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Latest revision as of 18:17, 14 November 2019
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 this year on main page
- Note Internet Archive, Credibility Coalition, journalism school, request for future projects
Topics presented and discussed
- Conference schedule
- Tours of local museums, libraries, and special collections
- Big training on Wikidata
- Tools for editing get better, more gamification, discussion of how to teach it
- Huge uploads/imports to wikidata - by NARA, and via QuickSheets and QuickStatements
- 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
- New Caribbean user group may have a conference; logistical challenges [1] - see also etherpad and user group page and [2]
- Conflicts over support & funding between chapters/user groups and Foundation may heat up
- 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 topics, as always - some of us will sign up for training; 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
- Faculty from journalism and law attended
- Whitelisting versus blacklisting of sources
- related to research on "knowledge integrity" on Wikimedia
- Lists of external tools and platforms for this: CredCatalog, MediaWell, Rand's list
- Cite Unseen -- tool classifies/analyzes the sources used on in an wp article
- Flores presentation tracking changes in news publications - 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 meetings
- National Agricultural Library
- CDC/NIOSH by specialists, special meeting with Wiki Edu
- NARA uploaded 4 million facts/data items to Wikidata
- about FOIA and Muckrock
- First MediaWiki edit from space, by astronaut Christina Koch! Announced at a parallel conference by NASA's Daren Welsh.