Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016/Needs

This page is for listing inputs, ideas, questions and needs in order to understand what Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) community members expect from the CEE Meeting 2016, Armenia and to shape the basis of the meeting's agenda and talks. The same survey was conducted before previous CEE Meetings in Ukraine and Estonia.

The core of the future meeting is sharing & learning, which happens in the form of:

  • sharing learnings from different (successful and unsuccessful) practices in the region;
  • practical workshops of projects and different tools;
  • sharing projects that can be done with relatively low financial input;
  • collaborative work on future collaboration projects.

Thus, your input for the conference programme is to list:

  1. Valuable learnings: present an overview of a valuable learning you want to share with WMCEE group;
  2. Tools: name the tools that are most useful in your work and which could be useful for others in the region; share if there are tools that would be useful (maybe they can be developed?);
  3. Low-cost project from the community: please feature a low-cost project from your community.

Please, also list:

  • Your program's strengths or what you are doing well. You can list here current, ongoing, and planned projects, etc.
  • Your program's weaknesses or what you could use help with. You can list here the projects you were going to do, or stopped doing, etc.
  • Anything your program needs, anything your program lacks.
  • Any questions you have that such a meeting might answer.
  • And who from your organisation/community may be interested in attending the conference.

Flag of Albania Albania

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
  1. Grants. Since we are in grants applications, learning about grants had a big impact on our community.
  2. Organizing international and regional project (WLM, WLE and CEE spring) as User Group.
    • Tools:
  1. Evaluation of Wikipedia Weekend in Tirana 2015 using Wikimetrics
  2. Content translation useful tool that has helped users to translate articles faster
  3. AutoWikiBrowser
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): small community, retaining new volunteers
  • Needs:
  • Questions: Interested to learn more about educational projects, and introduction wiki to universities
  • Interested in attending:
  1. --Liridon (talk) 07:28, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of Armenia Armenia

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:Wiktionary based Education program
    • Tools: Evaluation of Armenian Wikipedia Education Program using Wikimetrics, Wiki Auto Dates
    • Low-cost project: Digitization project, WikiClubs
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): Wikipedia Education Program, WikiCamps, WikiClubs, Western Armenian Wikipedia progam
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
  • Needs:
    • Two languages in a Wikipedia; control the situation and not getting messed up,
    • Community integration to the global wiki movement,
    • Development and long-time vision of Wiktionary,
    • Wikidata advanced usage on other Wikimedia projects and particularly Wikipedia,
    • More effective GLAM cooperation,
  • Questions: How can we make an active editor to participate in talks and discussions? How we can better integrate Wikidata in other wiki projects?
  • Interested in attending: Yes, many local wikimedians

Flag of Austria Austria

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings: Long-term FDC experience, organizing international events as a medium-sized chapter
    • Tools: Storytelling, Quality Management
    • Low-cost project: Wikipedia for Peace
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): Organizational effectiveness, volunteer support, photography projects
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): Retaining new volunteers
  • Needs: Last year's event was great, anything that comes close to this would fulfill our needs and expectations
  • Questions: Cooperation around the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna, cross-border projects in the CEE region
  • Interested in attending:
  1. --CDG (WMAT staff) (talk) 12:23, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Braveheart (talk) 14:07, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Tobias1984 (talk) 20:34, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan

edit
  • Input for the conference programme: Better understanding of sister projects and
    • Valuable learnings: sharing education experience in different levels
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project: edit-a-thons
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): experiences with local governmental institutes, healthy community, irregular meetings and healthy community
  • 'Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): small community involvement, better connection with students and universities, awareness about WMF projects should be better
  • 'Needs: financial support for different projects, possible language converter
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending: Mardetanha talk 14:13, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of Belarus Belarus

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings: Survey how Belarusian people understand Wikipedia and what they want in it
    • Tools: Additional servers will help with WikiProject Orphanage
    • Low-cost project: "Help for new wikipedians" Вікіпедыя:Вікідапаможнік, Wiki-expedition (fusion with work shops) for pupils.
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
    • Orphanage,
    • Taxonomy (need help with template writing),
    • Belarusian human settlements,
    • zero budget activities
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
    • Small community,
    • retaining new volunteers,
    • complex relations between two language branches,
    • russification
  • Needs:
    • international wiki-ambasadors exchange
    • community developing planning
    • technical meetups (templates, bots)
  • Questions: interested to know your experience
  • Interested in attending: --Artificial123 (talk) 14:21, 29 April 2016 (UTC), --Svetit (talk) 16:50, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina

edit

  Republika Srpska

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
      • Wikimedia Community of the Republic of Srpska organized a conference in East Sarajevo, 16th of January 2016: Wikimedia Start Republika Srpska 2016
      • Organized 9 editing workshops, 2 presentations and 1 seminar.
      • 3 photo projects, including photo competition Traces of Soul
      • 5 radio interviews, 10 TV appearances and about 80 media titles
      • Wikimedia Community of the Republic of Srpska has been working on creation of more streamlined and clear structure, with community bodies necessary for further improvement of the community and its upgrade to the next level.
    • Tools:
      • None
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
    • High level of self-initiative with good communication between community members.
    • Dedication to work on Wikimedia projects and wish to improve upon the existing condition of the community and our local Wikipedia.
    • Expressed interest in constant education, improvement and cooperation with other communities, local and global.
    • Significant part of the community are educated and academic citizens who are interested in creation of firm foundations for productive and stable organization on the level of the Republic of Srpska.
    • Organizing photo competitions and editing workshops.
    • Cooperation with GLAM institutions.
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
    • Transitional nature of a developing country with high percentage of unemployment, low wages and low interest from the populace hampers the development of the community.
    • Volunteers' engagement and lack of motivation.
    • Its difficult to locate domestic partners interested in financial support of the community projects.
    • Troublesome and poor internet connection, especially in more rural areas.
  • Needs:
    • Stable source of income for more efficient work of the organization and community projects.
    • Wider volunteer community with higher level of motivation.
    • Further improvement of cooperation with local institutions and government and non-government organizations.
    • Development of cooperation with other Chapters and communities.
  • Questions:
    • None
  • Interested in attending: Ljubiša Malenica (talk) 18:19, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

edit

...

Flag of Bulgaria Bulgaria

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): Educational projects with students at different universities | Social media | Supersonic organization of WLX contests in less than three days.
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending: User:Лорд Бъмбъри, User:Justine.toms, User:Спасимир
  • Other: Babylon-tags (like bg-N, de-5, en-4, sv-2) on the conference badges

Flag of Croatia Croatia

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings: People are our most valuable asset, not content - content is aim, but you need people to make the content in the first place. More info
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending: SpeedyGonsales (talk) 23:39, 25 June 2016 (UTC) Ivica Vlahović (talk) 19:21, 29 June 2016 (UTC) Elizabet 626 (talk) 10:39, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of Cyprus Cyprus

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:

Flag of Czech Republic Czech Republic

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
      • Libraries as our closest allies - how can Wikimedia chapters profit from the changing role of libraries in the society?
      • Places without pictures - how can you improve Wikidata and use them to find nearest places needing pictures? and organize events or contests to cover these unphotographed places
      • Projects professionalization - how to turn volunteer project into professional; experiences from our Education program focused on HR and employee management
      • Seniors writes Wikipedia – experiences with older Wikipedians, how to find, teach and motivate them to contributing
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
      • "WikiTeachIn" teacher campaign aiming at teaching digital literacy with Wikipedia; join WMF, Amical and Czech Rep. in offering teachers a way of teaching digital literacy and strengths & weaknesses of Wikipedia. Just translate a syllabus and talk to your regional teachers and institutions!
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
    • An all-encompassing photography project (>75,000 pictures over several years)
    • Education program incl. working with seniors and turning them into regular contributors
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
    • How to convince institutions to release their digital archives?
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:

Flag of Estonia Estonia

edit
See also: Wikimedia Eesti
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
      • Wikimedia Eesti has been working on restructuring board and employee roles and responsibilities, as well as its fiscal and accounting practices.
      • Wikimedia Eesti is also working on its volunteer engagement processes and has gone through internal and external evaluation of these processes.
      • Wikimedia Eesti was the international organizer for European Science Photo Competition 2015.
      • Wikimedia Eesti also organized Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015.
      • Wikimedia Eesti has been running a Freedom of Panorama campaign in Estonia with some success, especially in communication with associations of architects and artists.
    • Tools:
      • WikiComment - a tool to provide comments and fast feedback on textual content on Wikimedia projects.
      • Minority Translate - translation tool designed for minority languages but usable on any Wikipedia (includes the option of working offline and uploading the content later).
      • Semi-automatic bot used for retrieving information about heritage sites from national databases and creating articles to increase use of WLM pictures.
    • Low-cost project:
      • HELP or Head Eesti Looduse Pildid (good pictures of Estonian wilderness) - nearly zero-cost and not really time-consuming project (once the structure is in place) initiated by an active WMEE community member (User:Kruusamägi).
      • Small article competitions - working well in our community.
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
  1. Organizing (photo and article) competitions;
  2. Project design process, strategic and tactical planning (e.g. logic models, risks assessment);
  3. Failing, i.e. trying to make sense of our failures and learn from them.
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
  1. Time and human resources management (including avoiding burnout);
  2. Increasing volunteer and staff capacity;
  3. Working with GLAM and education partners.
  • Needs:
  1. Engaging and appreciating volunteers;
  2. Managing time and human resources;
  3. Building successful partnerships.
  • Questions:
  1. How to move forward with our regional collaboration?
  2. What will be our joint Wikidata project?
  3. How to share learnings from different regional partners in a more effective manner?
  • Interested in attending:
    • Yes, 2 representatives (need scholarship)

Flag of Georgia Georgia

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings: How to cooperate with governmental institutions and commercial organizations.
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project: Education program in Universities and in schools.
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): Social media activities, project of the month.
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): Small community, lack of volunteers.
  • Needs: Engaging more volunteers, human resources.
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:

David1010, Jaba1977, MIKHEIL, BRUTE. Need scholarship.

Flag of Germany Germany

edit

Flag of Greece Greece

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
    • Tools:
      • Autowikibrowser - a member of the group is developer of Autowikibrowser and as a group we worked on customising it in our local Wikipedia..
    • Low-cost project:
      • Adult Education program in Universities
      • Organised gender gap editathons
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
  1. Organizing (photo and article) competitions;
  2. Gender gap related activities
  3. GLAM cooperation
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
  1. Diverge community
  2. Onwiki conflicts with impact on outreach activities
  3. Small community and offline volunteer base
  • Needs:
  1. Time and human resources management (avoid burn out)
  2. Engaging and retaining volunteer participants
  • Questions:
  1. Regional collaboration. How can it be achieved?

Flag of Hungary Hungary

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings: experiences with local governmental institutes, European Science Photo Competition 2015
    • Tools: Content translation helps users to easily translate articles
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): organizational effectiveness
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): decreasing volunteer capacity (motivate and retain old and new editors and volunteers)
  • Needs: Wikidata integration
  • Questions: learning about other's projects, specially which need low volunteer resources and have high impact
  • Interested in attending: Samat and Vince (need scholarship)

Flag of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:

Flag of Latvia Latvia

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
      • CEE Spring local organizer experience;
      • Wikidata knowledge in general;
      • WLX lists migration to Wikidata
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
      • Photographing and illustrating articles about streets in the capital (Riga).
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
    • Healthy community with no serious incidents.
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
    • Small community and offline volunteer base;
    • Gender/diversity gap (still);
    • Low understanding of free licences in general public.
  • Needs:
    • Some project management training would be useful
    • Best practices for editing workshops
  • Questions:
    • How to establish ongoing communication with government/cultural/educational institutions?
  • Interested in attending:
    • Yes, 2 representatives (need scholarship)

Flag of Lithuania Lithuania

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
    • Continuous improvement of quality of Wikipedia articles;
    • Increase of visual content in Lithuanian Wikipedia;
    • Great organization of local weekly and monthly competitions;
    • Good and increasing usage of Modules and Wikidata project;
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
    • Big issues of vandalism;
    • Small community and problems while retaining new volunteers;
    • Lots of generated and empty content (like articles about football clubs, villages and years);
    • No contacts with libraries and universities;
    • There are more administrators than volunteers in all wikiprojects;
    • Gender gap.
  • Needs:
    • Tips & Tricks for time and project management in Wikipedia;
    • Simple guides how to completely localize and customize wikiproject;
    • Reduce the size of Technical news;
    • More tools for Wikidata and translation.
  • Questions:
    • How to start using digital archives?
  • Interested in attending:

Flag of Macedonia Macedonia

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings: strong research and exploration approach (expeditions, editing events, Wikimedian-in-Residence), institutional collaborations
    • Tools: Category Master (from our Bulgarian friends); chunked uploads on Commons (for "big" photographs and videos from various projects); glamorous (for results)
    • Low-cost project: Photohunts
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): result measurement, various forms of reporting
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): engaging and retaining volunteer participants
  • Needs: various tools (article counter, result measurement, technical support)
  • Questions: none
  • Interested in attending: Yes

Flag of Moldova Moldova

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
      • How to create wiki-awareness in a country where people refuse *free* tickets to theatre. FREE, Karl!
      • How to administer a Facebook page. Are ads useful?
      • Communicating with press
    • Tools: (none)
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
    • Making Wikipedia known in Moldova beyond its direct use of a simple internet resource
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
    • Little community involvement, both from organisation side and from participation side.
  • Needs:
    • Resources are needed. Wikipedians are a scarce resource in both Romania and Moldova.
  • Questions:
    • How to make wiki workshops attractive for students?
  • Interested in attending:

Flag of Montenegro Montenegro

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:

Flag of Poland Poland

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings: #1 How the chapter or user group can support IEG grant application and take advantage of it (based on our experience with: Grants:IEG/Batch uploader for small GLAM projects). #2 How to establish the perfect micro-granting system - our 8 years experience with wikigrants. #3 GLAMS are more open than you think - just contact them - our GLAM program in last year.
    • Tools: VicuñaUploader and Pattypan
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): GLAM cooperation, communication and working with the media, grant program
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): Shrinking community of editors and chapter's volunteers.
  • Needs: Exchange ideas how to effectively organize workshops and edithathons
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending: yes

Flag of Romania Romania

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings: lightning talk about why T-shirts are the best promotional materials
    • Tools: using EventLogging for polls
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
    • We're actively involved in shaping the software use don our wiki (be it Visual Editor or other tools)
    • We're starting to see some traction on the WikiMed project as well (remains to be seen if the local community can complement/add value to what the international team is doing)
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
    • Very low involvement from the community in out-of-wiki activities
    • low regeneration of editor base
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:

Flag of Russia Russia

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings: thematic competitions; withstanding legal threats
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): organization of contests
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): motivation
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:

Flag of Serbia Serbia

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
      • Third annual plan accepted with full budget.
      • Second local Wikipedian conference - WikiLive 2016.
      • GLAM - Cooperation with Theaters.
      • Better understanding of project leaders, flexibility in terms of negotiating and active project tracking.
    • Tools: Wiki metrics and gathering global metrics.
    • Low-cost project:
      • Within Micro grants program, this year WMRS is implementing photo grants. Reason for that is huge interest of community and others in various photo content.
      • Edit-a-thons usually don't require much funding and participants on these events are creating valuable content (articles and photos).
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
    • Better organization of staff members and good budget control.
    • Good media coverage.
    • Long-term Education program - cooperation with various education institutions.
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
    • Volunteers' engagement and lack of motivation.
  • Needs:
    • Expanding the number of active volunteers.
  • Questions: Further models of cooperation of CEE group.
  • Interested in attending:
    1. --Mickey Mystique (talk)
    2. --Ivana Guslarevic (talk)

Flag of Slovakia Slovakia

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
      • (not) collaborating with cities
    • Tools:
      • Copyvio Watchdog - tool to check and list possible copyvios
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
    • financial donations from public
    • contacts with like-minded organisations and movements (and, in beginning, with national institutions)
    • (not perfect, but good) organising on-wiki competitions
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
    • small group, not enough volunteers for all projects or some big one again
    • communications and relations to public, to local communities and to members
    • bridging the existing online community with offline actitivies
  • Needs:
    • human resources
    • better planning and coordination (of organisation work and projects)
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:
    1. (also activist of Esperanto kaj Libera Scio) KuboF (talk) 22:15, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    2. --Jetam2 (talk) 15:41, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    3. --Akdar (talk) 21:18, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    4. --Lišiak (talk) 14:39, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of Slovenia Slovenia

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:

Flag of Turkey Turkey

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
  1. Lessons learned from the first Wikipedia Education Program of Turkey held in Uludag Universtiy, Bursa at undergratudate, graduate and doctorate levels.
  2. GLAM cooperation with Pera Museum and applying of Wikipedia QR codes in Turkey for the first time.
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  1. CEE Spring competition (by providing prizes from local sponsors)
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): Lack of regular meetings of community members
  • Needs: Raising awareness in Turkey about that Wikipedia is not only a source of knowledge but also way of sharing knowledge and encouraging larger number of people to contribute.
  • Questions: How to effectively use education materials available at outreach. How to motivate instructors to get involved in education programs.
  • Interested in attending: Basak, Rapsar. Need scholarship.

Flag of Ukraine Ukraine

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): WLM, WLE
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): conflicts some users between themselves and between them and administrators
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
Experience of working with students who study foreign languages (heared about Serbian experience); Wikipedia for disabled people (needs and posibilities); Age gap (who edit Wikipedia in your countries?); Developping Wikivoyage. Maybe someone can help me with these questions :) --Visem (talk) 18:39, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Interested in attending:
--Visem (talk) 18:24, 9 June 2016 (UTC) (Need scholarship)[reply]
--Nickispeaki (talk) 21:46, 11 June 2016 (UTC) (Need scholarship)[reply]
--Ilya (talk) 18:51, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
--Perohanych (talk) 03:45, 11 July 2016 (UTC) (Need scholarship)[reply]

User Groups (not country based)

edit

  Bashkortostan

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings: Изучение опыта работы коллег из других стран, в частности нам интерсен опыт армянских коллег по проведению летнего лагеря для молодежи.

en: Studying experience from the collegues from other countries, especially we are interested in Armenian experience about Wikicamp

    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): Вики-Сабантуй 2015, Вики-Семинар 2016 в Янгантау. Последовательно формируется сплоченное сообщество башкирских волонтеров. Организационная и финансовая поддержка со стороны "Фонда Викимедиа" и НП "Викимедиа РУ". Информационная поддержка со стороны главного информационного агентства Республики Башкортостан - ИА "Башинформ".
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): Нет активного участника/волонтера, владеющего свободно английским языком. Нет знаний, как можно посетить Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016 и другие международные мероприятия. Нет собственного источника финансирования для полноценной реализации планируемых мероприятий. We need Enlish translator.
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending: Есть желание направить на Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016 делегацию из 2-3 башкирских волонтеров, если такое количество возможно. Для связи мой емайл rnuriev1 gmail.com, C уважением, --Рөстәм Нурыев (talk) 16:07, 24 April 2016 (UTC).[reply]
  • I hereby confirm that YANBEK and Borovi4ok are the representatives of the Wikimedians of Bashkortostan User Group. --Рөстәм Нурыев (talk) 11:10, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  Esperanto

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
      • European Voluntary Service for wikimedia volunteers
    • Tools:
      • Translation area of E@I - planned for use in translation task force
      • WikiTrans - (non-libre) tool helping with translations between Wikipedias with advanced customization (template mapping, infobox re-creation, adding source information etc.)
    • Low-cost project:
      • topic-centered translation run (in preparation): Esperanto125 (inspired by WM Medicine translation task force)
      • QRpedia in museums
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
    • connections to movement of another topic
    • international connections
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
    • small team with weak connections
    • big diaspora, not local based
    • weak connections with local organisations
  • Needs:
    • collabouration with territory based wikimedia organisations
    • profesionalisation
  • Questions:
    • how to profesionalise in small world-wide organisation?
  • Interested in attending:
    1. (also activist of Wikimedia Slovakia) KuboF (talk) 22:16, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    2. Lingveno (talk) 06:11, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Project Med

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
      1. How useful medical translations really are.
      2. Should medical translators be more involved in local communities?
      3. Ways of getting CEE users work together.
      4. Interest in a CEE meeting regarding medical field, along with the translators from TWB (Translators Without Borders) and Wiki Project Med staff.
      5. Promoting healthy living through Wikimedia projects.
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): collaboration between TWB, Wiki Project Med members and local users
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): wider volunteer community with interest (and some knowledge) regarding medical field
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:
    1. Wintereu 10:00, 22 May 2016 (UTC) (need scholarship)[reply]
    2. Shani (talk) 06:29, 29 June 2016 (UTC) (need scholarship)[reply]

Wikisource Community User Group

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
    • Tools:
    • Low-cost project:
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well):
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with):
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:

Collaborative translations: documentation, software, content

edit
  • Input for the conference programme:
    • Valuable learnings:
      1. Which different areas are there where contributing to translations is possible.
      2. How to choose the right tool for the job.
      3. Ways of getting CEE users to work together.
      4. Interest in a CEE meeting regarding everything about translations, be it documentation relevant to CEE, software localisation in languages relevant to CEE, or content translations to and from projects in languages relevant to CEE.
    • Tools:
      • Translate extension: Software localisation (MediaWiki, MediaWiki extension used by Wikimedia wikis)
      • Translate extension: Page translation (meta, Wikimedia Commons, mediawiki.org, Wikidata, ...)
      • Content Translation: Translation of Wikipedia pages
    • Low-cost project:
      • Translation related events are easy to organise, and both on-line and off-line event types are possible. Prizes may increase participation and volume, with the warning that heavy gamification can also lead to unwanted side-effects, most likely a shift from quality to quantity.
  • Strengths (or what you are doing well): We have the right tools for the job.
  • Weaknesses (or what you could use help with): We need to keep communicating the possibilities and make sure that each community, be it language related to topic related, has champions that spread the knowledge in their own communities.
  • Needs:
  • Questions:
  • Interested in attending:
    1. Siebrand (talk) 18:07, 25 June 2016 (UTC) (project lead translatewiki.net)[reply]

Others

edit