Grants:TPS/علاء/Wikimania/2018/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2018!

Participant

• علاء (CA)
  • meta | arwiki | Wikidata
• Alaa (CA)

Outcome

Option 1: Shared Experience: What is one way you shared something from your experience with your community (either locally or globally), after the event?

I don't use blog, but shared many things from my experience by many ways, e.g:

• My report in Arabic Wikipedia.(In progress)
• I participated in a side discussion about "users who asks to write paid article about you", and I shared the discussion summary (I wrote it) in aitnews website, and until now there's more than 61K views.
• Video I talked in it about my experience in Wikimania18, made by Walaa
• I am one of the members of Arabic Wikipedia's social networking team. That's the team that manages the official accounts of Arabic Wikipedia, so during Wikimania I shared posts in these accounts:
  • Facebook: Posts about the Hackathon and the opening ceremony
  • Instagram: Post about the Hackathon
  • Twitter: Posts about the Hackathon, the opening ceremony, during event "What tools do we need for small Wikis to increase content and quality?" and Medicine Track at Wikimania + I retweeted some posts of WikiArabia account about Wikimania18.

Connections

Wikimania 2018 was my second Wikimania, and I Met lots of people varying from WMF Staff, developers, stewards, and community member I would never met if I wasn't at Wikimania. I took around 40 photos in Wikimania, and I uploaded all photos in here (I've around 300 photos for Capetown, I'll upload it soon after some edits in lighting, saturation ...etc + around 200 personal photos for several wikipedians, but I sent it privately).

I'll try to mention people who I met, but of course I can't remember everyone (if you met me, but you are missing from the list, it's probably that I forgot your username):

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Abbad Great11 Walaa Mahmoudalrawi May Hachem93 Bachounda Helmoony Reem Al-Kashif Doc James Jack Rabah Dyolf77 Stephane (Kiwix) Ibrahim Husain Meraj Diptanshu Das Zenith4237 Sami Mlouhi Afifa Afrin Arash Darafsh Saqib Base -revi Masti Sjoerd de Bruin Marshall Miller Legoktm Kritzolina Vogone Ruslik0 NahidSultan Pmlineditor DerHexer Mardetanha Neil P. Quinn Satdeep Gill Kalliope Keegan James Alexander Joe Sutherland Asaf Bartov Moheen Reeyad NickK Oscar Pigsonthewing Spiritia Wassan.anmol sidheeq Irena Osmar OVasileva Liang Gabriel Thullen Spancer Graves Bakreah Lea Abbey Ripstra Zita Erik Bolinder Leila Zia

Also, I talked/discussed some topics with many users and we are trying to follow up to apply it practically, for example I talked with:

• OVasileva (WMF) about Wikipedia Phone version and the problems that faces Arabic users (and readers) with it. For example, we try to fix the didden images template problem.
• MMiller (WMF) about new editor retention,(very interesting talk and discussion) and I shared our experience with new editors in Arabic Wikipedia. Also, I talked with others from the growth team.
• Shangkuanlc about our efforts in WikiMed porject in arwiki and Template translator tool in arwiki.
• ARipstra (WMF) (light talk) about "the mobile editors".
• Gabriel Thullen about Arab-Israeli conflict articles on Wikipedia and how to make it neutral.
• Rogueassasin123 about Wiki Video. I endorse this project.
• Stephane (Kiwix) about Arabic WikiMed - Offline Medical Wikipedia App, and other cooperations that will take place in the near future.
• Abbad about Bridges Across Cultures, and I'll participate with them in the technical side in the second version of Bridges Across Cultures.
• JRabah (WMF) to organize an Arabic Hour call every month.
• Erik Bolinder about WikiMaster app, and to organize a WikiMaster Egypt Contest this year to engage and enlarge the use of Wikipedia and get more students involved in creating questions and articles in Arabic.
• LZia (WMF) about the algorithm they work in it and to help them in it to improve cross-lingual content in Wikipedia.

Moreover, I presented in Medicine Track at Wikimania about the WikiProject Medicine in Arabic Wikipedia, and you can found my here. And I helped in the table of Egypt Wikimedians user group at the Community Village, and in Book Swapping.

Also, we (me + Dyolf77 + Stephane) celebrated (very simply) the birthday of Stephane (We sang Arabic Happy Birthday song .

I attended several:

• Meetups, but I was excited for Wikimedia Asia meetup and Wiki Arabia Meetup
• Events like "What tools do we need for small Wikis to increase content and quality?" and "Diglossia and Multilingualism: A help or a Hindrance to Arabic Wikipedians?"
• Lightning talks.

Finally, many users helped me to solve some problems that I faced in IRC, AWB, Phabricator ..etc, and in the same time, I helped many users in many problems they faced, either by solve it by myself or direct the user to who can help him/her.

Anything else

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  My presentation about WikiProject Medicine in Arabic Wikipedia
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  Pre-conference WikiPenguins trip
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  Group photo of Stewards who attended
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  The table of Egypt Wikimedians user group
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  Talk with a taxi driver at Capetown airport