Hi everyone, I'm Sandra Acheng from Coa Organizing Team and I want to thank everyone who joined the Wikimania Festival Edition this year. It's likely the most, biggest and the most inclusive Wikimania in history and it wouldn't have been possible with the time of dozens of volunteers around the world and thousands of participants who have been joining different sessions. Thank you everyone and see you next year for Wikimania 2023. Stay tuned for its announcement soon. Hello everyone, my name is Anton Mtawangu. I am a member of the Wikimania Committee of the Wikimania Association. I would like to thank all of you who have joined the Wikimania Festival Edition this year. I would like to thank you for the history of the Wikimania Festival and the efforts you have made to support the work of the Wikimania Association. I would like to thank all of you who have supported the work of the Wikimania Association and the work of the volunteers. I would like to thank all of you who have joined the Wikimania Festival Edition this year. I would like to thank all of you who have supported the work of the Wikimania Association this year. I would like to thank all of you who have joined the Wikimania Festival Edition this year. It's likely the most, biggest and the most inclusive Wikimania in history and it wouldn't have been possible with the time of dozens of volunteers and thousands of participants. and it was not possible to achieve the goal of supporting the development of thousands of participants. We will meet you in Germany 2023. Please contact us after a while. Hello everyone, I am Lise from the International Meeting of the Viennese National Team. I would like to thank all of you again for joining the International Meeting of the Year this year. Without your participation, our meeting this time will be very busy, so we would like to thank you for coming to this meeting and sharing your experience of the Viennese National Meeting. We really hope to see you in the next Viennese National Meeting 2023. Thank you everyone. Hello everyone, I would like to thank all of you again for joining the International Meeting of the Year this year. I am Omar from the Organizador Team and I would like to thank all of you again for joining the Viennese National Meeting. It is probably the largest and most inclusive Viennese National Meeting in history, and it would not be possible without the devotion of thousands of volunteers, volunteers and thousands of participants. Thank you very much. I hope to see you in Viennese National Meeting 2023 and stay tuned for a brief announcement. Hello everyone, I am Omar from the Organizador Team and I would like to thank all of you for joining the Viennese National Meeting 2023. I am very pleased to be here with you today because we are very proud to say that we have a great team today. I would like to thank all of you for joining the Viennese National Meeting 2023. Thank you. Hello everyone, I am Anton from the Central Organization of the Team and I would like to thank everyone who made it to the Festival of Vekimania in 2022. This may be the biggest and the most inclusive event in history and it would not have been possible without dozens of volunteers and thousands of participants in this event. Thank you, I hope to see you at Vekimania in 2023 and listen to the news for her announcement. Hello everyone, I am Josef from Turkey and I am part of the committee of the Organization of Vekimania in 2022. I would like to thank everyone who joined the Vekimania Festival. This is probably the biggest and the most inclusive event in history and it would not have been possible without dozens of volunteers and thousands of participants in this event. I would like to thank you and see you at the next edition of Vekimania in 2023 which will be announced in a few moments. The fun thing about writing articles in Wikipedia is whenever I get a feeling whenever I finish an article because you know you've done something good, you've changed the world for the better, you fixed something that was broken. And that's our purpose on Earth, that's why it got created us, to change the world for the better. And things are wrong in the world because that's our job to make them better, that's the whole point of being alive. That's on the big scale. There are many people who I interact with online and I don't get to see them very often and it's a chance to meet those people and meet new people from all over the world. I think that we are deeply linked to the future of the web. Welcome to the city of Mexico. Welcome to the city of Mexico. We held our first regional conference and that was in Bali in 2019 when submissions were called or bids were called for a choice of locations within the region, Perth and Bali submitted. And then those were considered and after discussions with the steering committee we decided that ESEAT as a whole, the region, the hub would be the host of Wikimania and then we thought well we also need to reconsider the options for where we would go. And we came up with the decision of hosting it in Bangkok. From there we worked on setting up Wikimania in person event which we all enjoy. Unfortunately as everyone knows it started to get a little bit difficult to make plans and create events like that and in March 2020 we had to also cancel Wikimania. For that year in 2021 Wikimania went online and that was a really successful event and that's been followed up by Wikimania 2022 which also is proving to be really successful and I'd like personally to thank the organisers for their efforts. Again we looked at, the steering committee started looking at 2023 and they went back to Bangkok and the Thai community and ESEAT to find out whether we wanted to host it and where we wanted to host it was it going to be Bangkok. Now we decided firstly that we wanted to host at ESEAT as a group. Bangkok and Wikimania Thailand decided that things aren't exactly right where we are and that we'd like the ESEAT community to consider every option that's available to them. So we took that approach, we worked and had meetings and discussions with the community. The WMF did a risk assessment for us which looked at nine countries within the region. From that information we narrowed it down to two countries and that was all documented on the Manawiki.  Anyway we would like to thank the Wikimania core organising team of 2022. They've done a wonderful job. We'd like to thank and acknowledge the core organising team from 2020 and Wikimania Thailand for their efforts and for graciously allowing us to reconsider and look at the whole of the region. So at that point I'd like to, well, I look forward to organe renewal to Wikimania in 2023. And if I've filled enough time and got everything right it's now 4pm and Butch should be ready to take over the discussion. So hopefully Butch you there. Well hello there. I'm very happy that we're meeting again in person for Wikimania 2023. It's been a while, three years. Is it three years? Yeah, three years. It's been a while but I'm happy that we're meeting in a tropical country now 9,631 kilometers southeast of Stockholm. And we welcome you to the wonderful city of Singapore. And we're proud at ECF that we're hosting it in a country that is close to our hearts, central to most of our countries. And the city of Singapore welcomes you to Wikimania 2023. I'm here with Robert and Jacqueline who will tell us about Singapore. Over to you Robert. Thank you Butch for introducing me. I'm Robert editing under the username Robert Ski, primarily on the English Wikipedia. We welcome you to Singapore and we are happy to host Wikimania 2023.  We have four different major races, the Chinese, Indian, Malay and what we classify as others. But under others we have many, many subsets of people who come from the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and all over the region to come here to live and work. We are a regional travel hub for the region here. Traveling to Malaysia is just under an hour. Going down to the south we have Indonesia and to the east we have the Philippines. Beyond that you can easily transit through air travels travelling to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. All within under the span of eight hours each. Singapore is a tropical country. Tropical country, we are just one degree or so north of the equator. Whether it's hot or wet, hot and wet throughout the year. So you can come in t-shirts, in shorts or if you want to be a bit more formal, polo tee and jeans, you'll be fine. In Singapore we have a very passionate bunch of Wikimanias editing in the free time, in the spare time on the various Wikipedia's. We are just getting started here. Our journey will continue to unfold with many exciting adventures planned ahead of us. With that, we welcome you to Singapore for Wikimanias 2023. Hi everyone, I'm Jacqueline and we can't wait to welcome you to Wikimanias 2023 in Singapore. There are so many things to love about Singapore from the arts and heritage scene. We have also a very extensive university network and if you are a technology enthusiast you can definitely find a space here. And finally the food. We can't wait for you to try them. Hi, my name is Antikun from Thailand. It was so unfortunate that Wikimanias did not take place in Bangkok in 2020, obviously because of COVID-19. So instead, we are going to take you fourteen hundred kilometers south of Bangkok to Singapore. It's going to be the hottest Wikimanias we ever had because Singapore is right above the equator. And of course, we, the ECAP, will work together as a team to deliver the first coalition Wikimanias hosted by several regional affiliates. I'm sure it's going to be incredible and exciting for everybody involved. So please make a room in your calendar and we look forward to welcoming you. Thank you. Hi, so Singapore is an excellent location to host Wikimanias with strong connectivity within the country and among the ECAP region. For those who are into photography, you'll be pleased that there is freedom of paranormal here. If you are here, if you are into wildlife despite being a small city state with high level of urbanization, there are an estimated number of 23,000 to 20,000 species of territorial organisms. Do take plenty of photos or videos when you are here. The 2023 conference will focus centre on diversity, camaraderie and collaboration. Wikimanias 2023 will focus more on active engagement of participants as we return to in-person gatherings. We hope to see you here in Singapore in 2023. Rahmat. Thank you, Buj. Hello there. My name is Rahmat. I am here representing Wikimedia Indonesia to congratulate Singapore for being the host of Wikimanias 2023. And we welcome you all in Singapore. Singapore is a perfect and convenient place for us to meet for the grand event of Wikimanias around the world. And I am positive that you are getting ready to be there and meet your fellow Wikimedia contributors. Hopefully you have enjoyed this Wikimanias and learned new ways to get more involved in building the free knowledge ecosystem on Wikimedia projects. So thank you and I wish you all good health. Okay. Thank you. I think Nangara had to give his message earlier. So thank you Nangara, Jacqueline, Atticon, Robert and Rahmat for your messages. Thank you 2022 core organizing team and Wikimedia foundation. We call upon the Wikimanias of the world to assemble and to celebrate with us the 18th edition of Wikimanias. See you in Singapore. Enjoy the rest of the Sunday sessions of the conference. Bye-bye. Mania, it's exciting to see all of you join. We'll give a few moments for everyone to teleport into this room before we begin our session on theory fact. If you are joining us right now, tell us something about what you most enjoyed from the last session you were in. Seeing a number of people hop in and join the session. Some we've seen in other sessions. Some we've seen at other Wikimanias. And it's great to see you all whether it is morning or evening or whether you're joining us from some other planet. And we don't even know how to think about the time zone. Welcome. Okay. Well, let's get started on this session. This is theory fact or fake, a social for global Wikipedia research. Our goal today is to learn the things we don't know. See if the things we think we know are supported by the evidence. And most of all have a good time and meet others connected to the movement. Today's trivia is hosted by the citizens and technology lab at Cornell who work alongside communities to create evidence for a world where digital power is guided by evidence and accountable to the public. We have myself. I'm Nathan BTS, professor of communication at Cornell University, who's been editing and participating in various aspects of the movement for quite a few years now. And also, Sarah Gilbert, if you could wave at us and say hello. Hi, yes, I am Sarah Gilbert. I am cat labs research manager. This is my first for communion. I also mostly just a reader of Wikipedia. So I'm going to pass it off to a parajita. Hello everyone, I'm a parajita and a PhD candidate at Cornell University and this is also my first with me and you. Wonderful. So at cat lab, we work together with communities to create knowledge that's practically useful to communities contributes to wider debates and tech policy and also advanced both computer science and the social sciences. And we do that by producing research that involves community organizing at events like the research summit we held at Wikipedia and Stockholm in 2019 and by actually creating software that makes community research possible. You might have seen some of our work over the last few years along many different language wikipedia's to test effectiveness of things like thanks evaluating outreach campaigns and also testing ideas for the retention of newcomers across multiple wikipedia's. We're also getting started on a new round of research with a continued focus on non US non English context. So look out for announcements in the next few months, but you didn't come here to learn about a research lab. You came here to learn about yourselves, each other and about what is known and importantly what is not known about Wikipedia movement and how to understand and improve it. And on that line, I'm going to hand it over to Sarah. Thanks Nathan. So thank you all for joining us for our wiki or our wiki trivia game this morning. So we are playing in a fashion that is similar to the sort of trivia style called two truths in a lie, except we're sort of substituting that and really reframing it as two knowns and an unknown. So what we're going to do is we are going to send everybody off and to break out realms, ideally around five people or so per room. And we will send you a form which we have done sites here we will also like it in the chat so that you don't have to type out the URL there. But that will have some introduction questions for you to ask each other so you can get to each other. And you'll tell each other your name where you're located and we've got a sort of an icebreaker question. If someone visited your region, what food would you serve them. And so you spent about five minutes doing that. And then you can spend the rest of the time or however you'd like in the in the room playing the game. So we'll have about 25 minutes for that. So we will send you that Google form or show you a series of three statements so 10, 10 series of three statements. And so two statements about Wikipedia will be established through research, and then one statement about Wikipedia that research has not yet uncovered. So your job will be to identify that which of those three statements is that one about Wikipedia that research is not yet uncovered. So just to note that if somebody is in your group is vision impaired, it might be more fun rather than having them rely on conversations and also a screen reader for somebody to read it out out loud. So that everybody can can sort of play together without having to navigate a couple of different couple of different attentions. So that'll be about 25 minutes to guess the unknowns and then we will come back together to review the answer. There is no, there is no winner competition, but we are at the end planning on writing a blog post. And we'll share some of the analytics of the analysis to see where the friends are, like what everybody knows or what everybody doesn't know. And we'll share that back with the community afterwards. So there's also a link, or a question, our space in the forum so that we can share the blog post with you. Also, if you notice that many states, you can feel free to correct us also in the forum as well. You can do an advanced aside. So first we've got an example just so you can see what we, what we mean. So there are three statements here. The first receiving thanks from editors on multiple language Wikipedia's leads volunteers to express more thanks to other Wikipedia's as well. Also, Wikipedia contributors to spend more time. Mentoring newcomers across multiple language Wikipedia's. And the third adding an image to a Wikipedia biography will increase the views that the article received. Does anybody if you want to know which one is the unknown you can drop that in the chat we won't spend too too much time because I know we want to get to the game. But Nathan, do you want to advance the side to the bottom one is the unknown. Well, we do know that there are efforts to increase visibility of biographies particularly biographies of women by by adding photos there's actually no evidence like solid research scientific evidence yet that demonstrates whether or not that that that relationship between a photo like a photo and a biography actually results in more views even though it seems like something that makes sense. They did do an advanced the slide. I like I like the the the conversations in the chat yeah hopefully it'll be really challenging and you'll learn a lot about some of the research that's that that's out there and that's not will also be providing citations. I'm not sure how, but hopefully we can make the slides available to you after we'll put them online so that you can consult all of the references that we have at the end as well. So, I am going to just drop the link in the chat if you do not have access to to Google forms. We also have a PDF. Oh, I see Nathan has. There's a that's a that's a very awkward length there. And then, and then Nathan thank you Nathan has dropped both in there as well. And so, she is going to put everybody into breakout rooms now. If anybody has any questions, we're going to stay out here but if anyone has any questions, there should be a, there should be a way to call us in for help and then we can kind of pop in and and clarify anything if needed. You can also feel free to pop into sort of the main room and ask us questions and then rejoin your room as well. I'm just wondering, Sarah, or even the Cal. So there's a lot of people who are not assigned to a room right now that are joining but I'm having trouble with creating a new room without closing the ones that already exist. Hello, I hear you. Just one second, let's figure out what to do. There's 17 unassigned participants. I understand, Aprilita, that you're assigning them manually. Yes, but I was thinking it might be easier to just create a new room. Yes, you can also do that. You are assigning each participant to a breakout room so they cannot join by themselves the breakout room so you need to assign them. Everyone who's currently unassigned, yes. For those of us who are just joining us now, we are organizing a trivia and you will be assigned to a break room where you will have the opportunity to look at a list of knowns and unknowns and debate and discuss with your fellow room members what questions, what statements you believe are known on the basis of research and what statements are unknown. So we are assigning people to rooms. Thank you for your patience and hopefully you will have the opportunity to get to know your fellow team members and come back and see what the answers are. Welcome. Sarah, I was delighted to hear, delighted to see that some people were able to guess the true or at least research supported statements and we actually surprised people with which ones were known on the basis of the evidence. So I think it's going to be a fun challenge for everyone. Upper Eda also some people from the breakout room are asking for the questions. We can also thinking include them in the main chat. I will share them and now. Great. Also for Eda, tip, production tip, there are some breakout rooms that change the amount of participants that they're having. So if there's one person alone in one breakout room, it would be good to reassign them. Okay, sounds good. I'll also monitor. I should broadcast that message to all. Exactly. Yes, if not, I can also do it. So, Sarah, there are going to be people in this room on their way to sessions and on their way into rooms and so forth. So I wonder, Sarah, if you can, perhaps we can talk about, we could either talk about the challenge of creating this quiz, or we could try to go through some parts of the quiz in the room itself while we are here. Maybe we could go through some of the quiz questions while we're here. I can open up. I don't want to necessarily change what I'm sharing on my screen, but what I'll do is I will just move my tab down to the PDF of the, move my tabs down to the form. And we can talk about some of the questions and be behind everyone so I don't think there will be any surprises for people. Okay, Sarah, we have this question, which of the following statements about Wikipedia is unknown? We can reliably identify the gender of registered Wiki users based on profile information. Contributions from Tor users that slip through detection, so Tor is an encryption software, are similar to contributions from unregistered new editors. And the reduction of mobility during COVID increased the volume of people seeking information on Wikipedia. However, once mobility returned to normal, the volume also returned to normal, but the kind of information people looked for did not. Which one of these was most surprising to you, Sarah? I think like the two knowns were most surprising to me. That is that the contributions from Tor users are similar in contributions to unregistered users. I don't have, because I'm not a Wiki editor, I don't have it too good of a sort of a sense of like what contributions are like from different kinds of groups, but I have read that unregistered users tend to have lower quality. And so I assumed that perhaps Tor users were doing so or using Tor perhaps. Seriously, which is I think why also they have the policy in that it does. So it was I was actually pleasantly surprised that somebody out there had done this research and had looked at the contributions from Tor users and found that the ones that tend to slip through the cracks. Are very similar to those from unregistered users. Of course, this was a this there are some challenges with a study like this. They are the ones that just slipped through the cracks. There's probably lots that the bot is actually getting who, you know, and for good reason, and for good purpose that they are vandalizing vandalizing Wikipedia. Thank you, Sarah. I'd like to interrupt briefly. Apparently, I'm noticing that there is there are two rooms, room number one and room number six, but only have one active person in them. I am wondering if it would be a good thing to move people, move people between rooms that are good to happen to. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry to interrupt you, Sarah. No, that's fine. The other one I thought was very interesting, the other known, which is the third option there, that the reduction of mobility during COVID increased the volume of people seeking information. But then once mobility returned to normal, the volume also returned to normal, but people's information seeking did not. I am a moderator of a subreddit on Reddit that is also very information seeking heavy. Lots of and we noticed that there was a change in volume on COVID as well. More people going online and asking questions about history. And so it was very interesting to read about how COVID changed people's information seeking on Wikipedia as well and how interesting it would be to do similar studies in different contexts. And so the unknown is the top one. And that was not so surprising to me because I know how difficult it is to identify gender information based on what people say about themselves or what people don't say about themselves. And that gender is often not just a binary, that there are all kinds of folks who identify as transgender non-binary or gender fluid, and that can be difficult for others to identify. Nathan, do you want to talk about the second one since I've been talking a lot? Sure. I had another quick question. I'm keeping track also, but are you keeping track of when we need to bring people back? When did we start? How long do we have this session? When do we finish? We have until we have another 25 minutes. Okay, so if I understand correctly. We should bring people back in about 10 minutes. You have indeed 25 more minutes. Yeah, we should leave 15 minutes at the end. So let's bring people back at 6.15. Our time, yes. Our time. Great. So yeah, this next set of unknowns and unknowns. I was really fascinated to read the first study. So in all of these, we should have said all of these have a citation. So there none of these are unsighted claims. I was really fascinated by the first one here when I first read the paper about this question of whether requiring account registration helped improve the quality of the wiki. It was especially interesting study because it looked at not just individual accounts. Are you able to get individuals who make higher quality edits by requiring account registration? It looked at the overall quality of the wiki where you have fewer people if you require account registration. And that also has large scale implications. And it was a very cool study because it looked at 136 wikis, not part of the wiki media movement, but part of this site called wikia. So that was a really, really interesting study that I first read two years ago. I really enjoyed that one. Oh, I think we actually brought forward a question from our own research here as well. A collaboration with French or excuse me with German, Polish, Persian language and also Arabic wikipedia. This one about wikipedia editors who report spending or who spend more time monitoring wikipedia for damaging content, feeling more emotionally drained, but also more positive about their contributions. It was a really fascinating study and I hope that it inspires more research about the feelings of burnout that contributors sometimes have, but also how the things that maybe make editors feel most burned out are some of the most important things that they care most about doing. So I really hope that that inspires further research about supporting editors, especially people overwhelmed by all of the things that are involved in studying, excuse me, in actually editing wikipedia. I just moved to the next one. Sarah, what was most surprising to you about this set of questions? I was very happy to learn about the last one, which isn't one of the knowns. A study did a project on the representation of music artists and how they are represented on wikipedia. And what they did is they looked at the most popular artists on Spotify and then went to see if those popular artists were then represented on wikipedia and said they looked at thousands and thousands of music artists. And even though female music artists tend to be underrepresented in the music industry, they actually found that they were overrepresented on wikipedia, which shows that some of the initiatives that groups have been taking to increase the representation of women and women's biographies on wikipedia seem to have been working. And to the point that now actually male music artists are comparatively underrepresented. Of course, there are still more profiles of male artists, male music artists on wikipedia just because there are so many in the industry itself. But it does show that when you look at the representation in terms of how many popular female music artists are out there versus on wikipedia, that representation is actually really good. And so that was really exciting to see that some of the efforts that people are putting into these projects and reducing gender gaps is working. And that's a great, great study by the team at Spotify Research who study these things, not just on wikipedia, but also on their own platform. For those of you who are just joining, you are experiencing hopefully the most boring room in this activity. We have breakout groups all across this zoomscape who are discussing and debating the questions that are the statements that we have posed, choosing between knowns and unknowns. If you're just joining us, there's still five more minutes to join a group. You have the opportunity to jump in, meet some other people at wikipedia and discuss and debate these questions. So welcome. And we look forward to coming back in just under five minutes to talk about what everyone guessed. Let's move to question four. I will admit that I was really encouraged and surprised to read the finding from the very first item here that over the last decade, the coverage gap on wikipedia between Europe and Africa has reduced by roughly five times. This is a new result from the folks at Whose Knowledge and the Oxford Internet Institute that showed that efforts to broaden wikipedia's information about African knowledge and places have actually been fairly successful. And actually it's a helpful reminder that sometimes research becomes out of date because previous studies on this, of course, have found very different coverage gaps. And so it was very inspiring to read about that. There's so much more to be done to improve knowledge equity on wikipedia. That was the thing that I found most surprising and a real testament to the great work of so many wikipedia contributors all across Africa and diaspora communities who are contributing from around the world. I see a comment in the chat from Goodness who has said that they are in a breakout room but that they are lost. Can one of us join the breakout room to help out? I can join the breakout room. It's possible that no one in the breakout room has received the briefing at the beginning. And because we were talking through questions, I will join and I'll be back in two minutes. I had control over the slides and I just realized that we can now not see some of the questions to go through that I can share my screen. Sarah, let me know when you want me to close the conference as well. We have one more minute left and then we will close the breakout rooms. Thank you for managing those. Let me share my screen there so we can keep talking about some of the responses. So for this one, we still can't see the whole thing. It's 6.15 now so I will stop sharing my screen then. So it's cutting off the questions for some reason. So I'm going to go ahead and close all the rooms and so within a minute everyone should be back. I suppose it's the way that I am viewing the questions but I just can't read the whole statement for some reason. If you are returning from your breakout room, welcome, welcome, welcome. We hope you had a puzzling and interesting time and I will continue to vamp until more people are here and everyone is back from the breakout rooms. Aparajita, can you let us know when you see that everyone is back from the breakout rooms? And as we will read and go through the answers shortly and as a reminder to our co-organizers, not everyone here is an English first language speaker. So if we speak clearly and slowly that will be most accessible for everyone. Welcome back. All the breakout rooms should be closed by now so we should all be back here. Okay, Sarah, I believe you are setting us up for what is next. So the next part of the trivia session is that we are going to go through all of the questions that you just saw and let you know which ones are the knowns and which are the unknowns. So Nathan, do you want to start us off? Gladly. So as we talk about each group, I ask you to post in the chat what you thought the unknown was. So is the unknown about gender, about information seeking during COVID or contributions from the encrypted internet service tour? The answer is the first one. While researchers have found that some better than random success in identifying gender editor from editor user pages, to do an analysis of Spanish Wikipedia, automated tools can't make judgments about the full spectrum of gender identities, making this an area of continual unknown. Next up, a parajita. You are muted. So is the unknown about editor burnout, registration requirements or information inequality? So if you want to put in the chat and then the unknown is actually about the third one, so information inequality. While many data scientists have made attempts to measure information inequality and coverage on the media, the 2030 strategic plan for both media research includes trying to create something that works across the movement. And this currently is still an unknown. So is the unknown about diverse geographies, editor-thon motivations or email music artists? You can quickly put in the chat your guess now. And the answer is the first one about diverse geographies. While Wikipedia has been successful attracting newcomers who live in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as the 2021 community insights report, or as of that insight report, there has been no overall improvement in the geographic diversity of those tenured editors since 2019. This may have changed in 2022, but the most recent research shows this is the case for now. Many researchers, including the growth team at the Wikimedia Foundation have been testing ideas that can help this out. Okay, is the question about volunteer contributions during COVID, financial support for editors, or the coverage gap between Europe and Africa an unknown? The answer is add your idea, which one is unknown? The second qualitative research conducted with Indian language Wikipedia has found that financial support did not lead to active participation, but it's not clear whether a different approach to financial support would have worked or whether it would be effective elsewhere. Still a big open question. So is the unknown about women in India, recommender algorithms or biographies? And so the answer is the second one recommender algorithms. So in a taxonomy of knowledge gaps, the Wikimedia Foundation suggested that recommender algorithms might helpful knowledge gaps, an area that's still kind of developing in an exciting area of experimentation by the movement and researchers. Sarah is the unknown about reader motivations, transgender and non-binary articles, or the motivations of editathon organizers. And the answer is the last one. While many researchers have worked alongside organizers of editathons in English Wikipedia, a research paper by March Undeskepta based on interviews with many editathon organizers strongly encouraged future researchers to work with non-English organizers to build a clearer picture about motivations in the majority world. We are finding that we were also stumped by many of our own questions, so it's fun to see your responses. So next, is the unknown about Wikipedia reader gender, reader patterns or indicators of conflict? Type in the chat. The unknown here is the third one. While some researchers have created prototypes of fully automated metrics for conflict on Wikipedia, social scientists who looked closer found that what sometimes looks like conflict can actually be collaboration. Aparajita, you're muted, Aparajita. Is the unknown about search engines, notability or feelings of empowerment? And the unknown is the first one. So research has found that while interventions can increase content about women, they don't necessarily decrease gaps in infobox content in late-century search results. While early-risk research has investigated how Wikipedia influences search results, the best way to actually do that is not yet clear. Sarah. Is the unknown a question about harassment, urban and rural users, or the reach of wiki data? Drum roll please. And the answer is research among urban and rural users. Survey research suggests that urban research readers tend to be overrepresented among readers and contributors to Wikipedia. Therefore, less is known about the experiences of rural readers or what might prevent people in rural areas from reading and accessing Wikipedia. And so for the very last question. Okay, so is the unknown in these three things a question about how people use Wikipedia, showing newcomers view counts, or a trust meter? The answer is two. Can we increase participation by showing newcomers how many people have viewed their articles and helping them see the value of their contributions? That's an unknown. It's something the growth team is testing right now. So contact them if you want to test it with your language Wikipedia. So we want to thank you so much for joining what is probably quite a challenging but hopefully an interesting quiz about Wikipedia. Someone has commented, if this were my final exam, I would not have graduated. One of the things that is especially fun about being a researcher who works with the community is that there are many important questions. There are many hard questions. And as scholars, what we don't know and the search for what we don't know is one of the most important parts of being a researcher. That's something that often we as scientists learn from talking with all of you. So we're grateful to everyone who has come to Wikipedia, who has talked about your experiences and your challenges and your work, because that is how scientists learn what questions to ask.  Other things to know about the session is that we hope to publish a blog post with these questions soon. And please, we may have made errors. We might have thought something was known or unknown and got it wrong. We had an item in the forum for you to let us know about our errors. And then if you are interested in connecting with researchers to do your own research about your community, please check in with the Wikimedia researchers list. Look at the Wikimedia research showcase, which is a regular gathering hosted by the foundation of research. And obviously, we're always interested to talk to Wikimedia communities about collaborations with you. So many thanks to everyone who submitted ideas for this. We will post the blog to our website, citizensandtech.org, and if you add your email address to the form, we will send you the blog post, the answers, and all of the other relevant material. And I believe, Sarah, we have it set so people can update their answers or submit another form entry if you didn't add your email address the first time. Thank you, everyone. This has been fantastic. And in true Wikipedia fashion, here are the citations for our questions. Have a great Wikimedia. Welcome and hello to the Wikimedia Sound Logo Project Roundtable and Q&A. I'm saying hi from windy, cold, but very sunny Johannesburg. My name is Matoto Mazadella. I'm the senior manager in the communications department at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm joined by my colleague, Taz. Taz, can you introduce yourself, please? Hello. Hello from a very hot and sticky London. My name is Taz Elias. I'm the brand collaborations lead at the foundation. I'm Matoto's colleague in the brand studio and I am working with Matoto on the sound and music aspect of this contest. So, if you're here today, you're probably curious to learn more about the Sound Logo Project and Contest. It's a project to create a sound for Wikimedia's knowledge and content with you, our volunteer communities, and pretty much any free knowledge enthusiast around the world. We'll tell you more about the details of this project in this session, giving you a project overview and the people behind it. We'll also show you the many ways you can get involved and leave ample time at the end to cover off any questions that you may have after listening to the session. And so, to begin with the project overview, we know that many people around the world are seeking knowledge and information and they're doing so increasingly using voice assistants from their laptops or their phones using applications like Siri and Alexa and many, many more. This is hardly new information. We're entering the internet of things. Our content, Wikimedia content is also on audio devices and it's also increasingly available around the world. Unfortunately right now, this content is often not identified and so the listener probably doesn't know this content is coming from a Wikimedia project. So the Sound Logo in brief is a collection of sounds such as a short mnemonic, usually one to four seconds long. And the idea is that this little mnemonic would be played in an audio interface when content from Wikimedia is served. It's a device that is very similar to the well-known Tadam that Netflix uses and the Nokia sounds for those who are there in the 90s. A Sound Logo offers us, Wikimedia, very many new ways to be identified in the knowledge ecosystem through audio interfaces. And so the team behind the Sound Logo project is a big collaboration. We are incredibly happy to have a global set of community liaisons. I think they're on the call today. And we also have staff from the foundation who are working on the project in various capacities as well as supporters and advisors from department colleagues at the foundation. On the call we might have many of your colleagues as organizers and volunteers. Andy, Bianto, Irina, John and Mohamed, I'm sure they're saying hi in the chat. And I then pass on to Terz who will share more about the global contest itself. Thanks very much, yeah. A few words about the contest design because this is an open global contest which we're looking to crowdsource the Sound Logo and work with one of our partners. So we'll just go into that now. So the contest itself is based mostly on a lot of the previous logo contests that the Wikimedia movement have been integral in creating. But as it's a new kind of contest and that we're looking for sound, there are some new aspects as well. So as I said, it's an open global contest. So it will be created on a WordPress portal which actually means that members of the public and those that may not have a Wikimedia account can participate. One other important aspect is because it's an open global contest where very likely to get numerous submissions and with that comes the need for a screening team to ensure that we capture any submissions that are technically incorrect or could be seen as vandalism. So we're looking for a community screening team to help with that aspect early on in the contest. The final vote, which will be for the final 10 Sound Logos, will take place on Wikimedia Commons. And there will be prizes for the winner and for the other nine finalists as well, which we're finalizing at the moment. So just a word on our technical partner for this project. We're working with an agency, a sonic agency called Massive Music, who have been making Sound Logos and other sonic branding tools for the past 20 years. They're global leaders and they've been working with us for a fair few months ensuring that the contest and all of the aspects behind the contest work and are legally sound. Next slide please. So a bit more to where the community comes in. We're going to have a selection committee who will be deciding with Massive Music exactly which 10 Sound Logos will go to the final vote. Our colleague Murdad, who I'm sure many of you know has been working hard behind the scenes to put together the selection committee. And here are a few aspects of how the Sound Logos should sound, which is what we're calling the brief and it would be included on the web portal as a criteria for entrance. So the Sound Logos should feel human, inspired, smart and warm. All very emotive descriptors for the movement itself. Three aspects which are technical requirements is that it should comprise of multiple layers, textures or sounds. So that essentially means that there should be more than one sound and each sound should happen and play back one over the other. So we had a master class session on Thursday with our partners Massive Music. We went into all of the detail and provided some music production tools and instructions and guidance on how to do that. You'll be able to watch that master class very soon. Your Sound Logo submission should be between one and four seconds long and it should only contain original sounds or sounds that are CC0 or public domain. So there are the main aspects of submissions. Next slide, please. Is that my one? No. Okay. Sorry, I'm not near you. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Awesome. Thanks, Tas. So naturally, we really want to make this a participatory process in most of the contest design. We wanted to indeed, but also in the way that we were making decisions. We part of designing the contest as Tas shared involved a range of community conversations that were led by my Medard who's in our movement communications team. And the objective here was to really offer communities a chance to take in a lot of information about quite a complex and new way of seeking a logo, a sound logo. And we put all of this in a contest proposal in nine languages on meta and had it for review over May and June, inviting suggestions and feedback on the talk page and in other forums, including an email. We also hosted two dedicated virtual sessions that were part information sharing as well as an introduction to some sonic concept. And hearing these, the results, just a snapshot of the results is for us, this was an incredible milestone for the project because hearing many of these questions and comments allowed us to reflect and also make decisions for the next steps of the project. All of this is documented on meta. We were looking out to hear where there was support and where there was no clear objection, allowing us to make the immediate next steps and steps towards the completion of the project clear while keeping you all updated. And this big sort of feedback from the session was that there was quite a surprising and very good to know that this was an exciting project. People are very excited that it's happening and they increasingly want to get involved and want to find out how. And that they wanted something that was that many people really wanted to reiterate was that conceptualizing and capturing and producing sounds is quite complex and takes time and that this process, the contest itself, should not be rushed. And so it's wonderful that we're here at Wikimedia to give communities around the world a preview and a head start to conceptualizing and collaborating so that they have almost a month and a half head start before the rest of the world can join in. Same with the selection. You know, they will comments around how it might be more difficult to make a selection of a sound, which is not the same as making, comparing two logos. One has to listen and take it in. And so we needed that voting period also to have some breathing room in the contest design. And lastly, in absolutely in completely Wikimedia way, this has to be a ways for people to collaborate. And so we wanted, we heard very clearly that people wanting to work or submit a sound should be given a chance to collaborate. And so we found ways to allow for that, including an open library that is on the contest page on Meta that has a forum for one to collaborate but also resources to use leading up to the contest open. And so the best part, how do you get involved? Taz will share more. You're muted, Taz. Can you hear me now? Yeah, sorry about that. So the team are currently working on the WordPress web portal, which will allow us to receive screen and review submissions. We're also looking at how the vote will take place on Wikimedia Commons as well. At the moment, my dad is working on putting together a screening team. So if you are interested in becoming a part of the screening team, please email soundlogo, one word, at wikimedia.org. As I mentioned before, my dad is also putting together the selection committee. Matoto is working on global outreach with more of our colleagues from the communications department at the foundation and also looking at promotion. As mentioned, the workshop happened at Wikimedia a couple of days ago and that will be available for you to review very shortly. The production of the contest promotion materials is also underway. So here's a timeline, a rough timeline. So the submission period for you to submit your sound logo entrance will be from mid-September to mid-October. It will last roughly a month, so it's coming up soon. The final vote will be open for three weeks, roughly from the end of November this year. There will be a legal review where the foundation, our partners, Massive Music and the musicologists and independent musicologists will start their due diligence copyright checks, contracting and clearance, which will take a fair few weeks, but that's to ensure that the sound is unique, can be registered and can represent all of the hard work that the Wikimedia community do every day. And we are aiming to announce the winner in early 2023. So that's a quick look ahead at what's coming up for the sound logo team. So, ways for you to get involved. Here's just a few, but if you have any questions, thoughts, ideas or suggestions, please reach out to the community liaisons and the team as well. So first things first, when it's available, watch the sound logo masterclass. It's very valuable. It goes through the basics of sound logos, where sound logos came from and why they're so important now, at least of all, because many of us are online and many of us are using sound solely to gain knowledge. So watch the sound logo masterclass, very valuable. Next, find and tag existing sounds that are in the public domain or create from zero. We'll be sharing a link to what we're calling the Sound Lab, which is the collaboration space that has lots of sounds for you to use on your submissions and we're inviting people to bring together a lot more. Think of concepts as well. How do you feel the Wikimedia movement could best be represented by sound? So we're asking you to conceptualize that. Take some time to think what sounds represent the Wikimedia movement best and you can start sharing with your community members and concepting together. Capture sounds. So capture sounds on your mobile phone or if you've got a microphone and a laptop, perhaps you can capture sounds out and about. That's a great way to think about concepting and walk your way towards the final sound. And then once the contest is open, submit your unique sound logo to the contest where we'll be screening, reviewing, scoring and selecting. Encourage others to submit sounds as well. This is very important because we're very, very key for the Wikimedia community to submit sounds that represent their community. And then lastly, inquire to join the screening team because we need lots of people to review sounds. We're expecting quite a few sounds so it'd be great if the movement will be a part of that screening process too. So that is about it in terms of ways to get involved. I think that may be the last slide. Yes, that is. We're opening the floor for people to ask questions, share thoughts, feelings about the contest, et cetera. So we'll just have a look in the sidebar. Have there been any questions? Sorry, go on. I just want to say, you know, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has taken the time to familiarize themselves with the contest so far from the early essay that we wrote in November, right up to the consultations in May and June. We appreciate your enthusiasm and your interest and your suggestions and look forward to more. I think the slides may have gone at one point, but we will be uploading these slides to Wikimedia Commons soon after this roundtable for everyone to review at their leisure. Awesome, yeah. I just updated the link for the sound lab. I don't think it was working, but I think that Hamid and I have both dropped those links in there in the chat. So we have a question from the Etherpad. There's some skepticism about the initiative. One of the main objectives from the comments aside is what exact usage of sound logo of Wikimedia is this going to be and in what situations right now I struggle to think of any. Okay, I think we can answer that from a top line of perspective. So in the first instance, Matoto mentioned that the first use case for the sound logo is going to be for voice assistance. In the, I think it may have been an earlier version, but we can certainly share some research that points to a proliferation of sound assistant uses or smart speakers as they're often called, which are used at home like the Amazon Echo, for example, and the Google Apple HomePod and things like that. So those smart speakers as they're called colloquially are used quite readily around the world and use is growing exponentially. And the research points to the fact that a very large percentage and it has always been over 75% of particular searches, which are knowledge based and fact based use Wikimedia content for their answers. We have the research figures that we can share as mentioned, but an awful lot of the time, more often than not, the Wikimedia content isn't identified. It's coming from Wikimedia projects. So we saw this as an opportunity to create something that can identify the Wikimedia volunteers' hard work. And this is just a start. The first use case is for that purpose, but it can, of course, be used for multiple uses, including on the many videos that the movement create that could signify and identify that they're part of the Wikimedia movement. It could be used on content made outside of the movement as well alongside the logos that already exist as part of the Wikimedia visual identity. So I hope that answers your question. If you want to add anything there, Taz? Thanks for the question. And just to add one more resource that would have an exhaustive list of use cases and some of the research that Taz has mentioned, you can find on the FAQ tab on the Sound Logo Neta page. And I will add it here. There was also a request for the session on Thursday, which I actually just saw pop up in the feed loop. There were a few technical issues, but I'll share it now. But please be sure if anyone would like any resources or assistance, please email soundlogoatwikimedia.org. That's a great place to access not only your community liaisons, of which there are five, but also the project team directs. So let me find the link quickly and I'll share that in the chat if there's any more questions. All right, so I think I have found a YouTube link, so I'm going to drop that in the chat if anyone would like to review the Sound Logo Masterclass from Thursday. I'll just double check that's the right link. Before you saw the question in the Q and Taz around the criteria, the screening team will use to utilize to judge the sound. Or is that all in the video? We can. I think it's the two-minute delay between YouTube and feed loop. So we're good to proceed, I think we're good. No, they didn't. Do you see the question in the Q and A? I also dropped in. Let me just write a comment. It's quite simple and the slide should be on the screen now. It's essentially the last three bullet points on that. So the screening team will look to hear if there are at least two sounds that overlap with one another to create a layered composition. They'll also listen to see if the sound is between one and four seconds long, and they'll look to hear if they can recognize any sound or sounds that may not be original or part of the public domain. But this is, of course, this would require further research for the team to speak to the person that submitted it. They will provide rationale and justification for their sound as well. But further to that, the screening team will log on to the web portal through the back end, and as screeners they will have a list of questions that if the answer is yes to one of them, which pertains to the criteria, all they need to do is tick it. So the criteria is there, and we'll be sharing that criteria with anyone that would like to apply to the screening team, and they can make a decision as to whether they would like to do it. It's very straightforward, very easy, not different to anything that what comedians do on our projects every day. The main bulk of the questions is to do with vandalism, because we do need to screen for vandalism. So there'll be questions, could it be perceived as being offensive or anything like that, or not suitable in representing the media. But it is very straightforward. We'll share the criteria very soon. I think there was a question from Tomy, which I'll just scroll back up. It says, Wikipedia is mostly about reading and images. There ought to be an audio side and other sensory perceptions also to it. Why not be welcome to the Wikipedia homepage by a characteristic sound. Make sure it can be turned off, though. As being part of this project, I would wholeheartedly agree because sound is one of my life passions. It would be very useful in ensuring that sound goes some way to representing Wikipedia content, but that, of course, is something that the community would need to rally around and agree in happening. But, of course, it's something, it's a use case that the sound that's chosen could be utilized for. But I wholeheartedly agree with you, Tomy. Just going back through the chat list. Apologies for the technical difficulties earlier. I think there was a question that I may have missed earlier. It says, Taz talked about a session held on Thursday. Can I get the link? I need to understand how the sound level is done. There are volunteers to organize bass and treble training. That is possible, in the case as many of you may know. There's a person that organizes the community songs and is doing a lot of the research that's going to be made available. So, I'm currently working on, I think, four training sessions for volunteers between now and the submission window for Sound Logo's closing. So, the answer is yes. So, we're just organizing. We're figuring out when they should take place to ensure that anyone in the world of sound logo at Wikimedia. To express your interest, I suppose it's available with an ounce on the letter. We'll communicate through telegram and the other communication channels. I see there's quite a few people who've joined since we began, about 43 attendants on feed loop, probably more on YouTube. For those who are just joining, it was a short introduction and overview of the Sound Logo project, sharing steps we have taken so far, consultations we've had with members of the Wikimedia communities around the world and the results, as well as the plans to launch the contest in the coming month during September. So, any questions you have, if you've reviewed some of the material on meta or you attended the master class during the week on the first day of Wikimedia, please share your questions here. We still have time with you. And so, this is your chance. So, there's a question on the Q&A tab. More of a comment. Sounds local to destinations like South Africa. Are they unique? Imagine there could be a huge amount of resources. There can be a huge impact for visually impaired and other individuals. Thanks very much, Andrea. Yes, for sure. I would definitely, I'm going to post the link to the master class that we did on Thursday again for everyone to see how the craft of creating sound logos differs to music production and the standards of music, creation of music, concepting. It's not very different, but there are certain aspects. We spoke about the sounds not particularly pertaining to one specific culture but more of a global movement. And Joe, who led the music production and technical aspects of the master class shared, without drawing that much attention to it, a very, very smart way to take a sound from a very specific locale. So, we used an African drum and then he added things to it and added effects and manipulated it to give it a more global sound as we're calling it, which is very smart. So, I would love to see in the notes, in the rationale of sound logo submissions that participants started with sounds that are local to them and they went through a process to change and manipulate those sounds to give them a much more global sound to represent the global movement. So, it starts with them and it sort of radiates into the wider movement which I think is a beautiful story. So, I think we may have a few more questions. I'll just go through another comment from Tommy. That's amazing, Tommy. This is a question and a request if you are open to collaborating with members of the Wikimedia community who may not have as much experience in audio design as you do, it would be amazing if you could offer your services to help those that may have ideas and concepts that they'd like to submit but may not necessarily have the experience to do so. So, I'll be hoping to see an email from you coming to our inbox at soundlogoatwikimedia.org Another question from Chimery. Can people who are not Wikipedians join in the sound logo contest? Yes, they can. It's an open global contest so anyone can submit a sound. It's as simple as that. We've made it an open global contest in order to get as many submissions as possible because we know that. You know, our colleague Tommy has experience in audio production design but perhaps not that many people in the movement do so we're opening it to allow for submissions and of course the most important thing is that we have Wikimedia on the selection committee to decide which sounds make it through to the final ten so although it is open, those sounds will make it through to the final without a green light as it were from the volunteers. And additionally, since the voting platform will be on Commons, it will require anyone wanting to vote to sign up and log in and have a login. So while it is really open to everyone, the voting portion of the sound logo project the real decision between the ten finalists is most likely going to be made by Wikimedians who have a login. Another comment from Tommy. Having AI choose and manipulate the sounds might add some neutrality to the logo I imagine. That would be an amazing scenario. This is just my personal opinion. AI I think is still relatively fraught with glitches I would say. It's a lovely suggestion. I would love to see the sound logo that is chosen by AI and the sound logo that is chosen by the community. Of course just for my own personal preference. It's very encouraging to see here in the attendees familiar faces people who have joined either the master class or the community consultations or commented on the talk page. Again, appreciate your support and your recommendations and comments and suggestions. Please keep them coming. For question from goodness in the chat, any sound production app you can recommend. I'd certainly recommend creating a sound on a desktop or a laptop computer in the software that I'd recommend to use is called Ableton Live Light. It's free software. It's incredibly powerful. It's seen as being industry standard for beginners who would like to create sound and music. I'll drop it in the chat now. I'll drop a link to it in the chat. If your preference is to use open source software there is a program called Audacity which is a little bit more limited in how you can create. We will also have a list of resources, tools and software on the web portal as well. If you search for any DAW which stands for digital audio workspace have a look through the DAWs that are on offer. Take some time to do some research, read reviews and have a play and see which one you like. The Sound Logo Masterclass is a great place to start. It teaches you the basics on how to create a sound logo for a scratch. We have about a minute left so anybody who's been drafting their question and hasn't posted it yet, please do so now we can answer here. If you didn't get time to share your question here there are various social media groups, WhatsApp, Telegram and Instagram and SoundLogo at wikimedia.org for any questions you have about what we've shared here today. We've got another question from Suyash What about the sounds not produced by any computer software, MIDI etc? Any sounds that are what we would call naturally acoustic that are recorded out in the open world that are controlled by MIDI and in short MIDI is a control language that MIDI keyboards use to trigger sounds so you can record a bird tweeting outside for example and you'd put it in a digital audio workstation and map it to a key on a keyboard and MIDI will be able to play the different scales of that bird sound so you can have a really high pitched bird sound or a really low pitched bird sound like my voice that's what MIDI is so as long as Suyash as long as the sound that you are creating is original that you've recorded or is a CC0 sound, MIDI is fine that's perfectly okay you can record and use as you wish so I think that's us out of time thanks everyone have a lovely rest of your wikimedia and be sure to email us and the liaisons on the email that you can see there Thank you Thanks to the first wiki-banklet at the Kermania really excited to have all of you and today is exciting we want to share a meal together and just chat and kind of have some casual time to eat, chat tell us how wikimedia is going, what you're currently doing if you want to share what you're also eating at the moment that would be great it's a bit early for me so I still can't have food but I will be having some coffee soon and share that as well I see Sandra already sharing so yeah if you want to turn your mic on and your camera on put some little background music and we can take it from there it's big we can make breakout rooms if not we'll just be here and have a meal together sorry to know you were saying go ahead does anyone want to share what they're eating I see Sandra eating, Venus eating I'm not sure who else is eating I'm going to put some background music now actually I want to share with you that during this session I'm going to prepare tabula I prepared the ingredient here and I will cut them chip them and prepare tabula here it's very easy, it's very healthy and delicious tabula sounds really good and I'm getting hungry it's 6.24 am for me but definitely getting hungry just hearing about it and I am at work I cannot talk that much but I am eating dried berries they are so good very nice Venus, Anthony, Sandra anyone want to share with us that I got from supermarket this day so try to stay healthy enjoying it with actually some coke so it's not that healthy on my side but cheers everyone also can you hear the audio well sorry because I'm sharing my computer audio how about you Sandra what are you having I'm having a lot I decided not to take breakfast so that I could keep a bit of my tummy to have this so just finished my lunch and now I'm having coffee and butter cookies but I can't eat that early but anyway I'm about to have some coffee prepared from the Nespresso because I don't have my coffee machine here but cheers anyone else I love tabula in the north anyone else know tabula hello yes much please go ahead it's now 7.27 am here in Singapore I just cooked dinner but I didn't know that there was a banquet but I just I don't know this is my meal I shared it on the wiki meal I don't know if I call it michado or apretada I don't know I'm just confused but that's this is not a Singapore dish but we it's also a Filipino dish that we normally love it sounds yummy but I'm getting more and more hungry hey there Derek how's it going any strupoffle ASMR this time around good morning good morning well actually good afternoon it's just past noon here in England yeah so nice to see you all most of you again after after a year of each of us doing our own wiki things around the world so yeah so very nice to be here I didn't realize this was happening after I had a pre-packed food and instead at the start of the session I went and made two ready meal items so this is number one it's cup noodles is made by a Japanese British ramen brand this one is pork broth flavor and this is instant coffee imported all the way from Malaysia so yeah this is what I love I followed along with recipes this year I have gone out a few times to other events over the weekend including wikimena in person in London so in contrast my own cooking has been a bit depleted I think yeah Venus say hello to Connie that's my wife yes I will thank you Venus great to know that your talk this morning works very well I streamed the whole thing on YouTube so glad to know we fixed all our technical glitches by the middle of day 2 and we are now running very smoothly but I see other saying I want to be in the queue so I wish Lebron J would you like to share yours maybe I can go first someone else can follow in my country we have the food that is called the ogali it's a very common food in East Africa ok thank you so ogali is a very common food in my country and in East Africa I just had a very heavy breakfast so it's not here yet I will just send the link on that if you want to take a look how it looks that is the ogali right now I just have my simple drink enjoying good money here so you are welcome anyone who want to share next what are they eating, drinking, whatever you are please welcome Lebron go ahead again thank you oh man I wish I could get some of all of your food but coffee will do for now anyone else having anything amazing or want to share anything about what they thought about wikimania so far what's been your favorite session or your favorite art culture and entertainment portion my childhood link shared by butch I wish I was in my kitchen now I was very impressed by the cultural offering this year all the dance sessions the pre-recorded open copyright art session and the opening ceremony had the introduction to Ukrainian culture I was very impressed by all of those same I was really impressed by them they were really good and I loved seeing just the diversity of our community from around the world and funny enough most of these were community led so that was amazing to see I was really excited with all of them I think my favorite was probably poetry in motion from United Arab Emirates or Ukraine video was good some of those dances from the dance festivals from South Asia were really cool some of those videos don't have captions it seems so when I watched I could only hear the speaker talking in their local language and it seemed like the language translation didn't work so if I could organize it or even just find the authors themselves to put up captions on YouTube or comments then it can be translated definitely I think most of those will be uploaded with the subtitles I think we probably actually should be I think available already but if not tomorrow they'll be uploaded with subtitles but it was great in general I think also the Alto Mujeres Trabajando from Argentina was really good I really like that out to the South American community and I think Wikimexico was also involved in that one it's really cool I will go back to to talk about my tabbouleh I chipped the persilia and tomato with the salad and just going to add burgul because tabbouleh is with a little bit burgul not so much burgul and this sort of burgul it's very small and olive oil and then I will talk after my tabbouleh about my favorite sessions during this week those are yummy or the instant ramen that Derek is eating as well would be so good Venus we haven't heard from you or your body is a bit off your mic is not well connected I think Venus is trying to rejoin what else has been interesting for you this year at Wikimedia me I was so many things I just read a lot of your sessions one of the most heartwarming sessions for me this year was the Taiwan Indigenous language session on day one I attended the session last year as well and it's really nice to go back and see that they are presenting both the same story as they did last year but that's only the first half of the presentation the second half are things that are new and were done in the past year and I was very glad to see that they are making progress with getting more for most languages through ISO 639 and then on to their own Wikimedia projects and it's nice to see that unlike previous years this year the younger tribal language speakers actually presented more fluently than the older ones and I think that's a great sign for language photographers that's awesome I think it's always great to see the progress of all the projects going on and it's like oh, you last heard from them they were just doing this and we're starting or in another phase now it's like they're doing something amazing so I'm always just very much amazed at all the different projects that go into the communities around the world the growth they have and the impact they have and how amazing the people behind that are running them we've got a group joining in Tunisia on Habibi and his screen yes hello hello everyone what's the most about this year's Wikimedia and what have you been doing in person this year is we are back to in person meeting I'm very happy because we are back to in person in and that's a very very good point we miss this yes technical issues with online events I think we need now to turn back to in person and leave this online events do you agree? it's my point of view I think that is a very common sentiment this year in person Wikimedia 2023 it's a bit of a shame that this session was parallel with future of Wikimedia session I think a lot of what we talk about here and what they talk about there will overlap in terms of what we want Wikimedia to be what we like about it and what should we do beyond next year we are all in the same room joining together very nice what do you all think about the location for next year just showing our first national soft drink in Wikimedia we presented yesterday in our session with Kosko's Shakoka we bring Kosko's Shakoka and pastries from Wikimedia and this is our machine drink soft drink we hope to meet in an interesting conference anyone you have joined just if you want to grab a meal or if you're eating something already feel free to show your video and then also share what is your favorite session been so far or even where you're calling in from I can start with that one I'm calling in from San Miguel de Allende in Mexico it's a very cute town like about two and a half hours three hours from Mexico City and I am watching and producing basically working from here for Wikimedia and I'm actually joined in by Miquel who has also been generally the project we're here working together and just really excited to have the space to kind of just chat, eat and share all together so yeah that's us here's Miquel if you want to see him for a second hello everyone, nice to see you I'm jealous as well of everything that you're eating right now and where I heard you were using as well oil and you were making some nice things so yes yeah we're excited and glad to be here how about you thank you so yes my name is Antonio and I'm joining Wikimania 22 from Dar es Salaam Tanzania, East Africa in case you don't know Dar es Salaam or Tanzania it's where the second tallest mountain is found Kilimanjaro, so you are welcome to Tanzania but I'm really happy to be engaging with you all who joined the Wikimania 22 it's really an amazing gathering that we came up with and you are here until this time the last day we are so happy, so let's have Fanny please feel free to share anything about the conference your food, your drinks as well thank you is Venus back to the discussion, she was trying to share something but her mic didn't work last time yeah please Venus I'm back actually, I was just hoping to ask Virginia to share some famous dishes in Singapore because he was there in the morning talking about Wikimania will be in Singapore this year and I want something to have in my mind to imagine and actually I want to plan for my food schedule so I'm just wondering if he can share with us now or is it too early to plan for my food for next Wikimania are you directing this question at someone specific which isn't in the call I'm thinking about food in Singapore I'm happy to listen to because I've never been there and I want to know a bit more I've got Malaysian style white coffee which is probably the closest thing to Singapore cuisine we've got in this chapter right now I also just did a quick wiki search on Singaporean cuisine of course derived from like several ethnic groups but yeah in Singapore food is viewed as crucial as national identity and a unifying cultural thread okay let's see if you eat pork you should try this in Singapore Baguette it's a pork bone soup with lots of herbs and it's a very hearty meal originally designed for for minor forest workers now it's a signature soup all over Southeast Asia I saw it as well oh gosh that looks so good Judith says in chat says hello everyone Judith from Nigeria I've just had pasta scrambled eggs and potato chips I see what others are cooking and eating and it looks yummy the bhanga soup looks so yummy as well she says hi yeah so I think it's good that I've also gone there's the most air so I've got Kemi Kemi is from the Nigerians and she's going to be having what we call fisherman's soup Kemi do you want to talk to us about this yes so this is a bar our local food made from cassava and as you can see and then once it's made it's wrapped in nylon for you to be able to take it we call it gari then once it's made it forms this a bar and this is a fisherman's soup and taken with it the fisherman's soup is taken by the Nigerian people it has crab in it it has fish in it it has small prawns in it it's made with okra then they dice a little bit of pepper maybe cayenne pepper into it and fish there's a type of fish which is taken in Niger data by Niger data people they had to eat to give it flavor and taste so that is what I'm taking a bar and push a man's soup that's my meal for today well so I'm going to take what we call amala amala is a paste made from yam flour it's very popular in the southwestern part of Nigeria so Judith has spoken about something that is popular in the south eastern part of Nigeria Kemi has spoken about something popular in the south southern part of Nigeria so this is popular in the southwestern part of Nigeria so we got amala it's got soup so there are three soups I'm using to eat this amala now the first is ewaydook I don't know the name in English but locally we call it ewaydook so it's blended and cooked then we also have what we call begui begui is made from beans the beans is cooked then it's also somehow it's mashed into a soup and then we've got the stew that gives the soup flavor and I'm going with catfish amala is a very popular delicacy here in the southwest so most people whether they're from the southwest or not would usually have amala as a staple and it's something that would urge people who come to southwestern Nigeria to have a taste whenever they're here to enjoy this and I see Sandra saying she needs this yes if you find your way to Lagos you need to enjoy this so one very good thing about amala is that and that's because the soup that you're using to eat amala is slimy so it's not something that you would eat with the cutlery like Kevin said you have to eat amala with your hands and when you take a bowl you have to turn it so that the slime does not stain the plate and stain your clothes so you have to do this before it goes into your mouth usually yummy, I would urge you all to test it out oh my, I don't know what to do because I'm so old now oh say go I would like to see a coyote eat it you have to do the turning you have to do the turning you said it's kind of like a soup coyote or like a oh nice, okay very nice the north hazard tabouleh coming along tabouleh yes my tabouleh we usually drink something after the lunch tea or cafe but here I prepared Arabic cafe Arabic Turkish or Armenian it's the same different language who use it but it's Arabic so we do it in this pot and like this and voila I will drink my cafe and I saw another put some kind of food that they have in Palestine can you speak about melochia nada hello everyone this is nada from Palestine melochia actually it's from France it's a plant we chopped it very soft we boiled chicken maybe rabbits you know it's different from someone to the other one then we bought this soft chopped melochia in the water boiled water of the chicken and have a nice meal it's not hard it sure will strengthen your hand when you chop the melochia so you may see the photos of this food on wiki commons but it's delicious I want to be sure about that it's very delicious and sometimes I think it should be the best food for our country because it's really delicious thank you everyone if I may ask you, can I? of course, thank you this is my bad speaking from Iman Jordan just want to take the chance to say hello everyone here all my friends my friends in Tunisia Nanur, Menard, Nada, Venus everyone and so it's really a good chance nice chance to see everything you are doing right now the decisions you enjoyed everything so this is really unique wiki mania it's my fourth actually but yeah I mean even if we are discussing with each other meeting each other from the different parts of the world behind the screens but it's really a good chance hopefully next year we will gather again to see each other in person for me I have just finished my lunch I ate or I had pasta it consists of pasta chicken pieces, herbs and lettuce and the dressing is olive oil with lemon and the palsamic so that's my lunch for today everyone enjoy your meals and enjoy the rest of the day happy wiki mania that sounds amazing Marvat also happy posted an image from commons they are eating now in Tunisia so Habib do you want to speak more about it? yeah absolutely it's not the same thing we are really not quite similar but it's not presented as luchia and the eastern countries we have a special luchia it's very tasty very spicy also the common green is the color and we used with beef and some special about luchia we prepared to cook it on not the usual way we keep it cooking one entire night for eating this food you have to wake it or prepare it in the evening you prepare it for the ingredients and put it on fire very very light fire and wait all the night to be prepared yeah it's green as I showed you the picture because we put the dish tomatoes as much as possible that's amazing Eric has posted a link so you can add your pictures to the sessions page of all the food that you are eating and that way everyone can see it and then I see some comments in feed loop saying I know about the soup being made by Lebron J it is made from palm kernel it is actually a delicious soup and Tommy is saying I am from a place called Hungary which sounds like Hungary but I am good at eating and then someone else says what about a fang soup and cooked and pounded and then a lot of people know about it it's amazing we are coming to an end here but Nor did you want to go before we disconnect I want to show one last thing with the cafe when we finished our cafe there remained a lot of cafe here and what we did we put it like that and we turn that and then we read our chance and destiny in the rest of the cafe instead of saying there are three ways there are three points that will come in three weeks or something like that I will wait to dry that and then see what next Vicky Mania is coming to bring to us it's such a nice way to end the session I was going to ask you if they did also in Armenia but that's amazing thanks for joining the first ever Vicky Banquet for Vicky Mania 2022 looking forward to enjoying a lot of amazing meals with you next year in Singapore together looking forward to that thanks everyone bye bye bye hi everyone greetings welcome to you wherever you are good morning from Toronto my name is Mehdat awesome Wikimanias around the world I see many of you watching on YouTube and on feed loop and for whoever is watching later big welcome to you and thank you so much for being here hi everyone, salam greetings Fibi Eris famously said it's not Wikimania if people aren't frantically looking for Jimmy so I wonder where he is today because he's not here Jimmy wherever you are ready okay wait I have an email from Jimmy guys this is awkward this is the first time I'm emailing you this year okay okay that's not the right one ooh I have another email maybe he's here wait it's Andreas Kobe looking for the Wikimedia accounting convention okay not him either Jimmy hello hey Jimmy how are you I had the right link finally I'm glad I'm glad I'm so happy we're here once again we're starting to reconnect with each other including if you didn't catch today's announcement next year's Wikimania in Singapore it's today is the final day of Wikimania and we're all so happy to be here Jimmy I think we've learned a lot as a movement during the pandemic how do you feel about reconnecting once again in person including some upcoming events like Wikiravia the CEE meeting in Daba French and German Wikiconventions and more oh well I mean it's really exciting I'm very excited for us to get back to meeting in person I mean you know what's interesting about Wikipedia and Wikimedians and how we work is we do we work from home we do all the key heavy lifting just typically as a hobby sitting on our own computers but these meetings the live meetings have such an incredible role to play in the serendipity of sharing ideas in making friends in a different kind of way obviously you can make friends online but it's really wonderful to sit together in person and share a meal and so forth and obviously it helps in many ways to reduce conflict because it's quite easy online to sort of have a conflict with a person who if you met them in person you would both realize oh actually you know it was the online thing that was making us have a conflict so I think it's really important really exciting really fun and actually Singapore when I first you know heard that I thought oh gosh you know it's so hot it's gonna be so hot and see we're actually checked today it's actually hotter here in London and it is in Singapore so who knows what the weather's going to hold in the future absolutely and I can't wait for the ESCAP community to host the Wikimedia movement Jimmy, COVID was a big topic last year a major topic that impacted the world of course it also impacted our movement how do you think we have now that it's almost feeling like we're coming out of the pandemic how do you feel like our movement has really stood has stood its ground yeah I mean it's it's been really heartwarming it's really an incredible thing to see you know I meet a lot of people and one of the things that people they sort of realized it and it was like for the first time they realized that they believed something which is that Wikipedia would be a good place to go for information about COVID you know there was all this misinformation disinformation online I mean I personally sort of almost yelled citation needed at some people in a school WhatsApp group and people on the WhatsApp group were talking about using onions boiling onions in your kitchen to cure COVID and I said this is ridiculous please go read the Wikipedia entry I hadn't even looked at the Wikipedia entry but I knew it would not say that and a lot of people really came to understand through this that oh actually Wikipedia is the place that you can go and you can generally trust it and it's quite good and there's really good people behind it who are trying to make things right and so a lot of people then asked me what did you have to do different how did you deal with this differently and I said you know what actually it's what we've always done it's principles of verifiability all of the processes and the community discussions and the chewing on things and reliable sources and so forth we've always been doing this and so when we face a new challenge obviously our existing principles are the right principles to start with absolutely and through countless crises that really showed us how resilient they are another major topic this year was and still is the Russian invasion of Ukraine which really impacted so many community members and fellow humans in Ukraine we had great coverage from Ukraine over Romania and some wonderful sessions six months later it's unfortunately still raging on it has also had a negative impact on individuals and groups in the movement and also in Russia and Belarus and in diaspora it has also spread misinformation about Wikimedia and other trustworthy sources of information and even threatened access to free knowledge how do you think our movement has faced such crises and challenges in the past you know 22 years well you know it's it's interesting because I do feel that the current times are in some ways worse than we faced in the past around these kinds of issues it's been really rare throughout the years for Wikimedians to be arrested for the crime of being a Wikimedian and it's just kind of unheard of and new ground and it really disturbs me greatly I remember many years ago I was once given an award and sort of the text of the award said I was a hero and in my acceptance speech I said look I'm not a hero I'm just a guy who types on his computer a lot but every Wikipedian every Wikimedian who's working in a conflict zone or in any place where speaking simple encyclopedia truth can lead to arrest or prison time those people are the heroes and that's really something I think everyone in the movement can feel particularly those of us who are fortunate to live in a place where you know this isn't a concern and we are able to just research and write and nobody's going to bother us for doing it and so forth so you know through the years I think one of the ways the movement has dealt with this is actually by staying principled staying true to the truth which means that governments around the world know that you can't just sort of order Wikipedia to be edited to suit what you want and have that magically happen and I think that actually reduces the amount of attempts to improperly and use pressure to change Wikipedia but these are serious times and you know I think people who are out there doing everything they can to keep Wikipedia high quality and neutral in conflict zones it's just incredible to make really incredible people. Truly and our movement has made up a lot of incredible people thank you Jimmy we're really blessed to have such awesome community members and volunteers really from all walks of life contributing to the projects speaking of amazing Wikimediands I feel like it was just last year when we were hosting these events again shall we take a quick look yeah amazing so last year Jimmy for the first time we expanded the award to have multiple categories what were some of your favorites oh well I mean it's having multiple categories was probably long overdue because as soon as we did it it clicked in my mind it just made a lot of sense because we have so many different types of contributors who are doing different things that are all key to the movement so tech contributor, media contributor and so forth and you know I just think those categories are you know something that we might not have been able to recognize those people if we only had one award per year but they're really important. Absolutely and you know last year's award saw winners from profiles and regions of the world we had never had before the top winner was an emergency room doctor that has also contributed a great deal of information to Arabic Wikipedia and elsewhere including COVID-19 coverage we also had Dr. Neta Hussein Jimmy I'm convinced Neta and Allah have more than 24 hours in their genes yeah you know it's interesting how you know when we've got these traditional principles and everything is clicking along and everything is you know sort of and then a crisis happens something like COVID happened and then people really rise to the challenge they somehow manage to have careers and still make thoughtful contributions and thousands of edits you know it's really it's amazing to me I don't know how people get edit so much I'm a very slow editor myself it's truly incredible and last year we also had three winners from South Asia really a first for the awards we got to celebrate tech we got to celebrate photography in distinct categories of their own Jimmy have you been photographing butterflies since Ananya's win last year you know I haven't but you know what I told the story about photographing butterflies and giving more last year to my younger children they were very very interested so they're not really old enough yet to contribute text and edit Wikipedia but they loved the idea of contributing photos so we started a project at home to use an app to identify and photograph all the plants in our garden we haven't uploaded anything yet but we will but I think for me that's one of the great things about recognizing different categories is certain people may say I'm not the right person like I don't know really I don't feel confident in my writing skills I'm not that interested in looking up sources and so forth but I actually am a good photographer and that's a way I can contribute and so and that could be maybe younger people or it could be just people who have photography as a hobby so I think identifying all these different types of people is really wonderful truly I couldn't agree more and we also got to celebrate Carmen Alcazar last year a true legend in the movement Jimmy I know you love small projects last year we had our first winner from Southeast Asia Karma Chitrawati this was also the first time we celebrated a newcomer what is the importance of celebrating newcomers to you? well actually what I would like to talk about now is small projects what I love about small projects is that the original vision for Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet and that means that the smaller project the smaller language projects are of utmost importance and they're really hard they're hard to find people to build them and those communities face huge obstacles in many cases there aren't that many sources in their own language so they have to deal with that and so on and so forth there's so much to be done there and it's really crucial for that the original vision of every single person on the planet having free access to the sum of all human knowledge so that's really great I can talk more about newcomers but let's get to that a little bit later yes absolutely and actually in honor of last year's newcomer of the year from a small project for Balinese Wikipedia we have an awesome performance for all of you from Indonesia to kickstart the Wikimedia of the Year 2022 Awards. Enjoy we are so happy to be here today and to share some of our cultural knowledge with you we are performing an art show which will describe the wonderful Indonesia Wikimedia Janji by Yuyun Arfa the audio is in the other feed already that was a gift from Wikimedia Indonesia in celebration of last year's first awardee from Southeast Asia the group is called Yuyun Arfa and there's another performance by them at the very end of the show Jimmy did you enjoy that? oh yeah it was fantastic I'm definitely going to have to watch it again because for us the people watching probably don't realize we can't actually hear the audio on its on so I was watching and it's fascinating so now I'm here to go and watch the full performance I've watched it so many times and every time I'm still impressed welcome back everyone thank you so much kicking off the 2022 Wikimedia of the Year Awards. Jimmy they say a picture is worth a thousand words do you agree? yeah I definitely do agree and I've talked a fair amount today about photography and how it can inspire different people to join the movement but there's also about media contributions as outreach and how that can enrich the movement so not things being put into Wikipedia but things about Wikipedia and about our movement and that's particularly true because in the past the main way that people accessed the internet generally was go to a search engine, Google typically type in whatever you're thinking about and then you get pages back and obviously Wikipedia gets huge traffic that way but lots of people are living different ways and they're coming to the internet in different ways and interacting in other ways and so that sort of information seeking and engagement is changing and I think that's really important and I think as a movement we should think about that I don't think we should turn Wikipedia into TikTok but I think we should think about how do we reach people where they live so to speak absolutely and there's no doubt that our projects are vast you know Jimmy I've always been curious how deep Wikipedia does go do you know I don't know but let's find out so I like made it during COVID quarantine like early early on like maybe early April 2020 and no I was not I wouldn't have ever called myself a Wikipedia and then I had done a few one-off edits like if I saw something that was wrong and bothered me I had changed things and I remember I added to lists sometimes just like small small edits here and there I didn't have an account I just was aware of Wikipedia and I would definitely call myself at the time like a Wikipedia enthusiast but then yeah I started the account it's like similar to Cool Freaks Wikipedia Club on Facebook so I'm definitely not the sole pioneer of collecting fun Wikipedia articles in any way and I still feel like every day I learn something new about the Wikipedia like global movement or history or just something and I'm I'm flabbergasted by how much I don't know because there's so many little corners of the project that I have never encountered I'm trying to think like there's like a way to make knowledge graphs on Wikidata I had never seen it before it's so fun I was like on a call with somebody and he was showing me the like visualization of the Kardashian family tree which is so silly but I was like are you kidding me this is a Wikipedia thing like I'm just always learning things so this is a very roundabout answer I'm sorry if you're doing word for word quotes I'm going to sound like I'm making no sense hello hello someone has joined me surprise I think part of the future of the movement is outreach to young people so obviously Instagram, TikTok that sort of thing but also getting out for me one of the important things about Wikipedia is of course so very serious business but it should be fun as well and sort of that lighthearted very very dry Wikipedia humor when people allow it is fantastic and you're highlighting that and I think it might actually get people to come and think about contributing who might otherwise just think oh that's like a really dry geeky activity to go like oh actually it can be kind of quirky and interesting from the short list I have selected you as media contributor of the year for your obviously the very active depths of Wikipedia channel using TikTok Instagram to get out the word about Wikipedia it actually says here in the written thing I wouldn't have written it this way but I kind of like it to preach the gospel of Wikipedia is rather amusing Hallelujah did you think in two years you would end up here on a surprise call with Jimmy Wales no not at all not at all I was in my bedroom like in college in my college bedroom just like haha this is funny post post wow I think when I started it I did not expect very much at all I thought maybe it would be a little bit funny maybe it would keep me and my friends entertained and I thought maybe in some crazy world it would become a popular meme page and to me popular my standards were like it would be crazy if I got 5000 followers which is a lot but now it's at you know hi my name is Annie Rourda I run the depths of Wikipedia account on Instagram Twitter and TikTok and I'm so honored to be at Wikimania this year Wikipedia on English alone has 6.6 million articles so of course some of them are absolutely hilarious when I was quarantined in 2020 I started reading Wikipedia more I started editing more and then I started collecting my favorite weird articles that I stumbled upon I started lists of classical music concerts with an unruly audience response or lists of sexually active popes or lists of people who have lived in airports I started the depths of Wikipedia Instagram account in 2020 and since then it's grown to a million followers I started the TikTok which has 600,000 followers nope I'm getting them mixed up TikTok has 110,000 Twitter has 600,000 needless to say it's kind of a lot and I've gotten some media coverage as well I'm so excited to have this massive platform and I have used it to recruit more editors to the site hopefully in sustainable good ways I've hosted editathons with wikimedia in New York City I have one coming up at the Smithsonian in October I generally just try to talk about editing and remind people that this massive free floating body of knowledge was written by people just like them I've also written about Wikipedia beyond the this thing is weird genre this encyclopedia can make you laugh it can make you cry it can make you wonder it can make you smile it's got everything you could ever want to know non-traditional bagpipe usage fictional worms islands and lakes islands in lakes on islands islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes I know of course that wikipedia is not here for humor but I do think that those little moments of eccentricity show readers that this site was written by people like them I like this quote from an article about the history of encyclopedias that ran in the Atlantic and it was also featured in the signpost last year accuracy of course can better be won by a committee armed with computers than by a single intelligence but while accuracy binds the trust and the reader and contributor eccentricity and elegance and surprise are the singular qualities that make learning and inviting transaction and they're not qualities we associate with committees so thank you for the award I am so honored it's been great to meet so many of you at various conventions over the past few years and at the wiki bar in Berlin which if you didn't know is a public space for people to work on open source projects I just went for the first time a little bit ago so you have projects I have a platform let's keep working together and thank you so much bye thank you so much Annie congratulations Jimmy I think Annie has mastered the this thing is weird genre I've never personally lived in an airport but I do have a favorite island in a lake on an island in a lake and that is Treasure Island in Manitoulin Island in Canada Jimmy do you have a favorite list of lists you know it's funny because recently I don't know a month or so ago I met Annie we had breakfast in London she happened to be traveling through London and we met up I told her I was going backcountry camping on Isle Royale and then she started talking about this and in fact on Isle Royale it's a fascinating story this is my fourth trip the previous three trips I would talk about this to my children who I take the Moose Boulder which would have been the largest known island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake because it's this Royal Island Lake Spirit got lakes on an island it turns out and I found this from Wikipedia that in 2020 it was reported to be a hoax someone actually went there to check probably a not a wikipedia but it had been reported in sources and so wikipedia used to say that it was and so now it's turned to be hoax so that kind of stuff like that's it's so cool because just think about how obscure is that and that someone in 2020 when it was reported to be a fake actually went into wikipedia found where it said that and fixed that even though it's this incredibly trivial little detail it's amazing I love it I'm always impressed by how meticulous our community members are once again congratulations Annie thank you for sharing the magic of our projects with the world Jimmy the next category I'm also really excited about first year premiered last year and that's the tech contributor of the year why do you think it's important to bring attention to the tech community well I you know I think this is just incredibly important and it's sort of obvious why it's important just because you know wikipedia has a website and therefore there's technology and it needs to be fast it needs to be efficient it needs to be up to date the user interface needs to be great all of those things are incredibly important everybody knows that but also a lot of it is kind of it's behind the scenes for most people right we don't necessarily see it we don't necessarily understand what's going on it's just some sort of magic behind the scenes and if we can bring attention to these people that's incredibly powerful in fact I don't even know if you know this murder but long before wikimania before we started doing wikimedia of the year awards I actually created I made a day Magnus Mansk a day for the for Magnus who had completely sort of rewritten well actually using a database and it was like a great miracle he just did it because he thought it needed to be done which is why a lot of things happen in Wikipedia so I think we should highlight and celebrate the volunteers who get involved in the technical matters it's really incredible absolutely and getting it done I think is a big model for the tech community let's see this year's winner I'd actually been running a private media business for multiple years like before actually starting the country but I got involved in contributing on Google's code in event which was like Google's event to introduce teenagers to open source and I got involved that way and been here for couple of years after that I think they were like really nice so if you made mistakes doesn't matter people will help you but again hard to get people to review and judge because there's so much to do and so little people I think like the work that the growth team is doing on like making easier like the structured link tools and everything like that make the first contributions easy and I think people will get more involved after that when they see how easy it is Hello Hi there Hi Tavi, I don't know if you've met before I think we have I'm from Wikipedia great to meet you Are you in Finland? Yes There are loads of people who do great work contributing media wiki running bots and tools and things but actually turning away on infrastructure that most people don't even see or know about which is obviously like in a way the most important thing is incredibly valuable I'm incredibly appreciative This year I have chosen you as the tech contributor of the year so congratulations When I saw you I thought you looked pretty young but reading all this stuff I thought oh he's probably going to be sort of late 20s out working a big tech job or something like that I'm sure you will be So if you ever need a recommendation or something to put on a resume this will probably help Well there you have it Tabi you can have me as a reference on your resume Congratulations How do you feel? Very happy Amazing Tabi you said so much to do so little people I'm sure the tech community and staff can relate to that Do you feel Yeah as I said it's a great thing and it's often unsung I mean the editing community admires and honors editors the tech community admires and honors tech contributors but we don't always cross the lines all that much and sort of making sure that the tech volunteers are recognized as great heroes by the wider editing community seems really important to me Congratulations Tabi what will you say to your classmates when you go back to your last year of high school this week Not sure yet Well, big congratulations to you and thank you so much Jimmy last year folks asked us if we could celebrate affiliates as well as individuals Well this year we have a new initiative from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee AFCOM to set a future precedent for inter-affiliate exchange and capacity development What do you think Yeah, I mean the impact of the affiliates movement is enormous and you know the idea really is so in line with the general idea of wiki decentralization and so forth we all know very well that the Wikipedia content and all of the Wikimedia content is written in a very distributed manner by people all around the world and yet not everything can be done in a pure wiki way you need to have an existing organization and some staff are getting certain things done and so forth the idea of top down managing all of that out of California doesn't really make sense what does make sense is all these affiliates and now we have different types of affiliates including traditional chapters and then more thematic organizations that's incredibly powerful and so spotlighting great affiliates makes a lot of sense Absolutely Tabi, I don't know if you can see the chat but you're getting a lot of love and people are so impressed by how young you are Okay, for this next category the affiliate spotlight thank you Jimmy, I fully agree and actually Camilia and Jeffrey will tell us a little bit about this new addition of two categories this year that they are piloting if you were wondering what happens when you randomly join an affiliates team meeting this is it Hi, I'm Camilia and I'm Jeffrey and we're from AFCOM Welcome to wiki mania 2022 awards ceremony in 2022 AFCOM started a new initiative about affiliate spotlight and this new award two categories partnerships and governance the vision behind this is to initiate affiliate mentorship by providing capacity development to affiliates across the movement so yeah, so we're not quite sure what to expect wiki mania yeah, because there's supposed to be like we're married that's supposed to be here so I mean I'm happy to talk more about the weather I have to firstly apologize noise is off today because I've got two brand new kittens I'm trapped in my son's bedroom with them because they needed some attention they are like the cutest wee things I don't know if you can see them but yeah, so I should try and keep myself muted quite a lot of the time but hi I don't know all of the guests I don't think I'm Lucy I'm the executive director of wiki media UK and this is our usual fortnightly staff meeting but with some extra special guests hello hi Jimmy hello surprise I'm sure you're all boiling because I am Jimmy it's like 17 degrees in Scotland so no but oh dear, well it's boiling down south I can tell you very hot yeah it's weird it's because of my window it's being there I think it's a really important milestone the movement to actually recognize governance work we've been talking about improving our governance all across and have been taking some steps but I think this is going to be a memorable milestone that is going to encourage the type of change that we want to see you know I'm a big fan of your chapter have been for years now and I can think of a better chapter to kind of start us off with this work so congratulations well done all and looking forward to continuing following the amazing work that you're all doing in the UK to Wikimedia UK for the outstanding work that they've done to diversify their board of directors and take seriously the question of knowledge equity not just in programming but in examining how representative their own leadership is this piece on diversifying leadership is something I've heard talked about as important for years in many spaces but in the little sliver of the Wikimedia movement that my personal exposure has brought me in contact with any other group that takes this so seriously in-house it would be great to recognize them for this and encourage others to follow suit anything I say is on behalf of the whole team and of course the board but I'm particularly proud of this because we have been really wanting to to foreground diversity and to look at what that means for ourselves as an organization as a staff team as a leadership as a board and not just in terms of our program delivery and our partnership work and that's been something we've really focused on over the last couple of years and I am really proud of the fact that we do have a really diverse group of trustees who are bringing their different backgrounds and knowledge and perspectives to bear on how do we get the summable knowledge to everybody in the world so I'm really really proud thank you very much indeed I'm totally blown away and surprised I'm totally distracted by the two kittens tearing out of each other's room but this is really really lovely so thank you very much indeed I don't know if anyone else from the team wants to add something here I think there's there's a kind of lot of sort of gratitude or congratulations needed for people who aren't necessarily here to kind of get us to this point and that's really what I want to say big congratulations to Wikimedia UK Daria have the kittens been managed it's a process you know you have to work on governance of kittens and organizations and I swear our team meetings are normally much more organized and better governed it's just we were ambushed by this award and it turned a little more chaotic than than normal yes well big congratulations to you from all of us thank you go ahead sorry I was going to say a few words but please go first oh yeah I was just going to say two things one this did turn out to be sort of a Wikimedia cuteness association event because of the kittens but also I just wanted to be clear that the quote or what I was saying when I was sort of announcing the word actually a quote from one of the people who nominated I suspect my dad there's going to be several of those I was just concerned that someone thought I might have lifted their words and not given credit I have no idea who wrote that but what's I think important about it is those are the words not from me they're from someone who really thought that Wikimedia UK should recognize this anyway go ahead sorry so maybe like now that we were able to kind of marinate in this award and had a bit more time to reflect I wanted to say a few words on accepting this award on behalf of Wikimedia UK so just to say I'm a director of programs at Wikimedia UK and we are a sizable affiliate and a UK charity with long movement history and that bigger affiliate size means that we have capacity to work on governance but it also means that being bigger means that those systems are really important because it's not just one person looking after everything and for me governance means a lot of big concepts like accountability integrity compliance but essentially it's about making sure that the organization is run well and that whatever it does speaks to the overall purpose and the vision of the organization and for Wikimedia UK that's a more informed democratic and equitable society through open knowledge. The equity piece has been really important to us we've worked on diverse content and underrepresented content in programs for many years but recently have been focusing on bringing it into and across the organization and thinking how the organization can speak to the equity diversity and inclusion principles. So we have a framework and an action plan that we're working on there's many actions that we need to be looking after and working on like one example would be that trustees and staff have objectives to model inclusivity or that we monitor staff, trustee and volunteer leader diversity and map it across against the characteristics of the UK society to check whether we are representative of the people that we are here to serve. So maybe just one last point I think governance is a process it's a bit like maintaining a house there's always something to do so we're excited about this recognition but it's it's just a note for us to keep on working on it and also learning from others when we created our equity framework we looked to organizations like whose knowledge are feminism or afro crowd who work on things like knowledge justice and we got inspiration from that so thank you to them as well happy to share with others about what we've learned so far what we worked on so please feel free to get in touch with somebody anybody at Wikimedia UK and we'll be happy to share what we've learned so far about working on governance. Thank you Thank you so much Daria I know having worked with you in different forums and the question you always ask is who is not sitting at the table and I've always appreciated that. We also have a note of thank you from the Executive Director of Wikimedia UK who's on transit right now and she's sharing her love. Thank you so much Daria and so in case you were wondering not just Zoom bombing one affiliates meeting was fun we did it twice. Enjoy. We are today doing an workshop. Hi Hi. Sorry excuse me for budding in this is Jimmy hello everyone Jimmy Wells founder of Wikimedia and I decided to just pop in to surprise you all and to say hello. Hello Atom Feminism so into this initiative we identified Atom Feminism as the winner of the category of ambassadorship and partnership so we are so glad because we know how what's working on gender issues means in our movement so I'm sorry I'm sorry for this because it's your work it's really important it's your commitment and it's all you are doing for this movement so I'm so glad to take this to give you this this winner this celebration recognition so bye too often the work of the organizer and trainer is not celebrating the movement. I'm going to have my own words here we do celebrate the editors we celebrate different aspects of the movement but we don't often enough celebrate the people who are organizing and bringing things to bear and so on and so forth for me personally I've been on a campaign for many years that Wikipedia is for everyone and so when we realize the aspects of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are not as diverse as they should be we're missing pieces of knowledge we need interesting awesome incredible people from different walks of life who come to things with a different mindset different ideas and that is exactly what you guys are doing and I really appreciate it and just wanted to congratulate you and thank you for all your incredible work my name is Karen Wisnesky my pronouns are she and her and I have the honor and privilege of being executive director of art and feminism art and feminism builds a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism art beginning with Wikipedia we're honored and excited to be recognized for this dual award we love collaborating with passionate information activists that share our vision and values we'll be celebrating 10 years next year and invite you to join us in this important work and with that I want to pass the mic to some of the tremendous members of our community thank you again how better to say it than the very simple you know sort of the original vision for Wikipedia a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet and that means every single person so it's for all of us and we need everybody to help us so I really really appreciate and love aspects of the movement that are really thinking about that everybody please hi, welcome in the ground I'll see I'm Araba my name is Sadek Shihabi from Tamaligana I am the West African language coordinator art and feminism and I work to support West Africa indigenous language I am the West African language coordinator art and feminism and I work to support West Africa indigenous language art and feminism and I work to support West Africa indigenous language communities how are we? we good thank you thank you thank you hi Kira hi surprise thank you so excited to be here to be celebrating the work of art and feminism and really the community of information activists from around the world we're so so honored to be receiving this recognition it's well deserved it's well deserved thank you very much it's well deserved and I can put a lovely message from your global ambassadors it takes a global community to do this work and we're really honored to have you contribute to our projects thank you yeah thank you a little bit more like Daria just having the opportunity to reflect after a little bit of a surprise drop-in meeting on an equity workshop we had I can just want to say a little bit more if that's okay with y'all please wait thank you again I'm so grateful to be accepting this award on behalf of art and feminism community it's an honor to be part of the class of 2022 honorees I'm particularly excited about the DEI work of Book of Media UK so shout out to y'all I really think that they're exemplifying that this work isn't just up a margins and really requires us all to be intentional about equity and what I think this award means for art and feminism and I'm so grateful for it is much like what Jimmy said is that it's recognizing how important the role of community organizing is within our movement it was earlier this year that a community member Victoria Duranina said that the EdeCount was really a blunt tool of measuring contributions in the movement and just really excited that the work of art and feminism is intentional about community building and organizing and that we're able to celebrate this with you in a nutshell if you're not super familiar we strongly believe that people in their communities know their communities best so myself based in Baltimore, Maryland in the US I have no real business telling an organizer in Uruguay how to organize their event but we do have a Latin America regional ambassador Paula Dominguez-Font who has that expertise and knowledge for that community and this award really belongs to those ambassadors and network organizers of art and feminism and I want to just take a moment to name them specifically so Alison Bates, Anthony B. Diaz Paula Dominguez-Font Hadavi Gandhi Richard Neipol, Amanda Meeks Jesse Me, Jason Oliver Athena Petsu Sophie Reverty, Siddique Shahabadouf Sophia Stankhoff Dominique Elaine Yao, Dita Ursula Zage I also want to recognize the art and feminism leadership team Nina Yaboya, Melissa Tamani Amber Beerson and Mohamed Sada Abdule and then lastly our board Sarah Gonzalez, Nana Osekofi and Kerry Cotton Williams and additionally shout out to the hundreds of organizers and attendees around the globe that are part of the art and feminism community this award celebrates you it's through their collective effort that so far in 2022 we've had art and feminism events in over 27 languages around the globe and through the power of wiki data and the leadership of Mohamed Sada Abdule we have this really cool map that I'm going to put I don't know can I do a screen share with that I don't know if I can do that I have no idea Oh I think you froze Kerry I think chat might be easier Oh there we go Great I feel we've got her map I lost her and I think she was better than the map Oops I'm back sorry But again I just want to say thank you art and feminism is actually celebrating celebrating 10 years next year so if our work and values resonate with you please consider this an invitation to join us and thank you again Thank you so much Kerry from all the love I'm seeing in the chat I think this is really a global moment I also just as a small little side note I love the use of y'all so I grew up in Alabama and y'all we said y'all all the time and then when I left the south it was kind of considered low and southern and I didn't want to sound that way so I started saying you guys and in the context of the art and feminism award saying you guys which I heard myself do is not nearly as good as y'all I think we should bring back y'all as a gender neutral plural of you I agree all you all folks all great options Thank you Jimmy congratulations Daria Ankara Art and Feminism we can meet at UK but also before that Annie Rauwerda media contributor of the year and Tavi for tech contributor of the year big congratulations to you all we are at the mid-may mark of the awards at least this year's award ceremony don't worry we won't go over time we have a wonderful performance for you please enjoy Alphanone dance troupe Hi everyone and greetings from Palestine we hope you are enjoying wikimania we are excited to be here with you celebrating the comedians of the year Alphanone Palestinian dance troupe and we're happy to have you here with us today and to share some of our cultural knowledge with you Ashira is a multimedia production that presents a contemporary visual story employing sound body images and it takes the audience on a journey and it's an emotional journey of love defiance, resistance and hope did you enjoy that Jimmy? yeah it's great I've got the sound working for us now that was amazing congratulations Alphanone and thank you for sharing your magic with us I can't even imagine how many hours of rehearsal you had to do you know movement, dance, music official, geopolitical, boundaries kind of like knowledge Jimmy we started this category last year and it's been so well received why do you think it's important to recognize newcomers? yeah so this is why I delayed I didn't want to talk about newcomers earlier because I do be talking about it here and it's so important so you know if we just think about the day-to-day work in the wikipedia world and you think about trying to come into that work so we have a lot of jargon there's a lot of you know things to learn a lot of the right way of doing things the wrong way of doing things how to challenge things if you think they're wrong and how to you know successfully make change and so forth and we also have within the movement a lot of old friendships a lot of people have been working together for years and years and years and it's actually quite easy to forget about newcomers what important newcomers can be and to really welcome them and greet them and help them along and so I think it's important to recognize some of the great newcomers people who've come to the movement done incredible work over a relatively short period of time to remind ourselves that that potential is out there in so many people so that person who comes and makes one interesting edit to a page if you go and you thank them they may blossom they may say oh wow this is great these are nice people I want to do more of this and they could become as great as the newcomers who we recognize absolutely and it it goes a long way to show how the community behind the scenes is so important in building the projects and so without further ad