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Conferences

This user has a page on Wikimania 2015.

This user has a page on Wikimania 2014.

My main user page is on the English Wikipedia. I'm also a board member of a Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia DC.

Wikisource meetup: Thursday, 8 August 12:15 – 13:15, 60 minutes, room 8 - [1] - February conference in Bali - [2]
Meetings of representatives of hubs
Wikifunctions, two sessions, both recorded: [3], [4]. It's a site holding user-written functions which could be called from wikitext on Foundation wikis, which doesn't generally work yet if I understand correctly. But they have a kind of development environment in which users can post and test code, and share it, and others can easily contribute test cases. It helps develop and standardize wiki functions, notably for small languages. This is a part of the Abstract Wikipedia concept, according to which we want to make it feasible to automatically generate articles as well as possible.

Wikimedia_Summit_2024/Onboarding
Wikimedia_Summit_2024/Topic_groups
Wikimedia_Summit_2024/Participant_list#Ongoing_Hub_Projects
We'll gather North Americans together from perhaps 20:30-21:30 on Friday evening April 19
One goal: Establish what's to be agreed on for hub projects to start

/Movement Charter Input
Historic note: "top-up" members of the drafting committee were those added after elections. The elections phase will fill most slots, then some people will be added, perhaps by the WMF, to achieve diversity, representativity, and perhaps cover some areas of expertise.

/For WikiConference North America 2020 -- notes for several speedy talks
/For WikiConference North America 2021 -- I'll help organize/budget and be a contact

I met many organizers of affiliates and WMF staff
I loved the many views of Singapore. These photos aren't mine but they help me remember:

learned Lua more: w:Module:Sandbox/econterms, w:Module:Sandbox/RexxS,
Task for the hackathon days: Work on an extension for managing the MediaWiki job queue ; Wikidata Wikiproject Patents, and a Cradle for new patent records in Wikidata. Need to break out of the patent number format.
Phabricator news: Notes and info on Phabricator and my request for an extension, an accomplishment at Wikimania
- more on job queue: a job queue experience: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124194. hmm, what? https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000400/jobqueue-eventbus?orgId=1,these might be for the MediaWiki servers overall, live
/summary of Wikimania 2019 for Federal MediaWiki Group

Research projects on wiki subjects
/Civility notes and links
With regret I missed Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town. Aww! I had wanted to go, and had told people I could.
my Wikimedia Affiliates conference 2018 in Berlin preparation
Wikimedia Conference 2016, Berlin
/Notability reflections
/89 strategy recommendations as of Nov 2019 -- Movement strategy conclusions so far
/Disinfo project
Grants to WMDC can be hard to track so I'll keep a list of relevant page and tasks here
Annual chapter funding from WMF for 2023-24 -- watch there for reporting and other requirements
MSIG grant with reporting due at end of 2023