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Wiki Loves Monuments as a way to document destroyed cultural heritage Wikimania 2024
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Active wars create urgency in documenting and preserving knowledge. This lightning talk will concentrate on sharing lessons learnt and insights from the Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine volunteers when organising a photo contest helping to document not only the cultural heritage, but also its destruction.T
on Aug 16
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State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia Wikimania 2024
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In this session, we'll explore language tools that support Wikimedia sites on web and mobile platforms, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT and LanguageConverter. Discover how these tools enhance editors' experience and engagement within their communities. We'll discuss the current state...
on Aug 16
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Wikimedia Foundation AI activities update Wikimania 2024
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Generative AI continues to bring new opportunities, risks, and open questions to the Wikimedia movement. Learn about the key generative AI activities happening within various departments at the Wikimedia Foundation (including Product & Technology, Legal, and Advancement). Topics covered will...
on Aug 9
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Frictionless data for more collaboration Wikimania 2024
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Open data becomes a truly collaborative resource when it is not only open, but also adheres to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). It is hard for technical people to produce and publish data that is open and FAIR, it is even harder to do so for non-technical...
on Aug 9
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To ensure multiple generations of volunteers can sustain our projects into perpetuity, we want to drive existing and new people to contribute. The Wikimedia Foundation has created a set of "volunteer archetypes" to help answer why different people on the internet volunteer, and explore...
on Aug 9
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Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem Wikimania 2024
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As part of our upcoming work objectives, the Wikimedia Cloud Services team aims to explore the development of a scoring system for evaluating the sustainability of the Toolforge ecosystem. This roundtable serves as a platform to introduce the concept of this scoring system and start...
on Aug 9
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Smell on Wikidata Wikimania 2024
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Wikimedia projects focus primarily on text and images and, sometimes, sound. Yet sight and hearing are only two of the five senses, so how can Wikimedia projects represent our senses of smell, taste and touch better? To begin a conversation this demonstration will focus on the sense of smell and...
on Aug 9
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Barnraising - from the Temperance Movement to the WikiWomen Movement Wikimania 2024
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Women’s engagement in the temperance movement of the "long nineteenth century" has been documented in many countries. How they collaborated, organized, developed leaders, documented their work, convened, dealt with disagreements, engaged in exclusionary practices, and remained resilient are...
on Aug 9
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall Wikimania 2024
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Join the Open Knowledge Network for a dynamic discussion on strengthening the digital commons. As a diverse and vibrant community of experts from different areas of the open movement, we will explore avenues for collective action to address fragmentation and enhance our collective impact. Let’s...
on Aug 8
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Wikidata Query Service is an integral part of Wikidata, both for editing Wikidata as well as building applications with Wikidata's data. Over the past years Wikidata has become the largest and most edited Wikimedia project. It has grown to a size that the Wikidata Query Service can not handle...
on Aug 8
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Meetup: Wikidata WikiProject Research Expeditions Wikimania 2024
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Learn more: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Research_expeditions
on Aug 8
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Open as a Prerequisite for Solving the Climate Crisis Wikimania 2024
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Join this session to hear from organizations who are collaborating on projects and initiatives to profile the role of open in addressing the climate crisis. We will profile successes to date, highlight upcoming projects, and invite participation in our community-driven Open Goes COP movement. ...
on Aug 7
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Data Products as tools for Collaboration Wikimania 2024
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The tenth recommendation from Movement Strategy 2030 is “Evaluate, Iterate & Adapt”. This measurement process is a crucial piece of supporting healthy communities. The Wikimedia Foundation's newly formed Data Products team would like to share our progress towards building the capabilities that...
on Aug 7
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OpenRefine + Wikidata = ~*magic*~ Wikimania 2024
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A two-hour tutorial on ingesting open data into Wikidata using OpenRefine for absolute beginners.
on Aug 4