User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)

Thiemo Mättig (WMDE)

Hi, my name is Thiemo Mättig and I work as a software developer and engineer at Wikimedia Deutschland in Berlin. My main project is Wikidata, as well as tools and user scripts that empower all Wikimedia communities. This account is solely used for the editing of Wikimedia projects and on behalf of Wikimedia Deutschland.

Thiemo Mättig; Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Email: thiemo.maettig@wikimedia.de
IRC: #wikidata Thiemo_WMDE
Twitter: @maettig

Sessions I'm contributing to

I plan do be part of all Wikidata-related sessions listed in the programme.

Talk to me about

Wikidata and Wikibase, the software that drives Wikidata
German Technical Wishlist project
German Wikipedia community
Code quality, good code, software architecture and code reviews
Tools, gadgets and user scripts
Indie game development
The power of regular expressions
Wikimedia Deutschland
Berlin

My personal schedule

Monday, 7 August

16:00 – Flight arrives in Montréal

Tuesday, 8 August

Being a tourist in Montréal

Wednesday, 9 August: Hackathon Day 1

Hacking my first custom PHPCS sniffs
Helping people with Wikidata

Thursday, 10 August: Hackathon Day 2

Hacking thousands of lines of unused JavaScript code away from the Wikibase code base
Helping people with Wikidata
11:00 – Hack on Wikidata Query UI
~~14:30 – WikidataCon committee meeting~~

Friday, 11 August

09:00 – Opening ceremony
11:00 – The (Wiki)Data (R)Evolution
11:30 – Centering Knowledge From The Margins (recommended to me)
11:30 – Why We Read Wikipedia (recommended to me)
14:00 – Wikidata & infoboxes panel
14:00 – A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Complete Beginners
16:00 – SPARQL – a gentle introduction to the Wikidata Query Service
17:15 – Wikimedia 2030 (recommended to me)

Saturday, 12 August

11:00 – So, you have data. Now, what do you do?
11:30 – Structured Commons: what changes are coming?
12:00 – New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons
14:30 – Waiting for Real-Time Collaboration (recommended to me)
16:00 – Cats, goats and awesome requests: Highlights from the Technical Wishlist
16:00 – Structured Data on Commons: Design discussion
18:00 – Group photo
19:00 – Wikidata meetup

Sunday, 13 August

11:00 – Lightning talks
12:00 – Bringing lexicographical data to Wikidata: supporting Wiktionary and beyond
14:00–16:00 – Meet me at the Wikimedia Deutschland table in the community village.
~~14:00 – Fundraising messaging that moves our readers: What we’ve learned from testing thousands of fundraising appeals (recommended to me)~~
16:00 – Wikidata "ask us anything"
16:30 – Wikidata Pink Pony Session
20:15 – Flight back to Germany starts