Wikisource Community User Group/Wikisource Conference 2015/Program

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General information[edit]

The conference will take from November 20-22, 2015. We plan to make Friday, November 20 a full conference day, so arriving by Thursday night is recommended. The conference will end on the afternoon of Sunday 22.

Please pick up your registration at the conference information desk in the JUFA lobby.

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015

Thursday[edit]

  • The conference information desk at the JUFA lobby is open from 9.30 am to 6 pm.
2.30 pm – 5 pm Visit of the Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna

Meeting point: conference information desk in the JUFA lobby at 2.30 pm.
A special guided tour through the archive which goes back to the 14th century and is located in the unique Gasometer.

6 pm – 8 pm Dinner

Friday[edit]

  • The conference information desk at the JUFA lobby is open from 8.30 am to 6 pm.
7 am – 9 am Breakfast
9.30 am – 10 am Room Concerto

Welcome to the first International Wikisource Conference,
Claudia.Garad, Aubrey

Room Menuet

Breakout room
Hackathon

10 am – 11 am Room Concerto

Introduction to Wikisource
Charles Matthews
Etherpad · slides

11 am – 12 am Room Concerto

"Wikisource technical infrastructure: what we have done and what we could do"
Tpt, French Wikisource.
Etherpad · slides

12 am – 12:30 pm Room Concerto

Transcription among GLAMs: Smithsonian Digital Volunteers
Slowking4
presentation links
Etherpad

12:30 am – 1 pm Room Concerto

The Old New Thing
Ijon
Etherpad · slides

1 pm – 2 pm Lunch
2 pm – 3 pm Room Concerto

Unique aspects of the Hebrew Wikisource
Zvi Devir, Hebrew Wikisource
Etherpad

Room Menuet

DIY bookscanner presentation
Mark Van den Borre, diybookscanner.org.

3 pm – 4 pm Room Concerto

Lessons from the partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, National Library of France)
VIGNERON and Jean-Frédéric Wikimédia France, French Wikisource
Etherpad · slides

Room Menuet

Breakout room
Hackathon

4 pm – 4.30 pm Coffee break (1st floor)
4.30 pm – 5.30 pm Room Concerto

GLAM/BAnQ : One step beyond collaboration (BAnQ: National Library and Archives of Québec)
Ernest Boucher, Wikimédia Canada, French Wikisource
Etherpad

Room Menuet
6 pm – 7 pm Dinner
7.30 pm – 9.30 pm Visiting the Christmas Market at Spittelberg (website)

Meeting point: conference information desk in the JUFA lobby at 7.30 pm

Friday will be a day dedicated to GLAMs. We will ask our GLAM partners (librarians, archivists) to come on Friday, as Saturday and Sunday will be dedicated to Wikisource core editors.

Meanwhile, other editors can gather for the

  • hackathon: a room will be dedicated to hacking and talking about technical issues at Wikisource.
  • Free workshops. Possible topics are:
    • Proofread extension technical (requires a technical presenter, maybe Tpt)
    • Some idea of projects to improve the Wikisource technical infrastructure (Tpt)
    • Scripting (requires a technical presenter)
    • running the proofread contest, how to operate the scripts (who? please sign)
    • DIY scanner, how to assemble it (who? please sign. We have contacts who own the scanner)
    • Mentoring projects as a volunteer, engagement in the user group


Please sign on these workshops if you are available on presenting/leading them. Please add another workshop if you are willing to do that.

For already knowledgeable volunteers
  • Wikidata for Wikisource, what has been done and what can be done now

Saturday[edit]

  • The conference information desk at the JUFA lobby is open from 8.30 am to 6 pm.
7 am – 9 am Breakfast
9.30 am – 1 pm Room Concerto

Identity of Wikisource
Workshops and discussions
Etherpad

Room Menuet

Breakout room
Hackathon

1 pm – 1.45 pm Lunch
1.45 pm – 2 pm Group photo (JUFA lobby) by Tsui
2 pm – 4 pm Room Concerto

Identity of Wikisource
Workshops and discussions
Etherpad

Room Menuet

Breakout room
Hackathon

4 pm – 4.30 pm Coffee break (1st floor)
4.30 pm – 5.30 pm Room Concerto

Identity of Wikisource
Workshops and discussions
Etherpad

Room Menuet

Breakout room
Hackathon

6.30 pm – 7.30 pm Dinner
8 pm – open end Wikisource Conference Party at nachBar (website)

Meeting point: conference information desk in the JUFA lobby at 8 pm

Saturday will be the day for the most important discussions. The aim of this day is come up with a "manifesto" of Wikisource, and a roadmap for the near future.

We will discuss:

  • What is Wikisource?
  • Differences and similarities with related projects as Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, etc.
  • What is needed for Wikisource to scale up? Setting of priorities.
  • Wikisource and Wikidata?

For those who don't want to participate in the discussion (but you're encouraged to), there will be always the possibility of working in the hacking space.

Sunday[edit]

  • The conference information desk at the JUFA lobby is open from 10.30 am to 2.30 pm.
7 am – 9 am Breakfast
9.30 am – 1.30 pm Room Concerto

Identity of Wikisource
9:30 - ~10:20: Technical prioritization
~10:30 - TBD: Mission/manifesto
Etherpad

Room Menuet

Breakout room
Hackathon

1.30 pm – 2 pm Lunch
2.30 pm – 6 pm City tour to the historic centre of Vienna

by Hubertl
Meeting point: conference information desk in the JUFA lobby at 2.30 pm

6 pm – 8 pm Dinner at Zwölfapostelkeller (website)

self-paying

We'll have only the morning.

  • Wrapping up of the Wikisource "manifesto".
  • Wikisource and Wikidata