Grants:TPS/Wikilover90

Event name

<!Wikimania 2018 -->

Participant connections

• Jack Rabbah from WMF with whom I presented the session "Working towards Growing Local Language Content on Wikipedia (GLOW)" which was a session on Project Tiger that was a three month long project by Wikimedia Foundation in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN), user groups and Google to enrich the content of Wikipedia in Indic languages. As the organizer and jury from the winning Wiki Community (Punjabi Wikipedia),I presented how the project impacted the community dynamics and the learnings we had consecutively from the project.

• Had a meeting with Florence Devouard and Rosie regarding my upcoming Wikimedia projects in India

• Stella and Felix from Ghana community who shared their GLAM projects about National Archives in a panel in one of the GLAM sessions

• Sandra (WMF) shared about Wikimedia Commons and the GLAM needs around the world

• Remote participation with Olaniyan Olushola from Nigeria User Group during the ongoing radio interview of Maria Cruz

• I attended Pre-conference participatory workshop sessions on program design, evaluation, resources, learning, & community engagement for folks working to implement programmatic and community engagement activities in their home communities.

• I participated in Asian Wiki Meetup where we discussed several projects and conferences including Wikipedia Asian Month.

• I hosted Wiki Loves Love Meetup where various ideas were pitched regarding the Wikimedia Commons Contest to happen in February 2019

• I was on panel of Introducing Wikipedia to New Readers for the Punjabi Wikimedia Awareness campaign movie I am working on under this WMF initiatve.

• Met Ananya Model and we discussed about Wiki Loves Butterfly and how Wikimedia Commons Projects should be organized

• I met Kui Kinyanjui from Communication Team during Wiki Women Lunch who was introduced by Maria Cruz, Wmf.

• I met Zack, Alex Stinson and Bence Damokos and had productive discussions regarding various Wikimedia Initiatives.

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?

Add a link here to a blog post or newsletter you wrote about your participation afterwards, or to a meet-up you organized to share your experience with your local community.

Option 2: Learning Pattern: What is one useful learning pattern you can share with the Wikimedia movement?

Add a link to a learning pattern - either a new pattern you created with insights from your participation, or an existing pattern to which you added your endorsement and some significant new "considerations" or “examples” from your experience.

Option 3: New Creation: What was one useful outcome of the event for the Wikimedia movement?

Add a link to something new that was created as a result of your participation in this event (for example, you might link to a new tool that you and your co-participants made as a result of attending this event, or to a set of articles that the participants in your workshop created at the event).

Anything else

It was my first time attending Wikimania and it was like stepping into the whirlwind of knowledge and pool of beautiful projects our fellow Wikimedians displayed with various sessions and lightening talks! I had opportunity to present lightening talk about the work my community has been doing about Bridging gender gap on Punjabi Wikipedia and have collaborations with African Communities for the upcoming projects we will be working in the near future.

It was beautiful, it was colorful and it was overwhelming blend of beauty, knowledge and experience of different communities and cultures from all around the globe. Thank You Wikimedia Foundation and organizing community for giving us an experience of lifetime.