Grants:TPS/Rich Farmbrough/Wikimania/2016/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2016!

Participant

Rich Farmbrough

en.wikipedia

Outcome

Created the page World Women to act as a nexus for projects and people focussed on improving participation and coverage of women in our projects.

Connections

• I renewed contacts from previous years, and am now reinvestigating African and African language content.
• I met many new Wikimedians from across the world, and discussed a number of possible projects.
• Also met some UK Wikimedians who I have not seen at meet-ups.

Anything else

• Several hundred photos to be uploaded to Commons
• I created two important bugs reports, one relating to animations, and one to translations
• I acquired material related to various projects.
• Reinvigorated to complete phase 1 of my pseudonyms projects, and my alternative genetic code project
• Discussing other open-knowledge projects that can have broader scope than our existing projects.
• Gained a better insight into Wikidata.
• Assisted a number of Wikimedians with technical issues.
• Discussed many ways of streamlining workflows.
• Worked on the basis of new bibliographic tools.