Ohio Wikimedians User Group/Reports/2023-24

Summary

This report presents activities by the Ohio Wikimedians User Group during their eigth year, July 2023 - July 2024.

This annual report covers the period from July 2023 through July 2024.

Membership remained constant through the year.

Projects

WikiConference North America 2023

WCNA 2023 logo.

WikiConference North America (WCNA) is the annual conference of Wikimedia enthusiasts and volunteers throughout the continent. WikiConference North America 2023 took place in Toronto with the theme "Recent Changes", named after the bountiful wiki stream and also reflecting on everything that happened since the last in-person WikiConference North America in 2019.

A number of Ohio Wikimedians were in attendance, with Ohio Wikimedian Kevin Payravi helping organize.

Wikimedia Summit 2024

The Wikimedia Summit 2024 took place on April 19-21, 2024 in Berlin. The goal of this summit was to bring people together to make significant progress on the design of the future Wikimedia governance, and discussing the future of global affiliate gatherings.

John P. Sadowski attended the conference on behalf of the Ohio Wikimedians User Group. The User Group cast its vote for Movement Charter ratification in July 2024.

Athens Edit-a-thon

Event page - Editing dashboard

On March 27, 2024, Ohio University hosted an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, organized by User:Gkuriger. For 2024, the event's focus was on adding information about women modern dancers to Wikipedia utilizing the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Collection as a starting point. 3 editors contributed to 13 articles, adding 1,900+ words.

Wiki Loves Monuments

Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual international photographic competition that invites people to upload photos of historic sites to the Wikimedia Commons. Ohio Wikimedian Kevin Payravi is the lead organizer of the United States competition. In the 2023 competition, participants uploaded 63 photos from Ohio, viewable here.

Selection of photos

The Ohio Statehouse interior, by Riis2602
Fairport Harbor, by Riis2602
Saint Francis Seraph Church, by Nheyob
Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Ahmedtahrir