Grants:TPS/Fz-29/Wikimania/2018/Report-copy
Welcome back from Wikimania 2018!
Participant
[edit]Fz-29: 'MediaWiki'
Outcome and Connections
[edit]Here is the link to my blog post mentioning the Wikimania experience in detail.
Key Learning Experiences
[edit]- Met Miriam and Diego from Research Team. Learnt a lot during Hackathon from them.
- Met Andrew Lih, understood the problem he was working on Sum of all paintings, attempted to solve the specific subset of this problem - Generating a set labels by predicting on the basis of Paintings visual content, painter, time during which it was painted, tags of other paintings by the painter.
- Learnt SPARQL query language
- Experienced the non-technical side of Wikipedia
- Interacted with a lot of people from technical and as well as non-technical community.
- Developer's from Indian Wikimedia community decided to stay more connected via. Google Groups
Sessions I attended
[edit]Preconference
[edit]Day 1
[edit]- Wikidata: building bridges every single day
- A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners + Wikidata Query Tutorial - part1
- What is Knowledge? Art Exhibition
- Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity
- Lightning Talks
- Using artificial intelligence to keep Wikipedia open
- AI meetup
- Wikimedia Asian meetup
- Creating Knowledge Equity and Spatial Justice on Wikipedia
- Coolest Projects of Wikimedia Chapters - Be Inspired
Day 2
[edit]- The Decolonizing Debate: Social Media as Source Archive and Wikipedia
- Activating the next generation : Wikipedia in Schools
- continued the Hackathon
- State of Wikimedia Research 2017-2018
- One Image at a time; How Governments can help in bridging the information gap on Wikipedia
- Wikimedia and the spirit of Ubuntu: The power of unity in action
Day 3
[edit]- Which parts of an article are actually being read?
- continued the Hackathon
- Kiwix & Raspberry Pi - build your own wikipedia Wifi hotspot
- Closing session
- Closing Party
Connections
[edit]I met a lot of people from Developer community as well as Editorial Community. The hackathon event was the place where I met Meriam, Diego, Andrew where I learnt a lot from them.
Anything else
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