2023:Glossary
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This page is a list of common terms being use for Wikimania 2023 to ensure clarity around what is being discussed, if you have any request for clarification please let a COT member know. This list is growing document and will address concepts as they are developed;
- COT - Core Organizing Team. The team of community members assembled to produce Wikimania for a given year
- SC - Steering Committee. A standing committee of Wikimedia volunteers that works with the Wikimedia Foundation to direct the planning of the Wikimania conference, including the selection of the COT and Wikimania location.
- Hybrid - the whole event where both online and in person activities happen
- In-person - activities in Singapore associated with Wikimania
- Online - digital connections
- Conference platform - online site/technology that connects Wikimania in Singapore with the world
- Satellite events - meetups and watch parties taking place during Wikimania in other cities
- Satellite support - funding for satellite events
- Scholarship - a monetary award for travel funding to attend Wikimania in Singapore in-person
- Full scholarship - travel, accommodations & registration
- Partial scholarship - a monetary award to assist in paying travel, accommodations & registration costs
- Virtual support - funding support to cover expenses related to attending remotely, such as bandwidth costs, specialized hardware, child care, etc.
- Expo Village - place to display, demonstrate WMF projects like Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wiki Loves xxxxxx and many others.
- UCoC - refers to the Wikimedia Movement's Universal Code of Conduct. It defines a minimum set of guidelines of expected and unacceptable behaviour and applies to everyone who interacts and contributes to online and offline Wikimedia projects and spaces.
- MS - refers to the Wikimedia Movement Strategy
- MCDC - refers to the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
- BoT - refers to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
- AffCom - refers to the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee, a committee responsible for Wikimedia affiliates
- Hackathon - a portmanteau of "hacking" and "marathon", is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time.
- Editathon - portmanteau of "edit" and "marathon", is an event where some editors of online communities such as Wikipedia, Wikivoyage edit and improve a specific topic or type of content. The events typically include basic editing training for new editors.
- Datathon - portmanteau of "data" and "marathon", is an event where some editors of Wikidata edit and improve statements, lexemes and many others.
- Photowalk - is a communal activity of photographers or camera enthusiasts who gather in a group to walk around with a camera for the main purpose of taking pictures of things that interest them.
- World Cafe - is a structured conversational process for knowledge sharing in which groups of people discuss a topic at several small tables like those in a café. The assumption is that collective discussion can encourage collective action.
- Program - all activities taking place.
- Time
- UTC - standardized time to be used for online activities
- SGT - Singapore time to used for in-person activities, (SGT is UTC +8)
- AoE - Anywhere on Earth, standard closing time of all submissions, applications
- ICA - Singapore's Immigration and Checkpoints Authority
- MRT - Mass Rapid Transit, refers to Singapore's public rail system
- Watch party - where Wikimedians gather to watch recorded or live sessions of Wikimania.