Submissions:2016/Wiki Loves Heritage: The Case for a WMF Genealogical and Local History Wiki

Title

Wiki Loves Heritage: The Case for a WMF Genealogical and Local History Wiki

Theme

outreach?

Academic Peer Review option

Yes

Type of submission

Presentation

Author

Robert Fernandez

E-mail address

wikigamaliel@gmail.com

Username

Gamaliel

Affiliation

Wikimedia District of Columbia

Abstract

The genealogical and local history community is a large, active, computer literate group participating in a number of collaborative projects. Based on surveys and the academic literature, this presentation will discuss patterns of information seeking and dissemination in this group and how they compare to those of Wikimedians. It will survey existing genealogical and local history projects that are wholly or partially collaborative, including Ancestry.com, Geni.com, Find a Grave, and USGenWeb and how those projects enable or inhibit collaborative information gathering and dissemination based on Wikimedia standards. It will present a potential WMF genealogical and local history designed to encourage collaborative, open access information gathering and dissemination that is specialized for the needs of these groups and designed to effectively interact with other WMF projects, especially Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons and make the case that such a project will draw the genealogical and local history community into the Wikimedia community to the benefit of both.

Length of presentation

30-75 min. for workshops

Special schedule requests

Will be presenting powerpoint

Preferred room size

large

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

Yes

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