Event:VIZWP 05 06 2026

Example of visualizations of Wikipedia articles.

Programme of the workshop

1. Present the features already published in the first release of the tool
2. Invite participants to provide feedback about those
3. Present the AI based tool to create your own set of articles

Participation

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• Open to all
• Great for both new and experienced Wikimedians.
• Event organized on Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87187699280
• 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 :)
• Time is: 16h UTC !

Links

• The tool: https://impact-visualizer.wmcloud.org/topics/23#bubble
• The topic builder: https://topic-builder.wikiedu.org
• Dropping comments: Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change/Tool

Context

What is this project about

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.

Starting from this first release, the tool can also 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 main goals in 2026 are to

• The release of the first version and test phase early 2026
• The release of the second version and test phase late 2026
• Use and assessment of the visualisation tool
• Presentation at Wikimania 2026
• Presentation at FOSDEM 2026 and elsewhere
• Collaborative analytics workshop end of the year

A final release is planned in 2027, or 2028.