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Session documentation

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Ilona Buchem // Promoting gender diversity through open innovation

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Netha Hussain // Diversifying India through outreach among women

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Andrés Maggese // Preservation of indigenous languages through Wikipedia

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John Andersson // Thematic edit-a-thons as a way to reach new groups

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Nemin Wang // Editor diversity on Chinese Wikipedia

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Gregory Varnum // LGBT Outreach

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Dumisani Ndubane // Wiki Indaba and the African agenda

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Katie Chan // Where´s the T in Wikimedia Diversity

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T Vishnu Vardhan // So many languages: Challenges and opportunities for the Wikimedia movement in India

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Jake Orlowitz and Siko Bouterse // Inviting diversity: A playful approach to broadening our community

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Matthew Flaschen, Jared Zimmerman, Vibha Bamba, Pau Giner // Engaging new editors by reducing barriers

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Ilona Buchem and Netha Hussain // Design Diversity

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Alyssa Wright, Siko Bouterse and Jessie Wild // Creating a toolset for impact

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Alyssa Wright // Collaborating with other open source communities

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Ting Chen // The economy of Diversity

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Valerie Aurora // Diversity initiatives that worked in other open communities

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Silvia Stieneker // Women edit – from a small local initiative to a nationwide network

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Emily Temple-Wood // Women scientists and philosophers on English Wikipedia

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Gerard Meijssen // Wikidata as a tool to bring initial information

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Tim Moritz Hector // The Teahouse – why and how we internationalize it

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Sydney Poore // Mentoring: how to mentor women and older people in the Wikimedia movement

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Alolita Sharma // The question of culture: changing the diversity equation of open source

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Siko Bouterse // Ideas into Action: IdeaLab Diversity working session

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Round up session documentation

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  1. gender diversity: women (best practices & new ideas)Round up 1 gender diversity: women (best practices & new ideas)
  2. gender diversity: LGBT (best practices & new ideas)Round up 2 gender diversity: LGBT (best practices & new ideas)
  3. geographic diversity: language pluralism (best practices & new ideas)Round up 3 geographic diversity: language pluralism (best practices & new ideas)
  4. diversity: general (technical) approaches to further openness in WikipediaRound up 4 diversity: general (technical) approaches to further openness in Wikipedia
  5. talking points to frame the issue of Diversity for Wikimedia

General documentation

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Our Commons Category: Category:Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2013

Photos

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Photos of the conference can be found here.

Videos

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Throughout the conference we conducted video interviews with most of the speakers in which they talk about their work. The videos can be found on Vimeo and Wikimedia Commons.

Follow-up Action

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IRC chat on Learning Patterns

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When: Thursday, 14 November at 17:00 UTC (=18:00 CET)

What: Learn how to create a learning pattern, and together hack out the key learning patterns/best practices that emerged over the past weekend.

Who: Hopefully as many of us as possible, led by WMFer Jonathan Morgan

Where: IRC #wikimedia-office and a Google Hangout (link TBD); you can join one or both.

For more information, please see Evaluation/News/Learning patterns hackathon or contact Jessie Wild (WMF).

Blog posts

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Diversity Page on Meta

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Diversity

Ideas in the Idealab

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Many ideas were put up regarding diversity on the IdeaLab.