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Toolforge is the shared hosting platform run by the Wikimedia Foundation for community and staff to operate bots and web tools that are used by contributors, readers and the general public. Some tools are very well known and receive a lot of traffic (e.g. Earwig's copyvio detector) and others are incredibly niche that only a few people even know about.

We are coming up on, give or take, the 10 year anniversary of the shutdown of its predecessor, the Toolserver, operated by Wikimedia Deutschland. As someone who has been closely involved in this project as both a volunteer and staff for all of those years, this offers us a good checkpoint to reflect on the past 10ish years of Toolforge, by celebrating successes and acknowledging missed opportunities.

We'll examine Toolforge from three different lenses:

• Platform: how Toolforge provides a service for the benefit of other Wikimedia projects
• Governance: tool hosting transitioned from WMDE to WMF, and then efforts to give the community more power
• Project: Toolforge is (maybe) a Wikimedia sibling project in its own right, how does it contribute to spreading free knowledge?

This talk focuses on a technical platform and will discuss technical matters, but will ensure it's reasonably accessible to a non-technical audience.

I've been editing Wikidata, specifically video game items on Wikidata, for over 5 years now. In that time, I've made more than 500k edits to Wikidata between myself and my bot.

While doing all that work, I've run into *a lot* of weird problems with video games, including the accuracy of various video game databases, regional variants of games, translations of video game titles, confusing series orders for games, video games that were ported to other platforms that changed the game content in some way while retaining the same title, and various other problems.

The purpose of the talk is to show some of the more interesting or confusing issues I've run into. And to go over the ways I and other members of WikiProject Video Games have resolved some of these problems.

Over the last year, I've been collecting a lot of weird data for this kind of talk here: https://gist.github.com/connorshea/33cd370315df71d07dbe5475788cb3ce

10 years ago, WikiJournal began publishing peer-reviewed original research content within Wikimedia environment. We are now a series platinum open access journals covering Medicine, Science and Humanities topics without charging submission fee for authors nor subscription fee for readers. We also adopt open peer review, conducted in the talk page of the submission. We look back at our most popular papers, our growth into other subject areas, how our works are being cited and reused (both on- and off-wiki), impacts on the publishing community and what our future plans will be.

I would like to introduce the "Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions", 2024 (2nd Edition, CC BY-SA 4.0), which was made possible by support from Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami.

This workbook is designed to help Wikipedians, Wikimedians in Residence and interested institutions to survey their opportunities for engagement with Wikipedia and its related projects. The goal of the workbook is to enable you to plan a roadmap for engagement with an institution. The workbook is written with GLAMs in mind (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), but is broadly applicable.

The workbook is organized so that it pairs information with related tasks. You can select the content that is most useful to you. Major sections include: Using this workbook, Wikipedia articles, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Logic models and metrics, Institutional workflows, and a bibliography of Resources. The second edition includes new topics like dealing with disinformation and using OpenRefine.

The intention is not to teach someone everything they need to know about Wikipedia and its related projects. The intention is to give an overview of key projects that exist, the ways in which they can and cannot be used, and where to find resources to learn more about using them. This guide can help partners to assess their resources, identify areas where they can potentially contribute, define their goals, and plan ways to measure their impact.

I hope that this guide will be useful in planning your trip through Wikipedia and its related projects, and that it will support you in subsequent explorations and engagement!

The second edition of the Workbook has been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

The pdf file for the WikiConference Presentation has been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Interactivity has become a hot button issue of late. However, throughout these conversations there has been a sense of people talking past each other. Interactivity can mean so many different things to different people, from video to graphs, physics simulations to chat bots, 3D objects to educational games and everything in between. Superficially it can seem like there is a shared understanding between these groups, but when you dig deeper there is a world of difference. It is my contention that the lack of shared understanding over what it means to have interactive content on Wikipedia is seriously hindering progress.

This presentation will give a tour of different types of great interactive multimedia from around the internet with the goal of determining what types of interactive content could be useful for a project like Wikipedia and what aren't. By discussing the different types of interactivity, it is hoped this will make future discussions about interactivity more concrete thus leading to more progress.

This will cover the work flow of creating or expanding a Wikidata item for a biography. It will include going over and explaining:

• How the authority control template is used in enwiki, eswiki, and frwiki The authority control template draws its data from Wikidata.
• Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers.

The areas most well-represented by identifiers are, broadly speaking:

• authors and artists
• politicians
• post-1500 British history

• Template:Authority control properties
• viaf.org
• Wikidata:VIAF/type/human
• Wikidata:List_of_properties/Summary_table/en (inactive and for historical reference)
• WorldCat Entities – WorldCat Entities ID (P10832)

The slides are located at: File:Adding authority control properties in Wikidata for writer and artist biographies.pdf.

Wiki Education's Scholars & Scientists program engages with and trains subject area experts to address content gaps. This session will explore how these specific edits can have an outsized impact on Wikipedia and how the program is able to achieve this work at scale. In particular this session will focus on medical, election, and disability-related articles. We will explore why having subject area experts is beneficial for all parties - Wikipedia and the subject areas both improve as a part of this work. We will as unpack some challenges and look to the future for partnering and expanding these program offerings.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee, or U4C, is a newly elected global body responsible for the enforcement, training, and reporting about the Universal Code of Conduct. This session, given by a U4C member, will discuss what the U4C is, who should care about it, and the challenges and success it has had so far.

Since its inception in 2010 as a small pilot program, the Wikipedia student program has grown and expanded immensely. From its origins as a program within the Wikimedia Foundation, the program has spread and is now supported by the Wikipedia & Education User Group, and administered by Wiki Education in the United States and Canada, and by various national chapters around the world. Over the time, the original basic program has evolved to meet the needs of organizers and educators.

In this presentation we will discuss the evolution of the assignment with a focus on how things have developed from our perspective as Wiki Education staff.

At this crucial crossroads for Wikipedia, we must prioritize representation and inclusion to ensure the continued relevance and significance of our projects. Our session will explore the need to revitalize the presence of Latinx editors in the United States, focusing on the unique challenges of bilingual editing and the opportunities for growth in both English and Spanish Wikipedia. We will present findings from our research on Latino search behavior, underscoring Wikipedia’s role as one of the single most used websites by Latinx to seek and find information.

Additionally, we will discuss our experience organizing the recent Repro in Texas Edit-A-Thon, where we will share insights on the importance of fostering community engagement and amplifying diverse and local voices. Join us in this critical discussion and help us sketch the next stage of our Wikipedia work, where we aim to close the gap on Spanish and English U.S. Latinx articles, increase community engagement, and strengthen the presence of Latinx editors at this turning point for the Wikimedia movement.

References:

-Latino Online Search Behavior research: https://narrativeobservatory.org/capturable-curiosity

-Repro in Texas Edit-A-Thon Wiki Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Equis/Repro_in_Texas_Edit-a-Thon/home

A stroll through the articles that Wikipedia at one point considered its best reveals a disconcerting wasteland: Many were the work of now-retired editors, have not been maintained, and have either already lost their featured status or ought to. Nearly two thirds of the dated featured articles on English Wikipedia that have been reviewed so far as part of an ongoing initiative have been delisted. Given this, what can we do to ensure that today's quality content avoids the same fate?

This talk will examine the phenomenon of article quality decline and explore various proactive mitigation strategies. A featured article authored primarily by the presenter, on a higher education institution, will be used as a case study.

Women’s engagement in the temperance movement of the "long nineteenth century" has been documented in many countries. How they collaborated, organized, developed leaders, documented their work, convened, dealt with disagreements, engaged in exclusionary practices, and remained resilient are applicable learnings for today’s WikiWomen Movement. Focusing on Wikipedia articles, Wikisource documents, and Wikimedia Commons photos, this session examines elements of a multi-decade international volunteer women's movement. Key concepts related to familial, cultural, sociological, and civil society influences are examined through the lens of today's WikiWomen Movement.

Each year, Wiki Education collaborates with more than 12,000 student editors who join the ranks of volunteer Wikipedians. This is made possible only by the willingness of a small group of instructors across higher education who incorporate editing Wikipedia into their curricula.

In this session, you'll hear the perspectives of four instructors whose students worked to increase the representation and diversity of biographies of notable figures in STEM.

We’ll explore the inspiration for incorporating the assignment, the student experience with the reversal of traditional roles from consumers of knowledge to creators of knowledge, the insights of participating in collaborative, open-source knowledge creation and the specific challenges of editing in topic areas underrepresented on Wikipedia.

With over a decade of work in education with Wikipedia, as well as dozens of studies on the efficacy of Wikipedia as an Open Education Practice (OEP) (Azar, 2023; Choi & Shetty, 2022; Cummings, 2009; Hood, 2007; Konieczny, 2012, 2023; Kuhne & Creel, 2012; McKenzie et al., 2018; McDowell & Vetter, 2021; Patch, 2010; Reilly, 2011; Roth et al., 2013; Vetter et al., 2019), this session turns to expanding OEP in other Wikimedia projects. This workshop will explore the crossroads and connections that bring together this robust utilization of Wikipedia as OEP to Wikipedia’s sister projects.

While there has been some work on Wikidata and education (Sigalov, 2023), and some exercises that utilize Wikimedia Commons, there has been little or no work with Wikisource, or other Wikimedia projects. The workshop leaders, Dr. Zachary McDowell and Dr. Matthew Vetter, will present some brief examples from their upcoming book “Wikipedia and Beyond: Open Education for an Equitable Future” to discuss and garner feedback and suggestions from educators and Wikimedia community members.

This workshop will consist of a brief presentation (5-10 minutes) about current OEPs for Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikisource, followed by a group breakout to share and document educational practices for these sister projects. These will be shared with and discussed in the group in regard to practices, context, and outcomes.

Additionally, this workshop hopes to encourage additional research in these areas, and, along with collaboratively discussing these open practices, this workshop will identify areas of research opportunity to test these practices.

A treasure trove of Public Domain books, magazines, and newspapers are available online. Many include photos that are available for upload into the wiki-universe. This session, designed for new editors, will describe workflows and best practices, as well as demonstrations and Q&A:

• PREPARING YOUR WORK
  • research/ find PD sources
  • compare multiple versions of the same source to determine which is better for uploading
  • crop images
• UPLOADS INTO WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
  • upload one image or a batch
  • categories, rotation, renaming
• WIKIDATA: WHY AND HOW
  • add the newly-uploaded image to Wikidata
• ADDING TO A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE
  • add the newly-uploaded image to Wikipedia

Toolhub is a community-authored tool catalog for Wikimedia tools. It supports browsing tools by audiences, tasks, content types, and subject domains (like GLAM)...but only if the tool records are annotated with relevant metadata. These metadata annotations are currently under-utilized, so this session proposes an edit-a-thon-style tool cataloging event, focused on improving the usability of Toolhub for finding GLAM tools.

This project highlights and expands on existing intersections between the GLAM community and the technical community -- especially tool developers. Cataloging GLAM tools in Toolhub is an activity at the crossroads of technology, community curation, tool documentation, and GLAM community support. By encouraging GLAM community members to use Toolhub, this session will help us explore how a technical solution like Toolhub can support the goal of having an easy-to-share list of GLAM tools in one place...while also making that information more discoverable and maintainable than it might be on a wiki page or other format.

Goal 1: Improve the usability of Toolhub for finding GLAM tools and their documentation

Goal 2: Expand the GLAM community's awareness of Toolhub and tool documentation best practices.

Goal 3: Support the GLAM community's goal to "Form an easy-to-share page that lists all GLAM tools in just one place."

More info at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TBurmeister_(WMF)/GLAMToolhub

In recent years, biodiversity monitoring has become a citizen-driven activity. Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird have incorporated citizens' observations into conservation science. Similarly, WikiPapa and WikiPapa are two agrobiodiversity monitoring platforms that engage potato farmers, students, extension workers, and researchers in conserving Andean potato varieties in Peru. WikiPapa is a curated website hosting records of local potato varieties, including agronomic, geographical, and gastronomic traits. VarScout allows users to collect data on local names, color, frost resistance, and yield directly from farms. This data is curated and uploaded to WikiPapa, forming an online agrobiodiversity monitoring system supported by the International Potato Center (CIP) and local actors. Recently, developers have considered adding e-commerce features to promote Andean potato consumption.

Citizen science platforms aim to reduce knowledge and societal gaps between experts and non-experts, incorporating Open Science (OS) principles like FAIR and CARE. These principles ensure data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable, while respecting indigenous knowledge. However, fostering openness may not always be fair to those contributing data. Concerns about the platformization of science and the privatization of common resources raise questions about these platforms' future. This research, through interviews, workshops, and ethnographic data, examines how economic interests are integrated into the WikiPapa data chain and explores the fairness of implementing OS principles in agrobiodiversity conservation.

This talk will examine some causes of and possible solutions to dysfunction in processes for creating and changing policies and guidelines on an open wiki.

The talk will focus on the specific example of notability guidelines on the English Wikipedia. The speaker will present multiple lines of evidence on the impacts of these guidelines over time, including viewpoints from external scholarship, statements by former Wikipedians, and changes in editing activity over time shown by the Wikipedia database dumps. A voice-exit-loyalty framework will then be used to review how certain structural features of Wikipedia decisionmaking can make certain types of policy change extremely difficult to reverse, even when those changes have had demonstrable negative effects.

The talk will conclude with a brief review of some possible solutions and the challenges that each solution would face.

Slides (in progress) viewable here.

In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, shifting its most popular generative AI engine into a chat format. Even before the release of ChatGPT, faculty at the University of Mississippi’s Department of Writing and Rhetoric were engaging generative AI tools. Students were introduced to AI tools and given the opportunity to use them to identify sources, understand counterarguments, or revise their writing for improved voice. And each time students engaged with a generative AI tool, they were given space to reflect on the experience. In some cases, students found generative AI helpful, and in other cases, they found it distracting. However, one key issue that students and faculty agreed upon about the use of generative AI for academic writing was that as long as AI outputs could not be linked to reliable sources, their value would be limited. With the rollout of ChatGPT 4.0, OpenAI created plugins. In July 2023 the Wikimedia Foundation sponsored the creation of the Wikipedia plugin for ChatGPT. Although that tool has now been deprecated, it operated from roughly July-November 2023. When entries were made into ChatGPT with the Wikipedia plugin, responses were generated with a link back to relevant Wikipedia pages. With this explicit connection between generative AI output and the world’s largest encyclopedia, would students find this next version of ChatGPT more factual for use in academic projects? We present the results of a fall 2023 semester study engaging ChatGPT with Wikipedia plugin. Looking at 111 argument essays written in first-year composition classrooms at an R1 university in the United States, we have examined the sources cited by student writers to answer these research questions: Does college classroom writing produced using ChaptGPT with Wikipedia plugin engage more external sources than writing produced without the plugin? Are those cited sources of higher quality? And does the use of ChatGPT with Wikipedia plugin help writers with source integration?

Many vibrant Wikiprojects center around digital art, literature, games, humanities, etc. We often have the same issues of notability and obsolesence that are not covered well within the more traditional confines. Often, these fields have references from wordpresses or blogs and notable contributions are not cited in traditionally notable sources. Seminal and important works can become obsolete quickly so that many modern readers can not explore them. Yet information about these digital antecedents is vital to Wikipedia. Let's get together and brainstorm ways we can cross over and help each other develop databases, notable source rules, etc. to ensure that notable and important concepts, works, actors, etc. in the digital arts and humanities are included in Wikipedia.

Issues include:

• Automatic denial of sources from Huggle and other bots
• Notability and databases are different from traditional venues

En México existen 70 pueblos y 67 idiomas indígenas. El 71.9% de la población (8.3 millones de personas) vive en situación de pobreza y grave rezago social. Una de las causas es la falta de acceso a la información, debido al aislamiento y la marginación en que se encuentran. Se presenta una alternativa para llevar internet a estas comunidades, a partir de redes comunitarias autogestivas (y tecnología open source). Internet brinda libre acceso a la información a las comunidades a partir de Wikibooks, Wikcionario, Wikiversity, Commons y Wikipedia, entre otros. Los proyectos Wikimedia tienen el poder de transformar la vida de estas personas, brindándoles la oportunidad de educarse de manera autogestiva, mientras conservan su cosmovisión (lengua, costumbres, tradiciones y cultura). Esto les permitirá salir del grave estado de pobreza, rezago, marginación y exclusión en el que se encuentran.

This session would overview three projects of the Movement Communications team, introducing users to how these projects can support them and their work: Diff, Wikimedia Answers, and our new "front door" on Meta-Wiki. Diff (diff.wikimedia.org) is a Wikimedia Foundation-supported community blog; this section of the session would provide information on how volunteers can get started publishing on Diff, outlining our editorial and publishing process and the impact that a Diff post can have on an event or project. We'd discuss examples of the types of posts users have published on Diff, and answer any questions that people may have about publishing their own posts. The Wikimedia Answers section would provide information about the answers@wikimedia.org email queue, which is a general queue for questions about the Wikimedia Foundation and our activities, connecting volunteers with the relevant staff and processes. The third section introduces volunteers to the newly-updated Wikimedia Foundation pages on Meta-Wiki, which provide centralized community-oriented information about the Wikimedia Foundation's structure and the support and resources available. In all, these three projects better connect the Foundation and community, and help community members access the support that the Foundation can provide.

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The oceans are no longer a safe place for corals: we need a 100-year plan to keep them alive so that future generations also have a chance. Embracing Wikimedia’s core principles of openness, free access, and community contribution, I propose a strategy to create digital and genetic twins of the world's coral reefs. This involves capturing the topology, species diversity, abundance, and biogeochemistry of the reefs using existing technologies, alongside establishing a living, distributed genet ark of coral diversity. Corals are remarkable ecosystem engineers, capable of clonal reproduction, which will be crucial for this initiative. As a living complement to digital twins of reefs, I propose using a distributed network of university, public, and home aquaria to keep corals alive indefinitely. This will be tracked in an open ledger system based on proof-of-life, with all coral genets monitored and balanced through the network, using a leveling system to incentivize the preservation of diversity. We must explore the scope of our symbiotic nature with corals: for all of human time, we have relied on them. Now they rely on us.

Writing list articles on Wikipedia, like list of works by a given artist, can be a tedious process. Manual editing of large wiki-tables can be confusing and error-prone and editing with Visual Editor is also not easy.

Incorporating Wikidata into your workflow can have a lot of benefits: as many works might already have Wikidata pages for many of the artworks, Wikidata allows storing great variety of artwork metadata in machine readable form, and Wikidata queries and Listeria lists allow you to query Wikidata and create on the fly variety of tables and lists helpful at finding missing and incorrect data. With those tools one can work on curating much larger sets of artworks than previously possible.

I would like to share my experiences of writing two such articles: “List of woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer” article on English Wikipedia and “Lista dzieł malarskich Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza” (“List of artworks by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz“) on Polish Wikipedia. The second one is cataloging over 2600 artworks and the table part of the article was automatically generated with help of custom Lua code based on Wikidata entries, and periodically regenerated to synch with updates.

In the power struggle between governments and "Big Tech" Wikipedia is sometimes caught in the crossfire. This lightning talk would describe some of the current trends in public policy that could impact Wikipedia (such as protecting kids' safety and regulating content moderation), decode some of the political rhetoric around those trends, and illustrate some of the potential impacts for Wikipedians. Slides are linked here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/161GDVaT0bBaCFqugqtEGe-hLUAer8qsWOmZU4A7cuac/edit?usp=sharing

Despite the growing interest in open educational resources in higher education, relatively few academics have significantly committed to sharing their research expertise in open knowledge projects. In fact, they often face opportunity costs when engaging with platforms like Wikipedia, as the time spent contributing can detract from more traditional scholarly outputs, such as peer-reviewed publications, conferences, and pursuing grants. As a potential solution to this problem, we have proposed the development of a suite of impact metrics, including items such as direct contributions to Wikipedia articles, research citations in Wikipedia, page views, and others (Buttliere, Vetter, & Ross). This session reports on our efforts surveying and interviewing academics who have previously engaged Wikipedia to identify the most relevant metrics for indicating impact, developing these metrics, soliciting feedback, and integrating them into a dashboard prototype. By engaging directly with the Wikimedia community, we hope to ensure that the developed metrics accurately capture the diverse ways in which Wikimedia projects contribute to knowledge dissemination and societal impact.

This discussion will feature a discussion with current English Wikipedia Arbitrators about the committee's work and how arbitrators approach making decisions on cases. Topics will include: devolving checkuser block appeals to the checkuser group, new contentious topic designations and removals, and how the decision-making process on ArbCom has changed (or not changed) with the addition of several new members in 2024. Afterwards, the panel will take questions and comments from the audience about the Arbitration Committee's work and procedures.

Moderated by Newyorkbrad, a former arbitrator, several Arbitrators have indicated interest in joining the panel: confirmation on the exact lineup will be made closer to the date (as Arbitrators confirm whether they will be attending this year’s conference).

In this presentation, Indiana State Library's Digital Initiatives director Justin Clark will discuss how collections from Indiana Memory and Hoosier State Chronicles, among others, have been added to Wikimedia Commons, improving existing Wikipedia pages and expanding access to digitized images. He'll also discuss ISL's public programming to coincide with these collections, including participating and hosting Wiki Edit-a-Thons for historians and librarians. In sum, attendees will learn about Indiana Memory and Hoosier State Chronicles as digital repositories, their integration with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and ultimately their use on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and how said initiatives can be used for public educational events.

Link to slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11iSqYpSKYSTdUqIw1jogv5J-SsosY9zR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117643565973185935488&rtpof=true&sd=true

This will present a workflow for using worldcat.org to find book records then to look for online copies of the books, usually in the Internet Archive or HathiTrust, and occasional other sources. The slide deck is at commons:File:Expanding book citations by using WorldCat and linking to archived online copies.pdf.

WikiProject Medicine started a Healthcare Translation Task Force in 2011 to make easy-to-understand health information available in many languages via translation from English. In 2021 they launched a dedicated translation dashboard to streamline efforts. In the US immigrant workers who often are not proficient in English make up 28% of the workforce. In a partnership with researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, we are coordinating actions to expand and improve content within Wikimedia platforms related to the most common occupational hazards and health conditions in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

This session will address gender gap research related to the Wikimedia movement, including consumption (e.g., readers, etc.), production (e.g., editors, leaders, etc.), and representation (e.g., content). The session will include a review of the types of research conducted (e.g., Master's Thesis, scholarly articles, etc.) and who has conducted it (e.g., volunteers, Wikimedia Foundation, academics, etc.). After methodically presenting what we know exists, the session will include an opportunity to discuss what's missing, including a methodology to document in Wikidata gender gap research related to the Wikimedia movement.

Generative AI brings both threats and opportunities to Wikipedia. With its capability to transform large amounts of content and sources into new formats like text, audio, or visual summaries, generative AI has the potential to help address some of Wikipedia’s longstanding challenges for both editors and readers: for example, on the editing side, AI could be used to scale mentorship and education of new editors struggling to understand years of complex accreted policies and content discussions. For readers, it could help them overcome the challenge of navigating long, dense articles and topics by providing a more personally-tailored learning experience that takes into account things like specific area of interest, reading level, and learning style (audio, visual, etc.). But the speed and ease of generating new content combined with AI’s well-known hallucinations problem pose risks as well: good-faith editors may use AI to generate and add content that they haven’t independently verified with a reliable source, unintentionally creating misinformation. Bad actors may use AI to generate both malicious content and authentic-looking sources that purport to support it, spreading disinformation. And the rapidity with which the rest of the world (e.g., academic research) is adopting this technology calls into question whether what Wikipedians have traditionally considered to be reliable secondary sources need to be vetted more thoroughly or approached differently. Finally, on the reader side, the wide availability of commercial AI tools like ChatGPT or Google’s Search Generative Engine – all trained on Wikipedia content, but rarely or never crediting Wikipedia in their responses – may affect our ability to deliver high-quality information to the general public by severing the connection between the content and the community that creates, maintains, and evolves it.

The theme of this conference is “Crossroads”, and we as a community are at a crossroads with generative AI. In this roundtable, we’ll bring together a group of Wikimedians who’ve thought a lot about generative AI and the Wikimedia projects. We’ll discuss issues like:

• How can generative AI help address some of Wikipedia’s longstanding challenges – e.g., filling content gaps, attracting and retaining contributors, and truly fulfilling our mission of delivering knowledge to every human in the world, regardless of factors like their education level or reading ability?
• How are young people engaging with Wikipedia in the age of generative AI?
• Are people still reading Wikipedia when they could instead ask ChatGPT a question? What can we as a community do to still be the world’s #1 source for information about any topic?
• How might we begin discussions as a community about policies and practices that may need to be updated because of the impact of AI, e.g. Reliable Sources?
• Our community of volunteer human contributors is our superpower: How can we strengthen our community in light of AI?
• What does the future hold for Wikipedia and generative AI?

This session covers the activity of the GLAM CSI (Contributor Study Initiative), a 2024 project analyzing Wikimedia's contribution pipeline for cultural and heritage collaborations. The effort is being led by Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) as Wikimedian at Large with the Smithsonian Institution, with support from the Wikimedia Foundation.

The workshop will present the documented "user stories" collected by the project so far and get useful feedback from the community to guide additional insights towards full "user journeys." The participatory session will pinpoint critical areas for Wikimedia engagement, empowering volunteers, Wikimedians in residence, and GLAM professionals. All are welcome, and participants don't need to be in any of those formal roles. (More info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_CSI)

Who should attend: Individuals interested in contributing content to Wikimedia projects at scale or in collaboration with culture heritage partners. Whether you possess extensive image collections, metadata records awaiting ingestion or reconciliation, source material for transcription, or work within Wikimedia communities in supporting these, your insights are invaluable.

Results and outcomes: Attendees will gain an understanding of the diverse array of user stories from Wikimedia contributors and offer valuable feedback to steer the development of future tools and strategies. Join us in shaping the future of Wikimedia engagement and collaboration and give direct actionable feedback to the Wikimedia Foundation and GLAM partners.

En la era digital actual, es esencial adaptarse a los rápidos cambios tecnológicos y responder a las crecientes demandas de una sociedad basada en el conocimiento. Esta presentación, basada en las experiencias y actividades entre Wikimedia México y la Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, aborda la necesidad de formar a la comunidad educativa para utilizar tecnologías digitales en favor del conocimiento libre y la educación abierta. Proponemos un enfoque innovador para inspirar a docentes, empoderar a estudiantes y proporcionar al público las herramientas y conocimientos necesarios para navegar y contribuir efectivamente al panorama educativo moderno. El objetivo principal es fomentar la adopción de prácticas de educación abierta y conocimiento libre, integrando tecnologías digitales para mejorar el acceso y la colaboración en entornos educativos. La presentación se enfoca en abordar la brecha digital y educativa, promoviendo la igualdad de acceso al conocimiento y a las herramientas educativas para todas las personas. Esta presentación se vincula estrechamente con la idea de comunidad y cultura digital de la Nueva Escuela Mexicana, promoviendo la formación integral mediante el uso de tecnologías digitales. Asimismo, se alinea con el tema "Encrucijada" de la conferencia, buscando crear un punto de inflexión en la forma en que la educación y el conocimiento libre se integran en la era digital, garantizando que los proyectos sigan siendo vibrantes y relevantes para el futuro.

The Wiki Education Dashboard and the Programs & Events Dashboard support programming and outreach across the community. At Wiki Education, we support 13,000 participants in our programs each year (about 19% of English Wikipedia's new active editors), making us some of the most experienced and proficient users of the platform.

In this session we'll explain how we use the Dashboard to effectively support larger groups of participants, and discuss ways the P&E Dashboard can adapt the notification systems to more effectively monitor their own program participants.

During the last couple of years, the GLAM-Wiki community has been seeing the rise of working groups organized within GLAM institutions. This type of community engagement has been particularly seen in the United States. Two examples of this engagement are the Digital Public Library of America and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

DPLA launched its Wikimedia Working Group in September 2022. Currently, it is this institution's biggest WG with 10 members, who have been meeting monthly in the last two years. These participants represent eight GLAM institutions (other than DPLA and WMF): Boston Public Library, Harvard Library, National Agricultural Library, Harold B. Lee Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington State Library, Georgia Public Library Service, and the Ohio University Libraries. A more detailed list of members and some details about the overall DPLA + Wikimedia engagement is available here.

For the past years, this group supported DPLA in their Wikimedia efforts, including data modeling and cleaning, as well as outreach and documentation activities, such as the development of a Meta-Wiki portal for DPLA and coffee chats, like the "DPLA Network Coffee Chat: Wikimedia Working Group" and a second upcoming one about metrics. During the GLAM Wiki Conference 2023, Dominic and Giovanna also made a presentation about DPLA which included a portion about its WG with some first-hand member accounts about their experiences: "GLAM Around the World II: Case studies".

For BHL, the Wikimedia Working Group is newer and it has been meeting monthly since December 2023, as an unfolding of the publication "Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet." The group already met before, but only in the last year, it had a more official engagement. It is composed of 35 members, across 20 GLAM organizations, which are working alongside independent Wikimedians to unify biodiversity knowledge across an ecosystem of siloed data repositories. Its members have supported BHL in their Wikimedia efforts with data modeling (especially on Structured Data on Commons), as well as outreach and documentation activities, such as the development of a Meta-Wiki portal for BHL and the organization of the "Transforming Biodiversity Heritage Library Images on Structured Data Commons", a workshop to work an agreed list of properties to be used on BHL's data on Commons.

Both of these groups have charters, official members (including a chair and a vice-chair), roles and responsibilities, fixed regular engagements, and planned activities and priorities. They have considerably contributed to the engagements of these institutions on the Wikimedia projects, not only by making a difference in the institution's available content, but also the overall topic area (i.e. BHL and the overall Biodiversity efforts on Wikimedia) and by organizing events.

For this session, we plan to have members of these two working groups present, as well as people interested in learning how to create GLAM-Wiki working groups. To achieve that, the plan is the following:

1. Explaining the timeline and process of getting these working groups created and organized;
2. Having current working group members talk about their experiences and activities;
3. Sharing results from the last couple of years of Wikimedia Working Groups;
4. Supporting those interested in organizing a Wikimedia Working Group.

This will be an open roundtable discussion, with all the participants taking part.

The major takeaways for participants are the following:

1. Understanding how Wikimedia/GLAM-Wiki Working Groups work;
2. Learning how to take part or replicate the experience by creating a WG;
3. Improving the community engagement of GLAM-Wiki institutions on Wikimedia.

This session would be aimed at Wikimedians in Residence, GLAM-Wiki volunteers, and GLAM staff. All regions and engagement levels are welcome.

As one of the most visited websites globally, Wikipedia's reliability and comprehensiveness hinge on the accessibility of its references. Over time, many of these references succumb to link rot, compromising the integrity of the content.

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has emerged as a crucial ally in the preservation of digital knowledge, particularly through its efforts in rescuing over 20 million broken links on Wikipedia. This presentation provides a major update on the collaborative endeavor between the Internet Archive and the Wikipedia community to address this large, complex, multi-faceted issue.

By utilizing advanced web crawling and archiving technologies, the Wayback Machine captures and stores snapshots of web pages, ensuring that even if the original page is no longer available, a preserved version can still be accessed. We will discuss the technical methodologies employed, including automated bots that detect and replace dead links with archived versions, as well as the manual efforts by volunteers and editors.

Attendees will gain an understanding of the challenges posed by digital decay and the innovative solutions that make large-scale digital preservation feasible. This presentation will highlight the broader implications for digital heritage and underscore the importance of ongoing efforts to maintain the robustness and reliability of online information.

Knowledge equity is one of the pillars of the Wikimedia strategic direction — and it's also one of the strategic priorities for Wiki Education, the organization that runs the education program in the U.S. and Canada. In this session, Wiki Education staff will explain how we've tackled equity in our programmatic works including:

• Supporting new contributors who add diverse content to Wikipedia.
• Bringing more diverse contributors to Wikipedia.
• Guiding contributors to use diverse authors in their citations in our support materials.
• Creating new training materials about contributing content related to knowledge equity.
• Empowering an effective academic advisory board to help us meet our goals.
• And more!

In this session, we'll describe our programmatic work and showcase our impact in knowledge equity.

The vision for the Citation Watchlist is to streamline the tracking of changes in references, particularly unreliable sources, within Wikipedia articles.

This tool aims to enhance the existing Watchlist feature by adding a visual overlay that highlights the addition of questionable or prohibited sources in individual edits. Experienced editors can thus easily identify and address problematic references with more information available at a glance.

In just five months, we have developed a robust beta version of the Citation Watchlist. This in-browser userscript tool accurately identifies sources from dubious domains and alerts editors with intuitive icons and tooltips. It notifies users only when a new URL is added, not when an existing one is edited. The script supports custom source lists, including the widely accepted Perennial Sources List, and can be extended to include other lists like predatory journals or pseudoscience. Users can update these lists through a regular wiki page without modifying the JavaScript code.

The Citation Watchlist script scans recent changes against a “warn” list and a “caution” list of domains. It uses visual indicators (a red exclamation point for severe warnings and a yellow warning hand for caution) that, when hovered over, reveal the matching domains. In short, the tool facilitates scrutiny and intervention.

Phase 2 of the project aims to develop a mature, integrated toolset for widespread use across Wikipedia. Planned enhancements include improved tooltips, display of domain provenance, links to invoked lists, deployment as a gadget, internationalization, server-side processing, and integration with MediaWiki’s filtering capabilities.

This tool has garnered significant interest from users, and we aim to lead citation tool promotion, supporting the movement's anti-disinformation and media literacy efforts.

This workshop introduces the lesser-known sister projects and how to contribute to them. We will have volunteers on hand to help get you started and answer any questions.

Sister projects that will be presented in this workshop include: Wikivoyage (travel guide), Wikiversity (learning tool), Wikispecies (directory of species), Wikisource (free-content library) and others.

The workshop will start off with lightning introductions of these sister projects (max 2-3 mins each) and major "Dos and Don'ts" before breaking off into small groups to focus on editing a particular sister project. Everyone is welcome to drop-in at any point of this workshop.

Notre proposition de communication est un retour d’expérience sur la tenue, en mars 2023 et en mars 2024, dans le cadre du Mois de la contribution francophone et du Mois de la francophonie, du Wikithon #ArtsLitt. Ce marathon d’édition sur la littérature du Québec et de la francophonie canadienne est organisé grâce à un partenariat fructueux entre plusieurs institutions vouées à la recherche et à la diffusion de la littérature en français : Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Rhizome Productions, la Fédération canadienne culturelle-française, Littérature québécois mobile et Wikimédia Canada. Il rassemble pendant une journée complète, en mode hybride, une quarantaine de wikimédiens et de wikimédiennes d’expérience. Cette brigade passionnée de wikimédiens bibliothécaires, acteurs du milieu du livre québécois et franco-canadiens, chercheurs en littérature et spécialistes des données numériques structurées mettent en commun leurs connaissances afin d’augmenter la découvrabilité des œuvres littéraires francophones du Québec et du Canada. Ce faisant, ils tissent des liens étroits et solides au sein de la communauté littéraire wikimédienne au Québec et au Canada.

Au-delà du simple retour d’expérience, cette conférence sera aussi l’occasion de réfléchir ensemble aux enjeux soulevés et aux nouvelles pratiques mises en place lorsque des institutions du milieu de la culture s’investissent dans la diffusion de leur patrimoine sur les plateformes Wikimédia.

Lift Wing is the Wikimedia Foundation's infrastructure for hosting and serving AI models. This session will describe the technical details of Lift Wing, covering its architecture, capabilities, and future development. The session will also discuss how folks can use the models hosted on Lift Wing for their own projects.

By the end of the session, attendees will be well-equipped to use Wikimedia's AI models, which are available for free, in their own projects.

As a complex of organizations including museums, archives, libraries, research centers, each with their own collections systems, disciplinary focus, and data cultures, the Smithsonian Institution is no stranger to siloed data.

In 2023, our own siloed unit – the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives– began setting up WikiNames, a named entity Wikibase to help manage linked data about the people and organizations appearing in Smithsonian collections.

After the technical issues were ironed out, our WikiNames group began pondering the silo problem. Recognizing that silos reflect neglected relationships among and between keepers of data, we set out to remedy this. In our presentation, we will discuss the way we tried to cultivate a community of like-minded folks, and the benefits inherent in focusing on emptying, rather than breaking down, silos.

Starting off as a grassroots project, we are working to raise the profile of WikiNames among individual data practitioners in our Smithsonian networks. We will evaluate the success of broader and more focused efforts at engaging our Smithsonian colleagues, comparing the efficacy of group-based outreach work (recordings, trainings, and written documentation) with individualized, one-on-one guided introductions.

Slides: File:Lots of Farmers Empty Silos Quicker WikiConference North America 2024.pdf

This edit-a-thon is the companion piece to "Meeting at the Crossroads: University Edit-A-Thons." Participants will be provided with a list of articles, to create, and stubs to be enhanced which were selected but not worked on in the university edit-a-thons to be discussed in the lecture. These articles focus on Black, Hispanic, Native American and Women's history/topics.

It is well established that, although Wikipedia aims to summarize all the world's knowledge, Wikipedia English skews towards white males for article topics and editors. To address this shortcoming, librarians and faculty at Tennessee State University (TSU), the University of South Florida (USF) have joined together with Wikimedia Foundation DC to hold a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons during Black History, Women’s History, Native American History and Latin American History Months.

These edit-a-thons bring together the goals of Wikimedia, and universities. They are held in the space where the need to increase diversity in content and editors intersects with university needs to increase student information literacy, critical thinking and research skills, and the desire to help minority students feel connected to content and part of a community which values their knowledge.

This presentation will briefly cover the history of these edit-a-thons and how we have created buy in among 2 different faculties and librarians. Then we will discuss what participants created or edited and how these participants felt about their experiences. Followed by a short discussion of plans for the future and how to become involved yourselves.

TSU is a Historically Black College/University (HBCU) in Nashville, while USF has a significant Hispanic student body. By hosting edit-a-thons with both universities, we encourage editing with underrepresented populations through the online encyclopedia. So far, we have hosted our events to coincide with Black History Month and Women's History Month, and this fall, we plan to have events aligned with Native American History Month and Latin American History Month.

Our events cover three hours, and for the first hour, Wikimedia Foundation DC teaches attendees how to edit for Wikipedia. They help to provide articles on these subjects that need creation or more information. They also provide data such as the number of attendees, new articles created, number of edits, and so forth.

So far, we have had good buy-in from professors, who agreed to give extra credit to students participating in the events. We have partnered with faculty and other librarians across both universities. We have had dozens of students create or improve articles about people of color, females, and related topics. This benefits students because it helps improve information literacy, critical thinking and research skills. Wikipedia editing also instills a sense of agency in students.

In the long term, I want to persuade teaching faculty to assign students a Wikipedia editing project to replace a traditional research assignment. By then, I could impart the best practices I have learned from the edit-a-thons to the faculty and help them write the lesson plan. Through this two-step process, we can build a culture of Wikipedia editing at my institution, one where student research does not get filed, collects dust, and then is shredded a few years later. Instead, students can point to an article they created or improved and say, "I did that!"

The present study addresses the cultural and artistic wealth of classic and antique automobiles in Aguascalientes, exploring its impact on the local community and its historical relevance. Driving and restoring these vehicles is not only a cherished pastime for older generations, but is also gaining interest among young people, evidenced by the rise of modified classics. The Aguascalientes Antique Automobile Association (AAAA), along with other organizations, plays a crucial role in promoting this heritage through events and activities that encourage education and participation of a broader public.

The research focuses on the creation of a digital archive through Wikimedia, which documents and disseminates the history and cultural value of these vehicles. This archive will serve as an educational and conservation resource, highlighting antique automobiles as objects of art and beauty, and showing the importance of automobile culture in Aguascalientes. The project is justified based on the need to preserve history and pass it on to future generations, ensuring that the passion for classic cars endures and continues to grow.

The proposal is supported by personal testimonies and the history of local automobile associations, such as the AAAA and the Mexican Federation of Antique and Collectible Automobiles (FMAAC). These stories provide a deep insight into car culture in the region, allowing us to identify the reasons behind the love of vintage cars and their impact on the community.

The main objective is to analyze and promote the antique car culture in Aguascalientes, creating a digital legacy that highlights its heritage value and encourages its appreciation among a broader public. The implementation of this project through Wikimedia will guarantee free and continuous access to this valuable information, contributing to the preservation and dissemination of ancient and classic automobile culture in Mexico. link for my Presentation: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGSSrtervI/PAMDwrw-0UjEf89r_94qFg/edit?utm_content=DAGSSrtervI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Describing my experiences with mobile editing, general attitudes surrounding mobile editing on the English Wikipedia, and why it's an important to consider mobile editing when thinking about future editors to the site. I'd prefer an in-depth session to cover everything to the extent I wish to but I think I could make due with a lightning talk if that's all that's available. Some information related to what I might want to talk about from a personal experience perspective can be found at wikipedia:en:User:Clovermoss/Mobile editing. I intend this submission to be more broad than just that, though, as described above.

The Main Page of several language Wikipedias features an “On This Day” section where events that happened on that particular date are highlighted. As an editor of the English OTD template, I will outline how to get an article listed at OTD, what makes a good OTD hook, and how to edit the template yourself. I will also outline the challenges in the English Wikipedia’s OTD template, including diversity of hooks (both in geography and topic), a lack of editors participating, and the deterioration or unsuitability of articles that make them ineligible for the Main Page. Afterwards, I will answer questions on the topic.

El 17 de octubre de 2024 marca dos años desde que tuve que salir de mi país de origen, Venezuela, en retaliación por mis actividades como coordinador de eventos en Wikipedia. Al transitar por este camino, detallo que es lo que sabemos del caso judicial hasta el día de hoy, como funciona el sistema legal que permite la persecución de activistas en Venezuela, como actuó el equipo de Derechos Humanos de la Fundación para apoyarme, y que se puede hacer para mejorar el tiempo de respuesta y acción en futuros casos de persecución, no solo en Venezuela, sino en cualquier parte del mundo.

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Title: Persecution and Wikipedia

October 17, 2024 marks two years since I had to leave my home country, Venezuela, in retaliation for my activities as a Wikipedia event coordinator. By walking this path, I describe what we know about the prosecution case to date, how the legal system that allows the persecution of activists in Venezuela works, how the WMF's Human Rights team supported me, and what can be done to improve the response time and action in future cases of persecution, not only in Venezuela, but elsewhere.

Gender inequality in Wikipedia, although well documented by multiple researchers and wikimedians (Tripodi, 2021 and Wagner et al., 2016), it is still present not only in the English Wikipedia but also in other languages. This gap impedes the ability of the encyclopedia to truly deliver “the sum of all human knowledge”. Projects like Women in Red, Art + Feminism, and Editatona have made extensive efforts to reduce the gender gap in the English and Spanish Wikipedias. Inspired by these projects and recognizing the little quantity and quality of articles related to female scientists, the project Wiki-Científicas Mexicanas (Wiki-Mexican Women in Science) was created at the end of 2020 with the support of Wikimedia Mexico. This project aims to create and edit biographies of women in science, particularly Mexican, as well as increase the number of wiki medians editing about female scientists. Since its foundation, we have created and edited more than 200 biographies of Mexican and Latin American scientists, with only a handful of them nominated for deletion. This has been done through multiple edit-a-tons and frequent follow-ups with the attendees. During this talk, I aim to present the different themes of our edit-a-thons, how we have increased the number of scientific personalities in the Spanish Wikipedia, and explain the challenges and successes of the project. By introducing this project to a broader and international audience, such as the one present during the Wiki-Conference North America, I intend to awaken the interest of fellow wikimedians in editing about women in science and create networks for future collaborations. I believe that working towards a more equitable Wikipedia goes beyond bettering the encyclopedia itself; it is about changing the perception of the public of who can be a scientist and inspiring the new generations to lose the fear of becoming one.

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Wikimedia aims to be a free repository of knowledge for all - in addition to being free to use, it is free to reuse - anyone can use Wikimedia content, provided it is properly attributed. That extends to images, which are often blurry and low-quality as they are taken by well-meaning but inexperienced Wikimedians. How can we free up more high-quality works into the public domain? Join me as I go on a one-man crusade to get the Town of Oakville to release government works into the public domain, and learn from my successes and failures. I am of the firm belief that if the government, the nominal servant of the people, creates media, then said media should be freely reusable by everyone. I hope you all will come around to my viewpoint.

Are you curious about the progress made by the Sister Projects Task Force? This session will address the status of opening, closing, splitting, and merging sister projects. It'll provide a brief overview of the Task Force's mandate and composition, as well as an update on what's next.

Glossary:

• Sister Projects include: Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, etc.
• Language projects include: EN-Wikipedia, FR-Wikipedia, ES-Wikisource, NL-Wikisource, etc.
• WikiProjects include: Women in Red (on various language Wikipedias), Sum Of All Paintings (on Wikidata), etc.

In educational psychology, social constructivism is the theory that our understanding of reality is shaped by our social interactions. People's ways of knowing, thinking, and doing are influenced by the socio-cultural environment they are exposed to. Wikipedia is a salient example of how people's knowledge is shaped by negotiation, meaning-making, and consensus-building. I will present on a lesson I piloted in an undergraduate educational psychology course where I connected Wikipedia to earlier course content on constructivist theory, motivation, and bias. They then attempted to read and edit Wikipedia pages relevant to their interests. I will discuss successes and opportunities for improvement.

Outside of copyright law, fair use ("fair dealing" in common-law countries other than the U.S.) is a concept poorly understood. Not all Wikipedians, even, are familiar with how it works, even as they may be familiar with its application to images through our non-free content policy. I myself (not a lawyer either, but I do work on a lot of law articles) was not familiar with the legal underpinnings behind some of its requirements until I began writing articles about some of the specific U.S. court cases that underlie those requirements. In this session we will explore the law of fair use in the U.S., both in statute and case law, how it affects the English Wikipedia's fair use policy and how it may in the future

Last year, the U.S. Roads WikiProject, a long-time part of the English Wikipedia community, announced the creation of "AARoads Wiki", a fork focused on highways around the world. While several news articles have been written about the fork's origins in debates over notability and sourcing, the full story is more complicated and also reveals some of the current and future troubles that lie ahead for the Wikimedia movement.

This session would primarily be a panel with several senior roads editors who joined the fork, and others who have stayed behind on the English Wikipedia. A slide presentation may be included to present some findings and lessons learned while forking. This would be followed by an open Q&A session that will take up the bulk of the allotted time.

The state of COI editing 10 years after the Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms (WP:PRCOM) is, well, complicated. Since at least 2006, Wikipedia has wrestled with the implications of paid and self-interested editing of Wikipedia, with several attempts to ban this activity in English Wikipedia and moderately successful attempts to regulate it. In 2014, multiple communications firms agreed to act in accordance with and in respect of Wikipedia's rules and best practices. While there have been great strides in developing an ethical way for interested parties to participate on Wikipedia, there is still considerable work to be done in creating trust among communications professionals and volunteer editors, and finding solutions that help everyone involved. Ten years on, the community still has a wide variety of contradictory views about permitted COI activity, in paid and unpaid, disclosed and undisclosed ways.

This session revisits a conversation from 2015 that some find scary, tedious, or frustrating, and yet will continue to be a major issue for concern so long as Wikipedia remains in a powerful position to shape public opinion on every topic it covers.

It offers a place for COI editors to discuss what they have seen on Wikipedia since the signing of the PRCOM statement, how their interactions with the communities on English Wikipedia have changed over the last decade, and what the current climate is like. We also invite others, from concerned volunteers to members of the Wikimedia Foundation, to join the conversation and discuss changes to the Terms of Use and their interactions with COI editors in an effort to gain a holistic understanding of COI editing on English Wikipedia in 2024 and begin brainstorming ideas for improving the process.

Workshop Purpose: This workshop aims to achieve two main goals: 1. Equipping participants with tools to build resilience and empowering them to practice self-affirmation by recognizing their identity attributes (such as race, nationality, language, and culture) as sources of well-being and strength rather than burdens. 2. Addressing the dynamics of racial microaggressions by identifying practical, non-defensive communication and self-empowerment strategies based on research and context will give participants the confidence to handle such situations effectively.

The facilitator will demonstrate how self-empowerment strategies can help participants flourish as professionals. Participants will have the opportunity to customize self-affirmation worksheets to make the learning experience more personal and engaging.

Workshop Materials: The workshop will be an interactive 45-minute session with PowerPoint presentations, small-group discussions, short video clips, and customizable handouts for practice.

This workshop is designed for graduate students, postdocs, faculty, administrators, and professionals who encounter negative stereotyping and racial microaggressions affecting people of color and international members of the academia.

Objectives and Outcomes: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: 1. Describe and assess their identity and well-being. 2. Customize research-based, non-defensive communication strategies to shift from being a victim to a flourisher while addressing issues such as racial microaggressions. 3. Practice resilience building with the self-affirmation worksheets.

Intended Audience: Undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and faculty

Intended Experience Level of Participants: Beginner & Intermediate

The questions are a mix of general trivia and Wikipedia lore and you'll have fun whether you win or lose. Which renowned Chicago Sun-Times film critic added the word “turtle” to the List of inherently funny words in 2004? Which languages' characters were incorrectly rendered on the puzzle globe from 2003 to 2010? Come find out!

Wikimedia projects rely on photographers to share their work with a free license. The Creative Commons Attribution license, for example, allows anyone to use or modify that work for any reason so long as they take certain steps like crediting the author and linking to the license. Unfortunately, these licenses are poorly understood by the public, and media reusers who depend on Commons for free content frequently fail to follow the requirements.

"Copyleft trolls" exploit the "you can use this!" message that our licenses communicate, scouring the internet with the help of companies like Pixsy, identifying uses which don't follow the letter of the license, and demanding money under threat of legal action. When people build their business with such tools and fail to differentiate between independent/corporate users or minor/major offenses and decline to provide an opportunity to fix the mistake, they are engaging in a practice condemned by Creative Commons and difficult to reconcile with the free culture principles Wikimedia projects are based on.

Wikimedia Commons has struggled with these cases on both a practical and philosophical level, torn between protecting reusers and retaining valuable media. Many such cases also fall in a gray area where the pejorative label "troll" might not be totally fair (after all, disallowing enforcement makes our collection public domain). As a result, Commons decides between bad options involving deletion, blocking, and inaction.

In this talk, I'll explain copyleft trolling, its history within and outside the Wikimedia movement, actions taken by other entities to curb it, and explore possible on-wiki interventions through "poke-yoke", or error-proofing mechanisms. One existing approach is the clumsy "forced watermarking" intervention, but I'll discuss other design possibilities to avoid licensing mistakes and reducing the need to deal with copyleft trolls.

What have scholars learned about editing disputes on Wikipedia and how do they understand these disputes? What kinds of dispute resolution efforts are effective?

Updated slides (Oct.7th): Link to Google Slides for @ProfGray's talk on Wikipedia disputes and dispute resolution

The presentation will:

• briefly review WP dispute resolution efforts;
• summarize recent academic research on WP disputes;
• mention cases from academic studies and from the presenter’s take on edit disputes over Israel-Palestine topics.
• reflect on next steps for WP resolution efforts, both for individual editors and organized groups.

The talk will include a quick tour of tidbits from research about "crossroads" or turning points within WP dispute resolution efforts, along with research on edit warring and contentious topics.

Note: Most of the covered research will center on English Wikipedia, with some non-English cases. The lessons may apply broadly to other Wikimedia projects.

To view and improve the list of academic studies to be summarized, see: New article in en-Wikipedia: Disputes on Wikipedia

Universities, as institutions whose goals are to further knowledge, are a natural place to look when seeking new institutional partnerships for the Wikimedia movement. They have access to vast resources, in terms of both libraries and people, which can help the Wikimedia movement’s goal of opening access to knowledge. Current efforts to collaborate with universities include efforts aimed at professors, such as the current Wiki Education initiatives. However, more can be done to leverage this potential to its full extent, especially by expanding the scope of student-run efforts. Successful student clubs already exist at some universities, but there are comparatively few examples in North America compared to elsewhere in the world. My experiences at the University of Rochester, both in being on leadership of clubs and in attending Wikimedia events hosted by the university library, illustrate how successful student-run efforts can be, as well as how different approaches are needed to engage university students. This session will go into what developing student Wikimedia communities can provide, some of the challenges faced in trying to build them, and strategies for long-term success.

Slides for the presentation are located here.

Although Wikipedia's content is comprehensive in many areas, it often is not organized well - content duplicated across pages, unclear organization within pages, and so on. With the help of a slide deck I will create if the talk is accepted, I will explain what I have done in my edits thus far to address these problems, discuss the results, and, if there is time, have a Q&A with the audience. Themes will include identifying missing sub-topics, how Wikipedia is a crossroads for different points of view, using ChatGPT to assist with decisions about article structure and headings, and analysis of the results using page statistics and user feedback.

This will start with a presentation about what shortened footnotes are, which templates exist, and how to implement them. This will be followed by a workshop during which attendees will have an opportunity to exercise what they have learned.

The presentation documentation is at commons:File:Use shortened footnote templates for book references.pdf.

Many editors may not have the time and inclination to create full-fledged articles out of a Wikipedia red link. However, it is easy to create a Wikidata item and collect facts about the film or film maker. Additionally, Wikidata may already have the existing item and perhaps even links to other languages. Wikipedia editors may then link to these by using the ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000000A-QINU`"'?ill?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000000B-QINU`"'? template.

Wikidata editors may wish to enable Recoin at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets.

The slide deck is at File:Using Wikipedia films and film makers red links to seed Wikidata.pdf.

This workshop will demonstrate a workflow:

• Create the label and description.
• Enter core properties that are knows for films and human properties that are known for film makers (see also the inactive Wikidata:List of properties/Summary table/en#Person that is retained for historical reference).
• Do a Google or other search for the film or film maker name in quotes. When necessary, add any other search term or filters to limit the search.
• Scroll through the results looking for external identifiers that you can then enter.

Note that some Wikipedia templates can grab specific identifiers from Wikidata, such as ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000000C-QINU`"'?IMDb title?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000000D-QINU`"'?, ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000000E-QINU`"'?IMDb name?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000000F-QINU`"'?, ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000010-QINU`"'?Rotten Tomatoes?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000011-QINU`"'?, and ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000012-QINU`"'?AllMovie name?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000013-QINU`"'?.

Many editors may not have the time and inclination to create full-fledged articles out of a Wikipedia red link. However, it is easy to create a Wikidata item and collect facts about the film or film maker. Additionally, Wikidata may already have the existing item and perhaps even links to other languages. Wikipedia editors may then link to these by using the ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000014-QINU`"'?ill?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000015-QINU`"'? template.

Wikidata editors may wish to enable Recoin at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets.

The slide deck is at File:Using Wikipedia films and film makers red links to seed Wikidata.pdf.

This workshop will demonstrate a workflow:

• Create the label and description.
• Enter core properties that are knows for films and human properties that are known for film makers (see also the inactive Wikidata:List of properties/Summary table/en#Person that is retained for historical reference).
• Do a Google or other search for the film or film maker name in quotes. When necessary, add any other search term or filters to limit the search.
• Scroll through the results looking for external identifiers that you can then enter.

Note that some Wikipedia templates can grab specific identifiers from Wikidata, such as ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000016-QINU`"'?IMDb title?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000017-QINU`"'?, ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000018-QINU`"'?IMDb name?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000019-QINU`"'?, ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000001A-QINU`"'?Rotten Tomatoes?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000001B-QINU`"'?, and ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000001C-QINU`"'?AllMovie name?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000001D-QINU`"'?.

We're going to need a bigger wiki.

One with higher capacity for knowledge, higher curatorial leverage for editors and moderators, faster and more thorough updating, and better automation at every step of editing.

We're also going to need a wiki that expects input from generative authors, AI tools, and other augmented agents -- and that once again treats the wiki as a space for drafting knowledge, not its final resting place.

Come brainstorm how to develop robust workflows for the aspects of wiki collaboration you care about, in an engaging and exploratory workshop, and see the state of tools across the wikiverse.

See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Waikiki for more.

How might Wikipedia’s editorial guidelines about neutrality, verifiable and reliable sources, no original research, image use policy, and more, be expanded to address the challenges that student activists in the United States and around the world are facing on university campuses as they protest the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza?

The rise of cybersurveillance, white supremacy, and the fascist police state over the last decade have prompted student activists to craft unique protest methods which allow them to articulate their dissent while minimizing the possibility of state capture, especially as a portion of the protestors are students of color, immigrants, undocumented, or international students. Some strategies include wearing masks, issuing statements through unverified social media accounts (since verification often requires submitting a national identification card), and adopting anarchist approaches that refuse to appoint leaders and, instead, operate in a decentralized, fugitive, and anonymized manner.

In the process, these students have raised some urgent questions about Wikipedia’s editorial guidelines—questions that are not only relevant to the current protests about the genocide in Gaza, but also to future activist initiatives and campaigns. What happens when the structures of verification and reliability that Wikipedia depends on are themselves implicated in oppressive regimes? What kind of information must a Wikipedia entry redact, or verify in other ways, in order to protect those who are avoiding capture? How should the encyclopedia negotiate its broader commitments to diversity and the democratization of knowledge on the one hand, and the image-management interests of various educational, political, and governmental institutions on the other? The world’s most widely-read encyclopedia cannot afford to sidestep these questions, especially when it is one of the few viable methods for archiving student protests against other institutions, groups, and platforms who are minimizing, erasing, or spreading misinformation about student activists and their demands for disclosure and divestment from the on-going genocide.

This lecture will explore these questions based on a case study of the student protestors at UVA in Spring 2023 and some early peer-reviewed work that I published on running Wikipedia Edit-A-Thons about university histories and student protests more broadly in 2020(https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/using-wikipedia-in-the-composition-classroom-and-beyond-encyclopedic-neutrality-social-inequality-and-failure-as-subversion-45a3041a-fad0-4b0e-be6b-4ffd0b5e161c/section/e20b9f01-9a17-4055-8d56-6b973d0973fd). This lecture ultimately hopes to provoke discussion and propose some starting points for changing or expanding Wikipedia’s editorial policies as the encyclopedia navigates a major turning point in world history.

As the role of the Wikipedian in Residence (WiR) expands beyond its traditional GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) setting into diverse fields such as science, climate, religion, politics, and data, it becomes crucial to address the evolving dynamics, opportunities, and associated challenges.

This session will explore the future trajectory of the WiR position, highlighting its potential to enrich various sectors with open knowledge while dealing and managing with new and varying conflicts of interest.

We will begin by examining the historical success of WiRs within GLAM institutions, emphasizing how these roles have fostered collaboration and enhanced content quality on Wikipedia. The discussion will then pivot to the current and emerging applications of WiRs in new fields.

Key topics will include strategies for ensuring neutrality and transparency, methods for handling conflicts of interest, and the development of best practices tailored to specific sectors. Attendees will hear from experienced WiRs who have navigated these challenges. Participants will have a deeper understanding of the expanding role of the WiR as this position continues to expand and evolve.

Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS) is a project maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation in collaboration with technical volunteers which provides an environment for building, testing, and operating tools that help the Wikimedia communities maintain and grow their content projects.

Many new features and services have been added to WMCS in the last couple of years. Toolforge especially has seen many changes as the admin team there worked to complete a multi-year project to replace the aging early 2000's Grid Engine technology with more modern workflows built upon a Kubernetes cluster.

Come hear about the high level features of the WMCS platforms including Toolforge and learn more about how you can get involved as a user or administrator in the environment.

slides WikiCite is a community project which curates the Wikimedia collection of citations. Although various experimental projects have tried to organize citation data since 2005, the project became very popular starting in 2014 when we developed Wikidata processes for reference data management.

In May 2024 I wrote an announcement in The Signpost that Wikidata is splitting the WikiCite collection from the main graph, which means that Wikidata now has two official pieces, a WikiCite dataset and a dataset for everything else. This is good because Wikidata has grown too big to function, but it is a challenge because 1) Wikidata has reached its limit for managing data and 2) we are at a decision point for determining how committed Wikimedia projects are for having robust infrastructure to examine the sources we cite.

In this talk I make the case to elevate WikiCite to become the next official Wikimedia sibling project. The benefits of this would include the following:

• Wikimedia provides its own "scholarly profiling service", comparable to Google Scholar
• Wikimedia opens a pathway for every university in the world to convert their research metadata into structured, open data. It may surprise many users to learn that typical universities cannot, for example, provide a list of the research papers that their faculty published in the last year, and even if they did, they have no where to publish such things. WikiCite is a path to sharing their research with the world.
• Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects finally start the path to universal multilingual fact-checking. There will never be automated citation management in Wikipedia if we cannot first build our own citation database, and WikiCite is that first step.

Costs of making WikiCite a sibling project include the following:

• Permanent continuous staff and financial investment and upkeep
• Greatly increased visibility of Wikipedia citation biases, even as we show the strengths
• Over time, everyone would feel pressure to convert more citations to structured data

Structured data is vital to the documentation and preservation of cultural histories in a given locale, especially when considering the contributions of discriminated minority groups such as the LGBTQ+ community in the United States. Here I will present a case study in creating and archiving the cultural impact of a queer, DIY (do-it-yourself) event space in a small city in the U.S. South (Charlottesville, VA)–Chinchilla Café. Using Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, we document events (e.g. concerts, dance parties) with structured data of musicians, associated artwork, and attendee photography. Chinchilla Café demonstrates a novel way to preserve and create a meaningful space in service to local artists, the queer community, and beyond.

How do we work together to bring the many parts of Commons together in a meaningful way, so that we can start to make some important decisions together. Any choice we make will involve tradeoffs – of attention, time and resources. And I’d like us to all be able to do that with as much information as we can bring together and put on a shared table as possible.

This session would primarily be a series of roundtable discussions with several staff members facilitating and taking notes.

As a Wikipedia volunteer and community leader over the last eight years, moving from my home country, Ghana, where I was immensely involved in the local Wikimedia chapter, to the United States seemed like an end to my active involvement within the community. After my first semester in graduate school in the US a couple of years back, I began researching and planning how to engage and remain functional in Wikimedia activities in a new environment with no Wikimedia presence and no understanding of the movement and its operations. I took the initiative to start a Wikipedia in the classroom project since I am a Teaching Assistant in charge of over 40 undergraduate students. The Wiki for Human Rights campaign supported me to run the event. I harnessed my experience as an avid Wikipedia volunteer and, with the support of my community back home, organized 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 for credits. This campaign is significant 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. Last year, I organized a second round of the campaign with a set of new students and also as the only organizer in North America. I will share my experience 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 community members who move away from their local communities. Currently a PhD student at Purdue University, I demonstrate that you can carry Wikimedia initiatives wherever you go... you do not stop when you move.

Description: Introduction to the English banner fundraising campaign and the collaboration process. Together we will have a look at our control banners for this year’s English campaign (currently in the pre-test phase and running from late November to the end of December). Join the conversation here and/or by adding your thoughts to the community collaboration page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising/2024_banners)

Wikimedia hubs are networks or coalitions of Wikimedia-allied organizations and people. We've proposed a North American hub, to be made up of a defined voluntary coalition of user groups and chapters and allied organizations. We'll describe what we've proposed and what other regional and thematic hubs are doing.

The North American hub may formally exist by the time of this presentation; we don't know yet. Things are moving slowly. By staying educated, we can partner smartly and efficiently.

Background:

• North American hub (NAhub) draft proposal
• Research report by Wkimedia DC (May 2024)

Wikimedians of Indiana are in their second year since establishment and would like to take the opportunity to share what this group of dedicated users has been up to since its last update. This is a diverse group of long-time Wikimedians and new users alike. As a group we have continued and expanded our community partnerships throughout Indiana. The efforts of the Wikimedians of Indiana are funded by the Central Indiana Community Foundation through the Library fund. One of the efforts has been to support a student employee fund. This fund has been used to hire 4-6 student workers to become Wikipedia editors dedicated to expanding and creating Wikipedia content related to the state of Indiana.

This panel will be a chance to share all the changes, additions and successes this group has been able to experience in the last two years. The panel will have representation from community partners, faculty, library staff, and students. This will provide a vast range of perspectives on the work of the Wikimedians of Indiana User group and its impact both at the Indiana University Indianapolis and in the community. The proposed panel will take a look at where the group is now, individual group member experiences, and plans for the future of Wikimedia Indiana.

Please join the Digital Public Library of America Wikimedia Working Group (WWG) for an overview of metrics and tracking tools across Wikimedia Platforms. Together we will look at metrics and tools from across Wikimedia while offering advice for institutions currently involved in, or looking to get involved in the DPLA Wikimedia Pipeline, and related Wikipedia work and editing. The presentation will cover pipeline metrics, the Wikimedia events dashboard and using it for event/edit tracking, article assessment tools, and tools on Wikimedia Commons. Additionally, we will briefly discuss new WMF tools that are being developed. Attendees will hear from individuals and institutions with first hand experience with these tools, and will offer insight and advice on how to best utilize them for your personal or institutional editing and content goals. We will close the session with time for Q&A and discussion.

Both WikiProjects and Wikimedia movement outreach have struggled to accomplish the gold standard of a collaborative project: forming dedicated teams capable of collaborating to produce quality content. This is mainly due to projectspace inertia; the WikiProject format of simply congregating editors in one space has by-and-large failed because the that format was the best we could do when WikiProjects were invented in the mid-2000s. True, WikiProjects and Wikimedia outreach have succeeded in coordinating groups of users to produce content *individually*; but with the right focus of resources and strategy, we could be training and making groups of editors capable of producing good and featured articles, upending the current paradigm in which most quality content is produced by a single editor.

Museums worldwide seek to advance their digital offerings to increase access to collections, enhance public programs, and reach broader audiences. It is also true that there is no one way of doing things for a forward-thinking institution. The inaugural Pérez Art Museum Miami Wikimedian in Residence program (2023-ongoing) is an initiative that supports global efforts on the representation and contextualization of art, artists, and visual culture on the internet through Wikimedia platforms. But what makes the WIR program at PAMM so unique? And why does it make sense to engage and include local artist communities in our Wiki work? In what ways can PAMM’s 20th- and 21st-century collection of art from the U.S. Latino experience, the African diaspora, Latin America, and the Caribbean teach us about digital engagement opportunities and knowledge access?

The U.S. prison system grapples with limited access to educational resources and challenges with rehabilitation. Our initiative aims to integrate Wikipedia as a tool for education, leveraging its vast repository of knowledge. By providing incarcerated individuals with access to diverse educational content, we seek to foster a culture of learning, develop critical skills, and enhance rehabilitation and readiness for re-entry into society.

Our approach involves developing a standalone Wikipedia app specifically for use on prison tablets. We will partner with correctional facilities, technology providers, and educational programs to establish secure and monitored access to Wikipedia. To ensure the appropriateness of the content, we will implement filtering mechanisms that restrict access to inappropriate material while maintaining educational integrity.

Key partnerships will be crucial for the success of this initiative. JSTOR will leverage its existing infrastructure and knowledge to facilitate access to Wikipedia. WikiBlueprint will be responsible for developing and deploying the necessary technical infrastructure to provide secure access. The Wikimedia Foundation will provide the project with brand and partnership guidance.The Departments of Corrections will play a pivotal role in approving and overseeing the initiative, addressing any security concerns that arise.

This initiative is significant as it promotes education as a fundamental human right, and supports the rehabilitation of incarcerated individuals. This efforts will not only highlight the importance of educational access in prisons but also hopefully inspire similar initiatives, advance social justice, and foster community support for prison education programs.

We will be hosting a panel discussion on the critical issue of missing or low-quality images on Wikipedia's biographies. With millions of monthly views, Wikipedia's global reach demands visually engaging content. However, many biographical entries on Wikipedia lack quality portraits due to stringent requirements for Creative Commons licensing or public domain. This issue has been widely recognized for years, even inspiring a dedicated @badwikiphotos account on Instagram.

We will discuss systematic approaches and efforts to address these shortcomings, including those covered at Wiki Covers Events. Volunteer photographers from the German-language Wikipedia have pioneered event and portrait photography for the past several years with projects like "Festivalsommer", "Landtagsprojekt", "Berlinale-Projekt", and press photography. Wikimedia photographers from the United States have also contributed press photos, and began WikiPortraits in 2024 as a new initiative to fill visual gaps on Wikipedia by systematically covering events such as the Sundance Film Festival, South by Southwest (SXSW), International Journalism Festival, and Cannes Film Festival.

While the coverage of SXSW 2024 was a U.S.-based effort, the photos filled a global need – the images were incorporated into more than 60 Wikipedia language editions for an estimated 4 million monthly views. Sundance images contributed another 500,000 views per month.

This panel will gather the founders of WikiPortraits to share their learnings. Panelists will discuss the process of media credentialing and ways to recruit volunteer photographers. It will provide practical tips for photographers and for those interested in creating pop-up photo studios.

We will also discuss how affiliates can support photographers for press accreditation, reimbursement of travel expenses, and the loan of camera technology.

These efforts are an important step to make Wikipedia less of a "desert for photos" (Noam Cohen in The New York Times) in topic areas that repeatedly generate an enormous volume of page-views.

The Women in Religion WikiProject was founded in 2018, with three significant goals: to increase the content about women in religion on Wikipedia; to train others interested in learning how to edit and contribute to Wikipedia and Wikidata; and to create reliable, secondary sources about women in religion. To that end, we have been involved in several impactful projects; most recently, the publication of three monographs of biographies about notable women in religion (with a fourth currently in the planning stage) and experimentations with AI to assist editors in using that technology to increase content about underrepresented people and topics on Wikipedia. We also have monthly zoom planning sessions and editathons. This panel will report on our projects and the signficant contributions we've made to Wikipedia and to Wikidata. Websites: WikiProject (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Religion), Usergroup (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Religion_User_Group)

This workshop is focused on discussing the initial proposal for the future of Resource distribution in the Movement. Optionally, there may be parallel discussions for feedback on related topics, such as current Regional Committees and a thematic review process for organizations whose work is primarily not regionalized. It will be an open space for community discussion and input.

When we hear about a scientist, we often think of an old white man. The truth is that in recent years, the scientific community has diversified, and we now see women and members of the BIPOC community performing cutting-edge research, receiving awards and mentoring students. Unfortunately, their representation in Wikipedia is still lacking. According to a recently published research paper (Lemieux, Zhang & Tripody, 2023), despite the intense work done by multiple groups to improve the biographies of women, the profiles of female and BIPOC academics face a greater uphill battle when it comes to getting their pages to stick in Wikipedia, because even those with high online presence scores are still likely to be perceived as nonnotable subjects. Following the Indianapolis motto “Cross-roads of America”, the Wiki-Conference North America seems like a great opportunity where English, Spanish and French speaking wikimedians will cross paths and could edit and translate biographies of women and BIPOC scientists in North America, thus reducing the gender and racial inequality in Wikipedia. The proposed edit-a-thon could be held in a time frame of two hours with both an in-person and remote session. The attendees will be provided with a list of biographies they can choose from either to edit or translate. Including the voices of such marginalized groups is critical to community innovation and the availability of free online knowledge. Hence, by carrying out the proposed event we will be working towards a more equitable and diverse Wikipedia, which will positively shape the public perception of who can be a scientist.

Women in Religion is partnering at the crossroads of the U.S. and Kenya in an initiative to create, update, and improve Wikimedia content of women identified activists and practitioners in Africa's, spiritual, indigenous and wisdom traditions beginning with Kenyan Wikipedians. We will address the mutual participation in writing a rapid grant that develops a solid partner Wiki working group in Kenya that overcomes their local challenges from lack of Wifi infrastructure and need for travel to lack of secondary and online resources. U.S. and Diaspora members will share a session to explain the partnership challenges and benefits of the partnership. They will discuss strategies used to overcome challenges, train Wikipedians and improve and create high quality articles on Wikipedia and extend the program after the life of the grant. We will discuss new partnerships the benefits of new partners and alliances and the stated benefits of working with Wikipedia for young scholars in religion.

Representation on Wikimedia can take many forms. We will be taking a look at efforts to improve representation on Wikimedia projects, especially Wikipedia , Wikimedia Commons, Wiki Data and others and ways this can be done in grassroots, GLAM, educational and Institutional levels. This include linguistic representation, gender and self identification. This work, which comprises members of AfroCROWD, Wiki Caribbean and partners aiming to close gaps in our understanding of each other and perspectives in the the world, and helping to create a more welcoming, inclusive and open community culture in the movement at large online.