Event:VIZWP 24 10 2025

Example of visualizations of Wikipedia articles. First prototype focused on articles related to the Italian school syllabus

Programme of the workshop

1. Present and explain sketches considered for the first version of the tool : Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change/Tool/Co-design activities
2. Invite participants to provide feedback about those first sketches
3. Link to a survey : access the survey

Participation

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• Open to all
• Great for both new and experienced Wikimedians.
• Event organized on Zoom. Link will be added a couple of hours before the event
• To take part, please register on this event page.
• The workshop will be primarily in English. But if you are a French speaker, the organizer can manage :)

Context

What is this project about

The project was publicly presented at Wikimania 2025 in Kenya, during a very lively poster session. The original version of the poster may be found here

Visualizing Sustainability and Climate Change is a project aimed at identifying and visualizing knowledge gaps related to sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia. The project helps visualize these knowledge gaps, supports communities in improving content on this important topic, facilitates collaboration among multilingual communities and partners, and strengthens the capacity of Wikipedia contributors to document and share information on climate change (as well as sustainability and SDGs).

In practice, in collaboration with Wikimedia projects focused on sustainability and climate change, the initiative will produce a visual tool that allows users to evaluate and monitor the quality and quantity of articles related to sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia across different languages.
In the long run, the tool is expected to serve beyond the specific «  Climate change » topic.

Who is involved in the project

The projet is developped as part of a research project, promoted by SUPSI, funded by the SNSF (grant number 10003183), with the patronage of Wikimedia Italia. On the Wiki Community side of things, the organizations involved are Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Wiki in Africa, and Wiki Education Foundation. And its community manager is Anthere

When does that take place

The full research project will last 4 years. It launched in May 2025.
The main goals in 2025 are to

• Establish the list of climate change related articles the project will work on
• Collect needs and feedbacks for researchers and institutions active in the Wikimedia movement
• Inform the community, host conversations, collect needs, compile feedback. In short... activities to make sure the tool will be useful for wikipedians
• Setting up the specs of the tool (design etc.)
• First implementation of the tool

The release of the first version and test phase is anticipated to take place early 2026. The second release would be mid 2026, and a final release in 2027, or 2028.

How is the tool developed

Starting points to consider

• The tool will be based on the prototype: https://itwiki-scuola-italiana.toolforge.org/
• As well as on: https://impact-visualizer.wmcloud.org/topics/23
• Starting dataset: access the doc