2024:Program/Improving Wiki Workflows with GenAI: A practical workshop

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Session title: Improving Wiki Workflows with GenAI: A practical workshop

Session type: Workshop

Track: Technology

Language: en

In this workshop we will explore ways to improve day-to-day wiki workflows using various GenAI platforms.

Description

The workshop will host different speakers, each demonstrating using one GenAI tool to improve a specific workflow related to one Wikimedia project. Examples could be: creating text for an article, creating a good summary for an effective introduction, generating images, finding academic references etc. Each tool / workflow will be covered in 20 minutes: 10 minutes to demonstrate the use of the tool that enhances or improves a specific wiki workflow; and an additional 10 minutes to allow the audience to experiment and ask questions.

Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOeZ8sHimN0&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJdC5P86rsDsUtxEow0gDnR&t=15622

How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?

This workshops offer practical ways to harness GenAI for the creation of Open Knowledge.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Resources

• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1o0ItCqsduHdsvFuebevl0TunnhvvtkieBIgfoerTF14/edit?usp=sharing
• https://wikimania.eventyay.com/media/2024/submissions/D9EHZ8/resources/Wikimedia__GenAI__practical_workflows_Ydvp7Zr.pdf

Speakers

• Shani Evenstein Sigalov

Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov is an educator, lecturer, researcher and Open Knowledge advocate, interested in the intersection between Education, Technology, Innovation and Openness.

Her PhD focused on the Semantic Web, specifically Wikidata, as a learning platform. Her Postdoctoral research includes exploring GenAI's impact on knowledge consumption and production; Linked Open Data and its connection to Digital Humanities; Critical Ignoring; and Self-Regulated Learning.

As of 2019, she serves on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees.

• Sam Klein

Ideographer, generist, cryptanalyst. Stable diffusor.

• Ilario Valdelli

Ilario Valdelli brings over 30 years of experience in IT projects and has been an active Wikipedian for 18 years. With a background in humanities and a master's degree in computer science, Ilario is staff member of Wikimedia CH since 2013. As Innovation Programme Leader and former Education Manager, he has managed projects, including the integration of artificial intelligence. His work focuses on advancing free knowledge through innovative solutions.

• Andrew Lih

Andrew Lih has been a Wikipedia editor since 2003 and that year was one of the first academics to use Wikipedia in the classroom as student assigned work. He is the author of the 2009 book The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the world’s greatest encyclopedia. He currently serves as the Wikimedian at Large at the Smithsonian Institution and Wikimedia Strategist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He is an administrator on English Wikipedia and Wikidata. In 2022, he was named a Wikimedia Laureate for his lifetime work with Wikipedia, and in 2016, he was named the U.S. National Archives Citizen Archivist of the Year.