Wikimania 2022/Individual Reports/Akbarali

Welcome back from Wikimania 2022! Please write your report here. Once you have completed the application, please email the link to wikimaniawikimedia.org (by 30 September 2022). If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email us.

Username

Akbarali

How did you attend Wikimania (virtually or in-person)?

I attended Wikimania virtually through the program platform- YouTube and Pheedloop. It was my first time experience in Wikimania as virtual participation.

What did you spend the scholarship funds on?

I spent the scholarship funds mainly for two purposes. One is to organize a Wikidata training on 4th September 2022 as Online. Active wikimedians from the group Wikimedians of UAE participated in the event. The Secondly a Wikidata training session was held at Mohammed bin Rashid Library on 14th September. It was a Wikidata training for School librarians of UAE.I could travel to this place and provide training for more than 100 school librarians of UAE.I also spent fund to purchase data to participate fully in the conference.

Takeaways – choose 3 specific Wikimania sessions you attended and describe your key take-aways per session.

• 10 years of Wikidata-Overtime Discussion: This was an interesting and informative discussion between the founders of Wikidata.As a active editor in Wikidata, this session was given inspiration and new insights for my future contributions.

• Wikimedia Sound Logo Production Master Class by Joe Bush and Emma Byford: I attended this session.At beginning I had no idea about sound logo.As a result of this sesison I learnt how sound logos are made for different alerts.

• Education and Partnership: Reading Wikipedia in Classroom was another session which I felt very useful. And I will be registering for the upcoming session of this project.

How did you connect with other people during Wikimania 2022? How did you celebrate at Wikimania 2022?

Gave a talk during the Wikidata workshop at Dubai that helped me to get more wikimedia interested librarians across the different schools in the UAE. Secondly to make my virtual wikimania experience more reliable, I downloaded PheedLoop Go! App, as well as Interactio android App. I also posted about it in my social media account that reached to more than 200 users.

(Optional) Please share link(s) to your social media post(s) about Wikimania

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