Grants:TPS/Jarekt/Wikimania/2015/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2015!

Participant

Wikimedia Commons

Outcome

Option 1: Shared Experience: What is one way you shared something from your experience with your community (either locally or globally), after the event?

Add a link here to a blog post or newsletter you wrote about your participation afterwards, or to a meet-up you organized to share your experience with your local community.

I shared some of what I learned on Commons Village pump.

Option 3: New Creation: What was one useful outcome that was created at the event for the Wikimedia movement?

Add a link to something new that was created as a result of your participation in this event (for example, you might link to a new tool that you and your co-participants worked on at the Hackathon, or to pages created in a workshop you participated in).

I am working with User:Ladsgroup on File metadata cleanup drive in c:Category:Media missing infobox template. We will do a big bot run to add Information templates to many images and do a separate task of asking many still active uploaders to help with adding Information template to their files. We prepared c:Template:Information/please add template for this purpose.

Connections

Making connections is a big part of the Wikimania.

Most people I interact with on Commons, my home Wiki, I have never met, so it was really nice to meet some of them. Some for the first time and some I have met many times before. Over the years I interacted with many people and associating faces with sometimes cryptic user names helps me remember who I was working on what.
I tend to often do maintenance on Commons collections related to Poland and I occasionally interact with members of Polish Wikipedia crew. It is always nice to meet them in person.
Commons so far did not see hardly any benefit from Wikidata. That will be hopefully changing once arbitrary access comes to Commons I had good discussions with Daniel Kinzler, Lydia Pintscher and other members of Wikidata team, about some of the specific needs and uses of wikidata on the Commons.

Anything else

I uploaded over 100 photographs from Wikimania. The list can be found here.