Grants:TPS/Fz-29/Wikimania/2018/Report-copy

Welcome back from Wikimania 2018!

Participant

Fz-29: 'MediaWiki'

Outcome and Connections

Here is the link to my blog post mentioning the Wikimania experience in detail.

Key Learning Experiences

• Met Miriam and Diego from Research Team. Learnt a lot during Hackathon from them.
• Met Andrew Lih, understood the problem he was working on Sum of all paintings, attempted to solve the specific subset of this problem - Generating a set labels by predicting on the basis of Paintings visual content, painter, time during which it was painted, tags of other paintings by the painter.
• Learnt SPARQL query language
• Experienced the non-technical side of Wikipedia
• Interacted with a lot of people from technical and as well as non-technical community.
• Developer's from Indian Wikimedia community decided to stay more connected via. Google Groups

Sessions I attended

Preconference

• Hackathon
• Welcome Reception

Day 1

• Wikidata: building bridges every single day
• A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners + Wikidata Query Tutorial - part1
• What is Knowledge? Art Exhibition
• Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity
• Lightning Talks
• Using artificial intelligence to keep Wikipedia open
• AI meetup
• Wikimedia Asian meetup
• Creating Knowledge Equity and Spatial Justice on Wikipedia
• Coolest Projects of Wikimedia Chapters - Be Inspired

Day 2

• The Decolonizing Debate: Social Media as Source Archive and Wikipedia
• Activating the next generation : Wikipedia in Schools
• continued the Hackathon
• State of Wikimedia Research 2017-2018
• One Image at a time; How Governments can help in bridging the information gap on Wikipedia
• Wikimedia and the spirit of Ubuntu: The power of unity in action

Day 3

• Which parts of an article are actually being read?
• continued the Hackathon
• Kiwix & Raspberry Pi - build your own wikipedia Wifi hotspot
• Closing session
• Closing Party

Connections

I met a lot of people from Developer community as well as Editorial Community. The hackathon event was the place where I met Meriam, Diego, Andrew where I learnt a lot from them.

Anything else