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Wikimedia projects run a software platform called MediaWiki. Like all software, it has a user interface, which should be translated to as many languages as possible. It's especially true for projects with worldwide goals, as Wikimedia projects are. For MediaWiki, this is done on a website called translatewiki.net. This workshop will show how translatewiki works, and how can everyone who cares about Wikimedia projects contribute their language knowledge. Speakers of all languages are welcome: English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Creole languages, Native American languages, and all others.

The Affiliations Committee is a Wikimedia community-run committee entrusted with advising the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on the approval of new movement affiliates: national and subnational chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups.

In recent years, the committee has been improving its work processes and is also trying to introduce new approaches to the work of the affiliation, which is in line with the 2030 strategy.

In light of the new approaches, the Committee wants to share the latest updates with the community, share an update on the affiliate strategy, and answer questions from the community in support of more and stronger affiliates.

Presentation https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AffCom_Presentation_for_WikiConference_North_America_2023.pdf

In 2020, English Wikipedia editors started URFA/2020, an initiative to assess Wikipedia's older featured articles. This talk will share the goals of the initiative, how it works, and criticisms that have been levied against it. It will also describe English Wikipedia's Featured Article Review process and how editors can work to "save" an article's featured status.

Expanded View it! gallery on the Wikipedia article for goats.

View it! is a suite of media search tools to show Wikimedia users (both editors and readers) Wikimedia Commons depicting– or otherwise related to– the article they are viewing. This helps editors easily find and add relevant items to a given Wikimedia page and can be used across all Wikimedia projects and language versions. The tool allows users access to the full catalog of relevant, tagged images on Wikimedia Commons vs the finite, highly curated images you may find on a Wikipedia article or Wikidata item.

The project page can be viewed here, and the web application can be viewed at view-it.toolforge.org.

View it! was funded for development by the Wikimedia Foundation's Structured Data Across Wikimedia project, and is now being maintained in a volunteer capacity. Our team will walk attendees through View it!’s capabilities and structured data usage. We will show how results have changed throughout the development process and discuss ways View it! has been found helpful for users. Participants will be invited to try the tool for themselves, and discuss ways they might find it helpful and future features they'd like to see.

Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PCNbGdt4LQuS0uO-pA1GbEb5Kfkck5Rp/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103204431945530227106&rtpof=true&sd=true

Come experience the sites of Toronto on a walking tour of the city! Participants can take pictures of the city while listening to its history. From the meeting place of Indigenous peoples, to revolutions and riots, to music and culture, the city has experienced many major events. Estimated route will be: Toronto Public Library (starting point, discussion of Indigenous history), Yorkville and Bay (history of Yorkville), ROM (history of ROM and study of dinosaurs in Canada), Queen's Park (colonization of Ontario, Queen's Park, William Lyon Mackenzie), Bay and Wellesley (financial history), Church and Wellesley (queer history in Toronto), Bloor and Yonge (Yonge street), return to the public library.

As the partnerships lead for The Wikipedia Library, I spend my time having conversations with commercial publishers and other organizations that keep essential knowledge behind paywalls. It's my job to persuade them to provide free access to high-quality research material for our most productive editors, so we can increase the reliability of Wikipedia. Partners that I've recently onboarded include Sage Publications, British Newspaper Archives, and the University of Chicago Press.

In this lightning talk, I'll share prospective partners' most common misconceptions about Wikipedia and our movement; the reasons they give for not taking part; and the arguments that convince them to take this step towards sharing their information more openly.

This talk will be useful to anyone who wants to develop content partnerships. You will learn about how we identify and vet partners; our outreach strategies; The Wikipedia Library pitch; and the data and reporting we use.

The mission of the Wikimedia movement has always been to bring free knowledge to everyone in the world. However, we know that recent technological developments – for example, advances in artificial intelligence, and new social apps and devices that allow people to interact with the digital world in new ways – are moving quickly and may have a big impact on how knowledge is created and accessed. In Movement Strategy Recommendation #9: “Innovate in Free Knowledge”, our movement calls for “change, flexibility, and experimentation to stay relevant” as technology evolves. But how do we know and agree on which strategies to pursue? For example: Should the Wikimedia Foundation invest in building our own AI chatbot to bring more people to Wikimedia sites and apps? Or, should we strive to make it easier for our existing content to be reused in any online experience where people like to spend time, including third-party AI assistants and social apps? Something else?

Pursuing any of these directions will require a great deal of thought, investment, and buy-in from the movement. To explore the opportunities and risks of these and other strategies for innovating in free knowledge, the "Future Audiences" initiative at the Wikimedia Foundation has been focused on a) developing a sharper map of what the future could look like, and b) identifying and running experiments to better understand how our movement could continue to bring value to and be sustained within different possible futures.

In this workshop, we invite anyone who shares our passion for new technologies and future audiences to:

• Learn what we've learned in 5 months of experimentation and research – including lessons from our first experiment, building a Wikipedia plugin for ChatGPT
• Provide input on where and how we can continue our efforts to understand how we might expand beyond our existing audiences of readers, reusers, and contributors, in an effort to truly reach everyone in the world as the "essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge"

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When someone violates the community's rules on Wikipedia, they may be blocked by an administrator. Like the rest of the project, these actions (along with the type of block, duration, and reason) are typically logged and publicly accessible. As part of a larger academic project about content moderation on Wikipedia, I've been analyzing the nearly 20-year-old block log of the English Wikipedia. In this session, I will present some of the patterns, trends, and interesting statistics I've found that may be of interest to the community. How have the number of blocks per year changed over time? What reasons for blocking are more or less prominent now than they were in years past? Is blocking a task that's evenly spread out among admins, or are a small number issuing most of the blocks? How do the reasons for blocking change as we consider users' edit counts? These are intended as example questions -- I still have some data analysis and visualization to do between now and the conference, if it's accepted, and the end result will likely include much more than just these points.

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In the face of the Climate Crises, there are going to be billions of small decisions that mean the difference between human suffering and a more just, resilient world. We are all living through these crises: feeling the effects of the climate crises, but also contributing to its causes. During the last few years, I have been supporting Wikimedia communities developing tactics and models of participation to address the crises.

I will be sharing how Wikimedia communities around the world are participating in the change needed to address the Climate Crises and other environmental issues through the tactics and programs related to #WikiForHumanRights, the Organizer Lab and African Environment Day and community partnerships while also pointing at the needs for communities in North America to respond to the crises. In the 2023 WikiForHumanRights Campaign, organizers facilitated over 65 events around the world, contributing to more than 10,000 Wikimedia pages and engaging over 900 contributors. Learning from these approaches, can help change how and what Wikimedia communities are doing to address the 2030 Movement Strategy recommendation for Topics for Impact.

At the end of the session, we will do a workshop where everyone identifies develop small commitments for how participants will respond to what the world needs from them as part of the Wikimedia Movement. This commitment framework will be based on the Ayana Johnson Climate Action Venn Diagram: https://www.ayanaelizabeth.com/climatevenn

You can read more about my work on this topic in the following posts:

• https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/20/living-through-a-triple-planetary-emergency-capturing-the-most-impactful-knowledge-to-weather-the-storm/
• https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/20/an-organizers-perspective-part-iii-wikimedia-is-a-key-part-of-global-climate-and-sustainability-communications-now-is-the-moment-to-embrace-it/

Most people start creating biographies in Wikipedia, but there is a case for creating or expanding the Wikidata item first. Reasons include less stringent notability standards, the ability to collect citations without the threat of deletion, the advantage of having properties that one inputs displayed in multiple-language Wikipedias, and that it is sometimes good enough to have a Wikidata item itself, or as supporting data. A preliminary slide deck developed for an edit-a-thon, but not yet used, can be seen at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bOkmOPjySR-TbsNnDrJvTuWbKcn7uHKfeCI-YaEKL2w/edit?usp=sharing

Une façon de réimaginer nos communautés et de construire un avenir plus juste, équitable, libre, et inclusif, est de retourner vers nos passés, nos luttes gagnées et les défis surmontés. En mettant de l’avant comment des communautés ont été opprimées, et comment elles ont pu surpasser des obstacles pour faire changer des lois, des normes sociétales, et des valeurs, nous redonnons espoir et force aux communautés opprimées d’aujourd’hui. Nous proposons de faire découvrir le projet lglc.ca, ainsi que le projet de Wiki edit-a-thon qui en a été dérivé à la conférence Wikipédia 2023. Le Wiki edit-a-thon, prévu pour l’automne 2023, est dans ses débuts d’organisation, mais compte déjà plusieurs succès, entre autres le développement de collaborations, des réflexions profondes sur le futur du projet lglc.ca, la formation de plusieurs assistantes de recherche, et la découverte d’un passé vaste et complexe.

Cette activité dérive du projet Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada : A Selected Annotated Chronology de notre collaborateur Donald McLeod des bibliothèques de l’Université de Toronto. Les deux volumes de la chronologie s’étendent de 1964 à 1981 et comprennent 3 100 événements qui ont marqué le mouvement de libération des gaies et lesbiennes au Canada. Le projet LGLC repose sur l’agrégation et la synthèse de documents d’archives, enrichies de recherches complémentaires, et proposées aux lecteurs en ligne avec des possibilités numériques supérieures à celles de l’imprimé. Le LGLC étend le développement traditionnel de la chronologie des sciences humaines au domaine des sciences humaines numériques grâce au codage TEI-XML (Text Encoding Initiative-Extensible Markup Language) qui le sous-tend, et grâce à l’étude des bases de données graphiques et au JavaScript pour transformer une analyse privée basée sur TEI-XML en un site Web d’histoire publique : le lglc.ca. Le site comprenait, dans ses débuts, 34 000 entrées de personnes, lieux, organisations et événements du mouvement de libération lesbienne et gai au Canada, depuis, les assistantes de recherches ont doublé le nombre d’entrées grâce à leurs recherches et encodages. Le matériel compilé par Don McLeod a aussi été agrémenté d’une prosopographie qui contient les biographies des personnes impliquées dans le mouvement. Le projet initial était né d’un désir d’améliorer la quantité d’informations accessibles au public sur le mouvement LGBTQ2IA+ canadien, qui était beaucoup moins représenté sur Wikipédia en anglais que le mouvement des États-Unis. Il s’agit donc maintenant d’examiner le chemin parcouru et les lacunes qui subsistent. Nous nous rendons compte qu’en ce qui concerne le contenu disponible sur le mouvement LGBTQ2IA+ au Canada francophone par rapport au Canada anglophone est encore à travailler.

En effet, de par la situation sociale et économique des hommes homosexuels anglophones au Canada, il a été plus facile d’inclure et de représenter leur histoire, leurs défis et succès. En ce qui a trait aux francophones de la communauté LGBTQ2IA+ au Canada, le projet à plusieurs lacunes. Il est primordial pour le projet de représenter et valoriser à son juste titre l’histoire des lesbiennes, des trans, des francophones de la communauté comme étant varié, à multiples facettes, politique, complexe et profonde. Pour ce faire, le projet à mis en place plusieurs projets et collaborations. Une de ses activités clés a été d’organiser un Wiki edit-a-thon pour mobiliser des chercheures et chercheurs autour de la problématique, et de créer de nouvelles entrées Wiki, qui pourront aussi être intégrées, dans un deuxième temps, au projet LGLC. De plus, le Wiki edit-a-thon devient par la même occasion un espace de contestation politique et publique à l’image du mouvement de représentation des gais et lesbiennes. En effet, autant est il important que la communauté se mobilise pour faire reconnaître leur droit de vivre en liberté dans les bars, rues, et lieu de travail, autant est il important que la communauté soit reconnue dans les espaces publics en ligne.

Although the many contributors to Wikidata from the Americas represent a linguistically diverse group, this diversity is not currently reflected in the project's lexicographical data: lots of English, French, and Spanish lexemes remain woefully underdeveloped, and there is an entirely negligible number of lexemes in any language indigenous to either continent. Part of this may be due to the currently inadequate exposure that lexicographical data has to speakers from the Americas—most languages whose lexemes are actively improved are either spoken predominantly in Asia, predominantly in Africa, or are primarily confined to Europe—which potentially degrades any benefits that the upcoming Abstract Wikipedia project might provide to language communities from the Americas. It is hoped this workshop may at least begin to address this imbalance.

This workshop will introduce the creation, improvement, and current uses of Wikidata lexicographical data—that is, lexemes ("items for words") and the inflections and meanings they may take on. Participants will learn, depending on the languages they speak, either to build lexemes representing concepts in their language or to add information—particularly meanings and links from those meanings to Wikidata and other meanings—to existing lexemes should that information be absent. It is hoped that participants gain a basic understanding of what is useful to count as a lexeme and what details lexemes ideally should contain, as a precursor to more significant modeling decisions for their languages, so that those lexemes ultimately benefit other parts of Wikidata and potentially projects outside of it as well.

The workshop will additionally aim to motivate the necessity of lexemes for the upcoming Abstract Wikipedia project. A demonstration of how lexemes (possibly ones created during the workshop!) play a role in the Ninai/Udiron software—taking an abstract representation of a sentence or sentences and producing textual equivalents in different languages—is hoped to express more clearly, especially to speakers of languages most likely to benefit from Abstract Wikipedia (such as those with smaller or non-existent Wikipedias), where their efforts might be focused if they wish to better prepare for that project.

Created in 2014, WikiJournal publishes a set of open-access, peer-reviewed academic journals with no publishing costs to authors. This bridges the gap between the academic community, whose works are often inaccessible to the general public, and Wikipedia, which may not have sufficient coverage on specialized topics and pages may not have been peer-reviewed by subject matter experts. Currently, WikiJournal is published in three areas: Medicine, Science and Humanities, with Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science to start in the near future. We will present what we accomplished in 2023, how people can get involved and our direction striving towards becoming a sister project.

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The WikiOASIS is a new new group seeking to address common issues faced by Wikimedians in small island developing nations which was launched at Wikimania 2023 in Singapore. The group will look into items like knowledge equity and explore common ground issues like climate change and other subjects disproportionately affecting island nations. The session will also afford the platform for lateral collaboration between small islands not typically considered as developing states as well.

In this panel discussion we will present the ideas behind the group to a North American audience and report on the early outcomes following our launch at Wikimania.

Since its outset, Wikipedia has had a complex and evolving relationship with academia. When the Wikipedia Student Program began in 2010, it was the rare faculty who embraced Wikipedia as a potential teaching tool, let alone as a trusted resource. 13 years later, Wiki Education now regularly supports over 300 Wikipedia assignments at the post-secondary level each term. Because of our position as a bridge between academia and Wikipedia, Wiki Education is in a unique position to offer insights into the role that Wikipedia now plays in higher education, and the ways in which academia can provide critical support for Wikipedia's continued success.

In this panel, you'll hear from three Wiki Education staff who work closely with faculty, students, and the Wikipedia community. Helaine Blumenthal, Senior Program Manager, Ian Ramjohn, Senior Wikipedia Expert, and Brianda Felix, Wikipedia Expert, will explore the current state of this critical relationship. Topics to be discussed include, current perceptions of Wikipedia in higher education, the role that Wikipedia can play in creating a digitally literate student population, how faculty and students help tackle critical issues around knowledge equity and diversity on Wikipedia, the growing role of Wikipedia in open education and open pedagogy, ways in which the Wikipedia community and academia converge and diverge, and the future of their relationship.

This study will examine the evolution and history of Wikipedia pages surrounding the Russian and Ukrainian Conflict.

Specifically historical pages around partisan Ukrainian units during world war II, and the use of symbolism of hero or villain, will be analyzed.

Edits and growth in wikipedia pages will be compared to other efforts to shape the information space such as h-count manipulation in scholarly journals, funding of media programs.

The paper will conclude with a history of Wikipedia Governance steps to help mitigate the risk of state based manipulation in the future.

The growth in community archives especially in the digital sphere has been in part because of grassroots efforts and a desire to decolonize archival spaces that remain to be unavailable to many. What underlies these efforts are also because of the growing recognition of how the opening up of public spaces and record keeping, archives included, have a relationship to social justice. Duff, Flinn, Suurtamm, and Wallace has a role of “providing public space, welcoming all members of society, and providing information resources that aid in their development” (Duff et al. 2013, p. 332).

Wikipedia, in a sense, because of its community editorial potential, acts like a community archive and thus becomes a site for these decolonizing efforts.

This talk will share our different experiences with community archiving - via YouTube, our efforts to submit to the Public Library Archives, and efforts at doing Wikipedia editathons.

Ethical conduct of artificial intelligence (AI) is of pressing importance.[ “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence,” Kate Crawford, Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut, 2021)] Ethics underpins the utility of the training sets upon which AI depends, securing trustworthiness, traceability, authentication, and intellectual property rights.[ Information Technology - Artificial Intelligence - Overview of Ethical and Societal Concerns, ISO/IEC TR 24368:2022, International Standards Organization (2022)] The U.S. National AI Initiative Act of 2020 requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop voluntary standards for AI systems,[ H.R.6216 - National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020, https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6216] and ethics is a central concept in its emerging AI Risk Management Framework.[ NIST Trustworthy & Responsible AI Resource Center, https://airc.nist.gov/home] As noted in [1] above, “artificial” intelligence requires vast quantities of human labor, much of which is outsourced to emerging economies, particularly those where English is spoken. The complexities of this issue are unfolding.[ “Cleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers,” Karen Hao and Deepa Seetharaman, Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2023] Wikipedia can promote higher-level participation in AI by residents of emerging economies. I present a case study of Hausa, which is spoken in Chad, Niger and Nigeria. Hausa has more native speakers (77 million) than Italian (68 million), but Italian Wikipedia has 156 times more pages than Hausa Wikipedia. Other languages with comparable numbers of native speakers – Vietnamese, Korean, Iranian Persian and Egyptian Spoken Arabic – also outperform Hausa on Wikipedia. My thesis is that development of native Wikipedia can be extremely efficient in promoting awareness of and participation in AI in emerging economies. Students can be taught to write articles, which count as actual publications in the eyes of the world, and many will be motivated to be productive following basic training.[ “Lost in translation,” Sandeep Ravindran, Science 381, 262 (July 21, 2023) https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adj8519] Expansion of Wikipedia in their native language will also contribute to better language translation algorithms.[ “Taking advantage of Wikipedia in natural language processing,” T Yano and M Kang, yerihyo.wdfiles.com (2016)]

For educators, an early technology battle focused on getting students to avoid using Wikipedia. Faculty themselves, however, quickly came to rely on its readily available resources. Then Covid occurred, encouraging a global re-evaluation of the benefits of participating in online and hybrid educational projects, including the editing of Wikipedia pages. Next, ChatGPT emerged, requiring a new re-evaluation of academia’s confidence in online sources. So, today, where should the use of Wikipedia be positioned? As a faculty member, where do I stand on how to incorporate the contextualizing, citing, creating, improving, and promoting of Wikipedia with my students?

Distilled from my experiences coordinating five rounds of Wikipedia editing in university classes, this talk presents current concerns for faculty who want to teach with Wikipedia in the time of Chat GPT and other large language models (LLM). What aspects should be highlighted about the policies of Wikipedia? How can transferable skills for students in writing and source evaluating best be honed to counter the further blurring of what counts as a vetted source, let alone an actual source. What shared concerns about built-in bias, both in Wikipedia and in the data used by LLMs, can be identified, and countered? Which of these fixes can be achieved at an individual and at an institutional level? And in making fixes--given current tools and ever-growing data--what instructor workload is manageable?

This presentation, conducted by Milton Public Library's Wikipedian-in-Residence, will go over recent initiatives into community outreach programs while using Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool. In particular, we will present teen outreach programs in Wikipedia workshops, known to the community as 'Wikipedia at the Beehive' with both its spring and summer 2023 cohorts. Goals and impacts have included filling knowledge gaps from curriculum and teaching digital literacy in Wikipedia editing, and the emphasis on the importance of the public library space for accessible knowledge and community skill enhancement. This session will highlight aspects of our programming which are unique to the residency, including having a Canadian-perspective, a rural/suburban-based target audience, and the strengths and challenges of being a local, public library (as opposed to a larger academic or special library).

Chaque année, une enseignante au niveau collégial demande à ses étudiants du programme d’Arts, lettres et communication de produire un site web sur un.e artiste ou une organisation culturelle de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue, une région au nord-ouest du Québec (Canada) où est situé le collège. À l’automne 2022, l’enseignante Béatriz Mediavilla fait faire le même exercice mais cette fois, le résultat de leur évaluation finale se retrouve sur Wikipédia: une dizaine de nouveaux articles portant sur le milieu culturel local sont publiés et non retirés sur Wikipédia. Le projet a été rendu possible grâce à une collaboration entre l’enseignante Béatriz Mediavilla du Cégep de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue et le Wikiclub Croissant boréal.

Fort de cette expérience, nous avons réalisé qu’un jumelage entre une classe franco-ontarienne et une classe abitibienne serait un projet pertinent pour renforcer les liens dans la francophonie. La classe de méthodologie en Arts et lettres du Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue et celle de français, de l’Université de Hearst, ont été jumelées pour rédiger une vingtaine d’articles sur Wikipédia dédiées à la culture franco-canadienne et québécoise.

La Wikimédienne en résidence pour la communauté Avantage numérique, Émélie Rivard-Boudreau a accompagné les participants dans le projet. Elle raconte comment cette collaboration a permis à des étudiants de développer de nouvelles connaissances de recherche et à contribuer au rayonnement de la culture d’une région peu documentée sur le web. L’expérience a aussi permis à des enseignants de proposer une activité pédagogique novatrice et concrète à des étudiants collégiaux, tout en participant activement au développement culturel numérique francophone. tout en favorisant un sentiment d’appartenance, de fierté et d’engagement plus fort auprès des publics francophones et francophiles.

Voici le lien vers la présentation: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikip%C3%A9dia,un_outil_p%C3%A9dagogique_pour_le_d%C3%A9veloppement_culturel_num%C3%A9rique_francophone.pdf

The Women in Religion User Group is an initiative to create, update, and improve Wikimedia content pertaining to the lives of cis-gender and transgender women who are notable as scholars, activists, and practitioners in the world's religious, spiritual, and wisdom traditions. As of July 2023, our project has added or improved more than 300 Wikipedia articles and almost 9,000 Wikipedia articles have been categorized under our WikiProject banner. (See our Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Religion page.) Since its founding, its members have worked on regional projects in Australia, India, and Kenya and have contributed to Wikidata, WikiCommons, and WikiQuote.

One of our most noteworthy projects is the publication of three volumes of monographs (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Religion/Women in Religion series), for the purpose of increasing content about women in religion in the general scholarship in order to provide secondary sources for Wikipedia editors and contributors. The first volume, Claiming Notability for Women Activists in Religion (2020, https://books.atla.com/atlapress/catalog/view/40/66/320-3), was edited by Colleen D. Hartung, Wikiproject Women in Religion's co-founder, and consists of ten biographies of women underrepresented in Wikipedia and in academic literature. Volume two, Challenging Bias against Women Academics in Religion (2021, https://books.atla.com/atlapress/catalog/view/46/182/894), also edited by Hartung, focuses on female academics (teachers, professors, theologians, and scholars). Our most recent volume will be published in the summer of 2023 and focuses on knowledge creation and equity, and contains biographies about women important in the history of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, which published it.

We have also presented at about a dozen conferences and conducted virtual monthly editathons, one for our general members and the other for our members in Kenya who are also members of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. In the summer of 2023, four WikiProject Women in Religion members conducted a study using Artificial intelligence large language models to ascertain their usefulness in editing Wikipedia articles and biographies, in preparation for a presentation they will make at Wikimania 2023.

Our presentation will report on these and other activities, focusing on the third monograph volume and on our ongoing AI study. We will introduce the Women in Religion User Group and its activities. The presenters will speak about (1) the genesis and goals of the Women in Religion User Group; (2) The series of edited volumes and their relationship to knowledge equity on Wikipedia; (3) How our User Group supports the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians in Kenya; and (4) The prospects of using augmented AI to accelerate the production of articles and Wikidata items about women in religion.

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16sNds0SuWPSpSaEDr65roi9V1pVU0qAecah3LX_jd-E/edit?usp=sharing

The Women's Electronic Literature Writers Project stands at a cross roads regarding its ability to continue Wikipedia editorial work. We are an intersection of numerous challenges to increase visibility and exposure on Wikipedia to this valuable field. This is a three-hour editathon, COME ANYTIME and help us out. We need your expertise!!!Thank you.

CHALLENGES 1. Challenge 1. Notability. The traditional wikipedia requirements for "notability" may need to be addressed to showcase important accomplishments and works within the emerging electronic literature field. These works are often in new forms that are not published in traditionally citable methods (hosted on authors' personal websites, digital zines, etc.) However, these works are acknowledged as notable canon in the field, taught in universities, reviewed, etc. In fact, these publications are ephemeral as well. For example, the Iowa Review web is no longer in existence, but the Iowa Review paper is. These are just as notable, but difficult to cite.

2. Challenge 2. Gender equity. The paucity of women editors and works within Wikipedia has long been acknowledged and need not be mourned again here (see references). And just as often, as women practitioners' accomplishments in a technological field may go unnoticed, vandalized (Gamergate), appropriated, and unattributed (Hidden Figures). We need inclusive editing and notability policies to recuperate, recognize, disseminate, and celebrate these writers' coding achievements. Wikipedia results are the first results in search engines and these articles should be as accurate and as comprehensive as possible to represent all of electronic literature.

3. Challenge 3. Access and technological obsolescence. These works often are almost akin to performance art as the mediums we rely on for our art shift from HyperCard to Director to Flash to HTML 5 to Twitter and TikTok. The commercial drive for new software means that the artistic works based on these softwares become inaccessible quickly. Many of the seminal works in the field are no longer accessible. Therefore, archival curations and descriptions become vital to our understanding of the field. Just as the fragments of Greek plays that we have are essential to understanding the history of dramatic plays, a description of these works in Wikipedia is critical to understanding electronic literature. Furthermore, these works should be acknowledged even as we acknowledge the cultural significance of ephemeral flash mobs, plays, etc.

4. Challenge 4. Emerging field. This field has evolved over the last few decades and has even gone through multiple generations. While digital literature, new media literature, electronic literature, is being taught in universities and written about in scholarly monographs, there is not yet a defined canon. It becomes difficult to evaluate importance and influence using traditional media channels. For example, many works are hosted on the author's personal website, yet are accessed by thousands of readers and are considered vital to the field. Moreover, publications in this emerging and yet technologically obsolete field go out of existence, so the only continuity is on a personal website. We acknowledge that publishing on a personal site is too low a bar for notability. However, hosting on a personal website should not be a barrier in and of itself to notability. While personal sites should not be the only criterion for notability, many other scholarly and popular citations can distinguish notability.

EDITATHON: ACTIONS TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES This editathon will concentrate on several women writers who need articles. Previous drafts about these notable writers have been written and rejected. We will concentrate on determining the reason for these rejections and address these shortcomings. This editathon will help educate the 30 plus active volunteers in this project about Wikipedia standards to create effective and acceptable wikipedia articles.

REFERENCES Collier, B. and J. Bear, 2012. Conflict, criticism, or confidence: an empirical examination of the gender gap in wikipedia contributions. ACM 2012 Proceedings, page 383-392.

Ramírez-Ordóñez, D., N. Ferran-Ferrer, and J. Meneses. 2022. Wikipedia and gender: The deleted, the marked, and the unpolluted biographies. In Wiki Workshop 2022: A forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects. Held virtually at The Web Conference 2022, April 25-26, 2022, Online, hosted by London, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7244755

Wikipedia 2023. Gender bias on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia#:~:text=Gender%20bias%20on%20Wikipedia%2C%20also,women%20are%20less%20well%2Dcovered. Accessed