This document discusses making Wikipedia more diverse by addressing biases. It provides an overview of Wikipedia, noting its size but also biases like gender, racial, and cultural representation gaps in coverage and the editor base. It discusses initiatives like WikiProjects, AfroCROWD and Whose Knowledge that aim to broaden representation. The document encourages non-profits to use and contribute to Wikipedia to share knowledge, but notes challenges like biases that organizations could help address by editing, contributing content about underrepresented groups, and collaborating with Wikimedia through outreach.
Slides from national WIkipedia information sessions conducted by Wikimedia Australia for members of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA).
This session considered ways libraries and Wikimedia Australia could work together, and provided an introduction to how Wikipedia works.
Meet key Australian Wikimedians from your area, and discover:
how Wikipedia really works
what other projects are associated with Wikipedia
why Wikipedia uses a Creative Commons licence
how libraries and Wikimedia are helping each other
how you, and your library community can get involved
answers to your wiki questions
Leveraging Wikipedia and Libraries as Agents of Inclusion and Visibility for ...Michael David MILLER
2018 Anna Norris Distinguished Alumni Series with the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University.
Title: Leveraging Wikipedia and Libraries as Agents of Inclusion and Visibility for Marginalized Communities: Librarians, Drag Queens and the LGBTQ+ Community of Québec
Citation needed: Information literacy lessons from WikipediaPru Mitchell
This session presented as a webinar for the Australian School Library Association is an opportunity for educators to learn about how Wikipedia works to realise its position as a ‘neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts.’ Participants will consider what information literacy education looks like in 2015, and how Wikipedia projects provide a way to move from a consumer to creator culture of learning.
Presentation: http://slidesha.re/T3hFS8
By now you no longer need convincing. Wikipedia is not only a ubiquitous reference platform for our users, but is also home to a thriving, global volunteer community that is eager to distribute the deeper expertise residing in museums. So now what? As a group of Wikipedians who help museums share content, GLAM-Wiki has made great strides in formalizing over the past few years. But how do museum technologists better connect and interface with this resource? How can we work together to more efficiently share our media, research, and expertise?
This presentation shares the current progress of the GLAM-Wiki infrastructure, offering insights into how museums can best connect with the Wikipedia community in order to share cultural resources on the globally accessible platform. The future of GLAM-Wiki will be considered, including a proposed model that will allow museums to support one another in Wikipedia-focused endeavors.
An Introduction to GLAM-Wiki Projects by Shani Evenstein, National GLAM Projects Coordinator, Wikimedia Israel
ppt file of the presentation at the
EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Culture,
Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, 12-13 November 2013
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
Presentations available at: http://2013.minervaisrael.org.il
Slides from national WIkipedia information sessions conducted by Wikimedia Australia for members of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA).
This session considered ways libraries and Wikimedia Australia could work together, and provided an introduction to how Wikipedia works.
Meet key Australian Wikimedians from your area, and discover:
how Wikipedia really works
what other projects are associated with Wikipedia
why Wikipedia uses a Creative Commons licence
how libraries and Wikimedia are helping each other
how you, and your library community can get involved
answers to your wiki questions
Leveraging Wikipedia and Libraries as Agents of Inclusion and Visibility for ...Michael David MILLER
2018 Anna Norris Distinguished Alumni Series with the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University.
Title: Leveraging Wikipedia and Libraries as Agents of Inclusion and Visibility for Marginalized Communities: Librarians, Drag Queens and the LGBTQ+ Community of Québec
Citation needed: Information literacy lessons from WikipediaPru Mitchell
This session presented as a webinar for the Australian School Library Association is an opportunity for educators to learn about how Wikipedia works to realise its position as a ‘neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts.’ Participants will consider what information literacy education looks like in 2015, and how Wikipedia projects provide a way to move from a consumer to creator culture of learning.
Presentation: http://slidesha.re/T3hFS8
By now you no longer need convincing. Wikipedia is not only a ubiquitous reference platform for our users, but is also home to a thriving, global volunteer community that is eager to distribute the deeper expertise residing in museums. So now what? As a group of Wikipedians who help museums share content, GLAM-Wiki has made great strides in formalizing over the past few years. But how do museum technologists better connect and interface with this resource? How can we work together to more efficiently share our media, research, and expertise?
This presentation shares the current progress of the GLAM-Wiki infrastructure, offering insights into how museums can best connect with the Wikipedia community in order to share cultural resources on the globally accessible platform. The future of GLAM-Wiki will be considered, including a proposed model that will allow museums to support one another in Wikipedia-focused endeavors.
An Introduction to GLAM-Wiki Projects by Shani Evenstein, National GLAM Projects Coordinator, Wikimedia Israel
ppt file of the presentation at the
EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Culture,
Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, 12-13 November 2013
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
Presentations available at: http://2013.minervaisrael.org.il
Brief introduction to Wikimedia, and overview of classroom Wikipedia assignments -- benefits, best practices, pitfalls and gains. (Updated May 2014). Thanks to LiAnna Davis and Jami Mathewson at WMF for their help and content (quotes, education project slides).
Learn about the Wikimedia foundation, how to take advantage of Wikipedia as a tool for research, ESL, and writing, and how to contribute to Wikimedia as a librarian. Presented by Monique Clark and Samara Carter at the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference on September 27.
An overview of how Wikipedia works, with stats updated to October 2014. Library- and librarian-related examples and an overview of recent community projects
Community collections: Exploring three distinct approaches to collaboration a...jdgwynn
The digital projects unit of the UNCG University Libraries has in recent years been involved in three different grant-funded projects designed to increase community outreach and participation in our work. The LSTA-funded “Textiles, Teachers, and Troops” initiative was a large digitization project that involved collaboration between all five universities and colleges in Greensboro plus the Greensboro Historical Museum and the Greensboro Public Library. The “Community Collections” project was funded through a UNCG Community-Based Research Grant and involved working with local institutions to identify unique and “hidden” materials, and to test innovative filed digitization techniques. The IMLS-funded “DGHi Explorers” program expands on “Community Collections” through collaboration with Greensboro’s Hayes-Taylor YMCA in its work with diverse and underserved communities, and involved working directly with at-risk youth in their home communities. This presentation will explore the successes and challenges of these initiatives and the lessons learned through three very different collaborative models.
This is the slide deck of a presentation I did in 2009 at the University of the Sunshine Coast to a group of teacher-librarians. Most of the content is almost certainly out of date now in 2016, but some might find parts of it useful for their own presentations.
Why and how librarians should engage with Wikipedialisbk
Slides for a talk on "Why and How Librarians Should Engage With Wikipedia" given by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate at Cetis, University of Bolton at the CILIPS Autumn Gathering 2014 event in Edinburgh on 30 October 2014.
See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/why-and-how-librarians-should-engage-with-wikipedia/
A presentation about Global Voices, with focus on Lingua, for the OT12 MOOC, a Massive Open Online Course on Open Translation tools and practices at Open University. November 2012.
Connected Open Heritage - John Andersson; Executive Director, Wikimedia SverigeRCAHMW
Gwella strwythur a chwiliadwyedd gwybodaeth am dreftadaeth ddiwylliannol ddisymud ledled y byd yw nod y prosiect Treftadaeth Agored Gysylltiedig. Buom yn gweithio i gynnwys gwybodaeth wedi’i chyd-destunoli ar Wikipedia; delweddau newydd a hanesyddol ar Wikimedia Commons; a data strwythuredig ar Wikidata.
Yn ystod y cyflwyniad byddwn ni’n siarad am rai o’r heriau a’r gwersi a ddysgwyd wrth brosesu casgliad unigryw o setiau ddata o 50 o wledydd, gweithio i ryddhau setiau data newydd, darganfod ffyrdd o gadw’r casgliad yn gyfoes, a chreu methodolegau i’w gwneud hi’n bosibl i roi’r data ar Wikidata ar ffurf safonedig a strwythuredig.
Improving the structure and searchability of immovable cultural heritage information from around the world is what the Connected Open Heritage project has been trying to achieve. We have worked to include contextualized information on Wikipedia; new and historical images on Wikimedia Commons; and structured data on Wikidata.
During the presentation we will talk about some of the challenges and lessons gathered while working with processing a world-unique collection of datasets from 50 countries, working to release new datasets, finding ways to keep it up-to-date, and creating the methodologies for the data to be added to Wikidata in a standardized and structured form.
NCompass Live - May 3, 2023
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
Kansas City Public Library hosted the first Wikipedian in Residence (WiR) at a public library in the country. Explore what a WiR is, how WiRs collaborate with community members and GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums), and why collaborations between Wikipedia and public libraries are mutually beneficial and have an impact.
Kim Gile, Director of Branch Services & Engagement, will reflect on the residency at KCPL and give an update on the Library’s Wikipedia journey that started in 2018.
Can you imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge? Every day Wikipedia’s audacious vision comes closer to reality, as humans (and other information services) exploit this top-ranking information source.
Here is an opportunity for educators to learn about how Wikipedia works to realise its position as a ‘neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts.’ and consider what information literacy education looks like in 2015, and how Wikipedia projects provide a way to move from a consumer to creator culture of learning.
Brief introduction to Wikimedia, and overview of classroom Wikipedia assignments -- benefits, best practices, pitfalls and gains. (Updated May 2014). Thanks to LiAnna Davis and Jami Mathewson at WMF for their help and content (quotes, education project slides).
Learn about the Wikimedia foundation, how to take advantage of Wikipedia as a tool for research, ESL, and writing, and how to contribute to Wikimedia as a librarian. Presented by Monique Clark and Samara Carter at the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference on September 27.
An overview of how Wikipedia works, with stats updated to October 2014. Library- and librarian-related examples and an overview of recent community projects
Community collections: Exploring three distinct approaches to collaboration a...jdgwynn
The digital projects unit of the UNCG University Libraries has in recent years been involved in three different grant-funded projects designed to increase community outreach and participation in our work. The LSTA-funded “Textiles, Teachers, and Troops” initiative was a large digitization project that involved collaboration between all five universities and colleges in Greensboro plus the Greensboro Historical Museum and the Greensboro Public Library. The “Community Collections” project was funded through a UNCG Community-Based Research Grant and involved working with local institutions to identify unique and “hidden” materials, and to test innovative filed digitization techniques. The IMLS-funded “DGHi Explorers” program expands on “Community Collections” through collaboration with Greensboro’s Hayes-Taylor YMCA in its work with diverse and underserved communities, and involved working directly with at-risk youth in their home communities. This presentation will explore the successes and challenges of these initiatives and the lessons learned through three very different collaborative models.
This is the slide deck of a presentation I did in 2009 at the University of the Sunshine Coast to a group of teacher-librarians. Most of the content is almost certainly out of date now in 2016, but some might find parts of it useful for their own presentations.
Why and how librarians should engage with Wikipedialisbk
Slides for a talk on "Why and How Librarians Should Engage With Wikipedia" given by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate at Cetis, University of Bolton at the CILIPS Autumn Gathering 2014 event in Edinburgh on 30 October 2014.
See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/why-and-how-librarians-should-engage-with-wikipedia/
A presentation about Global Voices, with focus on Lingua, for the OT12 MOOC, a Massive Open Online Course on Open Translation tools and practices at Open University. November 2012.
Connected Open Heritage - John Andersson; Executive Director, Wikimedia SverigeRCAHMW
Gwella strwythur a chwiliadwyedd gwybodaeth am dreftadaeth ddiwylliannol ddisymud ledled y byd yw nod y prosiect Treftadaeth Agored Gysylltiedig. Buom yn gweithio i gynnwys gwybodaeth wedi’i chyd-destunoli ar Wikipedia; delweddau newydd a hanesyddol ar Wikimedia Commons; a data strwythuredig ar Wikidata.
Yn ystod y cyflwyniad byddwn ni’n siarad am rai o’r heriau a’r gwersi a ddysgwyd wrth brosesu casgliad unigryw o setiau ddata o 50 o wledydd, gweithio i ryddhau setiau data newydd, darganfod ffyrdd o gadw’r casgliad yn gyfoes, a chreu methodolegau i’w gwneud hi’n bosibl i roi’r data ar Wikidata ar ffurf safonedig a strwythuredig.
Improving the structure and searchability of immovable cultural heritage information from around the world is what the Connected Open Heritage project has been trying to achieve. We have worked to include contextualized information on Wikipedia; new and historical images on Wikimedia Commons; and structured data on Wikidata.
During the presentation we will talk about some of the challenges and lessons gathered while working with processing a world-unique collection of datasets from 50 countries, working to release new datasets, finding ways to keep it up-to-date, and creating the methodologies for the data to be added to Wikidata in a standardized and structured form.
NCompass Live - May 3, 2023
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
Kansas City Public Library hosted the first Wikipedian in Residence (WiR) at a public library in the country. Explore what a WiR is, how WiRs collaborate with community members and GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums), and why collaborations between Wikipedia and public libraries are mutually beneficial and have an impact.
Kim Gile, Director of Branch Services & Engagement, will reflect on the residency at KCPL and give an update on the Library’s Wikipedia journey that started in 2018.
Can you imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge? Every day Wikipedia’s audacious vision comes closer to reality, as humans (and other information services) exploit this top-ranking information source.
Here is an opportunity for educators to learn about how Wikipedia works to realise its position as a ‘neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts.’ and consider what information literacy education looks like in 2015, and how Wikipedia projects provide a way to move from a consumer to creator culture of learning.
An overview of Wikipedia, followed by a discussion of the relationship between libraries and Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is a really important resource but a lot of people don’t fully understand how it works, and I think it’s particularly important for educators and librarians to do so. This presentation is about what WIkipedia is, how to edit it, and why we can use it as not only a useful source of information but a great information literacy teaching tool.
Wikipedia and Healthcare: effective uses, future directions. Introduction to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation projects, focusing on medical articles and projects.
Wikiconference USA 2015 - What Wikipedia Must DoAndrew Lih
By Andrew Lih, Keynote address on October 9, 2015 at the US National Archives and Records Administration, Wikiconference USA 2015 - What Wikipedia Must Do
אחרי שחתמנו על הסכם עבודה, ואחרי פגישת התנעה שהיא לפעמים רבת משתתפים, בפועל רוב העבודה שלנו תהיה מול איש צוות אחד שהוא בעצם מנהל הפרויקט מצד הלקוח.
בהרצאה זו נלמד, באמצעות שימוש בטכניקת הפרסונות לאפיון משתמשים, להכיר את המאפיינים של לקוחות שונים, לזהות את החוזקות והחולשות שלהם, להבין את השאיפות והמטרות שלהם - בדרך לעבודה משותפת פורה ולהשקת פרויקט מוצלח.
ההרצאה הועברה ב- DrupalCamp Israel, אבל רלוונטית למערכות ניהול תוכן וסביבות פיתוח שונות.
איך ספרנים וספריות יכולים לחבר בין קהילות ומרחבים דיגיטליים ולוקאליים, מתוך המהות ונקודות החוזק של ספריות.
וידאו של ההרצאה וסיכום הדברים: https://maayanalexander.com/2017/07/27/library-and-community/
במאה ה-21 אתר האינטרנט הוא למעשה סניף נוסף של הארגון שלנו שעוסק במתן מידע ושירותים. ניתוח השימוש באתר יכול לסייע בהערכת השירות הניתן ובעיצוב האתר והשירותים בו בעתיד. בהרצאה נסקור מדדים מרכזיים שכדאי למדוד ומה אפשר ללמוד מהם, אילו תשתיות להניח כדי לאפשר מדידה יעילה, ואיך להטמיע את מדידת הפעילות באתר בעבודה השוטפת לאורך זמן.
תובנות ורעיונות שהצטברו בחמש שנים של ניהול אתרים בדרופל, ובעקבות פרויקטים של הקמת אתרים או שדרוגם מול ספקי שירות שונים.
מטרת ההרצאה אינה "לשחרר קיטור", אלא להניח תשתית לעבודה פוריה ונעימה יותר, בדרך לאתרים פעילים ומשביעי רצון.
How to build better Drupal websites? Some words of advise from website managers to developers.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024
Wikipedia as a Platform for Change
1. Wikipedia as a Platform for Change:
Making the Largest Open Resource of
Human Knowledge Truly Diverse
#18NTCWikipedia
Ma’ayan Alexander
2. Session Notes and Conversation:
• Find and share collaboration notes: po.st/18NTCwikipedia
• Session hashtag: #18NTCWikipedia
• Session links: bit.ly/18NTCWikipedia
3. Agenda
• Wikipedia and Wikimedia at a glance
• Biases and challenges
• Why Wikipedia matters for nonprofits
• How can we make Wikipedia better
• How to get started, and how to keep going
4. Hello, World :-)
• Ma’ayan Alexander, @maayanale
• Tech for nonprofits and social change
• Digital activist in organizations and groups
• Wikipedia editor training: March 2012
• First Wiki Women TLV meetup: Sep 2014
5. Wikipedia is a Tool in My
Nonprofit Technology Toolbox
Image by Alice Achterhof on Unsplash
7. Here and Now
• How do you use Wikipedia?
• Is it part of your work?
• Have you ever tried to contribute to Wikipedia?
Image by Marc Wathieu, Flickr
8. What is Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia
project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and based on a model
of openly editable content. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular
general reference work on the Internet, and is named as one of the
most popular websites. (source: Wikipedia)
Wikipedia is a community of people who create and maintain together
a web-based, free-content encyclopedia. (For our session today)
9. • What Wikipedia is not
• Policies and guidelines
Encyclopedia
• Neutral point of view
• Representing
significant views
• Verifiability
• No original research
Digital
• Edit via web browser
• Fast edit and update
• Hyperlinks
• Flexible hierarchy
Open
• Anyone can edit
• Anyone can review
• Anyone can add
10. About Wikipedia
• Launched on January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
• Wiki based encyclopedia
• More than 40 million articles in 299 different languages
• English Wikipedia includes more than 5.6 Million articles
• 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors per
month (Feb 2014)
• 31.7 million registered user accounts, around 270,000 are "active"
(Nov 2011)
12. Wikimedia Foundation
• Founded in 2003 to fund projects through non-profit means
• Operates Wiktionary, Wikidata, Wiki Commons and more
• Operates and maintains MediaWiki
• Independent chapters locally support Wikimedia projects
13. Wikimedia Movement
• A global community of contributors
to Wikimedia Foundation projects
• Supported by numerous
organizations around the world
• Chapters, thematic organizations,
user groups
Image by Adam Novak, Wiki Commons
14. “Real World” Biases reflected in Wikipedia
• Gender Bias
• Racial Bias
• Cultural Representation
• Digital Gap
• Vandalism
• Other criticism of Wikipedia
Image by rawpixel.com on Unsplash
15. Gender Bias in Wikipedia
• Women are only 8.5 – 16% of Wikipedia editors
• Causes are social, rather than personal
• Fewer and less extensive articles about women or topics important to
women
• Fewer topics important to women recognized as notable
• Biographies: less women, more personal life details
• Community culture: conflicts, harassments, trust
• Wikimedia Foundation attempt to increase female editorship
16. Gender Bias in Wikipedia - LGBTQ
• Who defines a person’s gender?
• The Caitlyn Jenner article
• Wikimedia LGBT+ Portal
17. Racial Bias
• Under-representation of people of color within Wikipedia editor base
• Lack of information regarding black history
• Articles on African topics are, according to some, more often edited
by editors from Europe and North America and thus reflect their
knowledge and consumption of media
19. Accuracy, Reliability and Vandalism
• How can you trust an encyclopedia that anyone can edit?
• As of March 2017, Wikipedia has about 40,000 high-quality articles
• The open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia
the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world.
(Time magazine)
• Diversity of resources
• Fighting vandalism
Image by Sabrina Mazzeo on Unsplash
20. Minding the Gap and Closing It
• Research and publications
• WikiProjects
• Organizations
• Wikimedia Foundation Strategy
Image by Rafaela Ely, Flickr
22. WikiProjects
• Groups of contributors who want to work together as a team to
improve Wikipedia.
• Often focus on specific topics, locations or tasks
• Over 2,000 WikiProjects in English Wikipedia
• About 1,000 are monitored by 30–2,000 editors
• Some WikiProjects cooperates with outside organizations
• Finding a project (automatically curated & manually curated)
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27. Whose Knowledge
• A global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized
communities on the internet.
• Marginalized communities are the majority of the world
• 3/4 of the online population of the world today comes from the
global South: Asia, Africa, Latin America. Yet most public
knowledge online has so far been written by white men from Europe
and North America.
• To address this, we work particularly with women, people of color,
LGBTQI communities, indigenous peoples and others from the global
South to build and represent more of all of our own knowledge
online.
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29. AfroCROWD
• Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD)
• An outreach initiative to increase awareness of the Wikimedia and free
knowledge, culture and software movements among potential editors of African
descent.
• Launched during Black Wiki History Month in 2015.
• AfroCROWD has sensitized thousands in its target audience about free culture
crowdsourcing and the need to close the multicultural and gender gaps in
Wikipedia.
• monthly multilingual editathons in partnership with cultural institutions, galleries,
libraries, archives, museums (GLAM) and others.
• AfroCROWD has also worked with professors at educational institutions like New
York University, The New School, Icahn Medical School and Columbia University
among others.
31. Wikipedia matters for nonprofits
• Knowledge and information about your organization
• Share your knowledge and data
• Develop knowledge
• Broaden the mainstream
• Community development and service
33. What Can We Do
• Understand Wikipedia
• Register and create a user page
• Join the community
• Edit and create articles
• More ways to contribute
• Organization based cooperations
34. Understand Wikipedia
• It is a community of many people
• Culture and costumes
• Protocols and conventions
35. Join the Community
• Find articles in your fields of interest
• Read articles’ talks, view history
• Visit user pages of editors or other users
• Use the User talks to contact
• Join WikiProjects or user groups
• Join meetups and editathons
36. Things We Can Learn From a User Page
• Fields of interest
• Wikipedia experience
• Languages
• Expertise
• Beliefs and faith
• Contact information
• Paid contribution or conflict of interest
37. Every Edit Matters
• Create a new article
• Edit and add knowledge to an article
• Translate articles
• Fix typos
• Correct poor grammar
• Create redirects
• Repair broken links
• Add images
38. More ways to contribute
• Maintenance
• Review
• Code
• Help and train other editors
• Public speaking
39. Wikimedia Outreach
• Recruit and support new Wikimedians
• Build strong relationships with cultural and educational partners
• GLAM Wiki project works with galleries, libraries, archives and
museums to bring cultural content online
• Wikimedia Education Portal connects people who use Wikipedia and
related projects in education throughout the world
• Outreach best practices
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42. Imagine a world in which every
single human being can freely
share in the sum of all
knowledge. That's our
commitment.
Wikimedia Foundation’s Vision
44. Where to Begin
• Wikipedia editing is a long term project
• Register as a user and create a user’s page
• Enable the visual editor, but also learn the markup
• Join a group or a project, local or online
• Whose Knowledge’s intro to Wikipedia
• A game-style tutorial to English Wikipedia
45. Keep in Contact
and Keep the Conversation Going
• Evaluate this session: http://po.st/DL0BLQ
• Or in the mobile app
• Website: MaayanAlexander.com
• Email: Maayan@maayanalexander.com
• Twitter: @maayanale
• Wikipedia: Snufkinit (Eng, Heb)