The on-wiki version of this newsletter can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2023-06-22 -- Team offsite in Delft
Last week, our team had our annual in-person meeting, this year in Delft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft, in the Netherlands. It is the second ever offsite for the team, following last year’s in New York City. The offsite was also the reason we didn’t find the time to give an update last week. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abstract_Wikipedia_Team_Delft_2023.jpg https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abstract_Wikipedia_Team_Delft_2023.jpg Abstract Wikipedia team at Delft offsite 2023. From left to right, back: Amin Al Hazwani, Cory Massaro, Genoveva Galarza Heredero, Elena Tonkovidova, David Martin, Stef Dunlap, Amy Tsay, Denny Vrandečić, James Forrester; in front, kneeling: Nick Wilson and Luca Martinelli. Taken in front of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag
This time, we were focused heavily on launching Wikifunctions. We discussed the necessary work still ahead of us, and carefully reviewed and removed many of the open tasks from blocking launch. Instead, the tasks were either marked as “it would be great to have this before launch” (nice-to-have) or simply as after-launch tasks. You can see our new, simplified board with the current status in Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4964/.
We also discussed and had retrospectives on the way the team works. All of these discussions benefited heavily from being in person, especially when we were figuring out which steps still need to happen before launch, and which ones can be moved back. After three years, we certainly are both excited and worried about launching – everything feels like it could use just some more polish, and every feature feels like it would be great to have it available at launch, so it was good to come together and push back on this together.
For team-building, we visited two local museums: the Royal Delft manufactury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Koninklijke_Porceleyne_Fles in Delft, and the Kunstmuseum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstmuseum_Den_Haag in The Hague, where we particularly enjoyed the temporary exhibition on M. C. Escher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher, who beautifully combined functions with art. We also visited the local Makerspace, where we gave a presentation on Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions and met with some local members of the Wikimedia community. Wikifunctions at Wikimania
We just learned this week that our submission to present Wikifunctions at Wikimania 2023 https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Wikimania in Singapore has been accepted by the program committee. Wikimania will offer the opportunity to attend remotely. We are looking forward to presenting our work to the community. We will share more details as they become known to us.
Wow!!! I'm so happy to see this group all together, hope everyone is doing well. :)
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 5:21 PM Denny Vrandečić dvrandecic@wikimedia.org wrote:
The on-wiki version of this newsletter can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2023-06-22 -- Team offsite in Delft
Last week, our team had our annual in-person meeting, this year in Delft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft, in the Netherlands. It is the second ever offsite for the team, following last year’s in New York City. The offsite was also the reason we didn’t find the time to give an update last week.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abstract_Wikipedia_Team_Delft_2023.jpg
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abstract_Wikipedia_Team_Delft_2023.jpg Abstract Wikipedia team at Delft offsite 2023. From left to right, back: Amin Al Hazwani, Cory Massaro, Genoveva Galarza Heredero, Elena Tonkovidova, David Martin, Stef Dunlap, Amy Tsay, Denny Vrandečić, James Forrester; in front, kneeling: Nick Wilson and Luca Martinelli. Taken in front of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag
This time, we were focused heavily on launching Wikifunctions. We discussed the necessary work still ahead of us, and carefully reviewed and removed many of the open tasks from blocking launch. Instead, the tasks were either marked as “it would be great to have this before launch” (nice-to-have) or simply as after-launch tasks. You can see our new, simplified board with the current status in Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4964/.
We also discussed and had retrospectives on the way the team works. All of these discussions benefited heavily from being in person, especially when we were figuring out which steps still need to happen before launch, and which ones can be moved back. After three years, we certainly are both excited and worried about launching – everything feels like it could use just some more polish, and every feature feels like it would be great to have it available at launch, so it was good to come together and push back on this together.
For team-building, we visited two local museums: the Royal Delft manufactury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Koninklijke_Porceleyne_Fles in Delft, and the Kunstmuseum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstmuseum_Den_Haag in The Hague, where we particularly enjoyed the temporary exhibition on M. C. Escher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher, who beautifully combined functions with art. We also visited the local Makerspace, where we gave a presentation on Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions and met with some local members of the Wikimedia community. Wikifunctions at Wikimania
We just learned this week that our submission to present Wikifunctions at Wikimania 2023 https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Wikimania in Singapore has been accepted by the program committee. Wikimania will offer the opportunity to attend remotely. We are looking forward to presenting our work to the community. We will share more details as they become known to us. _______________________________________________ Abstract-Wikipedia mailing list -- abstract-wikipedia@lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/abstract-wikipedia.lists.wikimed...
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