 So about that party about that party dinners from seven to nine, but the party stays open after that They'll be dancing dancing. I don't know if that's up to you. They'll be dancing until midnight We have an open bar. So maybe there will be dancing After that I think people are playing karaoke. I don't know that's between you and your flight home so Bring your badges to the party. That's the only thing bring your badges so you can get into the party Which will be at seven at Windsor station around the corner Couple other things if you presented at this conference put your slides on commons Please and put your slides on commons and link them to your session abstract because then we will be able to find them in the future Same with videos and any other links you want to add there. Don't forget to put your photos on commons If this conference inspired you and And you too want to be on stage If it inspired you and your community and you're interested in running a future wickamania look for a call for expressions of interest coming from the wickamania committee which Several of us here are a part of Knew this year if you think somebody else should run the conference And you want to nominate them to run the conference you can nominate another community as well and we'll look at that We're gonna try that out But look for that coming soon and then putting your proposals this fall. I Think that's it and I will not keep you any longer between you and The party but before we do that before we do that It's my honor of course to introduce someone who needs no introduction Jimmy. Thank you Okay Okay, very good, so I've got my clicker here and I've got my presenter notes there and I have to click them separately so it's like a balancing act I Have to say this is the first wiki mania where my podium looks like a shrine to some I Sort of untimely demise of a pop star or something. I'm not sure Okay Nothing Okay, so this is a long time tradition and I want everyone to stand up Who has been to at least one wiki mania which as of today? You can all say you have Now a few of you will sit down How many of you have been to at least two wiki manias? and three wiki manias four We're gonna go a little fastest have been enough years now that this takes well five. Oh, sorry five Six And now we're starting to see some old timers How many have been to seven wiki manias? eight nine And here's a big round number. How many people have been to at least ten wiki manias? Wow 11 Kristoff had to sit down, but it's great Someone so new to the movement can achieve a prominent role Only ten wiki manias so 11 How many have been to 12 and how many have been? To 13 wiki manias There's only So I some day I'm going to have the record of being at the most wiki manias But the problem is these guys are all younger than me, so I've got to kind of do some exercise so So a year in review. So we have a lot to review. I'm just gonna go through a few of the highlights things for us to reflect on That have been amazing positive achievements for this year And I have several here, of course Right because this doesn't click this as you know the the the ultimate goal of the wiki media movement of wikipedia is Free knowledge for every single person And goat on the planet I actually have no idea how this started But it's the Germans I know I'm sure you didn't have to tell me that But you know we're We're still having an amazing and growing impact around the world and this number I just found out this number in the board meeting when I arrived 1.4 billion unique devices now It's really hard to get from that number to number of unique visitors And I wish there were unique visitors but 1.4 billion unique devices is a really interesting measure of our impact and You know, I just think it's it's phenomenal And what else can you say other than that? How has this come about it's come about of course through Hundreds of thousands millions of people editing a little bit But it's really come about from the leadership of the people who helped to grow our communities So I've got a few Events and things just to call out that We're Sorry, I've got to change the way this is So this is a picture from the Central and Eastern Europe conference anybody here from there yay So this is conference in Armenia they built this amazing sort of logo globe thing We had the conference a wiki conference India Hundreds of people participated More than 100 wiki medians from India Pakistan Nepal Bangladesh and Sri Lanka received scholarships to attend Focusing on gender bias. So that's an important concept We have one of my favorite things wiki loves monuments 2016 competition. This is a stunning photo the 7th annual Wiki loves monuments. Here's what I loved about the note about this this photo This this photo one first place It was a lawyer who works in this building and he said he's not always liking the place I thought it was very amusing. It's like I mean he walks into work. He's like no this building again So we've got Wiki and Daba The wiki African community As we all know this is a real area of Excitement for the future. This is an area of the world that we've lagged behind And so the people who are doing work there to grow those communities Are really amazing people and we're really starting to see some amazing and really fun progress wiki women camp in Mexico Of course, I had to also give a shout out to our communities in Turkey and in China, obviously the You know that they they they block of wikipedia in China has been Up and down over many years and that community has stuck with us and really kept up the hard work For many many years, but the block in Turkey is a new thing And I just think we should all stay in touch with them express our support They're working under difficult circumstances and hopefully we'll get somewhere with that in the coming year we have a lot of A lot of milestones and anniversaries. There's actually far too many for me to actually Tell you about all of them, but there's a handful that I did want to go through one of the great things Spanish Wikipedia celebrated its 16th birthday And this is a really cool thing that the wiki media in Mexico Has worked with the Mexico City Metro to do a Ticket for the Metro. So they're going to print 10 million of these tickets So people will be getting on the metro and seeing the logo and hopefully some of them will think Wikipedia I should I should start editing We have this amazing glam work going on all over the world one of the big achievement this year Is that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York released more than? 375,000 images And indeed did so under CC zero license, which is very very free License, so that's very very exciting. We have Richard is Richard. I can't know how to pronounce his name nipple We can meet in residence at the mat and so he's helping to integrate those across all the projects We have The community health. This is a photo from the MoMA editathon in 2015 I would say the big thing here is the Anti-harassment tools initiative. This is something That I think has been a long time coming The community does a very good job of dealing with harassment, but clearly Really appreciate and really need all the tools that we can create to make that easier Another fantastic thing is there's been a three million dollar grant for structured data for wiki media commons We've been looking for this kind of upgrade in the community for a very long time So that wiki media commons can become more functional and more useful for not only for our projects But for all kinds of projects who need access to free Information wiki media commons has reached 40 million uploaded files Hot on the heels wiki data reached 30 million items I Love the barcode cupcake logo Community we don't really always talk that much about wiki voyage German wiki voyage one million page of it Arabic wikipedia has reached five hundred thousand And Serbian witch an airy has reached two hundred thousand entries Very eclectic group of things here and the Ukrainian wikipedia has reached 700,000 articles, which is a really an astonishing and remarkable thing This is just a handful of the milestones that were reached around the world And we could go here we could we could spend hours looking at all the things that have been achieved So let's all let's give one more round of applause for everyone Then we come to unfortunately the the sad bit here a little bit of in memoriam for users who are no longer with us user Koya Koya was a pillar of the francophone wiki media community joined more than a decade ago was an active editor prolific Contributor to commons and wiki data made more than one and a half million edits across wiki media projects This photo is one of his more famous But I think it's really worth your time to go and look on commons to see all of the amazing photos that were contributed Gion said if you've ever had drinks with wiki medians in Paris you may have met him And his sudden death at the age of 38 was really heartbreaking for many of his friends and colleagues Of course, we've all heard about the the sad story of vassal cartabil Executed in in Syria. We've we've talked about that quite a bit at this conference So you all know the story for me. This is just a moment for for us to all really think about Redoubling our efforts to really Share knowledge to help other people share knowledge and also to reach out to colleagues who we know are working in difficult places To help them learn how to stay safe how to use security tools anything you can do to help Could could actually save someone's life So now we're gonna come to wiki media a year. This is one of my favorite things and put a lot of thought and time into into selecting with the help of some of the people at the wiki media foundation And unfortunately this year the winner Felix Felix naughty He unfortunately couldn't be here. Let me read. Let me read the dedication And then I'm gonna show you something really fun So in February 2017 Felix welcomed 50 attendees from 18 countries to Accra Ghana The gathering represented Africa's second ever continental gathering called wiki in Daba Felix has been a leading voice in the wiki media movement for a few years But in 2017 he has sparked an incredible growth and activity both from Ghana and the rest of the continent wiki in Dama 2017 has become a new model for regional community events and the letter Felix Drafted to summarize the events and its future needs have been adopted by wiki meetings in other contexts including Iberio conference 2017 he's been an inspirational member of our community and his work to support the wiki media project for this I'm announcing Felix naughty as wiki median of the year and now if we could just just hold your applause because now if we could run The video please Just think how awesome. It's gonna be when computers don't suck Here we go volume volume Unfortunately couldn't be in Italy with this last year, so I brought her to help me with something really fun This year's winner also has not been able to make it to wiki mania due to a Visa issue, so we're gonna call Felix up. Yes. No idea We're calling up on a video chat, and I'm gonna let him know that he said we keep eating in the air Hi Felix Hi, it's Jimmy and Emily As you probably know Emily won The wiki meeting of the year award last year But she wasn't able to be at the conference, so I've asked her to help me announce the wiki meeting of the year this year which is Felix naughty of Ghana Wow Oh my god I really love the work you've been doing The wiki conferences and really building up the community there locally. You're amazing. It's really fantastic Congratulations Yeah, so next year you'll be in Cape Town, I hope and then you and I will call the next one Thank you so much for this You'll have a Wikipedia article about you by the end of the night, I'm sure And So Emily is Emily is here if you want to stand up Emily as you know was one of the winners last year And help me make this presentation. Oh and Rosie of course. Yes right Fantastic, so now I've just got one one honorable mention and This one is is quite interesting I think so Diego Gomez I've actually been surprised at how Little attention this case has gotten and I wanted to let you know about it So Diego is a graduate student in Columbia And and what he did is he? He on a closed Facebook group. He said shared a single academic paper with his colleagues Which was unfortunately under copyright and Columbia under pressure from the US a few years back really ramped up the criminal penalties for copyright violations and he was prosecuted for this and You know you see the group of organizations there who've been supporting him I've supported him a bit But this is a really alarming type of case and it's the kind of thing that we should really be making a lot of noise about The good news is that he was acquitted in in court of the crime, but the bad news is The other side has appealed and so now it's going to go to the Bogota criminal high court so the process continues and There is a fundraising campaign to help him if you go to the website Sharing is not a crime.org And Neil Shockey who is here somewhere here from Spark open has pledged $500 matching gift of his own money to If people will will donate to help him he needs help for his legal Expenses and I'm going to match the 500 as well So please go and read about the case Help him raise awareness of the case advocate for him And if you've got any you know spare change to send to help with the legal defense that would be very much appreciated as well So finally wiki media 2030 I just want to close with a few thoughts on this The movement strategy Process is one of the most important things that we've been engaging in If you you know it's beginning from in January 2017, I'm just reading from the meta page We the decision of wiki media movement started an ambitious discussion about our collective future We've just released the strategy Direction this is different from a plan and Analysis and so it's a process that many have described as exhaustive messy and fascinating And so we we now have the draft direction And so we considered at the board meeting and you've heard all this before but I just wanted to say this myself at the board Meeting there was a consideration What we want to do is to get all of the movement groups all of the various disparate entities to endorse the direction And so the question was posed to us did the board want to endorse first and I'm I'm often stupid, but sometimes I'm quite clever and I said actually shouldn't we go last Because the board Deciding things top down and trying to convince the community has a very very bad track record of success On the other hand bottom-up processes, which is exactly what the movement strategy process has been where all of the groups and all the organizations in a long and tedious and exhausting and exhilarating process Come around to a perspective that we can all sign on to And then as the final thing for the board to say thank you community We agree with you and we support you that is a much better way of thinking about a much better way of doing it I think the most important thing as you as you look at the The direction of the strategic process is that it is not necessary to agree with every single detail It is not that kind of thing. This is not a prescriptive 700 bullet point document that you have to agree with everything and it's just an endorsement that hey We're moving in generally the right direction And so we hope that lots more people will get involved lots of organizations will get involved Giving feedback participating in that process Because I think the only way that we can really have An action in a particular direction is that we have a general consensus. It doesn't have to be perfect It's just like a wiki But as long as people are in general agreement that this is the direction we want to go Then we can be successful So now that's all I've got. So thank you I'm bringing up the Chris soft There's been to 10 wiki mania's Said to conclude not much Thank you everyone I'm gonna do that in English not in French. Sorry and wish I could have I Can try to do the two of us at the same time then it's gonna last 20 minutes. So I'm not gonna It's been five days for most of us that we've been around for three days. I know you I'm exhausted. Are you tired? Yeah So I have to make the job. How is it go team? Thank you So what wait for you turn So I'm here to make this thank you I'm gonna thank every of course everyone that is in the room right now. Thank you for being there. Thank you for participating this cutting Engaging It has been one amazing wiki mania. I mean, it's been my 10th but this one is perhaps a little particular because he has a An energy and a feeling that it felt really really good every time we had discussions was really positive discussions I'm gonna have to say that but it's been a long time since we had a week. We had we thought no drama No surprises. No thing that hey, did you hear what happened? Oh, hey, did you see that email? Nothing just good discussion with good people and having fun and thinking of the future Also, we'd like to thank everyone that did not was not able to attend whether they couldn't whether they didn't get the visa and that Watched us online or what at least the plenary is online Even though they're not in the room. They're part of the communities and the coming in the discussion. So we have to think about them I was so like too much last thing. I'm not lasting. There's many to come And is that this has been perhaps one of the most open wiki mania we have had We've had a lot of people that are coming from the outside way more than usual. We've had sessions that are way more than usual We're done by people from the outside would be I'm not gonna start saying them But ACL you move CC and modular and so on there have been many many and feels really good because at the same time that the program was made the strategy direction was being done and The two came together and it was not by design, but they still came together Which is kind of a cool thing because it means that From every single part of the movement. We are all moving the same direction We're all have we all have an eagerness to be more open and to talk with more people and to engage with more people So And nothing that I've been asked by someone to say About the strategy direction so a lot of you have attended sessions of feedback discussions about the strategy directions And we have been talking about strategy directions. The fact is it's a draft strategy direction So it's not finalized document So what has been happening all across the three days when you attended strategy discussion is you provided feedback opinions Advices on what was the content what you didn't understand what you didn't make any sense culturally for you because it's an English And you know, it's not making language and all of that feedback is being put together by the strategy team And they're gonna get back to that draft strategy direction and work on it make it better Improve it based on every single feedback you have given on the result of the work that has been done by everyone for the last year So if you have Add feedbacks and you don't think you don't know what's gonna happen to the feedbacks. They are being processed listen to and then it's gonna be adapted and So now I'm gonna move to the part where I have to think a long list of person I'm trying to make that not too much boring, but doing my best. So first of all Do I have to click myself? Yes Do you have to pass? Yeah, so I'm gonna thank the sponsors of this week mania. So we can be a foundation. Thanks to ourselves. We're awesome Thank you to Wikimedia Canada for For having the crazy idea that organizing a week mania is a good thing for your health and their Sleep. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. So to be in queue. I see that in English Which is weird to we can how my box Google the Lofi de Tourisme de Montréal, which I can say in French gamepedia I'm gonna go to things people now to the people that make that conference happen I hope you had a really good conference. I had And there was a lot of people you haven't seen so you've seen Phoebe on stage But there have been many many many many more people that engaged for months So that we could have a good time in Montreal. So oh Yeah, so I'm gonna Ask the week the Canadian team to come on stage, please in order. Yeah, you can applaud them. You can even send up So So Thank you. So as it is customary. I have a gift to give to Benoit so Yeah so So it is not wine, but still it's something that gets to be drinking to be drunk drunk Yeah So if you don't know what it is, it is a It is a it is a liquor and the pier inside the bottle is bigger than the hole to put it in here So there's a mystery on how you get there. It's very good. If you want to have some you ask Benoit. Thank you So, thank you very much for everything you've done So many more person to Keep on thinking so this one I will not ask to come on the stage just because there are many and then it would take 40 minutes again There's a party to attend so I will ask to you the W I mean the Wikimedia Foundation team to stand up. So a young Luiz. Oh Erin Lasse to stand up. So oh You're in tape Blanca Perez and and Riggs and Dorin Duncan Yeah So I just said a few names. I'm pretty sure that most of you don't know any of them. That is bad Do that people that make it happen along with the team the local team. They are Take care of a lot a lot a lot of issues along the week so that you don't see it So you have big things to give them and if you see them at the party Buy them a drink. It's paid They appreciate that and of course Thanking the Sheraton auto and AV staffs that make these are possible And now we have to thank the pre-conference team So I'm gonna ask the people to stand when I call the name. So the brand in Russia Rachel for the action part So as you've seen there have been many jokes about goats like a lot like a lot a lot There's even fabricator tasks with goats and everyone is wondering where does it come from what the story behind goats and I could do things I could either tell you the story which would be really cool Or I could kind of embarrass them or not embarrass them, but make them tell the story So not now, but they're gonna be at the party. You see them standing. They are having fun and they are delighted Everybody is talking about goats for three days Now you're gonna get to be able to go to the party have drinks and ask them why goats still on the pre-conference Team so and really came in by RV and the team of the Wikimedia conference, North America. That's happened two days ago Stand up Yeah, so also to stand up Jamie and Steve Maria Cruz for anything the learning day is one more year I And James high on them for the week you project man. No, we don't think the Q-ness station. We love them Same thing if you don't know what the Q-ness station is ask around tonight the party It is part of the meme we have now get to learn about it by asking to your fellow weak medians They're there. They're the one that controls the movement, but nobody knows And so now I'm going to ask some people to come back on stairs Mainly when namely the program committee that took care of organizing all the session you attended and how doc you attended So and you can upload them widely Phoebe the whole and Guillermo's co-chairs of the program So you have you would have to thank them for the awesome wiki data Session that happened really wide rooms where you had space to attend surprise it wasn't Big success and so a gift flowers. You didn't expect that and again during the party go to them Thank them give them love and hugs they've spent a few months working in the program and they deserve that too and Finally Now I get to make nerdy jokes. That's cool So you've seen around there have been people facilitating and they're playing you all all week long Unlike the ones from the Star Trek's original series they survived it. So please all the red shirts stand up So again, thanks to all of them you will be able to have a decent conference Where everything went pretty smoothly and we've really told problems. So you have to thank them too And what's next? And I'm done. Oh, no, and then so This is ending. I mean we have a few hours to enjoy wiki mania Perhaps tomorrow morning at breakfast. We will see each other a little tired And it's a good thing and as every year we're gonna spend the next two weeks Wondering why we ever left wiki mania because it's such a good thing to be here But the good thing it comes back. So I will ask the team for the wiki mania 2018 to come on stage So I'm gonna leave the stage for them because it's about them now and about next year So, thank you everyone. I hope you will have a hand a good hand of wiki mania We will enjoy tonight. You will talk of memories and see you next year. Bye. Bye I'm gonna ask if we can play the video first and I'll speak second video. Yes, please Bungaban do a person is a person through other people This is the core concept of the African philosophy of Ubuntu. I am Because you are Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge That's our commitment Welcome to Cape Town South Africa's mother city the location for wiki mania 2018 a vibrant inclusive modern city our venue the University of Cape Town Which lies on the foothills of Table Mountain? The highest ranked university in Africa and the oldest in South Africa Will ensure you have a great stay in Cape Town and enjoy your time at the conference Africa needs wiki media just as much as wiki media needs Africa Cape Town home to the students and alumni of Sinai jungle high school Who successfully petitions South Africa cellular providers to supply Wikipedia free of charge? Sometimes you see the rubbish and you think it's useless But once you dig deep in that rubbish you might find gold I'm looking you can be here to study at the University of England. They have four majors and statistics I have never valued education is I value it right now where I'm at Once you do actual science you notice that it's not about what you have But it's about how you use what you have and the how comes from being educated And so that we can have a lot of resources, but a population is not really educated So we don't know how to use our resources effectively. I don't think it would have gotten where I am right now Without the help of Wikipedia. I don't Once you educate you can think originally and if you have a heart and you educated There's nothing that's impossible to you I want to become a medical practitioner because I want to give back to the society I want to change people's lives Wikipedia I can say it happens a lot because I learned there and I found my career there Electrical engineering that's my future career now When I'm older, I think I'll become a surgeon or a neurologist. Yeah, I think of myself being big There are very few female geologists and I want to change that and show that we are also capable of something best in life And then this other day Pete told us guys, do you know that you could write up your own articles on Wikipedia and we're like really Our class went out together to take pictures of Joe's level We could take them and we can put them on Wikipedia I myself am proud. I just want the world to see the places that we are coming from There was so much that was not there on Wikipedia that we could add, especially in the course of Wikipedia Wikipedia on our own language I'm trying to write an article about omnosha. It's going to be a new article It will travel me more females in my den. There are something wrong. It's supposed to be Dalibu Your host, Wikimedia South Africa and the African Wikimedia community Welcome you to come home to Africa Bringing back Wikimania to Africa has been a long time dream of ours Especially us in sub-Saharan Africa We really look forward to making next year's event a truly African event I'm going to let the cat out the bag now with a little spoiler Next year we plan to have a theme. It's going to be a themed event Which really fits in with the African context of next year's event That theme will be bridging knowledge gaps, the Ubuntu way forward And by Ubuntu I don't mean the operating system I mean the original meaning of Ubuntu Which is the African philosophy of I am because you are By that I mean like I am who I am because of you So if I harm you, I am harming myself If I help you, I am helping myself I'm making myself better as I make you better In that respect I would like to introduce the team for next year's wikimania Because organizing a wikimania is truly a team event Just like organizing a wiki, just like writing a wiki is truly a group process I mean it requires all of us Truly in the spirit of Ubuntu Our team is the South African team for organizing wikimania Cape Town Here we are Now unfortunately not all of us team members could be here today Not all of us from Africa could be here today In fact very very very few of us could be here today Next year we really hope, we really intend to change that And have a really significant African presence at next year's event For example, Dumasani Ndebena, Bobby Sabangu Who is a fantastic voice you heard in the video Infosella, Kunarad Lubsha, none of these folks could be here today We intend to help change that Partly through, as Catherine announced a couple days ago Re-awarding the scholarships to people who already received a scholarship to this year's event And were unable to attend for visa reasons So thank you very much Catherine Additionally we do not expect visas to be a significant hurdle for next year's event We're already putting in place processes to streamline that process We talked about the scholarships Yes thank you This will be the first Sub-Saharan of Wikimania in history Certainly the first one since Alexandria almost 10 years ago And we really look forward to welcoming you all to Cape Town next year in July 2018 Thank you I'm back because with that I think it is truly the end of Wikimania Except, except, except for the party So, I'm getting there So the party, that's the address of the party It is very nearby It's the thing that comes up when you search for Windsor station on the map One block away There is a map on the program schedule Or you can follow everyone Again dinner from 7 to 9 And drinks after that until midnight I believe We get kicked out And the photo How do you want to do this Victor? So Victor has a ladder Victor has a ladder And what I would suggest is that we attempt to huddle So if there's, nope Do it Victor is going to direct to you Thank you, thanks everyone Hi everybody, so this is take two If you can, come towards the center in front of here But stay in your seats Find a new seat, come towards the center But we're not going to be standing for the photo