Hi all,

I thought I'd gather a bit of a summary of relevant info from this year's Wikimania - feel free to reply all with anything I've missed!

Wikimedians of the year Huge congratulations to Alaa Najjar & Netha Hussain (both involved with WikiJMed)! Alaa was awarded Wikimedian of the Yearhttps://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/08/15/meet-alaa-najjar-wikimedian-of-the-year-2021-winner/ for his work on medical topics in Arabic Wikipedia, particularly COVID-19. Netha was awarded the honourable mentionhttps://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/08/15/meet-netha-hussain-wikimedian-of-the-year-2021-honourable-mention-winner/ for her work on COVID-19 and vaccine safety information across Wikimedia.

WikiJournal unconference session Andrew Leung and I gave a short talk followed by some discussion sessionshttps://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Wikipedia_and_academic_journals. Sadly only people who'd registered for Wikimania ahead of time could attend, but we had some good ideas raised by attendees, and there was positive feedback. People commented on the potential to raise the profile of Wikimedia projects within academic circles, and the need to eventually re-raise different WikiJournal article types over at WP:RS (i.e. citing within Wikipedia: original research articles vs articles turned into WP pages vs articles submitted from WP articles). It was also suggested to put together a risk management and mitigation matrixhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_matrix to send to the WMF board of trustees as part of re-engaging them in considering a sister project.

A selection of talks that may be of interest:

* Preventing misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: How Wikipedia, public health experts, and news media can collaborate to share trustworthy knowledge in times of crisis * (Abstracthttps://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Preventing_misinformation_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic:_How_Wikipedia,_public_health_experts,_and_news_media_can_collaborate_to_share_trustworthy_knowledge_in_times_of_crisis & 60 min videohttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK_cUZLMpibyRiIdp0uF-lQ) Sanjay Gupta, Julio Frenk, Netha Hussain, Elaine Nsoesie, Peter Singer * Mapping the present and future of the Wiki philosophy: challenges and opportunities * (Abstracthttps://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Mapping_the_present_and_future_of_the_Wiki_philosophy:_challenges_and_opportunities & 30 min videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIX6fr7DxE) - Abraham Samma * Wikimedian of the Year 2021 * (Abstracthttps://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2021 & 90 min videohttps://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2021) - inc. Alaa Najjar & Netha Hussain * The experiences of WikiGap and WikiForHumanRights. Working with UN experts on topics for impact * (Abstracthttps://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/The_experiences_of_WikiGap_and_WikiForHumanRights._Working_with_UN_experts_on_topics_for_impact & 45 min videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1k8_6QWPY) - Ruben Brouwer, Suzanne Lapstun, Monica Iyer, Euphemia Uwandu * Attracting experts to contribute to Wikimedia movement * (Abstracthttps://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Attracting_experts_to_contribute_to_Wikimedia_movement & 30 min videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mokCfTjQtlA) - Diptanshu Das

All the best, Thomas

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