2023:Program/Technology/GKKYSH-What we have learned from talking to large commercial users of Wikimedia content
Title: What we have learned from talking to large commercial users of Wikimedia content
Speakers:
Liam Wyatt
Program Manager with the WMF - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LWyatt_(WMF) Involved in Campaigns events software; Enterprise API service; WikiCite. User:Wittylama as a volunteer -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wittylama Involved in GLAMwiki cultural partnerships (wikipedian in residence); historiography of Wikipedia; grant reviewing committees (FDC); organising Wikimania and other events.
Lane Becker
Naike NEMBETWA NZALI
Room: Room 310
Start time: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:00:00 +0800
End time: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:30:00 +0800
Type: No (pretalx) session type id specified
Track: Technology
Submission state: confirmed
Duration: 30 minutes
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Presentation language: en
Abstract & description
Abstract
Wikimedia content is built into, and re-used by, a large number of large commercial organisations for a large variety of reasons. This poses some great challenges for the Wikimedia movement, as well as some big potential opportunities. The Wikimedia ‘Enterprise’ team has been talking with many of them. Come and ‘ask us anything’ to learn what we’ve discovered!
Description
Recent external trends[1] show that the internet ecosystem that Wikimedia grew up in is changing, fast. This affects how and where the public accesses the knowledge in our projects (and whether they know where it came from, that they can contribute too, and donate). These trends also means that the kinds of information people prefer is changing, and the ways that Wikimedia content is presented, or what it’s transformed into, is different.
Topics include: Attribution (inc. sound logo) and fighting “Disintermediation”; identifying “Breaking news”; structured page content (Wikidata, Tables, Infoboxes); and implications of training data for AI bots.
[1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/17/looking-outward-external-trends-in-2023/
Further details
Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?
How Wikimedia content is, or could be, accessed and used in response to the way the internet is changing under the impact of commercial organisations’ priorities - is fundamental to the conference theme of “future”. As a movement (volunteer content creators, outreach/policy advocates, affiliates and WMF engineering and fundraising) we all need to be aware of what purposes our projects’ knowledge is being put to, so we can react and ensure our mission of access to knowledge is - and continues to be - fulfilled.
Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?
Onsite in Singapore- Remote online participation, livestreamed
- Remote from a satellite event
Hybrid with some participants in Singapore and others dialing in remotely- Pre-recorded and available on demand
