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This work aims to highlight and share different examples of activities related to Wikipedia, that have been held in a university course of “Non-Formal Education”, which is part of the Pedagogy career curriculum, at the Philosophy and Letters School in the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Music (rock, specifically), mexican gastronomy, cinema, traditional legends, myths and sayings/proverbs, collective mapping, editathons, and museums, are some of the many topics that are explored in the class with the involvement of Wikipedia as a significant and pretty valuable resource for learning and sharing. I also pretend to highlight some of the results and the challenges I face as a teacher, in order to improve my practice.

In 2019, Wikimedia Canada (WMCA) undertook an ambitious project in partnership with the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change: importing a century's worth of weather data into Wikimedia Commons. Until now, the data had only been available upon request to the Ministry. This massive dataset was collected by more than 8,700 weather stations across Canada over a 100-year period. This is the first time that such a large dataset has been uploaded to Commons. A wide range of information has been collected: maximum and minimum temperatures, rainfall, snowfall on the ground in centimeters... More than 28 types of data total. The project has multiple goals: to make the data accessible to all, to encourage the reuse of this data in wiki templates, to offer a joint dataset for people from different organizations, and, who knows, perhaps to encourage other governments to do similar projects. This project was led by Ha-Loan Phan (Wikimedia Canada), Pierre Choffet (Wikimedia Canada), Miguel Tremblay (Environment and Climate Change Canada).

Article on the WMCA website: https://www.wikimedia.ca/2021/05/31/100-years-of-environment-and-climate-change-canada-weather-data-in-commons/ Meta-Wiki page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projet_ECCC,_100_ans_de_donn%C3%A9es_m%C3%A9t%C3%A9orologiques_en_acc%C3%A8s_libre/en

365 climate edits is a community initiative aimed at improving climate-related content on Wikimedia projects. Other than making one climate-related contribution per day anywhere in the Wikimedia ecosystem, there are no firm rules. The basic idea is thus similar to other community initiatives, especially the 100wikidays, yet so far, this does not work as intended. This talk will thus highlight some lessons learned on the way and invite community feedback on promising options to change the settings and diversify the ways to participate, or on alternative mechanisms to encourage activities aimed at improving Wikimedia coverage of climate-related matters on a regular basis.

Wikidata's items contain information about concepts and relationships between them, structured in a way that is somewhat language-agnostic. Wikidata also contains language-specific information, particularly in the lexeme namespace, which annotates words and phrases and their various forms and functions on a per-language basis. Specific meanings of lexemes can be linked to the corresponding items.

Text mining workflows often contain steps that try to map strings to linguistic forms and functions and from there to potential meanings.

This talk makes the case that Wikidata's information about lexemes and their relationships to items can assist text-mining efforts in principle, yet the workflows for that have room for improvement. Conversely, text mining workflows typically have specific targets, yet they have to process large amounts of text to find these targets. Some of the intermediate results produced on the way may be useful for Wikidata.

The talk will sketch out some workflows that can connect Wikidata and mining workflows in both directions and highlight some examples.

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In 2013, I made my first edit on Wikipedia as a student participant in Wiki Education’s nascent student program. A couple months short of a decade later, I returned to editing but this time under very different circumstances as a Wikipedia Expert for the Wiki Education Foundation. In this talk, I’d like to share the observations and challenges I have encountered learning the ropes of Wikipedia in these parallel journeys as a Wikipedia Expert and a volunteer editor.

In June 2020, the Archives of Ontario (AO) uploaded its first collection of images to Wikimedia Commons and launched its GLAM-Wiki page to make records more accessible on a platform where people already are. At the time, the initiative was a necessary means of providing access to records while the AO’s facility was closed to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it has grown to become a core means of reaching new audiences, building relationships, and inspiring communities to activate our collections and engage with their histories.

The AO’s GLAM-Wiki page currently provides access to around 7,000 images, that have received close to 14.5 million views. Even more astounding than these statistics are the stories we’ve received from individuals and communities using these images, underscoring the power of archival records as historical evidence and as source material to spark new ideas, perspectives, knowledge, and social change.

This presentation will share how the AO’s collections are being activated by highlighting case studies from the AO’s Wikimedia Commons uploads and exploring the myriad ways the AO’s GLAM-Wiki work has supported, inspired, necessitated, expanded, and re-conceptualized community engagement. Conference participants will learn how the AO’s work in the GLAM-Wiki sphere supports wider efforts to expand representation, support inclusion, and build relationships that continue to break down barriers between archives and the public they serve.

The slides for this presentation are available on the WikiConference North America 2023 category page in Wikimedia Commons.

Occupational safety and health researchers are prolific in producing and publishing scientific evidence on a wide range of work conditions and health outcomes. However, public health evidence suggests that the scientific literature is not influencing workplace prevention programs or reaching the ultimate beneficiary ─ the worker. The problem is particularly acute among immigrant workers, who make up 28% of all US workers and represented 83% of labor force growth from 2010 to 2018. Lack of safety and health training and language barriers are the most frequently cited challenges companies face in promoting safety among immigrant workers. This project aims to address these barriers by increasing access to plain language, multi-lingual, and culturally-relevant health and safety information among immigrant and other underserved worker populations. We developed a multi-component strategy to expand and improve content within Wikimedia platforms related to the most prevalent occupational hazards and health conditions in English and Spanish.

This lightning demonstrates the benefit of opening archival description for inclusion in wikidata. Archival repositories offer rich descriptive metadata about their collections and its creators, however this data is often siloed within a particular repository's archival management system. This talk highlights efforts to create and enhance a group of three hundred wikidata entities for creators of collections held by the Indiana University Archives and linked them to the repository's entity via the "archives at" property. Specific properties identified for archival collection creators included birth date and place, death date and place, occupation, field of work, educated at, and employer. Additionally these entities were linked to existing name authority identifiers from VIAF, SNAC and others. Finally the Indiana University Archives entity was enhanced to include contact information, physical location information, as well as information about its accessibility onsite and online. The aim of this small project was to establish a model of information widely applicable to repositories and collections within the archives community. It offers a low barrier way of including wikidata in archival description creation workflows, and begins to open archival metadata for use and reuse by a wide range of audiences.

The Wikimedia Endowment aims to help ensure the long-term future of the Wikimedia projects and support the projects in perpetuity. The Endowment is an investment fund and a recently created separate organization that supports that fund. In this short talk you can learn more about the Wikimedia Endowment, why it exists, what it's currently doing and future plans.

Pushpin maps are used in the majority of Wikipedia Neighbourhood Infoboxes. However, they are not very useful since they lack detail and the scale is very large. Additionally, when enlarged, the Pushpin location and neighbourhood label both disappear. In a few neighbourhoods or cities, other static or interactive maps are also being used. A new type of map using an aerial photograph of the neighbourhood has been developed; see Neighbourhood Infobox at Draft:Britannia Village, Ottawa. The map is labelled to define the boundaries of the neighbourhood and to highlight points-of-interest discussed in the article. This type of map could be used in Neighbourhood Infoboxes across Canada since the federal National Air Photo Library (Ottawa) has aerial photos of the entire country. Although these photos are dated (e.g., 1968), the neighbourhood boundaries are current. This type of map is useful because it provides historical context and appeal when compared with Pushpin maps or readily-accessible Google or Apple maps, or OpenStreetMap. The presentation is available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiConference_North_America,_Toronto,_November_11,_2023,_final.pdf

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize various domains of human activity, but it also presents both a promise and a peril to society. AI can improve efficiency, productivity, and decision-making in fields like healthcare, finance, transportation, and education. Its ability to process vast amounts of data and identify patterns can enhance diagnostics, accelerate drug discovery, optimize financial operations, enable autonomous vehicles, and personalize learning experiences. However, the rapid growth of AI raises concerns about ethical issues surrounding privacy, data security, and algorithmic bias. The displacement of human labor by automation raises concerns about job loss and socioeconomic inequality. Additionally, the risks associated with AI malfunction or manipulation can have devastating consequences, such as autonomous weapons or a global AI arms race.

To balance the promise and peril of AI, society must consider the ethical implications of AI technology, such as privacy and algorithmic bias. Case studies where AI has malfunctioned or made critical decisions without human intervention demand careful ethical considerations and robust governance frameworks. Addressing the promise and peril of AI requires a multidisciplinary approach, including collaboration between technologists, policymakers, ethicists, and social scientists. Regulation and standards that protect privacy, mitigate bias, and ensure transparency are crucial for building trust and fostering responsible AI use.

In conclusion, harnessing the promise of AI while effectively addressing its perils can unlock its transformative potential and build a future where AI serves as a powerful tool for human advancement rather than a threat to our well-being.

From articles to images, news stories to fair-use rationale justifications, there is an explosive increase in online contents generated by AI. This is a roundtable that will springboard in-depth discussions on benefits and risks involved in using machine learning, artificial intelligence and generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT, Midjourney) in a wiki environment. This roundtable will also discuss what policies and guidelines can serve as guardrails for AI content.
This session is inspired by a lively discussion in EduWiki Conference 2023 on Artificial intelligence in Wikipedia and in the classroom.

A further investigation into how Chinese national(ist) discourses are daily (re)shaped online by diverse socio-political actors (especially ordinary users) can contribute to not only deeper understandings of Chinese national sentiments on the Chinese Internet but also richer insights into the socio-technical ecology of the contemporary Chinese digital (and physical) world. I propose an ethnographic methodology, with Sina Weibo (a Twitter-like microblogging site) and bilibili (a YouTube-like video-streaming platform) as ‘fieldsites’. The data collection method is virtual ethnographic observation on everyday national(ist) discussions on both platforms. Critical discourse analysis is employed to analyse data. From November 2021 to December 2022, I conducted 36 weeks’ digital ethnographic observations with 36 sets of fieldnotes. For 36 weeks’ observations, I concentrated much upon textual content created by ordinary users. Based on fieldnotes of the first week’s observations, I found multifarious national(ist) discourses on Sina Weibo and bilibili, targeted both at national ‘Others’ and ‘Us’, both on the historical and real-world dimension, both aligning with and differing from or even conflicting with official discourses, both direct national(ist) expressions and articulations of sentiments in the name of presentation of national(ist) attachments but for other purposes. Second, Sina Weibo and bilibili users have agency in interpreting and deploying concrete national(ist) discourses despite the leading role played by the government and two platforms in deciding on the basic framework of national expressions. Besides, there are also disputes and even quarrels between users in terms of explanations for concrete components of ‘nation-ness’ and (in)direct dissent to officially defined ‘mainstream’ discourses to some extent, though often expressed mundanely, discursively and playfully. Third, the (re)production process of national(ist) discourses on Sina Weibo and bilibili depends upon not only technical affordances and limitations of the two sites but also, to a larger degree, some established socio-political mechanisms and conventions in offline China.

Keywords: national identity; national(ist) discourse(s); everyday nationhood/nationalism; Chinese nationalism; digital media

Much of the conversation about Knowledge Equity related to content in the Wikimedia movement has focused on biographies — which is both important and easy to measure. But it's not everything. In this presentation, we'll talk about how Wiki Education is addressing both biographies and other elements of knowledge equity, including:

Adding missing perspectives to article content Diversifying contributors Encouraging participants to consider the diversity of authors they're citing Including diverse example items in our Wikidata trainings, not just Q42 We hope this session will spark more community discussion around ways we can expand our efforts to address knowledge equity beyond biographies, and how we measure our success in these areas.

Kelly Doyle Kim (Open Knowledge Coordinator, Smithsonian Institution) and Andrew Lih (Wikimedian at Large, Smithsonian Institution) discuss five years of GLAM Wiki efforts at the Smithsonian Institution. Special focus on gender equity approaches, open access, data modeling and visualization, and innovative experiments such as Wikimedia-focused internships and wiki field work. The presentation will touch on our experimentations, programmatically and institutionally, and challenges faced with tooling and sustainment.

Society is facing environmental deterioration at alarming rates and global scales, and human behaviors remain a root cause of this problem, necessitating a shift towards sustainable lifestyles. This shift places considerable pressure on individuals to reform their behavioral patterns. In Canada, theoretical and practical attention is insufficient toward consumer pro-environmental behavior. Thus, this study aims to explore the determinants of pro-environmental behavior among high school students in Toronto based on the theory of planned behavior, focusing on waste management and green purchasing practices related to plastic. Using mixed methods of qualitative and quantitative research, this study will employ a structural equation model to analyze the quantitative data and a thematic analysis for the qualitative data. This study will provide valuable insights into the factors behind pro-environmental behaviors among students and inform the development of an intervention program. This study will serve as a cornerstone for future research on environmental sustainability and contribute to Sustainable Development Goals.

Although emerging financial technologies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have rapidly grown in value, popularity, and, at times, infamy over the past decade, their representation on Wikipedia has not necessarily kept pace. Articles on adjacent topics (cryptocurrency and crime, altcoins, etc.) often lack updated sources and a coherent flow. The interdisciplinary nature of emerging fintech poses significant challenges in maintaining accurate and concise information. For example, the "blockchain" article must include information from complex topics like cryptography, computer science, and distributed networks, weaving together these fields to provide a comprehensive understanding of the technology.

This presentation aims to shed light on the specific fintech articles that require immediate attention and equip attendees with practical strategies and heuristics to discover and maintain reliable sources. By doing so, we ensure the relevance of these articles for the average Internet user as they evolve in the fast-moving fintech landscape.

Members of the board will attend will attend to WikiCon NA meeting to present a panel discussion. This session will talk about the work of the Board, answer questions and encourage movement members to consider participating in future Board activities. This panel will also cover topics the board is involved in - like sister projects, board elections, etc.

• Lorenzo Losa, Trustee
• Raju Narisetti, Trustee
• Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Trustee

Presentation slides are here

This very short lecture / very long lightning talk makes a pitch for a new arena of Wikimedia or Wiki-adjacent work around making systematic data at the subnational level easily accessible.

Thanks to the work of Wikipedians and OpenStreetMap participants, the encyclopedia and the street map have acquired global and digital forms in ways that will be perpetually open and free. And a significant portion of Wikipedia is devoted to lists, choropleth maps, and wide-ranging infoboxes that centralize information by nation-state. Yet information on the subnational level is much thinner and more fragmented, rarely (with a few exceptions) extending wider than a handful of countries or deeper to the municipality level.

At the same time, the open data community, freely shareable data sources, and cartographic datasets like the Database of Global Administrative Areas make it increasingly easy to write code that produces lists, static and interactive maps, and Wikidata statements that encode well-sourced factual information at subnational levels.

This talk lays out the components of data sourcing and sharing, data wrangling, and code sharing among researchers and volunteer data scientists that would be needed to produce a open global municipal atlas that everyone can trust in the same way they trust Wikipedia, and whose reliably sourced data could regularly and automatically inform Wikidata items, Wikipedia infoboxes, maps, and bot-generated text content on Wikipedia.

Presentation online here

In December 2022 Wiki Education launched its first ever project-based Wikidata course. The idea behind this course is to offer a more advanced Wikidata curriculum, based around a Wikidata project. Wiki Education has since run another iteration of this course and will be running more later in 2023. This session will highlight how this curriculum builds off of a foundational set of Wikidata learning outcomes to advance project goals. This panel will include participants from the course. We will highlight participant questions about useful tools, community interaction, project documentation, query creation, and workflow development. This session will also cover some initial successes of this course and present some challenges. We will contextualize this curriculum in the broader Wikidata/GLAM communities and demonstrate how courses like this can create more space for Wikidata projects.

Panelsits include: Jackie Rubashkin, William Blueher, Thamilini Jothilingam.

This session will introduce the data-making practices and Wikidata engagement integral to the NEH-funded Wayfinder project at Emory University. The Wayfinder project is an initiative to reimagine James Danky and Maureen Hady’s 1998 African American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography as a linked dataset available on Wikidata. The talk will cover the key data modeling decisions made, in partnership with an advisory board, related to adapting a print bibliography to an online resource, the use of artificial intelligence to extract data, and the process of integrating the data into Wikidata. The talk will conclude with a discussion of the risks and benefits of the Wikidata platform for promoting discovery and enhancement of the dataset by both scholars and the general public. This presentation will appeal to data-making practitioners, librarians, technologists and those interested in disseminating knowledge about Black print culture. Slides here.

"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 a focus on the standards applied at the featured article candidates process on English Wikipedia. My presentation would consist of two parts:

• A how-to on creating high-quality content with generalizability to other language Wikipedias. Specific tips and tricks on writing high quality articles will be covered such as being concise, locating high-quality sources, and maintaining text to source integrity when writing. I will mention resources such as The Wikipedia Library, WikiProject Resource Exchange, and WikiProject Peer Review. Examples of successful content creation will be drawn from my own featured articles and those by other editors.

• Information about the featured article candidates process on English Wikipedia and advice for getting involved, either as an article writer or reviewer. The featured article criteria and resources to succeed at featured article candidates, such as the mentorship program and Guild of Copy Editors, will also be covered.

I think my presentation is important because content creation is the backbone of Wikimedia and it's something we can all strive to do better at. Featured content processes, because they are designated "Wikipedia's best work", can be daunting for newcomers and my presentation can help provide the information and inspiration needed to get started. Although featured article candidates is an English Wikipedia process, similar processes exist on other language Wikipedias and my presentation will help editors succeed at those as well.

Draft slides uploaded to commons here.

I have supported Wikimedia projects (mostly focused on Wikipedia and Wikidata) at the University of Toronto (U of T) Libraries since 2018, first as Wikipedian-in-Residence (2018-19), then as Open Knowledge Specialist with Wikimedian duties as explicit part of my responsibilities (2020-23).

My activities at U of T include Wikipedia/Wikidata-based discovery work on collections, Wikipedia template contributions, advanced classroom assignments and faculty/staff bootcamps, and annual edit-a-thons. Collaborators have included librarians, staff, and students from across U of T's three campuses and numerous colleges, as well as peer institutions, public libraries, and local community organisations.

The proposed presentation will offer a high-level, five-year retrospective on the following:

• background and priorities informing work
• key activities undertaken and why
• limits to Wikimedia engagement

For community Wikimedians, this presentation may offer a view of how various activities at an academic library can enrich our information and communities. For attendees in the GLAM sector, this retrospective may offer informed considerations on institutional Wikimedia engagement.

I am currently taking leave from U of T Libraries and will be presenting as an independent Wikimedian for the purposes of this conference.

Slides are here.

Research metrics (e.g., times cited, H-index) tell us about a publication's or researcher's impact within their scholarly community, but they do not describe impact outside academia. Altmetrics fills this gap by tracking mentions of academic publications in sources widely accessible to the public, including Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the most frequently accessed health information resource online and is well-positioned as a tool for public health education and knowledge translation. We explored our institution's impact on publicly available health and medical information by analysing its presence in Wikipedia article references.

In October 2022, a comprehensive database search was constructed in PubMed to retrieve secondary studies (e.g. systematic reviews, meta-analyses) published between 2017 and 2022 by at least one author from our institution (a research-intensive Canadian university). Altmetrics Explorer was used to access Wikipedia citation data for 3,582 secondary studies retrieved from PubMed.

The authors learned that 6% of health evidence syntheses from the authors' institution were cited 568 times in 524 Wikipedia articles across 29 unique languages. 45% of citations appeared in English Wikipedia, suggesting a broad global reach. A chi-square test confirmed a relationship between open-access publications and their presence in Wikipedia.

This talk will share our experience using Altmetrics Explorer to explore the impact of an institution's research. We will share our methodology, detailed results, and the insights gained from isolating Wikipedia citation data to explore the global, community-level reach of institutional contributions to health and medical evidence.

The authors are optimistic that this work will spark other researchers to consider how Wikipedia data can be used independently and alongside other data sources, like altmetrics, to demonstrate different ways to think about publication reach. Over time, similar studies could serve to change and enhance conversations about Wikipedia’s value as a public health resource and as an indicator of research reach.

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Editorial protocols and cultural pluralization of knowledge on Wikipedia: introducing a research project. This lecture introduces a new research project that aims to study the cultural, political and sociotechnical factors that influence cultural diversity in Wikimedia projects. The research will address the case of Canadian content on the French and English versions of Wikipedia. It focuses on content related to indigenous, Franco-Canadian and diasporic cultures, which tend to be under- represented. The project is carried out in collaboration with Wikimedia Canada and WikiClub Metapeckeka of the First Nation Atikamekw. Presentation: on Commons

For the past two decades, instructors have been teaching university students how to edit Wikipedia in order to help students strengthen their writing and research skills (Vetter et al., 2019). Many students have found writing for Wikipedia to be a welcome change from traditional college writing assignments as their Wikipedia work is widely read and publicly available for comment and editing. The Wikipedia assignment's public-facing stance also helps make this work a form of service learning and an opportunity to apply principles of digital citizenship as students increase access to information and knowledge for others (Petrucco & Ferranti, 2020).

Recently, however, there have been questions about the relevancy of Wikipedia. Do students still use or care about Wikipedia in an age of large language models like Chat GPT and algorithmically-personalized social media platforms like Tiktok? Wikipedia, once roundly denounced as an unreliable upstart, is now viewed by some as a fusty and unwieldy relic of Web 2.0, burdened by consensus-based governance structures and a stubborn insistence on neutrality and verifiable information. Such worries may be assuaged as it is precisely these features — Wikipedia’s human-powered and collaborative oversight and its prioritization of verifiable sources — that make it increasingly valuable as an accessible online reference. In fact, Wikipedia may even be more relevant during this time of highly persuasive and almost indiscernible misinformation and disinformation, as it not only remains a widely-used source of knowledge, but it is now also used as a textual database that fuels large language models (Ross, 2023).

Two faculty at the University of Southern California will discuss how they plan on expanding the Wikipedia assignment by including it in a new undergraduate course on information literacy, which examines of students' roles and responsibilities as knowledge producers and consumers and the ethical use of information and knowledge (The Association of College & Research Libraries, 2016). A deep and practical understanding of the production, compilation, and dissemination of knowledge and information can help students sift through the tremendous amount of misinformation and disinformation that students see daily. This important life skill can be facilitated by researching and writing for Wikipedia, as they can glean practical experience identifying verifiable and reliable sources and responsibly producing knowledge used by millions of people and powerful large language models and tools.

References

The Association of College & Research Libraries (2016). Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. https://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/infolit/framework1.pdf

Petrucco, C. & Ferranti, C. (2020). Wikipedia as OER: the 'Learning with Wikipedia' project. Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 16(4), 38-45. https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1135322

Ross, S. (2023). ChatGPT, Wikipedia, and student writing assignments. Wiki Education News. https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/02/21/chatgpt-wikipedia-and-student-writing-assignments/

Vetter, M.A., McDowell, Z.J., & Stewart, M. (2019). From Opportunities to Outcomes: The Wikipedia-Based Writing Assignment. Computers and Composition 52, 53–64. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461517300671

This presentation offers a case study of how a human rights and social science research project can contribute to the ecosystem of open knowledge within and outside of Wikipedia. I'm the lead researcher for Ultimate Consequences, a database and digital humanities archive documenting lethal political violence in Bolivia since the restoration of democracy in 1982. The project uses largely published sources, including human rights reports, media accounts, and academic scholarship, to document some 650 lives that have been ended by repression of protest, inter-ethnic conflict, violence over land disputes, and the privations of protest activities like cross-country marches and hunger strikes.

One components of the project intersects with a standard goal of Wikipedia writing and editing: providing succinct, NPOV, and fully cited narratives of major conflict events. We have pilot tested having student researchers edit these narratives into Wikipedia pages using the training offered by Wiki Education, making source documents publicly available via our research website, and using the Did-You-Know review as a way of improving the quality of our narratives. I'll reflect on, and invite questions regarding COI and OR standards in this process.

Separately, I'll talk about how attributed content on Wikipedia can be incorporated into an open data project, and ways that open data projects, once published, can contribute to the ecosystem of open knowledge of which Wikipedia and Wikidata are a part. In particular, I'll show how the data science programming language R can output both cited sentences and Wikidata Statements that draw directly from updatable datasets.

Presentation online [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Data_Human_Rights_and_Wikimedia.pdf

Help design Credibility Bot, a citation management and review system currently under development and expansion!

Wikipedia has guidelines intended to ensure articles are supported by reliable sources. How are these guidelines implemented in practice? Wikipedia editors currently try to review articles for quality issues such as inaccurate information or bias; however, since Wikipedia is a large online volunteer community, practices for discussing and maintaining quality are uneven, impromptu, and difficult to scale. Wikipedia editors struggle to get the signals they need to collectively discuss or prioritize their work improving articles. Even when volunteer editors do have the capability to assess sources in one topic area, they often lack the tools to do so across other topics, and ultimately in other languages of Wikipedia.

Credibility Bot aims to build an easily-installed credibility toolkit for Wikipedia editors. Working closely with committed WikiProjects, it will bring information about sources together with actionable reports and alerts. Credibility Bot can enable the efficient, ongoing evaluation of quality beyond any single WikiProject or subject domain. Credibility Bot data can be archived as a citable, timestamped snapshot, and made globally available for others to use in openly accessible platforms like Wikidata, the credibility toolkit can have a scalable impact for the problem of source quality across the entire Wikipedia ecosystem.

This is an active user input, feedback, research, and design session where we'll ask questions and hear your thoughts on what and how to build Credibility Bot at scale!

Bot info, slides, and discussion:

• w:User:Credibility_bot/WCNA
• Slides for presentation
• Speaker requests feedback and discussion at this etherpad not the one linked at top: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDBOT

In this talk, I will review what we know about the goals of disinformation attacks, how they work, and how we can better 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 Wikipedian in Residence for the non-profit science publisher Annual Reviews.

Disinformation is an industry. Disinformation starts with a lie, to benefit political, economic, or individual bad actors. Disinformation can be transmitted through scientific and scholarly publishing, through traditional news media and through social media. Social media is being used to vastly amplify disinformation.

We need to recognize that disinformation has multiple goals. Convincing people to believe incorrect information may not be the only goal of a disinformation campaign, or even its main goal. Disinformation is intentionally used to create confusion and uncertainly in ways that benefit bad actors. Undermining trust and credibility of science and authorities is a major objective of disinformers.

If you don’t know what to believe, you don’t know what to do. DIsinformation campaigns try to prevent people and governments from collective actions such as voting, public health policy-making, legislation, regulation and litigation.

Disinformation aims to divide and conquer. Disinformers want people to be isolated, distrustful of others, and unable to act. Feeling helpless doesn’t benefit us as individuals or communities. One of the first lessons for fighting disinformation is to engage!

I returned to the "Disinformation attack" article over a couple of months, and expanded both the article text and the number of references by a factor of 10. The article now cites over 200 sources, ten of them published by Annual Reviews. Information about the goals of disinformation and about scientific disinformation are among the content that has been added.

In expanding "Disinformation attack", I wanted to put disinformation research into practice. I wanted to organize information in a way that clarifies what disinformation is and does, and to inoculate against it. I wanted to illustrate points with examples from both political and scientific disinformation to avoid siloed thinking, which researchers have warned against. I wanted to avoid triggering existing biases and reinforcing examples of disinformation.

I also wanted to illustrate how people and governments can better deal with disinformation. One of my favorite quotations is in a report from the Brookings Institute: “Building resilience to and countering manipulative information campaigns is a whole-of-society endeavor” As governments, organizations, scientists, educators, and individuals, there are actions we can take, including thinking critically. Luckily, it turns out that thinking critically often means thinking like a Wikipedian!

https://www.mnbaq.org/blogue/2020/06/25/les-chantiers-wiki-du-mnbaq

https://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/wiki/

Depuis novembre 2018, le MNBAQ explore le potentiel de l’encyclopédie Wikipédia en français, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons en intégrant directement des articles existants sur des artistes sur son site des collections. site des collections du MNBAQ

En deuxième chantier, un script quotidien automatisé actualise les données Wikidata des artistes au gré des mises à jour des contributeurs(trices). Une première itération a été élaborée à l’été 2018 avec une sélection ciblée de 300 artistes québécois et canadiens. Les chantiers ont donc pris leur envol à l’automne 2018. Des formations ont été offertes aux employés sur ces projets collaboratifs afin d’entendre leur appréhension, leurs commentaires et d’orienter les projets de mise en ligne des articles selon certaines priorités : notoriété des artistes, sources publiées, œuvres exposées dans les pavillons du Musée, etc. Par la suite, une série d’ateliers de contributions ont été offerts en présentiel aux visiteurs du Musée.

Le deuxième chantier Wiki du Musée est basé sur Wikidata: Les professionnels de l’information, l’équipe du registrariat, les conservateurs et les conservatrices du MNBAQ ont permis la révision et le versement de milliers d’éléments et de propriétés dans la base de connaissances Wikidata sous licence libre.

Un troisième chantier Wiki plus récent est lié au potentiel de diffusion et de reproductions d’images sous licence libre. Le Musée a don ciblé et exploré le versement de certaines images d’œuvres d’art, de documents d’archives, etc. dans le domaine public sous licence libre dans la médiathèque Wikimedia Commons. La sélection des images de ce chantier a été orienté par les besoins des utilisateurs internes et externes du Musée.Avant l’initiation de ce projet d’intégration, il y avait déjà, des images d’œuvres prises lors de leur exposition au Musée ou encore dans les espaces publics du Musée. Les contributeurs de Wikimédia Commons sont des photographes passionnés qui consacrent du temps à visiter des lieux, des espaces publics et versent le fruit de leur travail pour le bien commun.

L’ensemble de ces chantiers ont suscité des enjeux, des ajustements, de la gestion du changement et des bénéfices au sein de l’institution muséale ainsi qu'une source d'influence pour certains projets Wiki, d'organismes culturels québécois qui ont émergé par la suite (Rhizome, Action patrimoine, etc.)

In the wake of COVID-19, college students are experiencing heightened depression and lessened empathy for others.?'"`UNIQ--ref-00000002-QINU`"'? Under the bold assumption that the same applies to not just college students, this has emboldened trolls and vandals to do more extensive damage to communities before they face consequences. How can we tackle this?

This lightning talk will consist of the following short segments exploring recent changes in acts of bad faith:

1. The quantitative state of vandalism on an account-by-request but open-to-read wiki
   • Very brief explanation of the nature of the wiki
   • Some statistics on vandalism over time
2. The qualitative state of trolling across multiple wikis
   • Including an example of two wikis being brought to their knees
   • The abuse of policy or the lack thereof and what that means for governance
3. Exploration of governance strategies to mitigate the new wave of bad faith
   • No second chances, no exceptions
   • Three strikes and you're out

References

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In the wake of COVID-19, college students are experiencing heightened depression and lessened empathy for others.?'"`UNIQ--ref-00000004-QINU`"'? Under the bold assumption that the same applies to not just college students, this has emboldened trolls and vandals to do more extensive damage to communities before they face consequences. How can we tackle this?

This lightning talk will consist of the following short segments exploring recent changes in acts of bad faith:

1. The quantitative state of vandalism on an account-by-request but open-to-read wiki
   • Very brief explanation of the nature of the wiki
   • Some statistics on vandalism over time
2. The qualitative state of trolling across multiple wikis
   • Including an example of two wikis being brought to their knees
   • The abuse of policy or the lack thereof and what that means for governance
3. Exploration of governance strategies to mitigate the new wave of bad faith
   • No second chances, no exceptions
   • Three strikes and you're out

References

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The Wikimedia Foundation's Growth Team (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth) has been working to enhance the onboarding experience for new editors and to increase editor retention rates on Wikipedia. In this session, we will explore how the WMF Growth Team can further support communities in welcoming and nurturing new editors, ultimately creating a vibrant and diverse group of Wikipedians who will shape the future of the Wikimedia movement.

We will provide an overview of the existing tools developed by the WMF Growth Team to support new editors, such as the Newcomer homepage, Help panel, Suggested edits, and Mentorship. Participants will gain insights into how these initiatives have impacted new editor onboarding and editor retention rates. We’ll share data from our recent Positive reinforcement project, and our long-term strategies for sustaining the growth and development of new Wikipedians.

Over the past year Wiki Education has pursued several equity initiatives. Each engages with this concept in its own way. In this panel discussion, Brianda Felix will be talking about how her role as a Wiki Expert supports the creation of articles about indigenous Native American history as well as issues in the Latinx community. Ia Ramjohn will be discussing how the Wiki Education student program can encourage the development of equity-focused articles. Andres Vera will explore how instructors in Wiki Education's student program promote the Wikipedia assignment to their colleagues, which increases the chances of adoption by new instructors. Will Kent will walk through a specific example of a course that improved climate change-oriented articles and how that plays a big role in improving equity on Wikipedia.

We hope attendees will be able to take away new ways to engage with equity issues, and adopt a diverse set of programming in new areas.

In July 2022, I started working as the Equity Outreach Coordinator at Wiki Education. My primary role is to reach out to institutions and instructors, with a focus on underrepresented communities of institutions and instructors, to encourage them to teach with Wikipedia. During this talk, I will provide an overview of Wiki Education's progress in connecting with instructors teaching at diverse institutions. I will also present data on student demographics and my outreach efforts' impact on Wikipedia. Attendees will leave the talk knowing how to diversify Wikipedia's content and contributors.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library is in its 4th year of active Wikipedia programming through the Agricultural Law Information Partnership. Following an edit-a-thon dedicated to heirs’ property in 2021, NAL has utilized Wikipedia programming and editing to address equity issues and create community engagement through programming based on emerging issues and patron suggestions. Through their programs, NAL brings in grassroots practitioners to speak on various topics, including land access, nutrition security, climate change, seed saving, food security, etc., while sharing practical solutions and resources. These resources are utilized to write and update Wikipedia articles and make coverage of underrepresented communities and related topics more equitable.Across nine events we have had 80 editors, creating 98 articles and adding hundreds of references across the topics we have covered. By sourcing issues and information from community members and practitioners, we can more fully realize the depth of issues and identify gaps we may not have otherwise found. During this presentation, I will share the impact of NAL’s work, the strategies we have developed for community sourcing and engagement, and collaboration opportunities as we expand our partnerships with tribal and indigenous colleges and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZeZlmWgC1QamY577OPy_8ACS8HMtkayu/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103204431945530227106&rtpof=true&sd=true

Worried about the increase of banned books in the USA, librarian Laurie Bridges reached out to different colleagues to propose a campaign to create Wikipedia articles about books. That's how 9 volunteers got together to develop and promote such a campaign. Unexpectedly, the response was eager and embracing. Many Wikimedia chapters joined the campaign and want to cooperate again in 2024. There was a lot of effort coming from Academic Libraries as well as readers. In this presentation, I would like to present the origins and development of the campaign as well as to spread awareness about the importance of librarians joining this kind of initiative. While preparing this campaign, we realized that many people look information about books in Wikipedia. However, not many relevant books have their pages created. We realized it was very important to make this happen as an effort of spreading the right information about books, instead of letting misinformation and censorship reach readers. I link this campaign with WikiCred because we share the same goal of information reliability and credibility.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EveryBooksItsReader_2023 https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/07/introducing-everybookitsreader-a-new-wikimedia-campaign/

Each term, Wiki Education supports hundreds of courses at post-secondary institutions in the U.S. and Canada. This amounts to thousands of students adding millions of words to English Wikipedia each year. Behind these courses are faculty who are committed to providing their students with a meaningful pedagogical experience while improving Wikipedia. Seldom though do the faculty we support and the Wikipedia editing community have opportunities to interact beyond Wikipedia.

In this panel, you'll hear from three longtime faculty in the Wikipedia Student Program. Helaine Blumenthal, Senior Program Manager at Wiki Education will introduce the session and provide an overview of the Student Program. Naniette Coleman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Dept of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Her students have contributed widely to the field of privacy. Sarah Turner is Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University. Her students focus on topics related to environmental science. Cindi Tysic is Innovative, Pedagogy and Creative Spaces Librarian at the University at Buffalo. Her students have edited in a variety of fields with an emphasis on media literacy.

In this session, we'll explore the motivations behind running a Wikipedia assignment, the learning outcomes for students, the challenges of implementing the Wikipedia assignment, as well as the bigger impact of their student work on open education and information access. We'll discuss issues around knowledge equity and how faculty and students can play a critical role in tackling some of Wikipedia's ongoing content gaps. Attendees will gain new insights into the ways in which academia can support and enhance Wikipedia's goals and continued growth and success.

While disinformation and misinformation spread freely across the Internet, many of the most authoritative sources of knowledge are hidden behind paywalls, out of reach for volunteer editors. Through The Wikipedia Library, we make over 90 of the world's top subscription-only databases free for Wikimedians of all backgrounds. Any editor of good standing qualifies for access if they have edited for more than 6 months, made more than 500 edits overall, and been active in the last month.

In this session, you will see a demo of The Wikipedia Library in use and learn more about the resources that are available, and how to access them. We’re having exciting conversations with new types of publishers at the moment and hope to be able to share more about that soon.

We’ll also collect feedback on The Wikipedia Library:

- What other publications, journals, and databases do you need to support your editing interests? - How can we make the Library easier to use? - How can we get more eligible editors to know about and use the Library to improve the reliability of our projects? - How can we best use non-free information sources in our projects, while continuing to promote open access?

Community Wishlist Survey is an annual survey organized by the Wikimedia Foundation to gather technical proposals from communities across various projects. The Community Tech team then builds targeted solutions for selected proposals that are most-voted to address the needs of the editors. This process has existed since 2015, and even though it has led to the development of several essential features, the process has largely remained the same. Over the years, we have witnessed a continuous influx of new projects, more community members joining, and significant growth as a movement. As a natural consequence, our needs have also expanded alongside these developments, leaving the community wishlist survey in dire need of change to make it sustainable and efficient in the longer run.

The team responsible for conducting the survey and implementing solutions at Wikimedia Foundation has reflected this past year on the future of wishlist surveys. This session will be part lecture & discussion style - It will introduce participants to the new changes coming to the Community Wishlist Survey and lessons learned from past editions. It will then engage participants in brainstorming discussions on the proposed changes and gather feedback on improvements for future iterations:

a) How can we improve the wishlist process to maximize its impact on the Wikimedia communities?

b) How can we make the Wishlist process more welcoming to participants from underrepresented communities?

c) How do we engage the community & staff in collaborative problem-pitching, discussing solutions, and even implementing them beyond the survey phase?

For more on the Community Wishlist process, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/FAQ

Throughout the history of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, committees have played an important role in helping channel volunteer contributions and shape our governance models - and there have been recent changes!

The global community recently approved guidelines to enforce a Universal Code of Conduct. These include a new committee to coordinate that work, which should be seated soon. We recently saw committees such as Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee have their term lengths increased to foster institutional memory. All four of these committees need to seat new members.

The drafting committee for the Movement Charter has proposed models for the Global Council and Hubs to support communities. And a freshly-seated Elections committee is working to design the upcoming 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections. Both of these groups are seeking community input.

Arbitration Committees across the movement play a crucial role in community health and functioning and members will discuss best practices. Stewards, VRT agents, and other local and global functionaries can function like committees as well, and will share how they combat abuse on both local and global scales.

And of course, the volunteer committees of the Wikimedia Foundation Board play an important role in representing the communities-at-large and helping coordinate the work of the organization to support governance committees. Some of this includes collaborative work to identify mis- and disinformation on the projects.

In a panel format, members from these groups and staff that support them will share insights and best practices about working on and with these committees.

• Google Slides presentation

A pesar de la cercanía geográfica con Estados Unidos, el movimiento hacktivista en México tuvo un origen y una trayectoria más cercana a las iniciativas del sur de Europa de finales de los años 80. A partir de intercambios con colectivos de Italia y España, que se intensificaron con el alzamiento zapatista de 1994, en México se comenzó a consolidad un movimiento heterogéneo y diverso articulado desde Internet en un inicio y posteriormente en espacios autogestionados.

En esta plática se presentará el resultado parcial de una investigación doctoral enfocada en la relación entre el movimiento hacktivista y el movimiento de los medios libres con especial énfasis en las experiencias acontecidas en la Ciudad de México.

Se explicará la relación de los movimientos sociales con la emergencia de colectividades que autogestionaron sus propias infraestructuras mediáticas durante la década de 1990 y la primera década del 2000. Se identificaran las continuidades respecto a los modos organizativos y repertorios tópicos durante estas dos décadas.

Asimismo se dará cuanta de las transformaciones tecnológicas y las formas en que lxs hackers mexicanxs contribuyeron, se adaptaron y resistieron estos cambios.

Finalmente se presentará un balance de lo que ocurre en la actualidad en una escena hacktivista que aún no se recupera de los estragos causados por la pandemia.

Presentation:

• https://we.riseup.net/assets/903059/hack-ml-mx.pdf

Since 2020, the Digital Public Library of America has uploaded over 3.5 million digitized images from library collections across the United States to Wikimedia Commons. The goal of the project is to make it easier for you the Wikipedian to access and use archival imagery in improving Wikipedia.

Our uploads include items from the colonial era all the way to the COVID era—with photos, maps, periodicals, and many more types of materials. We work with hundreds of institutions across the country, from the largest federal libraries to small town libraries specializing in local history, to bring you very diverse collections.

In this presentation, I will showcase everything that has been made available to Wikimedians to raise awareness of our work and how it can benefit Wikipedians. I will also discuss the project's history, how it works in practice, and how Wikimedians can help get their local library or museum involved. If able to attend, I will co-present with participants of the project who have been using DPLA's images in their own Wikimedia editing. [Ended up co-presenting with Joe Mabel.]

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tHpSC_0QhqPmcCSU9yaEEYmogO2HCP0EjYkAC4QEfXs/edit?usp=sharing
Final draft of Joe's portion of the talk

Getting your code deployed to Wikimedia production can be hard. If you're not familiar with the requirements or who to ask for help, you can spend a lot of time developing something, only to get a very quick no when you try to get it deployed. It's demotivating and disheartening and wastes everyone's time!

But it really doesn't have to be that way. Getting code deployed to Wikimedia sites, even for volunteers, can actually be quite straightforward. This talk will walk through a project's lifecycle: 1) conceiving an idea 2) initial prototyping and development 3) refinement 4) formal reviews 5) deployment 6) maintenance 7) sunset. We will look at multiple case studies of deployments that went smoothly and were boring (a good thing!) and some that did not.

The intended audience for this talk is both developers (i.e. programmers) and people with ideas/product managers (non-programmers). We will discuss some specific technical requirements and restrictions, but will aim to avoid specific code things or jargon to keep it as accessible as possible.

Time permitting, we can do a lightning round evaluation of people's ideas and how to move forward on them (if reasonable). Otherwise people can find me afterwards.

Image credits on Wikipedia, and particularly citations for historical imagery, have been a subject of much discussion in recent years—as many believe changes are needed in order to ensure greater reliability and attribution in articles.

Currently, credits for images on Wikipedia are not done, as a practice. While not explicitly prohibited in all cases, they are frowned upon. This is despite the fact that other reliable sources and reference works, such as the news media and academic scholarship, commonly provides image credits. In the cases where Wikipedia is using historical imagery or artistic works, not created by Wikimedians, image credits provided in standard citation format would enhance the verifiability of the content. Additionally, with millions of images on Wikimedia projects that have been shared by or uploaded from libraries, archives, and museums, credits would provide attribution to the source repository, and improve the value proposition for knowledge institutions interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects.

There is an ongoing effort to change this current practice. Justifications and example image credits can be found at Wikipedia:Image_citation. The introduction of Structured Data on Commons provides more opportunities for image credits, with the possibility that SDC data could be used to populate citation data for images.

This talk will address the current current state of image credits on (primarily English) Wikipedia, including a roundup of issues and proposals related to image credits on Wikipedia and discussion of next steps for the effort.

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10VIsIivo0g-mLbAFmd_Nb8mpzRVcmPiuHbOxobvj8qA/edit?usp=sharing

A brief overview of a new equity tool Wiki Education is developing. These pages will take advantage of Listeria, PetScan, and draw on inspiration from Women in Red to generate lists of individuals that do not yet have articles in English Wikipedia. This tool will also have Dashboard integration to encourage a broader audience to create a more diverse set of articles. Demo page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3AWill_%28Wiki_Ed%29%2FEquity_queries%2FDisability

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/ateliers_wiki_x_arts_actuels/programs

https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/va/2023-v68-n270-va08024/101963ac/

Entre 2019 et 2022, une série d'ateliers intitulée les « Ateliers Wiki x arts actuels » a été organisée en partenariat entre Artexte, le REPAIRE et le Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec. L'objectif de ces ateliers était de former une communauté dédiée à améliorer la représentation des arts actuels sur Wikipédia.

Au cours de la campagne, nous avons constaté la faible représentativité des pratiques artistiques actuelles dans l’encyclopédie s’explique ainsi par de nombreux facteurs, qui rendent souvent le travail d’inclusion complexe. Certaines d’entre elles, bien que reconnues et importantes, n’ont pas fait l’objet d’une couverture dans des médias considérés comme fiables selon les critères établis par la communauté wikimédienne. Pour beaucoup d’artistes, cette invisibilité découle également d’une présence moindre de leurs œuvres dans les musées et dans le cadre d’expositions individuelles. Une réflexion est nécessaire au sein du milieu wikimédien afin d’élargir les types de documentation reconnus pour inclure davantage de sources, dont la littérature grise, soit les documents produits à l’extérieur des réseaux de publication commerciale ou universitaire, et qui inclut les opuscules et dépliants produits par les centres d’artistes autogérés.

Cette présentation mettra en valeur les stratégies de préparation d’atelier employées qui ont mené à l’implication de 116 contributeurs et contributrices, la création de 139 articles et l’amélioration de 598 articles et proposera des pistes de réflexion sur les sources dans le domaine des arts actuels.

In early 2022, I launched the Indie Wiki Buddy browser extension for Firefox and Chromium. The goal of the extension is to help users find quality, independent wikis.

When you visit a wiki on Fandom or Fextralife, Indie Wiki Buddy will notify or automatically redirect you to quality independent wikis when they're available. Search results in Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Brave can also be filtered to replace non-independent wikis with text inviting you to visit an independent counterpart.

Indie Wiki Buddy also supports BreezeWiki, a service that renders Fandom wikis without ads or bloat.

Indie Wiki Buddy has grown to 8,000+ users, and users have submitted dozens of wikis to be included in the extension. As of writing, Indie Wiki Buddy supports redirects to over 120 wikis across 7 languages.

This lightning talk will be a quick introduction to the extension, as well as a general discussion of the value of independent wikis and why users have a desire to use them.

As a multilingual knowledge base of everything in the universe, Wikidata holds a lot of potential for storing and sharing information about Indigenous practices, artists, and their works. Further, with the advancement of AI, it’s more vital than ever that we integrate artist and event information in order to build a capacity for retrieving and displaying events featuring Indigenous artists and organizations. Representing Indigenous identities in Wikidata accurately and respectfully could be possible but is not simple. However, in order to realize this potential, some specific changes are needed to accommodate the nuances and complexities of Indigenous identities and practices. This report explores how identifying and descriptive information about Indigenous artists can be represented as linked open data. To this effect, this project identifies several recommendations for the Wikidata community.

Presentation:

• File:Indigenous Artists and Wikidata - WikiConference North America.pdf

Other resources:

• New Report Paves the Way for Better Representation of Indigenous Artists (blog post announcing the report on the Linked Digital Future website);
• Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report (full report in English on Library and Archives Canada);
• Les artistes autochtones et Wikidata : rapport d’exploration et de consultation (rapport complet sur le site de Bibliothèque et archives Canada);
• Cover page and other media files on Wikimedia Commons.

Ecological restoration research in Canada in terms of number of studies by province and ecosystem type. Which aspects of that are covered in Wikimedia projects? Which ones should be, and how?

The Fields Medal — named after Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields — is one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics. Which Canadians have received it? For what kind of research? How is that covered on Wikimedia platforms?

Research and Wikimedia interact in multiple ways, some of which will be highlighted here using examples with a relationship to Canada. The type of questions that will be addressed is as follows: How is Canada's research landscape represented on Wikimedia projects? What mechanisms exist to feed research priorities or research news from Canada into the Wikimedia ecosystem? How is research-related content represented - and accessed - on Wikimedia platforms in the languages relevant to people in Canada? How can and do Wikimedians interact with Canada-related research? How can and do Canada-related researchers interact with the Wikimedia ecosystem? How can and do citizen science projects and Wikimedia activities intersect in Canada? Who in Canada or in the Wikimedia community cares about such issues? What kinds of problems could arise from such interactions, and what mechanisms exist to address them? Can we discern any trends?

Based on my own interactions with the Canadian parts of the Wikimedia and research ecosystems, I have a list of examples to draw from, but I welcome additional suggestions to look into in preparation for the session.

The Internet Archive has a long and deep relationship with the Wikimedia Foundations and the communities associated with more than 100 Wikipedia language editions.

Through our work identifying and fixing broken links (16 million Wayback Machine added so far), adding links to books and papers (well more than a million) to our more recent work creating tools to help editors and readers learn more about each and every citation from any and every wikipedia article, we are a proud partner of the Wikipedia services and movement.

Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, will present an update of our progress, share a vision for the future, and welcome questions and conversation about how we can most effectively work together.

Wikipedia has guidelines intended to ensure articles are supported by reliable sources. How are these guidelines implemented in practice? Wikipedia editors currently try to review articles for quality issues such as inaccurate information or bias; however, since Wikipedia is a large online volunteer community, practices for discussing and maintaining quality are uneven, impromptu, and difficult to scale. Wikipedia editors struggle to get the signals they need to collectively discuss or prioritize their work improving articles. Even when volunteer editors do have the capability to assess sources in one topic area, they often lack the tools to do so across other topics, and ultimately in other languages of Wikipedia.Credibility Bot aims to build an easily-installed credibility toolkit for Wikipedia editors. Working closely with committed WikiProjects, it will bring information about sources together with actionable reports and alerts. Credibility Bot can enable the efficient, ongoing evaluation of quality beyond any single WikiProject or subject domain. Credibility Bot data can be archived as a citable, timestamped snapshot, and made globally available for others to use in openly accessible platforms like Wikidata, the credibility toolkit can have a scalable impact for the problem of source quality across the entire Wikipedia ecosystem.

Discussion/workshop following this talk is at Submissions:2023/Credibility_Bot_Feedback_and_Brainstorming

The Anti-Harassment Tools team in the Wikimedia Foundation is leading the cross-department program for implementing IP Masking. The IP Masking program kicked off in 2018. This program was born from concerns around data use and privacy with various governments around the world introducing data laws of their own. It is aimed at improving our users’ privacy, ensuring that they can contribute to our projects effectively and safely, as well as to address legal risk around publishing and retaining IP addresses. The presentation can be found here Project page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation

In the Fall of 2022 the Massachusetts College of Art and Design's museum MAAM debuted a show "Designing Motherhood" curated by Juliana Barton and Michelle Millar Fisher based on the MIT published book Designing Motherhood Amber Winick and Michelle Millar Fisher. I collaborated with design history professor Ezra Shales to bring "care" oriented design with Wikipedia based training to our students. The semester long class proved challenging for all. The lightening talk will be an overview of successes and pitfalls.

For many years, the common refrain was that Wikipedia could not be trusted. When I joined Wiki Education in 2014, I regularly encountered faculty who questioned Wikipedia's reliability and trustworthiness. Almost a decade later, I find fewer and fewer individuals who question Wikipedia's accuracy and integrity. There has truly been a dramatic mind shift in how academia relates to Wikipedia. The challenge today is no longer whether Wikipedia can be trusted, but rather how to make Wikipedia relevant to today's students.

Wikipedia is not necessarily the go-to for today's students at the post-secondary level. They are seeking information elsewhere and most often from social media platforms where misinformation is easily spread. In this lightning talk, I'll explore 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 making Wikipedia a central part of the information landscape in higher education

L’INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE CHATGPT ET LE DROIT

L’Organisation Internationale de Normalisation (ISO) a défini l’Intelligence Artificielle (IA) comme la « capacité d’une unité fonctionnelle à exécuter des fonctions généralement associées à l’intelligence humaine, telles que le raisonnement et l’apprentissage » (Norme ISO 2382-28). Comme innovation majeure qui suscite des controverses dans la doctrine juridique et au sein des communautés universitaires c’est CHATGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer).

Selon Wikipédia, « CHATGPT est un prototype d’agent conversationnel utilisant Intelligence Artificielle, développée par OpenAI et spécialisé dans le dialogue ». CHATGPT est capable de générer une masse de données utilisables et adaptées au besoin des internautes. Cette application dispose d’environ 175 milliards de paramètres et est entraînée pour répondre à des questions, interagir avec l’utilisateur et fournir des informations à partir d’une simple consigne écrite appelée « prompt ».

Au fond quels sont les enjeux de CHATGPT pour le Droit ? En réalité, CHATGPT est une révolution technologique qui enrichit l’industrie juridique d’une part et une régression éthique d’autre part. Sur le premier point, CHATGPT participe à l’accessibilité du droit en tant qu’une justice prédictive. La journée prédictive est définie par le rapport CADIET comme un « ensemble d’instruments développés grâce à̀ l’analyse de grandes masses de données de justice qui proposent,notamment à̀ partir d’un calcul de probabilités, de prévoir autant qu’il est possible l’issue d’un litige ». Ainsi, CHATGPT éclaire les utilisateurs sur les procédures judiciaires, sur les conditions de formation des contrats et sur les mécanismes de protection des droits de l’Homme, au même titre que la legal-tech Lexis 360 Intelligence, qui utilise notamment l’IA pour comprendre l’intention derrière les requêtes juridiques, rapprocher les décisions de justice et ainsi aider les professionnels du droit à travailler efficacement.

Sur le second point, CHATGPT est une entorse aux droits de la propriété intellectuelle. Les informations mobilisées gratuitement par cette IA sont de fois erronées et imaginaires. Bien plus, CHATGPT ne cite pas toujours ses sources et porte atteinte aux droits d’auteur, tout en facilitant le plagiat.

En tout état de cause, CHATGPT en tant création de l’esprit humain doit être confrontée au droit. A chaque mutation sociétale, le droit est convoqué pour évaluer si la norme juridique doit être adaptée en conséquence. En effet, nous assistons à une révolution technologique qui affecte nos relations économiques, sociales et juridiques. Bien que l’intelligence artificielle soit conçue pour agir comme l’Homme, ces robots intelligents ne peuvent être considérés comme des êtres humains. Le droit doit alors réaliser un travail prospectif et doit permettre une insertion sécurisée de ces nouveaux agents. Il est important pour les législateurs de différents Etats de prendre des mesures de régulation de l’Intelligence Artificielle, notamment CHATGPT sans toutefois compromettre l’esprit scientifique.

Starting in 2016, the historians in the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives joined forces with LaGuardia faculty and local Wikipedians to design a Wikipedia “GLAM” (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) project that would increase online visibility of archival holdings, introduce students to the process of archival research, and most ambitiously, to involve them in establishing unwritten historical narratives that are crucial towards building a more inclusive public history of activism and our cities.This year, the Archives invites students to continue this research focusing on the LGBTQ Collection. This is the fifth nonconsecutive year of this collaborative project that has involved a close team of historian/archivists, librarians, faculty, students/alumni, as well as the continued support of the Wikimedia NYC chapter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/La_Guardia_and_Wagner_Archives.

In our panel presentation, representative students and faculty from our team will discuss their project experiences and provide ideas for managing similar work in other educational settings. In the 2022-2023 academic year, LaGuardia Community College still faced a greatly reduced enrollment that made project recruitment challenging. Given the significantly reduced enrollment faced by the college in the 2022-2023 academic year, project recruitment posed a challenge. Based on past project year experiences, we arranged for faculty advisors to work closely with small teams consisting of 1-3 students each. Our student researcher team contributed to the entries related to LGBTQ+ activism and politics, starting entries including: St. Pat’s For All; Children of the Rainbow-First Grade Curriculum; New York City Gay Rights Bill of 1986; and HIV/AIDS in New York City, Housing section.

We would also like to foster discussion of questions like: How can we foster connections with other archives, museums, colleges and activist groups in order to make these kinds of Wikipedia projects more visible? How do we negotiate the issues relating to usage of primary sources when facilitating GLAM projects?

In addition, we would like to foster a discussion and review about Wikipedia’s original research policy and how to navigate institutional research into complying with the original research policy. Furthermore, a question for Wikipedians to resolve is how can Wikipedia safeguard student researchers from false accusations of spamming.

Latinos are the second largest racial group in the United States, prolific internet searchers, and voracious consumers of content online. But little is known about how they engage with Wikipedia or the topics and pages they are looking for on the platform.

This presentation will provide an overview of an original research project conducted by Harmony Labs in partnership with Equis Institute that utilized an opt-in panel to analyze 11.5 million Google search results of 90,000 US-Latinos over two periods in 2020 and 2021. The data revealed that Wikipedia stood out as a uniquely important site.

Wikipedia serves as one of the most important sources of civic information for Latino searchers, while also being a go-to resource for topics they are interested in, such as pop culture, music, and gaming.

We will review the methodology of this research project, dive-deep into the topics that Latinos are looking for on Wikipedia, and discuss the data’s potential uses and implications for the modern Wikimedia movement as it relates to engagement of Latino internet searchers and Wikimedians.

Harmony Labs is a media research lab that uses science, data, and creativity to research and reshape our relationship with media.

Equis Institute is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to creating a better understanding of Latinos in the United States and running programs designed to reach and engage them.

Presentation Deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PYSALCDVpkelClFNlyzwBnwswA6f1VBuSWREEVtKRRc/edit?usp=sharing

It would be ludicrous if we said articles could only be updated by a single person, and if that person ever disappears, the article would need to be restarted from scratch.

Except we allow that for bots and tools. If there's a single maintainer that doesn't share their source code, when they disappear and it breaks, it often has to be recreated from scratch. Given that some of these are effectively mandatory for the health and success of Wikipedia, it's ludicrous too! So here's a wild idea - let's forbid any bot from being approved if it doesn't have at least 2 maintainers. And we'll apply the same to web tools hosted on Toolforge.

An introduction will briefly discuss the advantages in adopting such a policy and how it might work practically. Ideally the roundtable would discuss whether this is a good idea, what potential rebuttals would be, and how to actually implement such a radical shift in wiki policy. I would also be fine giving this as a straight lecture presentation.

Trois acteurs unissent leurs forces pour faire rayonner le cinéma régional québécois sur les plateformes Wiki. Voici les panélistes qui présenteront leurs démarches respectives :

Le Wikiclub Croissant boréal regroupe trois régions nordiques du Québec et de l’Ontario. Grâce à ses nombreuses contributions, la présence de son territoire sur Wikipédia s’est vu augmenter. La journaliste et auteure Émélie Rivard-Boudreau, qui agit également comme agente de découvrabilité territoriale pour la communauté Avantage numérique contribue et anime le groupe depuis trois ans. L’expérience qu’elle a acquise l’a amenée à développer des ateliers de formation liés spécifiquement au projet: Cinéma québécois.

La Table de concertation interrégionale en cinéma (TaCIC) fédère des acteurs régionaux des milieux cinématographique et numérique dans le but de favoriser une plus grande diversité territoriale du cinéma québécois. Avec le financement du Fonds des médias du Canada et inspirée par des initiatives comme le Wikiclub Croissant boréal, elle met sur pied une stratégie de découvrabilité afin de mieux outiller ses membres et les faire rayonner. La chargée de projet Kim Fontaine, qui pilote l'initiative, présentera les étapes de mobilisation des membres ainsi que de la recherche de partenaires telle que la Cinémathèque québécoise pour pérenniser la démarche et avoir un plus grand impact.

Depuis 2017, la Cinémathèque québécoise documente le cinéma québécois et canadien sur les plateformes Wikimédia dans le cadre de son initiative Savoirs communs du cinéma. AM Trépanier, wikimédien-ne en résidence, et Julia Minne, chargée de l’initiative SCC, dresseront un historique des ateliers Wiki de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour ensuite introduire le nouvel axe thématique du cinéma régional entrepris pour l’année 2023-2024 en collaboration avec la TaCIC.

Lien vers la présentation : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%E2%80%99union_fait_la_force._Coop%C3%A9rer_pour_valoriser_le_cin%C3%A9ma_r%C3%A9gional_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois_(Final).pdf

While mathematical topics have consistently kept a low profile at Wikimedia events, there is a sizeable amount of mathematical content on Wikimedia projects. In this session, we will briefly explore mathematical content across Wikimedia sites and then zoom in on Wikidata and its WikiProject Mathematics as well as associated workflows and community activities.

This session will give an overview of the work that is underway to develop a strategy for MediaWiki and present the product roadmap for the upcoming months.

• How do we envision the future of MediaWiki as the essential platform for the Wikimedia projects and as an open source project?
• What are the key challenges and opportunities?
• How can we grow the number of people who contribute to the software?
• How can we increase the sustainability of the platform; better serve our key workflows and needs; and provide easier, faster and cohesive paths to feature development?
• What does effective and responsible stewardship look like?

These and other questions shape the path to explore the future direction for MediaWiki. A highlight of this session will be looking into the key themes that arose from early interviews with a cross-section of people.

No technical background required to follow along!

Museums, archives, galleries, and libraries have balanced their responsibility to protect the world’s most important cultural artifacts with their roles as important pillars of public education. However, these goals become increasingly at odds with each other if the institution doesn’t take a deliberately decolonial, and anticolonial, stance on the metadata that accompanies the object even to open access destinations like Wiki Commons, Internet Archive, and Curationist. Left unexamined, these records still carry the legacies of colonization, visible in the metadata of digitized collections from major institutions like the British Museum.

This presentation outlines the necessary role of decolonial practice in GLAM-field digitization projects as well as in the digital tools that make this content available to public audiences. By centering on the co-developed metadata tools of Curationist, we will offer not only an introduction to this platform and its uses to digital art and open education, but also a method of online community development that centers indigenous data sovereignty, community engagement, and decolonization practices to rebalance the power dynamic in collections-based open education.

presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l87CLzBJSEbQWoe5FWjx1eAKUGTXPD6iLXTNlqaYxbM/edit?usp=sharing

La WikiConférence Amérique du Nord serait l’occasion idéale pour présenter tout ce qui a été accompli depuis 2021 dans le cadre des projets Créer du lien - «Pour une plus grande découvrabilité des arts littéraires québécois» et «Wiki et les arts littéraires de la francophonie canadienne».

Pour le premier projet, nous avions obtenu du financement du ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec (programme Ambition numérique) ainsi que du Conseil des arts du Canada (fonds Stratégie numérique). Plus de 500 articles Wikipédia d’écrivain·es québécois·es, autochtones et de la diversité culturelle ont été bonifiés ou créés; une dizaine d’ateliers d’initiation aux plateformes Wikimédia ont été offerts aux citoyen·nes; près de 550 photos libres de droits d’écrivain·es ont été prises et téléversées sur Wikimedia Commons; plus de 18 000 oeuvres littéraires provenant de la base de données de l’Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois ont été nettoyées et intégrées dans Wikidata.

Pour le deuxième projet, nous avons été financés par le fonds des Alliances de la Fondation Wikimédia. L’objectif était de sensibiliser les associations et regroupements représentant les écrivain·nes de la francophonie canadienne à l’importance d’avoir une présence sur les plateformes Wikimédia. Nous avons donné près d’une dizaine d’ateliers d’initiation à Wikipédia et à Wikidata en virtuel et en présentiel; nous avons organisé un Wikithon rassemblant près de 40 participant·es en présentiel; nous avons mis sur pied une communauté en ligne (groupe Facebook) rejoignant 190 personnes; nous sommes en train de concevoir un guide des bonnes pratiques à l’intention du milieu des arts littéraires, un guide succinct livrant nos bons coups, nos conseils, nos recommandations pour une prise en main par le milieu et pour la poursuite des actions sur les plateformes Wikimédia pour faire découvrir les arts littéraires francophones en Amérique.

Notre proposition d’une durée de 30 minutes (10-15 minutes consacrées aux questions et aux échanges avec le public) entre pleinement dans le thème de cette année - ces projets de découvrabilité des arts littéraires sont nés durant la pandémie, ils ont pu prendre leur essor grâce à des subventions spéciales offertes durant la covid. Notre proposition touche le thème du renouveau des communautés régionales francophones canadiennes, cela touche l’inclusion, la culture et les langues.

Digital Media and Information in Society is a first-year first-semester class for interactive media and game design students. This year -- as a rookie newbie to writing and editing in the wiki communities -- I am introducing Wikipedia assignments with the support of the Wikiedu project. In addition, I've created a Wikiversity project to house the course syllabus and gather critical reflections from my students. I will provide a mid-semester reflection and summarize mid-semester evaluation responses from my students assessing their experiences and thoughts on being a part of the wiki communities.

The course began with an comparison of collaborative knowledge sharing platforms (Wikipedia) and conversational AI models (chatGPT), in the context of the philosophy of communication, We then examined information ages past (oral, manuscript, printing, electronic) and present (Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0) and will be embarking on future (Web 4.0, Human-maching integration, Media consumption and distribution)

The Wikiversity project houses the course syllabus, learning resources including conversation (lecture) notes, readings, and course assignments. The project has pages for each conversation topic identifying sub-topics and a providing a bibliography. The conversation bibliographies consist of the required and option course resources, including readings, videos and audio resources. In addition, the pages include discussion questions inviting students to create short critical reflections on the conversation topic in new pages in the project, and to engage with each other through the talk pages created by students.

The Wikedu project provides links to training modules and guidelines for timing and specific assignments, and tracks student participation in these activities.

I will reflect on my initial experiences creating a project in Wikiversity, examine the utility of using Wikiversity; explore my students’ reactions to the wikiversity project and to the Wikipedia writing assignments, and provide some thoughts comparing mediawiki to tiddlywiki as a hypertextual authoring platform.

[Note: This is a placeholder on behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC); session details to be confirmed]. The first three draft chapters of the Movement Charter – Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (intent statement) – were shared in November 2022, inspiring conversations and feedback from around the movement. These drafts were revised based on the input collected from the communities in late 2022 and shared on Meta.

In July/August 2023, the MCDC shared the next three chapters of the charter: the Global Council, Hubs, Roles & Responsibilities. A glossary was also shared. Community conversations on these chapters will take place from July to September 2023.

Since the Movement Charter will impact all movement stakeholders, it is vital that all communities are engaged in the conversations on the content of the Charter. This session will be an opportunity to engage with the vibrant community of the Wikimedia Movement in Canada, US, Mexico, and the Caribbean, shed light on their work, and provide a platform for community members to discuss directly with MCDC members and impact the content and trajectory of the work.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter

Is Wikidata's adoption of the CC Zero license a gift to the commons or a surrender to the corporate web? We propose a combined presentation + roundtable session to delve into the ethical problems surrounding Wikidata, the collaborative knowledge graph project that aims to provide structured data to support Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. With the growing importance of open data and the increasing reliance on platforms like Wikidata, it is crucial to critically examine the ethical implications of its usage in three key areas: 1) Contributor alienation and motivation, 2) data provenance, and 3) the Wikipedia detour.

Alienation and Contributor Motivations: One of the primary ethical challenges of Wikidata lies in understanding how the platform may unintentionally alienate certain contributors, especially vis-à-vis its abandonment of CC-by-SA copyright and the ethical guidelines that make other Wikimedia projects trustworthy. This part of the session will explore how extraction and commodification of Wikidata by third-party users such as Google threatens the ethos of the commons and the original spirit of Wikimedia as an instance of commons-based peer production.

Data Provenance: Data provenance plays a vital role in establishing the reliability and trustworthiness of information. In the context of Wikidata, it becomes crucial to examine the sources of data and the potential biases they may introduce. This segment will focus in on how the loss of data provenance (both in terms of the lack of references in Wikidata, as well as its often unattributed uptake by other apps and agents (E.g. Google Knowledge Graph)) threatens a core element of Wikimedia's reliability via the loss of verifiability.

The Wikipedia Detour: Extraction of Wikidata without attribution, as becomes not only permissible but encouraged via CC Zero licensing, causes additional problems beyond threatening reliability. It also allows most casual web users to bypass Wikimedia projects completely. The Wikipedia detour threatens the larger movement in terms of fundraising and recruiting new editors/contributors. But it also threatens the important role that Wikimedia plays in the global knowledge infrastructure.

This combined presentation and roundtable session will offer a platform for an in-depth exploration of the ethical challenges posed by Wikidata use of CC Zero. We recognize the expertise that many attendees would bring and invite audience members to engage in these issues with us as stakeholders across the Wikimedia movement. The diverse perspectives and collective wisdom shared during this event will contribute to a greater understanding of these issues and generate actionable insights to address them. Ultimately, we hope to foster a more inclusive, reliable, and ethically sound environment within the Wikidata ecosystem and beyond.

All the planning for Women in Red's on-wiki campaigns/events occurs on-wiki at the Virtual Ideas Cafe (VIC). After 275 campaigns, on a budget of $0, there are a number of lessons learned. This session describes the collaborative monthly planning process, including ideas development, task delegation, logo design, newsletter creation, MassMessaging, and so forth.

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In 2022, in an effort funded by the Central Indiana Community Foundation, IUPUI University Library began focusing on efforts to leverage the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to contribute cultural heritage images from Indiana Memory to Wikipedia and to increase community capacity for Wikipedia editing by providing a campaign of public programs, training, and outreach to selected cultural heritage organizations. Now that it has been a year, our project team is excited to share what worked, what didn’t work, and our plans to continue these efforts as we extend this project.

In this session, our team will share:

• Benefits and barriers of the programming as expressed by participating GLAM organizations,
• Successful and less-successful outreach strategies,
• Improvements in Wikimedia content related to local efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion,
• New directions in our programming that respond to the challenges of supporting community-based initiatives during difficult times

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ut2LXLulPrD6G4-Y-aSZ2xLzyn-Pajn1OXa7rPbLMBI/edit?usp=sharing

Since 2018, Creative Commons has been running a robust series of Certificate courses that give participants a chance at facilitated, in-depth study about CC licenses, open practices, and the general ethos of the Commons. These courses consist of readings, quizzes, discussions, and practical exercises to develop learners’ open skills. There are currently almost 1500 Certificated graduates from 65 countries; courses are open to everyone, but focus on openness for Academic Librarians, Educators, and Open Culture professionals (folks working with galleries, archives, libraries, and museums). The CC Certificate program is built to iterate and improve based on feedback from community members.

In this Round Table, we’d like to speak directly to the open community and hear from Wikimedians: what are your current educational needs? There are many emerging trends that are impacting the world of open and the use of CC licenses right now, including: artificial intelligence, climate change, pandemic considerations, widespread mis and disinformation, and increasing social inequalities. What learning and training opportunities should we consider to help the open community address these challenges? Participants will hear about current learning and training opportunities available from Creative Commons and be able to shape future opportunities through active feedback.

Together with workshop participants, we will co-develop a Design Pattern Language for envisioning, exploring, and enacting the future. In the Minnesota 2050 project, participants were selected from a variety of professions and leadership roles to produce scenarios for local energy and land use, and combined modelling with scenario planning (Olabisi et al., 2010). Addressing the world’s largest problems requires both new ways to bridge between the viewpoints and skill-sets of, e.g., professional futurists, programmers, data scientists, local farmers—and to draw on the insights of citizen scientists (Wildschut, 2017). To engage with this complexity, we have proposed to use and develop a collection of (“virtual”) patterns of patterns that work fluently across domains, levels, and spheres of endeavor (Corneli et al., 2021). A shorter version of this workshop introducing the concepts was done at Wikimania 2023 (Video on YouTube). It draws on previous workshops we did at the:

• 2022 Anticipation Conference "Techniques Workshop: Going meta, anticipating anticipation: a workshop"
• 2021 PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programming) Conference "Workshop: Flaws of the Cool City"
• 2021 Oxford Brookes University Creative Industry Festival "Dragon versus Monkey: A kaijū introduction to Peeragogy"
• 2021 Connected Learning Summit 🐉 vs 🐒: A kaijū introduction to Peeragogy

We describe more about the workshops in our draft paper currently submitted to PLoP 2023 "Patterns of Patterns II"

The editors of the movement carry out governance in many ways, but the community has given much focus to so called "formal" or "high level" governance structures. On the project level, this looks like administrators, functionaries, and arbitration committees. On a meta level, this includes stewards and affiliates. These groups are given varying levels of responsibility by their respective communities, and each indelibly shapes the movement. As the editing world grows more tumultuous, and new challenges face the movement, how can formal governance groups help ensure the integrity of the movement?

A panel of veteran Wikimedians who have served in formal governance will discuss the role that groups such as arbitration committees, functionaries, stewards, and more have in ensuring the resiliency of projects. Moderated by current English Wikipedia Arbitrator CaptainEek, the panel will critically evaluate the function of formal governance structures, and focus on new ideas in governance.

Key questions will include how these groups really work on a day to day basis, how they interact with each other, how they protect the movement, what they're doing right, and what they could be doing better. If time allows, audience questions may be accepted.

Panel members to be confirmed pending acceptance of this submission. The intent is three to five, with a max of seven (not including moderator) if there is exceptional interest. If you are a member of one of the listed communities, and would be interested, please email CaptainEek or drop her a message on her home project: English Wikipedia. CaptainEek is hoping for at least one administrator, one functionary, one current arbitrator, and one steward. Former members, or members of more than one group, also welcome.

About the moderator: CaptainEek is an Arbitrator on the English Wikipedia, serving her second term. She loves editing about birds and history. When not at the helm of Wikipedia, she is a law student and avid public speaker.

In the early years of Wikipedia, academic librarians and professors collaborated to try to stop students from using the encyclopedia. This approach was not only a lost cause, it was a missed opportunity and counterproductive. More recently, going in the entirely opposite direction, librarians around the world have invested much time and effort into improving Wikipedia via edit-a-thons and projects like #1Lib1Ref. These endeavors have demonstrated that librarians have unique abilities and opportunities to both contribute to and make use of Wikipedia.

Having previously led numerous edit-a-thons, Carter and Libson have anecdotally noted that library employees’ enthusiasm for editing Wikipedia frequently exceeds that of the target audience for edit-a-thons (often students or the general public). Consequently, they decided that rather than continuing to struggle to generate enthusiasm among the target audience, to switch the target audience to their colleagues and create a collaborative “meetup” environment that might attract more participation. They also wanted to evaluate the reasons for employees’ participation and the benefits they take away from these Wikipedia “meetups” in order to share their experiences with the wider professional community.

This paper stems from research relating to the impact of intermittent Wikipedia co-working sessions on library employee growth. Carter and Libson have begun interviewing attendees of the sessions to gauge their motivation for participation, understand the nature of their learning, and learn about their level of inspiration for future learning. The analysis of the interviews has begun to explain whether and how Wikipedia can be a tool for library employees to use the skills of their profession to grow as employees and to better understand what form that growth takes. A significant body of research has already looked into how librarians can make the best use of Wikipedia. Another body of research has examined library employee engagement. These two research areas, though, have rarely, if ever, intersected. This project seeks data to make that intersection possible.

The Peeragogy Handbook is a Wikibook with guidance on peer learning and peer production. This lecture briefly touch on the past of the book starting in 2013 through the present with translations of portions into four languages and a refreshed Wikiproject to center the work. The main focus will be on the roadmap for the future of the Wikibook and a call for editors from the audience and around the world.

Since 2020, York University Libraries has partnered with York’s Department of History to provide a public history placement opportunity for several fourth-year undergraduate students. These experiential education programs have been focused on teaching students to use archival and special collections materials within the Libraries to contribute to the public record on Wikipedia and Wikidata. The placements give students the experience of public outreach, writing for public audiences, and learning how to create and contribute data on local topics as diverse as Black histories, historical maps, and Toronto jazz and folk performances.

In this panel, two placement supervisors and one student from the 2023 placement will discuss their experiences with Wikimedia projects. Katrina Cohen-Palacios, archivist, hosted rounds of placements in 2020 and 2022 and will share her experience of building the original placement programming and their contributions to Wikipedia and Wikidata. Alexandra Wong, data visualization and analytics librarian, hosted the 2023 placements that focused on contributing local Black histories to Wikipedia and helping to facilitate the Black Histories Wikipedia and Wikidata Edit-a-thon, an annual event in February coordinated by York University Libraries, University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto Metropolitan Library, and the Toronto Public Library. Alanna Brown, graduating History student, will share her Wiki journey, from first learning to edit in January 2023 to creating a History of Caribana Wikipedia article by April 2023.

We will discuss our motivations for participating in the placements, our experiences and challenges faced, and our future goals.

Slides at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MCCqIFwlZgK1rWlS3D11DQbOb2FQyvcO9Qmh9YN2F4A/edit?usp=sharing

I was a member of the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee for 11 years, and have background on the Committee's work and some thoughts on its role in project governance. I do not propose to give a talk of my own about ArbCom or governance (I have made a proposal for a talk on a different topic), but if there is a panel or discussion about these issues I would be glad to participate as one of the panelists.

Project Korikath, is a team of young and enthusiastic students and volunteers dedicated to contributing to the community while following our passions. Our journey began in 2021, and since then, we have grown from a small group of 7/8 people to a family of over 30 dedicated volunteers. The project is currently active in four countries including Canada, and I’m taking care of the Canada part. We try to bridge visual knowledge gaps regarding local topics in Wikimedia.

We received Wikicred funding in the last cycle and are done with all our goals.

One of the main goals we had from the beginning was to focus on taking better pictures for articles that lack good pictures or even don’t even have any images at all. Also, Our aim from the outset was to channel the youth wikimedians’ creative energies into productive endeavors, such as photography, videography, writing, and technology. We wanted to make a positive impact and leave a lasting legacy in the community. Though it’s basically a Wikimedia Commons-based team, our focus primarily lies not only in uploading and organizing media but also in adding the works to articles, writing new articles regarding local topics, translating content, and engaging in various other projects.

Through our collective efforts, we have achieved significant milestones. We are continuously working on our goals, going to different important places to take better pictures for the articles. Not only that, over the past year, we successfully uploaded 10,000+ pictures to Wikimedia Commons, enriching articles with visual content and enhancing the overall user experience. Additionally, we have managed to nominate more than 400 of our pictures as Quality Images, a testament to the dedication and commitment of our team members.

My primary objective in the presentation is to inspire others to take the initiative to engage young people with the Wikimedia movement. By involving the next generation, we can foster a sense of ownership, empower their creativity, and create a lasting impact on the world of knowledge sharing.

slidedeck : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18IS8x6co3aaa2NIjoalXE15F-wEiw4SARzbH-jftIPw/edit?usp=sharing

review of google and harvard business review scholarship on how to build functional teams.
https://hbr.org/2023/02/what-is-psychological-safety
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/psychological-safety-and-the-critical-role-of-leadership-development
outline slides here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OLNvIcg0LhbOvHAve07fLtyVBfuESqYzVwGIKZR4zZA/edit?usp=sharing

The Punjabi Audiobooks Project from Wikisource aims to create a vast collection of audiobooks in the Punjabi language by utilizing the open-source content available on Wikisource. The project seeks to make Punjabi literature accessible to a wider audience by producing high-quality audiobooks narrated by skilled voice actors (volunteers). The project involves collaboration with volunteers and community members to digitize, transcribe and record Punjabi literature from Wikisource.

This workshop will develop the community’s capacity for written advocacy and will focus on letters regarding anti-surveillance reform. Constituent letters can have a powerful influence on elected officials, but for many voters, the process of when, where, and how to send letters can be murky. Many Wikimedians may have never written a letter to their elected representatives. Others may have some experience with letter writing, but want to improve their impact. Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team would like to support Wikimedians in their efforts to participate in democratic processes and engage with their representatives.

The workshop would consist of a brief presentation, a tabletop exercise, and an extended question and answer session with the Foundation’s North American public policy specialist. Because the US Congress is poised to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA)--a key statute enabling electronic surveillance–at the end of this year, the workshop would use this as an advocacy topic. Participants will receive practical guidance on drafting letters as well as sample language to include in anti-surveillance advocacy.

Participants will be guided through a team-based exercise to compose advocacy letters using provided materials and sample language. Participants will be divided into teams that will be each asked to compose a different type of advocacy letter, including form letters, individualized letters, and group letters. A short, interactive discussion to contrast the teams’ styles and approaches to written advocacy and a longer question and answer segment regarding advocacy strategies, practical considerations, and other related topics will follow.

The workshop would also be an opportunity for the Foundation to learn more about Wikimedians’ interest in and capacity for advocacy so that Foundation staff can better support those in the community who want to engage with law and policy making.

Wikipedia is the world's single most requested, published, accessed, and consulted source of information on almost every topic among most people who use the Internet to seek information. Despite this popularity, something is off and odd about how the public and institutions react to Wikipedia. If Wikipedia is so popular as a general reference resource, then why do individuals and institutions not react to Wikipedia with respect proportional to its influence? For example, why do cultural institutions, universities, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies make great investments to share general reference information in less popular channels like social media, websites, and traditional broadcasting, while neglecting to consider what they could accomplish more easily at lower cost through Wikipedia?

In this talk I present a preprint literature review titled, "Readership of Wikipedia". Beyond the evidence of that paper, I share Wikipedia community perspectives on audience metrics, Wikimedian in Residence roles for engaging Wikipedia, and make some comparisons between Wikipedia editing and comparable off-wiki communication industry professional services.

Cette présentation se concentrera sur le récit et les perspectives du mouvement Wikimédia en Haïti, mettant en évidence son impact sur l'accès aux savoirs et la promotion de la connaissance libre. Nous explorons donc les réalisations de la communauté Wikimédia en Haïti, ainsi que les défis et les opportunités pour l'avenir.

La première partie de la présentation précisera le contexte de création de Wikimedia Haïti. Ensuite, nous examinons en détail l'impact spécifique de cette association en Haïti tout en soulignant ses réalisations notables.

Dans la foulée, nous discutons des perspectives d'avenir du mouvement Wikimedia en Haïti. Nous explorons les défis à relever ainsi que les opportunités de développement.

En conclusion, Le récit du mouvement Wikimédia en Haïti inspirera à s'impliquer et à contribuer à cette cause globale de partage du savoir.

Often described as "Wikipedia's Supreme Court", the Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) is the English Wikipedia's dispute resolution body of final resort. ArbCom plays a significant role in resolving serious conduct disputes, supervising administrator conduct, selecting and managing the ranks of functionaries, hearing block and ban appeals, and designing enforcement processes. Composed of 15 elected volunteers and assisted by a panel of appointed clerks, ArbCom's essential functions affect every part of the English Wikipedia.

Drawing on my eight and a half years of experience with ArbCom — six as a clerk and 2.5 years as an elected member — we will discuss ArbCom's functions on the English Wikipedia and explore its structural strengths and weaknesses. We will seek to understand how effectively ArbCom addresses the needs of various stakeholders, including case participants, users attempting to appeal blocks, editors within ArbCom-designated contentious topics, participants at other dispute resolution fora, and the arbitrators themselves. And we'll discuss possible reforms that might be worth exploring — alongside the tradeoffs they present.

Be prepared to participate actively, as the session concludes with a brainstorming and ideation exercise on ways in which ArbCom's processes could better serve its stakeholders and the Wikipedia community at large.

Slides: File:WCNA 2023 - L235 - Reflections on Eight Years at ArbCom.pdf

Wikimedia DC has been gathering information to inform next steps in a possible coalition of the North American Wikimedia affiliates. We will report on findings and progress, and invite input online and in later meetings during the conference.

The project involves focus groups, interviews, and surveys of (a) North American Wikimedians, (b) coordinators of Wikimedia affiliates and Hubs elsewhere, and (c) representatives of likely partner organizations, including the WMF. We ask these audiences about likely projects the North American groups could do together, and challenges to working together efficiently. On our project's meta page we invite you all to contact us or write public input to us. Our completed report is to be made public at the end of 2023. We are not chartered to create a new organization or take other permanent steps; it's called a research project, to get facts and opinions together.

• Link to slides

Compressed background:

• Terminology: Affiliates = chapters, user groups, thematic groups (e.g. Art+Fem, Wiki LGBT+); Chapter = The formal nonprofit organizations (e.g. WM Mexico, WM Canada, WM NY, WM DC, WikiEdu, WikiMed); Projects = The online sites (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...)
• Possible projects together, beyond the North American conferences (WCNAs): shared calendar; multiyear/cross-national partnerships with other orgs; small/quick grants for editathons and other projects across our region including where there is no chapter; legal/financial/administrative support to our small chapters (tax forms, auditing, insurance); photo or content contests; build up copyright expertise to help protect public domain; build up larger scale advocacy regarding government policy; develop software to support affiliates or Wikimedia content.
• Parallel or partner organizations to learn from: Wikimedia affiliates elsewhere; GLAMs, OpenStreetMap, Internet Archive, Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, DPLA, ...., and grantors to such organizations
• Our research project's advisory committee includes Wikimedia organizers from a variety of affiliates in North America.

Some opportunities are easy to take, like a shared calendar. There are challenges too, such as: legal formalities which differ across countries; potential dominance of large chapters/English/US/interest groups; risk of fighting over the same funding streams and volunteers; and the need for ongoing translation if we have sustained projects together.

Formatwise -- It would be possible to make this a longer session/discussion, because we need input too, but I thought a brief report could be part of the main program and we have an unconference discussion later.

Ranganathan's fourth law of library science, "Save the time of the reader," describes how guides and frameworks that benefit library users also benefit librarians and other maintainers of information systems?'"`UNIQ--ref-00000004-QINU`"'?. The laws of library science apply to technical documentation! In this workshop, participants will learn how to apply minimalist information design principles?'"`UNIQ--ref-00000005-QINU`"'? to save the time of readers, while also making it easier to maintain documentation in our shared technical ecosystem.

Proposed workshop structure:

1. Introduce basic information design principles from library science and instructional design.
2. Teach participants how to apply minimalist design principles to improve existing technical documentation.
3. Lead supported editing time and coordinate hands-on, collaborative practice revising documents on our technical wikis (mediawiki.org, wikitech.org).

After the brief introduction and instruction sections, participants will choose a technical document to improve. Then, we'll work synchronously and share ideas as we explore how minimalism can help us be strategic about revising docs to improve their usability and readability. Specifically, our revisions will focus on how to save the time of our readers (and future editors) by:

• Identifying and focusing on the reader's goals and tasks
• Creating strong "information scent"?'"`UNIQ--ref-00000006-QINU`"'? through document structure and writing style
• Identifying and removing superfluous text
• Grouping information into modular, task-focused units

While the focus of this workshop will be on technical documentation, the principles are widely applicable to many types of written communication. Participants are welcome to edit any wikis or documents, but the content used for instruction and the suggested pages to edit will all be from Wikimedia technical wikis.

Ranganathan's fourth law of library science, "Save the time of the reader," describes how guides and frameworks that benefit library users also benefit librarians and other maintainers of information systems?'"`UNIQ--ref-00000008-QINU`"'?. The laws of library science apply to technical documentation! In this workshop, participants will learn how to apply minimalist information design principles?'"`UNIQ--ref-00000009-QINU`"'? to save the time of readers, while also making it easier to maintain documentation in our shared technical ecosystem.

Proposed workshop structure:

1. Introduce basic information design principles from library science and instructional design.
2. Teach participants how to apply minimalist design principles to improve existing technical documentation.
3. Lead supported editing time and coordinate hands-on, collaborative practice revising documents on our technical wikis (mediawiki.org, wikitech.org).

After the brief introduction and instruction sections, participants will choose a technical document to improve. Then, we'll work synchronously and share ideas as we explore how minimalism can help us be strategic about revising docs to improve their usability and readability. Specifically, our revisions will focus on how to save the time of our readers (and future editors) by:

• Identifying and focusing on the reader's goals and tasks
• Creating strong "information scent"?'"`UNIQ--ref-0000000A-QINU`"'? through document structure and writing style
• Identifying and removing superfluous text
• Grouping information into modular, task-focused units

While the focus of this workshop will be on technical documentation, the principles are widely applicable to many types of written communication. Participants are welcome to edit any wikis or documents, but the content used for instruction and the suggested pages to edit will all be from Wikimedia technical wikis.

Scholia is a web service hosted on Toolforge that generates scholarly profiles that provide windows into Wikidata's research-related content. It can be used to get an overview about a specific aspect of research, which could be, for instance, a topic, a research institution or a biological species — over 20 profile types are available. Scholia can also facilitate several forms of deeper engagement with some such aspects, e.g. the topics of publications using a particular resource. It facilitates data curation and can assist groups in prioritizing edits, identifiying gaps and coordinating activities.

In this workshop, participants will learn how Scholia works, how it can be used, how it interacts with Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia and other parts of the Wikimedia landscape. Special attention will be given to community structures like WikiProjects and how they can integrate Scholia with their workflows.

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As a meetup or series of lightning talks, we invite people to show their favorite gadgets (Preferences->Gadgets) in Wikipedia/Commons/Wikidata and beyond. Oftentimes, amazing new features and functions are available but are unknown to users. Very quick 30 second demos of some high impact and favorite gadgets can be a game changer for many who have struggled with batch editing or doing complex tasks.

This was inspired by an informal meetup at Wikimania 2023 where Commons gadgets such as VisualFileChange, Global Usage Badges, and ACDC were demonstrated and installed for a number of folks who did not know they existed.

Sign Languages of the world can be video documented using Lingualibre, learning those can happen using Lingualibre SignIt.

Lingua Libre SignIt add-on for Firefox is a demonstrator project which allows you to translate a (French) word into (French) sign language videos on any web page. When you read a text and come across a word you don't know, select that word, click on the SignIt icon: the sign in LSF and the definition of the word in French will appear on a window. If a word is not available in LSF, we invite you to record it with our easy-to-use web app on LinguaLibre. The definitions come from the French Wiktionary to which you can also contribute.

ABSTRACT

In this session we will discuss and collect ideas about the lifecycle of sister projects, including: What should be the criteria for creating a new Wikimedia project? What do we expect from a Wikimedia project? And what kind of support and resources should a Wikimedia project expect? When a Wikimedia project is considered successful? What should be the criteria for closing an existing Wikimedia project? The discussion will inform the work of the Board of trustees’ Sister projects Task Force.

• Sister Projects Task Force
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DESCRIPTION

For the last 15 years, the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects (also called Sister projects - like Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiversity, etc.) has seen very few changes: only a few projects have been created, and none has been phased out, even though many proposals for new projects have been presented, and some ideas for changes in existing ones have been voiced.

In 2023, the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation began discussing this topic, with the goal of setting up processes for reviewing new project proposals and monitoring existing ones.

This session will be a group discussion aimed at collecting ideas for the work of the Sister projects task force. It will be introduced by a short (~10 minutes) presentation about the process, including an overview of the same-named session held in August at Wikimania.

Important note: the current focus of the Board is on designing general processes for creating, phasing out or rethinking projects, and not yet on decisions about specific projects. Specific proposals will not be discussed at this time, and no decisions will be made.

I have been integrating wiki into my composition classroom at LaGuardia Community College since 2014. Initially, collaborative team-based editing of Wikipedia articles was the norm. However, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, collaborative group work became quite challenging. In response, I shifted towards individual projects with a broader objective: the co-creation of a Wikibook. Through this experimentation, I discovered that individual contributions on Wikibooks give the students a deeper comprehension of the wiki platform, its guidelines, and its policies when compared to team-based endeavors. Students also gain confidence in completing wiki projects, which increases their willingness to engage with wiki content across various contexts. Thus, while a worthy project all on its own, Wikibooks could be regarded as a stepping stone or gateway towards further exploration and participation in diverse wiki projects. At LaGuardia, students' wiki literacy may extend to involvement in the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives GLAM or even a translatathon, thereby transcending mere class assignments and fostering a lifelong commitment to editing.

Building upon this model, my presentation will discuss the why and the how of a comprehensive wiki literacy education. The need for such an approach is particularly significant within the composition classroom, where the core objective is to equip students with the ability to write adeptly within various frameworks and catering to diverse audiences. By embracing multiple types of wiki, educators can cultivate a broader range of skills and empower students to adapt their writing to a myriad of contexts, nurturing versatility and proficiency in communication.

Our decision-making processes for large-scale changes to wiki software perform poorly: they create unpredictability and discord, don't incorporate expertise and data well, and don't live up to our standards of inclusivity and shared power. Can we do better?

Large-scale user interface changes tend to be managed by some combination of the RfC processes of large wikis, and the WMF acting as unilateral decisionmaker. RfCs (the way they are practiced in the Wikimedia world) are a poor decision-making process for matters requiring immersion in details and expertise that most experienced editors do not possess; and the WMF monopolizing power doesn't live up to the Wikimedia movement's standards of participatory governance, erodes trust, and is vulnerable to bad organizational incentives. In other words, the status quo is broken.

Community members should have meaningful influence in the decision-making process (more than just "being consulted") so the decisions align with the movement's values and don't ignore the hard-won experience of editors in the trenches; but interested amateurs shouldn't crowd out expertise, decisions should be driven by data and experimentation, not prejudices, and change aversion should be understood and accounted for. Moreover, decisions should be predictable and avoid wasting of donor money, while giving the Wikimedia community a meaningful influence over how it is spent.

The session will consist of a short presentation on the history of regulating software changes, the problems with the present state, and the solutions proposed in the movement strategy, followed by an open discussion. My hope is that this and follow-up discussions lead to a proposal for a new governance structure, which can be included in the Movement Charter drafting process.

(About me: I have run both global and local consensus-building processes as a volunteer developer and a Wikipedia admin for over fifteen years; I worked for the WMF on one of the most controversial software changes; I was a chapter board member during the time when the WMF erased the financial independence of chapters; I worked on movement strategy. I feel I am familiar with WMF-community power struggles from both sides, and with the benefits and drawbacks of RfCs.)

As a Wikipedia volunteer and community leader over the last 7 years, moving from my home country, Ghana where I was immensely involved in my local Wikipedia chapter to the United State meant an end to my active involvement in the community or so I thought. After my 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 a new place with no Wikimedia presence and no understanding of the Wikimedia community and operations. I then decided to initiate a Wikipedia in the classroom project since I am an instructor and through the Wiki for Human Rights campaign which would help provide a structure to my project and would enable me obtain support to run the event. As a Graduate Teaching Instructor, I harnessed my experience as a Wikipedian with the support of my community back home to organize the Wiki For Human Rights Campaign involving my students to learn about the Wikimedia initiatives and contribute fact-checked environmental and climate content about the State of New Mexico to Wikipedia in exchange for credits. This campaign is particularly important to my students and the State of New Mexico because it allowed the students to obtain new skills other than their regular course while contributing content about the current environmental state of New Mexico. I am in my second year as the only organizer of the campaign in North America and I will be sharing my experience in embarking on this journey in a location with no Wikimedia presence and away from my Wikipedia family. Additionally, I would discuss how to leverage college students and Wikipedia campaigns for advocacy, capacity building and contribution to Wikimedia Projects for others who move away from their local communities.

(Note: This would work as a lecture but potentially also as a panel if others are interested in joining. Depending on the time allocated, this could be a discussion of fairly significant length, as there is a lot of material to cover. If interested, please see the links on my English Wikipedia userpage for some of my prior writings on this subject, both on Wikipedia and elsewhere.)

Early in the history of Wikipedia, our editors realized that articles with content about living people pose special challenges and impose special obligations, because their contents can affect the article subjects' lives. Because this fact created ethical and potential legal obligations for Wikipedia editors and the community, and also prompted by a couple of unfortunate incidents, Wikipedians created special rules for articles categorized as Biographies of Living Persons ("BLPs"). The policy emphasized that while all Wikipedia articles should be reliably sourced, neutral in tone, and free of defamatory or unduly weighted negative content, it was especially important that BLPs adhere to these goals. Over time, the community has further strengthened the BLP policy, and the Arbitration Committee has lent its support to enforcing it.

Fourteen years ago, at the first Wikiconference North America in 2009, I gave a keynote talk discussing the history of the BLP problem and BLP issues on English Wikipedia. There have been a lot of new articles created and a lot of old articles edited since then, and it is time to assess the state of things today.

My talk will cover the history of BLP policy and BLP-related disputes and incidents on English Wikipedia; best practices for Wikipedians editing BLPs today; and future ethical and legal challenges that we can continue to anticipate. I will also discuss some sample situations, including hypothetical examples that I will provide as well as the very real example of my own English Wikipedia BLP.

As open access initiatives gain traction among cultural institutions, how well-equipped is the Wikimedia movement to fulfill the requirements of cultural and heritage institutions in their GLAM wiki endeavors?

This round table aims to assess GLAM Wiki engagements and workflows, identifying and addressing shortcomings. Led by Kelly Doyle Kim and Andrew Lih from the Smithsonian Institution, the discussion will focus on current GLAM-Wiki partnerships, their future, and the sharing of ideas, concerns, and best practices. The goal is to collaboratively outline key points for the desired direction of this essential movement area.

The Wikimedia movement has had in the ballpark of 200 Wikipedians in Residence in the past 15 or so years. What have we learned about how to set up, run, share from, and even sell these meaningful institutional positions?

Jake Orlowitz, founder of the Wikipedia Library, and head of Wikimedia Consulting firm WikiBlueprint, will walk participants through each stage of starting, executing, and communicating about a WIR position.

Participants will receive a sample position description for hiring, example questions for interviews, an onboarding syllabus for WIRs, checklists for institutional integration, activity guides for core content creation and donation campaigns, tool wisdom, communication and report demos, and elevator pitches to promote their work.

The workshop is appropriate for anyone who wants to be (or has been) a WIR, or any institution that is interesting in managing a WIR in the future.

The Programs & Events (P&E) Dashboard (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/) allows organizers to effectively train participants in their programs and events, monitor the work participants do on Wikimedia wikis, and assess their contributions. It also allows them to report metrics on what the participants have done.

In this workshop we will teach participants how to use the P&E Dashboard, taking them from the basic steps of getting started, through advanced tips and tools. We will also provide tips on customizing things to support their individual programs.