Submissions:2017/Cross-wiki collaboration: an international edit-a-thon

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Title

Cross-wiki collaboration: an international edit-a-thon

Theme (optional)

Community

Type of submission

Presentation

Author

Avery Jensen

E-mail address

averydjensen@gmail.com

Username

Avery D Jensen

Affiliation

Commons, WMDC, WikiProject Arabic

Abstract

This started out as an exploratory contact between Wikimedia DC and Wikimedia Levant for possibilities for English/Levant collaboration, but when we found out the Arabic Wikipedia would be celebrating their 13th birthday, it quickly mushroomed into my first edit-a-thon, the Arabic Wikipedia Day Edit-a-thon, held on Saturday July 29, and an impromptu WikiProject Arabic. From the Jordanians we learned about using Wikidata to construct a cross-language lua-based dynamic table of "articles to start" using Q-numbers, and from our Wikisource contact we learned how to upload a document from PDF to WikiSource, and after several false starts involving Internet Archive, were able to upload one. So our event spanned English Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, WikiData, Commons, and WikiSource, all in 3 hours. This presentation focuses on the uses of Wikidata and Wikisource in the editathon environment, and gets you past a few of the pitfalls you might experience if you try this for the first time.

Length of presentation

10-20 minutes

Special requests

N/A

Preferred room size

Medium

Wikimania submission?

No

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