 Hello. Welcome, everyone. I am Richard Nipel, user pharaohs on the various Wikimedia projects, and I welcome to my landing talk today. I would like to share about Wikispor, which is a developing, germinating project in the Wikimedia movement. The idea behind it is to support innovation in the Wikimedia movement to create some new projects when they haven't been developing as much recently. If people aren't familiar, there is a process for proposing new projects in the Wikimedia movement. You can see quite a few examples. They're almost all under discussion and have been for many years. Something that I noticed is that there is a bit of a gap. There's no explicit process to develop a new project. And new projects that have been developed have only come through somewhat extraordinary circumstances. Like someone is working on a project with grant support from the Wikimedia foundation, or there was an unusual case where a wiki under a commercial provider decided to rebel and affiliated itself with the Wikimedia foundation. But that doesn't happen every day. So the idea of Wikispor is that it provides, in a wiki farm, a place where people can grow their own wikis in different formats, with different genres, with different configurations. And the idea is to create a system that can be used, not just to create one wiki, but many different wikis, sort of similar to something like commercial wiki farms, but for nonprofit purposes. And there's actually, there's often been a shortage, I think, of developing different genres of reference works that have sometimes tended toward commercial projects when they really would benefit from being part of our universe, our nonprofit with the universe. And Wikispor is intended to help facilitate that. I wanted to just share some of the, so Wikispor got started actually at Wikimedia in some respects, so we had a picnic in 2019 in New York as part of the sort of strategy developments. And one of the topics of discussion were about how to start small things with experimental things, experimental premises, and also how to work with different communities that might not have conventional reliable sources. So my native wiki is English Wikipedia, and it tends to have the most stringent, along with German Wikipedia, requirements for some reliable sources, more strict rules against things like original research, more strict restrictions against things like oral history. And I felt that there should be a place where people can experiment with things like oral history, not in a careless way, but in a careful way. And Wikispor is meant for that. We were able to get some support from the Wikimedia Foundation at actually the last in person Wikimedia in 2019 in Sweden, where they agreed to host it on the Wikimedia cloud services, which is a place where that hosts all sorts of volunteer developed projects. You can see we have a page on Wikispor on meta, where there's our official proposal, and of course you can support it you're welcome to support it if you like. Oh, that's I got a very positive support right there. And we of course have the project itself, and I wanted to share the project itself, and some of the philosophy behind it and and how it's been developing. So as part of the philosophy behind it is that what is it for it's a wiki farm for specialized subject areas. So, you know, and also different forms. So it could be, you know, it could be a topical area that is not covered in the other brick media projects, it could also be a new way of presenting it, maybe it's more visual. Maybe it's, maybe it uses a different, a different form, a form. It's a narrative space so it for wiki data topics don't fit within other Wikimedia Foundation wikis. So the idea is that we have one of the inspirations for the sport is wiki data, because there are thousands and millions of wiki data items that do not have, and perhaps can never have under the current system wikipedia pages or other project pages. But our interesting topics that should be written about in more than a data centric format. You know you can say meaningfully things about a topic. Save save example paintings in an art collection. You can't necessarily have them all have pages on wikipedia because of the notability requirement, but you can have, but you can have pages on something like wiki sport. It's a knowledge of positive for different types of knowledge oral and visual we want to be a place where, where oral knowledge can be represented, and a testing ground for new projects. So, I just want to take you live to sport so how do you start to get active on wiki sport how do you do anything here. We have a list of spores, and their sport is just the name it's a botanical metaphor for for these different works and we have different thematic areas so the art sport to have works about art individual artworks for example, that might not fit on on wikipedia, lip sport for works of books publications should all be documented and more than more than you can be insane wiki data. People have explored visual stories. And how they, they might work together. So for example some of the visual story here. I'm sorry says a lot of images here to load about about a hat industry in the Caribbean. I might share. About making industry in carousel. There can also be things like somewhat news news adjacent topics. So for example, here is a, a score page on world, World AIDS Day 2019 and has a sort of an experiment with a detailed explanation of, of what happened, how World AIDS Day was commemorated that there are the cultural developments the legal developments the government developments that happened that year in more detail then could be related in wikipedia article. We also have one of the advantages of this thing is we can use different software. So we use something we have something called cargo, which is a form of page forms that we're able to use documenting some different types of data that's a little bit in between wiki data and and pure media wiki. And there are different developments there. I would also just share. You are welcome to join us in 10 minutes after this, this talk ends, we're having a meeting in the, in the, in the conference where you can talk about wiki sport and all other. All their new project proposals it's called wiki medians, innovating new genres, the wing project. Thank you everyone. I would like to share. Yeah, if anyone wants that you're of course welcome, you can join wiki wiki spore, you can edit it uses. It doesn't have us a wiki media single login but it syncs with your account. And I also invite you to join. We're voting for spore of the month and feature the fortnight and things like that. Thanks everyone. And if people have any questions, I'd be glad to answer them. If not, I'll just share on a philosophical note. That I've been involved with the wiki media projects for quite some time. And, you know, since 2004. And I think there was a certain dynamism in the earlier projects where things could change quickly. Not everything, you know, required things being filled out in triplicate people had new ideas. And when you have a larger community, sometimes you lose some of that dynamism. And I think as a movement, we should invest in newer small communities and they're not all going to work. But I think wiki spore can be a way to do to experiment and to try some new things. And I hope you can support it and I hope we can get some wiki media foundation resources so we can get things like proper use of wiki data on wiki spore. So if anyone would like to join in 10 minutes, we're having the wiki spore plus all other new project proposals gathering in the unconference 10 minutes from now. Thank you.