Benutzer:Wuselig/Wikimania 2018

Einleitung/Introduction

Diese Seite dient dazu meine Eindrücke der Wikimania 2018 wiederzugeben. Es wird hier auf Deutsch, immerhin habe ich ein Stipendium von Wikimedia Deutschland, aber auch auf Englisch geschrieben, da wir ja nicht nur innerhalb der deutschen Gemeinschaft aktiv sein werden, sondern dies ein internationales Treffen der Wikipedianer sein wird.

Wenn Ihr Fragen, oder Anmerkungen habt könnt Ihr sie hier anbringen.

On these page I want to collect my impressions on Wikimania 2018. Part of it will be in German, after all I am traveling on a scholarship by Wikimedia Deutschland, but since it is an international meet-up I will also post in English.

If you have questions or comments, post them here.

Deutsch

So Koffer sind gepackt. Gerade festgestellt, dass mein internationales Steckerset den deutschen Stecker meines Laptopnetzteils nicht aufnimmt. Aber wozu gibt es Shops am Airport ;-)

Sonntag, 15. Juli 2018

Flug vom Sonnenuntergang in den Sonnenaufgang. Von Düsseldorf bis Dubai. Auf dem Laptop noch etwas Bildbearbeitung gemacht und davon irgendwann müde geworden. Wollte mich zum Schlafen legen und schaute nochmals zum Fenster hinaus. Ein Lichtermeer von Kleinstädten und Dörfern: Ostanatolien. Ich schaue auf den Flugmonitor. Welche Route werden wir fliegen? Es geht über den Nord-Irak. Mosul, Erbil, Bagdad, Basra, und dann noch Kuwait, bevor es auf den Golf geht. Orte, die einem sehr bekannt sind und bei denen das Kopfkino zu laufen beginnt. Und da liegen sie als Lichtpunkte unter uns. Ich versuche den Eindruck mit der Smartfonkamera zu erfassen, aber es gelingt nur leidlich. Das Leid das sich dort unten abgespielt hat - noch abspielt - kommt hier oben nicht an uns heran. Wir fliegen darüber hinweg. Ich zu einer Konferrenz, das Paar einige Sitzreihen weiter, wohl auf die Hochzeitsreise, oder auch nur zum allgemeinen, verdienten Urlaub die Seychellen. Zumindest läßt der Reiseführer, den sie vor dem Boarding studierten darauf schließen. Ich schlafe nicht.

Montag, 16. Juli

Ankunft in Dubai. Wir haben eine Außenparksituation, also Transfer ins Terminal per Bus. Also die "Chance" das dortige Klima live zu erleben. Eine Luftfeuchtigkeit, dass man meint die Luft zum Atmen zunächst mit Messer und Gabel schneiden zu müssen. Aufenthalt im Duty Free Bereich. Wenig Sitzplätze, keine Lust auf Shopping Bummel. Auf den ersten Blick: Souvenirkitsch und Parfüm und Alkohol. Nach Gefühl stehe ich auf und gehe zum Gate. Das Gefühl trog nicht. Es öffnete gerade, ich konnte runter gehen und war auch im ersten Bus zum Flugzeug. Entspanntes Einrichten am Platz. Der Flug langweilig. Afrika unter einer unendlichen weißen Wolke verborgen. Irgendwie symbolisch. Der Kontinent entzieht sich mir noch immer. Ob Kapstadt und Südafrika irgendwie der beste Ort ist um "Afrika" zu repräsentieren bezweifle ich immer noch, aber ...

Dienstag, 17. Juli

Tafelberg

Mittwoch, 18. Juli

Learning Days, im weitesten Sinne. Also auch, wo ist was. Wo sind die Toiletten, wo gibt es etwas zu essen?, Wie ist das organisiert?

Wie immer, nette Gespräche im Vorbeigehen. Die südafrikanische Voluntärin, die auch editiert, die auch schon auf Wikipedia Konferenzen in Berlin war, die von Martins Berlin Walks schwärmt. Die einen fragt, zu was die vielen Holzhäuschen auf den Wiesen unterhalb der Zugspitze gut sind. Oder, die Häuschen in den Weinbergen an der Mosel.

Donnerstag, 19. Juli

Spaziergang durch Kapstadt

Welcome Reception

English

Wednsday July 18, 2018

Learning Days

Obviously have'nd been to group sessions for a while. Technique to get to know each other: Two Truth, One Lie! And than talk and try to guess, which was the lie. With three other people out of 20+, perhaps a nice way to loosen up, but not good too get to know each other. Especially not for me, who is not really good with faces and names. So I will remember what lie 3 persons told me, but I will not find on the agend, who that person actually was. Than we get down to business. The structure of Wikimedia is explained, but out of the eyes of the foundation. Chapters, User Groups. But does that apply to me? Within Wikimedia Deutschland, we as individual users live in a Microcosm of our own. The support they are talking about here will come from Berlin to Users like me. Still it is important to see the world outside of this position of "literally" White Privilege, that we as Users within the WM:de-framework enjoy. There are still countries in Africa without any identified users. That is why the institution of User Groups are getting such a low entry bar. But it also makes it difficult for new Users from such places to get a foothold in Wikipedia when they are editing, for instance in English or French Wikipedia. Imagine the harrasment newbies experience in their native languages, now image the difficulties of people from these countries. Solutions? We did not discuss them in deep. Just some short notes: Sandbox, Teahouse and doing the first edits in low entry projects. Perhaps also more tolerance to Newbies (in German we would call it Welpenschutz)

Than we had lunch: They serve it on the different floors. Offering something different on each floor. They had a kind of menue at one place at the ground floor. I hope that will be better organized b Friday. I had some nuddles at the ground floor, and a hamburger on the second floor. Than it was about GLAM. Okay not much new. Saw an example of a kind of "Endorsed by Wikipedia/Cooperating with Wikipedia" seal, I think it was from Argentina for libaries. Good presentation about a cooperation with the Bulgarian National Library. In German we would talk about "Dicke Bretter bohren" For me it shows the importance of perseverance and sustainability in projects. And mentioning of a Polish Project GLAM and Ethnigraphica. Wouldn't that be an idea about a project about the Schwäbisch-alemannische Fastnacht? Just imagine, if we could structure that down to all types of masks and Häs, and places and lenghth of tradition and...

Friday, July 20, 2018

Welcome Session

Mentimeter Review

Just my notes: High School Girls, very inspiring. Sustainability of Wikipedia. But my Questions regarding Wikipedia Zero Talk with (see picture): We are talking about decolonizating the internet, but with "Limited Free Internet Access" new firms are recolonizing the internet for them.

But his relatives in rural India say: If we only get 5% of the Internet, that is 100% more than we have now. Mentimeter Results

Wikimedia_Commons_and_GLAM_needs_around_the_world

Notizen: The Impact of GLAM Projects cannot be meassured very well at the moment. With Structured Commons we will have more possibilities. Structured Commons will be multi-ligual. So content will gain in visibility Data wranglig, the translation of outside descriptions into our Commons syntax will become easier. There are however still many painpoints. It will be necessary to create structured and easy to find documentation on how to hold a GLAM-event and document the data received to Commons. Questions to ask: What Metadata is available. How shall it be converted to our descriptions. What are the things that we as a community can do to help the institutions There is a workflow diagramm on Commons

Africa's_Wikipedias

Private Note, regarding the possible photographs of the panel: ISO-discrimination. Dark skinned persons are less visible in front of a dark background Afrikaans is described by its speaker as a mix language that has incorporated a lot of the aspects of the local people and the people who were brought to South Aftrica.

The Panel introduces itself. Luckily this introduction is not longer than the subsequent panel discussion.

The small language African Wikipedias often still have their interface in English. The Homepage and structure are copies of the English Wikipedia.

The North African Representative: She started thru WLM. She wanted to promote her own culture. She than started writing. Decolonize Wikipedia from the language of the Colonizers

Another Representative: Looking for Allies. (Could I as a European be one? Which content could I add? Would my content be welcome?)

Well a White Africaans speaking South African explains how he translates articles into a Northern South African Language

The smaller Wikipedias are influenced by the larger ones.

They take their rules, structure, and thru translation, their POV from the English or French Wikipedia. Instead of building their own Culture.

So there is an adress to us: Think about (your) priviledge. Sometimes, please just stay silent and listen.

There is certain knowledge that should stay sacred and secret to the tribe. Should there be an offline Wikipedia to record this.

When it comes to oral history, or other recordings, we need to help the impoverished information provider. (Talking about people beeing interviewed, but would it apply to editors, too?) How can we ask poor people to give up their content for free?

(Well, how do we spend our donations?)

The quotation of oral sources in a decolonization context

Just the notes: Two information systems - two cultures No solution to reconcile Is it Eurocentric to differentiate? Power/Exploitation: An indigeneous person gets interviewed. The copyright lies with the interviewer, because he/she wrote it down. Argument from the Plenum: We didn't cite in early times either, so you small Wikipedias can be less careful than us. I find that a very paternalistic, colonial approach. Looking down from a superior standpoint on the little, childlike, inexperienced Wikipedians, who need our help.

Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity and Design challenge workshop: How can multilingual structured metadata bring knowledge equity to Commons?

Etherpad and Etherpad of Workshop

Martin Dittus: Creating Knowledge Equity and Spatial Justice on Wikipedia

Only my notes: The guy next to me is plaxing games on his smart phone. Why is he even here? Member of the panel: "A Belgian Missonary made the first research of my language in the 19th Centuary. Shall that stay the only source we have?

A Dalit Woman from India reports that she is margenalized in a country that is itself beeing margenalized.

The Jamaican: Wants to make the legacies of his culture visible

The Dalit woman reports of the necessity of anonymous edits, because she has experienced the threat of having her entries deleted, because she is seen partisan to the cause.

Headlines: The Margin should distrupt the core

The fight for notability of marganalized people

Will we as a community mirror the structure of power?

Saturday, July 21, 2018

Sean Jacobs: The Decolonizing Debate: Social Media as Source Archive and Wikipedia

Video

• The history od South Africa shows, how the momopolozing of the media can monopolize the depiction of history.
• The political movement against apartheit began with the establishment of Alternative History and Poster Art.
• With the end of Apartheit: New Narrative : The Rainbow Nation - Consensus - Amnesty instead of Justice.
• But now also Corruption
• Student Protests: "Rhodes must fall - Fees must fall"
• The target of the protests: White supremacy, but also the ANC.
• The ANC version of history is also contested.
• New use of online and social media: Double entendre: "Let us charge our phones!"

• What does that have to do with Wikipedia?

• Picks up on the points brought up at "Decolonizing the Internet"

• Some countries in Africa have fewer articles than Middle Earth"

• The Role of Oral History and its citability: He laudes the debate going on. He believes that with Wikipedias rules on notability and original research much knowledge that is not here in written form gets lost.

• Wikipedia still reflects the same (male dominated, northern) mindsets of the encyclopedias it has replaced.

• So what solutions has Academica (Historians like him) have come up to solve the problem?

• [I am beginning to loose him. Trying to take a photograph of him, reveals how little eyecontact he holds with the audience]

• Journalism used to be called the first rough draft of history.

• Now social media, life tweets etc have taken over. And to be ever alert with "breaking news", journalism relies more and more on these accounts.Especially if they can't physically be were news is happening (natural and war catastophes)

• So historians also beginn to rely on these sources.

• The internet has democrazised the access to information and the distribution of information

• [I beg to differ: Filter bubbles, Cambridge Analytica, Facebook Newsfeed algorithems]

• Points out the role of Online Archives, that give broader and easier access to information, than physical archives.

• Library of Congress: All debates and now even everything ever twittered.

• History as it happens.

• [Does this really help me? Can I process this information overload? Can I put it into the right context?)

• Not every one is happy: Data preservation, reliability, links going dead, accessability to the internet.

• Critic also from authorities and institutions. They feel their monopoly on information and interpretation of information deteriorating.

• Sometimes material stored online source of information of an event in Africa from an African point of view.

• But onlie archives on and about Africa are not realy yet on the radar of Northern Scholars.

• Also YouTube Videos of events in a country can be a source of information. Also the debates underneath these Videos.

• Ethnicies, like for instance the Zulu are more and more expressing their identity through social media. That should not be overlooked.

• [So we learned about the role of the internet and social media as a source of history. Very valuable, I agree! But the debate is still open and not answered, how this information is to be processed to find its way into Wikipedia.]

Building an International Knowledge Base for the Performing Arts: Thoughts on Providing Knowledge as a Service and Enhancing Knowledge Equity

Slides

• Archiving Bootleg Recordings made by Beat Eastman

• Insight into the process and the difficulties in setting up a database from old collections

• Who can do this? Question about the needed manpower

• Who van pay for this: Questions about the cost of digitilization

• What info do you want to extract? The question about what you want to present already determines how the dataset will be set up

What everyone can learn from Wiki Loves Monuments in the European Year of Cultural Heritage

Slides

Wiki Loves Monuments, Hands-on

• Workshop

• How to utilize Wikidata in WLM

• How to get Georeferences into Monument List

• Uploadtools starting from Maps

• Wikidata:WikiProject WLM/Status

• Example from Albania
• Structured Lists
• Also discussed the International Jury Tool (No link available yet

How wikidata infoboxes can help bridge content and language gaps

Slides

Left early to visit Sailesh's presentation

One Image at a time; How Governments can help in bridging the information gap on Wikipedia

Slides

Saileshpat is the classical example what can become of a Jungwikipedianer, even if their is no such organization in his country. I first met him at Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario. I have followed him and his endeavors also on Facebook since than. So of course I went out of my way to see his presentation.

In a way he has done nothing else, than all of us Wikipedians should/could be doing too. Try to get official institutions to collaborate with Wikipedians and release their publications open access.

Yes it is difficult and takes perseverance. The people there often don't know what we are talking about. They don't know about concepts like free licences. And they have a general disinterest when approached.

One thing that struck me in Saileshpat's presentation was his happiness about 462 released images. What is that compared to the thousands of files we are talking about when we think about the Bundesarchiv or large Museums.

But he could show how often these files were viewed and reused.

That is the lesson I take from this presentation: Just as important it is to open the doors with official institutions, it is also important to follow up and present results. Show the donating institutions what is happening with what they have donated. What benefits they can draw from their donations.

Than such cooperations will become auto accelerating projects.

Katherine Maher: Wikimedia and the spirit of Ubuntu: The power of unity in action

Video

• Critizes the Article Ubuntu as beeing pretty inaccessible. [by the way, nothing has happened to the article a fortnight later]

Media

Commons: Files by User:Rainer Halama/Wikimania – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien