WikiCite 2025/Speaker Tips
Simple checklist for WikiCite speakers!
IMPORTANT: PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THE SLIDES JUST 60 MILLISECONDS BEFORE YOUR SESSION 😭 AND PLEASE ENJOY THE TEST ROOM TO DO TESTS IN ADVANCE (advance = more than 5 milliseconds before the start of your session) THAAANKS! lol
Everyone
[edit]- Are you in the 'Wiki Conference' chat?
- Are your slides on Wikimedia Commons?
- Are your slides linked from WikiCite 2025/Abstracts?
- Tip: we prepare your slides on the platform! We exported them in PDF format.
- Tip: If you have different needs, say so in the chat 'Wiki Conference'!
- Tip: PDF slides assure a neutral presentation, so to show your contents, and not any unrelated thing from your own device!
- Extra opinionated wall of text: Wikimedians for software freedom#Talks and Showcases proprietary environments
In Person - Extra Checklist
[edit]- Next slide: use the clicker! We give this wireless thing to you. Point it to the big table nearby you.
- Microphone: this room has a very big microphone on the ceiling. Just talk normally. You will also wear an emergency microphone, attached to your clothes.
- Position tip: look at the floor: start from the first green cross on the floor. Smile!
- Then, you can move anywhere! (also smile - lol)
- Best if you stay in the middle of the screens (also marked with a white cross) but really, you can move anywhere!
- Just don't run :P
- Questions from the room: we capture their audio. Just answer :) There is no need to repeat the question. Just answer.
- Smile!
- Have fun!
Online - Extra Checklist
[edit]- Use a normal computer (example: use a normal laptop), and with appropriate energy supply.
- Join the above link! Type your name :D Possibly the same name on the program.
- Next slide: use your keyboard arrows
- Use good headphones
- This is important to avoid audio loops.
- Use your best Internet connection source.
- Announce yourself in the chat! We love 'helloooo's
- Smile!
- Have fun!
- Before the talk, we will unlock you. You will still be listed as a guest, it is not a problem
- When starting your talk, click on the Blue Microphone button to switch into the speaking mode. You might be asked to provide extra permissions
Online FAQs
[edit]- Can I do audio tests?
- Yes! You can do audio tests in this Test Room, anytime:
- Test Room: https://nextcloud.wikimedia.ch/apps/bbb/b/afHbTkxCrFoiLFWG
- Cannot pick microphone. What to do?
- Click that big-blue-button with the icon of headphones (in the bottom of the screen). Join with a microphone, so you can speak.
- Cannot pick microphone I said. What to do?
- Probably your browser web does not want to allow to share your microphone. Or, probably you clicked "No" for some reasons. Easy workaround: use a different browser web (or a more reliable browser web). For example, install Mozilla Firefox, or Chromium, instead of Google Chrome.