 Hi everyone, I'm Sandra Acheng from Coa Organizing Team and I want to thank everyone who joined the Wikimania Festival Edition this year. It's likely the most, biggest and the most inclusive Wikimania in history and it wouldn't have been possible with the time of dozens of volunteers around the world and thousands of participants who have been joining different sessions. Thank you everyone and see you next year for Wikimania 2023. Stay tuned for its announcement soon. Hello everyone, my name is Anton Mtawangu. I am a member of the Wikimania Committee of the Wikimania Association. I would like to thank all of you who have joined the Wikimania Festival Edition this year. I would like to thank you for the history of the Wikimania Festival and the efforts you have made to support the work of the Wikimania Association. I would like to thank all of you who have supported the work of the Wikimania Association and the work of the volunteers. I would like to thank all of you who have joined the Wikimania Festival Edition this year. I would like to thank all of you who have supported the work of the Wikimania Association this year. I would like to thank all of you who have joined the Wikimania Festival Edition this year. It's likely the most, biggest and the most inclusive Wikimania in history and it wouldn't have been possible with the time of dozens of volunteers and thousands of participants. and it was not possible to achieve the goal of supporting the development of thousands of participants. We will meet you in Germany 2023. Please contact us after a while. Hello everyone, I am Lise from the International Meeting of the Viennese National Team. I would like to thank all of you again for joining the International Meeting of the Year this year. Without your participation, our meeting this time will be very busy, so we would like to thank you for coming to this meeting and sharing your experience of the Viennese National Meeting. We really hope to see you in the next Viennese National Meeting 2023. Thank you everyone. Hello everyone, I would like to thank all of you again for joining the International Meeting of the Year this year. I am Omar from the Organizador Team and I would like to thank all of you again for joining the Viennese National Meeting. It is probably the largest and most inclusive Viennese National Meeting in history, and it would not be possible without the devotion of thousands of volunteers, volunteers and thousands of participants. Thank you very much. I hope to see you in Viennese National Meeting 2023 and stay tuned for a brief announcement. Hello everyone, I am Omar from the Organizador Team and I would like to thank all of you for joining the Viennese National Meeting 2023. I am very pleased to be here with you today because we are very proud to say that we have a great team today. I would like to thank all of you for joining the Viennese National Meeting 2023. Thank you. Hello everyone, I am Anton from the Central Organization of the Team and I would like to thank everyone who made it to the Festival of Vekimania in 2022. This may be the biggest and the most inclusive event in history and it would not have been possible without dozens of volunteers and thousands of participants in this event. Thank you, I hope to see you at Vekimania in 2023 and listen to the news for her announcement. Hello everyone, I am Josef from Turkey and I am part of the committee of the Organization of Vekimania in 2022. I would like to thank everyone who joined the Vekimania Festival. This is probably the biggest and the most inclusive event in history and it would not have been possible without dozens of volunteers and thousands of participants in this event. I would like to thank you and see you at the next edition of Vekimania in 2023 which will be announced in a few moments. The fun thing about writing articles in Wikipedia is whenever I get a feeling whenever I finish an article because you know you've done something good, you've changed the world for the better, you fixed something that was broken. And that's our purpose on Earth, that's why it got created us, to change the world for the better. And things are wrong in the world because that's our job to make them better, that's the whole point of being alive. That's on the big scale. There are many people who I interact with online and I don't get to see them very often and it's a chance to meet those people and meet new people from all over the world. I think that we are deeply linked to the future of the web. Welcome to the city of Mexico. Welcome to the city of Mexico. We held our first regional conference and that was in Bali in 2019 when submissions were called or bids were called for a choice of locations within the region, Perth and Bali submitted. And then those were considered and after discussions with the steering committee we decided that ESEAT as a whole, the region, the hub would be the host of Wikimania and then we thought well we also need to reconsider the options for where we would go. And we came up with the decision of hosting it in Bangkok. From there we worked on setting up Wikimania in person event which we all enjoy. Unfortunately as everyone knows it started to get a little bit difficult to make plans and create events like that and in March 2020 we had to also cancel Wikimania. For that year in 2021 Wikimania went online and that was a really successful event and that's been followed up by Wikimania 2022 which also is proving to be really successful and I'd like personally to thank the organisers for their efforts. Again we looked at, the steering committee started looking at 2023 and they went back to Bangkok and the Thai community and ESEAT to find out whether we wanted to host it and where we wanted to host it was it going to be Bangkok. Now we decided firstly that we wanted to host at ESEAT as a group. Bangkok and Wikimania Thailand decided that things aren't exactly right where we are and that we'd like the ESEAT community to consider every option that's available to them. So we took that approach, we worked and had meetings and discussions with the community. The WMF did a risk assessment for us which looked at nine countries within the region. From that information we narrowed it down to two countries and that was all documented on the Manawiki. I almost slipped up there and told you and stole Butcher's Thunder by telling you where Wikimania is going to be. Anyway we would like to thank the Wikimania core organising team of 2022. They've done a wonderful job. We'd like to thank and acknowledge the core organising team from 2020 and Wikimania Thailand for their efforts and for graciously allowing us to reconsider and look at the whole of the region. So at that point I'd like to, well, I look forward to organe renewal to Wikimania in 2023. And if I've filled enough time and got everything right it's now 4pm and Butch should be ready to take over the discussion. So hopefully Butch you there. Well hello there. I'm very happy that we're meeting again in person for Wikimania 2023. It's been a while, three years. Is it three years? Yeah, three years. It's been a while but I'm happy that we're meeting in a tropical country now 9,631 kilometers southeast of Stockholm. And we welcome you to the wonderful city of Singapore. And we're proud at ECF that we're hosting it in a country that is close to our hearts, central to most of our countries. And the city of Singapore welcomes you to Wikimania 2023. I'm here with Robert and Jacqueline who will tell us about Singapore. Over to you Robert. Thank you Butch for introducing me. I'm Robert editing under the username Robert Ski, primarily on the English Wikipedia. We welcome you to Singapore and we are happy to host Wikimania 2023. We are a very diverse bunch of people here. We have four different major races, the Chinese, Indian, Malay and what we classify as others. But under others we have many, many subsets of people who come from the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and all over the region to come here to live and work. We are a regional travel hub for the region here. Traveling to Malaysia is just under an hour. Going down to the south we have Indonesia and to the east we have the Philippines. Beyond that you can easily transit through air travels travelling to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. All within under the span of eight hours each. Singapore is a tropical country. Tropical country, we are just one degree or so north of the equator. Whether it's hot or wet, hot and wet throughout the year. So you can come in t-shirts, in shorts or if you want to be a bit more formal, polo tee and jeans, you'll be fine. In Singapore we have a very passionate bunch of Wikimanias editing in the free time, in the spare time on the various Wikipedia's. We are just getting started here. Our journey will continue to unfold with many exciting adventures planned ahead of us. With that, we welcome you to Singapore for Wikimanias 2023. Hi everyone, I'm Jacqueline and we can't wait to welcome you to Wikimanias 2023 in Singapore. There are so many things to love about Singapore from the arts and heritage scene. We have also a very extensive university network and if you are a technology enthusiast you can definitely find a space here. And finally the food. We can't wait for you to try them. Hi, my name is Antikun from Thailand. It was so unfortunate that Wikimanias did not take place in Bangkok in 2020, obviously because of COVID-19. So instead, we are going to take you fourteen hundred kilometers south of Bangkok to Singapore. It's going to be the hottest Wikimanias we ever had because Singapore is right above the equator. And of course, we, the ECAP, will work together as a team to deliver the first coalition Wikimanias hosted by several regional affiliates. I'm sure it's going to be incredible and exciting for everybody involved. So please make a room in your calendar and we look forward to welcoming you. Thank you. Hi, so Singapore is an excellent location to host Wikimanias with strong connectivity within the country and among the ECAP region. For those who are into photography, you'll be pleased that there is freedom of paranormal here. If you are here, if you are into wildlife despite being a small city state with high level of urbanization, there are an estimated number of 23,000 to 20,000 species of territorial organisms. Do take plenty of photos or videos when you are here. The 2023 conference will focus centre on diversity, camaraderie and collaboration. Wikimanias 2023 will focus more on active engagement of participants as we return to in-person gatherings. We hope to see you here in Singapore in 2023. Rahmat. Thank you, Buj. Hello there. My name is Rahmat. I am here representing Wikimedia Indonesia to congratulate Singapore for being the host of Wikimanias 2023. And we welcome you all in Singapore. Singapore is a perfect and convenient place for us to meet for the grand event of Wikimanias around the world. And I am positive that you are getting ready to be there and meet your fellow Wikimedia contributors. Hopefully you have enjoyed this Wikimanias and learned new ways to get more involved in building the free knowledge ecosystem on Wikimedia projects. So thank you and I wish you all good health. Okay. Thank you. I think Nangara had to give his message earlier. So thank you Nangara, Jacqueline, Atticon, Robert and Rahmat for your messages. Thank you 2022 core organizing team and Wikimedia foundation. We call upon the Wikimanias of the world to assemble and to celebrate with us the 18th edition of Wikimanias. See you in Singapore. Enjoy the rest of the Sunday sessions of the conference. Bye-bye. Mania, it's exciting to see all of you join. We'll give a few moments for everyone to teleport into this room before we begin our session on theory fact. If you are joining us right now, tell us something about what you most enjoyed from the last session you were in. Seeing a number of people hop in and join the session. Some we've seen in other sessions. Some we've seen at other Wikimanias. And it's great to see you all whether it is morning or evening or whether you're joining us from some other planet. And we don't even know how to think about the time zone. Welcome. Okay. Well, let's get started on this session. This is theory fact or fake, a social for global Wikipedia research. Our goal today is to learn the things we don't know. See if the things we think we know are supported by the evidence. And most of all have a good time and meet others connected to the movement. Today's trivia is hosted by the citizens and technology lab at Cornell who work alongside communities to create evidence for a world where digital power is guided by evidence and accountable to the public. We have myself. I'm Nathan BTS, professor of communication at Cornell University, who's been editing and participating in various aspects of the movement for quite a few years now. And also, Sarah Gilbert, if you could wave at us and say hello. Hi, yes, I am Sarah Gilbert. I am cat labs research manager. This is my first for communion. I also mostly just a reader of Wikipedia. So I'm going to pass it off to a parajita. Hello everyone, I'm a parajita and a PhD candidate at Cornell University and this is also my first with me and you. Wonderful. So at cat lab, we work together with communities to create knowledge that's practically useful to communities contributes to wider debates and tech policy and also advanced both computer science and the social sciences. And we do that by producing research that involves community organizing at events like the research summit we held at Wikipedia and Stockholm in 2019 and by actually creating software that makes community research possible. You might have seen some of our work over the last few years along many different language wikipedia's to test effectiveness of things like thanks evaluating outreach campaigns and also testing ideas for the retention of newcomers across multiple wikipedia's. We're also getting started on a new round of research with a continued focus on non US non English context. So look out for announcements in the next few months, but you didn't come here to learn about a research lab. You came here to learn about yourselves, each other and about what is known and importantly what is not known about Wikipedia movement and how to understand and improve it. And on that line, I'm going to hand it over to Sarah. Thanks Nathan. So thank you all for joining us for our wiki or our wiki trivia game this morning. So we are playing in a fashion that is similar to the sort of trivia style called two truths in a lie, except we're sort of substituting that and really reframing it as two knowns and an unknown. So what we're going to do is we are going to send everybody off and to break out realms, ideally around five people or so per room. And we will send you a form which we have done sites here we will also like it in the chat so that you don't have to type out the URL there. But that will have some introduction questions for you to ask each other so you can get to each other. And you'll tell each other your name where you're located and we've got a sort of an icebreaker question. If someone visited your region, what food would you serve them. And so you spent about five minutes doing that. And then you can spend the rest of the time or however you'd like in the in the room playing the game. So we'll have about 25 minutes for that. So we will send you that Google form or show you a series of three statements so 10, 10 series of three statements. And so two statements about Wikipedia will be established through research, and then one statement about Wikipedia that research has not yet uncovered. So your job will be to identify that which of those three statements is that one about Wikipedia that research is not yet uncovered. So just to note that if somebody is in your group is vision impaired, it might be more fun rather than having them rely on conversations and also a screen reader for somebody to read it out out loud. So that everybody can can sort of play together without having to navigate a couple of different couple of different attentions. So that'll be about 25 minutes to guess the unknowns and then we will come back together to review the answer. There is no, there is no winner competition, but we are at the end planning on writing a blog post. And we'll share some of the analytics of the analysis to see where the friends are, like what everybody knows or what everybody doesn't know. And we'll share that back with the community afterwards. So there's also a link, or a question, our space in the forum so that we can share the blog post with you. Also, if you notice that many states, you can feel free to correct us also in the forum as well. You can do an advanced aside. So first we've got an example just so you can see what we, what we mean. So there are three statements here. The first receiving thanks from editors on multiple language Wikipedia's leads volunteers to express more thanks to other Wikipedia's as well. Also, Wikipedia contributors to spend more time. Mentoring newcomers across multiple language Wikipedia's. And the third adding an image to a Wikipedia biography will increase the views that the article received. Does anybody if you want to know which one is the unknown you can drop that in the chat we won't spend too too much time because I know we want to get to the game. But Nathan, do you want to advance the side to the bottom one is the unknown. Well, we do know that there are efforts to increase visibility of biographies particularly biographies of women by by adding photos there's actually no evidence like solid research scientific evidence yet that demonstrates whether or not that that that relationship between a photo like a photo and a biography actually results in more views even though it seems like something that makes sense. They did do an advanced the slide. I like I like the the the conversations in the chat yeah hopefully it'll be really challenging and you'll learn a lot about some of the research that's that that's out there and that's not will also be providing citations. I'm not sure how, but hopefully we can make the slides available to you after we'll put them online so that you can consult all of the references that we have at the end as well. So, I am going to just drop the link in the chat if you do not have access to to Google forms. We also have a PDF. Oh, I see Nathan has. There's a that's a that's a very awkward length there. And then, and then Nathan thank you Nathan has dropped both in there as well. And so, she is going to put everybody into breakout rooms now. If anybody has any questions, we're going to stay out here but if anyone has any questions, there should be a, there should be a way to call us in for help and then we can kind of pop in and and clarify anything if needed. You can also feel free to pop into sort of the main room and ask us questions and then rejoin your room as well. I'm just wondering, Sarah, or even the Cal. So there's a lot of people who are not assigned to a room right now that are joining but I'm having trouble with creating a new room without closing the ones that already exist. Hello, I hear you. Just one second, let's figure out what to do. There's 17 unassigned participants. I understand, Aprilita, that you're assigning them manually. Yes, but I was thinking it might be easier to just create a new room. Yes, you can also do that. You are assigning each participant to a breakout room so they cannot join by themselves the breakout room so you need to assign them. Everyone who's currently unassigned, yes. For those of us who are just joining us now, we are organizing a trivia and you will be assigned to a break room where you will have the opportunity to look at a list of knowns and unknowns and debate and discuss with your fellow room members what questions, what statements you believe are known on the basis of research and what statements are unknown. So we are assigning people to rooms. Thank you for your patience and hopefully you will have the opportunity to get to know your fellow team members and come back and see what the answers are. Welcome. Sarah, I was delighted to hear, delighted to see that some people were able to guess the true or at least research supported statements and we actually surprised people with which ones were known on the basis of the evidence. So I think it's going to be a fun challenge for everyone. Upper Eda also some people from the breakout room are asking for the questions. We can also thinking include them in the main chat. I will share them and now. Great. Also for Eda, tip, production tip, there are some breakout rooms that change the amount of participants that they're having. So if there's one person alone in one breakout room, it would be good to reassign them. Okay, sounds good. I'll also monitor. I should broadcast that message to all. Exactly. Yes, if not, I can also do it. So, Sarah, there are going to be people in this room on their way to sessions and on their way into rooms and so forth. So I wonder, Sarah, if you can, perhaps we can talk about, we could either talk about the challenge of creating this quiz, or we could try to go through some parts of the quiz in the room itself while we are here. Maybe we could go through some of the quiz questions while we're here. I can open up. I don't want to necessarily change what I'm sharing on my screen, but what I'll do is I will just move my tab down to the PDF of the, move my tabs down to the form. And we can talk about some of the questions and be behind everyone so I don't think there will be any surprises for people. Okay, Sarah, we have this question, which of the following statements about Wikipedia is unknown? We can reliably identify the gender of registered Wiki users based on profile information. Contributions from Tor users that slip through detection, so Tor is an encryption software, are similar to contributions from unregistered new editors. And the reduction of mobility during COVID increased the volume of people seeking information on Wikipedia. However, once mobility returned to normal, the volume also returned to normal, but the kind of information people looked for did not. Which one of these was most surprising to you, Sarah? I think like the two knowns were most surprising to me. That is that the contributions from Tor users are similar in contributions to unregistered users. I don't have, because I'm not a Wiki editor, I don't have it too good of a sort of a sense of like what contributions are like from different kinds of groups, but I have read that unregistered users tend to have lower quality. And so I assumed that perhaps Tor users were doing so or using Tor perhaps. Seriously, which is I think why also they have the policy in that it does. So it was I was actually pleasantly surprised that somebody out there had done this research and had looked at the contributions from Tor users and found that the ones that tend to slip through the cracks. Are very similar to those from unregistered users. Of course, this was a this there are some challenges with a study like this. They are the ones that just slipped through the cracks. There's probably lots that the bot is actually getting who, you know, and for good reason, and for good purpose that they are vandalizing vandalizing Wikipedia. Thank you, Sarah. I'd like to interrupt briefly. Apparently, I'm noticing that there is there are two rooms, room number one and room number six, but only have one active person in them. I am wondering if it would be a good thing to move people, move people between rooms that are good to happen to. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry to interrupt you, Sarah. No, that's fine. The other one I thought was very interesting, the other known, which is the third option there, that the reduction of mobility during COVID increased the volume of people seeking information. But then once mobility returned to normal, the volume also returned to normal, but people's information seeking did not. I am a moderator of a subreddit on Reddit that is also very information seeking heavy. Lots of and we noticed that there was a change in volume on COVID as well. More people going online and asking questions about history. And so it was very interesting to read about how COVID changed people's information seeking on Wikipedia as well and how interesting it would be to do similar studies in different contexts. And so the unknown is the top one. And that was not so surprising to me because I know how difficult it is to identify gender information based on what people say about themselves or what people don't say about themselves. And that gender is often not just a binary, that there are all kinds of folks who identify as transgender non-binary or gender fluid, and that can be difficult for others to identify. Nathan, do you want to talk about the second one since I've been talking a lot? Sure. I had another quick question. I'm keeping track also, but are you keeping track of when we need to bring people back? When did we start? How long do we have this session? When do we finish? We have until we have another 25 minutes. Okay, so if I understand correctly. We should bring people back in about 10 minutes. You have indeed 25 more minutes. Yeah, we should leave 15 minutes at the end. So let's bring people back at 6.15. Our time, yes. Our time. Great. So yeah, this next set of unknowns and unknowns. I was really fascinated to read the first study. So in all of these, we should have said all of these have a citation. So there none of these are unsighted claims. I was really fascinated by the first one here when I first read the paper about this question of whether requiring account registration helped improve the quality of the wiki. It was especially interesting study because it looked at not just individual accounts. Are you able to get individuals who make higher quality edits by requiring account registration? It looked at the overall quality of the wiki where you have fewer people if you require account registration. And that also has large scale implications. And it was a very cool study because it looked at 136 wikis, not part of the wiki media movement, but part of this site called wikia. So that was a really, really interesting study that I first read two years ago. I really enjoyed that one. Oh, I think we actually brought forward a question from our own research here as well. A collaboration with French or excuse me with German, Polish, Persian language and also Arabic wikipedia. This one about wikipedia editors who report spending or who spend more time monitoring wikipedia for damaging content, feeling more emotionally drained, but also more positive about their contributions. It was a really fascinating study and I hope that it inspires more research about the feelings of burnout that contributors sometimes have, but also how the things that maybe make editors feel most burned out are some of the most important things that they care most about doing. So I really hope that that inspires further research about supporting editors, especially people overwhelmed by all of the things that are involved in studying, excuse me, in actually editing wikipedia. I just moved to the next one. Sarah, what was most surprising to you about this set of questions? I was very happy to learn about the last one, which isn't one of the knowns. A study did a project on the representation of music artists and how they are represented on wikipedia. And what they did is they looked at the most popular artists on Spotify and then went to see if those popular artists were then represented on wikipedia and said they looked at thousands and thousands of music artists. And even though female music artists tend to be underrepresented in the music industry, they actually found that they were overrepresented on wikipedia, which shows that some of the initiatives that groups have been taking to increase the representation of women and women's biographies on wikipedia seem to have been working. And to the point that now actually male music artists are comparatively underrepresented. Of course, there are still more profiles of male artists, male music artists on wikipedia just because there are so many in the industry itself. But it does show that when you look at the representation in terms of how many popular female music artists are out there versus on wikipedia, that representation is actually really good. And so that was really exciting to see that some of the efforts that people are putting into these projects and reducing gender gaps is working. And that's a great, great study by the team at Spotify Research who study these things, not just on wikipedia, but also on their own platform. For those of you who are just joining, you are experiencing hopefully the most boring room in this activity. We have breakout groups all across this zoomscape who are discussing and debating the questions that are the statements that we have posed, choosing between knowns and unknowns. If you're just joining us, there's still five more minutes to join a group. You have the opportunity to jump in, meet some other people at wikipedia and discuss and debate these questions. So welcome. And we look forward to coming back in just under five minutes to talk about what everyone guessed. Let's move to question four. I will admit that I was really encouraged and surprised to read the finding from the very first item here that over the last decade, the coverage gap on wikipedia between Europe and Africa has reduced by roughly five times. This is a new result from the folks at Whose Knowledge and the Oxford Internet Institute that showed that efforts to broaden wikipedia's information about African knowledge and places have actually been fairly successful. And actually it's a helpful reminder that sometimes research becomes out of date because previous studies on this, of course, have found very different coverage gaps. And so it was very inspiring to read about that. There's so much more to be done to improve knowledge equity on wikipedia. That was the thing that I found most surprising and a real testament to the great work of so many wikipedia contributors all across Africa and diaspora communities who are contributing from around the world. I see a comment in the chat from Goodness who has said that they are in a breakout room but that they are lost. Can one of us join the breakout room to help out? I can join the breakout room. It's possible that no one in the breakout room has received the briefing at the beginning. And because we were talking through questions, I will join and I'll be back in two minutes. I had control over the slides and I just realized that we can now not see some of the questions to go through that I can share my screen. Sarah, let me know when you want me to close the conference as well. We have one more minute left and then we will close the breakout rooms. Thank you for managing those. Let me share my screen there so we can keep talking about some of the responses. So for this one, we still can't see the whole thing. It's 6.15 now so I will stop sharing my screen then. So it's cutting off the questions for some reason. So I'm going to go ahead and close all the rooms and so within a minute everyone should be back. I suppose it's the way that I am viewing the questions but I just can't read the whole statement for some reason. If you are returning from your breakout room, welcome, welcome, welcome. We hope you had a puzzling and interesting time and I will continue to vamp until more people are here and everyone is back from the breakout rooms. Aparajita, can you let us know when you see that everyone is back from the breakout rooms? And as we will read and go through the answers shortly and as a reminder to our co-organizers, not everyone here is an English first language speaker. So if we speak clearly and slowly that will be most accessible for everyone. Welcome back. All the breakout rooms should be closed by now so we should all be back here. Okay, Sarah, I believe you are setting us up for what is next. So the next part of the trivia session is that we are going to go through all of the questions that you just saw and let you know which ones are the knowns and which are the unknowns. So Nathan, do you want to start us off? Gladly. So as we talk about each group, I ask you to post in the chat what you thought the unknown was. So is the unknown about gender, about information seeking during COVID or contributions from the encrypted internet service tour? The answer is the first one. While researchers have found that some better than random success in identifying gender editor from editor user pages, to do an analysis of Spanish Wikipedia, automated tools can't make judgments about the full spectrum of gender identities, making this an area of continual unknown. Next up, a parajita. You are muted. So is the unknown about editor burnout, registration requirements or information inequality? So if you want to put in the chat and then the unknown is actually about the third one, so information inequality. While many data scientists have made attempts to measure information inequality and coverage on the media, the 2030 strategic plan for both media research includes trying to create something that works across the movement. And this currently is still an unknown. So is the unknown about diverse geographies, editor-thon motivations or email music artists? You can quickly put in the chat your guess now. And the answer is the first one about diverse geographies. While Wikipedia has been successful attracting newcomers who live in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as the 2021 community insights report, or as of that insight report, there has been no overall improvement in the geographic diversity of those tenured editors since 2019. This may have changed in 2022, but the most recent research shows this is the case for now. Many researchers, including the growth team at the Wikimedia Foundation have been testing ideas that can help this out. Okay, is the question about volunteer contributions during COVID, financial support for editors, or the coverage gap between Europe and Africa an unknown? The answer is add your idea, which one is unknown? The second qualitative research conducted with Indian language Wikipedia has found that financial support did not lead to active participation, but it's not clear whether a different approach to financial support would have worked or whether it would be effective elsewhere. Still a big open question. So is the unknown about women in India, recommender algorithms or biographies? And so the answer is the second one recommender algorithms. So in a taxonomy of knowledge gaps, the Wikimedia Foundation suggested that recommender algorithms might helpful knowledge gaps, an area that's still kind of developing in an exciting area of experimentation by the movement and researchers. Sarah is the unknown about reader motivations, transgender and non-binary articles, or the motivations of editathon organizers. And the answer is the last one. While many researchers have worked alongside organizers of editathons in English Wikipedia, a research paper by March Undeskepta based on interviews with many editathon organizers strongly encouraged future researchers to work with non-English organizers to build a clearer picture about motivations in the majority world. We are finding that we were also stumped by many of our own questions, so it's fun to see your responses. So next, is the unknown about Wikipedia reader gender, reader patterns or indicators of conflict? Type in the chat. The unknown here is the third one. While some researchers have created prototypes of fully automated metrics for conflict on Wikipedia, social scientists who looked closer found that what sometimes looks like conflict can actually be collaboration. Aparajita, you're muted, Aparajita. Is the unknown about search engines, notability or feelings of empowerment? And the unknown is the first one. So research has found that while interventions can increase content about women, they don't necessarily decrease gaps in infobox content in late-century search results. While early-risk research has investigated how Wikipedia influences search results, the best way to actually do that is not yet clear. Sarah. Is the unknown a question about harassment, urban and rural users, or the reach of wiki data? Drum roll please. And the answer is research among urban and rural users. Survey research suggests that urban research readers tend to be overrepresented among readers and contributors to Wikipedia. Therefore, less is known about the experiences of rural readers or what might prevent people in rural areas from reading and accessing Wikipedia. And so for the very last question. Okay, so is the unknown in these three things a question about how people use Wikipedia, showing newcomers view counts, or a trust meter? The answer is two. Can we increase participation by showing newcomers how many people have viewed their articles and helping them see the value of their contributions? That's an unknown. It's something the growth team is testing right now. So contact them if you want to test it with your language Wikipedia. So we want to thank you so much for joining what is probably quite a challenging but hopefully an interesting quiz about Wikipedia. Someone has commented, if this were my final exam, I would not have graduated. One of the things that is especially fun about being a researcher who works with the community is that there are many important questions. There are many hard questions. And as scholars, what we don't know and the search for what we don't know is one of the most important parts of being a researcher. That's something that often we as scientists learn from talking with all of you. So we're grateful to everyone who has come to Wikipedia, who has talked about your experiences and your challenges and your work, because that is how scientists learn what questions to ask. So we encourage you in the last few minutes to name someone from your group who you especially enjoyed meeting, or who you think was especially good at coming up with answers. Other things to know about the session is that we hope to publish a blog post with these questions soon. And please, we may have made errors. We might have thought something was known or unknown and got it wrong. We had an item in the forum for you to let us know about our errors. And then if you are interested in connecting with researchers to do your own research about your community, please check in with the Wikimedia researchers list. Look at the Wikimedia research showcase, which is a regular gathering hosted by the foundation of research. And obviously, we're always interested to talk to Wikimedia communities about collaborations with you. So many thanks to everyone who submitted ideas for this. We will post the blog to our website, citizensandtech.org, and if you add your email address to the form, we will send you the blog post, the answers, and all of the other relevant material. And I believe, Sarah, we have it set so people can update their answers or submit another form entry if you didn't add your email address the first time. Thank you, everyone. This has been fantastic. And in true Wikipedia fashion, here are the citations for our questions. Have a great Wikimedia. Welcome and hello to the Wikimedia Sound Logo Project Roundtable and Q&A. I'm saying hi from windy, cold, but very sunny Johannesburg. My name is Matoto Mazadella. I'm the senior manager in the communications department at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm joined by my colleague, Taz. Taz, can you introduce yourself, please? Hello. Hello from a very hot and sticky London. My name is Taz Elias. I'm the brand collaborations lead at the foundation. I'm Matoto's colleague in the brand studio and I am working with Matoto on the sound and music aspect of this contest. So, if you're here today, you're probably curious to learn more about the Sound Logo Project and Contest. It's a project to create a sound for Wikimedia's knowledge and content with you, our volunteer communities, and pretty much any free knowledge enthusiast around the world. We'll tell you more about the details of this project in this session, giving you a project overview and the people behind it. We'll also show you the many ways you can get involved and leave ample time at the end to cover off any questions that you may have after listening to the session. And so, to begin with the project overview, we know that many people around the world are seeking knowledge and information and they're doing so increasingly using voice assistants from their laptops or their phones using applications like Siri and Alexa and many, many more. This is hardly new information. We're entering the internet of things. Our content, Wikimedia content is also on audio devices and it's also increasingly available around the world. Unfortunately right now, this content is often not identified and so the listener probably doesn't know this content is coming from a Wikimedia project. So the Sound Logo in brief is a collection of sounds such as a short mnemonic, usually one to four seconds long. And the idea is that this little mnemonic would be played in an audio interface when content from Wikimedia is served. It's a device that is very similar to the well-known Tadam that Netflix uses and the Nokia sounds for those who are there in the 90s. A Sound Logo offers us, Wikimedia, very many new ways to be identified in the knowledge ecosystem through audio interfaces. And so the team behind the Sound Logo project is a big collaboration. We are incredibly happy to have a global set of community liaisons. I think they're on the call today. And we also have staff from the foundation who are working on the project in various capacities as well as supporters and advisors from department colleagues at the foundation. On the call we might have many of your colleagues as organizers and volunteers. Andy, Bianto, Irina, John and Mohamed, I'm sure they're saying hi in the chat. And I then pass on to Terz who will share more about the global contest itself. Thanks very much, yeah. A few words about the contest design because this is an open global contest which we're looking to crowdsource the Sound Logo and work with one of our partners. So we'll just go into that now. So the contest itself is based mostly on a lot of the previous logo contests that the Wikimedia movement have been integral in creating. But as it's a new kind of contest and that we're looking for sound, there are some new aspects as well. So as I said, it's an open global contest. So it will be created on a WordPress portal which actually means that members of the public and those that may not have a Wikimedia account can participate. One other important aspect is because it's an open global contest where very likely to get numerous submissions and with that comes the need for a screening team to ensure that we capture any submissions that are technically incorrect or could be seen as vandalism. So we're looking for a community screening team to help with that aspect early on in the contest. The final vote, which will be for the final 10 Sound Logos, will take place on Wikimedia Commons. And there will be prizes for the winner and for the other nine finalists as well, which we're finalizing at the moment. So just a word on our technical partner for this project. We're working with an agency, a sonic agency called Massive Music, who have been making Sound Logos and other sonic branding tools for the past 20 years. They're global leaders and they've been working with us for a fair few months ensuring that the contest and all of the aspects behind the contest work and are legally sound. Next slide please. So a bit more to where the community comes in. We're going to have a selection committee who will be deciding with Massive Music exactly which 10 Sound Logos will go to the final vote. Our colleague Murdad, who I'm sure many of you know has been working hard behind the scenes to put together the selection committee. And here are a few aspects of how the Sound Logos should sound, which is what we're calling the brief and it would be included on the web portal as a criteria for entrance. So the Sound Logos should feel human, inspired, smart and warm. All very emotive descriptors for the movement itself. Three aspects which are technical requirements is that it should comprise of multiple layers, textures or sounds. So that essentially means that there should be more than one sound and each sound should happen and play back one over the other. So we had a master class session on Thursday with our partners Massive Music. We went into all of the detail and provided some music production tools and instructions and guidance on how to do that. You'll be able to watch that master class very soon. Your Sound Logo submission should be between one and four seconds long and it should only contain original sounds or sounds that are CC0 or public domain. So there are the main aspects of submissions. Next slide, please. Is that my one? No. Okay. Sorry, I'm not near you. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Awesome. Thanks, Tas. So naturally, we really want to make this a participatory process in most of the contest design. We wanted to indeed, but also in the way that we were making decisions. We part of designing the contest as Tas shared involved a range of community conversations that were led by my Medard who's in our movement communications team. And the objective here was to really offer communities a chance to take in a lot of information about quite a complex and new way of seeking a logo, a sound logo. And we put all of this in a contest proposal in nine languages on meta and had it for review over May and June, inviting suggestions and feedback on the talk page and in other forums, including an email. We also hosted two dedicated virtual sessions that were part information sharing as well as an introduction to some sonic concept. And hearing these, the results, just a snapshot of the results is for us, this was an incredible milestone for the project because hearing many of these questions and comments allowed us to reflect and also make decisions for the next steps of the project. All of this is documented on meta. We were looking out to hear where there was support and where there was no clear objection, allowing us to make the immediate next steps and steps towards the completion of the project clear while keeping you all updated. And this big sort of feedback from the session was that there was quite a surprising and very good to know that this was an exciting project. People are very excited that it's happening and they increasingly want to get involved and want to find out how. And that they wanted something that was that many people really wanted to reiterate was that conceptualizing and capturing and producing sounds is quite complex and takes time and that this process, the contest itself, should not be rushed. And so it's wonderful that we're here at Wikimedia to give communities around the world a preview and a head start to conceptualizing and collaborating so that they have almost a month and a half head start before the rest of the world can join in. Same with the selection. You know, they will comments around how it might be more difficult to make a selection of a sound, which is not the same as making, comparing two logos. One has to listen and take it in. And so we needed that voting period also to have some breathing room in the contest design. And lastly, in absolutely in completely Wikimedia way, this has to be a ways for people to collaborate. And so we wanted, we heard very clearly that people wanting to work or submit a sound should be given a chance to collaborate. And so we found ways to allow for that, including an open library that is on the contest page on Meta that has a forum for one to collaborate but also resources to use leading up to the contest open. And so the best part, how do you get involved? Taz will share more. You're muted, Taz. Can you hear me now? Yeah, sorry about that. So the team are currently working on the WordPress web portal, which will allow us to receive screen and review submissions. We're also looking at how the vote will take place on Wikimedia Commons as well. At the moment, my dad is working on putting together a screening team. So if you are interested in becoming a part of the screening team, please email soundlogo, one word, at wikimedia.org. As I mentioned before, my dad is also putting together the selection committee. Matoto is working on global outreach with more of our colleagues from the communications department at the foundation and also looking at promotion. As mentioned, the workshop happened at Wikimedia a couple of days ago and that will be available for you to review very shortly. The production of the contest promotion materials is also underway. So here's a timeline, a rough timeline. So the submission period for you to submit your sound logo entrance will be from mid-September to mid-October. It will last roughly a month, so it's coming up soon. The final vote will be open for three weeks, roughly from the end of November this year. There will be a legal review where the foundation, our partners, Massive Music and the musicologists and independent musicologists will start their due diligence copyright checks, contracting and clearance, which will take a fair few weeks, but that's to ensure that the sound is unique, can be registered and can represent all of the hard work that the Wikimedia community do every day. And we are aiming to announce the winner in early 2023. So that's a quick look ahead at what's coming up for the sound logo team. So, ways for you to get involved. Here's just a few, but if you have any questions, thoughts, ideas or suggestions, please reach out to the community liaisons and the team as well. So first things first, when it's available, watch the sound logo masterclass. It's very valuable. It goes through the basics of sound logos, where sound logos came from and why they're so important now, at least of all, because many of us are online and many of us are using sound solely to gain knowledge. So watch the sound logo masterclass, very valuable. Next, find and tag existing sounds that are in the public domain or create from zero. We'll be sharing a link to what we're calling the Sound Lab, which is the collaboration space that has lots of sounds for you to use on your submissions and we're inviting people to bring together a lot more. Think of concepts as well. How do you feel the Wikimedia movement could best be represented by sound? So we're asking you to conceptualize that. Take some time to think what sounds represent the Wikimedia movement best and you can start sharing with your community members and concepting together. Capture sounds. So capture sounds on your mobile phone or if you've got a microphone and a laptop, perhaps you can capture sounds out and about. That's a great way to think about concepting and walk your way towards the final sound. And then once the contest is open, submit your unique sound logo to the contest where we'll be screening, reviewing, scoring and selecting. Encourage others to submit sounds as well. This is very important because we're very, very key for the Wikimedia community to submit sounds that represent their community. And then lastly, inquire to join the screening team because we need lots of people to review sounds. We're expecting quite a few sounds so it'd be great if the movement will be a part of that screening process too. So that is about it in terms of ways to get involved. I think that may be the last slide. Yes, that is. We're opening the floor for people to ask questions, share thoughts, feelings about the contest, et cetera. So we'll just have a look in the sidebar. Have there been any questions? Sorry, go on. I just want to say, you know, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has taken the time to familiarize themselves with the contest so far from the early essay that we wrote in November, right up to the consultations in May and June. We appreciate your enthusiasm and your interest and your suggestions and look forward to more. I think the slides may have gone at one point, but we will be uploading these slides to Wikimedia Commons soon after this roundtable for everyone to review at their leisure. Awesome, yeah. I just updated the link for the sound lab. I don't think it was working, but I think that Hamid and I have both dropped those links in there in the chat. So we have a question from the Etherpad. There's some skepticism about the initiative. One of the main objectives from the comments aside is what exact usage of sound logo of Wikimedia is this going to be and in what situations right now I struggle to think of any. Okay, I think we can answer that from a top line of perspective. So in the first instance, Matoto mentioned that the first use case for the sound logo is going to be for voice assistance. In the, I think it may have been an earlier version, but we can certainly share some research that points to a proliferation of sound assistant uses or smart speakers as they're often called, which are used at home like the Amazon Echo, for example, and the Google Apple HomePod and things like that. So those smart speakers as they're called colloquially are used quite readily around the world and use is growing exponentially. And the research points to the fact that a very large percentage and it has always been over 75% of particular searches, which are knowledge based and fact based use Wikimedia content for their answers. We have the research figures that we can share as mentioned, but an awful lot of the time, more often than not, the Wikimedia content isn't identified. It's coming from Wikimedia projects. So we saw this as an opportunity to create something that can identify the Wikimedia volunteers' hard work. And this is just a start. The first use case is for that purpose, but it can, of course, be used for multiple uses, including on the many videos that the movement create that could signify and identify that they're part of the Wikimedia movement. It could be used on content made outside of the movement as well alongside the logos that already exist as part of the Wikimedia visual identity. So I hope that answers your question. If you want to add anything there, Taz? Thanks for the question. And just to add one more resource that would have an exhaustive list of use cases and some of the research that Taz has mentioned, you can find on the FAQ tab on the Sound Logo Neta page. And I will add it here. There was also a request for the session on Thursday, which I actually just saw pop up in the feed loop. There were a few technical issues, but I'll share it now. But please be sure if anyone would like any resources or assistance, please email soundlogoatwikimedia.org. That's a great place to access not only your community liaisons, of which there are five, but also the project team directs. So let me find the link quickly and I'll share that in the chat if there's any more questions. All right, so I think I have found a YouTube link, so I'm going to drop that in the chat if anyone would like to review the Sound Logo Masterclass from Thursday. I'll just double check that's the right link. Before you saw the question in the Q and Taz around the criteria, the screening team will use to utilize to judge the sound. Or is that all in the video? We can. I think it's the two-minute delay between YouTube and feed loop. So we're good to proceed, I think we're good. No, they didn't. Do you see the question in the Q and A? I also dropped in. Let me just write a comment. It's quite simple and the slide should be on the screen now. It's essentially the last three bullet points on that. So the screening team will look to hear if there are at least two sounds that overlap with one another to create a layered composition. They'll also listen to see if the sound is between one and four seconds long, and they'll look to hear if they can recognize any sound or sounds that may not be original or part of the public domain. But this is, of course, this would require further research for the team to speak to the person that submitted it. They will provide rationale and justification for their sound as well. But further to that, the screening team will log on to the web portal through the back end, and as screeners they will have a list of questions that if the answer is yes to one of them, which pertains to the criteria, all they need to do is tick it. So the criteria is there, and we'll be sharing that criteria with anyone that would like to apply to the screening team, and they can make a decision as to whether they would like to do it. It's very straightforward, very easy, not different to anything that what comedians do on our projects every day. The main bulk of the questions is to do with vandalism, because we do need to screen for vandalism. So there'll be questions, could it be perceived as being offensive or anything like that, or not suitable in representing the media. But it is very straightforward. We'll share the criteria very soon. I think there was a question from Tomy, which I'll just scroll back up. It says, Wikipedia is mostly about reading and images. There ought to be an audio side and other sensory perceptions also to it. Why not be welcome to the Wikipedia homepage by a characteristic sound. Make sure it can be turned off, though. As being part of this project, I would wholeheartedly agree because sound is one of my life passions. It would be very useful in ensuring that sound goes some way to representing Wikipedia content, but that, of course, is something that the community would need to rally around and agree in happening. But, of course, it's something, it's a use case that the sound that's chosen could be utilized for. But I wholeheartedly agree with you, Tomy. Just going back through the chat list. Apologies for the technical difficulties earlier. I think there was a question that I may have missed earlier. It says, Taz talked about a session held on Thursday. Can I get the link? I need to understand how the sound level is done. There are volunteers to organize bass and treble training. That is possible, in the case as many of you may know. There's a person that organizes the community songs and is doing a lot of the research that's going to be made available. So, I'm currently working on, I think, four training sessions for volunteers between now and the submission window for Sound Logo's closing. So, the answer is yes. So, we're just organizing. We're figuring out when they should take place to ensure that anyone in the world of sound logo at Wikimedia. To express your interest, I suppose it's available with an ounce on the letter. We'll communicate through telegram and the other communication channels. I see there's quite a few people who've joined since we began, about 43 attendants on feed loop, probably more on YouTube. For those who are just joining, it was a short introduction and overview of the Sound Logo project, sharing steps we have taken so far, consultations we've had with members of the Wikimedia communities around the world and the results, as well as the plans to launch the contest in the coming month during September. So, any questions you have, if you've reviewed some of the material on meta or you attended the master class during the week on the first day of Wikimedia, please share your questions here. We still have time with you. And so, this is your chance. So, there's a question on the Q&A tab. More of a comment. Sounds local to destinations like South Africa. Are they unique? Imagine there could be a huge amount of resources. There can be a huge impact for visually impaired and other individuals. Thanks very much, Andrea. Yes, for sure. I would definitely, I'm going to post the link to the master class that we did on Thursday again for everyone to see how the craft of creating sound logos differs to music production and the standards of music, creation of music, concepting. It's not very different, but there are certain aspects. We spoke about the sounds not particularly pertaining to one specific culture but more of a global movement. And Joe, who led the music production and technical aspects of the master class shared, without drawing that much attention to it, a very, very smart way to take a sound from a very specific locale. So, we used an African drum and then he added things to it and added effects and manipulated it to give it a more global sound as we're calling it, which is very smart. So, I would love to see in the notes, in the rationale of sound logo submissions that participants started with sounds that are local to them and they went through a process to change and manipulate those sounds to give them a much more global sound to represent the global movement. So, it starts with them and it sort of radiates into the wider movement which I think is a beautiful story. So, I think we may have a few more questions. I'll just go through another comment from Tommy. That's amazing, Tommy. This is a question and a request if you are open to collaborating with members of the Wikimedia community who may not have as much experience in audio design as you do, it would be amazing if you could offer your services to help those that may have ideas and concepts that they'd like to submit but may not necessarily have the experience to do so. So, I'll be hoping to see an email from you coming to our inbox at soundlogoatwikimedia.org Another question from Chimery. Can people who are not Wikipedians join in the sound logo contest? Yes, they can. It's an open global contest so anyone can submit a sound. It's as simple as that. We've made it an open global contest in order to get as many submissions as possible because we know that. You know, our colleague Tommy has experience in audio production design but perhaps not that many people in the movement do so we're opening it to allow for submissions and of course the most important thing is that we have Wikimedia on the selection committee to decide which sounds make it through to the final ten so although it is open, those sounds will make it through to the final without a green light as it were from the volunteers. And additionally, since the voting platform will be on Commons, it will require anyone wanting to vote to sign up and log in and have a login. So while it is really open to everyone, the voting portion of the sound logo project the real decision between the ten finalists is most likely going to be made by Wikimedians who have a login. Another comment from Tommy. Having AI choose and manipulate the sounds might add some neutrality to the logo I imagine. That would be an amazing scenario. This is just my personal opinion. AI I think is still relatively fraught with glitches I would say. It's a lovely suggestion. I would love to see the sound logo that is chosen by AI and the sound logo that is chosen by the community. Of course just for my own personal preference. It's very encouraging to see here in the attendees familiar faces people who have joined either the master class or the community consultations or commented on the talk page. Again, appreciate your support and your recommendations and comments and suggestions. Please keep them coming. For question from goodness in the chat, any sound production app you can recommend. I'd certainly recommend creating a sound on a desktop or a laptop computer in the software that I'd recommend to use is called Ableton Live Light. It's free software. It's incredibly powerful. It's seen as being industry standard for beginners who would like to create sound and music. I'll drop it in the chat now. I'll drop a link to it in the chat. If your preference is to use open source software there is a program called Audacity which is a little bit more limited in how you can create. We will also have a list of resources, tools and software on the web portal as well. If you search for any DAW which stands for digital audio workspace have a look through the DAWs that are on offer. Take some time to do some research, read reviews and have a play and see which one you like. The Sound Logo Masterclass is a great place to start. It teaches you the basics on how to create a sound logo for a scratch. We have about a minute left so anybody who's been drafting their question and hasn't posted it yet, please do so now we can answer here. If you didn't get time to share your question here there are various social media groups, WhatsApp, Telegram and Instagram and SoundLogo at wikimedia.org for any questions you have about what we've shared here today. We've got another question from Suyash What about the sounds not produced by any computer software, MIDI etc? Any sounds that are what we would call naturally acoustic that are recorded out in the open world that are controlled by MIDI and in short MIDI is a control language that MIDI keyboards use to trigger sounds so you can record a bird tweeting outside for example and you'd put it in a digital audio workstation and map it to a key on a keyboard and MIDI will be able to play the different scales of that bird sound so you can have a really high pitched bird sound or a really low pitched bird sound like my voice that's what MIDI is so as long as Suyash as long as the sound that you are creating is original that you've recorded or is a CC0 sound, MIDI is fine that's perfectly okay you can record and use as you wish so I think that's us out of time thanks everyone have a lovely rest of your wikimedia and be sure to email us and the liaisons on the email that you can see there Thank you Thanks to the first wiki-banklet at the Kermania really excited to have all of you and today is exciting we want to share a meal together and just chat and kind of have some casual time to eat, chat tell us how wikimedia is going, what you're currently doing if you want to share what you're also eating at the moment that would be great it's a bit early for me so I still can't have food but I will be having some coffee soon and share that as well I see Sandra already sharing so yeah if you want to turn your mic on and your camera on put some little background music and we can take it from there it's big we can make breakout rooms if not we'll just be here and have a meal together sorry to know you were saying go ahead does anyone want to share what they're eating I see Sandra eating, Venus eating I'm not sure who else is eating I'm going to put some background music now actually I want to share with you that during this session I'm going to prepare tabula I prepared the ingredient here and I will cut them chip them and prepare tabula here it's very easy, it's very healthy and delicious tabula sounds really good and I'm getting hungry it's 6.24 am for me but definitely getting hungry just hearing about it and I am at work I cannot talk that much but I am eating dried berries they are so good very nice Venus, Anthony, Sandra anyone want to share with us that I got from supermarket this day so try to stay healthy enjoying it with actually some coke so it's not that healthy on my side but cheers everyone also can you hear the audio well sorry because I'm sharing my computer audio how about you Sandra what are you having I'm having a lot I decided not to take breakfast so that I could keep a bit of my tummy to have this so just finished my lunch and now I'm having coffee and butter cookies but I can't eat that early but anyway I'm about to have some coffee prepared from the Nespresso because I don't have my coffee machine here but cheers anyone else I love tabula in the north anyone else know tabula hello yes much please go ahead it's now 7.27 am here in Singapore I just cooked dinner but I didn't know that there was a banquet but I just I don't know this is my meal I shared it on the wiki meal I don't know if I call it michado or apretada I don't know I'm just confused but that's this is not a Singapore dish but we it's also a Filipino dish that we normally love it sounds yummy but I'm getting more and more hungry hey there Derek how's it going any strupoffle ASMR this time around good morning good morning well actually good afternoon it's just past noon here in England yeah so nice to see you all most of you again after after a year of each of us doing our own wiki things around the world so yeah so very nice to be here I didn't realize this was happening after I had a pre-packed food and instead at the start of the session I went and made two ready meal items so this is number one it's cup noodles is made by a Japanese British ramen brand this one is pork broth flavor and this is instant coffee imported all the way from Malaysia so yeah this is what I love I followed along with recipes this year I have gone out a few times to other events over the weekend including wikimena in person in London so in contrast my own cooking has been a bit depleted I think yeah Venus say hello to Connie that's my wife yes I will thank you Venus great to know that your talk this morning works very well I streamed the whole thing on YouTube so glad to know we fixed all our technical glitches by the middle of day 2 and we are now running very smoothly but I see other saying I want to be in the queue so I wish Lebron J would you like to share yours maybe I can go first someone else can follow in my country we have the food that is called the ogali it's a very common food in East Africa ok thank you so ogali is a very common food in my country and in East Africa I just had a very heavy breakfast so it's not here yet I will just send the link on that if you want to take a look how it looks that is the ogali right now I just have my simple drink enjoying good money here so you are welcome anyone who want to share next what are they eating, drinking, whatever you are please welcome Lebron go ahead again thank you oh man I wish I could get some of all of your food but coffee will do for now anyone else having anything amazing or want to share anything about what they thought about wikimania so far what's been your favorite session or your favorite art culture and entertainment portion my childhood link shared by butch I wish I was in my kitchen now I was very impressed by the cultural offering this year all the dance sessions the pre-recorded open copyright art session and the opening ceremony had the introduction to Ukrainian culture I was very impressed by all of those same I was really impressed by them they were really good and I loved seeing just the diversity of our community from around the world and funny enough most of these were community led so that was amazing to see I was really excited with all of them I think my favorite was probably poetry in motion from United Arab Emirates or Ukraine video was good some of those dances from the dance festivals from South Asia were really cool some of those videos don't have captions it seems so when I watched I could only hear the speaker talking in their local language and it seemed like the language translation didn't work so if I could organize it or even just find the authors themselves to put up captions on YouTube or comments then it can be translated definitely I think most of those will be uploaded with the subtitles I think we probably actually should be I think available already but if not tomorrow they'll be uploaded with subtitles but it was great in general I think also the Alto Mujeres Trabajando from Argentina was really good I really like that out to the South American community and I think Wikimexico was also involved in that one it's really cool I will go back to to talk about my tabbouleh I chipped the persilia and tomato with the salad and just going to add burgul because tabbouleh is with a little bit burgul not so much burgul and this sort of burgul it's very small and olive oil and then I will talk after my tabbouleh about my favorite sessions during this week those are yummy or the instant ramen that Derek is eating as well would be so good Venus we haven't heard from you or your body is a bit off your mic is not well connected I think Venus is trying to rejoin what else has been interesting for you this year at Wikimedia me I was so many things I just read a lot of your sessions one of the most heartwarming sessions for me this year was the Taiwan Indigenous language session on day one I attended the session last year as well and it's really nice to go back and see that they are presenting both the same story as they did last year but that's only the first half of the presentation the second half are things that are new and were done in the past year and I was very glad to see that they are making progress with getting more for most languages through ISO 639 and then on to their own Wikimedia projects and it's nice to see that unlike previous years this year the younger tribal language speakers actually presented more fluently than the older ones and I think that's a great sign for language photographers that's awesome I think it's always great to see the progress of all the projects going on and it's like oh, you last heard from them they were just doing this and we're starting or in another phase now it's like they're doing something amazing so I'm always just very much amazed at all the different projects that go into the communities around the world the growth they have and the impact they have and how amazing the people behind that are running them we've got a group joining in Tunisia on Habibi and his screen yes hello hello everyone what's the most about this year's Wikimedia and what have you been doing in person this year is we are back to in person meeting I'm very happy because we are back to in person in and that's a very very good point we miss this yes technical issues with online events I think we need now to turn back to in person and leave this online events do you agree? it's my point of view I think that is a very common sentiment this year in person Wikimedia 2023 it's a bit of a shame that this session was parallel with future of Wikimedia session I think a lot of what we talk about here and what they talk about there will overlap in terms of what we want Wikimedia to be what we like about it and what should we do beyond next year we are all in the same room joining together very nice what do you all think about the location for next year just showing our first national soft drink in Wikimedia we presented yesterday in our session with Kosko's Shakoka we bring Kosko's Shakoka and pastries from Wikimedia and this is our machine drink soft drink we hope to meet in an interesting conference anyone you have joined just if you want to grab a meal or if you're eating something already feel free to show your video and then also share what is your favorite session been so far or even where you're calling in from I can start with that one I'm calling in from San Miguel de Allende in Mexico it's a very cute town like about two and a half hours three hours from Mexico City and I am watching and producing basically working from here for Wikimedia and I'm actually joined in by Miquel who has also been generally the project we're here working together and just really excited to have the space to kind of just chat, eat and share all together so yeah that's us here's Miquel if you want to see him for a second hello everyone, nice to see you I'm jealous as well of everything that you're eating right now and where I heard you were using as well oil and you were making some nice things so yes yeah we're excited and glad to be here how about you thank you so yes my name is Antonio and I'm joining Wikimania 22 from Dar es Salaam Tanzania, East Africa in case you don't know Dar es Salaam or Tanzania it's where the second tallest mountain is found Kilimanjaro, so you are welcome to Tanzania but I'm really happy to be engaging with you all who joined the Wikimania 22 it's really an amazing gathering that we came up with and you are here until this time the last day we are so happy, so let's have Fanny please feel free to share anything about the conference your food, your drinks as well thank you is Venus back to the discussion, she was trying to share something but her mic didn't work last time yeah please Venus I'm back actually, I was just hoping to ask Virginia to share some famous dishes in Singapore because he was there in the morning talking about Wikimania will be in Singapore this year and I want something to have in my mind to imagine and actually I want to plan for my food schedule so I'm just wondering if he can share with us now or is it too early to plan for my food for next Wikimania are you directing this question at someone specific which isn't in the call I'm thinking about food in Singapore I'm happy to listen to because I've never been there and I want to know a bit more I've got Malaysian style white coffee which is probably the closest thing to Singapore cuisine we've got in this chapter right now I also just did a quick wiki search on Singaporean cuisine of course derived from like several ethnic groups but yeah in Singapore food is viewed as crucial as national identity and a unifying cultural thread okay let's see if you eat pork you should try this in Singapore Baguette it's a pork bone soup with lots of herbs and it's a very hearty meal originally designed for for minor forest workers now it's a signature soup all over Southeast Asia I saw it as well oh gosh that looks so good Judith says in chat says hello everyone Judith from Nigeria I've just had pasta scrambled eggs and potato chips I see what others are cooking and eating and it looks yummy the bhanga soup looks so yummy as well she says hi yeah so I think it's good that I've also gone there's the most air so I've got Kemi Kemi is from the Nigerians and she's going to be having what we call fisherman's soup Kemi do you want to talk to us about this yes so this is a bar our local food made from cassava and as you can see and then once it's made it's wrapped in nylon for you to be able to take it we call it gari then once it's made it forms this a bar and this is a fisherman's soup and taken with it the fisherman's soup is taken by the Nigerian people it has crab in it it has fish in it it has small prawns in it it's made with okra then they dice a little bit of pepper maybe cayenne pepper into it and fish there's a type of fish which is taken in Niger data by Niger data people they had to eat to give it flavor and taste so that is what I'm taking a bar and push a man's soup that's my meal for today well so I'm going to take what we call amala amala is a paste made from yam flour it's very popular in the southwestern part of Nigeria so Judith has spoken about something that is popular in the south eastern part of Nigeria Kemi has spoken about something popular in the south southern part of Nigeria so this is popular in the southwestern part of Nigeria so we got amala it's got soup so there are three soups I'm using to eat this amala now the first is ewaydook I don't know the name in English but locally we call it ewaydook so it's blended and cooked then we also have what we call begui begui is made from beans the beans is cooked then it's also somehow it's mashed into a soup and then we've got the stew that gives the soup flavor and I'm going with catfish amala is a very popular delicacy here in the southwest so most people whether they're from the southwest or not would usually have amala as a staple and it's something that would urge people who come to southwestern Nigeria to have a taste whenever they're here to enjoy this and I see Sandra saying she needs this yes if you find your way to Lagos you need to enjoy this so one very good thing about amala is that and that's because the soup that you're using to eat amala is slimy so it's not something that you would eat with the cutlery like Kevin said you have to eat amala with your hands and when you take a bowl you have to turn it so that the slime does not stain the plate and stain your clothes so you have to do this before it goes into your mouth usually yummy, I would urge you all to test it out oh my, I don't know what to do because I'm so old now oh say go I would like to see a coyote eat it you have to do the turning you have to do the turning you said it's kind of like a soup coyote or like a oh nice, okay very nice the north hazard tabouleh coming along tabouleh yes my tabouleh we usually drink something after the lunch tea or cafe but here I prepared Arabic cafe Arabic Turkish or Armenian it's the same different language who use it but it's Arabic so we do it in this pot and like this and voila I will drink my cafe and I saw another put some kind of food that they have in Palestine can you speak about melochia nada hello everyone this is nada from Palestine melochia actually it's from France it's a plant we chopped it very soft we boiled chicken maybe rabbits you know it's different from someone to the other one then we bought this soft chopped melochia in the water boiled water of the chicken and have a nice meal it's not hard it sure will strengthen your hand when you chop the melochia so you may see the photos of this food on wiki commons but it's delicious I want to be sure about that it's very delicious and sometimes I think it should be the best food for our country because it's really delicious thank you everyone if I may ask you, can I? of course, thank you this is my bad speaking from Iman Jordan just want to take the chance to say hello everyone here all my friends my friends in Tunisia Nanur, Menard, Nada, Venus everyone and so it's really a good chance nice chance to see everything you are doing right now the decisions you enjoyed everything so this is really unique wiki mania it's my fourth actually but yeah I mean even if we are discussing with each other meeting each other from the different parts of the world behind the screens but it's really a good chance hopefully next year we will gather again to see each other in person for me I have just finished my lunch I ate or I had pasta it consists of pasta chicken pieces, herbs and lettuce and the dressing is olive oil with lemon and the palsamic so that's my lunch for today everyone enjoy your meals and enjoy the rest of the day happy wiki mania that sounds amazing Marvat also happy posted an image from commons they are eating now in Tunisia so Habib do you want to speak more about it? yeah absolutely it's not the same thing we are really not quite similar but it's not presented as luchia and the eastern countries we have a special luchia it's very tasty very spicy also the common green is the color and we used with beef and some special about luchia we prepared to cook it on not the usual way we keep it cooking one entire night for eating this food you have to wake it or prepare it in the evening you prepare it for the ingredients and put it on fire very very light fire and wait all the night to be prepared yeah it's green as I showed you the picture because we put the dish tomatoes as much as possible that's amazing Eric has posted a link so you can add your pictures to the sessions page of all the food that you are eating and that way everyone can see it and then I see some comments in feed loop saying I know about the soup being made by Lebron J it is made from palm kernel it is actually a delicious soup and Tommy is saying I am from a place called Hungary which sounds like Hungary but I am good at eating and then someone else says what about a fang soup and cooked and pounded and then a lot of people know about it it's amazing we are coming to an end here but Nor did you want to go before we disconnect I want to show one last thing with the cafe when we finished our cafe there remained a lot of cafe here and what we did we put it like that and we turn that and then we read our chance and destiny in the rest of the cafe instead of saying there are three ways there are three points that will come in three weeks or something like that I will wait to dry that and then see what next Vicky Mania is coming to bring to us it's such a nice way to end the session I was going to ask you if they did also in Armenia but that's amazing thanks for joining the first ever Vicky Banquet for Vicky Mania 2022 looking forward to enjoying a lot of amazing meals with you next year in Singapore together looking forward to that thanks everyone bye bye bye hi everyone greetings welcome to you wherever you are good morning from Toronto my name is Mehdat awesome Wikimanias around the world I see many of you watching on YouTube and on feed loop and for whoever is watching later big welcome to you and thank you so much for being here hi everyone, salam greetings Fibi Eris famously said it's not Wikimania if people aren't frantically looking for Jimmy so I wonder where he is today because he's not here Jimmy wherever you are ready okay wait I have an email from Jimmy guys this is awkward this is the first time I'm emailing you this year okay okay that's not the right one ooh I have another email maybe he's here wait it's Andreas Kobe looking for the Wikimedia accounting convention okay not him either Jimmy hello hey Jimmy how are you I had the right link finally I'm glad I'm glad I'm so happy we're here once again we're starting to reconnect with each other including if you didn't catch today's announcement next year's Wikimania in Singapore it's today is the final day of Wikimania and we're all so happy to be here Jimmy I think we've learned a lot as a movement during the pandemic how do you feel about reconnecting once again in person including some upcoming events like Wikiravia the CEE meeting in Daba French and German Wikiconventions and more oh well I mean it's really exciting I'm very excited for us to get back to meeting in person I mean you know what's interesting about Wikipedia and Wikimedians and how we work is we do we work from home we do all the key heavy lifting just typically as a hobby sitting on our own computers but these meetings the live meetings have such an incredible role to play in the serendipity of sharing ideas in making friends in a different kind of way obviously you can make friends online but it's really wonderful to sit together in person and share a meal and so forth and obviously it helps in many ways to reduce conflict because it's quite easy online to sort of have a conflict with a person who if you met them in person you would both realize oh actually you know it was the online thing that was making us have a conflict so I think it's really important really exciting really fun and actually Singapore when I first you know heard that I thought oh gosh you know it's so hot it's gonna be so hot and see we're actually checked today it's actually hotter here in London and it is in Singapore so who knows what the weather's going to hold in the future absolutely and I can't wait for the ESCAP community to host the Wikimedia movement Jimmy, COVID was a big topic last year a major topic that impacted the world of course it also impacted our movement how do you think we have now that it's almost feeling like we're coming out of the pandemic how do you feel like our movement has really stood has stood its ground yeah I mean it's it's been really heartwarming it's really an incredible thing to see you know I meet a lot of people and one of the things that people they sort of realized it and it was like for the first time they realized that they believed something which is that Wikipedia would be a good place to go for information about COVID you know there was all this misinformation disinformation online I mean I personally sort of almost yelled citation needed at some people in a school WhatsApp group and people on the WhatsApp group were talking about using onions boiling onions in your kitchen to cure COVID and I said this is ridiculous please go read the Wikipedia entry I hadn't even looked at the Wikipedia entry but I knew it would not say that and a lot of people really came to understand through this that oh actually Wikipedia is the place that you can go and you can generally trust it and it's quite good and there's really good people behind it who are trying to make things right and so a lot of people then asked me what did you have to do different how did you deal with this differently and I said you know what actually it's what we've always done it's principles of verifiability all of the processes and the community discussions and the chewing on things and reliable sources and so forth we've always been doing this and so when we face a new challenge obviously our existing principles are the right principles to start with absolutely and through countless crises that really showed us how resilient they are another major topic this year was and still is the Russian invasion of Ukraine which really impacted so many community members and fellow humans in Ukraine we had great coverage from Ukraine over Romania and some wonderful sessions six months later it's unfortunately still raging on it has also had a negative impact on individuals and groups in the movement and also in Russia and Belarus and in diaspora it has also spread misinformation about Wikimedia and other trustworthy sources of information and even threatened access to free knowledge how do you think our movement has faced such crises and challenges in the past you know 22 years well you know it's it's interesting because I do feel that the current times are in some ways worse than we faced in the past around these kinds of issues it's been really rare throughout the years for Wikimedians to be arrested for the crime of being a Wikimedian and it's just kind of unheard of and new ground and it really disturbs me greatly I remember many years ago I was once given an award and sort of the text of the award said I was a hero and in my acceptance speech I said look I'm not a hero I'm just a guy who types on his computer a lot but every Wikipedian every Wikimedian who's working in a conflict zone or in any place where speaking simple encyclopedia truth can lead to arrest or prison time those people are the heroes and that's really something I think everyone in the movement can feel particularly those of us who are fortunate to live in a place where you know this isn't a concern and we are able to just research and write and nobody's going to bother us for doing it and so forth so you know through the years I think one of the ways the movement has dealt with this is actually by staying principled staying true to the truth which means that governments around the world know that you can't just sort of order Wikipedia to be edited to suit what you want and have that magically happen and I think that actually reduces the amount of attempts to improperly and use pressure to change Wikipedia but these are serious times and you know I think people who are out there doing everything they can to keep Wikipedia high quality and neutral in conflict zones it's just incredible to make really incredible people. Truly and our movement has made up a lot of incredible people thank you Jimmy we're really blessed to have such awesome community members and volunteers really from all walks of life contributing to the projects speaking of amazing Wikimediands I feel like it was just last year when we were hosting these events again shall we take a quick look yeah amazing so last year Jimmy for the first time we expanded the award to have multiple categories what were some of your favorites oh well I mean it's having multiple categories was probably long overdue because as soon as we did it it clicked in my mind it just made a lot of sense because we have so many different types of contributors who are doing different things that are all key to the movement so tech contributor, media contributor and so forth and you know I just think those categories are you know something that we might not have been able to recognize those people if we only had one award per year but they're really important. Absolutely and you know last year's award saw winners from profiles and regions of the world we had never had before the top winner was an emergency room doctor that has also contributed a great deal of information to Arabic Wikipedia and elsewhere including COVID-19 coverage we also had Dr. Neta Hussein Jimmy I'm convinced Neta and Allah have more than 24 hours in their genes yeah you know it's interesting how you know when we've got these traditional principles and everything is clicking along and everything is you know sort of and then a crisis happens something like COVID happened and then people really rise to the challenge they somehow manage to have careers and still make thoughtful contributions and thousands of edits you know it's really it's amazing to me I don't know how people get edit so much I'm a very slow editor myself it's truly incredible and last year we also had three winners from South Asia really a first for the awards we got to celebrate tech we got to celebrate photography in distinct categories of their own Jimmy have you been photographing butterflies since Ananya's win last year you know I haven't but you know what I told the story about photographing butterflies and giving more last year to my younger children they were very very interested so they're not really old enough yet to contribute text and edit Wikipedia but they loved the idea of contributing photos so we started a project at home to use an app to identify and photograph all the plants in our garden we haven't uploaded anything yet but we will but I think for me that's one of the great things about recognizing different categories is certain people may say I'm not the right person like I don't know really I don't feel confident in my writing skills I'm not that interested in looking up sources and so forth but I actually am a good photographer and that's a way I can contribute and so and that could be maybe younger people or it could be just people who have photography as a hobby so I think identifying all these different types of people is really wonderful truly I couldn't agree more and we also got to celebrate Carmen Alcazar last year a true legend in the movement Jimmy I know you love small projects last year we had our first winner from Southeast Asia Karma Chitrawati this was also the first time we celebrated a newcomer what is the importance of celebrating newcomers to you? well actually what I would like to talk about now is small projects what I love about small projects is that the original vision for Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet and that means that the smaller project the smaller language projects are of utmost importance and they're really hard they're hard to find people to build them and those communities face huge obstacles in many cases there aren't that many sources in their own language so they have to deal with that and so on and so forth there's so much to be done there and it's really crucial for that the original vision of every single person on the planet having free access to the sum of all human knowledge so that's really great I can talk more about newcomers but let's get to that a little bit later yes absolutely and actually in honor of last year's newcomer of the year from a small project for Balinese Wikipedia we have an awesome performance for all of you from Indonesia to kickstart the Wikimedia of the Year 2022 Awards. Enjoy we are so happy to be here today and to share some of our cultural knowledge with you we are performing an art show which will describe the wonderful Indonesia Wikimedia Janji by Yuyun Arfa the audio is in the other feed already that was a gift from Wikimedia Indonesia in celebration of last year's first awardee from Southeast Asia the group is called Yuyun Arfa and there's another performance by them at the very end of the show Jimmy did you enjoy that? oh yeah it was fantastic I'm definitely going to have to watch it again because for us the people watching probably don't realize we can't actually hear the audio on its on so I was watching and it's fascinating so now I'm here to go and watch the full performance I've watched it so many times and every time I'm still impressed welcome back everyone thank you so much kicking off the 2022 Wikimedia of the Year Awards. Jimmy they say a picture is worth a thousand words do you agree? yeah I definitely do agree and I've talked a fair amount today about photography and how it can inspire different people to join the movement but there's also about media contributions as outreach and how that can enrich the movement so not things being put into Wikipedia but things about Wikipedia and about our movement and that's particularly true because in the past the main way that people accessed the internet generally was go to a search engine, Google typically type in whatever you're thinking about and then you get pages back and obviously Wikipedia gets huge traffic that way but lots of people are living different ways and they're coming to the internet in different ways and interacting in other ways and so that sort of information seeking and engagement is changing and I think that's really important and I think as a movement we should think about that I don't think we should turn Wikipedia into TikTok but I think we should think about how do we reach people where they live so to speak absolutely and there's no doubt that our projects are vast you know Jimmy I've always been curious how deep Wikipedia does go do you know I don't know but let's find out so I like made it during COVID quarantine like early early on like maybe early April 2020 and no I was not I wouldn't have ever called myself a Wikipedia and then I had done a few one-off edits like if I saw something that was wrong and bothered me I had changed things and I remember I added to lists sometimes just like small small edits here and there I didn't have an account I just was aware of Wikipedia and I would definitely call myself at the time like a Wikipedia enthusiast but then yeah I started the account it's like similar to Cool Freaks Wikipedia Club on Facebook so I'm definitely not the sole pioneer of collecting fun Wikipedia articles in any way and I still feel like every day I learn something new about the Wikipedia like global movement or history or just something and I'm I'm flabbergasted by how much I don't know because there's so many little corners of the project that I have never encountered I'm trying to think like there's like a way to make knowledge graphs on Wikidata I had never seen it before it's so fun I was like on a call with somebody and he was showing me the like visualization of the Kardashian family tree which is so silly but I was like are you kidding me this is a Wikipedia thing like I'm just always learning things so this is a very roundabout answer I'm sorry if you're doing word for word quotes I'm going to sound like I'm making no sense hello hello someone has joined me surprise I think part of the future of the movement is outreach to young people so obviously Instagram, TikTok that sort of thing but also getting out for me one of the important things about Wikipedia is of course so very serious business but it should be fun as well and sort of that lighthearted very very dry Wikipedia humor when people allow it is fantastic and you're highlighting that and I think it might actually get people to come and think about contributing who might otherwise just think oh that's like a really dry geeky activity to go like oh actually it can be kind of quirky and interesting from the short list I have selected you as media contributor of the year for your obviously the very active depths of Wikipedia channel using TikTok Instagram to get out the word about Wikipedia it actually says here in the written thing I wouldn't have written it this way but I kind of like it to preach the gospel of Wikipedia is rather amusing Hallelujah did you think in two years you would end up here on a surprise call with Jimmy Wales no not at all not at all I was in my bedroom like in college in my college bedroom just like haha this is funny post post wow I think when I started it I did not expect very much at all I thought maybe it would be a little bit funny maybe it would keep me and my friends entertained and I thought maybe in some crazy world it would become a popular meme page and to me popular my standards were like it would be crazy if I got 5000 followers which is a lot but now it's at you know hi my name is Annie Rourda I run the depths of Wikipedia account on Instagram Twitter and TikTok and I'm so honored to be at Wikimania this year Wikipedia on English alone has 6.6 million articles so of course some of them are absolutely hilarious when I was quarantined in 2020 I started reading Wikipedia more I started editing more and then I started collecting my favorite weird articles that I stumbled upon I started lists of classical music concerts with an unruly audience response or lists of sexually active popes or lists of people who have lived in airports I started the depths of Wikipedia Instagram account in 2020 and since then it's grown to a million followers I started the TikTok which has 600,000 followers nope I'm getting them mixed up TikTok has 110,000 Twitter has 600,000 needless to say it's kind of a lot and I've gotten some media coverage as well I'm so excited to have this massive platform and I have used it to recruit more editors to the site hopefully in sustainable good ways I've hosted editathons with wikimedia in New York City I have one coming up at the Smithsonian in October I generally just try to talk about editing and remind people that this massive free floating body of knowledge was written by people just like them I've also written about Wikipedia beyond the this thing is weird genre this encyclopedia can make you laugh it can make you cry it can make you wonder it can make you smile it's got everything you could ever want to know non-traditional bagpipe usage fictional worms islands and lakes islands in lakes on islands islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes I know of course that wikipedia is not here for humor but I do think that those little moments of eccentricity show readers that this site was written by people like them I like this quote from an article about the history of encyclopedias that ran in the Atlantic and it was also featured in the signpost last year accuracy of course can better be won by a committee armed with computers than by a single intelligence but while accuracy binds the trust and the reader and contributor eccentricity and elegance and surprise are the singular qualities that make learning and inviting transaction and they're not qualities we associate with committees so thank you for the award I am so honored it's been great to meet so many of you at various conventions over the past few years and at the wiki bar in Berlin which if you didn't know is a public space for people to work on open source projects I just went for the first time a little bit ago so you have projects I have a platform let's keep working together and thank you so much bye thank you so much Annie congratulations Jimmy I think Annie has mastered the this thing is weird genre I've never personally lived in an airport but I do have a favorite island in a lake on an island in a lake and that is Treasure Island in Manitoulin Island in Canada Jimmy do you have a favorite list of lists you know it's funny because recently I don't know a month or so ago I met Annie we had breakfast in London she happened to be traveling through London and we met up I told her I was going backcountry camping on Isle Royale and then she started talking about this and in fact on Isle Royale it's a fascinating story this is my fourth trip the previous three trips I would talk about this to my children who I take the Moose Boulder which would have been the largest known island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake because it's this Royal Island Lake Spirit got lakes on an island it turns out and I found this from Wikipedia that in 2020 it was reported to be a hoax someone actually went there to check probably a not a wikipedia but it had been reported in sources and so wikipedia used to say that it was and so now it's turned to be hoax so that kind of stuff like that's it's so cool because just think about how obscure is that and that someone in 2020 when it was reported to be a fake actually went into wikipedia found where it said that and fixed that even though it's this incredibly trivial little detail it's amazing I love it I'm always impressed by how meticulous our community members are once again congratulations Annie thank you for sharing the magic of our projects with the world Jimmy the next category I'm also really excited about first year premiered last year and that's the tech contributor of the year why do you think it's important to bring attention to the tech community well I you know I think this is just incredibly important and it's sort of obvious why it's important just because you know wikipedia has a website and therefore there's technology and it needs to be fast it needs to be efficient it needs to be up to date the user interface needs to be great all of those things are incredibly important everybody knows that but also a lot of it is kind of it's behind the scenes for most people right we don't necessarily see it we don't necessarily understand what's going on it's just some sort of magic behind the scenes and if we can bring attention to these people that's incredibly powerful in fact I don't even know if you know this murder but long before wikimania before we started doing wikimedia of the year awards I actually created I made a day Magnus Mansk a day for the for Magnus who had completely sort of rewritten well actually using a database and it was like a great miracle he just did it because he thought it needed to be done which is why a lot of things happen in Wikipedia so I think we should highlight and celebrate the volunteers who get involved in the technical matters it's really incredible absolutely and getting it done I think is a big model for the tech community let's see this year's winner I'd actually been running a private media business for multiple years like before actually starting the country but I got involved in contributing on Google's code in event which was like Google's event to introduce teenagers to open source and I got involved that way and been here for couple of years after that I think they were like really nice so if you made mistakes doesn't matter people will help you but again hard to get people to review and judge because there's so much to do and so little people I think like the work that the growth team is doing on like making easier like the structured link tools and everything like that make the first contributions easy and I think people will get more involved after that when they see how easy it is Hello Hi there Hi Tavi, I don't know if you've met before I think we have I'm from Wikipedia great to meet you Are you in Finland? Yes There are loads of people who do great work contributing media wiki running bots and tools and things but actually turning away on infrastructure that most people don't even see or know about which is obviously like in a way the most important thing is incredibly valuable I'm incredibly appreciative This year I have chosen you as the tech contributor of the year so congratulations When I saw you I thought you looked pretty young but reading all this stuff I thought oh he's probably going to be sort of late 20s out working a big tech job or something like that I'm sure you will be So if you ever need a recommendation or something to put on a resume this will probably help Well there you have it Tabi you can have me as a reference on your resume Congratulations How do you feel? Very happy Amazing Tabi you said so much to do so little people I'm sure the tech community and staff can relate to that Do you feel Yeah as I said it's a great thing and it's often unsung I mean the editing community admires and honors editors the tech community admires and honors tech contributors but we don't always cross the lines all that much and sort of making sure that the tech volunteers are recognized as great heroes by the wider editing community seems really important to me Congratulations Tabi what will you say to your classmates when you go back to your last year of high school this week Not sure yet Well, big congratulations to you and thank you so much Jimmy last year folks asked us if we could celebrate affiliates as well as individuals Well this year we have a new initiative from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee AFCOM to set a future precedent for inter-affiliate exchange and capacity development What do you think Yeah, I mean the impact of the affiliates movement is enormous and you know the idea really is so in line with the general idea of wiki decentralization and so forth we all know very well that the Wikipedia content and all of the Wikimedia content is written in a very distributed manner by people all around the world and yet not everything can be done in a pure wiki way you need to have an existing organization and some staff are getting certain things done and so forth the idea of top down managing all of that out of California doesn't really make sense what does make sense is all these affiliates and now we have different types of affiliates including traditional chapters and then more thematic organizations that's incredibly powerful and so spotlighting great affiliates makes a lot of sense Absolutely Tabi, I don't know if you can see the chat but you're getting a lot of love and people are so impressed by how young you are Okay, for this next category the affiliate spotlight thank you Jimmy, I fully agree and actually Camilia and Jeffrey will tell us a little bit about this new addition of two categories this year that they are piloting if you were wondering what happens when you randomly join an affiliates team meeting this is it Hi, I'm Camilia and I'm Jeffrey and we're from AFCOM Welcome to wiki mania 2022 awards ceremony in 2022 AFCOM started a new initiative about affiliate spotlight and this new award two categories partnerships and governance the vision behind this is to initiate affiliate mentorship by providing capacity development to affiliates across the movement so yeah, so we're not quite sure what to expect wiki mania yeah, because there's supposed to be like we're married that's supposed to be here so I mean I'm happy to talk more about the weather I have to firstly apologize noise is off today because I've got two brand new kittens I'm trapped in my son's bedroom with them because they needed some attention they are like the cutest wee things I don't know if you can see them but yeah, so I should try and keep myself muted quite a lot of the time but hi I don't know all of the guests I don't think I'm Lucy I'm the executive director of wiki media UK and this is our usual fortnightly staff meeting but with some extra special guests hello hi Jimmy hello surprise I'm sure you're all boiling because I am Jimmy it's like 17 degrees in Scotland so no but oh dear, well it's boiling down south I can tell you very hot yeah it's weird it's because of my window it's being there I think it's a really important milestone the movement to actually recognize governance work we've been talking about improving our governance all across and have been taking some steps but I think this is going to be a memorable milestone that is going to encourage the type of change that we want to see you know I'm a big fan of your chapter have been for years now and I can think of a better chapter to kind of start us off with this work so congratulations well done all and looking forward to continuing following the amazing work that you're all doing in the UK to Wikimedia UK for the outstanding work that they've done to diversify their board of directors and take seriously the question of knowledge equity not just in programming but in examining how representative their own leadership is this piece on diversifying leadership is something I've heard talked about as important for years in many spaces but in the little sliver of the Wikimedia movement that my personal exposure has brought me in contact with any other group that takes this so seriously in-house it would be great to recognize them for this and encourage others to follow suit anything I say is on behalf of the whole team and of course the board but I'm particularly proud of this because we have been really wanting to to foreground diversity and to look at what that means for ourselves as an organization as a staff team as a leadership as a board and not just in terms of our program delivery and our partnership work and that's been something we've really focused on over the last couple of years and I am really proud of the fact that we do have a really diverse group of trustees who are bringing their different backgrounds and knowledge and perspectives to bear on how do we get the summable knowledge to everybody in the world so I'm really really proud thank you very much indeed I'm totally blown away and surprised I'm totally distracted by the two kittens tearing out of each other's room but this is really really lovely so thank you very much indeed I don't know if anyone else from the team wants to add something here I think there's there's a kind of lot of sort of gratitude or congratulations needed for people who aren't necessarily here to kind of get us to this point and that's really what I want to say big congratulations to Wikimedia UK Daria have the kittens been managed it's a process you know you have to work on governance of kittens and organizations and I swear our team meetings are normally much more organized and better governed it's just we were ambushed by this award and it turned a little more chaotic than than normal yes well big congratulations to you from all of us thank you go ahead sorry I was going to say a few words but please go first oh yeah I was just going to say two things one this did turn out to be sort of a Wikimedia cuteness association event because of the kittens but also I just wanted to be clear that the quote or what I was saying when I was sort of announcing the word actually a quote from one of the people who nominated I suspect my dad there's going to be several of those I was just concerned that someone thought I might have lifted their words and not given credit I have no idea who wrote that but what's I think important about it is those are the words not from me they're from someone who really thought that Wikimedia UK should recognize this anyway go ahead sorry so maybe like now that we were able to kind of marinate in this award and had a bit more time to reflect I wanted to say a few words on accepting this award on behalf of Wikimedia UK so just to say I'm a director of programs at Wikimedia UK and we are a sizable affiliate and a UK charity with long movement history and that bigger affiliate size means that we have capacity to work on governance but it also means that being bigger means that those systems are really important because it's not just one person looking after everything and for me governance means a lot of big concepts like accountability integrity compliance but essentially it's about making sure that the organization is run well and that whatever it does speaks to the overall purpose and the vision of the organization and for Wikimedia UK that's a more informed democratic and equitable society through open knowledge. The equity piece has been really important to us we've worked on diverse content and underrepresented content in programs for many years but recently have been focusing on bringing it into and across the organization and thinking how the organization can speak to the equity diversity and inclusion principles. So we have a framework and an action plan that we're working on there's many actions that we need to be looking after and working on like one example would be that trustees and staff have objectives to model inclusivity or that we monitor staff, trustee and volunteer leader diversity and map it across against the characteristics of the UK society to check whether we are representative of the people that we are here to serve. So maybe just one last point I think governance is a process it's a bit like maintaining a house there's always something to do so we're excited about this recognition but it's it's just a note for us to keep on working on it and also learning from others when we created our equity framework we looked to organizations like whose knowledge are feminism or afro crowd who work on things like knowledge justice and we got inspiration from that so thank you to them as well happy to share with others about what we've learned so far what we worked on so please feel free to get in touch with somebody anybody at Wikimedia UK and we'll be happy to share what we've learned so far about working on governance. Thank you Thank you so much Daria I know having worked with you in different forums and the question you always ask is who is not sitting at the table and I've always appreciated that. We also have a note of thank you from the Executive Director of Wikimedia UK who's on transit right now and she's sharing her love. Thank you so much Daria and so in case you were wondering not just Zoom bombing one affiliates meeting was fun we did it twice. Enjoy. We are today doing an workshop. Hi Hi. Sorry excuse me for budding in this is Jimmy hello everyone Jimmy Wells founder of Wikimedia and I decided to just pop in to surprise you all and to say hello. Hello Atom Feminism so into this initiative we identified Atom Feminism as the winner of the category of ambassadorship and partnership so we are so glad because we know how what's working on gender issues means in our movement so I'm sorry I'm sorry for this because it's your work it's really important it's your commitment and it's all you are doing for this movement so I'm so glad to take this to give you this this winner this celebration recognition so bye too often the work of the organizer and trainer is not celebrating the movement. I'm going to have my own words here we do celebrate the editors we celebrate different aspects of the movement but we don't often enough celebrate the people who are organizing and bringing things to bear and so on and so forth for me personally I've been on a campaign for many years that Wikipedia is for everyone and so when we realize the aspects of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are not as diverse as they should be we're missing pieces of knowledge we need interesting awesome incredible people from different walks of life who come to things with a different mindset different ideas and that is exactly what you guys are doing and I really appreciate it and just wanted to congratulate you and thank you for all your incredible work my name is Karen Wisnesky my pronouns are she and her and I have the honor and privilege of being executive director of art and feminism art and feminism builds a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism art beginning with Wikipedia we're honored and excited to be recognized for this dual award we love collaborating with passionate information activists that share our vision and values we'll be celebrating 10 years next year and invite you to join us in this important work and with that I want to pass the mic to some of the tremendous members of our community thank you again how better to say it than the very simple you know sort of the original vision for Wikipedia a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet and that means every single person so it's for all of us and we need everybody to help us so I really really appreciate and love aspects of the movement that are really thinking about that everybody please hi, welcome in the ground I'll see I'm Araba my name is Sadek Shihabi from Tamaligana I am the West African language coordinator art and feminism and I work to support West Africa indigenous language I am the West African language coordinator art and feminism and I work to support West Africa indigenous language art and feminism and I work to support West Africa indigenous language communities how are we? we good thank you thank you thank you hi Kira hi surprise thank you so excited to be here to be celebrating the work of art and feminism and really the community of information activists from around the world we're so so honored to be receiving this recognition it's well deserved it's well deserved thank you very much it's well deserved and I can put a lovely message from your global ambassadors it takes a global community to do this work and we're really honored to have you contribute to our projects thank you yeah thank you a little bit more like Daria just having the opportunity to reflect after a little bit of a surprise drop-in meeting on an equity workshop we had I can just want to say a little bit more if that's okay with y'all please wait thank you again I'm so grateful to be accepting this award on behalf of art and feminism community it's an honor to be part of the class of 2022 honorees I'm particularly excited about the DEI work of Book of Media UK so shout out to y'all I really think that they're exemplifying that this work isn't just up a margins and really requires us all to be intentional about equity and what I think this award means for art and feminism and I'm so grateful for it is much like what Jimmy said is that it's recognizing how important the role of community organizing is within our movement it was earlier this year that a community member Victoria Duranina said that the EdeCount was really a blunt tool of measuring contributions in the movement and just really excited that the work of art and feminism is intentional about community building and organizing and that we're able to celebrate this with you in a nutshell if you're not super familiar we strongly believe that people in their communities know their communities best so myself based in Baltimore, Maryland in the US I have no real business telling an organizer in Uruguay how to organize their event but we do have a Latin America regional ambassador Paula Dominguez-Font who has that expertise and knowledge for that community and this award really belongs to those ambassadors and network organizers of art and feminism and I want to just take a moment to name them specifically so Alison Bates, Anthony B. Diaz Paula Dominguez-Font Hadavi Gandhi Richard Neipol, Amanda Meeks Jesse Me, Jason Oliver Athena Petsu Sophie Reverty, Siddique Shahabadouf Sophia Stankhoff Dominique Elaine Yao, Dita Ursula Zage I also want to recognize the art and feminism leadership team Nina Yaboya, Melissa Tamani Amber Beerson and Mohamed Sada Abdule and then lastly our board Sarah Gonzalez, Nana Osekofi and Kerry Cotton Williams and additionally shout out to the hundreds of organizers and attendees around the globe that are part of the art and feminism community this award celebrates you it's through their collective effort that so far in 2022 we've had art and feminism events in over 27 languages around the globe and through the power of wiki data and the leadership of Mohamed Sada Abdule we have this really cool map that I'm going to put I don't know can I do a screen share with that I don't know if I can do that I have no idea Oh I think you froze Kerry I think chat might be easier Oh there we go Great I feel we've got her map I lost her and I think she was better than the map Oops I'm back sorry But again I just want to say thank you art and feminism is actually celebrating celebrating 10 years next year so if our work and values resonate with you please consider this an invitation to join us and thank you again Thank you so much Kerry from all the love I'm seeing in the chat I think this is really a global moment I also just as a small little side note I love the use of y'all so I grew up in Alabama and y'all we said y'all all the time and then when I left the south it was kind of considered low and southern and I didn't want to sound that way so I started saying you guys and in the context of the art and feminism award saying you guys which I heard myself do is not nearly as good as y'all I think we should bring back y'all as a gender neutral plural of you I agree all you all folks all great options Thank you Jimmy congratulations Daria Ankara Art and Feminism we can meet at UK but also before that Annie Rauwerda media contributor of the year and Tavi for tech contributor of the year big congratulations to you all we are at the mid-may mark of the awards at least this year's award ceremony don't worry we won't go over time we have a wonderful performance for you please enjoy Alphanone dance troupe Hi everyone and greetings from Palestine we hope you are enjoying wikimania we are excited to be here with you celebrating the comedians of the year Alphanone Palestinian dance troupe and we're happy to have you here with us today and to share some of our cultural knowledge with you Ashira is a multimedia production that presents a contemporary visual story employing sound body images and it takes the audience on a journey and it's an emotional journey of love defiance, resistance and hope did you enjoy that Jimmy? yeah it's great I've got the sound working for us now that was amazing congratulations Alphanone and thank you for sharing your magic with us I can't even imagine how many hours of rehearsal you had to do you know movement, dance, music official, geopolitical, boundaries kind of like knowledge Jimmy we started this category last year and it's been so well received why do you think it's important to recognize newcomers? yeah so this is why I delayed I didn't want to talk about newcomers earlier because I do be talking about it here and it's so important so you know if we just think about the day-to-day work in the wikipedia world and you think about trying to come into that work so we have a lot of jargon there's a lot of you know things to learn a lot of the right way of doing things the wrong way of doing things how to challenge things if you think they're wrong and how to you know successfully make change and so forth and we also have within the movement a lot of old friendships a lot of people have been working together for years and years and years and it's actually quite easy to forget about newcomers what important newcomers can be and to really welcome them and greet them and help them along and so I think it's important to recognize some of the great newcomers people who've come to the movement done incredible work over a relatively short period of time to remind ourselves that that potential is out there in so many people so that person who comes and makes one interesting edit to a page if you go and you thank them they may blossom they may say oh wow this is great these are nice people I want to do more of this and they could become as great as the newcomers who we recognize absolutely and it it goes a long way to show how the community behind the scenes is so important in building the projects and so without further ado this year is newcomer of the year so hey who's that let's do hi there streaming whales very good as you may know one of the great joys of what I get to do is hand out awards every year and it's such a it's a great honor to meet some of the really fantastic and amazing volunteers we have throughout the movement and one of the awards is the newcomer of the year award which I am awarding to you Dr. Ross one of the great I would say values in our movement is honesty with each other except when it comes to tricking people into coming to get an award that's it congratulations congratulations congratulations thank you for all your incredible work and your leadership which inspires other people to do incredible work so it's just incredibly meaningful it's always been for me it's really the original vision of Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet and getting more contributions and more contributors from the African continent it's just incredibly important like that is the future that is what the dream is all about and you're a leader in that so thank you Hi everyone my name is Khaled Eiso I'm the recruiter of the book Nigeria and we've got the surprise of both of you and so I'm arriving at your post today come along please it's such a it's a great honor to meet an amazing volunteer we have throughout the movement and one of the awards is the newcomer of the year award which I am awarding to you Dr. Oskar but again thank you for all your incredible work and your leadership which inspires people to do incredible work so it's just incredibly meaningful it's always been for me it's really the original vision of Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet and getting more contributions and more contributors from the African continent it's just incredibly important like that is the future that is what the dream is all about and you're a leader in that so thank you congratulations now now we can have love sincerely it never came to me the surprise we know fully well what she's been doing within the Nigerian community and also in the library world across the globe she's a superwoman I'm very happy that Dr. Inkem got this award of the newcomer of the year the Wikimedia Newcomer of the Year award and that's because I think that she has done a whole lot within the community I just learned today that she joined the community in 2020 in my mind I thought that she actually joined a whole lot a whole lot longer and that shows the extent of the work that she has done it's exciting like very very very exciting to see Dr. Inkem winning the newcomer Wikimedia of the year 2022 award I could see her as the stabilizing point within the movement Dr. Inkem is such a bridge builder she's someone that has been able to over the last few years being able to do the whole lot that you would think she has been in the movement for the last 10 years adding her come on board brings it closer to home so now Nigerians can actually aim and hope to win this award you see her tweeting with vibe and to put the icing on the cake and I was told when I was discussing that she said well I'm a grandma and I said she has been able to create a bridge between librarians in Africa and the Wikimedia project and this is something amazing that we've been trying to unlock for a while and she has been able to be that bridge and so for me I'm super excited so I think that it's very good for her not just for her but also for the Nigerian community and the African community at large I really want to thank the Wikimedia for giving her this award I still love what's to to express how I really feel because is that something that hey all of these people that started this new thing along with you you know the ones you know and the ones you don't know that they are saying that you stand out I want to say thank you to Jimmy and the people that are behind this you know I want to I want to express my appreciation you know I don't know the criteria that we are used but I'm grateful Dr Ankem congratulations I think you're celebrating with people who's there behind you so again thank you for everything thank you you know like they said in Nigeria it takes a community to bring of a child so it takes all of these people the people that brought me to the door Laurie, Felix, my team and Afria all of them this award is for all of them so thank you very much thank you thank you so much congratulations Dr Ankem what will you tell your grandkids how will you inspire them to contribute I think the feed has frozen anyway big big congratulations to Dr Ankem and everyone in Nigeria you could feel the celebratory moment how did you feel Jimmy I mean I felt like I want to be in the room with them I want to visit so I'm glad the world is starting to open back up a little bit so well Dr Ankem's feed has frozen but I think looking at the chat she's being celebrated from all over the world big congratulations thank you all Jimmy I really like the next category honorable mention it is usually reserved for people that may not qualify for the other awards throughout the time throughout since the beginning and a few times like last year it has gone to exceptional community members who may already have a lot of public exposure for example Dr Jess Wade, Carmen Alcazar Dr Neta Hussein this year the honorable mention and one of the most nominated people in our movement and this award is not only for her amazing leadership but actually for everything else that she does in between in her volunteer capacity and on her own time Jimmy why do you think it's important to have this category of honorable mention and especially this year's winner yeah well I mean you know the category has always been it was I would say it's one of the as far as I know the earliest sort of not Wikipedia in the year Wikipedia in the year category and it was the beginnings of sort of recognizing that there are all kinds of people in the movement who can be honored for all kinds of things and in particular I mean what's interesting as well is affiliate leads you know it wouldn't normally would not ordinarily get an award we normally it's all for volunteer work they're really important and it's really an incredible thing and so doing the honorable mention is the right hand the truth is when you're an affiliate lead yes you have your job but the great affiliate leads typically are pouring in huge amounts of personal time volunteer hours working on a variety of projects it's a pretty demanding thing and we want to honor that absolutely and let's see this year's winner let's see hello no, it's my friend hello, it's me Jimmy hi are you sure it should be here yeah I think so I'm here to surprise you Ana Torres me? yes for your selection as honorable mention a wiki meeting of the year no for really your work as executive director of wiki media Argentina that's great but really it's also for how you go above and beyond to help others and ensure the entire region can thrive I just wanted to read a couple of the nomination notes because I thought they were very very sweet she's been she's even dedicated her personal and volunteer time way beyond her working hours to us the latem community she's dedicated that same energy to other big movement processes and projects like the 2030 movement strategy process she's been engaged on that on a personal level just like any other wiki media volunteer so I believe that Ana is an example of dedication and full engagement movement and I would love to see that hard working being recognized we thought oh you must you must be recognized and you must get a cake I have nothing to do with a cake of course but I'm always happy to see cake I have a big beam thank you so much I don't know what to say I mean I'm super surprised thank you so much thank you so much well thank you now this moment means a lot to me I mean I always smile I don't know I'm really happy it's a recognition to all your work it's a recognition it's a way we have from the wiki media movement to tell you that we love you that you're very valuable that we don't deserve it makes me very excited to see your face now that they give you the prize but we'll have time to celebrate it I'm really happy thank you so much for all your effort thank you so much for all your work all the time until Christmas for this movement congratulations congratulations Ana I'm already crying thank you so much thank you so much Jimmy Ana was wondering do you get that often are you sure you should be here in this meeting does that happen to you? I think that was the first time actually although people's reaction is often sort of confusion as to oh that's the guy I saw on the banner you know what's he doing here Ana you said the movement means the world to you but looking at the chat and all the nominations I think it's quite obvious that you mean the world to the movement congratulations how do you feel today? I'm still in shock I mean I've been in shock since I mean since Jimmy appeared in the screen I'm super honored and yes I don't know what to say I have some few words to say in Spanish but yes I'm honored to be here yes go ahead ok good afternoon good morning to everyone first of all I want to thank you for me it's an honor to receive this and I'm very excited just to think that there are people of this movement that has considered that it was a good idea to recognize me I arrived at the movement nine years ago I remember it very well I had a very cold autumn in Buenos Aires in 2014 and I also remember how the Latin American community welcomed me always pushing me to go ahead they always told me that everything was going to be fine and they repeated this mantra of Ana the movement of Wikimedia is precisely this work together and walk together so today I would like all the people who are here to remember also belonging to the Wikimedia movement where the community is everything and where the community is the engine of change I'm going to give some examples I remember when they told us that because women we didn't want to be part of of Wikipedia I remember that they told us women don't want to be part of Wikipedia and neither did the people in LGBT want to be part of Wikipedia and our reaction to that was in a global network of sorority to shout more than ever more Wikimedia without us or I remember when they told us to make a strategy to the movement in a collaborative way it was going to be something super complicated and on the other hand we overcome linguistic barriers and time zones and family days and vacations with the aim of guaranteeing that this strategy would be in the hands of the community and I don't want to forget moments as important as for example when the social breaks in Latin America or when the pandemic came and we became more than ever a network of support we built new spaces of knowledge to share resources and we never needed a word of encouragement I could give a million more examples but in the end everything is reduced without all this seems very simple very extraordinary means to work together together to see us as pairs define us as best partners to contribute regardless of where we are to common good we, you and I through hundreds of initiatives what we do is defend human rights as fundamental as education, culture or access to information equally and I don't want to stop saying this we still have a lot of challenges in the wikimedia movement I like to think of the movement as a huge puzzle where every community is the necessary and fundamental piece without which we cannot work but we still lack many pieces and many voices we have to continue working with the communities of the sub-global so that they feel represented in our projects in their history that represent their knowledge that represent what they want to represent in our wikimedia projects and also all those voices historically quiet that the wikimedia projects are a place where they are, where they belong and where to participate I don't want to stop not giving the thanks beyond the community this is an extensive thanks to the wikimedia Argentina team of which I am very proud and also to all the directors who have accompanied me in this process I hope that this recognition also feels it as own for my part, I will try to continue putting a grain of sand so that the movement is a more decentralized movement a more fair, more diverse with strong and sustainable communities of which we can feel very proud and proud to do the future I hope and I will put all of my part up to this and I thank you very much this honor, thank you very much thank you very much thank you so much Ana really thank you for everything you do for your community but also for the entire movement thank you thank you so thank you thank you thank you you guys stay seated thank you thank you thanks Daniel thank you I appreciate your time thank you thank you to recognize somebody who'd been around for a very long time but then it was such a great concept because obviously the you know recognizing someone who's done amazing work in the last year or two is great but there are also people who have been you know with the movement for many many many many years over a decade two decades in some cases and and so I just thought yeah this is actually a great award and it in a way it allows me to go back and recognize people who probably should have been Wikipedia of the year at some point in the past but who for whatever reason didn't ever quite get there and so I think it's a great one. Amazing well this year we're celebrating two Wikimedia laureates they're both pillars of our movement whether organizing Wikimanias to countless contributions and the many many hats they were in the movement and actually for the past two years we brought Wikimanias online and how perfect it is now to celebrate two who have had so much support for Wikimanias. Jimmy last year we celebrated Lodewijk in the first rendition of this award he was famously sitting in front of a gas station photo and you said we he loves gas stations. This year though Jimmy am I sensing swans? Swans yes I hear they flock together. Yes I think usually about once a month or so shall we see? I think this is a great accomplishment that we've had to have a specific internship just for Wikipedia and Wikimedia work so the interns that we have are familiar with Wikipedia I'm sure they've used it in their studies throughout their lives and to be able to contribute to Wikipedia is pretty amazing to see. Hi Kelly. Hi Rosie. Wait is Rosie going to join us with us Kelly? Yes. Hello everyone. Hi Kevin. Hey Kevin. Hey Jimmy. I heard that I had somehow had the wrong link so I was waiting in a different room. Andrew how are you? Good. How are you doing? As you know having been to a Wikimania or two I would say one of my favorite things is giving out the awards and I've selected you this year for Wikimedia Laureate of the Year which is like the Lifetime Achievement Award and I've got some so congratulations this is my favorite one. Yes Andrew Lee, Wikimedia Laureate. Andrew is a veteran Wikimedian. He's attended every Wikimedia. He's the first person citation needed that's what I love about this one to teach Wikipedia at the university level. He wrote a book about Wikimedia. He's a Wikimedia Clam Strategist for Multiple Institutions involved with the juncture of Wikipedia with the data with the comments. Andrew is one of this is a different one. I love this one too. Andrew is one of those people that somehow manages to help groups move from complaining to action from talking to doing which is absolutely huge but congratulations. Oh thanks so much. I'm humbled. I'm very humbled. I'm enjoying the group that Rosie and Emily and everyone else is part of more than yeah more than happy to be part of that plan. Yeah yeah I mean you're a freaking legend so it's long overdue actually this is really more like okay like who who should have been awarded at some point in time but who are just the absolute legends in the community for a very long time. Welcome to the club you rock. You all rock. Thank you. I'm always appreciated. I can message Andrew at 4 in the morning and he'll somehow respond every time. I grew congratulations. Kevin was talking about 4 a.m. and now again it's it's tomorrow your time. Thank you for being with us so late. Jimmy how do you feel about this this year as Wikimedia Laureate? It's great. It's really fantastic. I mean I think I I always think of Andrew as a real fixture of Wikimedia not just because he's been so many times because he's often sort of moderated panel sessions and he learned very early on that if somebody wants to ask a question of the board he would stay firmly in grip of the mic to help prevent people from just making a speech and I think he's the one who first taught me that idea but yeah Andrew you've been around forever and thank you so much. Oh thanks so much Jimmy and you know as a conference planner it's driving me nuts that were over time so I'll keep it brief and short. It was an honor it's such a humbling honor I was completely surprised when you jumped in our our conference call that I was thinking that I was recording a message for our interns at the Smithsonian but actually it was a ruse but you know it's been such an honor to work with this community and I think everyone understands that it's not just about individuals it's about the community of folks that you work with whether it's at the Leeds institutions single editors groups of editors it's amazing what this community has done and I think that's what has attracted us all to this the inclusion and the ability to help write you know the world's best and the most amazing compilation of knowledge that we've ever seen and you know just two things jump out at me is one you know I started with Wikipedia as a course of study when I was a researcher and that is based out here in Asia for the first six years of being a comedian I was based in Asia and that was always been a passion of mine is to bring more Asia contributions and Asian contributors into the fold whether it's having Wikimedia in 2007 in Taiwan or having meet-ups out here or training librarians in Kuala Lumpur which where I am right now it's something I'm passionate about and also in recent years more about bringing more women's biographies into the Wikimedia movement so you know it's been such a great thing to work with folks like Rosie Stevens at Good Night and Emily Temple Wood who really just moved the needle on the gender gap and also just so many folks that you've introduced today and the tourists you know been a complete pleasure to work with Anna over the last few years and you know we stay for the people who really do and thanks so much to Jimmy and Merda and you've been instrumental as well in keeping this whole shit moving forward and it's an honor to work with all these folks. Thank you so much Andrew and thank you for weathering many storms with this movement it really is appreciated and taking a note from Andrew's book of event management I do apologize we are a little bit over time but we have two more categories left and for the next session it will begin as soon as this one ends thank you again for being with us today. Jimmy we have one more Wikimedia Laureate and our next winner is also a legend. Yeah definitely you know I know we're supposed to be very super serious and super worthy we're all about our good work and writing Wikipedia and so forth but we also like to have fun and for me one of the most fun times in the whole of the Wikimedia era was the beach party in Haifa in Wikimedia. Who could it be let's see. Last year I instituted a new award it was then called the 20th anniversary award but now it's renamed to Wikimedia Laureate. This is an award reserved for those contributors who have been involved in the Wikimedia movement for a very long time. In a way it's even more prestigious than Wikimedia of the year because it is dedicated to a sustained contribution that has impacted literally millions of people's lives in a positive way. Today he's written over 8600 articles in Hebrew Wikipedia which is more than 2% of the entire Hebrew Wikipedia. He has uploaded more than 37,000 images to Wikimedia Commons. He's in his 11th round of 100 Wikidays which I believe is a world record and Dora is a member of the Wikimedia Committee and was the instigator and the general manager of Wikimedia 2011 Israel in Haifa. Perhaps this is what he had in mind with that first editor famous mayor of Haifa back in 2004 and what a great Wikimedia that was I'll never forget dancing on the beach. Dora, I was trying to imagine how many thousand media wiki tables you have edited over the years as part of the Wikimedia program. It is many, many thousand and for that and everything else that you have done all of the edits, all of the committee work, all of the emails and all of the joy that you bring to Wikimedia and to Wikimedia. Thank you for all of your contributions and congratulations. There are congratulations on being recognized today. You've made so many Wikimanias so much better. Apart from all the serious discussions, the thing, you know, I think you always brought so much happiness to the calls. I hope your headphones are working today so that you can hear all the amazing credit you're getting. Well deserved. Tabrik, congratulations. Thank you Dora. Dora, congratulations. I see people are celebrating behind you, but I think you're on mute. Thank you. Okay, am I coming in and out? I got the message from Jimmy during the Hebrew Wikipedia 19th birthday and it was, I was very surprised and it was really moving. I was almost crying. It's and I do relate for things. Many of you said I'm also a mature photographer and I did upload 37,000 images to Commons, but I still have a waiting list of more than 200,000 images that need to be uploaded and it will take time probably. Whenever I am upset with something, I go and write an article. It's like the battery on the iPhone that's charges. Every article is about 30 to 40% charging. I started with 100 weekly days, which is a great fun. So during that time, I got today 3,590. Congratulations, Dora. Yes, congratulations. Thank you so much and Dora, your audio cut out, but I can see from the video that people are celebrating you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for just being such an inspiration. And maybe we need an uploadathon for those 200,000 images. Thank you so much, everyone, for being with us. We have the final category. Congratulations to all the winners, Dora, Andrew, Anna, Dr. Nkem, Tavi, Annie. Thank you so much for everything that you've done and what an incredible celebration to get. But now for the final award of the day, the Wikimedian of the year herself. Jimmy, can you believe it's over? How did you feel this year? Oh, it's fantastic. It's a great slate. Obviously, this process has changed a lot over the years, going from me sort of spending a couple of weeks before Wikimedian, digging around on the Wikis, asking around and so forth to now, really a global nomination process. Merdad, I can't give you an award, but I would give you co-host of the Year Award if I could. You've been invaluable in terms of corralling me and organizing all of this. It's incredible. So now it's, it's gotten to be a really big thing. And I'm really excited about it. And here we are, drum roll. Indeed. And I'm actually excited to share that this is the first time we have a winner from Latin America for the title of Wikimedian of the year. And so without further ado. I don't know if you think it would go well, my dear Mellie, or what points would you like to try? Hello. It's Jimmy. Oh, hi. Surprise. How are you? I'm fine. I'm a little nervous now. Oh, don't be nervous. It's all good. Well, as you probably know, every year I give out a series of awards for different kinds of favourable positive activity in the movement. But there's one award that's like really the big one. And I'm happy to let you know that I've selected you as Wikimedian of the year for this year. What? What? Yes. Let me read some of the some of the wonderful nominations that you got. She's always highlighting the work of people she collaborates with. She's kind and caring and she's always open to learning. Those are all like fantastic Wikipedia values. I think her leadership has been key for the growth of the user group and active participation of other women in the community, which is something, as you know, is something very near and dear to my heart is bringing in more women just by Wikipedia. Another one, she's a remarkable advocate for the Wikimedian movement and open knowledge. And then, you know, for me, this is probably the best one of all. Olga is such a nice and fun person. They represent the best of our community. So all of your work has had impact on all kinds of people, both in Bolivia, but actually throughout the movement as people, particularly throughout the Spanish speaking communities, look up to you and admire you as do I. And so congratulations, you are the Wikimedian of the year, Wikimedian of the US, we say these days. Thank you. I am very excited and I'm very surprised. And here to speak of the Wikimedia, really Wikipedia program. And now I'm very successful and I don't have words. And I'm happy because I think the women in the movement, they are working so hard. And I am I'm a small part of this group of women that are trying to change the movement and give more space to everyone in the world. I have no way of talking about this part in Spanish, because if not, it won't be understood very well. Congratulations. Thank you. And the truth is that it's a great joy because in Bolivia we have been working a lot to precisely incorporate these lines of work, to work in a more open way so that there is always more diversity in our movement and that the movement is always the vanguard of the way in which knowledge is built. It can always be that light that gives and the new ideas that go later, let's say, reflecting on other environments on the Internet. Also, the reflections that are in our community, I think they serve other communities that build on the Internet. Sometimes the questions and discussions in our community are very enriching. We are still learning a lot in my country. For example, we are still learning a lot of ourselves and it is something that I like a lot about the community that we can always discuss. And these discussions are also carried out and are imitated in other communities on the Internet. And they are also reflected and that's what we are also aiming for in the daily life of people to improve the way in which we can all share what we learn. I didn't even imagine this, so I'm still like in a shock. I'm very surprised and well, thank you very much to the people who have been, who have decided to share with us the joy that the community has been built, the Bolivia team, and to work on this project, PILOT, too. I'm so happy because I chose this year to work more, to have a more, a work more structured and we are working to take more a big challenge to our community. And well, I'm very happy. I think I'm not going to be able to say everything I want, but thank you very much and for the surprise. I think it's one of the most surprising things that I've received this year and maybe a lot in a long time. Thank you. And this is going to turn out to be crazy, right? It's going to turn out to be crazy. And how do I not live 100% with you? See, I hope this doesn't damage the trust that you have in me, Olga. Or she'll expect a surprise every time you connect now. You need to just give her something big. Olga, you can't overcome this. No, she's already let it go. Very high and thank you for being there, for having been so complicated. Olga, I'm very happy that you are the wikimedist of the year. I think it's the first time in the history of this award that a Latin American woman is recognized. With the biggest award. I feel it's a great step that we've taken as a wikimedia movement to understand that there are different realities to recognize the work that many times it's more about women and Latin American women. I really feel that this recognition speaks that we are understanding that there are different realities, that there are different complexities in our countries, in our communities, and that we have worked very hard to get ahead. I'm very happy that you have this award. I'm very happy that the community has chosen you. Many congratulations. Olga, congratulations. Thank you so much. What do you have to say? Olga, are you able to hear us? I can hear you. Well, big, big congratulations to you. In a good way, Olga, congratulations. Admit it. What do you have to say? Well, I think most of the things I wanted to say are already in the video. I'm still super entertained here. Olga, can you hear us? Yes, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. Well, and here around here, there are a lot of people from the group. In a good way, congratulations, Olga. We had a meeting, so they are around here. And if you know what happened, until now I have given them the things that I wanted to say are already in the video. I'm still super entertained here. I think you can hear us. I want to thank you too, that right now it's much more open. I'm happy about that, and this is a nice opportunity to thank everyone for their work. Each person who makes a small edition, and the strategy has also shown that now we can invite everyone to continue transforming Wikipedia so that we can make a more diverse movement. Now we are working with languages more in Bolivia, with some indigenous languages. And we believe that now we can say with certainty to the people that it can be part of our movement and that the movement is open to many more changes. And that you are welcome to transform and continue transforming Wikipedia and all the Wiki projects. I want to thank all the wonderful people who saw today in this event. And the reality of the final message is that everyone who wants to see us right now can edit Wikipedia and change how it is being built with free knowledge. All the voices are welcome. And yes, this is a project with a lot of heart. And here we are waiting for them to dialogue, to discuss and to continue building some projects that lead to transformation in a much more diverse, much more democratic internet. We listen to everyone and we listen to everyone and we are ready to change. I think that's enough with that. And a big hug to everyone again. Thank you so much, Olga. Really appreciate it. Congratulations. And thank you for all the incredible work. And I'm seeing messages to you from around the world. Big, big congratulations. Congratulations, all winners. I do apologize for having gone over time. This is truly an award. And you know, people are having a good time when this happens. Thank you for joining us for the week meeting of the year 2022. Keep the party going. Great sessions following this, but also we have Kari Yoki in the networking tent. I know I'll be there. And that's it. Jimmy, how do you feel? That's great. Fantastic. Thank you. And congratulations to all the winners. Annie, Duvour, Olga, Andrew, Anna, Tavi, all of you, congratulations. And Kim lost her connection, but we'll splice her in the group photo. Thank you all so much. Great. Congratulations. Take care everyone. Enjoy the last day of Wikimedia. He's joining us to this sit, snack, and chat with the board. We'll just let everybody join our session and then we'll kick things off. I hope you're all having a wonderful Wikimedia day, weekend, wherever you are in the world. So we'll just give it another minute or two to let people in. Brilliant. We'll welcome everyone to this sit, snack, and chat session with the board here at Wikimedia 2022. I hope you've all been having a wonderful weekend and enjoying the session so far. I want to thank you for joining us today here. Part of one of the themes of Wikimedia this year is to welcome newcomers. So we want to make this session about that as well. Making it a place where newcomers to the movement, to Wikimedia, to Wikimedia can find out more about what the Board of Trustees do, what the Foundation does, and their role within the movement. So we're going to start with a bit of an icebreaker chat and hopefully today's session will be informal and a bit of fun. We have some questions coming beforehand and we may not get a chance to get to all of them. So if not, we'll be putting them on our meta page so we can have a look and we'll also be having a look on the etherpads. So feel free to add anything you want to there as well. So I'm not going to hand it over to Nat, who's the chair of the Board, just to start things off and do some introductions over to you Nat. Thank you. Hello everyone. So my name is Natalia and I'm a chair of the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation. I have been on the Board since 2016 and I come from Ukraine. Currently, I'm a refugee in Israel and I favorite its snack as a thing that you can easily eat. And I don't know, watching TV or something would be condensed milk, but it's not very local. So I guess my choice for this would be filmmaking, which really goes well with condensed milk. And a cup of water. I'm fortunate with the English Wikipedia article from the latest Spanish home. And Lorenzo. Hello, I'm Lorenzo from Italy. I have been in the Wikimedia community for a long time, over 15 years, but I've been on the Board just for one year now. And I live in Italy and I'm now in Ezinoladiot, a place which hosted Wikimedia six years ago in 2016. My favorite drink of snack is difficult to pick one because there are many things I like, but for today I will show the Wikimedia, Wikimedia biscuits that were made six years ago and they made a new edition now for the anniversary of the year. Thank you. Who wants to go next? Rosie? Hi everyone, I'm Rosie Stevenson, good night. I live in California, but today I'm coming to you from a hotel in Brooklyn, New York City, where I'm drinking my favorite drink, coffee. As for a favorite snack, it's got to be chocolate with nuts. I don't have any here with me, but that's what I like best. I've been on the Board for almost a year now and I've been a Wikimedia for just over 15 years. Over to you, Victoria. Hello, my name is Victoria. I am originally from Belarus, which is between Ukraine and Lithuania, but now I live in the UK. I've been in the Moon for 15 years as well and I was elected in 2021 alongside with Lorenzo and Rosie. My favorite drink is Kifir. This is the Polish version, which I buy in the shop in the UK called Matlanka. And my favorite snack is chocolate as well. Thank you. Lots of chocolate fans. Shani. Yeah, it's a good company of people who are liking chocolate. Hi, everyone. My name is Shani Evenstein-Sigalov. I'm also in Israel and I've been on the Board for three years now. I like Rosie. I'm with my coffee and some owls. And I would say my favorite snack is salted caramel, which is similar to the condensed milk, but better, much better. Lovely, we've got some sweet treats here. Daria's. Daria's milk, I'm originally from Poland. I'm in Moros in Spain. Apologies, my connection drops off as I'm connected to my mobile. My favorite snack since we came in here in Mexico is Mexican food. I love everything spicy, but I also drink Kifir every day, so we're great minds think alike. Fantastic. Ezra. Hey, everyone. My name is Ezra. I'm from Bahrain. I've been on the Board for five years since 2017, shortly after we came in here in Montreal. And my favorite snack is marmoll, and these are semolina flour cookies filled with date paste in the center. And you can add nuts. Usually people add pistachio or walnuts are popular options. And you typically enjoy any sweets with very strong Arabic coffee, as you call it. All signs delicious. I think that's all the board members we have. I hope that's making you all hungry, thirsty. Nice to get to know what people enjoy just to keep them going. Let us know in the chat where you're from, what your favorite snack from your local culture or just what your favorite snack and drink are. And in the meantime, while you're doing that, we're going to play you a short video just showcasing a bit about who the board are and what they do. When I see this formal question, what is the ontological meaning of words? And how does it fit with the existential meaning of life? But how does it work? The main role of the board is to guide the organization. Directs the foundation, hires the CEO. Figure out people issues to make sure the foundation stays on track. To hold its management accountable. The financials that support it are sound and are sustainable. The board is not the management of the foundation. The typical approach is our noses are in, our fingers are out. As the CEO, I work very clearly with the board of trustees that helps us ensure that we fulfill the mission and the vision of Wikimedia. I was asked by the community to represent it on the board. I always say yes when people ask me to do something. To me, it's the highest way of serving a community in an organization that I align with so much. Learning from professionals, top professionals in the world. Say it again with the same energy. It was inspiring, but slower. It's everyone that I've met, all the relationships I've built. Community with many different aspects and facets. The people that I get the opportunity to work alongside with. Literally in every corner of the world. I wanted to be a part of the board because I felt it is important to bring in human rights expertise and the challenges that come with making knowledge accessible in countries where censorship is the norm. Oh, look at that! We have the good guys and the good gals. Wikimedia today, it really is part of the infrastructure of the world. We need talent. We need people who spread ideas. We need community members from underrepresented populations. So if there are people who are willing to put forth their talent, then they are welcome. Thank you for that. And if anybody wants to do it again, I've just put a link in the chat. So I'm going to hand it back to Nat for always busy. So she's going to recap a bit of what they've been up to over the past year for you. Thank you. So, as you've seen from the video, the board is actually responsible for the bigger strategic stuff. And also for some bigger issues, kind of like a framework, but really some management day-to-day operational things, which are usually the things that are community members and what we're interested in. So out of the things that we did this year, our crowning achievement was improving the annual plan for the Wikimedia Foundation for this fiscal year. And you can look at it in the chat. I think that somebody is going to drop a line to the meta page. And I would say that that would be the best thing this year. We are going to meet, and also for the first time met in person, after like two years, meeting each other online, or not meeting at all this March in New York, which was like kickoff, or other in-person events happening in the mood as well. And we're going to have our next board meeting for the Wikimedia Summit, which happens this year in September. And we are going to talk about universal code of conduct, especially the language changes that were requested by the community members. I would say that that would be the biggest response. Thank you, Nat. And I'm sure people are wondering who's your lovely little friend on your shoulder with us today. Yeah, I forgot to introduce him. So Wikimedia movement is not only about fighting wars and editing and serious endeavors and trying to stay very neutral and very, I would say, challenging times. It's also about cuteness. So this is Konkunchik, the representative from the Wikimedia Cuteness Association, and he's traveling with me since 2015, in Mexico, as Daria has brought up a topic about spicy food. Konkunchik was my travel companion since that Wikimedia ever after. And yeah, so he's also trying to cutify the movement just as all his brothers and sisters. Amazing. Thank you for introducing us. So we're going to move on now just to some questions and answers. We've had some that have been submitted before. And like I mentioned earlier, we're trying to keep a focus on telling people a bit more about what the board does, a bit more about them, and any questions that we don't get to, we will either have a look in the etherpad or over on meta as well. So time to get in and get to know people a bit more. And I'm going to start with Rosie. So Rosie, tell us what skill or talent or area of expertise you think you bring to your role that you had no idea would actually be a useful thing as part of your work here. Well, thanks for the question, Lisa. I think I'm going to talk about this. In the last 15 years or so of a very long career, my work focused on what we would call talent and culture. To be successful in that field requires education and experience, for example, to develop an ethics perspective unique to this kind of work. But it also requires a combination of abilities and skills and knowledge, things like empathy on one hand and confidence on the other, networking and multitasking, good listening skills, good communication skills, good relationship building skills, critical thinking, big picture thinking. Now that I sit on the board, faculty's background is especially useful during conversations related to human resources broadly construed. When I first joined the board, I thought that the most important background I brought with me was the perspective of being a veteran with comedian and also my deep commitment to the 2030 movement strategy that I've been pleasantly surprised to find that this professional background that I have is also quite useful in my service on the board. Thank you, Rosie. So next, I'm going to call upon Darius. And a question for you is, how can the foundation go about building a diverse board, both in terms of experience but also background? Well, it's a question we're asking ourselves all the time. First of all, we need to understand what we understand by diversity. And I think personally, I think there is a pitfall to avoid. And a pitfall to avoid is just following the cultural standards that's caused by the US. For instance, the notions of race in the United States are very different from elsewhere. And just to use an example that I'm more familiar with, Untermensch was a very important race category in Europe with ramifications even for the current day, while the skin color less so around here. And there are many other examples from other continents and cultures. I think the United States approach is very useful, but there are no notions of case. The social classes are interpreted differently, considered less important, and so on and so forth. So especially if we look at the experience we're looking for as well, we need to be very specific about knowing what do we want, experience from other boards with budgets over $10 billion. Crucial or is it just important? Understanding open source, open knowledge, crucial or just useful? Are we seeking experts, world-class experts even, whatever field they're working or are we willing to compromise this skill if other important books are thick, like community experience or the diversity we're looking for? We have to put a lot of emphasis on, we have historically put a lot of emphasis on gender, but I think the truth is that so far the WMF board has been luckily exemplary in terms of gender balance for the years, but much less so for example in terms of age balance. So we need to be very careful about this. We need to think how should we treat geographical diversity? Is it just region or should we consider socioeconomic status as well? So we should get set let's give you an example. Should the jet center from Singapore be considered by default a better, than a minor from Moldova, because we prioritize Asia and the private race Europe. It's a very tough approach. I think there are many approaches to this, but luckily enough, we're working hard to make it sensible. These are the questions that are really intensely debated within the governance committee. We're hoping to have some knowledge driven conversations in the future, maybe incorporating some existing indexes, measures. We also hope of course to bring these conversations back to the community to have something sensible and stable to work on. Thank you. That was a really interesting answer. I'm just going to remind everyone speaking today that I'm using translator listening was all. So we all just need to remember to speak slowly for them. They're doing a great job of listening in different languages. Lorenzo, I'm sure there's lots of surprises being part of the board. Anything weird or wonderful or very interesting topics you've come across that you were surprised you ended up kind of dealing with? Yeah, many of the things I've seen and what I expected, but one thing that pops to my mind that was totally unexpected came from my first board meeting in September 2021. Actually at the time I was not even appointed as a board member. I was just an observer. And there was a presentation about the human light impact assessment which was recently completed. And general presentation, introduction and other general stuff. But there were also some a few specific cases. And one of the first slide talked about something like the impact of the Taliban taking Kabul from Wikipedia and Wikimedia. And I can't go into the detail of the issue here because there are security concerns. But the point is I'm not used to thinking that the Taliban taking Kabul is my problem. I know that it is a problem. I know it is an important issue globally. But I'm not used to think that this is something I need to take into consideration in what I do. But it actually turns out that there are consequences for the Wikimedia foundation. And it's when doing that board meeting it was definitely unexpected thing that made me a bit confused let's say on how to proceed. Thank you Lorenzo. I'm going to move on to Ezra. Obviously it's been a great couple of days listening to loads of different thematic topics, loads of different things, loads of issues. Ezra, what would you say is one of the most kind of issues or things for the movement at the moment that the board should be thinking about? Thanks for that question. For me the most pressing issue is constantly changing and sometimes worsening political climates around the world. We have an ongoing battle with censorship threats to members of our movement, state sponsored surveillance that's often enabled and normalized by corporate greed. We have massive human rights abuses taking place in countries that we have solid memberships and contributions from or places that we'd really love to grow. The amount of funding that is going towards propaganda and disinformation campaigns that unfortunately cannot be tackled with mere technology. Climate change that would impact the way we approach things like data centers and just overall concern about the state of the world. These are external things and factors that we can't always foresee or control or effectively prepare for in advance, but it does force us to keep our heads on the ground and constantly iterate our path to either bypass or address these major political, social and environmental concerns. Thank you, Ezra. I'm going to hand over now to Shani. The question for you is when you joined the board what was the thing you were most looking forward to doing when you first joined? That's an easy one. Some people got a tough one. So mine is easy because for me it was about serving the movement. It's as easy as that, right? I have been in the movement since 2011 so I actually joined in Wikimania and Haifa. That was my first Wikimania and first encounter with the whole movement. During these three days I got completely hooked. I joined that day Wikimedia Israel and I started to learn how to edit and I can literally say that it has changed my life, right? It has infiltrated every aspect of it. It's just there are no bounds. It's part of what I do academically as well. It's part of my research and I've been involved in so much outreach work and as a volunteer I felt that there are some things that were bothering me that were not getting fixed so I was really looking forward to being on the board so I can be in a position to actually do something about it and try to hopefully change things for the better and I think one of the key areas that have been on my mind a lot is that I felt this type of divide between the volunteers doing the grass root work on doing editing doing projects etc and the foundation and I really wanted to and affiliates of course so like three different almost almost detached entities in the movement not really working together so I was I was looking forward to doing things to improve that and I'm happy that I was able to be supported by the rest of the board and we formed a community affairs committee and that became something that we invest in you know just improving the relationships between the different entities the different stakeholders has been very important to me and also technological work that is key to what we do and in order to serve humanity so just being on the board has allowed me to collaborate to the highest level and just do that work and serve the movement that I love so much so that's been a privilege thank you for allowing me to do that. Thank you Shani Natty's our chair of the board and I'm going to ask you maybe just to explain especially for newcomers what the role of the chair is in kind of day-to-day terms and the areas of things that you might look after yeah thank you so first of all it's really a lot of boring stuff like improving expense reports of the trustees signing some contracts and the chair of the board is also a budget holder and so forth and so on and so forth the chair also builds a draft of the agenda and that's basically the only real superpower that the chair has that's building the agenda inviting people to meetings and steering the work of the board overall trying to create conditions for the board to be able to work productively and so it also involves some bits of logistics and some ceremonial stuff I can say that the things that I enjoy most about the chair is actually being able to support people in their personal roles I would be like one of the first points of contact or at least at the point of approving things for people to be able to become better at what they do so the board work better and expertise and wisdom also appreciation thank you Nat so last but not least I think we have Victoria would you be able to tell us what a day in the life of a board member looks like or maybe a day in the life of your life as a board member a day in my life first of all we are all volunteers we are not paid to do the board work so whatever is life of the board member is I need to fit it around my work therefore when I come to work in the morning I check my work email and then if I don't have anything pressing I check the board email I am in New York and most of the stuff in the US so sometimes I have several emails that came while I was sleeping then when I have lunch time I reply to emails sometimes there are documents to edit sometimes we have online meetings but it's relatively unfrequently so the board is divided into committees which work on various aspects of the Ritminya foundation and movement Shanee already mentioned community affairs committee I am on that committee and several others so sometimes we have a committee meeting and for me it would be in the evening and then also a lot of things trying to organize because we are in different time zones a lot of polls when I will be available when everybody will be available I think like that so in general it's like a life of any Wikimedian you fit it around your normal life and sometimes nothing happens and sometimes something suddenly happens and you are required to reply so we also have several messengers and I always check what's happening in the board chat that's the life of trustee great thank you so much so we have a little bit of time left and I am wondering if there is anybody within just the audience here if they have got any questions that they would like to put out there and some of the trustees can pick them up and we can take a look at the ether path as well but anybody from the audience here today that wants to add anything in the chat newcomers especially dig around find out a bit more what else you want to find out about what the board does and maybe while we are looking at that Mayor would you be able to post in the chat just the ether path question so that the board members can have a look and then have a look at answering that and anybody else if you walk away from this later on and think oh I have a question don't think about that at the time please ask in the ether path or you can put it on the met page so Mayor is saying there is a question in the chat about a specific edit on one of our projects let's go back and see if we can find it Mayor can you re-post it let's have a look or is anybody else spotted it sorry I think that actually has a direct response to it it's a specific edit go for it Nat yeah actually it's not about that question it's about the questions overall in the chat the board is a collective body so we all individually as not even board members but individuals can have thoughts or can have positions on some issues but before the board actually has a position we need to convene, we need to discuss and come to a position that's why these kind of questions which are not directed at the board actually does or what the board as a collective body has already discussed and decided on a position it stands on we can't answer I mean individually you can ask us somewhere I don't know what are the other thoughts on this or that on everything but regarding those questions we haven't discussed or we don't know and if there are any positions then they would be listed publicly and shared that is actually a question in the chat about the board's elections whether we like them or whether it is stressful for candidates I've been a candidate twice and I can tell you that for candidates it is really stressful it is also stressful a bit for the board because governments can take part in the organizing and then manage different kind of parts before handing in all of the elections can be taken actually around elections and just like running any event or anything that is happening it's difficult glitches are happening so yeah I'm not going to take any business anyone wants to chime in and add I think I think elections just wanted to add to what Nat said that the elections are definitely a very exhaustive and stressful process but people who cannot stand the stress will come for a great surprise if they are elected because being on a board is much more stressful on occasion so there is doubt but of course we need to make the process better to get better candidates this is the goal not necessarily making it nicest for people who are running but selecting people who will serve best hopefully also making it a little nicer for sure thank you Tarius how can we as a movement do better about creating leadership opportunities in affiliates or other organisations to build better skill sets of working medium so that I suppose then it's like a stepping stone that they can then be more prepared to become a member of the board so how do we kind of encourage people to move their way up through different organisations maybe Darius would like to answer that as a chair of the governance committee sure I mean we are working on a couple of fronts first of all we want to increase diversity we need to increase the well maybe not increase the quality of the candidates but try to make the process such that the quality is a priority we need to reach out to the affiliates so we are trying to handle quite a number of things and I'm not sure if we if we can do it all together at the same time but if you look at the past elections I think there is already progress towards the goal of being a little more inclusive more meritocratic and also to be reaching out to people who are not necessarily we used not to be necessarily in the typical pool of candidates we are increasing diversity in this sense at the very least so I think we work on it but the only thing I can say is that it's a process, it's a journey we're doing our best we're meeting regularly every couple of weeks trying to discuss this and back to the community as well so the only thing I can say is bear with us and if you have any ideas please come forward we'll love to hear from you and we love good ideas of how things should be run, we cannot make promises to accept all of it but we definitely will consider any sensible proposal that is sent Thank you Darius and just to touch on something that Nat said earlier she has run twice now she obviously loves being part of it so much maybe some of the other board members can just tell us just even in a simple sentence what actually made you run for election so Rosie I'm going to pick on you first A short answer I thought it was my turn I thought it was my turn to try to be appointed to the board and make a difference I felt like I had so many years within this movement where I got to enjoy being a comedian and see things in different perspectives, different communities that I'm a part of and I felt like, like I said it was just my turn to try to um sit on the board, offer my perspective and and try to make a difference Thank you Rosie Ezra what was the drive factor for you um for me I gave a keynote with Mania and after that I was approached by the chair at the time asking if there would be interest and of course I was very concerned as somebody who was not traditionally would be considered a Wikimedian so that was one thing that gave me pause I was constantly wondering if I would be the right fit but the idea was that somebody like myself with human rights expertise what would make me join is the um values that I shared with the foundation in terms of access to information access to knowledge as a human right um and that's what made me want to join and help build um the movement from within and understanding it was definitely a huge learning curve for me but it also made me understand how somebody who would not be a part of this movement already would become a part of it and how easy it is actually to be a part of it even though from the outside it may look very intimidating um considering the many people that we have in the movement with 15 years plus expertise as a member of the community um but for us to reach our goals towards diversity and genuine representation um as a global community um this is really what sparked my interest in coming a part of the board thank you and it's great to hear the different ways that people have kind of accessed it Shani what about you what was your one thing that said I have to do this now um I've actually um mentioned that before but I can say that you know being asked by my community to run has been really important in the first time that I ran in 2019 it was quite a different election process it was through affiliates and we had quite a change back then of allowing user groups um all affiliates actually to vote for the first time so that was a really huge change that the previous board uh brought about and that that is how I I got to be there I've been heavily involved in all types of affiliates and um from from you know from chapters to user groups to a thorgs um and involved in governance so that kind of made sense for me um this election is very different and it's it's an iterative process let's just say it like this you know we we keep working on changing and finding the right way to do it it's not it's not a perfect bulletproof process just yet thanks Shani uh Lorenzo what about yourself what made you get up and enjoy well I so at that specific point of time it was uh most useful thing I could do for uh for the wikimedia movement uh it was not like that before I mean it's specific of uh of uh of the time but uh yeah that was uh great thanks Lorenzo and Victoria what about yourself uh as I said in this video I was asked by uh Russian wikipedia community where I'm from but I also want to answer to the question which was asked in chat and it's connected to it if if the elections uh board elections are like and admin elections um I I would say that it's a bit like that because people ask questions of you but if I compare it with elections in Russian wikipedia then there is a procedure with hardly changed from 2006 and people can look at past answers and see what will be happening here with the board election it's a mess I will not deny that it's a mess and it was a mess in 2021 and it happens because there is no body there is not one body responsible for the election but there are at least three bodies the first one is the board on the board we have election task force of which I remember so I'm responsible for that as well and the movement changes and the movement even uh in 2014 is not the same as it's now so we try and again it was it was a question in the chat we try to find people that need it on the board like right now and diversity and everything and that's why the procedure changed and probably too much so this is one group the board election committee who are recommedians selected by the board to run the election itself and make tactical decisions and again they're all volunteers and they're spread around the time zones and there are consequences of COVID and whatever and then we have staff that is again spread all around the world which is working on the election there is technical staff and in different departments and they interact with us it's a community election and at the end of it you don't have one single person that is responsible for everything different people responsible for different projects and that's why you have what we have things change at the last moment and not all people know about the changes and the poor candidates are at the end of it I'm I'm very sorry for them because because it's a difficult process it's not like one community is asking you questions it's lots of communities and many of them it's not the first language for me for example is not the first language it's a cognitive weight but so the short answer would be it's much more difficult than an admin election but if you come through it then you're prepared for the board it does a lot of work Thank you Victoria well it's really good to hear the different diverse backgrounds you're all from different types of entry ways that you come in different encouragements so I think that gives a really good flavor of how diverse the board is and all your different backgrounds and hopefully encourages people to think more about getting involved with the board in the future perhaps as well we're going to wrap things up now so I just wanted to say that you joined us today if you have further questions please do put them on the etherpad and also be on YouTube and Commons in the next week or so so feel free to share and watch back and I'm just going to hand over to Nat just to say goodbye to you all and here I'm practically illustrating how one of the chair's responsibilities is being done ceremonial staff or thanking you all for attending and spending some time with us and for your questions and see you around Thank you everyone apologies for the delay I'm so glad that we found a beautiful solution and that we can all be here together it's really a pleasure and an honor for me to be moderating this session and I'm so glad that we can finally make it so my name is Luja Dvizna and I'm the director of policy and open culture at Creative Commons and I'm really thrilled to be here with Deborah, Yolanda Giovanna and hopefully Viviana who will join us in a few moments I'll introduce them a bit later and with this incredible panel of speakers we'll spend some time discussing the many facets of copyright reform to promote better sharing of knowledge and culture in the first part of the world Giovanna is joining from Brazil and Yolanda and Deborah are native and Viviana should be joining us from Colombia so I think that on this panel we all share the understanding that preservation access sharing use and reuse of cultural heritage are essential for communities to to thrive and it's also essential to build resilience and it's imperative that we in the open and free knowledge movement support these critical activities and that's one of the reasons that Creative Commons already 20 years ago launched the copyright licenses but here we are today and people are still facing an incredible amount of challenges in sharing cultural heritage online cultural institutions for example they often struggle to just carry out their legitimate activities like digitizing collections for preservation and to make them available to the public so why do they struggle where well there are many reasons and we recently shared a report on barriers to open culture and I'll share the link in the chat if I can manage that and I'll invite you to take a look and in this session now we'll zoom in into one of the most prominent challenges of copyright outdated, inadequate, unclear or improper copyright policies that generally raise unnecessary barriers to cultural heritage sharing so what can we do about this well I'm glad that our speakers today will be able to shed light on some of those barriers, share their experiences about how within their various initiatives they they can strive to overcome such challenges we'll see that all these initiatives are different but they share common elements one more thing I know that we reserve some time at the end of the session for questions so hopefully we'll get them through the chat and feel free to ask them towards the end so without further ado I would like to introduce our first speaker and this will be Giovanna we are changing the order a little bit from what we had planned Giovanna Fontanele she's a journalist historian educator she's a master's student in social history she works as a program officer she's a cultural at the Wikimedia Foundation so she's a familiar face and she's a general coordinator of Creative Commons Brazil besides being a member of the Creative Commons global network we can move into Brazil user group and icon Brazil so her current activities are related to GLAM Wiki, OpenGLAM and linked open data initiatives in addition to other projects on diversity mainly gender knowledge and sorry equity so over to you Giovanna thank you Brazil thank you so much it's a pleasure to be invited to this panel besides other people with amazing work and to be part of Wikimedia this year you know I'm a Wikimedia so I'm very glad to be always in this conference I'm going to share my screen a little bit I see that I can't share let me see okay I don't think I can share that's okay I have prepared some slides maybe I can just work with them without the image part oh I can now one moment please I hope that you can see my screen yes okay so today I am presenting this brief presentation supporting GLAMs in Brazil advocating for open access guiding the usage of CC license and contributing to the Wikimedia projects and I would like to start with this one with this slide so Brazilian laws that are related to copyright are not that bad we do respect public domain the experience that I think we will hear in a few minutes and we have freedom of panorama and we do have some laws that find exceptions like the law number 13146 the statue of the person with disabilities that states the person with disabilities have the right to culture, sports tourism, leisure on an equal basis to other people and on the paragraph 2 it says the public authorities must adopt solutions aimed at eliminating, reducing and overcoming barriers to promote access to old culture heritage in compliance with the accessibility, environmental and national historic and historic heritage standards and that law makes it possible for Brazilian heritage institutions to create alternatives for people with disabilities to access culture that help forest and this kind of accessible content like 3D versions of 2D works and tactical exhibitions and even though we have a good law directly at people with disabilities which is great, we still have a long way to go and I would like to highlight this platform that in translating it for English, even though it's a platform in Spanish, it is about flexibility to the copyrights in Latin America and when we see here at the side, we can see the session about libraries and archives and a few different lines like public loan, exchange between libraries out of commerce works, often works evasion of digital rights management and other possibilities and when we change that I don't know if I I could share this but I don't think sorry I don't think it's good for me to change tabs right now but I would very much like if you can after this presentation to go into that website to check what I'm talking about but basically when you change this, you can see the variation of this sections here within the Latin American countries and in Brazil in the case of Brazil we appear as red in every single one of those those possibilities which is of course a problem we still have a very long way to go but there is also the fact that we live in the global south in a marginalized society and the survey of open-gloom access and policy practice by Douglas McCartney and Andrew Wallace is an amazing research that helps us to identify open-gloom initiatives around the world and we can see that we have two problems in the global south and especially in Latin America so we have 30 seconds in actually here is not South America it's Latin America we have out of 1435 institutions we have 37 in Latin America and 9 in Brazil through this survey we can see quite clearly the problem we face in the global south this is an overview of the Brazilian in the Latin America situation but at the same time we are in the global south we are 80% of the population with access to internet in the world and we do have a lot of heritage formal heritage institutions so what is the problem, what is happening so that we can see that being reflected in open access open-gloom initiatives all over the internet first we have our structural problem these charts here from digital collections in museums a manual for carrying out projects a publication about current shorter state of Brazilian glam institutions by the Tainacom project it shows that most of the institutions they do share their collection catalog on the internet is 83% but when we see below chart we can see that only 23% of them share their digitalized collections to the public over the internet and that's of course a problem but the second problem that we do have is the problem with calvification so if you see here this first chart we can see that the major difficulty is the lack of funding the major problem is the lack of a qualified staff and that staff I meant by technical staff that knows not only the technical ingredients to make it possible to share the content but also the understanding of rights here is another chart that shows basically that a lot of institutions do share their collections but only in the place of the institution even though it's digitalized and only 14% of them do share over the internet but only on the social media and what Brazil is trying to do as best as it can on a 100% volunteer basis especially in its glam coordination since 2020 and the mix of the pandemic is to help institutions that are interested but don't have necessarily the means to understand copyright and the license and we provide guidelines to them participating lectures, workshops and education events and we translate a right post about open glam updates on the copyright law reform and the difficulties of the Brazilian institutions such as fires and other problems explaining topics like NFTs open glam and how to share the collections on the Wikimedia projects but these glands really want is for their institutions even if they are small ones to be able to share their collections more widely especially the ones that are public, academic or non-profit. They usually want their knowledge to reach more people but they just don't have the means and the staff availability to understand the particularities of copyright laws. In 2020 and 2021 we talked to more than 30 institutions we created a special email address to attend these institutions and at the beginning of the pandemic we sent several emails offering meetings with guidelines to interest institutions and talk to several museums, archives, libraries and universities. They also searched for us to provide them with lectures presentations and sometimes to help their students if they were connected to educational institutions. At one point we were contacted by the Jatulio Vargas foundation to help law students to understand open access and open glam policies in a project with the Sao Paulo Art Museum. This was an interesting occasion as it was a way of helping the lack of quality professionals problem. And something that occurred to me during that presentation was the fact that in Brazil the copyright area is not that big especially if you consider the interface between copyright and heritage. And even more so when we talk about open access. There needs to be more insensitive as well as awareness, conversations and advocacy in these two areas in parallel which just doesn't happen in Brazil often and in order for us to enhance copyright exceptions. We need more policymakers to understand the situation. And without this kind of action and investment open glam cannot fully happen in Brazil and in Latin America. We had a big meeting with Rio de Janeiro superintendents of museums with more than 70 guests but the main side of the meetings that we had in that approach that I described earlier was the Abrete Código Hackathon which had several institutions and staff involved. We did guidance meetings, live sessions and a video about open access, the license open glam and other policies which was part of the legislation section of the event as well as we shared a brochure with a 38 page document with frequently asked questions related to glam. During the meeting staff had many many questions in some instance they were desperate for help especially because they didn't want to make mistakes and infringe copyright compromising themselves and their institutions. And the four most frequently asked questions were how do I use a CC license how do I apply CC license on institutions websites, how do I how to do with the copyright of works that are not in public domain and finally how can we use Creative Commons license for the collections to reach a wider audience. This last issue was the major concern to COVID at the time. Another very common question was about the case of orphan works and so our presentation usually explained copyright, Creative Commons license, open glam and practical application in the Wikimedia project so they could enhance their outreach and dissemination which was always very important to them. And in this format the four most frequent questions were answered and we could give them a more notion of copyright, open license and how to make collections available. Much much more is needed because Brazil wants to launch a brochure about N4Glam a course of a few modules at Brazilian institutions and university students law, history, communication students, a newsletter and more regular posts and especially a better connection to Wikimedia and the Glamwiki ecosystem. But unfortunately we don't have funding right now which just we just don't have it right now but we do want to work on advocating more and more for these changes to be made. That's it for my part. Thank you. Thank you, Giovanna. That was a really comprehensive overview of the situation in Brazil. I really like the study that you did during COVID. I think it turned what was a great threat to the sector and to an opportunity to show the benefits of opening up their collection and to encourage them to use CC licenses and I think it's a lesson that we could all draw from because it's really inspiring. We'll now move to our next speaker Deborah de Angelis. Deborah is an attorney at law based in Rome in Italy. She's currently representative and legal lead of the Italian chapter in the Creative Commons Global Network since its constitution in 2018. Deborah is a legal expert in international copyright law, art and entertainment law and new technologies. She also worked as a legal advisor on copyright law to the previous Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage and Deborah you will talk to us about cultural heritage law in Italy. Over to you, we look forward to your presentation. Hi everyone, thanks for inviting me to be here with you today and thanks Brigitte for your presentation. We know that policy is one of the possible limits to an open culture besides money and people. We also are aware that copyright law may represent an obstacle to the open sharing of cultural heritage when the cultural goods are still protected. We face difficulties in understanding copyright laws principle the duration of the protection and therefore the status of the work if it is still protected or in the public domain worldwide. Difficulties in the application of the originality standard idea expression dichotomy to determine if a work is creative or not. Difficulties also in the choice of the applicable law in case of cross-border uses. Also the lack in the legislation of the freedom of panorama exceptions in Italy is another example of how copyright may limit taking photograph or video footage and creating other images of building sculptures and other artwork permanently located in public space. Italy did not implement the freedom of panoramic exception as suggested by article 5 letter H of the infosock directive 29 of 2001. So besides the difficulties faced by the copyright law in Italy the public cultural heritage in the public domain faces a more restrictive limit for the open sharing of digital images for commercial purposes. The copyright code decree legislative number 32,004. Accordingly to the Italian cultural heritage code open culture is now only for personal use or study for research free expression creative expression or promotion of knowledge of cultural heritage carried out on a non-commercial basis. But in case of reproduction for commercial purposes the public cultural heritage in the public domain article 107 of the cultural heritage code provides that the ministry, the regions or the other territorial public authorities may issue a request for a payment. This limitation does not allow a general by default application of open access principles. And this is a difficult to open up the open glam and the open culture in the realm of the Italian gloves due to the obligation to ask a previous permission for commercial uses of the digital reproduction of public cultural heritage in the public domain. This is a related discretion of the authority to ask for a payment. This limitation stated by the cultural heritage represents a second layer of protection applicable to all cultural heritage when copyright protection as a part. Note that this limitation of the cultural heritage code is more restrictive than copyright law because it is perpetual doesn't have any deadline and depends only on the will of the cultural heritage institute. So this limitation is also against the principle stated by article 14 of the DSM directive that stated that the faithful of a visual art in public domain stays in the public domain as Creative Commons Italy chapter we are working on tackling of losing control by Italian keys drafting a segmentation of different commercial uses allowed in the field of research free expression creative expression or promotion of knowledge of cultural heritage exceptions where the commercial purposes can also be present taking also into account the many different types of commercial use and their different impacts on the activities of cultural institution and as a whole in this sense we would like the ministry of culture to clarify that the so-called non-revalues commercial uses are not subject to authorization and payment of the fee it is necessary to distinguish the reuse resulting from open access project in some other form of rival commercial uses such as for instance the direct sale of images reproducing the cultural heritage for example images of cultural heritage in public domain release under a Creative Commons tools compatible with the open access for example the CC buy attribution share a license do not create any kind of exclusivity and the content remains available to the community for use and reuse with very few restrictions another example is concerning faithful the reproduction of public domain cultural heritage labeled with the public domain market PGM or released under CC zero two tools suitable for sharing in the public domain according to open access principles so to be clear uses enabled through such licensees or tools do not conflict with the economic exploitation of images by the institution themselves do not negatively impact the market for commercial exploitation of cultural heritage and on the contrary positively impact Italian society by encouraging entrepreneur creator to reinvent their own heritage also we are working on finding a way on how to accomplish glance request to receive attribution of provenance on public domain material and this is the work that we are doing with the Creative Commons Glam Platform Working Group Number 5 unfortunately it is a common practice to use the material held in archive, museum and galleries and libraries especially for commercial purposes without giving the right credit to those related to this content and this is one of the issue that limits the Italian Ministry of Culture to open also culture for commercial use to conclude my speech the way to our goal still long to be accomplished that's why we are engaging in a series of dialogues with our Ministry of Culture to try to overcome the fear of open culture aiming for a better future also BISI organize other projects especially with our friends in Wikimedia Italy and I'm sure Yolanda will speak about one of these and all of these is also for aiming a better future and I thank you for your attention thank you very much thank you Debra thank you for this also comprehensive overview of what the situation is like on the cultural heritage side in Italy and thank you for the transition without further ado I will hand over to Yolanda Yolanda Pensa who is I'm sure also a very familiar face to you in the Wikimedia community she's a Wikimedian art critic and researcher as a volunteer she's been contributing to Wikimedia since 2006 she organized in 2016 Wikimedia Ezinolario she's the chair of the Wikimedia steering committee and chair of Wikimedia Italy and she's been active in the implementation of Wikilove's monuments and in increasing the documentation of cultural heritage on Wikimedia and the Wikimedia projects since 2006 she's been involved in triggering the use of open licenses in institutions publishing research materials on Wikimedia and rebalancing online geographic information with Wikiafrica over to you Yolanda you will have the last word Viviana unfortunately cannot join us Hello thank you very much so what I wanted to show you is considering the situation of Italy that Deborah provided a quite extensive overview so what can we do as a volunteer as a Wikipedian and Wikimedian my interest is how to upload content on our project how we can benefit from this content how can we collaborate with cultural institutions so the problem that we face from our perspective so the practical aspect of how to engage institutions and how to open content is actually the complexity of all this process so we need a lot of authorization we need to work with a lot of people and institutions to make sure that we can collaborate we can open a collection of course at licensing on photos or on reproduction the issue of properties the issues of artists and architects considering that we don't have freedom of panorama the restriction of our legislation that add these fees to the reuse and of course the rights related to the possibility of taking photo of people so in this complexity we decided that we want to move forward so we want to engage institution and maybe an approach can be to try to engage all institutions at once so what we decided to do is to launch a project called Empowering Italian Glam it is a fantastic collaboration between Wikimedia Italy ICOM Italy so the association of Museo's Creative Commons and the University of Torino so we also have a research partner we have the support of Wikimedia Foundation and we are targeting to engage 5000 museums 5000 is actually the biggest number we will probably be able to reach 3000 and maybe getting an answer from 500 so something like this but the idea is how can we invite all institutions to collaborate with Wikimedia Wikimedia is a nice catching word that people know obviously the visibility of this project collaborating with Wikimedia for us means to engage in opening content and creating an open access policy and so we design an approach to engage institution basically we have a three step process so we are starting now the first step we are now producing our pilot project by engaging around 10 institutions in this first phase and the idea is to invite all institution to release a series of photos of their institution the exterior, the interior some example of their collection under the open tool CC0 to do the same with the text the institution and starting drafting an open access policy then with a selection of those institutions we will move forward towards opening a selection of their collection and we are already launching a collaboration with the five institution to open all their work so all their heritage with a data management plan based on open by default among those institutions is already engaged the museum Egyzio the Egyptian Museum in Torino this approach obviously the argument to engage institution is the typical argument of course that we all know so the advantages of opening their collection the quality improving the procedures also linking their way of working to open access, open government open data, open science of course museums are also research institutions and they are very often public institution we also have the Faro convention which is a very good argument to trigger the participation another argument is of course visibility collaborating with the wikipedia with the wikimedia project with the open straight map means obviously to increase the possibility of institution to gain visibility but of course opening content is obviously an important step for this access participation the possibility of engaging the public considering new ways the public initiative citizenship innovation the possibility of producing new services and products and of course research which I think is also a very important argument for cultural institution because they have to produce research but they often cannot produce research by themselves so making their collection available for research is an important step to invite others and also invite the citizen science in contributing their mission so I'm obviously a little bold and definitely an activist and we have a very clear vision of which are the tools and licenses we want and the one that we do not want so considering the interoperability with the wikimedia project of course we have some limitations and those are basically the limitation that we present the institution we also want to force the institution to think about CC0 so to think about the value of not adding restriction but also to ask people to cite their work to cite sources but recognizing the value of not adding layers of restrictions so this is why we encourage also and we make it very clear that to collaborate with us it is necessary to not prohibiting derivative work and not imposing commercial reuse and not imposing the attribution on data basically we are suggesting three licenses and tools so the CC0 for all data metadata and digital reproduction we encourage and suggest that the CC buy for everything that is associated to authorship so whenever there is a signature document, an informative document website that only tells you the little story of the institution without a value of the author we are not putting that in CC0 and we encourage the CC buy essay for everything that engaged volunteers we come from the wikimedia from the wikimedia movement it's a little of the Richard Stallman heritage so we trust that the fact of keeping things open in particular when there are collaborations and when there is volunteer work it's an added value and this suggestion is obviously associated to different material that the institution have we do not look at only the collections we look at the resources that each institution produce it can be open educational resources or the didactic material of the institution the captions of their museum the data they produce the publications so everything is we suggest a license and a way of sharing the content of their entire collection so at the moment this first phase that just started is associated to form an online form in this online form institution are asked to sign an authorization that is also an open access policy this is the way to reduce the work flow so the document that state their availability of producing and providing open content also states why they are doing it so it's an open access policy the second step is to share a series of images we are suggesting 20 images so images of the outside inside some example of the collection so we are moving this concept of open images from the simple reproduction of the collection or sharing collections towards something that is a bit more ambiguous more linked to communication and we think that this can be an easier way to engage institution because they already share images with journalists with social media with people that ask them for images so having those images well documented on the Wikimedia project with the good captions with data we think these are a common interest and also obviously we invite them to provide how they want to be cited so not an attribution but a courtesy of citing the source we ask for a text also in this case in cc0 story of the collection of the institution we ask them to check their data on wikidata and to fill in a survey so those are the steps through which we are engaging them and we are launching this we just finished thanks to the work of two very active wikipedians and the expert of wikidata we just finished to review all the data of the museum wikidata to update them with data from our national statistics to make sure that we have also the link to emails and the collaboration with icom Italy is also a resource in this way and we are starting the communication with a little group to make sure that the communication is efficient to then launch all the information to the 5000 institution we have contact with so this is just to give you a sense of the form and then this is the work that we are now focusing on thanks thank you again I think your presentation shows that copyright copyright reform is needed when you see all the steps all the loops that cultural institutions have to jump through if the law is making all this possible legally without much hassle would make sharing cultural heritage so much easier I see that we are almost at time we have about three minutes left I would like to say one minute or two to conclude but also I would like to ask you if you had to name your biggest challenge in one word what could it be first with Giovanna and then Debra and Yolanda the biggest challenge you face in your efforts in one word resources I think resources in terms of funding and resources in terms of people to locate for what they need understanding means has confidence and trust also quite widespread and you Yolanda I think time it has been so long the time we have been investing in trying to move Italian heritage on the Wikimedia project and I think to have a shortest deadline I would like those projects to end rather than continue just because we want to move to exciting as well as this one but I think after a while it's long to invest so much energy for such a long time and to see that the machine doesn't really move quicker if I can if I can have just one cent it is right Yolanda but maybe we have the time on our favor now since there are so many years and we know that social and political issue are long process and maybe after ten years we are quite in the moment that we should achieve some results yes so stay tuned something is bound to happen very soon yes yes I believe listen thank you so much for making it to this session we had some technical difficulties I'm so grateful to the organizers that we could make it work thank you to the participants for your patience and for joining us in this session thank you to our speakers for making it today sorry that Viviana couldn't come but Viviana you were here in spirit I will share in the notes some links that I wanted to share with you but now we're at time so I just want to say enjoy the closing toast that's about to happen and hopefully see you all see you all very soon goodbye goodbye bye thank you bye bye