Wikimania 2025

Lydia Pintscher

Lydia Pintscher is the Portfolio Lead for Wikidata. She works at Wikimedia Deutschland and has supported the Wikidata Community since the beginning of Wikidata. In her free time she contributes to KDE, a free software community, as the vice-president of KDE e.V.


Sessions

08-06
10:30
25min
Wikidata: We want our data to be reused. But do we really?
Lydia Pintscher

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/yjENat8ts4Q?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfIr2HbYikIz4XMBXKTGytWY&t=3612 🎥

Wikidata's data is made to be reused. We want people inside and outside the Wikimedia movement to use our data to build great applications and services that give more people more access to more knowledge. But do we really? Let's take a closer look together!

Open Data
NAIROBI (🗣️ ar, es, fr, sw)
08-06
11:15
30min
Extended Q&A: Wikidata: We want our data to be reused. But do we really? with Lydia Pintscher
Lodewijk, Lydia Pintscher

Another opportunity for remote attendees to ask questions to Lydia Pintscher after the session Wikidata: We want our data to be reused. But do we really?

Village Pump (remote only)
Village Pump (remote only)
08-07
09:30
25min
Wikidata: a whirlwind tour through the land of Wikidata-powered apps
Lydia Pintscher

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/WaWk6hNGRrk?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJtMBKTkOdmzfP3ENS24BJ-&t=646 🎥

Wikidata's data is used in thousands of projects and often we don't realize what our work makes possible. In this session we will take a tour through some of the great applications and services that have been built on top of Wikidata's data. Join us for a wild ride!

Open Data
NAIROBI (🗣️ ar, es, fr, sw)