compliance and machine readability of citations and source metadata in Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects. This is a coordination card spawned from the Dev Summit action items.

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	• DarTar	T125186 [Epic] Organize WikiCite16 event
Resolved	• DarTar	T125607 First round of pre-invitations for WikiCite
Resolved	• DarTar	T126828 WikiCite 2016 presentation
Resolved	• DarTar	T130222 Request board approval for sponsoring WikiCite
Resolved	• DarTar	T130679 WikiCite open registration and announcement
Resolved	• DarTar	T134321 WikiCite: agenda and instructions to attendees

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• DarTar created this task.Jan 29 2016, 4:40 AM

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NealMcB subscribed.Jan 29 2016, 5:10 PM

Fascinating. Would this be the first wikicite event? I see no notes of previous ones at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite

• DarTar updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 2 2016, 7:36 PM

Hi @NealMcB, this would be the first dedicated event indeed (we decided to reuse the name of that old initiative as it's quite relevant and there's no risk of name conflict as long as we update the documentation).

There were several "citathons" over the past few years, starting from Wikimania 14. Since then, a number of initiatives have taken off and we believe a small, technically focused event can help all partners involved make substantial progress. See this Wikimania 16 submission for a summary.

• DarTar renamed this task from [epic] Organize WikiCite16 event to [Epic] Organize WikiCite16 event.Feb 2 2016, 11:37 PM

• DarTar added a subtask: T125607: First round of pre-invitations for WikiCite.

• DarTar added a subtask: T126828: WikiCite 2016 presentation.Feb 12 2016, 11:15 PM

Jmdugan subscribed.Feb 13 2016, 5:44 AM

• DarTar added projects: Epic, Research-outreach.Feb 20 2016, 4:05 PM

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• DarTar added a subtask: T130222: Request board approval for sponsoring WikiCite.Mar 17 2016, 4:32 PM

• ggellerman edited projects, added Research-Freezer; removed Research.Mar 17 2016, 10:19 PM

• ggellerman moved this task from Backlog to Epics on the Research-Freezer board.Mar 17 2016, 10:20 PM

I just stumbled upon this after trying to kickstart something similar at the questionably named Meta:Talk:Reliability project

I didn't get far, but still, I think that I might have captured some ideas worth considering. Please take a look.