Wikipedia and Wikidata Tutorial
20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing
ICON 2023
Thursday, 14th December 2023
Goa University
Wikipedia is one of the first sources that anyone looks up for any important or unknown information as well as for more information about a known topic. The main purpose of Wikipedia is sharing information from all branches of knowledge. Wikipedia data is also used by NLP practitioners for building language models.
Wikipedia is one of the first sources that anyone looks up for any important or unknown information as well as for more information about a known topic. The main purpose of Wikipedia is sharing information from all branches of knowledge. Wikipedia data is also used by NLP practitioners for building language models.
This tutorial aims to guide volunteers in making valuable contributions to the Wikimedia ecosystem
This tutorial aims to guide volunteers in making valuable contributions to the Wikimedia ecosystem
Speakers
Speakers
Radhika Mamidi
Radhika Mamidi
IIIT Hyderabad
Praveen Das
Praveen Das
Wikimedia Foundation
Krupal Kasyap
Krupal Kasyap
IndicWiki@IIIT-H
This tutorial provides participants with a comprehensive overview of Wikipedia, Wikidata and other sister projects. It will also enable practical hands-on experience in editing and contributing to these platforms. Participants will gain valuable insights into the MediaWiki ecosystem and the role they can play in shaping the world's largest open-content encyclopedia as a new Wikipedian.
This tutorial provides participants with a comprehensive overview of Wikipedia, Wikidata and other sister projects. It will also enable practical hands-on experience in editing and contributing to these platforms. Participants will gain valuable insights into the MediaWiki ecosystem and the role they can play in shaping the world's largest open-content encyclopedia as a new Wikipedian.
Let us know if you'll be attending!
Let us know if you'll be attending!
About ICON 2023
The 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2023) will be held at Goa University, Goa , India during December 14-17, 2023. The ICON Conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational linguistics (CL) in India and abroad. The main conference is on December 15-16, 2023. This will be preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials / workshops on December 14, 2023 and one day of post conference shared tasks / tools / demos on December 17, 2023.
Venue
Venue
The International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2023) is a significant event in the field of natural language processing (NLP)
The International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2023) is a significant event in the field of natural language processing (NLP)