2024:Program/Product and Technology Initiative areas

Session title: Product and Technology Initiative areas

Session type: Meetup / performance / event

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Language: en

Product and Technology Initiative areas

Description

We warmly encourage Wikimania attendees to talk about initiatives that the Wikimedia Foundation teams are working on. We'll have tables setup in the venue - almost all of them will be in the foyer area and one will be in the Hackathon room.

The P&T Initiatives are (in no particular order):

• Reading the wikis: Vector 2022, dark mode, and more on Web and Apps
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Future of MediaWiki (Thursday & Friday, 11:00am to 12:30pm)
• P&T Advisory Council (only on Friday)
• Community Wishlist
• Language Support
• Graphs/Charts
• User Experience / Design Research (in Hackathon Room, afternoon only)
• Developer Corner (in Hackathon Room, all day)

Learn more: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/Hackathon#Initiative_Areas

Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRFuWtDKxwM&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJ1xyY0LNDNX3RKyRQEXOdB&t=1440

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Product and Technology Initiative areas - Thursday

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Everyone can participate in this session

Speakers

• Deb Tankersley

Deb Tankersley is part of the Product & Technology Department at the Wikimedia Foundation - coordinating and organizing learning and knowledge-sharing initiatives that have broad technical outreach and working to encourage technical community capacity building within the Wikimedia movement. She is the Foundation's coordinator for the bi-annual Outreachy and annual Google Summer of Code (GSoC) internship programs. She also is lead organizer for hackathons, the annual Coolest Tool Award, and Tech Blog.