Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 14 October, 2025

[Hilary K Thorsen]

Hello, everyone –  

We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter).  

If you were unable to attend the initial orientation & overview session, you are encouraged to view the recording prior to attending a subsequent session. Remaining sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST, and will not be recorded.

WikiProject Personal Pronouns was initiated with the goals of establishing and implementing ethical and logical best practices and data modeling for personal pronouns sets to Wikidata items representing human beings and fictional characters. As of September 2025, a new data model and set of best practices have been established as a policy through a successful Request for Comment. These sessions are the project's first steps toward implementation, and will perform data cleanup on just under 7,000 existing statements using P6553 (personal pronoun).

This session will serve as the first of three working sessions. We are looking forward to collaborating with LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group members to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata by remediating legacy statements together. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. 

Call Details:

Date and Time:  Tuesday, 14 October, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter)

Zoom link to join meeting:
https://washington.zoom.us/j/95860999681?pwd=JU44ny53YfibMPFklzabB300E7zbkb.1 

Meeting ID: 958 6099 9681 

Passcode: 848677 

Series event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/PersonalPronouns

The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.

Communication:
Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata

#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-39rjo8h39-W3l8xtZ~VtwM2DObLkfbUg
Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group

On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators,

Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thor...@stanford.edu
650-285-9429