Grants:TPS/Danny B./Wikimania/2016/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2016!

Participant

Danny B.

all around

Outcome

Cherrypicked among others:

helping to the local organizing team, sharing the experiences from past events as well as giving the hand where needed

Discussions:

Community engagement team (Quim Gil, Nick Wilson)
Future of Gadgets system (Timo Tijhof)
Grants system (Marti Johnson, Kacie Harold)
LangCom situation and future (LangCom members)
Phabricator maintenance (Andre Klapper)
Preparation of Hackathon 2017 (Hackathon 2017 team)
Preparation of next Wikimania and it future at all (WM2017 team)
Scribunto stuff (Brad Jorsch, Marius Hoch)
Services and relevant architecture (Gabriel Wicke)
Task system in Phabricator (two guys, at least one from TPG)
various GLAM stuff (John Cummings, Liam Wyatt and some others)

Lecture:

I've taught couple local people stuff about Wikipedia and Wikimedia - basic principles, basic editing, overview of WMF projects, etc...

Learning

"Street view" with portable equipment (the map guy)
Structured data (Yuri Astrakhan, various)
various tech things - one always learns ;-)
various things about/from FSFE

Due to the nature of my major participation in wikiverse, most of what I've learned will be by shared by creating and maintaining of on wiki tools, also promoting new features and help with them.

Apart from purely Wikimedia related things I've had an opportunity to learn about different cultures as well as various phrases in new languages.

Creating

hopefully couple new contributors after my lecturing to couple local people

Connections

With most majority of the people I've listed below I've been solving various issues, gave them feedback, helped them, got feedback, suggestions or help from them. Due to this, I consider this Wikimania as highly productive event for me.

The real list is much much longer (cf. my last year's one), but since I've unfortunately lost the list I made for myself and I am bad on names, I list only those I can remember off head with sincere apologies to those whose names I forgot. However, nearly all of those listed on last year's list who attended this year would be listed here.

Aaron Halfaker
Alexander Wagner
Alice Wiegand
Amanda Bittaker
Amir Aharoni
Andre Klapper
Anne-Laure Prévost
Asaf Bartov
Benoit Rochon
Benoît Evellin
Birgit Müller
Brad Jorsch
Brion Vibber
Bryan Davis
Chen Davidi
Claudia Garád
Deror Avi
Ellie Young
Erik Möller
Florence Nibart-Devouard
Frieda Brioschi
Gabriel Wicke
Geoff Brigham
Gergő Tisza
Gregory Varnum
Ilario Valdelli
Iolanda Pensa
Isarra
Itzik Edri
Ivan Martinéz
James Alexander
James Forrester
James Hare
Jan-Bart de Vreede
Jean-Frédéric Berthelot
Joe Sutherland
John Cummings
Kacie Harold
Kalliope Tsouroupidou
Katherine Maher
Ladsgroup
Liam Wyatt
Lodewijk Gelauf
Lydia Pintscher
Maarten Dammers
Manuel Schneider
Marc-André Pelletier
Mardetanha
Marek Blahuš
Marius Hoch
Mark Hershberger
Marti Johnson
Martin Rulsch
María Sefidari
Moushira Elamrawy
Muriel Staub
Nick Wilson
Nicole Ebber
Niklas Laxström
Patricio Lorente
Quim Gil
Rachel Farrand
Raimund Liebert
Roan Kattouw
Romaine
Rummana Yasmeen
Ryan Kaldari
SPQRobin
Samuel Klein
Siebrand Mazeland
Timo Tijhof
Yuri Astrakhan
the mapping guy
Austrian folks
FSFE guys
couple local people
many others, which I unfortunately don't remember name of

Anything else

Like last year: Although utopic wish, I wish Wikimania was longer so I had more time for face to face collaboration with many of those listed above...

Big thanks to the Austrian folks for their hospitality on the first night when the regular accommodation failed as well as for the transportation services.

And of course, big kudos to the entire team and local people for the great - and this year very unusual due to its outdoor nature - conference!