Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015/Programme/Submissions/CEE 2016

This is the place where the CEE wiki community can discuss ideas for a regional collaborative project for 2016.

Wiki Loves List Sharing

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There are couple of Wiki Loves competitions in countries of CEE. We have created lists of cultural monuments, nature features, public art and more interesting things. But, often the lists remain on the wiki in language of primary-interest readers. As such lists are much more structured than usual article, it is simpler to import them from one wiki into another. Using Wikidata such importing, and especially maintaining, is even more simpler.

This project would be about coordinating such things like transwiki harmonisation of templates, reusing Wikidata importers, transwiki robots. It wouldn't be such "usual"-wiki-user-oriented like CEE Spring 2015, but more technical-user-oriented with support of affiliation. But eventually, there is possibility about organising some "usual"-wiki-user-oriented activity, like "run for adding coordinates of monuments" or something similar.

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WMCEE Spring 2016

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Let's revisit the idea with experience from this year. Let's try to improve locally run contests, get more countries involved and submit grant proposals in time.

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Translate monument lists

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At Wikimania I had a talk with someone from the German community who were interesed in having the Romanian monuments list translated. Later on, someone from the Hungarian community asked for a certain subset of the same list. I think exporting the monument lists from all the countries to translatewiki and organizing a translate-a-thon (on-wiki) might create a good source of articles.

Wikidata translations might also be a good idea, but it does duplicate the work (you have to translate for each entry)--Strainu (talk) 06:54, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

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These lists should find a way to Wikidata, there is a localization option there (without the fancy translation memory tools, though). --Papuass (talk) 08:05, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Exactly, Wikidata is lacking translation memory and text grouping, which makes it less likely that we can get translations in a reasonable amount of time.--Strainu (talk) 08:22, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

If there is something that translation memory can handle (mostly "absolutely same" expression like "house", "grave" etc), Wikidata can handle it in mass by bots. For another affairs helps nor TM nor bots. --KuboF (talk) 01:11, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Transfering Institutional Experience (TIE): Cross-CEE support in institutional outreach and collaborations

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Almost every country in the region can report some positive institutional collaboration and outreach – GLAM collaboration, wiki educational programme, cooperation with the city municipality or a governmental body. As a region, we have collected huge experience in

• contacting institutions,
• convincing them of the value of contributing to Wikipedia and free knowledge,
• carrying out successful projects,
• showing the results and reporting them.

On the other hand, it is often the case that certain institutions will always need to be convinced by the good example of their alikes in other countries and regions. For instance, museum curators would be much more convinced for such a joint project if the recommendation comes from a member of their familiar museum curators community, rather than from some unfamiliar Wikipedians.

One idea for the CEE 2016 collaboration is to help each other replicate our positive experience by initiating institutional collaborations, building upon our regionally accumulated experience. The idea is to have each country provide a list, a show-case of all its fruitful institutional collaborations, and a contact person for each (the contact page can be either a Wikipedian, or an institutional contact point, or both). In this way, other interested Wikipedians can thus know whom to contact if they want to replicate locally a specific foreign experience.

• Proposed by: →Spiritia 07:32, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

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Ask user @LA2: for a booklet "Working with the Wikimedia Chapters in Denmark, Norway and Sweden." This could be a useful handout during discussions with desision makers (as we all nearned, give this to them at the end of the meeting). --Papuass (talk) 08:04, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

It can be read online as File:Working with the Wikimedia Chapters in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.pdf. --LA2 (talk) 08:45, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Idea 4

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