2019:Advocacy/Wiki-Endorsing Thesis

Advocacy/Wiki-Endorsing Thesis

Title

Wiki-Endorsing Thesis

Description

Today Wikipedia is the best encyclopedia ever created by man-kind. Yet, when compared to the knowledge of an expert on a specific subject, wikipedia can be seen as a good starting point that can be improved. The Wiki-Endorsing Thesis project aims at substantially improving the quality of wikipedia pages by means of student scholarship.

Relationship to the theme

This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner: Platform regulation and Wikimedia's role in it relates to all UN SDGs that require information and knowledge to be openly accessible (1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 16 and 17).

Session outcomes

At the end of the session, the following will have been achieved:

Session leader(s)

• Luca Landucci
• Davide Pedalà

Usernames

• kaspo
• Dap78

Affiliation/country (if any)

• Wikimedia Italia
• Wikimedia Italia

E-mail contact (optional)

• luca.landucci@wikimedia.it

Session type

Each Space at Wikimania 2019 will have specific format requests. The program design prioritises submissions which are future-oriented and directly engage the audience. The format of this submission is a:

• Lightning talk
• Workshop to identify and try to solve problem

Length of session

20 minutes

Supporting work

Optional:

• Link 1
• Link 2