 The poster session was great because it was such a different variety of topics and people had, you know, talking about projects that they were working on, trying to get people involved in the projects that they were working on. The black poster is the one that I did. It was inspired by Heather Ford's book. I found, I read it, I was a bit reluctant, not reluctant to read the book, but it, you know, it's sort of any academic book, it's a bit like, oh, it's going to be quite a hard slog to get through. But it's actually really, it's not written as an academic textbook. It's, you know, it's obviously an academic style, but it's, it's really engaging and the way that she kind of talks about the process of creating the page that eventually became the Egyptian Revolution page. It's quite kind of pasty and it's very like, it's really engaging the way that she wrote it. And so I found it quite like a bit of a page turn or what was happening next. She interviews a lot of the editors. Some of the editors remain anonymous, you know, and she tries to find out, a lot of them just stopped editing after a particular point of time. So, so she, she tries to find out a little bit more about why they stopped and, you know, and this is a sort of over an intense period of sort of 20, 30 days of editing. And the book actually inspired me to do a bit more editing than I do, which is virtually nothing. So I actually got off my ass and made a few pages after this because I think the, the whole point of it was that, you know, things don't happen on Wikipedia unless someone actually does them. So it was like, right, Kelly, make some pages. So that's what I did. It's, interestingly, it's a celebration of Wikipedia, but it's also a critique. She talks a lot also about some of the issues and about how, how can pages that are supposed to be developed through consensus. And she points out ways that particularly through this page creation failed in terms of things being changed from being the revolt to revolution. While the, the consensus was still the discussion was still kind of happening on the, on the talk page. So anyway, read the book. It's, it's a really good book. So when we were thinking about doing applications for Wikipedia, I thought I don't want to apply to do a talk because I don't feel I have enough. I don't have enough knowledge about the project to even stand up and talk about it. But I thought I do this would be a nice way to dip my toes into Wikimani by creating a poster. So what I wanted to do was show the page history from the start back in 2011 right up until now to sort of visualise the frequency of edits and the volume of edits. I wanted to zoom into the period, particularly around the revolution and the sort of the main timeframe that Heather concentrated on in her book. I wanted to show the sort of intensity of editing over a period of one month. And also kind of acknowledge some of the editors that that really, you know, like some of them were actually in Egypt at the time and speaking out wasn't such a good, easy or good thing to do. So sort of, you know, there's, I think heroes are not the right word, but you know, these people who are actually trying to find out information, also really aware of having to find sources. So they reached out to Al Jazeera to try and make some of their images available to put on commons. You know, so that they're actually all doing the right thing and they were also trying to educate kind of this flood of new editors that also wanted to go in and have their say, so not only were they trying to create content themselves but they were also trying to maintain the page that was kind of being bombarded at the time which I imagine is going on right now with some of the pages around Israel and Palestine like trying you know all of those editors trying to protect the integrity of those pages in events that are happening in real time. So what I did was I, I know that media provides quite a lot of tools to extract data, but I like to work within R which is probably in some cases not a great thing because it's probably easier but I just like it in terms of the workflow. So I won't describe what I did but I just extracted all the page edit information from the history page. And I did it in a really hacky way, but I just scraped the timestamp the username and the article bite size. So then I could calculate the size of the actual edit, how many edits were made in a day and the size of those edits. And how many edits and the slides of edits were made by each username and that sort of date of the first and last edit of each of that kind of top editors as well to kind of see like how long, you know if you're in the top 10 how long you actually editing for. I used a tool called our vest which scrapes data from the history pages so it just basically pulls down an HTML page and then I pick out all of the different kind of HTML elements. I use a like a kind of scripting ecosystem called the tidy verse. And I use a tool called the plier for just doing the tidying and the restructuring of the data and just doing little simple calculations. And I use a tool called gdplot to to do all the visuals. And then I kind of got the got the graphics into a kind of presentable, and then I chucked it into in design just to do all the layout and sort of more the typography. So the poster can be found at that link. And then I've also put all of the code if you're an user up on GitHub. But it's all of the other posters. If you just sort of Google poster session, not Google, go into Commons and look up poster session Wikimania 2023. So the top is like literally the day of the first edit to the day of the last edit. So in 2023. And then if you if I can zoom in here I'll just might go to just look at the desktop version. You can zoom in and have a look at. So I've got like little green bars for bytes added and then bytes deleted so you can kind of see like and that was total in a 24 hour period so you can kind of see sort of the intensity. There's like small edits and then all of a sudden come on someone comes along and deletes heaps, and then someone either comes back and restores it. So you can kind of see that. You can kind of see. Can you see this now. Yeah. So this is sort of like the page is getting bigger and bigger and bigger and then there's sort of like a bit of a, you know, a cull and that's kind of this. There's obviously people who come in and then just try and delete the whole page and then it's restored and things like that. So you can kind of see that there is this kind of kind of periods where a lot of content gets added gets added gets added and then there's a big edit like a kind of cull. And those edits are usually done by some of the people who probably were much more involved in the topic involved in the page they were editing it for a really long time. But it's kind of nice to see like these sort of intense sort of periods particularly in that first sort of few months. And then I just looked at page the number of page edits per day, sort of in a month period just zoom back out a little bit. So you can see like at the peak around January 30th, sort of the amount of editing that was going on. And that was sort of the period that these sorts of protests which was called like the Friday of anger and then there was a day of a day of protest. So there's all these kind of themes on each day just and the protests were getting larger and larger and larger. And then here is kind of like a kind of it's sort of very similar to this one but it's just sort of looks at you can kind of see this big sort of cull that happened at this period. So it's kind of like lots of facts get accreted accreted accreted you know it's building it's building and then someone goes right. I've just got to clear this article out of all of the rubbish and we're going to actually try and get it back down to you know get rid of some of them all the superfluous information and then that that sort of size of articles sustained sort of for the rest of the period that was sort of quite still quite, you know the events were still kind of happening in real time at that period. And I wanted to look at, okay out of the top sort of Heather interviews all these different editors, particularly a person named the Egyptian, Egyptian liberal, whose, whose names never sort of revealed, and another person named LaHass. And I think a Kazis is a really well known editor. I don't know if any of you know him or know of him. But he's a just a generally well known editor. And he sort of came on board in the early days as well to try and help out. He's based in America and I think Egyptian liberal is based in Egypt and I think LaHass is from Egypt as well. But I just wanted to show sort of how many edits are actually doing. These kind of were kind of these soft puppets one was based in Poland another one was based in America and they kind of like either added a lot or deleted a lot so they were kind of, and then I think it was a lady named Aud, who was really responsible for getting a lot of images on the Commons of the protests so she was liaising with a lot of journalists to sort of say can we could we could you release your images under creative Commons could we put them on the Commons, just so we can have images on the page that just phone images or you know they're actually from a reliable source so it was part of the coordination of a lot of these people that the article kind of got written and written from a, you know, I think Heather pointed out as well that a lot of the sources initially were all things like from the New York Times from the Washington Post like they wanted to get Western references because they felt that that would make the article more authoritative. What was really interesting was. So people like the Egyptian liberal and they house who was so heavily involved right at the start kind of just stopped editing after a particular period like Lee house. But his last edit being made sometime in 2011 and then he obviously came back after that. She sort of pulled a lot of the data to do this final edit. And what I found was really interesting. I don't know what happened but a car see did like did not do any editing and then just did like an edition literally the week that I pulled the data so it was kind of strange but anyway he came and added something to the page he hadn't looked at it or edited it for a really long time. So that was just to show try and show like the top 10 page contributors to the page so one was like the total number of page edits, and then the number of days between the first and the last edit. Yeah so that was my poster.