 Hello, hello everyone. I'm here to present a session on Translate Extension. Let me introduce myself. My name is Vera. I'm user Ata on Wikimedia Wikis. And let's start then. Here we go. I may not be the most experienced person to talk about Translate Extension, but I can easily be the most enthusiastic about it. I'm really a fan, and I will try to convey my feelings to you today. So what is the Translate Extension? As you know, Media Wiki is a software that has really many different things that help us use it. And Translate Extension makes Media Wiki a powerful tool to translate every kind of text, especially on multi-linkable Wikis. You can recognize pages that use Translate Extensions by these markers. So Media Wiki is the most famous, I think, example of that. If you see this little button, translate this page at the top and this pretty box of other languages that the page is available in, if you see this look, then Translate Extension is at work. Where it is used. It is used on multiple Wikis, on Translate WikiNet, where we are able to translate the interface of our Wikis, but also on Metawiki, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimania Wikis, you might have seen, and more. Please not confuse it with the content translation because this thing is not used on Wikipedia as content translation is. What we usually translate through Translate Extension is translating projects, contest pages, newsletters of different teams and affiliates and such. And also, templates can be translatable as well if these templates are intended for usage on such projects as I have just mentioned. How do you start translating? You just look for that Translate this page button and I can assure you that it is, however small this button is, people do find it. I sometimes see really random users from whom translating something on Metawiki is basically their first ever recorded edits and this fascinates me all the time. But how to make a page translatable is a whole different story. We have special users called translation administrators who have technical permissions for that. By now, you might be thinking that I am explaining very basic things. If you are an experienced translation administrator, why would you need to know all that? I am hoping that this session will be useful for anyone who has ever crossed paths with Translate Extension. From different points of view, translators on one hand, creators of the pages, on another hand, main translation administrators and I will give you the points that I find useful myself being all three of those instances at once. I have created pages, I have translated them into Ukrainian multiple times, name a translation administrator as well. So first of all, let me just show my appreciation to this extension as a translator and as a Wikimedian. It's a nice and important extension. It allows me, let me be personal here, to bring closer some things that are going on in the broader Wikimedia movement to my own Ukrainian-speaking community. I take pride in the fact that Ukrainian community is always very active at different kind of elections and I attribute that not least to the fact that we have, we always have the basic pages translated into Ukrainian and we can bring this very important information to the community in the language that it understands. An interface looks amazing for a translator. It has tiny blocks, it is a fairly easy system. You have your text to translate. You have your translation side by side. Here is how it looks like. I can use different useful buttons and tabs here. So I select Ukrainian as a target language. I can sort out the untranslated parts of the page so that I don't have to look through the whole of it. I can filter this list of separate sort of chunks of text for translation by the words that I need, like looking for the exact paragraph where something was mentioned. So this is how it looks for a translator rather nicely. Here at the bottom you can see the progress bar and see that several paragraphs on this page are outdated. Therefore, this orange part of the bar that indicates me that I have some work to do on this page or someone else who is able to do that. When I press on a paragraph, I see this. So I can see that this translation may need to be updated, but it is not a very crucial thing. Basically, from this view, I can't even tell you what changed there. And I also see suggestions. This is the translation memory. Similar paragraphs were already used somewhere on other pages, and so translation memory helps me with that. I can also choose in my preference to show suggestions in other languages. And here you see one of them, just for example. So it really looks nice for me as a translator. Also, writing translatable pages is good for your skills of presenting information clearly. Both for native English speakers and non-native speakers, thinking about something with translation in mind allows you to formulate your thoughts more clearly in smaller sentences so that it can be easily translated to other languages because all languages function differently. Don't forget about that. An original page and its translated versions stay in unison. If something changes in the original, the translated page will be outdated and it will show to people that's important. This is why I like this thing. However, this is a non-ideal solution to the broad multilinguality problem. It is not ideal in many ways. And I will just list you the weak points that this extension has as of today. And it is a long list. There can only be one source language. A page cannot involve in several languages at once, though if you have a French page as an original, you can set up the language of the page to the French, but then it can always be translated only from French language and not from anything else. Translated categories are cluttered and useless to some people. It is nice that they are created automatically sort of, but they may not help or may not be as useful as people want them to be. Renaming translatable page can be a mess if it has hundreds of subpages. It's a very niche problem, yet it happens. Page administration requires lots of manual labor as translation administrators in the room will definitely now special page preparation intended to help page translation. There's eyes practically useless for very long and difficult settings. Let's see how the page looks when it has all the translation markup in it. It is definitely more cluttered than it would be without all that. And I will take this opportunity to mark these two things, to just tell you how they are called in our jargon. This T number is a translation marker and it is put by the extension automatically there to just number the translation units and translation unit is one separate chunk of text that is presented for translation. The weak points did not end there. Complex translation markup can be painful if you need to work with tables. When tags are added to source page, people who are not familiar with them can get scared away and discouraged from updating the page. There will always be a tagging mistake you will need to fix. That's actually a pretty common thing for Wikimedian in any case, but here it might be of different value fixing errors after your mistakes and others mistakes can make you edit all the translations as well. Yeah, this is the third slide from naming all the bad things about it and I will do that because there is no easy way to signal the translator that the change has happened. The change might be minor and writing on a talk page of multiple translators might seem as an overkill in some regards. Extension lags sometimes and requires dummy edits. The memory is not always working nicely and translators are frankly overwhelmed by the amount of work. There are lots of pages to be translated and no easy way to know what is most recent and most important and what isn't. And then if translation administrator makes a visible mistake, then it adds work to it. However, what do we do with a poor tool like that? We use it as best as we can. In spite of all these weaknesses, it still has its core strength, right? It allows people to translate things and when done nicely, when translation administrator breezes deeply and does his or her work, translation extension with all the workarounds that we have for it works fine. This is my personal opinion if you wanna know. I think of this extension as an old cat. It may have its illnesses by now from old age, but we still love it. As a translator, let me give several pieces of advice to a person who approaches a page as a translator. You need to prioritize your work. A page is not your 100% priority when its targeted audience is fluent in English. Happens sometimes. It will be mostly true for media, Wiki, Wiki, for example. If you know that only developers will likely use that documentation page, then maybe it's not your priority to translate it. And if it is something that concerns broader community, then of course it is more important to translate that page. A text needs to be good as a text. Sometimes the fact that we have the page broken down into these small chunks prevents us translators from perceiving it as a whole thing. If there is a message, then it needs to deliver and not to be 100% exact as original because languages are all different. You can use aggregate groups to translate exactly the topic you want to work on. You can open special language stats and see pages grouped by some topic. For example, different subpages that are connected to current elections this year. They are all in one aggregate group. You can open it as one very long page and just translate it for hours on end. And you can reuse previous translations. Some things that repeat all the time will be the same. Translation member will help you with that. But also you can use special search translations to search previous translatable and translated pages where something is mentioned. There are different glossaries. There is a main Wikimedia glossary. There are still some pages for local language teams. For example, if your language community is set up, look for it if it is available. And there are also some thematic pages like movement strategy has their own page of terms listed there. So that can be helpful. And just basic search for other pages that might be connected and reuse the terms will help you as well. Since I've mentioned two special pages already, here is a special pages page on Meet a Wiki and almost at the end of the page, you will have this section, all the pages that are connected to translate extension. The ones in bold are used by a translation administrators only, but all the others will help you as an ordinary translator or editor. As well, I may remind you that special pages are available on the left screen on the sidebar. Create, edit or update a page always with translation in mind. You don't have to be translation administrator to help everyone with the work with the flow of this extension. Write clearly, speak human, write small sentences, don't use colloquialisms and so on. Here is a link to the page where these guidelines are listed. Write with updates in mind. If something will change, try to word it in the way that will ease the updating of the page. For example, you can write a separate sentence for something that will be added there later instead of rewriting the previous things. Use common existing messages. There is a category of common messages, little templates for common phrases that can be reused like more languages. This is a template that basically shows a phrase, this message is available in more languages and it is translated and so it shows people that translations can be found in other places. Template edit section can help there as well. So there are already little things that you can look for. Translatable page has to be as stable as possible. So if you are setting up a contest page, for example, please try to write everything you can from the very beginning so that when the page is marked for translation, it will change only if there is a dire need. It is not a good idea to have translatable content and user comments on the same page. And here is an asterisk because I am speaking about translate extensions. There are other ways of translating content on our pages but exactly for this extension, it's not a good idea because every comment that a person will add on the page will require the page to be marked for translation again and this can be avoided, so please avoid it if you can. If an already translated page looks good enough, let it be, don't be perfectionist there. Some changes can just wait until something more dire happens. Move around translation markup. And here I mean move yourself. Like if you don't understand something, if you're not familiar with it, don't delete it, don't change it. Just edit the text that you need, add a separate paragraph with additional information on the page and so on. Visual editor supports translatable pages now so you will see the commented things translation markers. There will be shown up as comments so please don't delete those, they are useful. Here is a checklist for setting up a page for translation as I follow, this is my experience and I hope it will be useful for you as well. Here is my sandbox page, just to show you an example of how page that has to be translated later can look like. I have some section titles, I have a list, I have a little table, have a category, have different links through the page and an image, so let's go quickly through all that. Check whether page is stable. This is the first thing you'll have to do is when you start to mark page for translation and it's not necessarily to be a translation and it's ready to do that, but this is mainly for, so to say, TAs by now. Check whether it is stable, whether all the wiki markup, not translation markup, but just wiki markup is in nice form in there so that it is as stable as possible when you mark it. You put tag languages on top of the page to show that pretty box with languages later. You put blank lines after section titles. It is rather important, it makes it clearer for translators that this is a section and it is a separate translation unit. So basically you can put an opening translate tag on top of your page and closing translate tag at the bottom, but then we have some additional things to do. Add translation variables, so-called T-bars. Different links get different treatment. Links to Wikipedia say as they are because you probably want your translators to localize that and put links to their own language Wikipedia, right? But external links that will not be changed regardless what language of translation they will be in have to go into translation variables, so that when the link is inside these tags in the source code the translator will just see a little word link that will indicate that the link is there and will not have to deal with the whole lot of of link markup in their translation. Special, my language is a nice prefix that has to be used in front of any translatable page. In theory, if it is not translatable yet, but it will be, you better use that prefix so that when a person clicks that on a translated version of the page they go to their language version. And break paragraphs into smaller chunks. Paragraphs might be long. People like to translate smaller things. It's just emotionally easier. One sentence is okay, two or three if they are short, but please give translators whole sentences whenever possible. Don't go into the other direction of breaking the page into very small pieces because not all languages work the same as English do. So we need to have the whole idea, the whole sentence to be able to translate it properly. Let's look at this sandbox page again. And I'm sorry that it has this very small font but you can recognize the links, right? I'm linking Lorem Ipsum at the beginning. I'm linking Wikimanias submissions for some reason. There are different types of links here, right? And at the bottom of the page below the edit field you have this toolbar with different translation tags as well as other tags so they can help you. You have the translate tags, the languages, and TVARS tags here to help you with inserting them. Here is how the page will look like after my tagging. So languages on top, translate tags, embrace every chunk of text that I want translated. So I'm leaving out the name of the file, for example, because it is unnecessary for translator to see that they will not change it. I am putting all the links into TVARS, the links that have to be unchanged regardless of the language, right? And the email is also in the translation variable so that it is not changed accidentally into something that people cannot use. This is actually not as bad as it could be. And you can see the second paragraph is broken down as well as the first one, as all of them, into smaller chunks of translation. You can see the closing tag, translate, and then the opening tag right after it, it will still look as one paragraph on the translated page, but it will look as separate translation units for translation and it is a little bit easier for translators with that. So excluding non-translatable markup is a rather important thing. It avoids the clutter for translators because if they don't need to change something, they just have to go around it and it takes more effort. Put each list item into its own translate tag pair. This is also done in these thinking about translators and making things easier for them. Categories go outside the tags. They don't have to be translated as other things. They are translated this way, they're using the magic word. Use anchors for section titles if they are referred from other pages. Because if you are linking to a translatable page into a section on a translatable page and give the link with the hashtag and the English title of this section, this link will not work for the translated versions of the page unless you put an anchor there. This is something that sounds stupid pretty much but something that we still have to do. Preview the page, look for the translate tags or anything else unusual showing up in the text. Sometimes if you are excluding all the additional markup from the page, you might lose some opening closing translate tags. It helps for me to just search on the page for translate and opening and closing tags and just look if the numbers of them are the same. But yeah, if something is wrong, you will see it on preview. Translation where a transclusion of templates and pages is a thing. So if you want a template on your page or a transcluded page to be shown in other languages as well, you will have to mark those for translation and not forget to have this check of transclusion allowed. They're just be aware that it is the same. Previously, we needed to use a separate template called TNT for that but no more. So it's something that became easier for translation admins lately. Then you save the page, you press the mark this page for translation, check if all the units look okay to you. And if they don't, you go back and edit your page again before you are actually marking it for translation because you don't need to create unnecessary work for translators and I think we can agree on that. Unit markers, those letters T with numbers are assigned automatically. You don't have to put them manually, you don't have to change them manually and you don't need to worry that these markers are on the page in their numerical order. It doesn't matter. The system understands how they are should be given on the page in the translated version of the pages. Don't worry about those. Most of the times, you don't need to worry about them. Stop for a second and congratulate yourself for good work because by now it is really good work that you've done. Then you press translate this page, check if all the units look okay to you as a translator. Even if you're just an English speaker and you don't know other languages, you can choose translating to Polish for example and just check if everything is okay. If there are no broken things, or at least things that look like broken links there, anything unusual that you can spot up before all the other translators spot that up is important. So please do that. You can press notify translators if needed. This is done on the page of marking the page for translation. I know that not all admins use that and not always because what it does, it sends a notification to all the translators on this wiki that are signed up as translators. And these are hundreds of people if I'm not mistaken. And it sounds like a lot. So it is usually used for really important things, right? But you can call translators in whatever other methods you use on translational, the mailing list, using talk pages of the user that you know, if you need to have updates in only several target languages, right? And so on. Add a page to an aggregate group. This is useful for people who translate multiple pages in bulk and also looks neat when all things are in order. And again, congratulate yourself for good work because you have done well. And this is the third part of the checklist that is always done by the most sturdy of translation admins. And there are not many of those. Here it, the same sandbox page of mine, how it looks for a translator. So I see it untranslated here. And here is a little button that can be used, not by translator or not only, but by you as editor of the page or a translation admin is adding documentation for this particular translation unit. And it is a very useful tool, especially when you are hiding into translation variable, something that is not obvious. If you are using a term that is not obvious in meaning, from my experience, I remember the troubles we've had with the word equity the first time it started to be used. And so here you can add the documentation on how to translate this particular unit of text. And it is useful and it is important for translators to have that. And the last part of the checklist, what should I do then? Excuse me, I will try to show my slides again. All right, last few slides. Adding documentation I have already mentioned. When the text is updated, a translation admin will have to mark the page for translation again, so that all the changes in the source text are forwarded for translators to work on. Check if the units are marked as needing to be updated, only when necessary. You will see that on marking the page for translation as the check boxes. And sometimes it is needed and sometimes it isn't, it is up to you just pay attention to that. If units are split, please update existing translations yourself if you can, because this is a manual thing and not a creative thing and not a translator thing. If you had two sentences in one unit and now you have two separate units, this is something that usually can be done by the very person who is splitting this unit as a translation admin and if you know that it has to be done, it is easier for you to do that than to gather dozens of translators to do that in their own languages one by one. Here is an example and I'm not saying that this is a bad page in being marked for translation, but here is an example what happens when something is split. So I've been asking in changes to workflows and the date previously where in the same unit and now these are separate units. This is something that I understand why it is marked as fuzzy for me as a translator because using the brackets is not the same in different languages and so on, but this is something that can be avoided or should be or just please be mindful about that. Use fabricator for reporting bugs, meaning very hard things that prevent you from using the extension, some unknown for a long time, but you can subscribe to those and add new info. And here I mentioned too that I am following more most closely, most awaited fix is adding the anchors automatically and hopefully will happen in the future. Old one about the translation memory not working in certain cases, has its workarounds in different places. For example, there is a template sold exactly for translating tech news, which are a weekly newsletter. So if you're translating tech news, have look at that. And if you're a translation admin maintaining something as repetitive as tech news are, you can use that as a template for your own workaround maybe. We have needs and translate does not meet all of them yet. Here I'm listing four of the need that other people that I've talked to mentioned to me, there should be a way to translate a page and all of the templates it use easily, just like aggregate groups are special preparation can be more useful. Echo notification would be great, but this is something that we just need to push. Language and translation team at the foundation will definitely help. I am not aware whether these examples here are already listed on fabricator or not. This is just that I know people are talking about, but what we do need, we need to move our oral and folk knowledge into some written form. So if any of you would like to help on that, that would be great. What I did not talk about in this session, there is a lot of things to talk about the translate wiki and how it is used for non wiki media things. The templates, they are a whole different story, not so different, but other things are to be said about that. There is a need of balancing using templates on pages for optimization. The style of marking things for translation sometimes differ and we can have a friendly argument about which are used because the dogs may not be coherent in all their instances, but help is always out there and I hope that you'll be able to feel better about the translate and how you use that fast-paced mask on yourself than on others. This is something that helps me and hopefully will help you. My personal thanks to people who helped me while preparing this thing and always with work on the translate extension itself. If you have your favorite people, users who can help you, that's great. We are a community. There are pages that will help you with working on the translate extension. The documentation is always there. Other pages marked for translation, you can open in editing mode and just use it as a cheat sheet. In MetaTalk Babylon is for those of you who want to ask questions in person, it is monitored by some very experienced translation administrators, so don't hesitate to write your questions there. This is a phrase that I've heard recently about our experience with translate extension. We're practicing equitable inconvenience here. Everyone is a little bit inconvenienced by it, but in the end, when we do our parts, one editor creates a page nicely and translation administrator nicely does the markup and translator nicely does his or her job. The result is the usable translated version of the page in multiple languages that can be used by a broader community and this is our goal. And I hope that the sheer understanding of everyone doing their job, so to say, in a good way makes us a closer community and makes more people engaged in what we do. Thank you for your attention. I hope to make you feel better, so do let me know if and why in your opinion I succeeded or not. You can find me anywhere and do please write on those talk pages like MetaTalk Babylon that I mentioned before if you have questions on translate extension itself. Thank you very much. This is it for me and I think we're out of time. Hello everyone, I'm Nikola Stanoski. I'm one of the active members, most active members of Glen Macedonia. I will be talking about our education program along with my colleague Natasha Nedanovsk. We divided our activities and our progress so far into two parts. I will be covering one part of our major program, so at least six major activities or accomplishments we did so far regarding our education program. And I will be presenting in the following seven or so minutes the seminars we did so far and some of the major activities we did up to now. My colleague will continue with the rest of the program. So let's begin with the first major activity we did this year. The first activity we did, the major activity we did this year was Meet Serbia. It was a project or an editing month challenge. Four Wiki Club members in the Republic of Macedonia. It took place from 20th of January and lasted until 20th of February, 2022. It was organized by Glen Macedonia with the cooperation of Embassy of Serbia in Skopje. The activity of the challenge lasted for one month and it resulted with great success. During this month, we had 23 participants, active participants that contributed on Wikipedia and we had 1,206 newly created articles regarding Serbia. We selected five most active participants and for these people, for the students or users of Wikipedia, the Embassy of Serbia in Skopje prepared a special ceremony and it was on 23rd of March, where the ambassador of Serbia gave appropriate awards. I will continue my presentation with the seminars we did so far this year. The first one was the seminar in the School of Goal to Vilcef in Municipality of Aerodrome Skopje, where we had 10 new teachers trained to use and implement Wikipedia in their education. We had 10 new teachers trained to use and implement the education process. This seminar was held on February, the 18th, 2022 and besides the main topic, we had a special seminar for media literacy on Wikipedia which was held by Tatjana Golovska, Master of Communication and Sciences. Similar to this seminar was the seminar held on March, the 18th, in the village of Vefce, near Struga, where 21 teachers were successfully trained on media literacy and Wikipedia usage. Besides our main activists, Tatjana Golovska was also present there. Besides the main topic on media literacy, the teachers were also introduced and trained how to use Wikipedia in their education process. The next seminar, which was held or organized by our organization, was the seminar for teachers in Kuzma Nisipo Skopitos School in Skopje, where 34 teachers were successfully trained on the similar topic as the previous two ones. It was held on the 30th of June and we had another guest who was speaking, that was our colleague, Anna Vishnova and she was also talking about media literacy besides Tatjana Golovska, which was also present in the previous seminars. Similar to the seminars for teachers, we had training sessions for students or new members who wanted to be part of this, our global movement. We had 11 new members trained in the primary school of Yosemiro Tito in Skopje. I would like to pay attention to two more activities, which I think are quite important for our process and our movement here in Macedonia. It's the Wikisignor project, which was started one year ago and so far we have eight new editors, senior members, and who all together created 110 articles. It can, we have a special project page on Wikipedia where they enroll and they are trained by our active members and they are encouraged to contribute to the movement. The last activity I would like to pay attention is the article by year project. It's a contest as a joint project with shared knowledge, another organization in Macedonia. It was an event that lasted from April 18th until May 8th and we had all together created 42 new articles and they were editing on different topics divided by year, something which was missing on our Wikipedia. So far we had a great success, great accomplishment, especially regarding creating new articles, new content on Wikipedia in Macedonia and more follows with our colleagues presentation, Natasha Nedanovska. Hello, I'm Natasha Nedanovska, Macedonian language teacher in a primary school and a member of Glam Macedonia as an educational educator and coordinator of Wikiclub-Ohrid. In this address I will talk about several topics related to the activities of the Wikiclubs through the country, as well as their cooperation with Glam institutions. Wikiclubs are successful educational project we held from the 2016. So far, we established 8 Wikiclubs but 2 of them are not so active. The most active Wikiclubs in the first half of the year are Wikiclubs in Skopje, Veles and Ohrid. According to Outreach Dashboard Wikiclub 2022 Wikiclub members have more than 5,800 edited articles. On March this year we have meeting with new Wikiclubs members in the primary school Yosibros Tito Skopje in order to train newcomers on how to edit Wikipedia. 11 new members or train it. As a sign of support for people strudging with the rare disease, in February we have the National Campaign Getting to Know Rare Disease 2022. Our Wikiclub-Ohrid will have one month additional marathon for editing articles as part of the National Campaign Light Up for Rare. This is the fourth year in a row that Wikiclub-Ohrid dedicate the month of February to enrich the content as well as editing articles of the Macedonian language Wikipedia to raise awareness about the disease under the motto so that those who know about rare are not rare. 28 new articles were created on Macedonia Wikipedia about the rare disease this year. On the 14th of March 2022 there was an edited tone with the TEM Celebrate Woman. The activity was part of the Global Celebrate Woman call which take place during March. The edited tone had 41 participants which made a total of 239 new articles. All participants and their articles are created in one day. The activities were held in person in three cities Skopje, Vales and Ohrid plus many editors get involved from their homes online. In Skopje, coordinator Anna Vishinova organized workshop for Wikiclub members in National Gallery. Eight young students were introduced to their art in which the main subject is the woman. The curators from the National Gallery leave the students through the rooms where the works of art were exhibited. At the end, the participants create articles about Macedonian woman artists. In Vales, there was a guttering of Wikiclub members and seniors and together they create articles about women artists. In Ohrid, in the same time Wikiclub Ohrid members were actively involved in creating articles about women artists as well. On the 1st of April 2022 there was an edited tone with the TEM International Roma Day. The activity was part of the Global Call International Roma Day Editor Tone 2022. The editor tone had 27 participants which made a total of 128 new articles. On the 24th of June 2022 there was an edited tone with the TEM World Refugee Day. The activity is part of the Global Call International Refugee Day Editor Tone 2022 which took place from 20 to 26 of June 2022. The edited tone had 19 participants which made a total of 51 new articles. Wikicamp Mavrobo 2022 was a successfully and professionally organized camp for underage students for editing articles on Macedonia Wikipedia. The Wikicamp listed for 3 days from 6th to 8th of May 2022 and took place in Korapturnica complex in the Mavrovo region. 40 students from primary and secondary schools in Macedonia participate in editing Wikipedia articles in the Macedonian language. During these three days they created 353 new articles on topics about flora and fauna on Macedonian Wikipedia. Among other activities of the Wikicamp lectures and trainings took place in collaborative workshops and on-advantage Wikipedia editing. There was lecture about the way of conducting expedition field research in the field of geography, nature, agricultural heritage, architecture and archeology. The students also had the opportunity for an organized walk in local cave Sharkova-Dupka and as well as a lecture by graduate ecologist Ikmated Yupi from Mavrovo National Park. On February 2022 in Okrit we are continuing with collaboration with the National Park Galicica by sending Wikipedia in residence. First activity occurred on 2nd February with workshop in editing Wikipedia. Wikiclub Okrit had a workshop in the National Park Galicica workshop and titled A World Without Swamp in A World Without Water. On the same topic students wrote several articles on Wikipedia in Macedonian language. The collaboration with the Natural Museum in Skopje continuing with a mount with creating new articles about butterflies and whales living in Macedonia. This mount, GLAM coordinator Anna Bishinova started negotiation with the Museum of Macedonia and the Museum of the City Skopje in order to sign agreement of collaboration and to start with planet activities. In March 2022 in Okrit there was workshop organized by Wikipedia in residence in the National Park Galicica. The workshop took place on 31st of March. Participants were introduced with the lecture of topic amphibians and reptiles in Galicica National Park. The lecture was led by Edy Furchkovsky and Aleksandar Minev from IDSB and the host of the event was Angela Taseska from UNPG. The lecture was attended by students, members of Wikiclub Okrit under the mentorship of the coordinator Natasya Nelanovska. After this lecture enriched with materials and information from the field of hepatology participants enriched Macedonian Wikipedia with articles for the individual species. Great. So we see our videos now but will we see our slides as well? Ah, here we go. Great. Okay, hello everyone and welcome to our session today. Our session is called Can We Interest You in Trying Something New Together? How we introduced a new software feature through a community driven campaign on German speaking Wikipedia. My name is Leena and I am a product manager at Wikimedia Germany. I'm the product manager of the Technical Wishes Project which is a project that develops media Wiki software which is the software that runs Wikipedia. And with me today is my colleague Johanna who is our Community Communications Manager. And we brought with us today a case study about a challenge that we experience quite often in our work and we'd like to talk about how we try to overcome it. So first of all we'll talk about this problem that we've been encountering then we'll look into how we plan to solve it. Spoiler here is that it was through a campaign. We'll also talk about how communication played a role in all of that and then we'll look at the results. So did we achieve what we hoped to achieve? We also think there will be time for questions later so if you have anything just put them in the chat and we'll go through them at the end. So first of all the problem. For this we'd like to take you on a bit of a thought journey. So imagine this imagine you made something really cool. Maybe you organized an event. Maybe you did an analysis. Maybe you created a tool or something completely different. And imagine that you actually want everyone on your wiki to know about it. You're writing maybe little announcements or pieces for your village pump and some other pages but there are hardly any reactions there and maybe you're worried that no one will actually look at the thing that you made. And this has certainly happened to us and the technical wishes of the project. And what you can see here on the slide in the graph is the amount of people that commented on our latest feature releases on German Wikipedia. So you can see there's sometimes no one commented and the maximum we got is that eight people commented. So that feedback rate is pretty low. It could of course mean that what we released is absolutely perfect for feedback but that's probably not it. So unfortunately with feedback rates like this for us as a software team it can be difficult to understand how many people actually saw the feature, how many tried it out and how they experienced it. And in general we do actually want everyone to know about the new features coming from our team and we want to get feedback from as many different types of people as we can so that we can improve the features. But as you know there are many, many really cool projects out there, important announcements going out and it's hard to get people's attention just because the sheer amount of information that is out there. And we've noticed that usually the people who do end up giving us feedback are people who are experts, more experienced users that know us and know our projects and not so much newer editors or people new to our project. And we do also want feedback from those groups of people. Yeah, so we thought today we'd like to share some, like share how we tried something new hoping to change all that and to give you a bit of a backstory in June this year we gave the German Wikipedia a pretty cool feature that's called Cartographer, I guess some of you know that already. Cartographer is a media wiki extension that allows you to add maps to wiki pages fairly easily and we as a team cannot take credit for Cartographer that feature has already existed on most other wikis before but not on German Wikipedia so what we did was to make it usable on five wikis that didn't have it yet including German Wikipedia and yeah it's a pretty cool feature so we wanted people to get excited about it and yeah how would we get there? Click. So in the past we mostly announced software changes stuff that we did in our projects with text announcements and for this our hypothesis was maybe just reading about a new feature and then trying it out on your own is not very attractive to some or most people so we thought we'd try something else we thought what sounded more promising was a space where people could first of all learn how the feature works, try it maybe even together with others and also support each other in doing so so for the first time ever in our project we made a campaign for a software feature and the idea of this campaign was that people would get more maps to German Wikipedia together so it was actually not a competition about who makes the most maps or makes the best maps instead it was about having this collaborative space about exchange and community and ideally in this space if you participated you would see the cool maps that others made and get inspired you would show off the cool maps that you made also and you would gather with people who are interested in cartographer with others see maybe is there someone else who struggles like me or has overcome some struggles who might help me when I run into a problem so yeah we planned this campaign of course we also set some goals what we wanted to achieve with it those were basically the two main goals first of all we wanted people to know cartographer exists now on your wiki that announcement should not just be drowned in the general flood of information and then we didn't want people just to know that sorry that it existed but to actually start using it so basically to start creating maps with cartographer on German Wikipedia and then as a second goal we also wanted to hear feedback from the folks using it as a working for them any improvements needed which ones are most important so our campaign sent around these three pillars that I had mentioned before learn how try to use it and support each other and yeah let's see how we did that starting with the second one try it that's how we did it at the this is actually a screenshot from the campaign page and at the heart of that campaign was a community generated list I hope you can see it feel like really look at the screenshot at the bottom of that page there's a list with color indicators and icons to say the status of the maps that have been added so basically here people could add maps to that list they could add maps that they had already finished or maps that they were currently working on to make that more transparent or sometimes people could also add requests for maps that they wanted others to create because they really wanted that map but they didn't know how to get there and at the top of the page you see there was a counter who were hoping to make it more motivating for folks to try cartographer they saw there are only so many finished maps I want to get to kick this number off or maybe there are so many cool maps already I want to be one of the people who made maps here that's about the triad then of course you can only use cartographer if you know how to use it so we made an extra pane dedicated just to learning how cartographer works there was a fairly comprehensive page we made an overview of all the existing documentation and put a lot of effort into structuring it for hopefully easy access that's like this table of contents here trying to give a little overview we made a few how-to videos to give people an easier introduction to the software also for folks who like a more visual approach and then we collected some examples of code for copy and pasting to make it easier to get started and then we had this last aspect support each other maybe you're wondering why should the community support each other if you're the tech team behind making this feature available yes the technical wishes team aren't actually map experts I mean we've worked on making cartographer available so from the research we did obviously we know some things but the real map experts are in the wiki community so we were hoping with this campaign that contributors would support each other to achieve that we prominently added a forum to the wiki page where people could just ask questions, report problems around cartographer maps that they felt necessary to discuss and yeah it's basically just a simple talk page but yeah we hope to basically inspire people to use that forum by putting it there and then last but not least not one of the three pillars but just as important maybe we wanted it to be fun we wanted people to enjoy the campaign and to want to make maps basically and from previous conversations with community members especially with those who are fairly new to our project to the wikis in general we know that the typical wiki page with its design and huge amounts of text can be quite overwhelming actually maybe you remember that yourselves from when you started working on the wikis so we added some colors another font, some visuals and videos to our page and we also gave the whole campaign a name that was a bit more fun than usual so it's we called it kartensaison it's a wordplay on the german term garden season which means gardening season but also means maps in german so basically kartensaison means map season and it is sort of means planting maps in german wikipedia which is what the campaign was about so yeah a bit fun and also quite fitting and yeah speaking of reaching more participants and visuals we also added alt text for accessibility for people who are using screen readers and we would like to encourage you all to do the same or keep doing it if you're already doing it yeah so that's what the campaign could do and was supposed to do but how would people even know that it existed and they could be a part of it as mentioned before we wanted as many people as possible to become aware of that cool thing that was now out there so we had a pretty big communication effort and a few months earlier actually we had a workshop with a group of editors from german wikipedia and several of them were pretty new to the wiki projects or more on the casual editing side and yeah we learned a lot about what they struggle with when it comes to announcements so wanted to share that with you here check if I'm still in the right slide that's great so here are the five biggest problems basically that people talked about and also sort of agreed on that they are big problems and the first one is that announcements are usually too long if I am a person who can only dedicate a small part of their day or week or month to wiki work I do not have time to read all those long announcements and the second part is that announcements can be pretty boring especially visually so if I'm reading only text I'm not feeling super invited at least that's true for a lot of people and the third point is that maybe also because of all the text it can sometimes be hard to figure out what am I actually supposed to do here what is the call to action am I supposed to read something or notice something the wish was that it should be visible at first glance what is actually expected of me if not maybe I'll just ignore that message completely and just move on then overall announcements have a tendency to be a bit dry so of course depending on the topic it makes sense to have more of like a matter of fact tone but in general people said they feel much happier to participate in something like that something might be fun they might enjoy it themselves so it will be cool if announcements would also transform that and last but not least if I'm not that type of editor who visits the village pump frequently I will probably miss that something is even going on so we did a few things differently on our announcement for this campaign to try and improve that and here's the announcement that we used and what you can see here is that we tried to make the text more readable so you can see well we cannot actually see that because you don't know the previous announcements but maybe you will believe us that the text is shorter I mean I must admit could still be much shorter but yeah we're taking baby steps here and the text is structured into lists to make it more readable and also usually in our announcements we want to give some additional information about our project like a feedback that is still here but we've put it into a smaller font at the bottom to give also the text a bit of hierarchy then you've probably spotted the call to action already it is very easy to find because it is a super visible button and overall the announcement is not so boring anymore I would say at least clearly there's more than text now at the top right side we added a playful video teaser which is a cute animation where the maps are growing like flowers and spring like music in there it sort of sets the mood for the campaign already and apart from that we also added a few more images to show what cartographer actually is and to help people assess if that's this announcement is even interesting to them and they want to look into it and yeah I mean maybe you're wondering why are you even talking about that that is common sense we all know that and I guess also most of that was known to us already but yeah from experience and also from looking at most announcements that we see on the wikis also from others I think it's a good thing to remind ourselves of all of this every once in a while and then there was one last problem that we tried to fix with our announcements which was about this whole I missed the whole thing people who are not very active on village pumps etc take wind of what was going on so for this project we tried two different things first of all we did some research and thought long and hard which wiki projects within german wikipedia would actually have a particular interest in adding maps to their articles so we reached out to them and alerted them that they now have this cool new feature to use one of them for instance was the wiki project for small countries or the wiki project botany and several others and then we also ran a banner for campaigns banners are not unusual at all like wiki loves earth wiki loves monuments wiki love love they all have their banners which makes sense but to advertise a software feature that was a pretty new thing so yeah we were excited to see how that would turn out yes and so this is now the last part of our case study which is looking into the big question did it work did we achieve what we hope to achieve go to the next slide yeah so just a recap of what we were hoping to achieve with the campaign we wanted people to know that cartographer exists and we wanted them to start creating maps with it on german wikipedia and in particularly we wanted a broad range of editors to start using cartographer and we also wanted to get feedback on cartographer to understand what's working for people what needs improvement where are the biggest problems so next slide so we were happy to see that people did try cartographer and more than 1800 maps have already been created with cartographer on german wikipedia to date so that's since June of this year and that's a pretty high number considering that maps are not needed let's say on every article but there is a caveat here we don't know for certain how many of these maps can be attributed to the campaign so what we do know is that about one tenth of the maps were registered on the list of the campaign page and we had not anyone people who were doing that but it is possible that some people used our campaign or the resources we offered to make a few maps with cartographer and then register them in that list but didn't want to repeat that process of registering them for the subsequent maps that they worked on because we did get some feedback partway through the campaign that this was also a bit of additional effort but it was then there manually and it got a bit tiresome after some time and it may also be that they saw the announcement or the banner and the resources we offer and didn't see a benefit in listing what they were doing on the page but we're still using the resources to create maps and both of these are fine with us of course because ultimately our goal was to get people to use cartographer and not necessarily to be involved in the campaign and there's no easy way to find out what really happened there but and if people used the campaign as a stepping stone but we still felt it was interesting to see what people did register their maps in the campaign so here we go so to us it looks like registering maps in the campaign seemed especially appealing to people with less than 1,000 edits and that group made up 43% of the people who added maps to the campaign and that's the first red ish bar you see on the graph there and the green bars are people who commented on cartographer in the forum or on the talk page of our help page and yeah you can see there's also quite a lot of people from that group of people with less than 1,000 edits but the most actually came from the group of editors with 1,000 to 10,000 edits and that's quite an interesting insight so even if the number of people who registered their maps on the campaign page was only a small percentage of all the maps that were added to German Wikipedia it seems like the campaign at least motivated people with a relatively low edit count more than others and what about feedback? we got lots of feedback so 44 people gave feedback and here you can see the graph from the beginning which maybe answers the question that was put in the chat about the access there as you can see yeah we had a much bigger number of people giving us feedback than we usually do on our features which is great but feedback is also a tricky thing so there are many places where feedback can be left and since cartographer was an existing extension many things had already been reported on places like for a cart fabricator or other help pages or the extension pages and we also knew from the outset that cartographer had some issues some of which we hoped to solve some of which we might not be able to solve as a team and that was understandably also a bit of a disappointment to hear for editors trying it out for the first time and encountering those issues so that did require a bit of expectation management and a lot of coordination to make sure that we weren't re-reporting issues that already had open tickets and things like that but still getting this feedback and even getting feedback that existed already was helpful for us ultimately to understand what the biggest issues are for the German speaking Wikipedia community and that is crucial for our next steps where we plan to make some improvements to the cartographer extension and that would also be rolled out to all Wikis so ideally all Wikis will benefit from our work there so that brings us to conclusions I see we, yeah, they're already on the screen so in general we'd say that the campaign was a success lots of map were created in the end and we got lots of feedback the participants that joined the campaign supported each other and we gained some valuable insights also in who we reached with this campaign but it does seem like the campaign was not equally useful for all groups of editors so it seemed particularly beneficial for editors who haven't been editing a lot yet and we also wanted to highlight that as people who run campaigns themselves know this was a lot of work to put on and if you do want to run a campaign reserve lots of time for filing bug reports and answering questions and all that jazz and we also realized that if we did this for every product that we work on it would end up being overwhelming and also lose its kind of wow effect can just imagine how many banners that would result in but there is some good news we also wanted to share some general takeaways that we think can be applied beyond campaigns so one is that announcements can be more interesting have more structure, more visuals and a clear call to action and some fun is always nice give your project pages some more color some more visuals, less text invest a bit of time in understanding which groups might be particularly interested in your news and target them directly and invest in a good collection of helpful resources to share to get people started so that's I think it and we can have a look at questions in the chat Johanna thanks a lot I've scanned the questions in the chat from that interface that I have here unfortunately I only see the most recent ones but I've noticed every now and then that especially Jan asked a lot of questions thanks for that I was wondering looking at the time we have two and a half minutes left if maybe you could ask out loud the most important question that you would have on your mind looking at or trying to look at Jan in particular if there is one otherwise we would really like to know if you think this is an approach I think I see some questions as well from before I remember maybe I can briefly answer some of those great great thank you maybe I'm in a different setup I have multiple screens open so I think I can I can see the previous ones but so there was one question about whether making this international might have been useful and I just wanted to say that we did think about that as well about doing it both in German and in English on the international level but in the end it was both a question of our main target group so who were we trying to get interested in cartographer so as we said cartographer was already available on most other wikis it was actually only I think four wikis that didn't have it yet and German Wikipedia was one of them five and so we decided to focus on German Wikipedia also because of just a matter of time and energy because making it available in multiple languages would have required more effort but you're right that potentially on that level we would have had more supporting editors who are familiar with cartographer but we have also gathered input from the international communities on what we should work on so it will flow into what we prioritize in terms of improvements so we're not only looking at German Wikipedia users and then there was a question about whether the cartenwünsche were competing with the cartenwerkstatt or it was complimentary and we also notified the cartenwerkstatt about the campaign and asked them for their input on it so yeah we can say that from our perspective we saw it as complimentary and the cartenwerkstatt still is necessary because they work on maps that are far more complex than what cartographer for example can produce so yeah very much complimentary from our perspective and if I can add we also reached out to them before we actually started the campaign because we knew that they had more expertise in the whole map making sphere so we wanted to hear their thoughts before we actually kicked off the whole thing yeah and Jan thanks for putting the questions in the etherpad yeah we will have a look at them and then reply there we have officially run out of time thanks a lot everyone for joining the session and yeah if more questions come up please do put them in the etherpad and we will have a look also if you have answers to these questions here we will be very interested in hearing your thoughts I'm sorry I had to reconnect my internet are we on yet we are on and we are listening to you all good though good luck okay great sorry for the delay so welcome to this panel discussion on leadership in Wikimedia today we want to introduce it to the work that the leadership development work in this group that will be the panel today is going to do and already did and the plan for this little session is to first spend 10 minutes giving you a bit of an overview of what this group is and then dedicate the rest of the session to Q&A where you can ask any question that comes to your mind and for that we would kindly to put those questions in the chat so what are we the initial impulse for the foundation of this group came from the invest in skills and leadership recommendation of the Wikimedia movement strategy 2013 and we've been founded since in June as I'll show you later we are global and community driven working group and as such we are quite diverse so we represent all eight major geographic locations are quite diverse in terms of language gender and experience in the movement both in share years of experience and and also the roles that we've taken inside the movement why do we exist what's our purpose we tried to unpack the meaning of leadership for our movement and so in relationship to the communities and experiences that we have because it's quite a complex topic and with a strong cultural variable in keeping with that we have to understand our communities first otherwise we can't really develop meaningful things for developing leadership and then we want to find a path for leadership development that we can follow so this is just what derives from this invest in skills and leadership recommendation from the 2030 plan this is what this group is for why leadership why is this important why did they even come up with this recommendation in the first time the idea behind this is that investment in people's leadership has shown to successfully boost project efficiency and make movements more sustainable this is what we hope we can do with leadership specifically we believe that many domains could benefit from this like just the on-week participation resolution of conflict organizational development project management partnership development and many more there are a lot of perspectives and applications for this once it's established so I already gave you the purpose of the group the group has been set up for would you Gilbert would you please mute yourself thanks we have a one year of one year so we were founded in June this year so in one year from now we've got three goals the first one is to draft the definition of leadership because we need a foundation on which to work based on that we want to develop a plan for implementing leadership in the movement and for the rest of the time we want to guide the implementation of set plan whatever that will mean this is a bit of the timeline that we had so as I said before we started our work in June this year and first we started setting up the process in which we would work and in July we started the actual work on the goals because we figured out that the definition was crucial to all the goals we started with that and we're almost finished now so we did a lot of storytelling building consensus and understanding the different context in which leadership develops because as I said leadership is quite complex and there's a strong cultural variable and we use the diversity in our group to make the most inclusive definition possible we did that by having weekly discussion so we met every week and we also did asynchronous work as you might expect so now it's August we've almost finished making this definition we are in the final steps of finalizing it and we'll share it shortly with you so that you can review it how can you stay involved and updated so we have a meta-weekly report that will give updates on our work every other month we also set up a thread in MS forum I think yesterday we started our first post to open that I'm not sure if that's online yet but this will come if it's not there yet and we need your feedback this is crucial to our work we will publish our definition on meta and you can post your review there we'll also take your feedback for other channels like the top page as I said social media we'll have one-to-one conversations if there is a more detailed discussion that you want to have and we'll also have community calls with more participants sort of like what we're having right now and if you want to have a steady inflow of information you can sign up on meta or send an email to leadershipworkinggroup at wikimedia.org and now we can use the remainder of the session to answer your questions whatever they may be and for that I'd like to give the imaginary microphone to my colleague Nitesh and end my overview Thanks Jan, thank you so much for handing over the call to me hello everyone, first of all I would like to introduce myself quickly my name is Nitesh I belong to Punjab, India I have been a part of wikimedia movement for 8 years and I am a member of the Punjabi wikimedia user group for the last 3 years I am also working with Center for Internet and Society Access to Knowledge Program and I am also one of the leadership development workinggroup members so now quickly I would like to introduce the wikimedia organizing and program team who gave us this opportunity to introduce to introduce our vision in front of the dedicated participants I welcome all the panelists from the leadership workinggroup and the audience to contribute to the session thank you for joining us and who are not able to join us those can watch the recording afterwards now we just switch to the session to save our time thanks again Yan for the brief presentation it was really amazing here we are going to start question answers so I will ask a few questions to all panelists and if anybody feels comfortable adding something to the questions or answers please feel free to add so I request to the audience please write your questions in the chat box so we can take those questions directly and finish the session on time and it would be also great if you could also add your username, user group or region details along with your questions so let's begin with the questions so welcome again first of all I request to all panelists before answering the question please introduce yourself briefly and then let us know why did you personally join this group this group means leadership development working group so if I would start from Nada Nada are you comfortable to answer and go first yeah it's fine hello everyone my name is Nadal Farra I'm a doctor from Palestine I'm a member of the working media live and user group and with your heritage I contribute to medicine and literature and art on wikipedia wikidata and wikikomot I started my wikimedia journey back in 2018 and I started this year as an editor as an a workshop organizer and now I am on the leadership development working group and I hope this group provide the purpose that it was made for thank you everyone thank you Nada thank you so much goodness would you like to go next alright thank you Nityush and thank you everyone for joining us I am goodness Nityush I am a librarian and a member of the event media user group I'm also a member of the onboard commission and a member of the leadership development working group one of the reasons I joined this group is to contribute as a member of the state and gain more experience certainly to be involved to present to my community Francesca can you go ahead sure I can hi everyone my name is Francesca and you come from Valencia and well my involvement in this group I believe it's a natural consequence of my long time involvement in the wikimedia movement for more than 40 years now and as some of you probably know I was quite involved in the strategy process in the second iteration of the strategy process back in 2019 and 20 and as we all know there's a recommendation of the recommendation set which I believe it was a great outcome of our work back then that recommended us to develop leadership in our movement I believe that the leadership is something that appeals to many things such as capacity to resilience to understanding ourselves as a movement to understanding ourselves better and this is something that we will develop in our session today but I believe that there are many many things to win for us by understanding how leadership is developed in our movement that we all know that we are a movement of our own and you know we are something very specific in the world so definitions made by others fit for us so that's basically why I joined the team Thanks Francisco Jan you already introduced yourself but if you can also let us know why you joined this group that would be great. Oh yeah sure so first again I'm Jan I'm from Germany right now I'm joining you from Lovely Tallinn actually because I moved to Estonia and Wikimedia so I think I've joined two years ago but I haven't been this active over the last year but I'm a biochemistry student so I must be involved in science and why am I in this leadership development when I read about this recommendation for leadership development it was already natural for me to join because I think leadership and soft-skilled development is something that the movement can really benefit from and I think I did have to bring something to the table there. Thanks Jan and your internet is also not stable you can fix this piece okay Ray you are the last one could you go ahead sure hello I am Ray on the Comedian Projects I go by his name for months I am a steward I'm an advent check user I met a Wikian simple English Wikipedia also you see a C-drafter and now on leadership development working group I personally chose to join for a handful of reasons the majority of my work so far in the movement has been exclusively in enforcement processes experience outside of enforcement processes and stuff like that and working on something that is much more I guess affiliate focused and sort of like grants focus and community development focused in the more small projects is I think that is quite fun an area that I hope to help out. Thanks Ray thank you everyone for your introduction and answering the question so okay so Jan talked about the 15 volunteers in his presentation so I would like to ask how were members of this group selected Francis if you are you comfortable to take this question sure I am yes well when it comes to the membership of the people I was trying to reply in the chat of course we have to jump well if I am honest I must say that my involvement in that is that I made a proposal and I was selected I don't know the details let's say but basically it was an open application process I believe it was announced everywhere we would say and it was reviewed anonymously and indeed in meta I checked the names of the people who reviewed it it was a selection of people some coming from Wikimedia foundation some coming from the communities etc and as I said before the only thing that I know is okay so it seems that my application what I wrote there was consistent enough to convince the people so I got selected and when it comes to the actual composition of the group we have 15 members although we must say that soon we will be one number more and that's a little bit the issue we have all the regions in our movement represented the original objective of the committee if I remind properly it was at least 12 people and at least one from each of the regions we have all the regions covered and we have more members than 12 and I believe that's something good and that's a little bit the situation of the membership in our committee thank you, thank you Francis now I will go back to goodness I want to ask what has the question done so far in two months like Jan already talked about goals and plans in his slides so how will you answer about this what group has done in two months okay thank you Nadeesh for that question and like Jan rightly said we have three goals one of the goals is to trust a shared definition of leadership to create a leadership development plan and to guide the implementation of leadership and we intentionally spend time to build a common and goal and also to find alignment with each other the group status the group to interact, communicate and be familiar with members and through various platforms for communication and to complete tasks the leadership the development working group is close to finishing the first goal which is a shared definition of leadership and this definition is not ready now because we are still working on it and when it's ready reach out to all of you to give us feedback and projections to upgrade our destination and make it global thank you thank goodness and I will request all the panelists if anyone has something to add please raise your hand and add that question so I am going ahead so Nada what has the working group learned so far about working together and about leadership development well so we have learned a lot actually as the highlight of this group this working group is diversity diversity is a great way to enhance efficiency and effectiveness that allows us to examine our goals at many diverse levels and brings different skills to the table we also learned that every opinion is valuable and a great milestone so we learned the importance of constant decision making as I mentioned earlier it's diversity so we get to hear different stories outside our community and see different cultures we also learned about new platforms and tools to enhance teamwork and productivity like Miro and Asana, he personally didn't know those apps before and it was a great chance to deal with that in action we also learned about resilience and understanding of members' needs with regards to the leadership development we learned that good leaders exhibit certain characteristics or equalities that can be learned or on through experience and continuous training such as self-awareness self-development ability to develop others strategic thinking and innovation we also learned that leadership doesn't apply only to the individual level it's a collective effort and it can be applied to the group level we are an example there is no leader here we are a group we communicate with each other and reach to a decision based on everyone's opinion so yeah that's basically what we have learned so far and we hope to continue this learning process thanks mother thank you so much and you talked about a few things together and there are a lot of things which you have learned maybe all of the members learned so you also talked about leadership thing so I would like to ask about why leadership even important is there a need for leaders in the moment Francis would you like to answer this sure as I said in my small introduction this is something that was already discussed during the second iteration of the strategy process 2019-20 and I want to remind I mean there are some dangers here the first danger is the world leader because through the human history there was claiming to be leaders but there were people who had no good intentions towards others so let's say that leader is awarding a little bit dangerous but still there's a need for leadership in our movement and I believe that I mean since the very beginning the small community that started as an experiment in 2001 to what we have built so far I believe it's pretty obvious that there is leadership in the wikimedia communities and that the leadership has been developed inside the wikimedia communities so basically we are having and perhaps I'm getting a little bit away of what is the opinion of the whole group and I'm making more of a personal statement we are working more as social scientists in the sense that we are identifying what's going on what has been going on in our movement so far and that's also address some of the questions that have been put in the chat I mean we have leadership in the online communities, in the offline communities we have leadership in metorganizers and we have leadership in partners I mean we have skills in our movement and those skills talk to capacity building, talk to leadership itself talk to understand how the wikimedia movement works talk to resilience not to make our movement more resilient for the future etc so basically this is I mean I believe that that's why it's important it's important because basically we are doing a job of understanding things that have always happened in the wikimedia movement and that's why I believe this is important Thanks Francis for elaborating the answer so Ray you could add something because we didn't hear anything from you as of now so could you add please Perfect, cool so as to whether we need leadership in the movement it kind of sounds like a rhetorical question like oh of course we need leadership however if you talk about leadership in the traditional or group focusing definition of the word leadership the one that is not used specifically in wikimedia it often is incredibly negative, incredibly group against group or cabal-esque results focused on competition rather than an attempt at global cooperation and from the wikimedia context something that I've tried to kind of make sure we reflect on our definitions because we have discussed leadership we've also discussed what is good leadership and then what is good wikimedia leadership from there we can kind of work towards leadership development plan but one of the thoughts that I've tried to push is that good wikimedia leaders are facilitators, they're mediators they're peer mentors, they do not give people a vision they help people find their own vision Okay, thanks Ray and Yan if you would really like to speak in this specific question Yeah, sure I think Ray made a very important point that the traditional understanding of leadership is not what we're working on here one of the main goals of this group is to sort of dismantle the misunderstanding that leadership is tied to hierarchy I think one of the questions in the chat was what kind of leaders were talking about sockmasters and admins this is not what this is about those are hierarchical figures and Ray made it very clear that leadership is rather a question of facilitating and not being someone giving commands because they are higher in hierarchy you'll see this reflected in the definition this is the I see this as the main point of the definition being made Okay another and you want to add something or want to speak something with regards to the question that do we need leaders well it's I think we will think of this question as monocracy it's not we are talking here about actions we are talking about groups levels we are not talking about one person that leads the others no it's not levels or who is supposed here no it's just the process of working that we are talking about thank you great thank you for everyone's contribution hello I want to say now I have written Shepard I think it's better when I say directly I would say now as I hear that maybe then it would be better to name this other use another name instead of leadership why not using for example the term facilitator or something like that I think that would be a better term it would lead to a higher acceptance for what you are doing because especially in Europe or that's my experience that there is there the wiki media communities are critical regarding leadership so there they want a lot of freedom or I see it in the German Wikipedia they want freedom and don't want that other people tell them what they have to do and so I think it would be great if think about maybe using another term instead of leadership thanks for jumping in Ray I just saw your hand raised can you answer this question cool yeah so I definitely understand to some extent agree with that sentiment the word leadership itself has very negative connotations in some areas but the difficulty is that if we switch to just facilitators or just peer mentors or just mediators or just insert other words here because we do have a lot of those terms or definition we define them we define their attributes too that wouldn't get the full picture like yes, leadership does have bad connotations in some areas but that's also why we are defining what good wiki media leadership is and how good leadership manifests itself with wiki media projects that's why our definition isn't just copied from Google we're doing stuff to kind of ensure that we are properly informed in our future steps by creating a definition of leadership that goes in some ways directly against the generic definition of leadership yeah thanks Ray anybody have something to add or we can switch to the next question okay yeah, please go ahead now this might be a bit of a side note I agree with what my previous what the predecessors have said also there's a large body of literature and sociological science being done on this term so changing the name to something else wouldn't only like lose a bit of the scope of the term but also work against sort of the academic well progress that has been made so that would be a bit hard to reference the literature here thanks thank you so much so okay we have less time so let's do it quickly so I will go back to goodness because we are discussing a lot leadership here so I would like to ask how did you come up with the definition and what process did the group follow for that thank you Matish for this question and often was under consent decision making process and in agreement with this cost brings down during our weekly meetings to identify keywords, qualities attributes, actions and mindsets that are important element of leadership we asynchronously and synchronously categorize these keywords to prioritize them into subcategories we also use storytelling to share the properties of how leadership is seen in our diverse communities we also created a shared definition of a shared document so that each member of the group can see and contribute to definitions and get responses from community members we also discuss and resolve these issues with the definitions and subsequently merge the definition into the final form and finally after the process has been completed the definition will be published and announced so that it can be made open for community feedback and output and input so like my colleague Ray said that the definition we would see is not a form of is not a kind that we see normally we would define this definition so that it would be a community kind of definition and show that community needs and different culture would be made possible or seen in the definition. Thank you Thanks, goodness if no one has anything to add then I just end up the session sorry questions apart from my side last one question so I would like to ask from another it would be great if you will answer this question how can community members provide feedback on the definition that the working group drafted and also goodness talked about those things so would you like to answer this question Yeah, sure well the working group is still in the process of creating a photo feedback plan for community members we are still in the process of creating a draft for our definition and we will share our definition very soon via several movement-wide channels of communication of course META is the first one we are also exploring regional and linguistic community channels for outreaching and feedback platforms since we are still in the process of putting a plan for feedback we might use messages social media platforms talk pages maybe direct interaction with affiliate members central notice banner one-to-one meetings so we haven't decided yet but we still processing a plan for that and we want to make sure that this is a very important part because we want to hear from everyone we want to know there is a gap in our definition so we can fix it and Phillip thank you thank you Nader I think it's a difficult task to get some feedback and get involved community with us so best of luck for that we have just 6 minutes to close the session so we will take some questions from the audience and we have a few questions there so maybe a few questions already answered by Ray or Yan so we have next question from audience can you please tell me an action within the Wikimedia projects you define as leading who would like to take this question I can I can repeat the question so question goes can you please tell me an action within the Wikimedia projects you define as leading okay Francis please go ahead yeah I will go personal and I will share examples that if share I mean the definition of leadership by our group is not yet public but we have been working with that we have almost a final product to be reviewed by the communities and some of the inputs that I've been sharing while you know the brainstorming process etc were examples in for instance the linguistic community I come from the Catalan Wikipedia and we have specific users that are very very good in the things they do perhaps they've never been very active in international they haven't been very active while sharing their job they have not been very active in affiliates but they are people who are I mean I don't want to say names but I believe that a lot of people know what the Catalan ideas are and that was made by a single person who had an idea he developed the idea into our local community we love the idea and not only we love the idea but other people around the movement in a totally horizontal way they saw the idea once it was implemented in our community they liked the idea and now the info boxes that are linked to Wikipedia it's something that is very very common in our movement thanks to one single person and I believe that's an example of leadership I mean when he developed that who is the name of that person he wasn't I mean he was a member of the Catalan language affiliate but he wasn't a member of the board he wasn't this stuff he wasn't let's say anything special but I mean he was a beloved member in our community and he had an idea he developed it and just as I have the example I believe that we can point to other examples of other people who have been doing things and say that people do do good things and they improve our communities and I believe that that's of course this is not the definition of leadership but this is an example of the people that we have had in mind while working on this thanks Francis we just have three minutes here and would you like to answer in few words the next question what makes leadership wider than facilitator I guess I should also answer that because I was putting this up I mean for me a facilitator is just one of the aspects that you might have as a leader I mean going back to the example of the people inside of the community that developed in this case it's not exactly a little bit of a gadget but it's something similar I mean a facilitator is a very specific trait that means to facilitate among builds etc that's a good trait that's a good trait that should be taken into consideration when talking about leadership but you can live in many many other ways and specifically I mean I believe that the problem with the world leadership is that we are thinking on a single person like something very top to down very pyramidal shim and this is not the case I mean you might be a sectoral leader in the sense that there are individuals that are living in very specific things and the leadership works both for let's say all around leader there are individuals whose involvement in the movement is very wide but it should also fit our leadership definition those who are very good those individuals are very good in specific things so facilitators let's say the facilitators are leaders but not all leaders are facilitators I don't know if I able to give a satisfactory reply but this is how I see it okay thank you Reem thank you so much we have just one minute and we need to close the session so thank you everyone for your participation and your precious time we appreciate your time and thanks again to the organizing and program team who gave us this opportunity if you have still some questions or you need some clarification or you have something to say please email us on leadershipworkinggroup at wikimedia.org it will also put in chat box so thank you have a good day and thank you so much for joining us today thank you okay thank you all the panelists and all the audience so thank you take care bye and librarian information in associations and institution which very many of you refer to as AFLIA and we have a big network of librarians but I choose to call them information workers so we have a big network of information workers and information institutions under the umbrella of AFLIA trained very legit skills looking for places looking for new opportunities in which they can apply their knowledge and then we also have this grant project from the wikimedia foundation known as One Lib One Ref so where is the connection wikimedia has gotten a bad wrap over the years for a number of reasons so One Lib One Ref the basic premise is if every librarian could add just one reference to the resource that is wikimedia then it would be a more reliable source and AFLIA has thousands and thousands of information workers under its umbrellas who some were curious some were very skeptical about wikimedia but then here was an opportunity so so we so I need you to imagine some central characters in this story I need you to imagine the staff at AFLIA Dr. Kim, Doreen and Stanley very good researchers very convincing people but I also need you to imagine Felix Natty representing the wikimedia foundation and these are some of the reasons that each party is giving as AFLIA we had noticed that when it comes to how African information on wikipedia is represented there is a paucity of it there is very little information and then that that is represented is under represented for a number of reasons on the world's largest electronic Wikipedia and then there was a noticeable lack of local participation and this could then correct the narratives that were out there yeah we as AFLIA also had access to a large network of practicing African information workers on the continent information workers who have been trained and are very legit when it comes to their knowledge and referencing and reliable sources are things that are really key to their professional knowledge and they know these things but we also needed to get African information workers into the open access conversation share what it is that they knew let us know what they did not know and how we could come together to then use look at all these factors combined and then be able to see how we can then participate in terms of contributing to one live one breath so that is how one live one breath came now it may give the impression that we were the first to do it we have colleagues all over Africa that had been doing it through their individual library associations or through their local Wikimedia communities and I need to acknowledge our colleagues from Code Devo for leading the way as well as Ingrid Thompson in South Africa who had been doing local one live one breath outreach is truly awesome but then these were efforts that we knew about but they had never been an effort to engage everybody on the continent under one single participation so come enter the African Librarians week and this was the first the first edition was held during the first lockdown not only were people looking at what to do but it was also a good time because people had some time on their hands time to attend learning sessions time to ask questions but time to also think about their future in relation to their jobs so between the 24th and the 30th of May we had our first edition then last year we had the second edition of the African Librarians week and as I speak just this May we concluded the third edition and these are the results ladies and gentlemen this is no joke we let the numbers speak for themselves but our results and the things that we have done are not only in numbers these are the numbers because you can always go and check them online and many of you in the audience are going to attest to the fact that somebody in your community or if not even you was able to start a local Wikimedia initiative after coming from the African Librarians week so in 2020 we see that only 19 articles were created but we went ahead to add 10,000 references and I'll be able to speak on that later and we moved on to 2021 still growing in numbers people are now recognizing that they have to tell their stories so they create articles and they also clean up Wikipedia 4,200 times we move on to 2022 people are still the momentum is still on it may have slowed but we still have people creating articles we still have photos being added we still have references being shared these are our statistics on the dashboard you can check them out but we have other ways to show you how successful we have been and during the course of participating in the African Librarians week we got a lot of feedback very constructive feedback that we have been able to use to incorporate and to make further additions much better so in the first in our first foray into One Lib One Ref there was a lot we contributed more than 10,000 references but then the feedback was that the quality of our contribution while numerically it was sound it was not that good in terms of the quality of references that were added so after that we went back to the drawing board looked at the reasons why the quality of contribution could have been negatively affected and we realized that much as we had trained our Librarians that training was only specific to the time that they would then be participating in the African Librarians week so later in the year the Wikimedia foundation was kind enough to consider our application for fans to facilitate the Wikipedia in African libraries course and we trained over 300 like actually 400 Librarians it was a very comprehensive course teaching them about Wikipedia as a resource as well as hoping that the knowledge they gained from the course would empower them to participate and if you will look in the following years it is this same trained Librarians that are actually leading the change and the participation in their countries and then there was also diversity and inclusion initially we restricted the contribution and the participation to Aflia's working languages which are English Portuguese French but we also need to consider that there are other languages one of the things that we really emphasise as Aflia with the African Librarians week and even in our dealings is we have to tell our stories and some of our stories are best told in our languages so we have still maintained English, French and Portuguese and in 1932 we considered Arabic as we grow and I know that we will we will then be looking at including other languages so that people can participate in the languages that they know and also enrich the content in languages that are understood by their communities and our participation can be valuable to the communities that we represent but we have also been considering other Wikimedia projects for example contributions to Wikidata because Wikidata is now beginning to really look at references and then we looked at the dimension of mobilisation and participation Aflia is headquartered in Ghana but Aflia has a network that is spread all over Africa in very many countries in Africa you can mention it, they will know their library associations and then their library associations will say have you subscribed to Aflia so that is the power of the network that we have but much as we have a network people need champions that they can listen to people that they can relate to one on one and people who are easily accessible to them so in comes the country champions and I would like to move a vote of thanks to our country champions who have been able to witness their activity that we saw had it not been for the efforts of the country champions mobilising the local information workers so we have a network of country champions and they include trained community members members, community members meaning members in the information associations there as well as local Wikimedia because each one has something to learn from the other and these normally local points of contact if you are not able to get to Aflia then your country champion is able to be to sort you or maybe direct you to where you should be able to address whatever challenge it is then during the African librarians week we always have coordinated trainings before and then office hours it is one week of concerted activities but we wish to support you further because we have the office hours and when it comes to mobilisation and participation we found that an aggressive communication drive that encourages local creativity was very key to the success and then people say so why are we participating I mean what is in it for me away from the fact and the individual pride that you have communicated to information to your community we also have rewards and recognition that we provide for top and outstanding contributors and a number of information workers have been beneficiaries and some even outdid themselves but I would like to go back to some of the things that contributed to our success as I have mentioned I have mentioned the country champions so we have a friend short of one of our country champions he was actually a student in the African librarians week sorry in the Wikipedia in Africans course and then we say that the aggressive communication drive that allows for creativity so in the middle you see a collage of posters different librarians from different African countries committing themselves to participating and to contributing to the eventual success so normally we encourage you to you know thank you hello everyone and good morning my name is Stochie Precious Friday and I'm a founding member of the Ibo Wikimedia and Suja Group as well as a Wikipedia in residence at the Moskin Foundation just first of all I want to thank everyone for making all the time to join the session this morning from my end as well as thanking the Wikimedia team for selecting my presentation okay today I'm going to be talking about I'm going to be speaking on a topic building international corporations lessons from our corporations so you just give me a moment to kindly share my screen alright so I'm going to be giving you an intro which is a brief overview of the Afro curation event our main format the main elements we are the collaboration examples from the Afro curation events our achievements from the various collaborations and a whole lot others if you can see my screen I don't know if you can recognize the image on the screen this is data obtained from Wikipedia in November 2011 this is an image of geotagged articles on the English Wikipedia and this is from Mark Graham and a couple of others so this shows you the various representations like article representations on the English Wikipedia the dark parts shows that there are not much articles coming from this site and then you can also see the African continent has so much of the dark site now the next is the Afro curation and why it started what it's all about so this issue of not much articles coming from the African continent led us to the Afro curation project why it started and this is simply because if you've heard you must have known that there are even more articles on the city of Paris in France than Africa as a continent itself which led us to the Afro curation project now the Afro curation which is our main format of trying to bridge this knowledge gap is an event or a mass Wikipedia editing sessions where articles are written improved or translated it's not like the normal edited tone Afro curation events they create a context of creativity knowledge and activism where participants can deliver on the aims of knowledge production so when we finish this the immediate tangible output you can find from every Afro curation events are Wikipedia entries on African content by young Africans under a curated team itself and they focus on using African languages now I'm going to give you just one feedback from one of the participants of the Afro curation as she said, Afro curation made me feel empowered, made me have the realization that representation is vital and our languages also have a place to be documented for future generations and this is coming from from South Africa the main elements for the Afro curation events were curatorial teams that's to say that for each Afro curation event that takes place there has to be a team for the event and then we had cultural partners and like I said, Afro curation events were not just normal edited terms, we had cultural partners and we had specific event teams so the event should have a specific team and then we had articles listed and reference lists as well, we had media communities participating we had inspirational speakers they come up to give the participants more enthusiasm on why they should edit Wikipedia and also tell their stories, the stories of Africa we also had youth participants as well and we had prizes and we had the dashboard so these were the main elements of every Afro curation event for 2021 and 2022 we had Afro curation event series, there were five of them and it was on the team of who we are, the goals of that project were to create at least 300 new Wikipedia articles which would involve five cultural institutions, cultural institutions were made up of museums galleries, publishing houses institutions like tertiary institutions and so on and so forth and then we had the Afro curation format, we also wanted to create knowledge across 10 African languages of which one should be a new language added to Wikipedia and then we wanted to inspire and build the capacity of about 300 new contributors to become knowledge producers themselves and not just consuming the knowledge which were already produced and we also wanted to build the capacity and support of 20 movement organizers in the 10 African targeted languages that we had events across Mozambique, we had events in South Africa, we had two events in South Africa, we had an event in Zimbabwe and then we had one event that had a combination of three partners which were the Polytechnico de Milano in Italy, we had the three community user group from Ghana and then we had the Comedian Tanzania where the partners for that event now this is a short video let me see if it's going to play in a moment alright this is supposed to be a short video made by Luanda Sasso, she's from South Africa she's a lawyer from South Africa and she talked about the Afro curation series itself, the story of who we are it's just a one minute video pay attention we are called to power that can who we are in search it is a discovery and a tissue it is a gift not just ourselves but our culture it is a feeling that we have for ourselves it's not like that, it's valuable and evolving with each generation holding itself the way we should be seen not for the other but for themselves who we are sends the breath of all words and all our managers both there and alive it is in our unresolvable tensions it is both eating and entrenched it spans the breath of the streams across the salons and it is human it is clear who we are and all of those who are never asked and who would deny the powers to clear themselves thank you, so this was in partnership with constitution here, ethalia publishing the wikimedia foundation it's all been a funding partner as well as other partners this is an image of the participant of participants of the afro curation project from the national gallery of zimbabwe which took place in February this year then this is also an image of participants from the afro curation event in zimbabwe as well we had two days event in zimbabwe now the who we are afro curation series for 2021-22 was in partnership with wikimedia foundation our afro curation events were engaging in five communities on the continent and linking some members of the diaspora as well there were people from China, there were people from Taiwan there were people from various parts of Africa and also various parts of the continent including Europe itself that wanted to contribute to the history of Africa in their own languages knowledge was created responding to the curatorial team we are there were 234 participants across the five projects and they were mainly between the ages of 25 and from various communities on the continent as well as off the continent we had over 970 articles and they were created in 13 languages which included 10 african languages and chinese italian and some other languages other places as well now these are stories should I say these are various aspects of the international corporations that we had the various lessons through the afro curation event we observed a great number of collaborations and these collaborations were between the students and the young people so for instance in the polytechnical event we had we had examples of article productions where students collaborated to add one article like one article title in two different platforms so let's take for example an article on chimamanda this year was written in a particular language in wikipedia and also in wikidata so they were collaborating to write about one thing but in various platforms there was also cross language collaboration where they worked together to make one article available in different languages as well so there were people writing in chinese there were people writing in fosa there were people writing in walloff and they wanted to make knowledge about one thing available in various languages there was also encouragement and teamwork across participants communities we observed they encouraged one another even when they were in different continents some of the events were online and we noticed that they encouraged one another during the early event which is the African leadership academy event we noticed student leaders were just rallying around on their own to assist others they were teaching one another on how to do things these are images of different participants from different continents some were Egyptians some were from Ethiopia some from Algeria then during the Mozambique event we saw participants helping each other to answer technical queries giving language support and also finding translations from specific words so you hear people how do you say this in Makua and then you get to hear different feedback and support from others now when it comes to partners the collaboration we saw through the partners we noticed that after cooperation taught us that being a part of a community makes us feel as though we are part of something greater than ourselves and it also gives you the opportunities to connect with people and to reach for goals that outside of your own reach as an individual we are achieving them collaboratively now a Mozambique event the highlight of that event was the cultural reflection session which was led by the foundation Aurora CEO Matazaki students were led to a session of introspective questions about their participation in the event to help reflect on the experience and the importance of the afro curation and during the curatorial statement with you having a clear team as well for partners to react was also very important and crucial and we got to see the different partners making videos and giving curatorial teams for the event itself the statement and video from the one of constitution he helped to connect each partner to our vision it simply meant that the video was not meant for South Africa alone it helped the other partners to connect to the team of events during the pre-afro curation events to meet each other and break down the team it became something we learned was very important during the series and one of the biggest best ones was the biggest effort putting and largest payoffs and result was that of Polytechnico the Milano web and professor Anna Barbra unpacked the concept of behind the Africa designs features that was the team for the Polytechnico event and she did it so much clarity and he is that all groups including people from Tanzania people from Ghana were able to engage and understand the team clearly achievements from the various collaborations we had digitization of language and cultures the international cooperation between Moscow and the partners students and affairs in Afro curation brought about digitization of the endangered language Emakwa in Mozambique Emakwa was a language spoken by 7 million people and it had no digital footprint so it made it kind of difficult to see anything written about the language online but hello everyone happy to be with you here today you are enjoying with Wikimedia this year I'm going to present to Cusgela that is our project of past Wikimedia user group is running and it's about free pedagogical videos in BASC Wikimedia but any Wikimedia can adopt this actually because it's free and it's in commons my co-presenter should be under Bolivar but he's recording more videos for this project today so he can be here sorry for that but I will present later what we are doing next please so Cusgela well he's a fan in BASC Cusgela means learning room like classroom and it Cusg means watch so it will be like watching room it's a point that because we have learned that a lot of students are searching for knowledge on video platforms not in Wikimedia they are searching for videos mostly in YouTube there is a search in pedagogical and Spanish videos there are a lot of videos about this and some international good examples would be like Khan Academy or Crash courses but this content is not available in BASC and in most of the languages of the world mostly in English and other languages and most is not free there are some good open education resources that are free but most of them are are not free so we had to do something or we needed to do something in BASC and free next please so three years ago Iruda Macho that is our partner in this project it's a communication cooperative Irta Grant on digital humanities it's a grant we are giving in the BASC media to research on digital humanities and they made an exploratory document on pedagogical videos what there is what there should be, how they should focus on that in BASC they presented it to Bideo that is a multimedia incubator in the BASC country Irta another grant there to develop more they made the first video that was kind of a presentation and with that it will be possible to export back to different institutions and so it has been like a three years project since till we have the start next please so the BASC media research group presented it to the BASC government and they were interested they felt like there is a lot of materials that are being made but most of the students are not accessing to this kind of matter so they wanted to make something with that and they asked us to make five different kind of videos to test topics and we partnered with Iluda Macho that is our partner in all the project and we made five videos that were of different kind of topics and methods like animations cartoons youtuber or explanation videos or different kind of things to see what it would be possible to do and finally the BASC government gave us 100,000 euros a year for two years for working on the videos and starting the project but more than half of the budget for expenses like workers and social security and this kind of things so there is no there is not a big space for three videos actually so we are trying to get over patterns to make more videos once and for all expenses are covered because videos are extremely expensive and that's one of the main problems with this kind of project but once they are made they are free so it's easier to make next please so the first videos we made were about some philosophers I will explain later why and I would like to show you a short introduction of the video of Canada it's like seven minutes long but we will see like the first two or three minutes so please just go on with the video so so so so so so okay so the videos we subtitled you have it in youtube or in comments and it's subtitled in english but we couldn't see them here sorry for that it would be easier so we started with philosophers there is a reason for that is that there is a university access exam and there are some philosophers that every year are on the topics that they are going to to ask for or to question and this year for the first time there were two women philosophers that were Simon de Beauvoir so we started with them to make some materials that were available in the very first year these philosophers will be in the exam for the university we have other philosophers all of them are male and we are going to start with them in September and we are also planning some other videos like daily economy this is what Ander is recording today will be with a youtuber in a very different format like things that you must know in economy like for everyday living there is a project that is universal history and we are trying to make some content that is in Creative Commons in another video platform but it will be in Basque and also there are some videos on Basque Literature and these are done with another grant that we get from for making materials for schools later we will go with biology, ecology biologists about this other topics like music some other ideas the interesting thing here is that everything is made from Thomas and it is the most difficult part so we have to be very careful what we upload but the project will be reusable for everyone so please next slide in the way we were asked that it will be interesting to have some videos on physics with explanation and have some problems because people who is working in the government in education they have learned that there are a lot of students especially after the pandemic that are regularly accessing they are regularly accessing videos about explanations and have to solve equations but luckily enough there is another group in Basque that is working on that called Hackindoon and they have around 400 videos on these topics like teachers just solving equations and explaining how they do it so we partnered with them they were quite difficult at the first time because some teachers were hesitant about how are these videos going to be used later but now we are partnering all the videos are free and there is a link there I don't know if it is possible to leave there to the link in the last sentence so this goes to the Wikipedia article about linear functions and you can see there on the right side that there is a video of a teacher explaining that and if you navigate to the very bottom of the article you will also have some other examples of how to do that how to solve that so we have added videos to around 150-200 articles about physics and chemistry and this is not part of the Cusgela project but it is something that we are doing because we were requesting research about that and it is done and now it is free it is in commons and it is solicited in commons it is possible for others to return to the slides please ok, next one ok, so you can see all the videos at commons in the category that is called Cusgela you have there all the videos we are uploading now there are only two but there will be more in some months the other videos are called Category Hakindu you will find if you see the slides all the videos are there will be there in commons one of our next steps will be trying to make them without language so they can be dubbed in other languages and free upload or whoever wants to do that because the more expensive part is doing the video dabbing is expensive but not so much and it can be done by volunteers easier so we hope to have these videos also without voice but with sound effects in the next months and we will reuse them for everyone so that's it the presentation I think there is a time for questions I hope you enjoyed it and any questions you have we are available on wiki or telegram or whatever you want thanks so I'm Yvonne Lopez I'm a core member of the Lingua Libre project and today I will talk to you about the current transformation our community have to go through so basically I will not introduce Lingua Libre just to make it quick it's a project to record very fast rapidly a lot of words in one language so you come with a list of words or you load a list of words on the website and you read them one by one in a series and so you can record about 800 words per hour you have the link to the service in the user pad and in the wiki mania so why we do this in my personal experience my motivation is because my ancestor languages have been disappeared, I don't speak it it has been erased by the French government and in France and in other country we have a lot of local cultural and linguistic activists who want to keep their language because it's an important part of their identity how we we want to do this Lingua Libre's mission is to document all language and voices what we mean by that is depending on the case we have different priority in the case of France we were aiming at local accents because in the north of France in the south of France we have different pronunciation typical to the areas the regions and we wanted to preserve this difference because this difference is disappearing in other instance we also have in France disappearing local language 100 years ago we had 25 languages in France now we have something like 5 languages which are still light other languages and local language we also have in mind that this tool can expand to the world so we have to fight back we have to document them and if possible we have to revitalize them Lingua Libre as a tool to record the words can help to create dictionary e-learning tools and to revitalize those language so by example when if I go to a small community we are we are in touch with some smaller community and as a foreigner speaking some major language like English and French I can either go to this space and ask them to speak this macro language then I am an active part of destroying their language or I could learn their local language if I have suitable resources to learn their local language at least the basic 1000 words and then I become an active actor for keeping their language alive so that's the philosophy behind Lingua Libre in the past 4 years the strategy was to first develop for friends with our local community which was leading the way and then by demonstrating the use of the tool for French accent and for French local languages we wanted to create a demonstrator for other languages and that's what we did other language came but the limitation we saw in the past 2 years is naturally by simple statistics most of the incoming new language which are quite successful are the largest language like Polish, Italian Bengali Odia some language which have something like 50 millions speakers they are leading the way but this is the first thing, the macro language the big language are taking the place and now for French which is the largest of our contribution we are reaching a plateau and we don't have any more contribution because all the world were recorded so we have a crisis of contribution within our community and we are slowing down and we don't really have we are not fully successful our onboarding smaller languages we have to work on this and also a second critical issue is with the development of the expansion of our usage we had the new model they are like a lower internet literacy rate so the people which knows the language are not able to contribute we have new technical and social challenge that we are not present for the larger language and are present for the smaller language and the more marginalized language so now we also have a crisis a technical crisis with some bugs appearing on a mobile platform and we have to revamp we have to renew our tool on these two aspects the technical side and the methodology to approach those communities so excuse me so right now we are on the technical side we have been doing hackathon and things to revamp our stack and also on the methodology we have documented on the wiki ways to make a workshop based on the experience with a small age in Amazonia problem of literacy even their language are not normalized so the speaker have difficulties to read the word which are using a new writing system we have these kind of challenges we have also simply challenge to access those communities so we need volunteer to we can create the contact point with those community languages closer to them we need people across the world wiki media who make the binding between those villages and small communities and the tools and the documentation which are online so that's globally the situation we have right now with this slow down of the core French community the appearance of bugs from mobile mobile device and the need to develop to implement new methodology which are basically a field language with the need of volunteer field language that people which can go to these communities this is for the global problematic of our project the dynamic we have right now I think we have to make a push exactly in this direction that means more outreach towards smaller language towards other wiki media chatter especially in Africa and South-East Asia there is a lot of un-taped linguistic resource which need to be documented if we want to revitalize to support and to revitalize these languages this being said I was not able to share my screen but on the wiki media wiki mania sorry on the page I added some resources which are interesting to browse so I will share them with you if I find a way but basically it's on wiki mania wiki media.org and lingualy re-pivoting to diversity but the map which display from wiki data all our users they are categorized by number of contribution and you can see the BAs we have towards Europe and that's the issue we have to fight we have to move away from Europe and to those other area which which have the most diverse linguistic resources also I will add to this page a few applications we made a learning application to learn languages we we do our best to serve the local community by helping them with the methodology creating a list of words recording them and pushing to have a multimedia learning service basically a list of words with translation in the local contact language so by example for Surui we will have Surui which is a small language with 2,000 speakers Portuguese and the audio file and you can browse this list and learn the word depending on your needs if you interact with the community you can use their language and you are not part of the the the flow which westernize these communities and make this language disappear I will share more also on the Wikipedia page and you are welcome to browse them to come to LinguaLibrator.org and to interact with us to maybe add your language or think about possible connection thank you everyone question Hi everyone, my name is Candy Trescia Cojue and I am part of Wikimedia Community User Group for Botswana I'm a long-term editor with Wikipedia and I'm also one of the co-founders for Wikimedia Community User Group for Botswana so today my topic will be about the challenges and opportunities for building a community so I would like to share my experience about building my community that is Wikimedia Community User Group for Botswana so this is currently an affiliate that was formerly active and now it's currently in active so we're still working and we're still in progress well with re-applying for it to be recognized by Wikimedia Foundation and we're hoping this will be approved hopefully nearly soon this year so what we are currently doing is early in 2019 we started running on individual grants that is holding projects such as Wiki Loves Women Wiki Loves Africa Out in Feminism and all the other projects around the Wikimedia Foundation project so our community is mainly made up of university students and that is mainly females and males that is women and men what we usually focus on is to build content about women and also build content about our country Botswana in different aspects of it to create a localization or should I say create content about our local country and have it up there being shared by the international platform or international people to have access to our information about Botswana on the Wikipedia space and our community is also not really just shared well it's not only joined by geeks but it's open to anyone who's willing to learn and so we don't discriminate so we open our arms to have anyone who's willing to learn and also be a part of this and volunteer and contribute to this beautiful community so here are some of the pictures of our successful or should I say just our journey as a community we have hosted a number of projects that is Wiki Loves Africa that you can see right up there is WLA and then we have WLW which stands for Wiki Loves Women and then we have art and feminism which is mainly around the gender gap articles and then we have Wiki Data we also have panel discussions where we usually talk about the gender gap having women included or having them or having more representation of women online and we usually also have extra thoughts around these projects so here are the pictures that we usually take or just to share our experience of what we've done so far how far we've come and what we have done of course our success stories and also our downsides so I'll further on go on to share the next slide because it wasn't quite easy it's been a rollercoaster ride for me I'll say there are times where we'd have events and we really have a lower turnout rate so with me realizing this I've realized that downsides to it it depends on what people are interested in most of the times when we have something like Wiki Loves Africa you'd see like the turnout rate will be a lot of participants on that and mainly men and then sometimes when we have Wiki Loves women there's mainly women who are inclined to come and participate for that and then our largest rate or should I say the largest group that we have is mainly the photographic side there's a lot of men who are really interested with contributing pictures we've had our country when we have such a competition the turnout is really gradually growing and is quite impressive to see but we would like to have that kind of diversity and inclusion where we have a good representation of women and men of course to be balanced out within this project that we currently hold so I'll further on like to share the challenges that we have experienced in our community so I've realized that we have like a very volunteering kind of like missing culture of volunteering people really don't understand what it means to be a volunteer they would prefer being paid kind of thing so it's really important to share what our mission goal is mission and vision of Wiki Media Foundation what we want to achieve as a community so it's worth kind of like coming up with these campaigns I feel to share more information of what the community is all about and what we're trying to to share to make free accessible knowledge for all to empower people across the world so for the internet access we have a problem with internet access because citizens don't really have enough finances to get accessibility to the internet so hence there's a problem with them being able to participate freely as much as they can so we have identified this as a problem that we have within our community the next point there is rare knowledge of copyright so I've realized that a lot of people would try or they haven't understood what it means contributing things that are authentically maybe created by themselves somebody could share for example we come up with a competition maybe to share images about animals and then somebody would go into the internet and try and maybe screen grab one of those animals that they want or they think the picture is beautiful and they try to upload it to the competition that we're currently running that could be about animals at the time so there's really that kind of lack of knowledge of how people should participate in such competitions especially when they're learning from their friends and they don't come to the event or they just see our posters out there on how they can participate but they don't really follow the steps or guides on how they could participate in the right way so with that being said we need more participation for people to come and learn when we host such events and then there's a really low or should I say we need help with convincing local officials that is partners to help us to try and share what we do as a community to the national scale we need more supporters and people who can help us maybe with the lab to host our events or anything that could be relative to us bringing a community together and then we carry out our trainings it could be even the internet provision or anything that could help us just to bring the community together and host a successful event so there's really unclarity or should I say uncertainties around our community and what we do so it would be very helpful for maybe the partners out there who could help us and understand what we do and give us the platform for us to share with them what we really do and then they could also extend that hand to help us host more events we have another issue that is well this is what I've also been saying we need to create more awareness that is people have to understand what we mean when we say we are a Wikimedia community user group of Botswana what do we stand for, what do we do what is our mission how do we want to drive that narrative or instill the mission of accessible knowledge for all what do we mean by that so we need to really when we say who we are people understand exactly what we do and how they can also participate so that they are really not lost so I think more campaigns to do this and instill that awareness would help and also we have a challenge with retaining participants participants usually by competitions because due to lack of funds we were unable to carry out regular workshops or regular trainings because of maybe lack of funding here and there to host such events to keep the community spirit going on and have people really engage and keep contributing to Wikimedia so retaining participants has really been a challenge for us to keep people in the community for them to volunteer throughout without without having something happening like a competition so it would be really helpful to maybe train and have people understand what the essence of volunteering even on that own free time without maybe even a competition running they can still contribute and know that they are doing it for good well it will be amazing to have that and then my next slide here I'll be sharing the impact we're planning to bring to our community so would like to share to create more articles that is around diversity and inclusion increase the number of editors that we have because a really small community at this time and we are also planning to create more awareness campaigns on Wikimedia projects improve and create articles about our native language because that is one of the well that's our first language here so there's a really small number of articles that is written in our native language so it will be great if we could start having articles a large number of them on there and yes we would also want to have more collaborators partners to partner with when we carry out our events and then I would also like to mention share knowledge about Wikimedia and sister projects across the country we just don't want to incline ourselves to currently operating or carrying out projects within Khabroni if it's just not within Khabroni then we're doing online and it's accessible to everyone but we would really like to carry out remote trainings from time to time maybe in different cities or towns just to include everyone and make them understand what we are all about my next slide will be about lessons that I have learned on building a community so I realized that to build a community you'd have to have it's very important to have regular meetups that could be in person or online with your community members just to keep the teamwork spirit alive it's also very important to have everyone included and work as a team not run as an island type of thing so it's very important to work as a team and include people when you carry out decisions and that makes them feel like they are also part of something it gives them a sense of belonging it's also very important to know your community status as I'm saying we're currently a very small and growing community hence I know how much we can do and how far well how far we can go and how far we cannot go and I also understand should I say the skills or talent of my community members I know who can help me with this or that if I need digital skills there's somebody who I can go to if I need maybe an organizer I know who would be good with that so it's really good to know what your community members are really good at so that you can know where you can help them in places or they can also just initiate well initiate the ideas of them participating to help out when events happen the next point there is initiate and invite community members to join meetings and activities this is the same as well it's not the same as organizing in person or online meetups but it's more of like planning activities they should be involved when we plan activities what they foresee for us how to carry out the activities that we plan for the year it's really important to have the community also have a buy-in or they have that voice to say on what they want to see how they want to see the community run throughout the year so it's really lovely to hear what the ideas would be from here transparency is also a very good point to have when you run a community it gives people the sense of trust it builds honesty amongst each other so that there's always that peace and respect amongst the community and just to let go of egos I would say it's also very important no matter if I'm a trainer or not it's always very important to know that I'm a volunteer also and it builds that kind of spirit of the teamwork spirit that I've been talking about one other point is create rules policies workflows in the community so to avoid things such as harassment or any other very disturbing or bad bad harassment issues from happening it's really good to have some rules and policies like the universal code of conduct that we Hi everyone this is Maria from Wikimedia Deutschland and today I want to tell you a little bit more about partnering up for Wikidata and the Wikimedia movement and especially on Wikidata software development I'm a project manager at Wikimedia Deutschland for a couple of years now and at the moment I'm focusing on projects around Wikidata and Wikibase Wikimedia Deutschland has been around since 2004 and currently we're located in Berlin Germany next to supporting communities like the Wikipedia community or like free knowledge communities in general we are also hoping to improve political and legal frameworks for the free knowledge movement and also are developing software for Wikimedia projects among others we are doing the software development for Wikidata and Wikibase since 2012 and since then like a super vibrant community of volunteers other affiliates movement groups, data enthusiasts has been growing around this product the partnership I want to talk about now has the starting point of our movement strategy which I hope everyone heard about by now our strategy process and our movement strategy that includes among others again for example that we want to invest more in skills and leadership development in the movement or to increase the equity in decision making and what we've been wondering is like what can we do what can we change about the things to breathe life into those strategy recommendations and what we came up with is to create a prototype of collaboration with another community or another movement group and have them enabled to contribute to the software development of Wikidata and Wikibase preferably in a sustainable and scalable way we are able to do this because we have received a grant from the Arcadia Foundation in the last few years we spent the first 12 months of this to focusing on finding a movement partner or movement groups who are willing to commit to such a partnership but also to figure out the whole setup and establishment of this partnership among the organizations to then focus on the actual implementation in the next couple of years and to connect all of this to the bigger ecosystem of Wikidata and Wikibase the kind of stuff we've been doing for the past 12 months was to reach out to the Wikidata community to make it known that we're looking for such partners to then after we've received some interests from movement groups to spend time on getting to know each other getting to know our ideas about the possible projects about our communities we also had to figure out how we want to set up those things what kind of processes we need what kind of rules and documents for documentation and monitoring and also to fulfill the duties from our grant giver the Arcadia Foundation when it was time to make a decision we were faced with the plan that we were setting out to find one partner but have actually decided at this point that we want to partner up with both interested groups that reached out to us even though we're going to do this in different ways and which is ongoing now is we have that kind of knowledge sharing we want to build up capacity for software development and other communities and continue doing this in the next couple of months the kind of things we learned while the first 12 months have now kind of come to an end is having an open call and just like putting your idea out there and make people come to you you will you will get aware of communities and people you haven't worked with in the past one thing we also learned is that there's no one size fits all partnership we kind of figured out the kind of projects and the kings of the partnership as we were getting to know our potential partners which made the kind of setup we have now fit very well I think we should plan in all those knowledge sharing activities because if you don't you just won't have the time and also be aware that not all movement groups are so privileged this is coming from Wikimedia Deutschland which is rather big and has a lot of resources that not all groups and communities can spend that much time on preparing such a partnership and with this I'm happy to have you introduce to our both partners Wikimedia Indonesia Wikimedia Indonesia non-profit organization based in Jakarta Indonesia is indicated to encourage the growth development in the dissemination of knowledge in Indonesia and other languages spoken in Indonesia as one of the local chapters active in the Asia region Wikimedia Indonesia has supported 14 Wikipedia in languages spoken in Indonesia 12 regional based Wikimedia communities spread across the country and also to other Wikimedia project-based communities along with this development there are needs that arise from the communities regarding technical support for Wikimedia projects there are challenges that need to be faced like differences of languages spoken in each community lack of internet access the absence of guidelines especially for newcomers and also the editing method for Wikimedia project so far which tend to vapor the contributors from Europe and North America one of Wikimedia Indonesia visions for the next two years is to increase our technological capacities for our organization and also for the communities in Indonesia in line with this vision we are very excited to work with Wikimedia Deutschland for this collaboration project we are really looking forward for this project because Wikimedia Deutschland has capacities related to the technologies with this opportunity we are very grateful to be able to learn from Wikimedia Deutschland on how to develop open source software that can be beneficial to the Wikimedia movement together with Igbo Wikimedia's user group we will collaborate on Wikidata software collaboration project within the next two years we will build our own software team the software team will be focusing in helping the community to solve their needs and then also to helping under resourced language communities to contribute in flourishing their languages online through lexicographical data and also involving the communities in contributing to lexims on Wikidata there are total four language that we plan to develop lexim in Wikidata namely Indonesian language Minangkabau language Sundanese language and Makassari language through this project we are very eager to learn not just in terms of increasing our technological capacities but also in building a sustainable and scalable software development environment that can be useful to the Wikimedia movement therefore with the software collaboration project we hope that this will emerge as a step for us to strengthen our movement and also for us to be together in freeing the knowledge Hello everyone, my name is Benedix Fudeh from the Igbo Wikimedia user group and the Wikimedia Africa program coordinator with me I have 30 precious who is the co-founder of the Igbo Wikimedia user group who is coordinator for Wikimedia Africa before we start I would like to give us an overview of the Igbo Wikimedia user group Thank you Benedix, hi everyone so the Igbo Wikimedia user group is a group of volunteers seeking to advance the free knowledge sharing mission using various Wikimedia projects and we do this in form of clubs, fun clubs in form of fun clubs and fun clubs are university clubs in tertiary institutions only in secondary schools then we also have hubs these hubs are kind of thematic hubs, kind of thematic clubs in the sense that it could be a group of librarians it could be a group of Wikidata enthusiasts it could be a group of Wikicommons enthusiasts so this is what the Igbo Wikimedia user group is talking about to the Wikimedia Africa program where Benedix is going to be telling us more about the program Hi Benedix Thank you very much Titi for that very brief overview of the working days ago so Wikimedia Africa what is the Wikimedia Africa program all about the Wikimedia Africa program is a program that is designed to help new and inexperienced developers, programmers how to make edits on Wikidata but mentoring Africans on building and maintaining Wikidata tools as well as other Wikimedia tools by pairing them with more experienced Wikidata tool creators and contributors so how do we achieve this how do we do this we do this by having experienced technical Wikimedia's common board on our platform as mentors and we in turn we organize two to three of these online events monthly these events are monthly and the aim of these events is to just reveal the participants or the mentors the opportunity to meet the mentors as well as the mentors the opportunity to meet the mentors next we'll be talking about the collaboration we have with the Wikimedia Deutschland our last 30, do you want to talk about this yeah the collaboration is something I was always proud of so our collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland started this year and Wikimedia Deutschland is collaborating with the Igbo Wikimedia and Suzer Group as well as the Wikimedia Indonesia and for this I'm going to be talking about the collaboration with Igbo Wikimedia and Suzer Group the essence of the collaboration is to enable the Wikimedia Africa program to make greater impact and this collaboration is both in form of a multi-year funding program support and as well as guidance so sometimes we meet to discuss how the program is going we have full-on meetings to discuss the challenges we have and we get advice, suggestions and comments in this regard and we get to improve on the program including various aspects the collaboration has actually been a very great and helpful one so next I'm going to give it back to Benedikt he's going to talk about our achievements so far and this achievement is also based on the collaboration we have through Wikimedia Deutschland hi Benedikt, thank you thank you very much like Dutty said so far we've had a couple of achievements and this is as a result of the collaboration we have with Wikimedia Deutschland we've had four editions four successful editions by editions I mean the four monthly we've had four monthly events that we've organized and in these events we've had three mentors come on board and these three mentors are not just from one particular place countries, the one country on the continent so we've had mentors from Germany from Belgium, from Cameroon who have come on board and these mentors have adopted some of the mentors, 11 to be precise so far over 200 participants as well across these editions have joined us across these various editions we've had and also we've had these participants from five different countries from Nigeria, Cameroon Ghana, Tanzania, Côte d'Ivoire and so with these achievements what are we planning to achieve next what are we looking forward to in the future so what we are looking forward to in the future one of the major things we are also looking forward to in the future is to get more experienced software developers more experienced technical writers more experienced programmers come on board to be mentors we are also looking forward to having to develop and maintain at least one community that is inclusive we are not just looking at having mentors and maintenance come from mentorship we are also looking at having a product that will be beneficial to our community to the African community also another thing we are looking forward to is to get more African communities on board like I said earlier on super we've had five five African communities on board we are looking forward to having more on board and then also we are also looking forward to of course funding we are looking forward to access to more funding to keep these these initiatives sustainable we don't want to just have this for one year or two years, we want to have this ongoing so that we can at some point move from Africa to a global initiative and yeah I know you are wondering how can you get involved and so Titi can you tell us how you can get involved Titi so if you are wondering this is beautiful how can I get involved there are various ways you can join us in this program of project first of all you can join us as a mentor you can help us train the community members you can also help us to adopt mentees you can also tell someone to tell someone about the program even though we might from there get more mentors as well or even participants also you can also help us reach out to other mentors or maybe you can tell us how we can reach them and we are happy to reach out to more people who can get involved in the program because from what we are seeing it's going to be something that would bring a whole lot more people and if you feel you can be a mentor you can tell someone else if you feel free to join us as a participant so you can get to our project page to see how you can sign up or you can read more about the mentor Africa project so Titi thank you very much Titi like Titi said you can go maybe if you are still on the side we are not sure if the program is for you just visit our page visit our project page WikiMentor Africa the link to the page which is dropped on the chat also visit if you after visiting it if you are visiting for me I want to reach out we have a telegram group which the link is also dropped there and just in case you want to visit our previous editions you can also so having said all this thank you very much for listening thank you all right hello everyone and a very warm welcome to this session about knowledge equity on this year's Wikimania this session is called knowledge power equity a Wikimedia Deutschland event series on issues of the equitable distribution of power I work here as the head of the team politics and public sector and together with the team we are primarily working on communicating and developing policies that are intended to strengthen the political and legal framework for free knowledge and to communicate them to policymakers to associations to the media and one of the crucial issues when it comes to the future of our movement is the strategic goal of knowledge equity so I'm really happy to be able to present this project and this event series that we came up with here at Wikimedia Deutschland to you and I'm really curious to hear what you think about it your feedback and your approaches to knowledge equity afterwards but let's get started now I will share my presentation with you just a second there it is in the next 15 minutes you will hear about the concept of this event series knowledge power equity you will hear about the topics and the guests that we invited so far we will hear about the media collaboration that we succeeded in winning for this event series and you will also hear a little bit about the intended impact that we try to achieve here for the strategic goal of knowledge equity so let's get started coming back to knowledge equity just for a second as we all know this is one of the fundamentals of the 2030 strategy and the distribution of knowledge is a matter of power and it's also a matter of equity and I think it's really a crucial issue when it comes to the future of our movement so another fundamental question inherent in many aspects of knowledge equity that you are also working on is how can we distribute power more equitably and of course this is not exclusive for the Wikimedia world especially in recent years there have been louder voices in many contexts calling for more equitable distribution of power I'm thinking of the Me Too movement for example which has made unequal power structures more visible and society more sensitive to them and I think it's really important to build on this growing social sensitivity in order to make knowledge equity better known and also to generate understanding and mobilization for it because we will be all more successful if we connect the idea of knowledge equity with existing louder voices and in social discourses around diversity and a lack of representation of different kinds of knowledge in politics, in media and also in Wikipedia of course so the second question was how can we connect to existing discourses on unequal power structures we then came up with the concept for a discussion series to explore these questions further and to discuss them with people working in different fields of knowledge equity so the concept is we are organizing a series of conversations called knowledge power equity in German this is Wissen macht gerechtigkeit and it takes place every two to three months and in a moderated discussion two to three guests are talking about an issue from the spectrum of knowledge equity these discussions are always moderated by Deutschlandfunk and also produced by Deutschlandfunk who we succeeded in winning for a media cooperation Deutschlandfunk is the biggest broadcaster in the German speaking area and they would broadcast the conversations on the radio and afterwards we then have the podcast for our own communication channels and for communicating it further for example also to policy makers so let's come to the topics and guests the topics come from the context the spectrum of knowledge equity and also the fundamental question of how digital public sphere should be shaped and designed to be welcoming and safe for all people and for our pilot episode we had Christian Humburg who is the executive director of media Deutschland and also we could win Dr. Imidia Waak who is a political scientist based in Berlin and in France she's the author of Why We Matter and the founder of the Center for Intersectional Justice which is also based in Berlin so the two of them we're discussing a little bit about how knowledge of domination or dominating knowledge through time, how it is changing through digitization and also through projects like Wikipedia of course our second episode was about disinformation in election campaigns and this was at the time when there was the federal elections here in Germany last year and we were particularly interested this time in the question who is particularly negatively affected by disinformation so we discussed this with Ingrid Brotnich who is a well known journalist based in Austria and an author also and she is an expert for disinformation and we had also a journalist and writer, Yasin Muschalbasch who is working a lot in this field of disinformation and then Professor Martin Emmer communication science and journalism and a founding member of the Weizenbaum Institute which is the German Internet Institute our next episode was about the concept of a post-colonial museum and this is a very timely and very super relevant question for cultural institutions cultural heritage institutions in general and museums in particular for the whole glam sector actually so the question was is there already a post-colonial paradigm shift visible in museums and what post-colonial concepts and what specific examples are there for the cooperation of museums with representatives of so-called societies of origin for this we had Jan Sakizah Bandi who is a curator for colonialism and racism at the Anne Frank education center we also had Christopher Nixon who is a curator for colonial past and post-colonial present at the foundation of historical museums in Hamburg and another curator Kevin Bres who is responsible for the reinvention of the Grasny Museum for Völkerkunde in the city of Leipzig so this was truly a super interesting conversation our next episode and the last one we did so far is called public money public good so this is one of the core demands that we have facing the public sector we think that what is finance primarily or fully with public money must be freely available to all people and the question is how can this be implemented politically and this is also relevant for knowledge equity or it has a huge knowledge equity dimension because the question is how can it be ensured that content produced by the public sector does not only benefit the public sector itself or policymakers but also all people the broader public and all people in general for this question we had the brilliant Lilith Wittmann who is a net political activist specifically on this topic also and she's also a software developer and an IT security expert we also had Max von Rekaiser who is the spokesperson for digital policy for the liberals here in the German Bundestag and then Alexander Hanschuh who is the spokesman for policy issues at the German Association of Towns and Municipalities let's take a look at the next episode which will be broadcast in August so this month actually and this episode will ask do we need a feminist digital policy and the most important question here for me is how can feminist perspectives be made useful for current digital policy challenges such as you know the advances for systematic surveillance or also the fight for digital violence in general and for this episode for this issue we have the deputy chair of the digital digital committee in the Bundestag as well as the founder one of the founders of a fantastic initiative based here in Berlin it's called Superlab and it's an interdisciplinary group of people working on policy recommendations specifically designed for shaping more equitable digital futures so that's what we did so far let's take a look at the intended impact now that we aim to achieve so the question is what are we supposed to achieve through this and can a series of events even explore knowledge equity and maybe even strengthen it and as I said before I think it's really important that we communicate well what we do to the outside world in order to avoid working in silos and also for a long-term impact of our work for the society so I think it's really important that we communicate also the efforts towards knowledge equity in a way that is effective for the public and effective for other initiatives doing similar things and we would like to discuss the possible aspects of knowledge equity with people who already work in different fields that are connected with knowledge equity but who are working on knowledge equity from very different perspectives and to bring them on one table and discuss the things to develop them further especially from a political, from a technological and from a social point of view what are the next topics that we are planning coming up next is the topic of the so-called community capitalism so this is about how we can prevent politics that has a tendency to more and more delegate public responsibilities to volunteer engagement which we can see happening in different sectors and also in the digital volunteer engagement and another topic will be how the knowledge of Omnia and Sintessa can be represented more effectively so this is it I hope you found this interesting thanks so much for your attention I would be happy if you contact me with feedback, if you get back to me if we can get in touch about other formats around knowledge equity and I hope you will have a simple and insightful wikimania see you Hey everyone, so welcome for this session about the Wikipedia in French that has deleted pages for pages for deletion so why, how, what impacts what happened before what led to the decision, how the decision happened and then we are we share link to one case of notability debate about an article in Wikipedia that got not really deleted so let's start right now so who I am so I'm Jean Squire I'm going to take my own slide it will be easier for me to read so I'm Jean Squire I joined Wikipedia in French in 2009 and Wikipedia in France in 2018 I'm also on wikim data and commands Morally I mostly translate from English articles like moon coyote, etc I also have ADHD and autism as per girls so I try to promote accessibility in the projects so it can be visual in learning our process between the editors too so it's not taxing and we don't lose conflicts so I'm also one of the many editors to the main page overall of Wikipedia in French 5 years ago and of course one of the people that contributed to the page for relations reform last year and this year so this is a quite difficult topic I don't know if you can see the image I shared I know you can't it doesn't share well I shared a funny image anyway so I am you will be about to find this slide on the at the end of the session on the session page on the Wikimedia website so let's go directly to how we began and we will start with before the reform the very origin of the procedure and it has been created the 5th October 2002 2002 by Anthair which later became became the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation but later no template it was just text with returns to the line under and just passing with the Anthair K and over there we got 6 major issues raised by the community because it led to a lot of conflicts a lot of grief and it remained in other spaces so we are going to the next section there were a survey helping to shepherd this back to 8 years ago and that concluded that the procedure name was no longer redevent because it was more supposed to be it evolved to notability debate for pages and not something for just for deletions there are speedy deletion process too now and this procedure was used to discuss the merits of categories template and other meta pages. This is more a discussion than a vote and there is an everlasting debate under Wikimedia in French about just voting or studying the merits of the statements of the debates made the comments of course in other wikis it's often the comments the quality but it doesn't work like that for everyone because some people are very strict they are very square in a way to think that it should be votes we say it's supposed to be deleted or not it's also used by default it's used by default as a maintenance of natability banners that are named in French admissibility a vérifier and they have to be checked quite often we have editors creating we got editors creating pages for deletions quite often but they were not really for deletion they were just to be checked for their natability nobody really wanted them to be deleted they were just just a question like there doesn't seem to be enough sources next we also have the templates what they were saying so we had suppression templates that talks about natability and so those have other templates like which is for page kept and it says translated after we propose for natability this page has been kept you can view the no clause and outshift natability sorry it's bad translation also it was not a comment for the for this procedure to cause conflict and resubmit amongst contributors newbies are not where felt very hurt to see their page labeled to be deleted it was something that was very hurtful and it was not very well understood in their guts for newbies it was more interesting because they were often just starting to contribute sometimes they didn't understand very well how Wikipedia works sometimes it could have just be an article moved into their draft space in their own user space so a discussion opens in February the 10th 2021 and is closed back in mid-Generate 2022 and the voting opens soon after we said the voting period for about four weeks ending at midnight at Paris time because most of the contributors are living in France just statistics so the there is a timeline yes it was a very complicated process it started too really they were conflicting with other initiatives like for example I I posted first in the bistro the equivalent of the Village Prep there asking for opinions about ideas for alternate names or the procedure and meanwhile someone else with a lot of enthusiasm shake and just launch the process the discussions for the voting without checking this first it was quite discouraging there were a lot of tags with hide and love periods and activity it was very very dried out there were a lot of topic executions because the topic was just redaming and avoiding very very conflicting propositions for reform of the process itself yes it was over 11 months and it was almost abundant and at the end we just said you know what just just launch the vote let's just set a threshold for voting and let's just launch the vote it was a vote with the black method by the way it was ABUC to chose an order in the preference number with superior or inferior or equal so the goals were to remove the stigma or injunction like nature of the current page for deletion Pacha Suprimi designation and when it's debated without a page it's acceptable or not able or not it's mistranslation for me my bad and the deletion debates can result in the page being retained too there were a lot of options like moving the page to another sister project like the week there were things like just a split or a merge and this procedure was used instead of the regular merger split procedures it could be just a renaming it will be moved I improved a little the page the template for this quite recently by getting inspired by the Wikipedia by the way so we got the results so there were two questions and for the first question there were the Wikipedia page for deletion that will be not titled Wikipedia not ability debate sorry mistranslation with our retracting renaming and the division there was a proposal that was kept in the discussions and also put into the voting pages about whether or not keeping the division for expressions opinions to keep deletion etc like merging and other options and people prefer to keep this while personally while I understand it can be too cluttered with too many comments I think the choice to put the keep and delete options first is rising the debate because it suggests it should be these two options and maybe it could be proven in some way with more user interface tools in the future maybe I don't know and so we had consequences with the case study with an notability issue with the page named macronate or in English the verb to macron and I'm going to try to share this to Michael I'm going to share the link for the chat for so everyone can see this this page and how it's ordered currently and so you can see how it works so I posted the link to telegram or maybe I can paste directly to so how does it work I just try to open feed loop virtual I'm going to just one feed loop tend sorry Michael I posted the link on your telegram maybe you can open in the tabs please it's just a page of the Wikipedia in French so macronate was a verb about something about a world known in the world of Ukraine and it was a world mostly created by the Ukrainians in their own world in their own language there were Emmanuel Macron the French president currently that appeared and said it was very deeply concerned and it was not something about very direct consequence very outcome basically the person is very concerned says is talking a lot, discussing a lot but there is no result at all from this talks and just talking talking and just nothing and actually the page was better suited for the machinery in French and if you screen to there were discussions and there were the opinions named Avis in French and there were some kept and massively massively the delete option was chose for a page that was supposed to be moved to a sister Wiki so this is an interference issue maybe there is an EBIT issue from everyone that just used to post the error to delete and without really preceding the outcome in the delete you have a lot of to transfer to move the page to post it under the wrong section it should be posted under the other issues so it's not really suited it's sorry so what I mean is a lot of people on the page voted for a transfer voted for a deletion but it wasn't really for a deletion it was mostly to move the article to the Wikipedia sorry the dictionary in French so now it was we had the results and it was deleted and I'm not sure whether or not it was it was really kept so yes it's not on the dictionary in French so I'm going to share this with Michael so you can have the link too and so yes so Macron it's a neologism and it can mean to show to be worried about a situation but doing nothing concretely or faking help and it was already present in the French media and it was already kind of transition in French to and it's also a word available in Korean so yes in conclusion it's a process that was the change of the name quite led to a lot of changes in the template it helped a lot to streamline what we mean with the procedure but people don't seem to quite understand how the page of the process to give opinion, to give discussion is working there is a lot of text and the user interface doesn't seem very friendly for this and I think a lot of and I think a lot of things are still complicated and some point of tensions between users still exist but at least one point of tension is solved and I think I remember that some named up the procedures in other language Wikipedia are more about notability and real discussions than votes or to delete pages I think it would be quite very useful for communities that still have the page for deletion name to today to consider for to change their name too for example the Wikipedia in English is it worth it to keep search name isn't it confusing for newbies and maybe helpful in general for any kind of editor to say hey I past I started a page for deletion process for your page but it's just it's not for deletion it's just for checking it's still helpful so I'm finished here so I think we only have a few minutes left so if you have questions for me so please write them down do page still get deleted is it just cosmetic pages still get deleted but the presentation the section where a little change for example I added a lot of changes with an overcontributor that should have the cost speaker with me but couldn't make it unfortunately and we change quite a lot at the starting templates used to initialize the page the notability debates so we made the language simpler I think it's better worded now but it's still I think too chatty it's not very well organized there are not images to lead people to have something clear and easy to read it's not very accessible I think other questions I'm going to check also the etherpad we don't have anything for question for the speaker there question answer tab has nothing so I'm leaving you one minute to write down any possible long question there's a lot of ribbling noise is it better now what is the speaker under our username please GN square I'm going to write it down myself doesn't work speaker of GN square I've got a few compatibility issues if you want to talk with me I'm going to be available in the networking space so we could chat more freely without the time constraint so thank you for everyone thank you for bearing with me despite the issues with the slide and the screen sharing and see you in the networking space bye