User:Econterms/For Federal Mediawiki Demo group on WikiConference North America 2019

Notes for discussion with Federal Enterprise MediaWiki demonstration group, 14 Nov 2019


 * Conference was at MIT, Nov 8-11, 2019
 * Ran well. Many speakers


 * Show partners this year on main page
 * Note Internet Archive, Credibility Coalition, journalism school, request for future projects

Topics presented and discussed

 * Conference schedule
 * Tours of local museums, libraries, and special collections


 * Big training on Wikidata
 * Tools for editing get better, more gamification, discussion of how to teach it
 * Huge uploads/imports to wikidata - by NARA, and via QuickSheets and QuickStatements
 * also discussion of limits to Wikidata as now designed
 * WikiCite -- conceptual list/database of sources, books, patents, etc -- too big
 * Scholia front end to find scientific authors, coauthors, publications, lists, networks
 * Scholia front end to find scientific authors, coauthors, publications, lists, networks


 * New Caribbean user group may have a conference; logistical challenges - see also etherpad and user group page and
 * Conflicts over support & funding between chapters/user groups and Foundation may heat up
 * Interesting research on speed of resolution of online disputes - many "age out", a new platform/tool (Wikum) by taking things to a forum not a talk page
 * Copyright topics, as always - some of us will sign up for training; harassment, measuring and defending against, on and offline; COI; content about suicide
 * Increasingly explicit tool/sharing with Internet Archive, Google, and others - google knowledge boxes
 * "Disinfomation" problems on Wikipedia and on social media
 * Attendance and participation by reps from Google, Facebook, and Microsoft
 * Faculty from journalism and law attended
 * Whitelisting versus blacklisting of sources
 * related to research on "knowledge integrity" on Wikimedia
 * Lists of external tools and platforms for this: CredCatalog, MediaWell, Rand's list
 * Cite Unseen -- tool classifies/analyzes the sources used on in an wp article
 * Flores presentation tracking changes in news publications - Comparador de Medios
 * Tracking (historical) newspapers project ; project idea to make English Wikipedia's "Reliable sources" list more expansive and available to other platforms
 * Several gov presenters or meetings
 * National Agricultural Library
 * CDC/NIOSH by specialists, special meeting with Wiki Edu
 * NARA uploaded 4 million facts/data items to Wikidata
 * about FOIA and Muckrock
 * First MediaWiki edit from space, by astronaut Christina Koch! Announced at a parallel conference by NASA's Daren Welsh.
 * about FOIA and Muckrock
 * First MediaWiki edit from space, by astronaut Christina Koch! Announced at a parallel conference by NASA's Daren Welsh.