Hi all,
I thought I'd gather a bit of a summary of relevant info from this year's
Wikimania - feel free to reply all with anything I've missed!
Wikimedians of the year
Huge congratulations to Alaa Najjar & Netha Hussain (both involved with WikiJMed)!
Alaa was awarded Wikimedian of the
Year<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/08/15/meet-alaa-najjar-wikimedian-o…
for his work on medical topics in Arabic Wikipedia, particularly COVID-19. Netha was
awarded the honourable
mention<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/08/15/meet-netha-hussain-wikimed…
for her work on COVID-19 and vaccine safety information across Wikimedia.
WikiJournal unconference session
Andrew Leung and I gave a short talk followed by some discussion
sessions<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Wikipedi…ls>.
Sadly only people who'd registered for Wikimania ahead of time could attend, but we
had some good ideas raised by attendees, and there was positive feedback. People commented
on the potential to raise the profile of Wikimedia projects within academic circles, and
the need to eventually re-raise different WikiJournal article types over at WP:RS (i.e.
citing within Wikipedia: original research articles vs articles turned into WP pages vs
articles submitted from WP articles). It was also suggested to put together a risk
management and mitigation
matrix<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_matrix> to send
to the WMF board of trustees as part of re-engaging them in considering a sister project.
A selection of talks that may be of interest:
* Preventing misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: How Wikipedia, public health
experts, and news media can collaborate to share trustworthy knowledge in times of crisis
*
(
Abstract<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Preventin…
& 60 min
video<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK_cUZLMpibyRiIdp0uF-lQ>) Sanjay
Gupta, Julio Frenk, Netha Hussain, Elaine Nsoesie, Peter Singer
* Mapping the present and future of the Wiki philosophy: challenges and opportunities
*
(
Abstract<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Mapping_t…
& 30 min
video<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIX6fr7DxE>) - Abraham Samma
* Wikimedian of the Year 2021
*
(
Abstract<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Wikimedia…
& 90 min
video<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Wikimedian_o…)
- inc. Alaa Najjar & Netha Hussain
* The experiences of WikiGap and WikiForHumanRights. Working with UN experts on topics
for impact
*
(
Abstract<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/The_exper…
& 45 min
video<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1k8_6QWPY>) - Ruben Brouwer,
Suzanne Lapstun, Monica Iyer, Euphemia Uwandu
* Attracting experts to contribute to Wikimedia movement
*
(
Abstract<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Attractin…
& 30 min
video<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mokCfTjQtlA>) - Diptanshu Das
All the best,
Thomas
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