Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with Lydia Pintscher

This episode features Lydia Pintscher, Product Manager for Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland, who sits with Maari Zwick-Maitreyi, Language Justice program Co-Lead at Whose Knowledge?, to explore how information organized for machines often reflects existing biases. Lydia shares her deep insights into Wikidata, a pivotal project for structured data, emphasizing its role in powering information across the internet. She highlights the challenge of making Wikidata more inclusive, acknowledging that:

The hardest thing is always getting people to collaborate. It's really hard to get people from different communities, from different countries, different cultural backgrounds to sit around the table and figure out how to do something together.

Lydia also discusses the importance of community input for shaping Wikidata’s future, ensuring that its structure genuinely reflects diverse knowledge systems.

Tune in to understand the nuances of structured data and its immense potential for global knowledge sharing!