Wikisource Community User Group/2017 Report

Report of the Wikisource Community User Group for 2017.

Events

Hangout sessions

For the first time, in 2017 the UG had some Google Hangout sessions to discuss Wikisource-related issues and developments:

• January 2017 Hangout
• February 2017 Hangout
• March 2017 Hangout
• April 2017 Hangout (canceled)
• November 2017 Hangout

Wikimedia Conference 2017

In 2017, the Wikimedia Conference was focused on developing the Wikimedia Strategy. The Wikisource Community User Group participated in the brainstorming and advocating for a strategy that widen the focus on the encyclopedia to libraries, books and documents.

WikiCite 2017

• Presentation by Aubrey: slides
• Presentation by Harej: slides

Wikimania 2017

Presentations and Wikisource meetup at Wikimania 2017 in August.

• Meetups/Wikisource (18 people)
• Presentations
  • Wikisource Year in Review by Slowking4 (slides)
  • How to debug Wikisource metadata management? by Tpt (sildes)

WikidataCon

Participants at the WikidataCon.

Presentations at WikidataCon 2017 in October.

• WikiCite: Wikidata as a structured repository of bibliographic data by Dario Taraborelli, Lydia Pintscher, Daniel Mietchen
• Inventaire: tale of a Wikidata-centered linked open contributive database on resources/books by Maxime Lathuilière

Other

• Maillist stats:

Month	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Number of messages	51	20	32	36	24	30	40	12	13	70	32	42

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