Arctic Knot Conference 2021/Submissions/Ensuring Malta's First Wikipedian-in-Residence Survives the Pandemic
 | This is an open submission for the Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference 2021. |
- Submission no.
- 17
- Title of the submission
- Ensuring Malta's First Wikipedian-in-Residence Survives the Pandemic
- Submission format
- Language of presentation
English
- E-mail address
- Country of origin
- Malta
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Wikimedia Community Malta
- Personal homepage or blog
- http://www.wikimalta.org
- Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)
Toni Sant and Neville Borg will present their experiences working on Malta's first Wikipedian-in-Residence partnership with the Valletta Design Cluster. The main challenge involved running the planned activities during pandemic restrictions. In some cases, these seem to have benefited the planning while in other cases the restrictions have held back the development of certain aims targeted by the WiR plans. The plans had a focus on ramping up the writing of new articles on the Maltese-language and the translation of the Mediawiki interface. The presentation will focus on these later points as part of what has been achieved from the activities of Malta's first Wikipedian-in-Residence.
- What will attendees take away from this session?
Attendees will learn about the first Wikipedian-in-Residence project in Malta and how this negotiated restrictions imposed by the pandemic, leveraging some of the challenges into opportunities to grow the Maltese-language Wikipedia.
- Theme of session
- Slides or further information (optional)
- Special requests
- Is this Submission a Draft or Final?
Final
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