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Wikimania 2022/Individual Reports/Feliciss

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Welcome back from Wikimania 2022! Please write your report here. Once you have completed the application, please email the link to wikimania(_AT_)wikimedia.org (by 20 September 2022). If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email us.

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Feliciss

How did you attend Wikimania (virtually or in-person)?

I missed the 1st day in the Asian time zone in which I was in. Later I attended the Wikimania event virtually by viewing playbacks on Wikimedia Foundation Youtube channel for Wikimania 2022.

What did you spend the scholarship funds on?

I spent the scholarship on my daily meals.

Takeaways – choose 3 specific Wikimania sessions you attended and describe your key take-aways per session.

1. Wikimania 2022 - Making Meaning of “Knowledge Equity” and “Knowledge as a Service”

Knowledge as a Service

  • Lydia promotes the usage of Wikidata as "Knowledge as a Service".
  • Using Wikidata as "Knowledge as a Service" to build a new app, game, or service.
  • Wikidata as a content snippet for English Wikipedia.
  • Wikidata is a center of content service as everyone in the Wikimedia community can contribute to it.

Knowledge Equity

  • Wikipedia and Wikimedia as a knowledge source and free knowledge for historical knowledge etc.
  • Knowledge Equity helps one to tell one's own story.
  • Telling untold stories.

2. Ten Years of Wikidata

  • Mentioning semantic MediaWiki as the first thought of developing Wikidata.
  • Citing Wikipedia articles and bootstrapping Wikidata content.
  • Wikidata as a centralized knowledge base helps people to categorize data.
  • Wikidata not only helps Wikipedia article grows but also the community.
  • It's crucial to ensure that data is verified and open-sourced on Wikidata.
  • Wikidata as a content provider and data feed for Wikipedia.

3. I am a Wikimedian, not an accountant! Here is how fiscal sponsorship can get your grant going

  • Introduces Kiwix.
  • Using Kiwix account for a grant in the Wikimedia community.
  • No tax and government registration for the fiscal grant worries.
How did you connect with other people during Wikimania 2022? How did you celebrate at Wikimania 2022?

Since one of the speakers in Wikimania 2022 I already knew, I distinguished the speaker Lydia during the event and connected with her via email.

I celebrated Wikimania 2022 with a great meal I usually do not get.

(Optional) Please share link(s) to your social media post(s) about Wikimania