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  • Submissions:2019/New Tools and Stuff - Wishlist Edition
    ...reminder are two projects that I intend to have working by the conference. I will also be covering various user-interface improvements, such as true liv ...ion last year at WCNA '18 (covering tools since my last presentation), and I've done shorter ones at Wikipedia Day NYC '17, '18, and '19.
    1 KB (173 words) - 08:19, 25 May 2021
  • Submissions:2019/Distributing wikis
    |size=30 (I guess?) ...I would have to think a bit if I could restructure the material for that, I'm not sure it would fit.
    1 KB (166 words) - 20:03, 13 October 2019
  • Submissions:2019/Did I just publish Fake News?
    ...[[w:en:Ilse Stanley|Ilse Stanley]], a remarkable woman whose autobiography I had stumbled upon in high school. (Remarkable: a German Jew who, in the 19 ...rogram, "This Is Your Life", and I found a few references here and there. I located and was in contact with her grandson.
    2 KB (281 words) - 21:50, 22 November 2019
  • Submissions:2019/How articles start
    ...the process in action, and an indication of what I look for when I do it. I'll emphasise our most recently added process, Articles for Creation.
    995 bytes (149 words) - 20:04, 13 October 2019
  • Submissions:2023/Potential Governance or Arbitration Panel
    ...different topic), but if there is a panel or discussion about these issues I would be glad to participate as one of the panelists.
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  • 2022/Video
    ...an option to upload the file directly instead of pulling from YouTube, but I've never used that before. ...e. Because the videos were pretty short I did that on my laptop, otherwise I would've used a Toolforge/Wikimedia Cloud server.
    1 KB (180 words) - 05:39, 16 January 2023
  • Submissions:2019/Opening the news: how to use civic tech to promote reliability in news media
    ...udiences but affect the content. While the main analysis is still pending, I'd like to share some of my findings and invite the people to use this tool
    791 bytes (117 words) - 09:42, 4 October 2019
  • Submissions:2019/What are you using? The backend of how your wiki and tools come together
    ...'t just start insisting some of it runs on witchcraft partway through, but I'll try to keep that to a minimum. |present-other=I won't prepare anything, but I can certainly spend ten minutes complaining about it even without prep...
    1 KB (238 words) - 08:28, 11 October 2019
  • Submissions:2023/A year in the life of a new Wikipedian
    ...oundation. In this talk, I’d like to share the observations and challenges I have encountered learning the ropes of Wikipedia in these parallel journeys
    826 bytes (122 words) - 20:42, 17 October 2023
  • Submissions:2021/Non-English Editions of Wikipedia Have a Misinformation Problem
    ...site has been rarely discussed or studied. In the course of investigation I've learned that Japanese ultra-nationalists have been controlling the Wikip In this presentation I'll discuss the misinformation and disinformation problem on non-English ver
    1 KB (172 words) - 05:53, 4 October 2021
  • Submissions:2023/Keeping Wikipedia relevant for today's post-secondary students
    ...tioned Wikipedia's reliability and trustworthiness. Almost a decade later, I find fewer and fewer individuals who question Wikipedia's accuracy and inte ...xplore how Wikipedia now faces a crisis of relevance for today's students. I'll discuss the critical role the Wikipedia Student Program can play in maki
    1 KB (193 words) - 20:57, 17 October 2023
  • Submissions:2023/Taking Wikipedia Along: Initiating Wikipedia Education Program Without A Community
    ...United State meant an end to my active involvement in the community or so I thought. ...first semester in graduate school in the US almost a couple of years ago, I began researching and planning on how to engage in Wikimedia activities at
    2 KB (337 words) - 21:35, 6 October 2023
  • Submissions:2018/ProJecTion ReCreaTion
    ...d with the question, "How can education and knowledge be more effective?" I've come up with a extremely profound solution. -> ...I may begin to organize a presentation.: <!-- A response with feedback so I may begin to organize a presentation. -->
    2 KB (387 words) - 06:45, 10 October 2018
  • Submissions:Where would I find time for it? Scalable Wikipedia editing for GLAMs
    #REDIRECT [[Submissions:2014/Where would I find time for it? Scalable Wikipedia editing for GLAMs]]
    99 bytes (14 words) - 07:11, 30 January 2015
  • Submissions:2023/Equity Outreach - Encouraging Diverse Instructors to Teach with Wikipedia
    ...progress in connecting with instructors teaching at diverse institutions. I will also present data on student demographics and my outreach efforts' imp
    971 bytes (137 words) - 20:54, 17 October 2023
  • Submissions:2015/22 things you should probably not be using a wiki for
    ...shouldn't, or so people keep telling me at conferences. But they're wrong. I do all these things, including using it as a personal notepad, for my blog, :If this talk is accepted, I will assemble a list of 22 of these and show you in excruciating detail jus
    2 KB (304 words) - 17:29, 8 September 2015
  • Submissions:2014/Editing trends
    ...cts. I will keep this short as there is more information linked below, but I would be happy to expand more on this abstract if asked. ...Types]] for lengths of different presentation types): 15 minutes, although I would like it to be part of a larger thing if possible.
    2 KB (281 words) - 01:13, 31 August 2016
  • Submissions:2022/Working together with Debian
    ...e and shared values. In the spirit of recognizing "open knowledge allies", I'd like to shine a light on a project that contributes significantly to the ...t leadership structure that favors consensus building and do-ocracy). Then I'll talk about how the Wikimedia technical infrastructure uses Debian and wh
    1 KB (164 words) - 23:27, 6 November 2022
  • Submissions:2021/Content translation tool tutorial
    ...to use the content translation tool in conjunction with Google translate. I would also like a brief time afterwards for any questions.
    1 KB (160 words) - 07:15, 10 October 2021
  • Submissions:2023/Building bridges through Wikipedia and the cultural heritage of Mexico City: the experience from a “Non-Formal Education” course
    ...haring. I also pretend to highlight some of the results and the challenges I face as a teacher, in order to improve my practice. |present-other=Yes, I would also love it.
    1 KB (176 words) - 15:10, 19 October 2023
  • Submissions:2023/What the block log tells us
    ...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 c ...being assigned to a panel) is preferred due to the amount of information. I'd have to think about whether it would make sense to do it as a lightning t
    2 KB (292 words) - 06:00, 8 November 2023
  • 2019/Grants/It sounds...
    |inprogress=No, this is totally new. I'm thinking about this since I was a child. ..., Artist and researcher since always. And I always tried to understand how I want to connect the people and the cultures in an easy way, using the inter
    2 KB (402 words) - 15:17, 6 April 2020
  • Submissions:2016/Journalism and Wikipedia
    ...and more websites popping up, how do we know which sources can be trusted? I and others at SPJ have some experience with this and would be glad to hold
    3 KB (479 words) - 20:54, 31 August 2016
  • Submissions:2019/Developing Ethical, Responsible, and Reliable Information Producers
    |abstract=The university course that I teach addresses information literacy and metaliteracy, derived from both th ...the common good. Metaliteracy will probably be new to most attendees, but I would like to encourage them to consider how it might be valuable in their
    3 KB (403 words) - 09:42, 4 October 2019
  • Submissions:2015/There were no results matching your query... or were there? Reducing the zero results rate for search on Wikipedia.
    ...to travel complications it seems unlikely that I'll be able to attend, so I have to withdraw my submission. Apologies! [[User:Deskana (WMF)|Deskana (WM ...re using that data to reduce the zero results rate for Wikipedia searches. I will elaborate on our successes and failures, and our plans for the future.
    2 KB (329 words) - 19:29, 27 August 2015
  • Submissions:2023/What I've learnt about partnerships through The Wikipedia Library
    ...ve editors, so we can increase the reliability of Wikipedia. Partners that I've recently onboarded include Sage Publications, British Newspaper Archives In this lightning talk, I'll share prospective partners' most common misconceptions about Wikipedia a
    1 KB (192 words) - 21:07, 17 October 2023
  • Submissions:2021/Editing seems too hard; let's fix that
    ...dia. They found the process intimidating and difficult. That's pretty bad! I thought of a way to fix that; let's talk about it in a round-table format a ...cation in the article first, and say "something needs to be done here, but I don't have the source for it". Not all edits add a fact to an article, but
    3 KB (571 words) - 20:06, 9 October 2021
  • Submissions:2016/Interactive and Searchable Wiki Equations
    ...represents the electric current. LaTex enables us to associate the symbol "I" to our desired syntax, "\ElectricCurrent". Therefore, our list which conta {{Electric Current, Electric Charge}, {I}, {\ElectricCurrentI}, {Electromagnetism}, {Physics}},
    3 KB (500 words) - 02:46, 31 August 2016
  • Submissions:2018/WikiData, Mix'n'Match, and Libraries
    ...w SPARQL queries surrounding a Mix'n'Match database. For this instruction, I'll draw on my own experience manually uploading one database and getting a ...er presentation. I'm definitely not an expert, but I'm happy to share what I've learned.
    3 KB (467 words) - 15:08, 21 October 2018
  • Submissions:2019/Newbies, patrollers, and educators
    ...he submission, and will discuss the most common and easily remedied issues I find in my patrols. -- wbm1058
    1 KB (218 words) - 20:04, 13 October 2019
  • Submissions:2023/What the World Needs from Wikimedians in the Face of the Climate Crises
    ...te crises, but also contributing to its causes. During the last few years, I have been supporting Wikimedia communities developing tactics and models of I will be sharing how Wikimedia communities around the world are participatin
    3 KB (354 words) - 21:07, 17 October 2023
  • 2014/Volunteer
    ...ikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Knowledge_Foundation Open Knowledge Foundation]. I am involved with other open cultural projects, such as being a Distributed ...do anything that might be helpful assuming that I go (which it looks like I will be). Use me where you need me.
    3 KB (456 words) - 13:11, 20 May 2015
  • 2019/Grants/Credibility of information regarding COVID-19 pandemic
    ...i/Special:Contributions/Netha_Hussain contributions on English Wikipedia]. I am a member of Wikiproject: COVID-19 and Wikiproject: Medicine. ...m volunteering to write articles related to COVID-19 on English Wikipedia. I would like to spend 1-2 months after my thesis defense in researching and w
    5 KB (783 words) - 18:29, 23 March 2020
  • Submissions:2021/Cvillepedia: a case study in making a local wiki a more equitable, inclusive, and accessible archive of information
    ...erage editor might have ready access to. As someone hired to be an editor, I had the unique learning experience to understand what is needed to support ...summer. I did not cover everything I would cover in this presentation, and I did not use slides..
    3 KB (533 words) - 14:06, 11 October 2021
  • Submissions:2019/Teaching Intellectual Property Law with Wikipedia
    First, I will advocate for the analytic and practical importance of teaching student ...how copyright dictates the legal and illegal use of images. In particular I will highlight how to run a “copyright-mystery-hunt” exercise.
    3 KB (452 words) - 09:42, 4 October 2019
  • Submissions:2023/Defense against the Dark Arts: Disinformation on Wikipedia
    ...tter defend against them at all levels of society. I will discuss the work I've done to expand the Wikipedia article on "Disinformation attack”, as Wi I returned to the "Disinformation attack" article over a couple of months, an
    3 KB (517 words) - 00:50, 30 November 2023
  • Submissions:2019/How can libraries and Wikimedia build each other up?
    ...reasing the reliability of our own project. I'd like to talk about it, and I'd like to get community input about what else we can be doing.
    2 KB (231 words) - 07:22, 11 October 2019
  • Submissions:2019/Bridging the gap between facts and articles
    I will describe a possible middle layer of sourced claims (statements) and di |size=No preference. I don't expect to draw a large audience though.
    1 KB (169 words) - 04:02, 21 January 2020
  • Submissions:2015/100wikidays
    ...challenge, i felt obligated to create an article everyday and i loved it. I created articles on random topics such as Popeye, Teoutihuacan, Dowry Syste ...you attend WikiConference USA if your submission is not accepted?: Yes, If i get a scholarship
    3 KB (433 words) - 17:44, 3 September 2015
  • Submissions:2022/WW, WWWWW (Wikiproject Witches, Who, What, When, Where, Why)
    ...es not currently associated with the project. If this session is accepted, I will invite the editors who co-founded the project, those that have express
    2 KB (251 words) - 16:27, 2 November 2022
  • Submissions:2023/Small Steps for Students, Giant Leaps for Wikikind: Developing Wiki Literacy in the Composition Classroom
    ...er objective: the co-creation of a Wikibook. Through this experimentation, I discovered that individual contributions on Wikibooks give the students a d |presented=I've hinted at it in WikiWednesdays and Wikipedia Day
    2 KB (295 words) - 21:03, 17 October 2023
  • Submissions:2014/The Gender Gap
    ...re exception to the "rule" that almost all our editors are young and male. I am very aware of the fact that the severe lack of female editors means that ...hape that I could not bear to look at it anymore and decided to join up so I could try to fix it a little!
    4 KB (610 words) - 01:12, 31 August 2016
  • Submissions:2022/Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
    |abstract=I describe an editing tool for adding links from OpenStreetMap objects to the In the talk I will give details of a new version of the editing tool.
    1 KB (191 words) - 16:23, 2 November 2022
  • 2019/Grants/Wikidata SKBL
    Is a dictionary of Swedish women that today deliver structured data and I have integrated with Wikidata. This is activity is that we should help them ...n.org/user/Salgo60 stat Salgo60] and has matched more external sources and I feel SKBL has a good potential and need to start learn Linked data.... and
    4 KB (629 words) - 14:07, 2 September 2020
  • Submissions:2015/How 100wikidays Got Me Back to Being a Wikipedia Contributor
    ...my outreach work, and I can confidently say that in the last couple months I have returned as a contributor! ...oosing new topics to work on create a personalize experience on Wikipedia. I will also, self reflexively explore
    5 KB (710 words) - 18:47, 25 October 2015
  • Submissions:2015/Why Wikipedia is the best resource for high schoolers - as told by a high schooler
    ...dia is the MOST reliable and MOST useful resource on the internet. Period. I say this for three reasons: 1. breadth of knowledge, 2. depth of knowledge, I've seen the viewpoint of teachers evolve: from teachers forcing us to esche
    4 KB (618 words) - 20:04, 8 September 2015
  • Submissions:2023/Building English Wikipedia's best work: how to research and write featured articles
    I would like to present on how to create high-quality wikipedia content, with ...gh-quality sources, and maintaining text to source integrity when writing. I will mention resources such as The Wikipedia Library, WikiProject Resource
    2 KB (324 words) - 22:45, 4 October 2023
  • 2015/FAQ
    ===Do I have to be a Wikipedia editor to attend WikiConference USA?=== ===Do I need to register for the conference in order to attend?===
    6 KB (863 words) - 15:58, 9 October 2015
  • Submissions:2019/Adventures in American (Mostly) Folklore: Expanding the Footprint of Notability
    ...to propose a possible model for one such collaboration. At the very least, I’d like to offer some thoughts on what Wikipedia can continue to be, and w
    2 KB (358 words) - 09:42, 4 October 2019
  • Submissions:2014/Coaching Undergraduates to Shrink Wikipedia’s Gender Gap
    ...sal)'': I am an MLIS student studying to become an academic librarian, but I was a comparative novice when it came to editing Wikipedia. That changed th ...nior seminar entitled “Machos and Mothers in Latin America.” Dr. Foote and I collaborated to coach FGCU undergraduates from diverse areas of study to bu
    3 KB (448 words) - 01:13, 31 August 2016

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