The on-wiki version of this newsletter can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2023-08-14
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Wikifunctions at Wikimania
This week is Wikimania 2023 in Singapore
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Wikimania>!
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Under the motto “Diversity. Collaboration. Future”, the Wikimedia
communities are having their annual event, for the first time since 2019 in
Stockholm again also in person. The motto could not be any more fitting for
Wikifunctions, a project where we hope that in the *future* the *diversity* of
Wikimedia projects will *collaborate* with each other more and deeper than
it has ever done before.
Only weeks after taking Wikifunctions online, we are looking forward to
presenting Wikifunctions at the conference, and to gather feedback and
discussions about the project, in order to shape its future and to let more
people know what Wikifunctions is aiming for.
We will have two sessions in the program:
- On Thursday, August 17, at 15:30-16:30 local time / 7:30-8:30 UTC
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1692257416>, we will have our main
sessions, *Wikifunctions is here*
<https://pretalx.com/wm2023/talk/ZBXFNP/>. We will present the vision of
Wikifunctions, in particular how it can be helpful for the other Wikimedia
projects, for example for your local language Wikipedia and Wiktionary. We
will give a live demo of the project, and we will invite you to answer any
questions you may have, discuss ideas, and collaborate on the future of
Wikifunctions and how to integrate it with your home projects. We expect
this session to be streamed and recorded.
- On Friday, August 18 at 16:45–18:00 local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1692348349>, based on a community
request, we will offer a session at the Hackathon, *First steps with
Wikifunctions* <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343905>. This will be
a hands-on session on how to edit Wikifunctions. We expect this session not
to be streamed and recorded, but we are planning to offer similar sessions
in the near future for online participation.
The team will be represented by Denny Vrandečić, James Forrester, and Nick
Wilson at Wikimania.
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Denny Vrandečić
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James Forrester
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Nick Wilson
Regarding handing out further functioneer rights, we will focus on giving
rights to Wikimania attendees, in order to maximize engagement with
attendees. Following Wikimania, and assuming everything is still going
fine, we will pick up handing out rights again to more people, and also are
expecting to do so faster than so far.
If you are at Wikimania, we would be glad to talk to you about
Wikifunctions! We want to hear your thoughts, concerns, and ideas. We are
very excited to meet with the community!