User:Giantflightlessbirds
Wikimania 2024
[edit | edit source]UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Following the example of User:Ainali, this is my Wikimania experience. Please add notes if we discussed something or if I have misremembered or misrepresented a session. Sessions in italic are those I attended, others are ones I need to watch or follow up.
I attended Wikimania 2024 as one of four New Zealand scholarships; mine was awarded only a few weeks out, so there was no possibility of proposing a talk or poster.
Tuesday
[edit | edit source]- Met User:Cloverness at breakfast and was very impressed—and that was before she was awarded Wikipedian of the Year.
- GLAM Global Meetup: An all-day affair in a windowless room in the Silesian Museum. Gruelling. Numerous Post-It notes but not entirely clear to what end. Redeemed by an "Idea Auction" at the very end where we could pitch projects and people could bid to help; gained three helpers for the GLAM Wiki Cookbook project. Also agreed to help extend the current European GLAM Wiki online meetups to a different Asia/Australasia compatible time zone.
Wednesday
[edit | edit source]- Hidden Figures: creating a Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE): Very thorough introduction by User:Ambrosia10, marred by some 5-second tape delay issues on the PA.
Thursday
[edit | edit source]Friday
[edit | edit source]Saturday
[edit | edit source]To watch later
[edit | edit source]- Museums, Media, Data & Gender: How to Make Images of Women More Visible on Wikimedia? (An impromptu GLAM Wiki Global planning meeting ended up overlapping with this.)
General notes
[edit | edit source]The New Zealand delegation was almost entirely masked throughout: one of us had just contracted COVID at a previous conference, and Poland was going through a COVID wave. Although masks (only surgical) and RAT tests were freely available, there was no COVID precautions in practice: many rooms were poorly ventilated and had dangerous levels of CO₂ as tracked on an AraNet 4 monitor (which should be standard issue for all conference rooms), windows did not open, all tea breaks were in a crowded space with no outside access, and although the weather was superb no sessions were scheduled outside. A big change from the 2022 Berlin Summit I attended.
About me
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This user participated in Wikimania 2019 held in Stockholm |
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This user participated in Wikimania 2021 held online |
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This user participated in Wikimania 2022 held online |
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This user participated in Wikimania 2023 held in Singapore |
I'm a Wikimedia consultant based in Christchurch, New Zealand; more info at User:Giantflightlessbirds, and contact me at mike(snail)rove(period)wiki.