Submissions:2018/CollaborationKit: the future of user groups and community coordination

This submission has been noted and is pending review for WikiConference North America 2018.

Title

CollaborationKit: the future of user groups and community coordination

Theme (optional)

Tech & Tools

Academic Peer Review option

No

Type of submission

presentation

Author

Isarra Yos

E-mail address

zhorishnagmail.com

Wikimedia username

Isarra

Affiliation(s) (optional)

Abstract

Structured discussions, organised community spaces, curated lists of pages, better user grouping and tracking of discussions and changes. These may sound scary to community members because they are phrases that can easily present with considerable historical baggage, and yet they are the past and future of Wikipedia's user interactions.

This should not be scary. We already have the patterns we need to develop truly effective social tools, from structured discussions to community hubs, laid out in the ways many projects already interact in wikitext: on talk pages, as WikiProjects. Let's explore the example of CollaborationKit, an extension created to facilitate WikiProjects in continuing to do exactly what they've always been doing, but with less overhead, and see how this project may yet be guided to be as effective as possible.

Length of presentation

15-30 min

Special requests

Preferred room size

Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?

Wikiconference NA San Diego in 2016, as a presentation on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit specifically

If you will be incorporating a slidedeck during your presentation, do you agree to upload it to Commons before your session, with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, including suitable attribution in the slidedeck for any images used?

Sure, why not

Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?

Probably

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1.  Nova Crystallis (Talk) 21:17, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
2. James Hare (talk) 19:25, 19 August 2018 (UTC)