Program/Poster and art reception
The Wikimania 2018 Poster and Art Reception will be held in the plenary hall in the evening of Friday, day 1.
Drinks and dessert will be provided to all.
Poster-authors will be standing with their posters to answer questions of the audience.
You can also meet the artists at the "What is Knowledge? Art Exhibition on the 1st floor during this reception.
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Poster session at 2017 Wikimania -
Photo describing the poster session at Wikimania 2017, in Montréal. -
Wikimania 2017 - Poster session 03
| Room | Montreal  & Mexico City 
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| Friday 20 July 20:00 – 21:30 |
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Official category for all the posters on Commons.
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- Women
- Writers
- Challenge
- Multilingual
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
- Plenary hall
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Participation & representation
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I made the #100wikidays challenge about Women Writers. I began some articles (19) and translated anothers from other Wikipedias (81). The challenge helped to break the gender gap (increase the percentage of women's biographies), index some existing articles, and add new pictures to Commons. Many of the writers are from Galicia and wrote in galician languages, and other where from many other places, such as United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, Spain or Nicaragua. Some articles where related to the project Intercultur, developed by Wikimedia Spain about articles from the diferent languages of Iberian Peninsula.
Outcomes
This challenge will help other users to create new articles on a specific topic and break the gender gap
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- Wikidata
- Infoboxes
- Multilingual tools
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Wikimedia Commons categories serve as collections of media files on every conceivable topic. They are used by a multilingual community, but the main language used for category names is English - even for categories about non-English topics. Wikidata can make the categories significantly easier to use by providing information relevant to the category in the user's language. This can be done with a single infobox that works for all different topics, which can be easily added to the category providing the category is linked to a Wikidata item through a sitelink. This poster will describe how the infobox works, and how to add it to commons categories.
Outcomes
How the Wikidata Infobox on Commons works How to add it to categories
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- Sustainability
- Environment
- Longevity
- Carbon Footprint
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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- Other
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In 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Board formally declared, "We believe that a long-term commitment to sustainability is an essential component of our work towards the Wikimedia mission and vision," and they made a set of commitments that encompasses including an environmental impact statement in the WMF 2018 annual plan. This poster will present an examination of the environmental impact of the infrastructure and operation of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, and will outline the various factors that can be monitored and improved over time in the form of a roadmap for sustainability. As we convene in a city that is on the brink of a major water catastrophe, it is important to be aware that the Wikimania event is one that puts pressure on local resources, and it gives us an opportunity to deeply reflect on how can we minimize the environmental impact of spreading free knowledge around the world.
Outcomes
Attendees will gain an awareness of the environmental impact WMF and its affiliates are making in pursuit of globally spreading free knowledge, and they will learn what can be done to mitigate that impact, both at the organizational level and the individual level. Supporting slide deck
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- Masssly (talk) 23:06, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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Poster
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- art as knowledge
- diversity
- artificial intelligence
- policy: scope
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Knowledge forms
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Art is an underrepresented form of knowledge whose unique nature allows for information transmissions that are not possible in language. There are words that cannot be translated, histories, information and ideas that currently only, and maybe best exist, in the form of art. Ubuntu is one such word. Its essence is in humanity, common recognition.
Art becomes even more important when we think about the next evolution of technology, thinking beyond just human readers and viewers, and considering the artificially intelligent machine viewers that use Wikipedia as a training ground. Through artificial intelligence, existing knowledge gaps are programmatically threaded into our future. So what would it mean for artificially intelligent machines to understand the word Ubuntu? Does the Wikimedia community understand its own role in the education of machines?
As long as existing policies such as such as Wikimedia Common‰Ûªs COM:SCOPE actively discourage the inclusion of multiple art forms as a global kind of knowledge, we‰Ûªre missing an opportunity to explore new forms of knowledge that can reach more of the world. Let‰Ûªs do better.
This has been the focus of my own Wikimedia contributions, artwork and internet activism. In this talk I will discuss new ways the Wikimedia community could think of art as educationally useful, including as a key educator of the machines already reading Wikimedia projects, and how changes in policy and outlook can be a doorway into new users and contributors, particularly with underrepresented communities. Those attending will be encouraged to follow along on their own devices, seeing for themselves how restricting art-based contributions is contributing to systemic bias, and asked to consider how we might expand to include more kinds of visual knowledge in Wikimedia projects.
Outcomes
1. Sharing resources with anyone who wants to participate to bring more art as a knowledge form online. These resources will teach people how, and why, art images should be added to Wikimedia Commons. 2. Increase community understanding of Wikimedia's role in the education of intelligent machines as reflected by discussions, policy, and forms that will be proposed in my talk. 3. Ultimately, attendees will be encouraged to think, discuss, and act to include more art, particularly from underrepresented populations and demographics, in Wikimedia projects.
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Poster
- Keywords
- Education
- Off-line
- Kiwix
- Peer-to-peer
- Portable devices
- Access to Wikipedia
- When and where
- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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- User:GastelEtzwane
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Language & literacy Access & accessibility
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Wikipedia has fundamentally changed the way students and educators access encyclopedic knowledge, and even the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in print since 1768, stopped it's paper editions in 2010. The schools in Senegal are share a common point with schools in Europe or North America in that they do not have much in way of up to date printed resources. The difference lies in the lack of internet connectivity, and the Kiwix project is one way to bring the resources to those who lack access to the Web.
Three trips were made to Senegal in 2014, 2015 and 2016 to share the Kiwix program with schools and training facilities, mostly in Dakar and in Thiès. The Kiwix program allows access Wikipedia without being connected to the internet. The seminars given in the schools were also an introduction to Wikipedia itself since being off the grid means that many of the teachers did not really know about the online encyclopedia.
Ibrahima Diop is an instructor at the Naval Academy in Dakar, Senegal and Gabriel Thullen is a high school teacher in Geneva, Switzerland. We plan to share with you our experiences over the past 4 years in distributing Kiwix and training our colleagues in Senegal. Our work has been done in a peer to peer manner, very grass root, relying on the strength of community ties and contacts as opposed to working on a development project negotiated between official governmental agencies and NGOs.
Outcomes
Schools exist to train and to share knowledge. Attendees will discover the ease with which it is possible to provide access to the knowledge contained in Wikipedia for those who are in areas with no internet connexions. The attendees will also be made aware of how each and any of us can share this exceptional program whenever we are off the grid. They will be able to improve the way we did things in Senegal by building on our positive experiences and avoiding the pitfalls we discovered.
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- Masssly (talk) 23:08, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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Poster
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- fork
- merge
- edit conflicts
- tor
- offline
- censorship
- drafts
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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A new editor makes a contribution. It is immediately reverted and their work is apparently "lost".
A careful editor wants a space to refine and get feedback on a draft edit over a period of time, without worrying about unrelated edits causing conflicts.
A minority editor wants a safe space to work on an edit without immediate harassment.
A Peruvian school-child finds no information in Wikipedia about their hometown, but can't contribute an article because they are using the wiki offline.
A user in a repressive regime can only safely access Wikipedia by using Tor, but in a catch-22 they then lose the ability to make contributions.
A computer crash just before publishing a long edit causes all work to be lost.
A user encounters an edit conflict and gives up.
One mechanism---branched revisions, with good merge tools---can help solve all of these problems. This talk will show how.
With a fork-and-merge model new users whose content isn't immediately merged find it preserved on their fork for revision and re-submission, reducing their sense of rejection and loss. Offline users who are forced to work on an out-of-date copy and those using the draft namespace can use the same improved tools when their contributions are brought to merge. During online edits we can auto-save to a fork, and if conflicts are found we can safely defer resolving them without losing work. With volunteer-run queues for merging contributions, we can incorporate contributions from offline editors or Tor users, or rescue conflicted edit attempts.
We then can collect edits from more diverse and less-connected users and provide a friendlier first-edit experience to retain newcomers. Volunteer merge queues provide another means for those well-connected to aid those with difficulties in the spirit of ubuntu. By increasing participation we can bridge the knowledge gap.
Outcomes
An understanding of the way fork-merge workflows can work on Wikimedia projects and the benefits they can bring.
A way for folks working on offline, anti-censorship, and newcomer experience to find commonalities and work together on a common platform.
Solicit volunteers to start communities for merging contributions from offline users, Tor users, abandoned edits, etc.
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- Masssly (talk) 23:09, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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- education
- education program
- basque country
- minority languages
- oer
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Language & literacy
Content Quality Knowledge forms
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Basque Wikimedians User Group has signed an agreement with Basque Government in order to improve more than 1.000 vital articles for schoolchildren, using University students and teachers and wikimedians alike. In our first year, we have run more than 40 courses, created materials for learning how to edit and developed a Portal where secondary-school schoolchildren and teachers can see what we are working on.
In this presentation we will talk about what we have learned in this first years, and present some of the coolest stuff done in Open Education Resources.
Outcomes
The attendees will take our experience in order to improve similar programs, learn about how we worked with the Government to fund this and help us with links to other interesting relates subjects.
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- Masssly (talk) 23:11, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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- indigenous languages
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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- 林容瑋 - Liang-chih Shang Kuan
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- Relationship to theme
Language & literacy Access & accessibility
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- Toolforge
- Tools
- Best practices
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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List of suggested best practices for developers of tools and bots designed to make it easier to attract co-contributors and for on-wiki communities to "rescue" projects that the original author has lost interest in.
Outcomes
A simple list of practices to adopt and pointers to getting more information.
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- Scientific knowledge
- Open science
- Citation needed
- Visual discovery
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Scientific knowledge is the bedrock of many Wikipedia articles and other Wikimedia projects. But as the prolific use of templates like Template:Citation needed shows, many references are missing, outdated, or unreliable. This is no surprise: with 2-3 million research articles published each year, even experts struggle to get and keep an overview of scientific fields.
We have created Open Knowledge Maps (https://openknowledgemaps.org), a visual interface to the world's scientific knowledge, to overcome these issues. With Open Knowledge Maps, anyone can create openly licensed overview maps of scientific topics of their choice. Based on either the most relevant or the most recent publications, Open Knowledge Maps creates a clustered overview of relevant sub-topics. In addition, users can choose the type of outputs that they would like to see (papers, books etc.). If a publication is open access, it can be read within the same interface.
In the poster session, we want to introduce Wikimania participants to Open Knowledge Maps and discuss the most common use cases for its use in Wikimedia projects. This includes updating outdated references, adding missing references, and finding reliable sources for a brand-new entry. In addition, we encourage participants to bring their own use cases so we can take them on board. We also want to discuss other ways of how Open Knowledge Maps can support Wikimedia projects, for example Wikidata, WikiResearch and WikiCite.
The poster will be presented by Peter Kraker, founder of Open Knowledge Maps, Maxi Schramm, head of user experience and design at Open Knowledge Maps, and Jeremiah Pietersen, Open Knowledge Maps community member at University of Cape Town.
Outcomes
After the workshop, Wikimedians will have another tool in their arsenal to discover scientific knowledge. They will know how to get an overview of a scientific field, how to keep this overview and how to use the knowledge gained to bridge knowledge gaps in Wikimedia projects.
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- Masssly (talk) 23:13, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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- archaeology
- megaliths
- photography
- excursions
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Megalithic monuments are the oldest buildings of Central and Northern Europe directly tangible to a broader audience. Archaeological investigations began very early but until the present day we lack a systematic database that covers all known sites. While there are such databases for the Scandinavian countries, for other countries, e. g. Germany, there are only printed collections that are very good, but in most cases have been written multiple decades ago. Besides that there are many private websites, that are mostly just photo collections of existing and easily accessible sites. Wikipedia could be an ideal place to connect scientific accuracy and private enthusiasm. In late 2009 we began to compile lists for all megalithic sites in Germany and later for the neighbouring countries. Our goal is to collect all megalithic sites in Northern europe, to describe them, to provide all relevant bibliographical references and to take photos of all the sites. The first three points are almost completed for Germany. Thanks to financial support by Wikimedia Deutschland since 2013 excursions have taken place to systematically photograph these sites. An extension of our work to other countries is intended.
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- International Law
- Jurisdiction
- Liability
- Regulation
- Self-Governance
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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For the last two decades, states have fought over the national and international governance of the internet. Eventually, many courts and legislators have resorted to far-reaching claims to regulatory authority, creating a climate of legal uncertainty and a high (albeit often theoretical) risk of international liability for users who contribute to global internet projects such as Wikipedia.
More recently, though, a second challenge has become apparent: the communities that have formed through these projects (and on many other online platforms) are not only inherently international, they are also effectively self-regulated. Most of the disputes arising in the context of Wikipedia and its sister projects are not resolved through state courts that apply national law but through complaints procedures and dispute-resolution mechanisms that are community-driven and apply privately-drafted rules and codes of conduct.
While this development is a major cause of concern for national regulators, it can also be seen as an opportunity to overcome the perennial disconnect between local regulation and global internet projects. But in order to use this potential and offer a legitimate alternative to public regulation, we need to work hard to improve the ways in which we solve conflicts within our community – as well as conflicts with others who are affected by our work. We need to be more transparent about the reasons behind our rules, more open-minded about different legal concepts (such as different approaches to privacy and data protection), and, I argue, generally move away from ‰Û÷risk of enforcement‰Ûª to a more positive justification of our rules and policies.
Wikipedia and its sister projects have the potential, if not the vocation, to become a positive example of community self-governance. This talk aims to highlight how we can bridge the gap between local regulation and the self-governance of global internet projects.
Outcomes
My aim for the session is twofold. First, I want to create awareness for the complicated legal framework in which Wikipedia and its sister projects operate on an international level. Second, I want to spark a discussion about how as a community, we can react to this challenge and become a positive example of legitimate self-governance.
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- Masssly (talk) 23:15, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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- India
- Gender gap
- Research
- Women
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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In 2017, Rosie Stephenson Goodknight, a well-known American Wikipedian carried out the first global gender mapping project for Wikipedia, with testimonies of 65 women Wikipedians from around the globe (representing 29 countries and 26 languages). From her research, the following themes emerged: gender is culture-specific; issues of inclusion and gender fluidity are complex; implicit biases exist in society and they create a false sense of neutrality; importance of acknowledging various degrees of participation and not creating a hierarchy; narrating own stories through women‰Ûªs voices and countering bias. Following these premises, this poster presents a preliminary ethnographic study addressing the issue of gender gap, featuring narratives of Wikipedians from India (with focus on women contributors). The aim of this study is to trace their motivations for communicating using the platform of Wikipedia, barriers to their participation and measures taken (and suggested) for bridging the gender gap.
As our work is intended as a pilot study on gender mapping in the Indian context, we employed qualitative methods for data collection and used a semi-structured questionnaire for the interviews. Respondents were chosen from various academic backgrounds and age groups, different regions of India, contributing to different language versions, active Wikipedians as well as ones who have stopped contributing. At this stage, we have already carried out five interviews to make sense of the motivations (four female, one male respondent) to contribute, as well as to understand their perceptions of gender bias on Indian Wikipedia space. Our findings relate strongly to the issues that emerged from the 2017 gender mapping study and also point out unique Indian problems which create barriers for women‰Ûªs participation, and what is being done (and can be done) to bridge these gaps.
Outcomes
This poster intends to describe the barriers faced by women Wikipedians and their motivations to contribute despite these barriers. It also summarizes the next steps needed to encourage and sustain women Wikipedians in India. We hope that the readers will gather a better understanding about the global south situation in the context of gender and participation from this poster. We hope to receive comments, criticisms and feedback on our ongoing work, as we intend to carry out further research with the possibility of journal publication.
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- Masssly (talk) 23:16, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
- Ammarpad (talk) 17:30, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
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Poster
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- Upload filters
- Internet censorship
- Lobbying
- Campaigning
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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European policy makers are planning on mandatory upload filters for websites with user generated content. This would directly affect Wikipedia and make an algorithm decide over which uploads and which content will be seen by the rest of the world. Sounds creepy? It is! So what are we doing about it? Our Wikimedians in Brussels, Dimi and Anna, work on preventing upload filters from within the political engine room (see their talk). Parallel to that, we rolled out a campaign to raise public interest and the awareness of political decision makers. We printed the messages #NoUploadFilter and "Community understands context, filters don't" on coffee filters, distributed them on political party conventions and send them to members of the German Bundestag. We sent an open letter together with well reknown organisations to the federal government and MEPs from Germany. The session presents the campaign toolbox and its outcomes.
Outcomes
The Community learns about the campaign #NoUploadFilters and knows about activities to prevent threats for free knowledge that might result from the European copyright reform.
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- Affiliates Ecosystem
- History using statistics
- Growth patterns
- When and where
- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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The Wikimedia Affiliate Model goes back some 15 years and has built-up data that can enable us (with a bit of work) to answer some interesting question about this ecosystem. We will look at Affiliates growth over the years and policy changes that affected such growth over time. We project Affiliates growth through to 2030, as part of the overall conversation on our strategic direction.
Outcomes
Our aim with this presentation is to present a general graphical representation of Wikimedia Affiliates growth over the years, as part of institutional memory. We will also postulate some possible growth scenarios using available data trends. It is also our hope that should this be useful, the information in the poster can also be used an an input for the Strategy Working Groups.
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- LanguageConverter
- machine translation
- native script editing
- non-latin scripts
- multilingual UI
- Cyrillic
- Chinese
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Instead of today's many siloed wikis, separated by language and project, we aspire to re-establish a unified community of collaborators in the spirit of ubuntu. We will still respect language and cultural differences — there will still be English, German, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. Wikipedias; they will disagree at times — but instead of separate domains, we propose a single user experience with integrated navigation between projects and languages and the possibility of split screen views aligning related content. On a single page we can work on articles in different languages, or simultaneously edit textbook content and encyclopedia articles. Via machine translation we can facilitate conversations and collaborations spanning languages and projects, without forcing a single culture or perspective. The improvements made to the project by each community can be shared with all others to improve the sum of all knowledge.
This talk will describe a number of concrete projects in pursuit of this goal. We will describe current work on LanguageConverter to allow communities to edit together without being separated by different ways of writing their language, using “selective serialization” technology to allow editing in a user’s native script without corrupting other authors’ texts.
A prototype translation suggestion tool suggests an edit in one language whenever an edit is made to a parallel text in another language. In addition to manually-created correspondences, our translation engine can automatically search for potential new correspondences or prune old entries when the translation drifts.
We will discuss the use of "zero-shot translation" machine translation models to allow our training data from "big" wikis to improve the translation of "small" wikis. Every contributed correspondence or translation further improves the ability of our tools to make additional articles from other languages available.
By bridging languages, our individual contributions can better fill knowledge gaps everywhere.
Outcomes
Increase awareness and use of LanguageConverter.
Describe a vision for a multilingual UI which can inspire related projects by the attendees.
Encourage discussion of the potential of machine translation for our projects, and encourage thinking of our translation correspondences as a valuable output of our project.
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- Wikidata
- data quality
- tools
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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We care a lot about high quality data in Wikidata because we want to share useful knowledge in Wikidata but it is not always clear how this is achieved and which helpful tools are available to check and improve the quality of the data in Wikidata. This poster will show what tools and processes are available to data quality high in Wikidata. Finding and bridging knowledge gaps needs high-quality data in Wikidata.
Outcomes
Viewers of the poster should get a good understanding of how data quality in Wikidata is improved and monitored. They should understand how they can contribute to keeping it high. They should feel motivated to contribute.
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- Masssly (talk) 23:17, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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- Wikidata
- Wiktionary
- lexicographical data
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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The poster will give an overview of lexicographical data on Wikidata:
- What is it? What works right now?
- What will come in the future?
- Which opportunities does it open up for sharing more knowledge across language barriers?
Outcomes
Viewers of the poster should be excited about lexicographical data and want to contribute knowledge about their language to Wikidata. They should have a good understanding of what is going to be possible with this data in the future.
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- Narratives
- blogs
- participation
- community spirit
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Dwindling numbers of Wikipedia editors and the dramatic underrepresentation of women as well as whole regions of the world in the Free Knowledge community are major concerns for all of us. As an Editor in Communications at Wikimedia Deutschland, I am particularly interested in finding new ways to utilize our blog, social media, and means of digital communication to encourage diverse participation. How can we make the community more accessible and break down barriers to participation? How do we create a sense of community spirit when most collaboration takes place online? Sharing individual stories, community members' motivations for volunteering for the ideal that Wikipedia and the sister projects represent, and drawing attention to the knowledge gaps may help to combat the misconception that Wikipedia is "already complete" or only in need of experts' knowledge. But how do we make the next step and motivate people to get involved? Digital communication can only play a small part in combating wider structural barriers, and yet it has an important part to play. What barriers to participation have you identified? Which means of communication can help us reach new audiences?
Outcomes
We will come away with a better understanding of how means of digital communication (blogs, social media, videos, etc.) are used by different chapters and individual Wikimedians to encourage participation, particularly from underrepresented groups of editors. We will exchange concrete ideas, tips, and current issues in reaching new audiences. Participants particularly from emerging Wikimedia communities are encouraged to share their challenges and exchange ideas on the place of storytelling in motivating volunteers.
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- Masssly (talk) 23:18, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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- Content Gap
- Africa
- Cinema
- Arts
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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The AfroCine Project is a multi-country, multi-faceted WikiProject which aims to encourage the contribution of content that relates to the historical and contemporary cinema, theatre, and arts sectors of several African countries, the Caribbean and the diaspora, to Wikimedia projects.
The Entertainment Industry in Africa is huge; the Nigerian cinema is currently ranked as the third largest film industry in the world, in terms of revenue and production output. Other major film industries in Africa include the cinemas of: Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, and Egypt. All of these very active film industries are poorly represented on Wikimedia projects, as the available information about them is very scanty and difficult to access. The AfroCine Project aims to fix this gap. This will be achieved through varying methods, such as GLAM partnerships; editing workshops/edit-a-thon, writing/upload contests, etc, using the help of existing communities/affiliates in Africa and beyond.
One of the first major event planned for this project is the "Month(s) of African Cinema". This is a cross-project writing, translating, and upload contest, which is scheduled to take place at the last quarter of the year or the first quarter of next year. This contest, as the name suggests will be dedicated to contributing knowledge about the cinema of various African countries to Wikimedia projects.
Outcomes
This poster session aims to create awareness of this project. It aims to encourage people from various African communities and aligned groups to sign up, and to undertake activities covered in the scope of this project. The ultimate goal is to bridge the content gap about Africa.
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- University
- Wikipedia
- Students
- When and where
- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
- Plenary hall
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Ángel Obregón (User:vanbasten 23)
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Very often we find teachers who prohibit their students from using Wikipedia to perform their assignments in class, in many cases because they do not know how to use it correctly. Since the creation of Wikipedia in 2001, numerous studies have been carried out on the use of Wikipedia in classrooms, but have barely analyzed the way students should use it, and if this usage is correct. In this study we have applied a mixed method, using a questionnaire designed and validated ad hoc, completed by 1,173 university students of Education in Spain, several discussion groups and interviews with expert editors of the Wikipedia in Spanish to determine which are the training needs of university students. It has been noted that university students use Wikipedia mainly because it is easy to use, has understandable explanations, and they use it in advanced stages of their research. They have not received training on it, nor have they been explained how to use it correctly.
Part of these results are a fragment of an education doctorate conducted by me in Spain, with cum laude distinction. So, following the Ubuntu philosophy, by presenting my results in Wikimania, others will be able to learn more and more on how teachers should support and guide their students in class. The focus of this paper will be on sharing advice and to show the conclusions about the aspects that are currently not working, allowing us to work on solutions together in the classrooms around the world.
Outcomes
The focus of this paper will be on sharing advice and to show the conclusions about the aspects that are currently not working, allowing us to work on solutions together in the classrooms around the world. The attendees will know the problems of the university problems with the Wikipedia and how we can solve them.
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- equity
- user sandbox
- article template libraries
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Equity for more editors: Assist new editors, instructors and editathon organizers, in order to significantly increase Wikipedia's article creation and editor retention.
- Problem to solve:
Organizers of editathons undergo a lot of challenges when instruct unexperienced volunteers for the first time. Newcomers do not have an easy way to:
- start a new article in the sandbox space.
- find a list of started articles in their sandbox as it is cluttered and not properly organised onwiki.
- feel confident about the article content / structure they choose.
- place the references magnet.
- move sandbox to article space without making mistakes.
- feel safe to publish their final work on an article.
These sometimes make the act of volunteering to organize an editathon a difficult task.
- Solution:
user sandbox+ tool
- Global article template library to select from (for all kinds of articles that exist)
- Starting of articles in user space using foolproof clicks
Effortless and straightaway finding of started article sandboxes, to work with (list of articles)
- Development of articles in protected (personal) space, until ready to move to article space, using foolproof clicks
- Custom article or other page templates (for advanced users)
- Click wizards for creation of article templates - either declared in libraries or in user's custom list
- Support of (additional to global) article template libraries, thematically customised for editahons
- Modular customizable help tool-toy to remind procedure steps and editing instructions to the trainees
Outcomes
The poster is to draw attention on how to advance equity in Wikipedia through using the "user sandbox+" tool. A simple instruction on how to enable the tool is clearly visible on the poster. The equity message is still strong by itself as it is a picture.
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- harassment
- anti-harassment
- civility
- conduct
- Misconduct
- training
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
- Plenary hall
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In Wikimedia's 2017 Community Engagement Insights Report, it was found that 31% of all 4,500 survey respondents felt unsafe in any Wikimedia online or offline space at any time during their tenure, 49% of 400 users avoided Wikimedia because they felt uncomfortable, and 47% of 370 users indicated that in the past 12 months they had been bullied or harassed on Wikipedia. Furthermore, 60% of people who reported a dispute to functionaries say their issue was "not at all resolved" and 54% called their interaction with functionaries "not at all useful."
When user misconduct occurs between two users it can be time consuming and complicated to determine exactly what happened, who is at fault, and how to deal with both users. Wherever a case is raised, users will often only provide diffs that bolster their side of the argument. Knowing the entire story is important to make an informed decision. To have a more welcoming community it is essential to give administrators more effective and accurate tool to mitigate user conduct issues.
The Interaction Timeline is a tool built by the Wikimedia Foundation‰Ûªs Anti-Harassment Tools team to help with this process. The Timeline shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits. The goal of the feature is to help administrators understand the sequence of events between two users so they can confidently make a decision about how to best resolve a user conduct dispute.
This workshop will demonstrate some example uses of the Timeline and will demonstrate the different ways it can be used to help in user misconduct or harassment investigations.
Read more about the Interaction Timeline at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Interaction_Timelin
Outcomes
Session participants should leave the workshop with knowledge on how the Interaction Timeline can be used to make more informed decision in a time efficient manner, when investigating reports of user misconduct. Participants will be able to use the tool or direct others to the tool.
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- cooperation
- peace
- activism
- best practice
- diversity
- youth
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Since 2015, Wikimedia Austria cooperates with the peace organisation Service Civil International (SCI) in organizing international camps in Austria. Wikipedia for Peace is one of the few examples of a well-functioning cooperation between Wikimedia chapters and a non-governmental organization: Since 2017, the project has expanded to Germany, Spain, Switzerland and Poland. The makeup of a Wikipedia for Peace camp reflects the culture of peace that the project is striving for: About 15 people from all over the world come together for about two weeks to write and improve Wikipedia articles in their native languages about peace and connected underrepresented topics. The focus of the camps so far has been women peace activists, environmental justice, the LGBT community as well as refugees and persecution. But the projects also create an atmosphere that goes beyond: Participants cook together, live on a low-budget, learn and reflect about the topic they write about together, meet up with activists or people affected by conflict. The project is a best practice of bringing more diversity and community health to Wikipedia through outside cooperation, in this case the peace movement. The camps attract a majority of young and female editors, most of which are newcomers to Wikipedia, bringing in new interests and perspectives to our encyclopedia. In a typical camp, articles are written in more than ten languages; people work closely together across a diversity of cultural and linguistic barriers. Wikipedia for Peace contributes to closing both knowledge gaps in underrepresented topics and participation gaps in bringing underrepresented groups to take part in the project.
Outcomes
Attendees will understand the need and benefit of starting cooperation with peace and youth organizations such as Service Civil International. Attendees will be inspired to start up their own Wikipedia for Peace camps in their community. We will show them how easy it is to start up cooperation with peace organizations and why it is useful for the Wikiverse in terms of diversity, community health and content creation. The presentation will accordingly be divided into an inspirational beginning. We will talk about the idea and the outcomes of the projects that have happened so far. Then we will raise some of the challenges we have faced, will continue with practical tips and assistance if people are interested in spreading the project to their communities (e.g. a toolkit that we have written) and will end with a motivational call for people to start up their own Wikipedia for Peace projects.
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- photo contest
- festivals
- festivities
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wiki Loves
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Wiki Loves Folk is a photo contest with a similar structure to Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth. In this case the contest focuses on festivals and festivities, a topic underrepresented in Wikimedia Commons.
The contest was born in 2016 in Spain and organized by Wikimedia Spain and it is an exemple of collaboration, because it was organized for a specific festival in one region by Amical Wikimedia and Museu d'Etnologia de València.
We will explain how the contest works, its history, succes and mistakes or things to be done better and some statistics.
Outcomes
People can learn from the poster details of the contest and how to organize it in their countries or regions.
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- Wikipedia contest
- Wiki Loves
- Sport
- Paralympics
- When and where
- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
- Plenary hall
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- Ángel Obregón (User:vanbasten 23)
- User:Millars
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The posters wants to sumarize the experience of combine a writing contest with a main international event. The 2018 Winter Olympics celebrated in Pyeongchang were an opportunity to organize an on-wiki activity related to them and get new content. We decided to organize a multilingual contest, with KISS rules, and with several special categories to promote the creation of articles about Paralympics, that are bad represented on Wikipedia. We want compare the results of 2018 with the contest of 2016 after the campaign on Wikipedia and social networks to get more editors and articles.
Outcomes
Attendees can get ideas and inspiration for future events and how to manage a multilingual and international contest or how to manage to check this amount of articles and what kind or prizes are better. We want compare the results of 2018 with the contest of 2016. Then, the attendees get all the numbers about this two international contest.
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- Wikipedia
- Vikidia
- WikiFundi
- Offline solutions
- Education
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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We organized the WikiChallenge African Schools, an exciting Writing Contest during the school year in 2017-2018.
The Contest took place in Primary Schools in 4 francophone African countries (Mali, Madagascar, Guinea, Tunisia). It was organized in collaboration with local Foundation Orange groups, who were in direct contact with the participating schools. Local Foundation Orange groups were supported online by Florence Devouard (user:anthere) or by wikimedians, such as members of Wikimedia Tunisia. The aim of the project was to enhance each school ability to learn about Vikidia (and ultimately Wikipedia) and contribute content offline. Content produced by the kids has been integrated into Vikidia (a 8-13 kids encyclopedia) once completed offline (by the schools and writers). The articles have been judged once online. Activities in the schools were followed on the Facebook page anytime possible.
The contest encouraged students to work together to create an article about their area. This could be an article about their village, suburb, notable person or a local historic or geographic feature. The contest was designed to provide students with hands-on experience in collating information and working collaboratively to contribute knowledge to one of the world's most powerful information platforms. The contest was meant to specifically:
- Train students in how to write an encyclopedic article on a wiki;
- Give students key online skills that includes, but is not limited to, navigating an editing environment that mimics Wikipedia's online version, and researching and citing correct sources;
- Provide media skills with regards to constructing articles, using categories, and taking photographs or creating other media to fully illustrate the article they submit to the contest.
- Contribute articles about Africa by Africans to Vikidia and Wikipedia, thus broadening the coverage of Africa.
Links
- Page of the WikiChallenge : https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiChallenge_Ecoles_d%27Afrique
- Facebook of the WikiChallenge : https://www.facebook.com/ConcourswikiChallengeEcolesdAfrique/
- Program/WikiFundi Poster : editing Wikipedia offline across Africa
Outcomes
- Poster is meant to provide an outline of this African program and its outcome.
- Awareness of an African programme
- Potential new partnerships ?
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- WikiFundi
- MediaWiki
- Offline solutions
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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WikiFundi is an editing platform that presents an offline editable environment that is a a similar experience to editing Wikipedia online.
WikiFundi enables teachers, wikipedian communities and NGOs to learn about editing Wikipedia and contributing knowledge when technology, access and electricity outages fail or are not available at all. It enables individuals, groups, schools and communities to work on articles collaboratively. Once completed and when connected to the internet, these articles can be uploaded to Wikipedia.
In 2017 WikiFundi has been rolled out in 15 countries across Africa. As part of the Wikipack Africa, WikiFundi is being used by Wikimedia usergroups, volunteers and educational organisations in Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. In addition, WikiFundi is available via the Digital Schools programme of the Orange Foundation in dozen of countries. It as also used in South Africa as part of the WikiAfrica Schools Program.
Two options were proposed for Wikimania.
- The lightning talk will provide a quick overview of WikiFundi as well as a demo for anyone interested. It will also very quickly outline user cases from 2017, initial feedback received and current state of its development.
- A poster will provide statistics and other relevant information on the project.
WikiFundi was designed by Florence Devouard and Isla Haddow-Flood to support the WikiAfrica movement and Wikimedia volunteers across Africa as part of the Wikipack Africa project, in collaboration with Wikimedia CH. It was funded by Orange Foundation.
Links
- Website : http://www.wikifundi.org
- Facebook of WikiAfrica : https://www.facebook.com/WikiAfrica
- https://twitter.com/wikiafrica
- https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/05/10/offline-access-wikipedia-wikifundi/
- https://opensource.com/article/17/9/wikifundi-leader-florence-devouard
- Program/WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique Poster
Outcomes
Awareness. Opportunity to get in touch with us
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- GLAM
- Outreach
- Content quality
- Crossborder cooperation
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Wikipassport is a newborn project on Meta to let wikicontributors know where there are GLAM institutions welcoming them to use their available sources to improve the quality of the content of wiki-projects.
The project leverages on two elements: the wikistation and the wikipassport itself. The wikistation is an area in a GLAM institution where permanent material describing wikiprojects is present and where wikicontributors are technically facilitated in contributing using information sources from the institution. The wikipassport is a paper booklet where the wikipedians can collect stamps from institutions visited to contribute to wikiprojects. More info are available at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipassaporto
The benefit of the project is multi-folded. Firstly, it aims to "stimulate" wiki contributors to edit off-home (here comes the cultural link to the 17/18/19th century Grand Tour) thus creating more opportunities where they implicitly "advertise" for new contributors to join the community. Secondly, by targeting medium-small GLAM institutions, we can make available pieces of knowledge that otherwise may be hard to find available somewhere else. Last but not least, the information permanently available in the wikistations lets non-contributors become aware that Wikipedians are actively willing to base all their information on reliable sources thus opposing a common bias that non-contributors have about Wiki world.
The project was born in Northern Italy but it's designed to work worldwide.
Outcomes
- Audience will learn how the wikipassport works and how it's an additional means to create partnership opportunities between Wiki and the GLAM institutions.
- Local groups will receive tips, based on real cases, about how to build a regional network of wikistations for wikipassport holders.
- Different groups will have opportunity to know each other to put the basis for the "interconnections" of the regional networks.
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- refugees
- global south
- immigration
- social integration
- When and where
- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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In the Wikipedia 4 Refugees project a group of asylum seekers/refugees living in Trento (northern Italy) translated Italian Wikipedia articles into their native languages. The project involved 18 tutors (including 9 expert wikipedians) and 2 linguistic mediators. It was supported by the Wikimedia Foundation (through a rapid grant), the University of Trento and Cinformi (a local public center for immigration). We had to tackle some problems: some destination Wikipedia lacked an active community; some languages did not have a standard orthography. Our result was that eight refugees translated 10 articles from Italian to their native languages: Bambara, Pashto, Pular and Urdu. The project could be further developed in many directions. We could help refugees in writing original articles in their native languages or in writing about their countries in Western languages. However, sources could be a problem.
Outcomes
We want to share our experience to allow others to build on it in order to develop new projects with refugees in their countries. We also want to discuss possible developments and improvements.
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- cultural diversity
- datasets
- interlanguage collaborations
- data visualization
- wikiresearch
- ubuntu
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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It is extremely difficult to change the conditions which would allow editors from all countries to contribute to Wikipedia, and therefore increase the cultural diversity of the project. Nonetheless, I believe we can certainly spread the existing cultural diversity across language editions and reduce the content culture gap (articles about one culture that exists in their local language but not in others). In this sense, I present the grant awarded project "Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory" (WCDO), aimed at raising awareness and providing solutions for interlanguage collaboration.
In this research project I initially explain how the content of each language edition is skewed toward the cultural and geographic context associated with its own language, and does not cover enough of the other languages contexts. WCDO aims at correcting the underrepresentation by providing focused datasets (Cultural Context Content datasets for each Wikipedia language editions), graphical visualizations and strategic recommendations for cross-language collaboration, so that each language edition will have a truly international representation of the world's knowledge.
As a solution to improve these knowledge gaps, WCDO wants to provide specific lists of top priority articles for each language edition that should be in every other language editions. This way it would be possible to have a minimal intercultural coverage. It is my desire that in the same way that the gender gap has created a united movement, the cross-language collaboration projects (Intercultur, the Catalan Culture Challenge, Wikimedia CEE, etc.) will do the same in order to be more effective in ensuring content diversity in each Wikipedia language edition.
This presentation is related to my PhD thesis and the project WCDO: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Cultural_Diversity_Observatory_(WCDO)
Outcomes
- Raise awareness on the importance of cross-language collaboration as a complementary strategy to increase Wikipedia content diversity.
- Learn about how their peers ready represent their cultural contexts (what topics, how important it is) in the different Wikipedia language editions they contribute to.
- Discover the extent of the content culture gap for some specific less known languages and visualize it.
- Learn more about the current projects that fostering cross-language collaboration and see how they can prioritize for certain content gaps.
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- Gender Gap
- Gender
- Libraries
- Academic Libraries
- Wikipedian in Residence
- Service Learning
- Wikipedia Literacy
- GLAM
- Students
- Academia
- Higher Education
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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How can academic institutions globally help bridge gender participation and content gaps while also contributing to Wikipedia' goal of containing the sum of all human knowledge? Through service learning projects aimed at women-led organizations that train students in Wikipedia literacy and editing in partnership with academic institutions, we can continue to spread our important mission to students, librarians, and professors.
As the Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity at West Virginia University Libraries (partially funded through a Wikimedia Foundation grant), I have successfully created and piloted a project which incorporates Wikipedia editing into student service requirements at higher education institutions in the United States. To date, this project has been expanded to four universities and has leveraged service learning and volunteer standards with the ethos of Wikipedia as a preeminent crowdsourced resource that has increase participation among students and academics.
This project has primarily been concentrated on outreach to student groups which are women-led and centered, this lends itself to content creation about women and women' issues on Wikipedia. Furthermore, students enrolled in universities have privileged access to academic libraries and pay-walled information that can be used to source Wikipedia articles. Working with students provides a stable number of potential editors as new students enter and graduate. Students who have graduated are partially retained as editors, but more importantly, a critical mass of students disburse into their various fields with Wikipedia literacy skills that will further the mission of Wikipedia because of the improved understanding of the platform this programming provides.
Through instructional and training materials I‰Ûªm currently developing, and with the help of fellow Wikipedians, this project can successfully be remixed and piloted into a global context that has vast potential to scale both in terms of gendered participation and gendered content in a variety of languages.
Outcomes
Audience will gain information about this current project and the opportunities this programming has to scale in our global community and in various language Wikipedias. Attendees will be presented with avenues to collaborate and engage with this project in their home context. Additionally, as a part of this project and programming, I am creating training and instructional materials that will be shared with the academic and Wikimedia community to grow this program and build on it. I hope the diverse audience at Wikimania will learn more about this project and offer advice, comments, and ideas for the current project and potential future iterations of this programming. Furthermore, I will share with the audience what, in my experience, compels students to engage with Wikipedia as editors and why “service learning” and participating in our project matters to them and how we can scale and build on this interest.
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- community development
- community support
- content
- editing campaign
- edit-a-thon
- event
- offline campaign
- online campaign
- outreach
- participation
- Wikipedia
- Wikiflashmob
- Wikimarathon
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- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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Since 2014, we are organising an event called Wikimarathon or Wikiflashmob which is based on a simple idea: we encourage as many people as possible to write an article to Wikipedia on the occasion of Wikipedia's anniversary. This idea was born in 2013 and actively promoted by Ihor Kostenko and we have already organised five editions since (from 2014 to 2018).
Our Wikimarathon is a mix of online and offline campaigns.
- Online, we encourage as many active Wikipedians as possible to write articles on that day. Our main goal is reaching is many users as possible. This includes people who didn't edit Wikipedia for a while - and we are glad that some of them come back indeed. This also includes people who usually don't write a lot of articles but do other things, like writing templates- and many of them add one more article on that day.
- Offline, we are organising outreach events to encourage newbies and people interested in Wikipedia to write their first article. This started with just 4 events in 2014 and expanded to over 50 events this year. We try to support as many local organisers as possible, and we receive more and more requests from very different groups: experienced local organisers, local Wikipedians who want to organise their first ever outreach event, or GLAM and education partners who want an event in their library, archive or school.
In the end we sent small souvenirs to all participants to motivate them to contribute further, and our Wikipedia gets on these days some 3-4 times more articles than usually and sets record high number of active users.
We think that it is an interesting experience (and an exciting challenge!) than can be reproduced in other communities and we intend to share our experience and lessons learned.
Outcomes
1) Participants will learn lessons from our experience than can help them in organising their own editing campaigns or edit-a-thons 2) Some participants who get inspired will learn how to organise something like this with their community (and may even reproduce it next year)
I can't add wikilinks on EasyChair and I don't know where to put the links let them be here:
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia_Ukraine/2017/Program_story (basis for this presentation);
- https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вікіпедія:Вікімарафон_2018 (event page)
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- Libraries
- Academic Libraries
- Wikipedian in Residence
- GLAM
- Academia
- When and where
- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
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- User:John Cummings and Celina Recalde
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We have created a process to add open license text from any source to English, French and Spanish Wikipedia and to easily measure the results. This provides an additional partnership model for chapters, user groups and individuals to work with external organisations.
In 2017 - 2018, we have created 160 Wikipedia articles and improved 102 articles using text from UNESCO, which receive 4.5 million page views per month. Some publications have text suitable for many articles, for instance, the publication Rethinking Education: Towards a global common good? was used to improve 17 articles.
The UNESCO series General History of Africa has just been made available under CC BY-SA. It was written by 230 historians from Africa and other parts of the world, it is over 7200 pages long and available in 11 languages
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