Grants:TPS/Gikü/Wikimania/2016/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2016!

Participant[edit]

Gikü

Romanian Wikipedia

Option 3: New Creation: What was one useful outcome that was created at the event for the Wikimedia movement?

I became more aware of how other communities handle their projects, and this enabled me to become more active and efficient in my local community.

What exactly I mean:

Asaf Bartov's Wikidata for Beginners helped me acquire more ideas of how to contribute better to Wikidata. I started actively using Wikidata Game, PetScan, and Mix'n'Match. After months of practicing, I am now able to do talks about such tools; one presentation I already did in Dilijan at WMCEE Meeting, and I will have an extended talk at Russian WikiConference 2016 too.
Discussions/Glam gave fresh ideas on a cooperation project that I started earlier in Moldova: importing files made by Agency for Inspection and Restoration of Monuments. There are 1.6K files imported manually as of now and I am now preparing grounds for a future involvement of more volunteers into the project.
Experience of impromptu challenges, such as Spasimir Pilev's Archives Challenge, made it easier for me to organize impromptu challenges myself. One of them is ro:Proiect:Ziua Accesului la Informație, a challenge associated with UNESCO's #AccessToInfoDay.
At Hackathon, Strainu demoed how to use pywiki on wikidata, the possibilities are unreal and I might get back to this.
CEE Spring meeting and conversations with Xabier Cañas gave the idea of setting up a contest of similar structure for Romanic language speakers of the world. No concrete plans yet...
Discussions/Misconceptions made me better prepared for interviews on Wikipedia.
The #100wikidays meeting re-assured me I am in the right club.

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