Event:Ionian Wikithon 2025
For the 4th year in a row, the Networks, Multimedia and Systems Security Laboratory of the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University in collaboration with the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece are organizing the "Ionian Wikithon 2025" following the Ionian Wikithon 2022, Ionian Wikithon 2023, Event: Ionian Wikithon 2024
The Ionian Wikithon will take the form of an open event, where the entire Ionian University community, as well as professionals, amateurs and young people with an interest in communication and information technology, are welcome to attend. The event's primary purpose is to encourage the whole community to participate and engage in technology and IT and information, to promote gender equality in IT, multiculturalism and the empowerment of women. The focus will be on cleaning up and fixing bugs in MediaWiki, building new tools, and getting familiar with using Wikipedia's Wikidata. Through this particular event, participants will be given the opportunity to enrich their skills, collaborate with people with whom they share common interests and increase their knowledge by learning some technologies such as MediaWiki, PHP, API, SPARQL, etc. The intended result is the attraction of young and more women and their activation in matters related to information technology and technology, but also the consolidation of their presence in related events.
Organizers: Eleni Christopoulou, Dimitris Ringas, Marios Magioladitis
Calendar
[edit]- October 4, 2024: Presentation "Promotion of the Cultural and Touristic Product using Wikidata" at the Master "Digital Technologies in Hospitality and Tourism Management" of the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University by Eleni Christopoulou and Dimitrios Ringas
- October 2024 - November 2024: Developing dynamic web pages using Wikidata, students from the MSc course "Tools Promoting Cultural and Touristic Product" at the Master "Digital Technologies in Hospitality and Tourism Management" of the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University
- January 18, 2025: Meeting of volunteers
- February 9, 2025: Meeting of volunteers - programming the activities of the main event in May
- March 9, 2025: Organizers' meeting with member of the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece in Thessaloniki - preparation for the action for the Museum of the Ionian University
- March 30, 2025: Meeting of volunteers - preparation of the activities of the main event in May
- May 4, 2025: Meeting of volunteers - creating the Interactive Game "Experience Corfu via Geocaching and Wikipedia"
- May 6, 2025: Presentation of the Ionian Wikithon at the 1st Student Conference of the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University
- May 7, 2025: Playing with the Interactive Game "Experience Corfu via Geocaching and Wikipedia" during the 1st Student Conference of the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University
- May 9, 2025: Main Event of the Ionian Wikithon
Ionian Wikithon - Wikimedia Hackathon Satellite Event
[edit]- Friday 9 May 2025 @ Department of Informatics, Ionian University (Galinos Laboratory)
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Registration |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Presenting the Ionian Wikithon & Friendly Space Policy, Eleni Christopoulou, Lecturer, Dept. of Informatics |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Newcomers - Creating Wikimedia accounts, Dimitrios Ringas, Lecturer, Dept. of Informatics |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Wikimedia CEE Hub - Regional hub covering Central and Eastern Europe, Barbara Klen, CEE Hub Coordinator, Wikimedia CEE Hub |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Introduction to Wikidata, Eleni Christopoulou, Lecturer, Dept. of Informatics |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Interactive Game: Knowing the city of Corfu via Geocaching and Wikipedia, Evangelos Konstantinidis, Student, Dept. of Informatics |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | SPARQL & Wikidata Endpoint, Michail Stefanidakis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics, Invited Speaker |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Team Photo |
| 17:15 – 17:45 | Challenge: Designing an interactive game Geocaching with Wikidata and Wikipedia for the CEE Meeting 2025 in Thessaloniki, Dimitrios Ringas, Lecturer, Dept. of Informatics |
| 17:45 – 18:15 | Developing dynamic sites exploiting Wikidata promoting cultural and touristic points of interest, Irene Kavvadia & Chrysa Vasileiou, Postgraduate students, MSc Digital Applications & Innovation, Dept. of Informatics |
| 18:15 - 18:45 | Introduction to Wikimedia. Explaining Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, ... Marios Magioladitis, President of the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece |
| 18:45 - 19:15 | Coordinate Me, Wikidata Competition for Geolocatable Content, Eleni Christopoulou, Lecturer, Dept. of Informatics |
| 19:15 - 19:45 | Analysing the behavioural politics in Wikipedia, Marios Magioladitis, President of the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece |
| 19:45 - 20:00 | Presentation of CEE Meeting 2025, 26-28 September, Thessaloniki |
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Dinner |
| 21:00 - 23:00 | Hacking time |
Updated calendar in the Greek page