User:Econterms/For Federal Mediawiki Demo group on WikiConference North America 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 an discussed

• Conference schedule
• Tours of local museums, libraries, and special collections
• New Caribbean user group may have a conference

• Big training on Wikidata
  • Tools for editing get better, more gamification, discussion of how to teach it
  • Huge uploads/imports to wikidata
  • 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

• 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, always; 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
  • Whitelisting versus blacklisting of sources
  • Cite Unseen -- tool classifies/analyzes the sources used on in an wp article
  • Flores presentation tracking changes in news publications about Mexico - 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 joint meetings
  • National Agricultural Library
  • CDC/NIOSH
  • about FOIA and Muckrock
  • First MediaWiki edit from space, by astronaut Christina Koch! Announced at a parallel conference by NASA's Daren Welsh.