The on-wiki version of this newsletter can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2023-08-14 -- Wikifunctions at Wikimania

This week is Wikimania 2023 in Singapore https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Wikimania! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2023_Singapore_Blue_Header_logo.svg

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. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Denny_Vrande%C4%8Di%C4%87-3.jpg Denny Vrandečić https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Forrester_(WMF)_2013.jpg James Forrester https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilson,_Nick_January_2016.jpg 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!