2024:Program/Music about Wikipedia and at Wikipedia events

Session title: Music about Wikipedia and at Wikipedia events

Session type: Meetup / performance / event

Track: Wild Ideas

Language: en

Since Wikipedia started contributors were writing songs about Wikipedia (the page „Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia“ was already created in 2005). Since we have events there has been live music accompanying the events, be it at Wikimanias and regional conferences such as WikiIndabas. There even is a Wiki Owl Orchester (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiEulenOrchester ). I will talk about those and perform some of the songs live on guitar.

Description

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Gereon_K./Music_and_Wikipedia

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

Music about Wikipedia has always been a collaborative effort, either in an interaction between performer and audience or at events where whole orchesters consisting of Wikipedians were performing. Anybody could an can contribute, no one is rejected.

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

Everyone can participate in this session

Speakers

• Gereon Kalkuhl

I started contributing to Wikipedia in January 2007. Since then I wrote about 2000 articles and edited more than 175,000 times. I am fascianted by the idea of free knowledge that is accessible for everybody on this planet. I write about chess players, asteroids, birds, insects and mayors. In 2015 I was giving lectures for future Wikimedians in Residence from Africa (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica/OpenAfrica15) and in 2018 I organized WikiGap in Rwanda (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap/2018/Rwanda/Participants). In 2017 I was Community Stratey Liaison and in 2019 I was Strategy Coordinator. This is my 11th Wikimania. All our projects and all our contributors have a common goal. I see us all as one big community, no matter which language or country one comes from or on which of our projects one works.