 Okay, welcome everyone here and in person and online. I want to share today the wikitopia proposal slash discussion slash concept. The idea is that wikipedia, wikimedia is inherently utopian concept and we shouldn't be approaching it quite as ordinary business as usual. And it's valuable to think big and to think of larger areas we can expand to and it's in fact it's necessary. I don't think we'll survive as a niche product, as a niche experience. And that sort of, there's this wild ideas track at this conference and I created this very much in mind. So the idea is that we need a radical evolution of the wikimedia movement in response to global trends. The wikiway is an alternative to the Silicon Valley empires of the world and the over-commercialization of the internet and all the problems that brings. I think that the non-profit approach has a unique strength on digital spaces that it doesn't in other places and I think we've underutilized what we can do online with the non-profit approach. Yeah, so the idea is that there are some shortcomings in the movement and there's some barriers to growth based on what has happened in the past. So we have to update or replace some of the concepts that have limited us, perhaps. So rather than technological humility and sort of trying to use other folks' products and seeing how we integrate properly with commercial services, we might think about some technological autonomy. Instead of an academic conservatism, we might look more toward creativity and how we can be not just like the conservative accepted thing but also try new exciting things because we shouldn't be trying so hard to be encyclopedia Britannica in 1911. We're a little bit past that stage and it's time to try new things and to be exuberant about it. And the other is that rather than being a selective movement or a movement that's sort of neutral and faceless, we should try to be a movement that embraces solidarity. First, I was going to use community but I think more than community solidarity, we have to embrace ourselves as sort of a class of free knowledge producers and users that's broader than just the editorship, that's a very large part of society that gets a benefit from it. I do see it as a utopian project. Some people think that Wikipedia or Wikimedia is about 23 years old. It's actually about 23 centuries old which is when the Library of Alexandria was built and it's gone quite a utopian way but still has quite a ways to go. So for the exercise for today, I took three of these ideas and I'm suggesting that we have a writing exercise in groups to write some things about the future utopian movement and maybe to describe it in a narrative way to help establish a strategy. So it depends on what you want to do but there are three here. One is the WikiSocial 1.0 manual which is an introduction to WikiSocial 1.0 which is a toolkit for all social and sort of search communications around the movement. Two is a very wiki day which is a diary entry, you write a diary entry for one person's fictional person's engagement with the Wikipedia, the wiki verse on a particularly serendipitous busy and wiki field day. The protagonist is not a heavy editor but makes full use of both existing and importantly future free knowledge projects. So many of the things that say same and Sarah were alluding to and how they get around town, how they cook, how they work, how they get their news and information, things like that. And the third one is the solidarity aspect, the wiki Woodstock Anthem. So this envisions that we have at some point in the future, we have a folk festival of folk internet culture. I'm wearing the t-shirt for one today for the Clean Word Festival founded by the folk singer Pete Seeger which saved the Hudson River in New York. And I think this kind of thing can work for our social movement as much as it works for the environmental movement and the labor movement. And the idea is you're writing the great song of the anthem of wiki woodstock and talk about what people are doing there and other social engagements and the history and struggles of the movement. And yeah, I'd encourage you to get in groups and I'm going to get some poster board and some posted notes and you can pick a topic and work on it together. And then you can post it on wikisport and you can reach the page on wikisport by going to utopia.wikisport.org. Wikisport is the place where all your wildest dreams come true, particularly if you want to start a new wiki that's in the wiki media ecosystem. Yeah, yeah, we'll gather a small number of tables, please. You're encouraged, yeah, if you want to start two tables it'd be great. You could write things that happen on the very wiki day. Because this is Tisa who's been together. Okay, I unfortunately have to leave. I'll give you more direction with two tables. So we already have some for you. We forgot how to get started. So maybe you want to do the very wiki day? So where someone who has wikipedia, wikipedia, wikipedia has a lot of new projects. We do a lot of interesting things. We replace a lot of the commercial internet with a lot of commercial information. And how does someone go about their day? What's their diary entry? Maybe they get some pizza. Maybe they learn how to cook something. Maybe they see something that meets election day. Yeah, if you have any ideas of what someone might do going around and use that as a guide if you want. So to create a wiki day, right? So like your alarm clock goes off. But how has that like evolved in the future? Potentially in our imagination. And you choose your time zone. Oh, I see. I like what you're getting at. What you're getting at is how do you incorporate something about wikipedia into your daily life. So it's not something outside of your day? What you do? I wish it was Eddie or in the day. My brain is like half late. What about time? Sorry, I've gone on to like an alarm clock time, tangent. But like, what about an idea where, what do I mean? Like, we're in our different geographic time zones, but perhaps what you're doing is choosing the like time that you're in to fit with the activities that you're going with. Yeah, something like that. Sorry. We can do it. Oh, I've done something like that before. You deal with a candidate. I did something like that once before, and it got deleted. It was too political. You imagine? It sat up there for about two or three months. You think? It was one of these conferences. They mentioned the role that we could play during an election. We could like, do a Wikipedia article on a candidate. And then from that, people will learn about that candidate who will help with the election. But that kind of stuff is really, really political. Yeah, definitely. And the person that I did the Wikipedia article on, she was challenging the city over public properties that was being used by developers. And we had found out all kinds of stuff, how the mayor was changing idols and properties. And then we put something in there about the Blob deal. And that was removed first. And then the article itself was removed. And she did win the election because the Villa State Board had been sponsored by other candidates. And telling lies about that candidate. Like this is the song, right? But you might be lucky. You might be lucky. Yeah, yeah. But at least it'd be a source where someone gets to know who that candidate really is. I don't know where you live, but in New York, you don't really get to hear anything. Other than a week or so. So I tried to make a difference because I was at a conference with somebody mentioned. That's something we could do. And I tried it. What else is on our wiki day? Yeah. Did you see there's a thing for wiki data cocktail recipes? I didn't know that. I've been dealing mostly with using wikipedia to create a curriculum. Oh, cool. And using the wiki to create books. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah. So I would start off with an article. Like an article I'd write or an article I'd already written. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we would find key words and terms and then take that. We would repeat the article that connects. Yeah. And we did that for a Juneteenth event. Because Sherry wanted to do something on Juneteenth. Yeah. Oh, you know what? You know what's happening? I wrote the update newsletter from 2022. It's very serious. They want to charge all the people who have the wood, wood, wood, wood up. They want them to pay $20,000 for this device. So as far as pizza go, we might lose our affordable food. I could see doing a wiki school where we find wikipedia articles and take, and that way we can take it off the page. Great, bye. Wiki tour. Create your own book. Wiki source. Yeah, I've seen a lot of that. I want to use that more. I'll use it with the data. Yeah. But I really like that you can do so much with the books. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the thing, I don't have to do anything in. Yeah. Someone told me about a book. You know, since Juneteenth was a ship in the Atlantic, this guy, I know that works at Bloomberg radio, and he's an older guy, and he does the stock exchange in South Africa. And he told me when he used the book, the two prints of collar bombs. Okay, yeah. And after reading the book, I decided, wow, from what I've learned from the book, I wrote things down. From that, I wrote wiki books. All right. Just from that. So I call it rapid books. You don't have to stop in the beginning to the end. So I've done like about six of those during the lockdown. I could edit forever. That's an amazing initiative. That's an amazing initiative. But you know what's really weird? If you can't get people to visit, I was in another section they were talking about, it's difficult to get people to actually edit. So I was able to bypass that. I was able to get them involved in discussions, conversations, and looking for information, and talking about what to put in the book. Even though I was doing all the editing, I still was able to keep them involved by using that. I'm going to write that down. That's an idea to steal. I'm going to write that down as an idea. Yeah, we did about six. What was your book? Can you give me a title? We could create a wiki cookbook. Yeah, there's a cookbook on wiki books. It's almost a sister project. Like we could make our own. Yeah. And keep it on wiki books. Wait a minute. We're here. You can find out about food, find wikipedia articles about food in Singapore. Yeah. And then take those recipes and put them in some wikipedia. Yeah. Are there like criteria for creating one? Are there criteria for creating one? It's pretty open. It's very open. You decide where you want to put things. It's very open. Because you're using existing articles. Yeah, yeah. The only thing you're writing is maybe the introduction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's about all, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's good for people because you say you don't have to edit. So it's like an editor's tool. You become like an editor. Like you said, everybody likes food. So here's some of them. The first one I did with the profit during the lockdown was I wrote an article long time ago about the Associated Needle Press. Right? A lot of people don't know that we had a thriving Associated Press, Negro Press, in the 20s, 30s, and the 40s, in the 50s. And then in the 60s it, and so people don't even know. And it wasn't just in the United States. It was actually, they didn't even use the word pan-African, but it was people from all over the world that were contributors. So it was an article that I wrote about four years ago. Yeah, yeah. I wanted to engage people, so I took that article. And then from that article, we created the Wikipedia book from the people that participated in that. Yeah, that's amazing. So early writers associated Negro Press and African-American newspapers. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Can I take a page about your page? And then, now some of them I put, now this one was done around COVID. Oh, yeah, yeah. When people were saying, why is it that a lot of African-Americans were very paranoid about doctors? So because that was happening in reality, in my environment, we pulled this one together. Medical history, healing practices in Africa, Africa, diaspora, and the Caribbean. Now you can have this. Now this, okay, these are the user books under my username. Now this platform has almost gone away. Now you have to transfer to pediatrics. Uh-huh. But anyway, you can look at some of those. Yeah, thank you. But it's about six of them. Yeah, that's so cool. Like, say you're trying to learn something, right? Yeah. You can create a book around it. Yeah, that's really interesting. Right? Yeah, really, yeah. And I did one on cryptocurrencies for newbies. I thought it was cool. Because I was interested. That's not my field of study or anything. So I'd like to see, I think Wikipedia plays a big role in the play in education. We can do it better than a machine. Yeah, definitely. A machine does not have an imagination. A machine can just do what we tell it to do. Yeah. It can support to be in your document. But that's not an imagination. Yeah. So I don't buy it at all. It's a tool. It's a tool. It's a tool. Yeah. But if you give me your email address, I will send you some of the books I did. And another thing that you discovered from doing one around Juneteenth, because I wanted to, you know, I did one on a woman named Patricia Singeter. I have no head. No, Patricia Robert. No, Andre, that was that one. Okay. A lot of time from Juneteenth to holiday, you don't know about before. Yeah. Yeah, I know about Juneteenth. Okay. I felt like the narrative was very limited. Mm-hmm. Everybody just said the people in Galveston, Texas, found out late that they were emancipated. Mm-hmm. So that's what everybody says, like, public, public, public. Yeah. So we were, so I started just research, started from nowhere. Mm-hmm. So I found out about Andreya Roberts and how she has altered the narrative. Mm-hmm. It's not what people think at all. Mm-hmm. It's like, what do you do? And what do you feel after emancipation? You just run around in a great land. Mm-hmm. Is that emancipation? Mm-hmm. That doesn't even, that's a child, right? Mm-hmm. So we found out that in Texas alone, after enslavement, they built 550, what they call it, freedom of colony, freedom of settlements. That wasn't in the narrative. Hello. So we wrote a Juneteenth reader. Mm-hmm. That's cool. You see, you see how that works? Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. And we did the same thing around cryptocurrencies for dummies. And we did, let me see. That's really interesting. Thank you. That's really interesting. You create your own book. Yeah. Yeah. And what I was in college, I don't know if you've heard of Marshall McClellan? Yeah, yeah. Okay. You predicted that he would be able to create your own book. Yeah, I did it later. I studied Marshall McClellan. Okay. But when I was in college, you did what your classes told you to do. But then it was always the college outside the college. Yeah, yeah. Where you, you know what I mean? Yeah. And now that you do just what the college tells you to do, right? Yeah, yeah. You know, radical students in the late 60s, they tell you if you were a little different. Yeah. But that's one thing she predicted. So that's why I love doing the books. That's so cool. And it's a YouTube clip we're talking about. Where we're going with the technology. Wow. And I have that YouTube clip. I wish I could have shown it when we were doing the presentation. It's like a three-minute clip. Which presentation? It's like a two-minute clip. Okay. So the influence predictions of future technology capabilities is very much like what we are able to do using the Wikipedia book creator. Brain-fizzing. Brain-fizzing. Like, I mean, I did. They would predict that everybody was going to see everybody chase this. True. But I think, and I was back and read all of this stuff. I read in college. I read it recently. I started this award. But I think the main challenge is the Wikipedia challenge. We live in a world where people are not really readers. And we come from a print culture, all of us. Yeah, consumption is changing. So we're dealing with a very visual world. And they want everything summarized. And then we're dealing with the television age and the radio age. And in the early computer age, we're dealing with the plug-and-play mentality. And the new technology, even interested, is not a plug-and-play reality. You live in a world where you're constantly problem-solving. You constantly figuring out how to do this. You can't plug-and-play it. Now with AI again, we're seeing another version of plug-and-play. But it's still machine. So how do we... But I think Wikipedia is a big role-play in education. Yeah, definitely. We want something to be able to summarize an article. Yeah, and it's where people go. Whether you want them to or not. Like, all my students, like, they go to... Or they teach archaeology. And they go to the Wikipedia page for the site. Before anywhere else. The articles delivered to, like... Either we rise or rise. Because, like, everyone's right, they're born now. Yeah. So there's a lot there. And that would be the article. Because they would just explore the page. Yeah, the problem is... Some of the articles just aren't... Not necessarily in my teaching, but in other people's teaching. Like, the... Oh, no. The very last line... Necessarily helpful for them. Or, like, the opinions... Pretty good after until the last line. In the spirit of collaboration, our anthem reads to me. Every single day. In unity with AI, we like the question. Yeah. Thank you for sharing it. It's a lot of love with that. Educational training. Yeah. And how do you... Yeah. Will these new tools replace the classical trash... Classical? Which is... It's stowaway. I was not even stowaway getting stuff somewhere. Yeah. I think you can have tools right there on the book. Yeah. Why wouldn't you? And then also, I think... One of the things we've learned... When you start to write something, you're starting from zero. Yeah, yeah. I'll bring in the theme of reclaiming AI. I think you would know it. It emphasizes you till you don't. We have a bad habit of thinking we don't know. I don't know if it's a cultural thing, or whatever. But then do we have to go further? Yeah. I thought I grasped it. But I didn't. I was being honest. A colleague wrote a really good article about what are medievalists and medieval historians. How things they can do with the media. One of the most important things he said was to add sections on historiography or interpretation. To help... To add a body of content that shows that the past is not static. People see it different ways. And it's still objective because it's so and so says this. So and so has the other opinion. But he was saying that that will then... The hope, because that will then help with people's understanding of the topic. People will start to look at it with the media page and go, oh, say this is interpreted. It's not one thing. It's not monochrome. It is something that's interpreted. So I started doing that quite a lot. You could take an article and create a wiki book from the article. Yeah, yeah. What would you pull out of it? You could pull out, like, oh, my brain. It's nothing. It's fun. Yeah, yeah. Definitely fun. And you're learning. You're navigating. Navigating is learning. So the classroom, the traditional classroom is stored. You're not navigating. You're being told. So what does that do for your brain? Not very much, right? So that's what wikipedia is actually progressive. Yeah, yeah. It's got a big role in the play. Totally. So we've got to see that with that, you know. Yeah. I like the idea of, like, querying wiki data to find out what to have for dinner. Yeah. I find that quite a good idea. Maybe you want to, like, oh, you could also do it to pair food and wine. Yeah. Yeah. A wiki sommelier. Wait, I just happened to kill that wiki data. Wait, I just happened to kill that wiki data. I'm going to put it down before that idea is forgotten. Yeah, really. Give it a light form. You could... What happened to my refrigerator? No, I haven't... I have to put it up again. I'm going to get it. Oh, wiki tours. You could find articles that give tours. Yeah, I always wanted to have walking tours. There's so many possibilities are open. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you could... I mean, I don't know enough about structured data, but could you again follow that choose-your-own-adventure idea and be like, I'm in this place. I'm interested in, I don't know, Victorian architecture. Can you build query... Can a query build me at all? And then that could then map onto... And then, like, download the coordinates. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There'll be other kind of data, but I want to stop at a toilet on the way. Yeah. Because in the UK, we've just put all the public toilets and wiki data. So jealous. But you can touch on that. We have virtually a photo. Oh, no. Oh, well. Where do you live? England, yeah. Oh, it's broken. There's so many possibilities. A list of... Hmm. And then people are going to come up and see these lines. Wait, here's my question. I came to New York the way they just do on buildings. Oh, yeah. We don't take pictures of them. Are they going to be in the library? Is this conference that right? And I love old architecture. Annie had another one. Really? What's the fashion show? I was like wondering, like, this would be the object. Funny. What's the presentation? I can't believe how people use the wiki comment. I just take pictures of events and things like that. But I just know I could do all of that. It's fast. It's fast. Hmm. I did one article in 2018 on a town called Chimbup to New York. Hmm. I really knew. I found out about two years ago. When I found out I did have an article I started to work on it. And then while I was working on the article I found out there was a festival. It's an organization called John Brown. Yeah, yeah. And I told a friend about it. So we went to the late classes and hooked up with that organization. Had a great time. Amazing. So that was one where you could take it off. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. So it would become more social. I agree with that. And then because we're apart of our lives we've had something stagnant and online. I had the walking tour so you might have to take a break. I think so. But I might go and try and find a coffee or some other kind of drink. Yeah. Thanks for... Did you find first? Yeah, sure. Richard is always coming up with ideas. Yeah. So he designed these shirts. Feeding my brain. Thank you. So all the things I missed I can... Okay. Yeah, just stay busy. That's it. Yeah. Maybe someone will watch it later. Yeah, okay. I can share. You can find us on the page on the WikiSport page. We have some suggestions here. What is WikiTime? Is it self-selected? WikiNews on Free Streaming Podcast. Wikipedia has all the maps to navigate. Alice picks the food recipe she likes on WikiVersity. This is Alice in this case. Add ingredients on WikiData. Add photos on Commons. WikiVoyages used by Alice for planning her trip trip itineraries. Share image to WikiSocial and opt into scanning into Commons. Go to school for free online at WikiVersity. WikiSimalier Mix food and wine with... Mix your choice of food and wine What? Yeah, hi. We're sharing the fictional adventures of Alice as she goes about her very wiki day using Wikipedia but also the other Wikipedia projects but especially the ones that haven't been invented yet. Besides the WikiSimalier and the WikiTours and the WikiVersity she also reviews a book on WikiSource. She reads a bedtime book on WikiSource and she reads a public domain book before bed. Alice has a very eventful day learning through WikiMedia projects and learning about her neighborhood and her communities. So are we... Is the song ready? Or should we wait for a minute? And who's going to sing? We're not singing. Okay. So we have a wiki mania chat book. There are five songs. What a productive cultural movement we are. I will revise. Let's get information. Common's fornication. A wiki day. And monkeys at typewriters. Thanks. Thanks folks at home for wherever you are. Say hello to your cat for me.