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Wikimanía report

Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event

The Wiki-wedding of Israeli Wikimedians Darya and Avner Kantor

Inter- and intra- were the applicable geographical prefixes, as meetups were intra-continental: WikiAfrica, Wikimedia Asia, Central and Eastern Europe Wikimedians, and the Canada and United States affiliates, intra-language/inter-continental: WikiArabia, WikiFranca, Iberocoop, and Turkic Speaking Wikimedians, intra-country: Wikimedia Deutschland (Germany) and the Mexican Wikipedians, and the inter-language, intra-country, and internationally diasporic Indic Meetup. Thematic meetups included the Wikipedia Education Program, LGBT and allied Wikimedians, OTRS volunteers, Wikidata editors, Wikipedia Librarians, the WikiProject Med Foundation, a Wikiwomen's Lunch, and a joint Wiktionary-Wikidata Meetup. There was even a meetup for a Wiki Wedding.

Meeting the WMF employees and board members

The Community Engagement subway map organization chart presented at the Q&A

Unless you hang out in San Francisco, you will seldom have a chance to meet Wikimedia Foundation employees. Wikimania is an excellent venue for meeting dozens of them. A prime spot for this was the WMF booth. The Wikimedia Design Research team also staffed a table in the Community Village as well where they conducted surveys and interviews about how editors contribute to wiki projects on mobile devices. Attendees could engage with reorganized Community Engagement team leaders in a mediated Q&A panel discussion, or go to a Wikimedia Engineering Management Q&A, a WMF Legal presentation on defending users and content, or a Q&A with the WMF Board. There was also ample opportunity to meet individual staff and learn from them. It was intriguing to learn that the WMF uses Apache Cassandra as a back-end database to deliver content used by VisualEditor to retrieve page HTML for editing or that the search tool now provides intitle: and incategory: parameters.

Programme sessions

Wikimania 2015 Attendees T-Shirt Design

The substance of Wikimania is in the sessions presented by editors and staff for the rest of us. The Programme included tracks on Education, GLAM, Community, Tech, and Legal issues. Of the plethora of sessions, below are just a few that stood out among those attended by this editor.

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Videos

Despite the dearth of official videos of Wikimanía 2015 sessions, as reported by the Signpost, some individuals took the initiative to record session and other videos. These can be found at Wikimania 2015 presentation videos on Commons, Wikimania 2015 videos on Internet Archive, and miscellaneous "Wikimania 2015" videos on YouTube.

Slide decks
Elsewhere on the web
  • "Wikimania 2015 in Words, Images, and Tweets". The Wikipedian. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  • Ziko's Mexican_diary
  • Iberty's blog on Wikimania, 12.07.15 - 19.07.15
  • "Wikimania 2015 At Mexico City, Mexico". seen.co.

Notes

  1. ^ Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Catalonia, Costa Rica, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippenes, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Tanzania, Ukraine, the U.K., the U.S., and Uzbekistan. Whew!
  2. ^ Ancient Greek - grc, Arabic - ar, Armenian (Eastern & Western) - hy, Assamese - as, Bengali - bn, Bishnupriya Manipuri - bpy, Catalan - ca, Chinese - zh, Czech - cs, Dutch - nl, English - en, Esperanto - eo, Estonian - et, French - fr, German - de, Hebrew - he, Hindi - hi, Indonesian - id, Italian - it, Japanese - ja, Javanese - jv, Kannada - kn, Kashmiri - ks, Latin - la, Lithuanian - lt, Malayalam - ml:, Marathi - mr:, Nepali - ne, Norwegian - no, Oriya - or, Panjabi - pa, Polish - pl, Portuguese - pt, Russian - ru, Sanskrit - sa, Serbian - sr, Serbo-Croatian - sh, Slovak - sk, Spanish - es, Swahili - sw, Swedish - sv, Tagalog - tl, Tamil - ta, Ukranian - uk, Urdu - ur, Uzbek - uz, Venetian - vec, Vietnamese - vi, and Western Panjabi - pnb