User:Econterms/summary of Wikimania 2019 for Federal MediaWiki Group
Second report to Feds on Wikimania 2019, Oct 10 2019[edit]
- Idea of "sustainability": UN goals and conference practices
- Open Data partnerships, e.g. with German National Library; concept of "data donation"
- Project with "heritage institutions" generally - Etherpad discussing Linked Open Data with heritage institutions (GLAMs)
- Health-related presentations
- Open govt data partnerships, e.g. for official statistics
- more: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program
- News on WikiConference North America 2019
- Nov 8-11 at MIT's Stata Center
- Main conference site and program
- presentation by NARA, another from NARA
- How google can perhaps automate some contributions to Wikimedia
- USDA's National Agriculture Library
- Government bans of Wikimedia
- Law school links (1 of 2)
- How to use various tools and platforms
First report to Feds on Wikimania 2019, Sept 2019[edit]
- Conference was at Stockholm University
- most of us stayed near the city center
- lost/stolen smartphone
- Themes in big sessions
- Sustainable conference idea environmentally
- Reduce harassment / less tolerance of bad behavior / WMF has Trust and Safety team
- next conference will be in Bangkok, jointly organized across SE Asian orgs
Lua, a programming language on the wiki[edit]
- w:User:Econterms/Lua_practice
- w:Module:Sandbox/econterms
- w:Module:Sandbox/RexxS
- there is Lua code to pull a value from Wikidata, and it's used to fill in some infoboxes from Wikidata
Interesting tech stuff[edit]
- https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Technology_outreach_%26_innovation lists several sessions I went to
- idea that redlinks should draw from wikidata; helps small-language wikis
- Wikimedia URL shortener
- talk:Technology outreach & innovation/Wikimedia URL shortener
- show notes on that conversation
- Event queue
- Phabricator, for chapters too
- Session on possible changes to user interface
Upcoming things, other than Wikimania 2019[edit]
- Research showcase next week: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
- North America conference Nov 8-11