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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 on page
    • Note Internet Archive, Credibility Coalition, journalism school, request for future projects

Topics presented an discussed

  • Conference schedule
  • Tours of local museums, libraries, and special collections
  • New Caribbean user group may have a conference
  • Big training on Wikidata
    • Tools for editing get better, more gamification, discussion of how to teach it
    • Huge uploads/imports to wikidata
    • 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
  • 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, always; 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
    • Whitelisting versus blacklisting of sources
    • Cite Unseen -- tool classifies/analyzes the sources used on in an wp article
    • Flores presentation tracking changes in news publications about Mexico - 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 joint meetings
    • National Agricultural Library
    • CDC/NIOSH
    • about FOIA and Muckrock
    • First MediaWiki edit from space, by astronaut Christina Koch! Announced at a parallel conference by NASA's Daren Welsh.