User:Daniel Mietchen/2019

School Strike for Climate- Free Knowledge and the Climate Emergency

Wikimedia Foundation- What we've learned about environmental sustainability

EDUWiki & Medicine

Integrating Wikidata into Education

About

Purpose

This page contains my notes for Wikimania 2019, which I am attending remotely.

Icons

The notes occasionally contain emoticons, so that the page can be searched for them (by way of CTRL+F on most browsers/systems) more easily than one can search for things that are boldened or italicized.

These icons are:

☃️: a snowman — highlights sessions I am involved in. I originally wanted to use a moose emoticon, since moose seem to be a thing at this Wikimania. But I could not find a moose emoticon (we've begun to explore what that would entail), and I like the snowman because these things while cute do not build themselves.
🎯: direct hit — highlights things that are very relevant to me and that I plan to follow up on.

Resources

Program

2019:Program

Wikimedia Commons

commons:Category:Wikimania 2019

Video streams

see 2019:Video for details (which I have largely replicated here, albeit in a different arrangement)

Hashtags

Wikimania, Wikimania2019 and wmhack

My schedule

I am at work this week, one continent and 6h of time difference away, so can only follow loosely. This means that the order of my notes within a day is not chronological but largely determined by availability of remotely accessible resources (videos, slides, media files, tweets, etherpads etc.), modulated by my interests.

Wednesday 14 August

Hackathon, with work around Scholia and WikiCite

Thursday 15 August

Hackathon, with work around Scholia and WikiCite

Friday 16 August

Welcome session

Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcVwNgOIRM
live interpretation into (Swedish?) sign language
John Anderson intro
- entire conference is carbon neutral
  - details in 2019:Carbon offsetting
- entire session is documented by a Swedish TV station which will broadcast a summary and make it available under CC BY
- Wikimedia Sweden does not give gifts to the presenters but presents them with a certificate that a donation to UNDP has been made in their name
  - https://twitter.com/wikimediadk/status/1162348292589666305

Keynote

listed under 2019:Program/Free Knowledge and the Global Goals Spotlight Session
Michael Peter Edson
- recognizing that the Wikimedia community has achieved much and outlining some ideas regarding how it could achieve more
- some intro stories, including the one on grading pottery students on quality versus quantity
- Pause to let the audience think about stories related to any SDG they choose
  - invitation to share these stories via 2019:Program/Free Knowledge and the Global Goals Spotlight Session/Share your story or other channels
    - 🎯 I put in a quick one as well
    - also 2019:Wikimedia 2030/Make people care: using SDGs to talk about Free Knowledge and m:Wikimedia Deutschland/Free Knowledge and SDGs/your stories
- some background on the mission of en:UN Live 🎯 and on the importance of purposeful gaming in addressing societal challenges
- some tweets capturing key aspects of the presentation
- Follow-up: How can the UN Live museum actually be for everyone (and not just in spirit/ on paper)
  - https://twitter.com/mpedson/status/1166029012109582336

Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals - Spotlight Session

Liv Inger Somby: The Importance of Indigenous Languages

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-Jo0 (beginning)
starts her talk in Sami
lots of rich examples and thoughts on how to preserve, revitalize and otherwise engage with indigenous knowledge, language(s) and culture(s)
"everybody should use the internet in their own language"
indigenous journalism
Sami keyboard
indigenous perspective on digitization
too few games or educational apps in indigenous languages, so kids turn to majority languages for playing and learning unless specific support is provided
some key tweets
- https://twitter.com/BUSormland/status/1162322208498298880
- https://twitter.com/shikeishu/status/1162326298057797632

Ryan Merkley: Where open and the SDGs converge

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-Jo0#t=36m (i.e. about 36 min in)
- in intro, makes reference to
  - Wikimania 2014 (which was his first public talk as head of Creative Commons, whereas the current one will be his last in this role before he moves to the Wikimedia Foundation)
  - the "Big Open" conference, e.g. as per https://twitter.com/phoebe_ayers/status/985172818626261000
- explains Creative Commons licenses to the audience, most of which is probably intimately familiar with the CC licensing suite
- then announces that he will try to draw a link between CC, openness and the SDGs
- mentions an upcoming UNESCO document on open educational resources 🎯, up for a vote in November
- brings up Cable Green's idea of an "SDG degree" 🎯, e.g. in life on land (SDG 15)
  - all the educational materials would be openly licensed
https://twitter.com/josiefraser/status/1162332022339264512
https://twitter.com/BUSormland/status/1162330461827416065

Karin Holmgren: Open science and education for sustainable life

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-Jo0 (about 50 min in)
https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/author/Q64616156
Professor of Physical Geography and Vice chancellor at Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
"The importance of sharing knowledge in order to meet the SDGs can not be underestimated"
mentions SDGs as an example of wicked problems
SLU has course requirements for students to
- gather environmental data and to publish it as open data 🎯
  - https://www.slu.se/en/environment
- engage in citizen science 🎯
  - https://www.slu.se/en/research/research-excellence/research-infrastructure/databaser-och-biobanker/artportalen-swedish-species-observation-system/
MOOCs on effective lifestock production with low use of antibiotic 🎯
Research network on agriculture for food security where they partner with target countries to co-create open data that supports environmentally sustainable increases of production
Navarino Environmental Observatory 🎯 — partnership between Stokcholm University and ecotourism company, delivering the basis for decisions regarding sustainability and related policies
- https://www.costanavarino.com/environment/navarino-environmental-observatory/
Mentions OA 2020 and academic reward systems
tweets
- https://twitter.com/josiefraser/status/1162335738140221440

Tyler Radford: Mapping the world we want

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-Jo0 (about 1:10h in)
- three sample stories of community engagement in Tanzania and Uganda
- states that there may be up to a million people living in unmapped places
- mentions an AI (from Facebook?) that helps with extracting OSM features from satellite images
- combining satellite imagery with engagement on the ground is crucial
  - e.g. to find out the name of a road in an unmapped area or what a shop on it is selling, the shopkeeper is likely to know better than satellite data
    - so it's important to get more and more people to contribute open knowledge
- presents an OSM adaptation 🎯 of the Wikimedia vision:
  We envision a world where
  - Everyone is counted
  - Map data is accessible and used in decisions
  - that save and improve lives
  - Everyone can engage and contribute to the map
- GlobalPartnership for Sustainable Development Data has funded OSM to produce a guide on crowdsourcing geospatial data to help assess progress towards the SDGs
  - maybe write a similar guide focused on the role of Wikimedia projects, and maybe write it together? 🎯
  - presents some OSM integration with WIkipedia and Wikidata
    - including
      - https://osm.wikidata.link/ (which I think I have seen before) and
      - https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index (brand name index that can be used to tag shops as to what they sell)
https://twitter.com/BUSormland/status/1162338152863940608
https://twitter.com/Wikimania/status/1162340820328034305 (with typo in hashtag)
https://twitter.com/josiefraser/status/1162341161689845761

John Cummings: What could Wikimedia’s relationship be to the Global Goals and the UN?

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-Jo0 (about 2:10h in)
Most SDGs have a time component
Suggest that Wikimedia projects could be the place where the information about our progress towards the goals is collected
- adds "in fact, they are the only ones who could do it" 🎯
- references the Wikimedia 2030 vision
Bias in coverage:
- https://twitter.com/esthersole/status/1162334082023460866
- https://twitter.com/korenchkin/status/1162333171771432960
- project with Wikimedia Sweden going on to map GLAMs across the world
- tool WikiAtlas to link geography and knowledge, as per tweet from a day later: https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/1162715609823625217
Two suggestions for Wikimedians
- fix testimonial injustice by accepting non-traditional sources
- ?

Emanuel Karlsten Death and resurrection of Journalism:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-Jo0 (about 2:23h in)
https://emanuelkarlsten.se/
https://twitter.com/emanuelkarlsten
- on the EU copyright directive as an example for the future of journalism
  - was alone in covering the topic (on his blog) — traditional media houses did not do it
  - got crowdfunded to report on the process
  "The future of journalism is to collectively fund good content to be open and free - for the benefit of all."
tweets
- https://twitter.com/wikimediapt/status/1162481345022574592

Mark Graham: Toward Universal Access to All Knowledge

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-Jo0 (about 2:40 h in)
Some background on Internet Archive
Describes Controlled digital landing
Maps Internet Archive activities to SDGs 🎯
Big idea:
- Every Book
  
  Every Academic Paper
  
  Every Web Page
  
  should just be a click away
  
  Please join us to make this a reality 🎯
- To follow-up on the Wikimedia my end: how can I get my user pages on Wikimedia sites indexed? They are normally excluded by robots.txt

Nice video ad for #WikiGap

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-Jo0 (about 2:55 h in)
not sure where it is on Commons 🎯
- maybe do one at UVA?

Annika Söder: Implementing the 2030 Agenda

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-Jo0 (about 2:58 h in)
zooming in on SDG 16: Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
overall quite refreshing for a talk by a politician of that rank
tweets:
- https://twitter.com/dagelf/status/1162369769506574336

2019:Research/Discovering and Analyzing Wikimedia Images

no video
slides
GitHub repo with Jupyter notebooks
some tweets: https://twitter.com/santhoo9/status/1162327187707564037

What we know about newcomers and how to nurture them

URL shortener: How something so simple can be so complicated

Everyone gets one - Wikibase and the Wikibase Ecosystem

Let's completely change how templates work

Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons for GLAM-Wiki

Strengthening Human Rights through Wikimedia

Education space Keynote I: EDUWiki & OERs + discussion on OERs and their place in the Wikiverse

Let's completely change how wiki links work

2019:Multimedia knowledge/360° photography

no video
no slides
tweets
- https://twitter.com/subhapa/status/1162341396327612416
- https://twitter.com/wikimedia_ua/status/1162342778422145024

2019:Health/Offline Health Resources - expanding content for Internet in a Box

The Smithsonian: A Partnership to Improve Gender Representation Online

Other sessions and tracks

Intro to the Education Space: Wikimedia & SDG 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRstPlTOze0
Keynote II: EDUWiki & Researchers - Engaging researchers to contribute to Wikipedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zckJGIkh1jE
Enhancing Students' Learning through EDUWiki Initiatives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9PLUMauplk
Advancing Minority Languages through Wikimedia projects in Educational Settings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PafF54PQf-o
Introductory panel to the Growth Space: Challenges and approaches to Community Growth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnAfseb4XPY
- 2019:Community Growth/Space Intro
- https://twitter.com/Kommunikonautin/status/1162339410962202624
Building organizations for growth: Wikidata in India, Wikimedia Armenia, Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing, and Wikimedia Sweden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXrcXiGFcYA
Events? Competitions? Engagement? CentralNotice is your friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJd4qDlM7KY
GlobalFactSync: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8ELu8u-EQ
An introduction to Phabricator, where the developers are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvyoGdA2pig
Phabricator for chapters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cypOzrnHe0g
Personalised search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSuN24BHyrU
How can we more easily organize multi-chapter projects?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZqJjHq5RWs
Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CErtSxYaZmI
GLAM Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_ncNxNWT_8
- slides
GLAM Mini Keynotes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEcWjXbkSPU

Some random elements

Scribe project to help underresourced wiki languages: https://twitter.com/frimelle/status/1162332302766202881
- more details https://twitter.com/ktchernes/status/1162343243423670272
2019:Multimedia knowledge/Behind the scenes of the Odia Wikipedia how-to video tutorials
- Help on video documentation: https://twitter.com/subhapa/status/1162329370322771970
Minority languages and education: https://twitter.com/teemul/status/1162333103664316416
2019:Meetups/Sami language course
"critical importance of communities & collaboration if we are going to effectively address complex global problems": https://twitter.com/josiefraser/status/1162337869773582339
Signed statements: https://twitter.com/Larissa_Borck/status/1162337904687009794
Wikimedia Strategy: https://twitter.com/wikimedia2030/status/1162339205676244992
Image annotation tool
- https://twitter.com/Anthere/status/1162484177805164546

Evening meetups

Saturday 17 August

10:30-11:00 2019:Health/Wikidata and Health: Current situation and perspectives — slides are linked from there
2019:Education/Integrating Wikidata into Education (☃️)
2019:Poster session
- 2019:Poster session/What is the role of Wiki during volcanic eruptions?
- 2019:Poster session/FindingGLAMs: collecting information about the world’s cultural heritage institutions
2019:Meetups/Sami language course
2019:Meetups/Wikimania remote meetup (☃️)

WikiCite meetup

Sunday 18 August

2019:Libraries/Scholia: A web application for scholarly data (☃️)
Hackathon showcase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SomTEzaoROQ
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimania_hackathon_showcase_2019
  - Knowledge crystals could be something for enKORE
  - iNaturalist Import Tool for Commons
  - tool to find maps
    - mentions https://warper.wmflabs.org/
  - https://niharika29.github.io/wikitopics/ helps to get an overview of a topic
  - Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 in Tirana, May 9-11
2019:Environment/School Strike for Climate: Free Knowledge and the Climate Emergency
- suggestion that Wikimedia projects make it easier to find individual climate-related facts and their sources
- suggestion for the climate strike on 20 September: instead of a black-out (as apparently discussed at the Estonian Wikipedia), make sure that whatever people are searching on Wikipedia, show them some climate basics first
- mentioned en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change, to which I signed up
2019:Environmental sustainability/Panel on coverage of environmental topics

Sessions I am involved in

Accepted

These sessions are marked in bold in the schedule above, as well as with a snowman (☃️).