Upcoming LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Project Series session on September 30th!

[Hilary K Thorsen]

Hi, everyone -–

Please join us on September 30th for the first session of our WikiProject Personal Pronouns Series. 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 provide a high-level overview of WikiProject Personal Pronouns' goals, past work, and implementation plans. The session will also serve as a practical orientation to the implementation work for this project, ending with a demonstration of the workflow to be used in subsequent sessions. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. This session will be recorded.

Call Details:

• Date and Time: Tuesday, September 30th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). 
• Series Event Page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/PersonalPronouns
• September 30th Zoom Link:
  https://washington.zoom.us/j/95860999681?pwd=JU44ny53YfibMPFklzabB300E7zbkb.1 

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-1k52ss2nk-4WR~a7PtbVtevQEEhGOAUQ
Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group

On behalf of the Wikidata Affinity Group Co-Facilitators,

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