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margin: 1em 0;">What does the latest Wikimedia Australia board look like?</div> <div style="color: #444; font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 2em;"> <time datetime="2024-09-15T00:00:00+00:00">15 September 2024</time>, <strong><a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ali_Smith" title="Ali Smith">Ali Smith</a></strong>.</div> <p>On Sunday, 15 September 2024, Wikimedia Australia held its <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/http://Meeting:2024%20AGM" rel="nofollow">Annual General Meeting</a>.</p> <p>In 2024, we say farewell and best wishes to President <b>Amanda Lawrence</b> and Secretary <b>Kelly Tall</b>. Thank you both for your amazing commitment to the Wikimedia Australia community over the past few years on the Board.</p> <figure><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Australia_Strategic_Planning_Day_Wiki_T-shirt_02.jpg"> <img height="267" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Wikimedia_Australia_Strategic_Planning_Day_Wiki_T-shirt_02.jpg/200px-Wikimedia_Australia_Strategic_Planning_Day_Wiki_T-shirt_02.jpg" width="200"></a></figure> <p><b>Elliott Bledsoe</b> will step up from the board to the position of President. Elliott has extensive experience in copyright, focusing on the interplay between rights and creative practice, creative commons and marketing. Welcome, Elliott!</p> <p>We welcome <b>Kassi Hays</b> as an ordinary member. Kassi has been contributing to Wikipedia since 2020 and brings a wealth of experience in the Library Sciences. As a Librarian her focus is on information being discoverable and accessible, and she says one of the best ways to do that is by improving and contributing to Wikipedia. Welcome Kassi!</p> <p>And we welcome <b>Shraven Rao</b> to the Board and the role of Secretary. Shraven has been in the education sector for over 5 years, and a contributor on Wikimedia projects for over 7 years, particularly Wikidata. He is passionate about free access to knowledge, education, digital literacy, inclusion and equity.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/17493">weeklyOSM 738</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Sunday, 15 September 2024 10:08 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>05/09/2024-11/09/2024</p> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 511px;"> <p class="wp-caption-text"><img alt="lead picture" height="305" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/738_all.png" width="501"></p> <p class="wp-caption-text">Data structure, graph theory, control element but also OSM! [<a href="#wn738_31342"><sup>1</sup></a>] | © xkcd</p> </div> <h2 id="wn738_about_us">About us</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31348">Bastian Greshake-Tzovaras has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/113063386087640867">started</a> using weeklyOSM to practice their Spanish.</li> <li id="wn738_31343">darkonus <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/darkonus/diary/405026">marked</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/uk.svg">►<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www-openstreetmap-org.translate.goog/user/darkonus/diary/405026?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN"><img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/en-green.svg"></a> two years since the launch of the Ukrainian version of weeklyOSM. They celebrated the work of the translators and highlighted the project’s success in making OpenStreetMap news accessible to Ukrainian mappers. They encouraged community contributions and invited volunteers to help with the translation and editing.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_mapping">Mapping</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31356">Luna <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://tech.lgbt/@queerthoughts/113011001391906174">explained</a> how to use the <code>seats:separated=*</code> tag to map ‘<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture">anti-homeless</a>‘ bench separators.</li> <li id="wn738_31328">Comments are requested on: <ul> <li>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Divider">proposal</a> to introduce the <code>divider=*</code> tag for more accurate mapping of physical separators between traffic lanes.</li> <li>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:One-way_for_pedestrians"> proposal</a> to add <code>oneway:foot=*</code> for marking one-way restrictions on pedestrian paths and improving data for routing in areas with controlled pedestrian movement.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_mapping_campaigns">Mapping campaigns</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31334">OSM India has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/17520">initiated</a> a humanitarian mapping campaign in response to the flooding caused by heavy rainfall in the state of Andhra Pradesh.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_community">Community</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31368">The Belgian chapter, in particular Jonathan Beliën, has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/osmbe/osm-welcome-tool/issues/1413">announced</a> that after more than three months of downtime, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://welcome.osm.be/">OSM Welcome Tool</a> will soon be working again. The current SQLite-based setup struggles to handle multiple regions, leading to suggestions including migrating to Platform.sh, Laravel Forge, or Laravel Vapor for better scalability. Testing is underway with Platform.sh and Laravel Forge to determine the best option for efficiently managing server resources.</li> <li id="wn738_31338">Amanda McCann <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.osm.town/@amapanda/113089482233981634">recommended</a> a new OSM Mastodon account to follow, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.osm.town/@awsm">@awsm@en.osm.town</a>, where each week a different OSM person will take the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.osm.town/@awsm/113088947528487554">helm</a> to manage the account.</li> <li id="wn738_31331">Jiri Podhorecky <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jiri%20Podhorecky/diary/405000"> blogged</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cz-black.svg">►<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www-openstreetmap-org.translate.goog/user/Jiri%20Podhorecky/diary/405000?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN"><img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/en-green.svg"></a> about how adding smaller features to maps can make them more intuitive and appealing. These details help users navigate more easily, especially in rural areas. It emphasised the importance of including both natural and human-made elements to enhance the clarity and beauty of maps.</li> <li id="wn738_31341">Christoph Hormann <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://imagico.de/blog/en/more-dynamic-symbols-viewpoints/">talked</a> about how to make map symbols look better, especially in OpenStreetMap. The new method makes overlapping symbols look nicer by cutting rather than blocking and taking into account things such as view angles and elevation. The article also talks about the new technology in Mapnik that makes this possible, making maps easier to read and interact with.</li> <li id="wn738_31333">The Swecha Andhra Pradesh Community <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.instagram.com/p/C-hkHJ-OlNJ/">celebrated</a> the 20th anniversary of OSM with a mapping party.</li> <li id="wn738_31372">Following the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/ungluecke/carolabruecke-in-dresden-teils-eingestuerzt-korrosion-koennte-ursache-sein-19976723.html"> collapse</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/de.svg">►<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www-faz-net.translate.goog/aktuell/gesellschaft/ungluecke/carolabruecke-in-dresden-teils-eingestuerzt-korrosion-koennte-ursache-sein-19976723.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN"><img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/en-green.svg"></a> of Dresden’s Carola Bridge into the River Elbe, on the night of 10 and 11 September, the bridge tags were <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1314801123">updated</a> in OpenStreetMap just a few hours after the accident. Fortunately nobody was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://orf.at/stories/3369195/">injured</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/de.svg">►<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://orf-at.translate.goog/stories/3369195/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN"><img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/en-green.svg"></a> according to the latest news.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_local_chapter_news">Local chapter news</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31383"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://openstreetmap.us/news/2024/08/meta-membership/">Meta</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://openstreetmap.us/news/2024/09/esri-membership/">ESRI</a> have joined OpenStreetMap US as a strategic members. There are three strategic level <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://openstreetmap.us/get-involved/membership/#organizational">members</a> now.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_events">Events</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31359">Christoph Hormann <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://imagico.de/blog/en/a-short-state-of-the-map-2024-comment/"> wrote</a> a short comment about the State of the Map 2024.</li> <li id="wn738_31370">Hawa Adinani <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Hawa%20Adinani/diary/405053">shared</a> her experience of attending the State of the Map conference in Nairobi, the first global OSM conference to be held in Africa. She nominated the diversity of projects, the networking with non-technical members of the OSM community, and the inspiring lightning talks from young participants as highlights. Hawa reflected on the balance between organising and attending the event, and shared her excitement for future academic collaborations. She also enjoyed her first game of golf at the social event.</li> <li id="wn738_31353">Raquel Dezidério Souto <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Raquel%20Dezid%C3%A9rio%20Souto/diary/405032"> wrote</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/pt.svg">►<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www-openstreetmap-org.translate.goog/user/Raquel%20Dezid%C3%A9rio%20Souto/diary/405032?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN"><img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/en-green.svg"></a> about the participation of IVIDES.org at the State of the Map 2024, which took place in Nairobi (Kenya), where some of the institute’s ongoing research was presented.</li> <li id="wn738_31345">The video recordings of each talk from State of the Map France 2024 have been <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://fr.osm.social/@sotmfr/113096657568601305">released</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/fr.svg">.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_education">Education</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31340">Jiří Eischmann <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://blog.eischmann.cz/2024/09/06/prispivani-do-openstreetmap-body-zajmu/"> demonstrated</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cz-black.svg">►<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://blog-eischmann-cz.translate.goog/2024/09/06/prispivani-do-openstreetmap-body-zajmu/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN"><img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/en-green.svg"></a> several different methods for adding points of interest to OSM using StreetComplete, OsmAnd, and Organic Maps.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_osm_research">OSM research</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31366">In a project <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.geographyrealm.com/tube-style-world-transit-map/">inspired</a> by Harry Beck’s iconic London Tube map, researchers at the University of Freiburg, Germany, are automating the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de/global">creation</a> of schematic transit maps around the world using OpenStreetMap data using SPARQL queries and a line network graph. The study tests different transit systems (e.g. subways, trams) and evaluates map quality and scalability.</li> <li id="wn738_31355">HeiGIT <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://heigit.org/new-paper-enriching-building-function-classification-using-large-language-model-embeddings-of-openstreetmap-tags/"> reported</a> that a paper called ‘Enriching building function classification using Large Language Model embeddings of OpenStreetMap Tags’ by Memduhoğlu et al. has been <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-024-01463-8">published</a>. Their findings underscore the value of deep contextual understanding in enhancing automated classification methods.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_osm_in_action">OSM in action</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31360"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://mathstodon.xyz/@hfarruda/113115823643809547">Henrique</a> et al. have <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05692">classified</a> over 67 million US buildings by using an unsupervised machine learning method to categorise building types based on building footprint data and available OpenStreetMap information.</li> <li id="wn738_31371">ANYWAYS has recently <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.anyways.eu/models">analysed</a> bike-sharing systems around the world and ranked cities according to the quality of cycle routes between bicycle stations. The top three cities are <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.anyways.eu/map/model/baec2096-cdbd-4763-aa21-30d0a9116b63#13.66/60.16745/24.94854"> Helsinki</a> (1.7), <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.anyways.eu/map/model/e5ae22d8-ca96-4361-a104-7e7fe22a43af#12.24/51.21332/4.4076"> Antwerp</a> (1.4) and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.anyways.eu/map/model/6a31ebfe-c8d8-455c-988e-2676afddab84#14.29/37.39531/-5.98937"> Seville</a> (1.3). They invite proposals for cities outside Europe to be evaluated for inclusion.</li> <li id="wn738_31375">openclimbing.org is a community-driven platform for managing climbing topos using a cartography-first approach. The site allows users to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://openclimbing.org/">contribute</a> under a free licence, with all data stored in public databases like OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons. The platform encourages open collaboration similar to Wikipedia.</li> <li id="wn738_31364">The Surprise Date Spot website <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://surprisedatespot.com/">offers</a> a fun way to discover restaurant recommendations by allowing users to randomly select locations on a map. It helps plan spontaneous dining experiences by suggesting places based on the selected area.</li> <li id="wn738_31332">Tobias Jordans <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.osm.town/@tordans/113085290871285204">noticed</a> that Komoot has made it easier to show POIs, which can ease the planning of routes.</li> <li id="wn738_31357">The Sparta Coding Club <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://spartacodingclub.kr/blog/deepfakemap-maker">interviewed</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ko-black.svg">►<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://spartacodingclub-kr.translate.goog/blog/deepfakemap-maker?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN"><img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/en-green.svg"></a> the developer of the ‘Deepfake Victimised Schools Map’. This website shows where sex crimes exploiting deepfake technology have occurred in South Korea.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_software">Software</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31337">Pedro Leão <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://forum.openhistoricalmap.org/t/formatted-citations-in-openhistoricalmap-gsoc-2024/280"> summarised</a> his Google Summer of Code project, during which he added new field types to OpenHistoricalMap’s fork of the iD editor, helping mappers to cite their sources more rigorously.</li> <li id="wn738_31350">Cartes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://cartes.app/blog/street-view-france">reported</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/fr.svg">►<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://cartes-app.translate.goog/blog/street-view-france?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN"><img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/en-green.svg"></a> that they have recently <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://cartes.app/">integrated</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/fr.svg"> Panoramax, a self-hosted, open-source street view platform, into their app.</li> <li id="wn738_31346"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://2024.stateofthemap.org/sessions/HVVYM7/">Strava’s</a> Patchwork tool helps <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.osm.town/@tyr/113096597295009942">identify</a> missing paths in OpenStreetMap using data from their traces of public activities. It <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://labs.strava.com/patchwork/">visualises</a> potential new ways on a map, marking these paths in orange, and allows users to compare them with existing ways for validation.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_programming">Programming</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31369">Tobias Zwick has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/westnordost/maplibre-compose-layers-api">developed</a> a Kotlin-based API proposal for MapLibre layers, aiming to improve usability and flexibility compared to the Java API. It includes examples for defining and styling map layers, such as roads and bridges, using Kotlin idioms and Jetpack Compose-like parameters. The main goal is to simplify working with MapLibre layers, reduce verbosity and improve the developer experience, although dealing with expressions remains a challenge.</li> <li id="wn738_31358">James Birkett <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Birkett/diary/405003">showed</a> how to display the location stored in geotagged photos on OpenStreetMap using Linux Bash.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_releases">Releases</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31365">This Organic Maps’ GitHub issue <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/9240">tracks</a> the release process for September 2024 update. It outlines steps such as alpha and beta testing, release candidate reviews, and app store submissions for Android, iOS, and F-Droid.</li> <li id="wn738_31381">The flutter_osm_plugin package <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_osm_plugin">provides</a> a plugin for integrating OpenStreetMap in Flutter applications. It supports map rendering, interactive markers, custom map styles, and location tracking, making it a useful tool for building map-based applications.</li> <li id="wn738_31344">The new Maps app for GNOME 47 release <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2024/09/maps-and-gnome-47.html">included</a> vector-based maps, improved public transit routing, a redesigned search bar, and localised highway shield updates. The article also mentions bug fixes and enhancements to rendering highway shields using Cairo.</li> <li id="wn738_31361">The 2.6.0 release of uMap <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/umap-project/umap/releases/tag/2.6.0">included</a> several updates, such as enhanced support for external tile servers and improved metadata handling. Bug fixes addressed issues such as layer transparency and URL handling. Other improvements included the addition of pop-up options for markers and improved compatibility with mobile devices.</li> <li id="wn738_31354">The Merkaartor 0.20.0 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor/releases/tag/0.20.0">release</a> introduced OAuth2 authentication, AppImage builds, and various bug fixes, including improvements to CI builds, external library handling, and Windows localisation. It also removes obsolete code and the qmake build configurations.</li> <li id="wn738_31367">Version 59.0-beta1 of StreetComplete has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/releases/tag/v59.0-beta1"> introduced</a> new features and fixes, first and foremost the changeover from tangram-es to MapLibre as the map renderer. Meanwhile, iOS development has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421#issuecomment-2332402123"> continued</a>, with the lead developer putting considerable effort into bringing the application to Apple’s platform. However, challenges such as adapting to iOS-specific features and codebase changes remain. Support is urgently needed.</li> <li id="wn738_31330">zby-cz <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/zby-cz/diary/404999">announced</a> the release of OsmAPP 1.5.0, highlighting its new features such as an opening hours editor, support for multiple image sources, and improvements in mobile usability. He also mentioned bug fixes, feature panel improvements, and updates in the OpenClimbing project.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_other_“geo”_things">Other “geo” things</h2> <ul> <li id="wn738_31342">[1] A map of every tree, something that’s truly possible within the OpenStreetMap project, was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://xkcd.com/2977/">parodied</a> in a recent xkcd comic. Paul Eberhardt, on the explainxkcd wiki, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2977:_Three_Kinds_of_Research"> noted</a> that mapping individual trees is an actual thing and mentioned several research projects utilising maps of every tree.</li> <li id="wn738_31363">Bluesight’s demonstration <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://demo.bluesight.ai/">showed</a> how satellite data can be searched for objects in San Francisco using natural language or images. They used OpenAI’s CLIP model and Meta’s Segment Anything Model.</li> <li id="wn738_31339">Jürgen Wallner <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://mastodon.social/@datagvat/113090445795796370">tooted</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/de.svg"> some Austrian basemap styles as a QGIS project. They also include contour lines and offer optional visualisations of terrain and surface details in various styles.</li> <li id="wn738_31347">As part of its gender equality policy, the Grenoble municipality is now <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.gremag.fr/article/463/20-rues-et-places-la-renommee-feminine.htm"> naming</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/fr.svg">►<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www-gremag-fr.translate.goog/article/463/20-rues-et-places-la-renommee-feminine.htm?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN"><img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/en-green.svg"></a> all new or unnamed public spaces and facilities with exclusively feminine names.</li> <li id="wn738_31335">Tom MacWright <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://mastodon.social/@tmcw/113086602155123825">tooted</a> a flowchart diagram that shows the interrelationship between map-related companies, technologies, and key individuals within them.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn738_upcoming_events">Upcoming Events</h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Where</th> <th>What</th> <th>Online</th> <th>When</th> <th>Country</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Lynnwood</td> <td>Mapping Lynnwood <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3100/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-14</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/us.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bielefeld</td> <td>OSM Ostwestfalen-Lippe <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2960/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-16</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>England</td> <td>OSM UK Online Chat <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3097/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-16</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/uk.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3079/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-17</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lyon</td> <td>Réunion du groupe local de Lyon <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3101/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-17</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/02/fr.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hannover</td> <td>OSM-Stammtisch Hannover <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3140/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-17</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bonn</td> <td>180. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2599/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-17</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>London</td> <td>Geomob London <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3039/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-18</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/uk.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Karlsruhe</td> <td>Stammtisch Karlsruhe <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3074/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-18</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kiel</td> <td>OSM auf den 22. Kieler Open Source und Linux Tagen <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3021/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-19 – 2024-09-21</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Amsterdam</td> <td>Maptime Amsterdam End of Summer Meetup <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3078/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-19</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2015/07/nl.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dresden</td> <td>Stammtisch Dresden <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3088/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-19</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dresden</td> <td>OSM auf den Datenspuren Dresden <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3089/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-21</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dublin</td> <td>OpenStreetMap Ireland AGM 2024 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3098/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-21</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://www.weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ie.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lamego (Almacave e Sé)</td> <td>Dia do Software Livre <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3093/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-21 – 2024-09-22</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/10/pt.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lebach</td> <td>Craft Mapping an der “Thalexweiler Wegekreuz-Tour” <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3147/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-22</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Strasbourg</td> <td>1er Atelier de cartographie sur OpenStreetMap <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3096/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-23</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/02/fr.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Arlon</td> <td>Rencontre OSM Luxembourg <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3095/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-23</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/05/be.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2930/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-26</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lübeck</td> <td>146. OSM-Stammtisch Lübeck und Umgebung <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2881/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-26</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Málaga</td> <td>Quién es quién en el Cementerio Inglés <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3139/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-27</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/05/es.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3152/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-27</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rapperswil-Jona</td> <td>16. Mapathon & Mapping Party Rapperswil 2024 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3145/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-27</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/02/ch.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Düsseldorf</td> <td>Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2903/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-27</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>কক্সবাজার</td> <td>State of the Map Bangladesh – SotMBD ‘2024 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2872/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-27 – 2024-09-28</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/07/bd.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Marpingen</td> <td>Craft Mapping an der “Marpinger Wegekreuz-Tour” <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3148/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-29</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Note:<br> If you like to see your event here, please put it into the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/">OSM calendar</a>. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.</p> <p align="right"><i>This weeklyOSM was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/de/map/weeklyosm-is-currently-produced-in_56718#2/8.4/108.3"> produced</a> by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MatthiasMatthias">MatthiasMatthias</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/PierZen">PierZen</a>, Raquel Dezidério Souto, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Strubbl">Strubbl</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheSwavu">TheSwavu</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/YoViajo">YoViajo</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/barefootstache">barefootstache</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/derFred">derFred</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.osm.org/user/mcliquid">mcliquid</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/rtnf">rtnf</a>.<br> We welcome link suggestions for the next issue via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://weeklyosm.eu/en/this-news-should-be-in-weeklyosm">this</a> form and look forward to your contributions.</i></p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2024/08/31/the-pull-request/">GitHub's Legacy of Terrible Code Review</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Thursday, 12 September 2024 23:34 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>GitHub has always been a great code host. But GitHub’s code review system was an afterthought. Even now, Pull Requests still lag behind.</p> <blockquote> <p>Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now</p> <p>– GitHub blog, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://web.archive.org/web/20081119104228/http://github.com/blog/3-oh-yeah-there-s-pull-requests-now"> Sat, 23 Feb 2008</a></p> </blockquote> <p>When GitHub launched, it had no code review.</p> <p>Ten years later, when <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/"> Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 Billion</a>, GitHub’s Pull Request model—<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/using-github/github-flow">“GitHub flow”</a>—had become the default way to collaborate via Git.</p> <p>But the Pull Request was never designed. It emerged. Though not from careful consideration of the needs of developers or maintainers.</p> <p>GitHub swallowed software by making it easy to host code. Code review was an afterthought.</p> <section class="level2" id="first-generation-pull-requests"> <h2>First-generation Pull Requests</h2> <p>Git has built-in pull requests—<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull"><code>git request-pull</code></a>. The Linux kernel has used them <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://lore.kernel.org/git/20050726073036.GJ6098@mythryan2.michonline.com/"> since 2005</a>. But GitHub never used <code>request-pull</code>.</p> <p>According to Linus Torvalds—Git’s creator—GitHub “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5654674">decided to replace it with their own totally inferior version</a>.”</p> <p>When <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://web.archive.org/web/20080303043315/http://github.com/guides/pull-requests"> the Pull Request debuted in 2008</a> it worked like this:</p> <ol type="1"> <li>Create a fork and click “Pull Request.”</li> <li>Send a message to <em>someone</em><a class="footnote-ref" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://tylercipriani.com/blog/#fn1" id="fnref1" name="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a> with a link to your fork, asking them to merge it.</li> </ol> <p>But while <code>git request-pull</code> generated a message template including a diff stat and changelog, GitHub hamstrung Pull Requests.</p> <p>GitHub provided only a small, empty <code><textarea></code>—Pull Requests were little more than unstructured emails to other GitHub users.</p> <figure><img alt="@chacon, Tue, 13 Aug 2024" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://photos.tylercipriani.com/2024-09-12_chacon-github.png"> <figcaption><a class="citation" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://x.com/chacon">@chacon</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://x.com/chacon/status/1823418993627017238">Tue, 13 Aug 2024</a></figcaption> </figure> <p>And Pull Requests still lacked any way to see changes via the web.</p> </section> <section class="level2" id="code-review-discussion-code"> <h2>“Code Review = Discussion + Code”?</h2> <p>It took two years for GitHub to show the <code>git diff</code> between two repos on GitHub.</p> <p>In 2010, “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://web.archive.org/web/20100720060404/http://github.com/blog/683-cross-repository-compare-view">cross repository compare view</a>” coupled with an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(online_communication)">unthreaded</a> comments section and became Pull Requests 2.0<a class="footnote-ref" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://tylercipriani.com/blog/#fn2" id="fnref2" name="fnref2"><sup>2</sup></a>.</p> <figure><img alt="GitHub Pull Requests circa 2010. This is from the official documentation on GitHub." src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://photos.tylercipriani.com/2024-08-31_github-pull-request-docs.png"> <figcaption>GitHub Pull Requests circa 2010. This is from the official documentation on GitHub.</figcaption> </figure> <p>Of course, the code and the comments were still on two different pages. It took another year before you could comment <em>in</em> the code.</p> </section> <section class="level2" id="inline-code-comments"> <h2>Inline code comments</h2> <p>In 2011, <code>rtomayko</code> made the first inline comment on a change, writing, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/mojombo/proxymachine/pull/9/files#r45">in full</a>: “<code>+1</code>”.</p> <p>Inline code review was far from a revelation. Guido van Rossum’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMql3Di4Kgc">Mondrian</a>—his 20% project at Google—had inline code comments by 2006. And there was an open-source version of Mondrian on the public web by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://codereview.appspot.com/10269/diff/1/5#newcode37">2008</a>.</p> <p>The Linux Kernel (using <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch">git format-patch</a>) had code comments since 2005.</p> </section> <section class="level2" id="githubs-code-review-is-still-behind."> <h2>GitHub’s code review is still behind.</h2> <p>In 2008, GitHub’s developers created a new kind of code review.</p> <p>But key features were missing. GitHub slowly tacked on these features:</p> <ul> <li>2010: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://web.archive.org/web/20100720060404/http://github.com/blog/683-cross-repository-compare-view"> Compare view</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/ignore-white-space-in-code-review/"> Ignore whitespace changes</a></li> <li>2016: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://web.archive.org/web/20160922130716/https://github.com/blog/2259-mission-report-github-universe"> “Approve”, “Request changes”, and “Start a review”</a></li> <li>2017: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/introducing-code-owners/"> Required review</a></li> <li>2019: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1179097330097643521">Multiline comments</a></li> <li>2023: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-merge-queue-is-generally-available/"> Merge queues</a></li> </ul> <p>Now, it’s 2024. And here’s a biased list of what I think is <em>still</em> missing:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Commit review</strong> – Ability to comment on the commit message.</li> <li><strong>Your turn</strong> – Like Gerrit’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-attention-set.html"> attention sets</a> – Microsoft recently did a study on a system called <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.michaelagreiler.com/code-review-reminder/"><em>Nudge</em></a> which was a similar idea, it yielded good results, reducing review completion time 60%.</li> <li><strong>User-defined review labels</strong> – “Approve”/“Request changes” is so limited—instead of using a complicated system of tags to mark changes ready for design approval, technical writing approval, style approval, and code approval—let repo owners figure out what approvals make sense for their project.</li> <li><strong>Hide bot comments</strong> – Allow me to hide bot comments so I can see the human comments.</li> <li><strong>Push to pull</strong> – Push to a special remote to create a pull request using my commit: <code>git push origin <branch>:refs/pull-request/<target-branch></code>.</li> <li><strong>Review in notes</strong> – Annotate commits with metadata in a special <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/11/19/git-notes-gits-coolest-most-unloved-feature/"> git note</a> <code>refs/notes/review</code>.</li> <li><strong>Stacked diffs</strong> – Just come on. You have infinite money.</li> </ul> <p>And at this point I made <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit">Gerrit</a>, but with more branches.</p> </section> <section class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"> <hr> <ol> <li id="fn1"> <p>“Someone” was a person chosen by you from a checklist of the people who had also forked this repository at some point.<a class="footnote-back" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://tylercipriani.com/blog/#fnref1">↩︎</a></p> </li> <li id="fn2"> <p>“Code Review = Discussion + Code.” was the headline of a blog post GitHub wrote circa 2010 introducing <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.blog/news-insights/the-library/pull-requests-2-0/">Pull Requests 2.0</a><a class="footnote-back" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://tylercipriani.com/blog/#fnref2">↩︎</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://timotijhof.net/posts/2024/lockfiles-for-apps-not-packages-still/">Lockfiles for apps, not packages (still)</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Thursday, 12 September 2024 23:00 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>TL;DR: My updated take is <strong>Lockfiles for Node.js apps, not for other projects.</strong></p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"> <p>When you run <code>npm install</code>, after you add or change a dependency in <code>package.json</code>, npm finds and selects the latest compatible version, downloads it, and replaces your <code>package-lock.json</code> file to describe what it found.</p> <p>The <code>npm install</code> command does not consider lockfiles from upstream packages you depend on. This is not a bug. It’s by design. The <code>npm publish</code> command explicitly omits lockfiles from any package.<sup class="footnote" id="fnr1"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://timotijhof.net/posts/2024/lockfiles-for-apps-not-packages-still/#fn1" rel="footnote" title="Jump to footnote 1">[1]</a></sup></p> <p>This and other factors led Sindre Sorhus (@sindresorhus), author of some of the most well-known and popular packages on npm, to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/479#issuecomment-310661514"> adopt this policy in 2017</a>:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p class="has-large-font-size">Lockfiles for apps, but not for packages.</p> </blockquote> <p>This was in response to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://blog.npmjs.org/post/161081169345/v500">npm enabling package-lock.json</a> in the npm 5.0 release.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Lockfiles are useful</h2> <p>Over the past decade, I found lockfiles to really shine and be “worth it” when:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>You maintain a Node.js-based application that you deploy as a finished product. Or;</li> <li>You maintain a command-line application that developers should install globally on their workstation, via <code>npm install -g</code>.</li> </ul> <p>When developing a Node.js-based service, you can commit a <code>package-lock.json</code> file alongside it. Combine this with a production deployment that runs <code>npm ci</code> (instead of <code>npm install</code>), and you can safely deploy changes (especially rollbacks, time-sensitive reverts after a faulty deployment) to your service <em>without</em> untimely updates to dependencies piggybacking as part of your deployment. There are other and better ways to accomplish this, but lockfiles are a decent start. In this case, I’d also run <code>npm shrinkwrap</code>, which renames the lockfile to <code>npm-shrinkwrap.json</code>. That clearly communicates that this lockfile is tied to your application’s deployment. But, any lockfile will do for this use case.</p> <p>When installing a package globally, e.g. <code>npm install -g fresnel</code>, npm can consider an upstream lockfile. Such upstream package <em>must</em> supply a shrinkwrap for npm to consider it. And, npm can only utlize it when installing the package standalone, i.e. globally. When developing an end-user application that you expect developers to install via <code>npm install ‑g</code>, by all means use a lockfile. Any lockfile that isn’t “shrinkwrapped”, won’t be published by npm as part of your package, and thus cannot benefit installations.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Global dependencies</h2> <p>Back in the early 2010s, it was common to find projects that couldn’t locally pass linters and tests, because it assumed a different version of JSHint or ESLint than I installed, for another project I contribute to. These kinds of problems tormented many frontend developers, when they first dabbled in CLI and server-side scripting. They would have their project rely on globally installed tools and, invariably, on a specific (yet undocumented) version.</p> <p>Over the past decade, the Node.js ecosystem has slowly learned its lesson. Packages now generally take care of their own dev tooling. In <code>package.json</code>, each package declares the relevant dev dependencies. We use <code>"scripts"</code> entries to execute commands like <code>eslint</code>, <code>qunit</code>, or <code>grunt</code>. This is especially convenient given that the commands of any dependency can be used directly in <code>"scripts"</code>. You need not specify the path to <code>node_modules</code> or call <code>npx</code> here.<sup class="footnote" id="fnr2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://timotijhof.net/posts/2024/lockfiles-for-apps-not-packages-still/#fn2" rel="footnote" title="Jump to footnote 2">[2]</a></sup></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Benefits and costs</h2> <p>Most repositories containing a package.json file are either:</p> <ol class="wp-block-list"> <li>packages published to npm, for use as dependency in another project, or</li> <li>projects that use Node.js tooling during development only — such as PHP, Ruby, Python, or C++ projects that may use tools like ESLint and QUnit for frontend testing. This includes Composer packages, WordPress plugins, and MediaWiki extensions.</li> </ol> <p>Note that neither of these fall under the categories outlined earlier (Node.js services, and Node.js global tools), and thus have no use for a lockfile. However, as maintainer, it costs you in busywork, support tickets, and sunkcosts you further into justifying other equally-fruitless busywork.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-full"><img alt="Open faucet splashing water from a fountain." class="wp-image-1154" height="683" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://timotijhof.net/wp-content/uploads/2024_lockfiles_faucet.jpg" width="1024"> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">In Dutch we have the idiom “<span lang="nl">dweilen met de kraan open</span>“, to mop while the tap is running. This perfectly captures the idea of a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boondoggle">boondoggle</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_work">busy work</a> more generally. (Image via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_Fountain_Frisch.jpg"> Wikimedia Commons</a>)</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Security updates</h3> <p>Okay, so you’re working on a project or package where you ostensibly don’t need a package-lock.json file. Can this impact security?</p> <p>For packages, we’ve already established that the lockfile can’t benefit your users. Hence, it does not delay or provide any protection from problematic updates. When they install your package, npm selects the latest compatible version of your dependencies. To pin a dependency, you have to pin it in <code>package.json</code>. This is best paired with a general reduction in risk by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://timotijhof.net/posts/2019/protect-yourself-from-npm/#fewer-dependencies"> reducing your dependencies</a>. Either way, a lockfile cannot help you.</p> <p>Okay, what about you? Does it help you as maintainer?</p> <p>For maintainers and contributors to your project, the first install downloads dependencies over the network, either way. Subsequent installs resolve versions against the online registry, then utilize the local npm cache, either way. Lockfiles accomplish nothing but a constant stream of patches (and conflicts) to said lockfile, to keep it identical to… how <code>npm install</code> leaves it. Also, notice what just happened. Yes, when you have a lockfile and run <code>npm install</code>, it changes. That’s because npm isn’t required to follow it. You could locally run <code>npm ci</code>, which does. However, assuming you semi-automatically update the lockfile regularly, what’s the difference? Have you ever <em>not</em> merged a patch that updates a lockfile to match <code>npm install</code>? Any issue captured by that would still be experienced by people using <code>npm install</code>, which is most people.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Pinning dependencies</h3> <p>Perhaps you have scars from a badly behaved dependency that broke compatibility in a semver-minor release. I know I do. It’s rare, but it happens. Lockfiles are an ineffective approach to pinning dependencies, though, as they aren’t applied in most cases, and get overwritten the very next time anyone runs <code>npm install</code>.</p> <p>A more effective solution, even if you do utilize a lockfile, is to pin dependencies in package.json first.</p> <p>I like to use <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v10/configuring-npm/package-json#overrides"> the “overrides” key</a>, to further separate these from my own dependencies.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">npm audit</h3> <p><code>npm audit</code> is great, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/">mostly</a>, and works regardless of whether you commit a lockfile.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Dependency update notifications</h3> <p>Perhaps you use GitHub Dependabot, or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/LibUp">Wikimedia LibUp</a>. Whether for security, or for other reasons, it’s useful to learn about available software updates, right? Yes! And, the great thing is, these work <em>even better</em> on <code>package.json</code> — without lockfile.</p> <p>GitHub scans for CVEs in indirect dependencies. It scans <code>package.json</code> too, and knows about affected packages and their downstream dependants. By not checking in your lockfile, it will inform you if, and only if, a change to <code>package.json</code> is needed. In most cases, a CVE or other bug is fixed in a patch release, and your package.json (or the one of the intermediary package) has a caret or tilde version that expands automatically to the newer version. By definition, if the Dependabot only changed package-lock.json, then it didn’t need to be done<sup class="footnote" id="fnr3"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://timotijhof.net/posts/2024/lockfiles-for-apps-not-packages-still/#fn3" rel="footnote" title="Jump to footnote 3">[3]</a></sup>. Whether you change the lockfile or not, anyone installing your project was already getting the update. The lockfile is ignored by npm-install, and isn’t part of your package. The lockfile merely describes what <code>npm install</code> last did.</p> <p>Suppose your project uses <code>eslint</code> and <code>@typescript-eslint/parser</code>, which has an indirect dependency on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.npmjs.com/package/micromatch">micromatch</a>. Then, a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/blob/4.0.8/CHANGELOG.md">CVE emerges</a>. The intermediary package uses a tilde or caret version, and the patch release is compatible and in-range. With a lockfile, you’d get notified and “have to” merge a patch to update your lockfile. Without a lockfile, this is a non-event as npm install was already installing said update. Okay, that one was easy.</p> <p>Suppose the intermediary dependency pinned micromatch to an exact version (or maybe the fix was outside its semver range). To get this update, you’ll need to upgrade <code>@typescript-eslint/parser</code>. And you can, because GitHub Dependabot scans your <code>package.json</code>, notifying you of package versions you rely on that have insecure dependencies. By removing the lockfile, it now only notifies you when your own dependencies are affected and/or when you have to use a newer version of your dependencies to obtain the update.</p> <p>Adding a lockfile in this scenario only serves to invite noise and churn over already-solved issues. In the event of malicious activity and compromised packages, the company behind npmjs.com (Microsoft/GitHub) deletes those releases from the registry. This isn’t what npm audit or lockfiles are for.</p> <p>We all care about security. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/wikimedia-balances-security-and-openness/"> I care about security</a>. But, be wary of performative security, which can cost you valuable code review time, CI resources, and support tickets (from users who mistakenly think you must update your lockfile to help them, when actually they need to update their own).</p> <p>Except when deploying Node.js apps, a lockfile brings you nothing but lost oppertunities.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Further reading</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/wikimedia-balances-security-and-openness/"> <em>Practicing Security At Wikimedia</em></a>, Timo Tijhof, 2023.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/"><em>npm audit: Broken by Design</em></a>, Dan Abramov, 2021.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.economist.com/business/2022/01/07/the-rise-of-performative-work"> <em>Office theatrics: The rise of performative work</em></a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://archive.is/0eG7w">archive</a>), The Economist, 2022.</li> </ul> <hr> <div class="footnotes">Footnotes: <ol> <li id="fn1">npm publish uses <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/npm/npm-packlist/blob/cb4a823cd42d50475a8e1e7582b95b15766f5ca2/lib/index.js#L290"> @npm/npm-packlist</a> which specifically excludes any package-lock.json file when creating the package tarball, before uploading it to the npm Registry. <a href="#fnr1" title="Jump back">↩︎</a></li> <li id="fn2">In other words, when run you execute commands from <code>package.json</code> via <code>npm test</code> or <code>npm run</code>, the <code>node_modules/.bin/</code> directory inside your current working directory is automatically included in the shell <code>PATH</code>. <a href="#fnr2" title="Jump back">↩︎</a></li> <li id="fn3">If you do maintain a lockfile, please, do not release updates to your package that only bump indirect dependencies in the lockfile. It is literally a no-op given that lockfiles are explicilty excluded from the package. <a href="#fnr3" title="Jump back">↩︎</a></li> </ol> </div> <hr> <p>This post appeared on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://timotijhof.net/posts/2024/lockfiles-for-apps-not-packages-still/"> timotijhof.net</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/mailto:hello@timotijhof.net?subject=RE%3A%20Lockfiles%20for%20apps%2C%20not%20packages%20%28still%29&body=%0A%0A%0APermalink%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Ftimotijhof.net%2Fposts%2F2024%2Flockfiles-for-apps-not-packages-still%2F" target="_blank">Reply via email</a></p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/12/wikimedia-foundation-bulletin-september-issue-1/">Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 1</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Thursday, 12 September 2024 21:50 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p><em>Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of September 2024. Previous editions of this bulletin <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Bulletin">are on Meta</a>. Let askcac<img alt="(_AT_)" height="16" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/16px-At_sign.svg.png" width="16">wikimedia.org know if you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement!</em></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Upcoming and current events and conversations</strong> </h2> <p><small><em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Committee/Talking:_2024"> Talking: 2024</a> continues</em></small></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>The Voting period for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024">2024 Board of Trustees election</a> is open until September 17. Go to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/400">SecurePoll</a> voting page to vote.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Conference_2025/Scholarships"> Scholarship application for Wikisource Conference 2025</a> in Bali, Indonesia is open until September 20.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_Nigeria_2024/Scholarship"> WikiConference Nigeria 2024</a> will be held in Abuja, Nigeria from September 12–14.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2024">Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024</a> will take place in Istanbul, Türkiye on September 20–22.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2024">Celtic Knot Wikimedia Languages Conference</a> will take place in Waterford City, Ireland on September 25–27<strong>.</strong></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ItWikiCon/2024">Italian WikiConference</a> will be held in Padua, Italy on September 27–29.</li> <li>Join <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Onam_2024">Wiki Loves Onam</a>, a photo campaign dedicated to documenting the vibrant and colorful festival of Onam on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign runs until September 30.</li> </ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><br> <strong>Annual Goals Progress on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2024-2025/Goals/Infrastructure">Infrastructure</a></strong> </h2> <p><small><em>See also newsletters: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Newsletter">Wikimedia Apps</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Newsletters">Growth</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter">Research</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Web_team%27s_projects">Web</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_updates">Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Tech News</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Language_and_Internationalization_Newsletter">Language and Internationalization</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Newsletters">other newsletters on Mediawiki.org</a></em></small></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370962">This</a> is a planned <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch">datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes</a>.</li> <li>The Alternative Text suggested edits feature has now been fully deployed to production on the iOS App for Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and French Wikipedias! This feature, part of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2024-2025/Product_%26_Technology_OKRs#WE1.2">WE1.2</a>, is designed to enhance how newcomers add alt text to images, aiming to improve accessibility and engagement. For more details, visit the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/iOS_Suggested_edits_project/Alt_Text_Experiment">project page</a> and explore the new feature in the app!</li> <li>Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualization can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project/Updates">read more about this project update</a> and help test the charts.</li> <li>A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia’s APIs <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API_Policy_Update_2024">has been published on Meta-Wiki</a>. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:API_Policy_Update_2024">the proposed update’s talk page</a> until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.</li> <li>More recent tech updates from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/03/tech-news-2024-36/">Tech News</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2024-09-06">latest status updates</a> from Wikifunctions.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/WikiProjects">Help us find WikiProjects</a> or other online collaboration spaces!</li> </ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><br> <strong>Annual Goals Progress on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2024-2025/Goals/Equity">Equity</a></strong></h2> <p><small><em>See also a list of all movement events: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AllEvents">on Meta</a></em></small></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/04/revamping-movement-strategy-grants-with-hub-focus/"> Revamping Movement Strategy Grants</a> with Hub Focus.</li> <li>Watch the recordings of Let’s Connect Grantee Partner Learning Conversation: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMmCJe4lyRs">Conversation #1 with Wiki in Africa, Wiki Advocates Philippines, and Indic MediaWiki Developers UG</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddHt4opRpqg">Conversation #2 with Wikimedia Community UG Malta, Wikimedia MA UG, and Wikimedia Canada</a>.</li> </ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><br> <strong>Annual Goals Progress on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2024-2025/Goals/Safety_%26_Integrity">Safety & Integrity</a></strong></h2> <p><small><em>See also blogs: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/global-advocacy">Global Advocacy blog</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://mailchi.mp/wikimedia/global-advocacy-policy-newsletter">Global Advocacy Newsletter</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimediapolicy.medium.com/">Policy blog</a></em></small></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Wikimedia Foundation defeats gambling magnate’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/08/26/wikimedia-foundation-defeats-gambling-magnates-lawsuit-in-germany/">lawsuit in Germany</a>.</li> <li>Wikimedia Indonesia and UNESCO Jakarta <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/03/wikimedia-indonesia-and-unesco-jakarta-team-up-against-harmful-content-online/">Team Up Against Harmful Content Online</a>.</li> <li>Child Rights Impact Assessment at EduWiki Knowledge Showcase and more: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/08/30/dont-blink-protecting-the-wikimedia-model-its-people-and-its-values-in-july-2024/">Latest updates</a> from the Global Advocacy team.</li> <li>Protecting the people: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/08/protecting-the-people-some-recommendations-for-safety-while-contributing-to-wikimedia-projects/">Some recommendations for safety</a> while contributing to Wikimedia projects.</li> </ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><br> <strong>Board and Board committee updates</strong></h2> <p><small><em>See <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard">Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/News">Affiliations Committee Newsletter</a></em></small></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>The Movement Charter Drafting Committee published their <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/08/30/recommendations-for-next-steps-from-the-mcdc-and-farewell/">recommendations</a> and bid farewell.</li> <li>Read updates from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/03/updates-from-the-july-2024-wikimedia-endowment-board-meeting/">July 2024 Wikimedia Endowment Board Meeting</a>.</li> <li>Learn more about 12 candidates running for 4 seats on the Board by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024/Candidates">reading their statements</a> and their <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024/Questions_for_candidates">answers to community questions</a>.</li> <li>See the new <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Committee">members of the U4C</a> following the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election, a new decision making group that will enforce the UCoC in specific circumstances.</li> </ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><br> <strong>Other Movement curated newsletters & news</strong> </h2> <p><small><em>See also:</em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/">Diff blog</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Goings-on">Goings-on</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-world/">Wikimedia World</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:WP:SIGNPOST">Signpost (en)</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Wikipedia:Kurier">Kurier (de)</a> · <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newsletters">other newsletters</a>:</small></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><small><strong>Topics</strong>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Education/News">Education</a> · <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=134036"><img alt="" class="wp-image-134036" height="768" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/TTT_2023_Day_3_-Kerala-organising-team.jpg?resize=1024%2C768" width="1024"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Co-host Community members during Train The Trainer 2023</figcaption> </figure> <p>The Centre for Internet and Society Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) program is thrilled to announce the ninth iteration of our annual event, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program"> Train-the-Trainer (TTT)</a>, scheduled for 2024. Since its inception in 2013, TTT has been a cornerstone for cultivating leadership and training skills among Wikimedia community members across India. Over the years, TTT has grown in significance, empowering hundreds of community members to take on leadership roles and contribute meaningfully to the movement.</p> <p>Building on past successes, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2024"> TTT 2024</a> is set to introduce innovative approaches that will deepen the learning experience and foster stronger engagement among participants.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Key Features of TTT 2024</strong></h2> <h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>1. Experiential Learning Focus:</strong></h3> <p class="has-text-align-left">This year, we are placing a stronger emphasis on experiential learning, allowing participants to immerse themselves in practical experiences and hands-on activities. This approach is designed to enhance the real-world application and retention of skills, ensuring that the training extends beyond the workshop and into everyday practice. The activities will be tailored to meet the participants’ needs, including exercises on leadership, collaboration with other community members, working on grants and etc.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>2. Bias Awareness and Inclusivity:</strong></h3> <p>TTT 2024 will include dedicated sessions on identifying and mitigating biases that can impede the development of inclusive and diverse communities. Participants will explore strategies to foster a more welcoming environment for all contributors, reflecting our commitment to building a more equitable Wikimedia community.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=134041"><img alt="" class="wp-image-134041" height="683" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Group_photo_of_Wikimedians_participated_in_Train_the_Trainer_2023_Kochi_DSC002.jpg?resize=1024%2C683" width="1024"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">TTT 2023 Group photo</figcaption> </figure> <p><br></p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>3. Collaborative Hosting with Odia Wikimedians User Group</strong></h3> <p>In 2023, the TTT was hosted by the Kerala Wikimedians User Group, continuing with this trend we are excited to announce that the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Odia_Wikimedians_User_Group#:~:text=The%20Odia%20Wikimedians%20User%20Group,Odia%2C%20other%20Wikimedia%20projects%20that"> Odia Wikimedians User Group</a> will co-host TTT 2024. Their involvement brings unique insights and perspectives, enriching the event and broadening the diversity of thought and discussion. This collaboration underscores the value of regional communities in shaping the future of the Wikimedia movement.<br></p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>4. Interactive Workshops and Networking</strong></h3> <p>Participants will engage in interactive workshops designed to hone their training techniques and leadership skills. The event will also provide ample networking opportunities, and fostering connections among community members from diverse backgrounds. These interactions will help build a stronger, more interconnected community of trainers.<br></p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">5. <strong>New Initiatives and Tools</strong></h3> <p>TTT 2024 will introduce new initiatives and tools that participants can leverage to enhance training effectiveness and community engagement. These resources are integral to the continuous growth and evolution of the Wikimedia movement, equipping trainers with the skills needed to inspire and lead their communities.<br></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Event Details and Scholarship Information</strong></h2> <p class="has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background">The scholarship application for TTT 2024 received 78 responses from contributors in 14 languages, including the Tech community. The scholarship process is being led by the co-host community and CIS-A2K, with decisions made collaboratively by the A2K team and the Odia Wikimedians User Group. This initiative ensures that deserving participants have the opportunity to join us, regardless of financial constraints.<br></p> <p><strong>Event Dates:</strong> October 18-20, 2024<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Odisha<br> <strong>Co-Host:</strong> Odia Wikimedians User Group</p> <p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>If you have any further queries or questions you can reach out to us at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/mailto:program@cis-india.org">program@cis-india.org</a>.</strong></p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/12/a-70-year-old-wikipedian-6-meet-various-wikipedians/">A 70-year-old Wikipedian (6) Meet various Wikipedians</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Thursday, 12 September 2024 19:10 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>This is an English translation of my book entitled “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://search.worldcat.org/ja/title/1411194956">A 70-year-old Wikipedian talks about the charm of libraries.</a>” Chapter 1, The Road to Wikipedia. Previously, click <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/09/a-70-year-old-wikipedian-5-labyrinth-by-yaeko-nogami/"> here</a>.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Meet various Wikipedians (Chapter 1-6)</h2> <p>Wikipedia writing had not progressed much since 2016, but at the 2018 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%B3%E6%9B%B8%E9%A4%A8%E7%B7%8F%E5%90%88%E5%B1%95"> Library Fair</a> in Yokohama, I found the “Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap Editing in Practice” event hosted by OpenGLAM JAPAN, applied for it, and went to the venue, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifico_Yokohama">Pacifico Yokohama</a>, on October 31, 2018. I was already familiar with editing Wikipedia to some extent, but this was my first experience with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap">OpenStreetMap</a>, where people create open data maps together, and it was quite interesting. I guess this is another form of collective knowledge. After the explanation, Wikipedian <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:%E3%81%95%E3%81%8B%E3%81%8A%E3%82%8A"> Sakaori</a> gave us some tips on how to edit Wikipedia during the practical training. I was glad that he was so attentive to beginners’ questions.</p> <p>While strolling around the venue after the event, I bumped into Kazue Takano. I first met Ms. Takano at the Library Camp planned by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A1%E6%9C%AC%E7%9C%9F">Makoto Okamoto</a> of ARG (now <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://arg-corp.jp/">arg</a>). When I heard from her that she was going on a tour to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onna,_Okinawa">Onna Village in Okinawa Prefecture</a> in February 2019 to do a Wikipedia Town Editathon, I was very interested in going and applied to participate. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I023995903-i26221880"> The 25th issue of “Library Resource Guide”</a>, published just before the tour, was a special issue on Wikipedia Town, so of course I bought and read it.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136834"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136834" height="683" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Onna_Village_Culture_And_Information_Center_2019-09-13_7_sa1.jpg?w=1024&resize=1024%2C683" style="width: 656px; height: auto;" width="1024"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Onna Village Culture And Information Center, Okinawa, Japan</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Finally, I arrived in Okinawa on February 3, 2019, and headed to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%81%A9%E7%B4%8D%E6%9D%91%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E6%83%85%E5%A0%B1%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC"> Onna Village Culture And Information Center</a>, the venue for the event on the following day, a wonderfully located library with a view of the Okinawan sea from between the stacks on the second floor. Wikipedia Town was first guided by the Cultural And Information Center staff to various spots in the village. I was in charge of “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamada_Castle">Yamada Castle</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wikicelebrate/">山田城</a>),” so I listened to the talk and took pictures with particular interest. In Okinawa, a castle is called a “gusuku”. Yamada Castle itself does not exist today, but the ruins of the castle are a national historic site. I was surprised to hear the Center staff vividly describe the centuries-old history of the castle.</p> <p>After lunch, we returned to the Center to start editing Wikipedia. The “Yamada Castle” group consisted of two people from the Center, myself and one other person. The article itself was already on Wikipedia, but it was very simple, so we all added information to it. The participants from Tokyo were not familiar with local information, but they were all very experienced in using the bibliography, so they were able to add proper references to the information one after another. Whenever we were not sure how to edit a page, we asked a veteran Wikipedian, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:%E6%B5%B7%E7%8D%BA"> Racco</a>, who was participating via Zoom from Tokyo, and we all agreed that we understood each other. We managed to finish editing the article within the time limit, and each group presented their results to each other to check the finished article, which was then reviewed by Racco. The photo shows “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Manzamo">Cape Manzamo</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%87%E5%BA%A7%E6%AF%9B">万座毛</a>),” where the article was enhanced at that time.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136833"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136833" height="683" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Onna_Okinawa_Japan_Cape-Manzamo-011.jpg?w=1024&resize=1024%2C683" style="width: 628px; height: auto;" width="1024"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The scenic area of Cape Manzamo Cliffs, Onna, Okinawa, Japan</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>I could see that Wikipedia Town was an excellent initiative, but on the other hand, my own interests are not in geography or tourist information, but in music and literature, so I began to wonder vaguely if a different approach was needed. It was at this time that Racco invited me to participate in an event called <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://baexong.net/2019-af-wiki/">Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2019</a>. This was an event to put information about women and artists on Wikipedia, and the lecturers were Sae Kitamura a.k.a. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E3%81%95%E3%81%88%E3%81%BC%E3%83%BC"> Saebo</a> and Racco. 15 people attended the event, including <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:%E3%81%AE%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%8D"> Norimaki</a>, a veteran of Wikipedia. At that time, I had been wanting to write about a certain Japanese person for a long time, and I put the outline in my sandbox while learning various things from Norimaki. Meanwhile, a number of others were working on translating articles, and I became interested in translating foreign language articles.</p> <p>After this event, I attended two study sessions of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page">Wikidata</a>, a sister project of Wikipedia, which I learned about from Racco, and got an overview of the project. I also got acquainted with Shusaku Higashi, the leader of the project, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:Araisyohei"> Araisyohei</a>, one of the participants. Recently, I read <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%90%91%E4%B8%80%E8%BC%9D"> Ikki Omukai</a>‘s article “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I029864223">Everything becomes Q</a>” about Wikidata, and I think I have a better understanding of the reason for Wikidata’s existence. This wikidata is really useful when creating translation articles. I don’t know enough about Wikidata to be able to explain it, but it is true that my world has expanded a lot since then. Whenever I open a Wikipedia article, I open the corresponding Wikidata page, and if the “Description” field is empty, I copy the definition from Wikipedia to fill in the blanks. This makes me feel happy: “Ah, I’ve made another contribution to the world of the Web today!”</p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/12/wiki-takes-and-archaeology-synergies-for-heritage-documentation-and-dissemination/">Wiki Takes and archaeology: Synergies for heritage documentation and dissemination</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Thursday, 12 September 2024 19:08 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>The Wikimedian community gathered with cameras in hand during the recent Wiki Takes held in the summer of 2024, in the Spanish provinces of Burgos and Segovia. On this occasion, the activity focused on archaeological and rural heritage, and the creation of synergies to document and disseminate it. Therefore, the event not only attracted amateur and professional photographers, but also archaeologists, historians and interested people, fostering an atmosphere of collaboration and learning. All the collected material will be available on Wikimedia Commons. </p> <p>We share with you some of the participants’ testimonies so that you can learn first-hand what this activity meant to each one of them.    </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Heritage and free knowledge</strong> </h2> <p>Adrián Estévez, Wikimedia Spain member and attendee of the archaeological <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Takes_Arqueolog%C3%ADa_Rural,_Guzm%C3%A1n" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Wiki Takes in Guzmán, Burgos</a>, says that the activity provided him with an invaluable opportunity to continue documenting heritage. In addition, he had the chance to learn about fascinating archaeological projects and to connect with people involved in free knowledge. For Adrián, this experience was not only educational, but also a way to contribute to the preservation and dissemination of heritage.  </p> <p>For Santiago de Viana, also a member of Wikimedia Spain and a participant in the same archaeological Wiki Takes of Guzmán, this experience has been a revelation. Attending his first Wiki Takes has allowed him to discover innovative methods for the generation and dissemination of knowledge. </p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136761"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136761" height="600" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Wiki_Takes_Arqueologia_Rural_en_Guzman_-_encontro-1-1.jpg?resize=800%2C600" style="width: 772px; height: auto;" width="800"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Takes_Arqueolog%C3%ADa_Rural_en_Guzm%C3%A1n_-_encontro.jpg"> Estevoaei</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>On the side of those who attended the archaeological <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Takes_Arqueolog%C3%ADa_Rural,_Bernardos" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Wiki Takes in Bernardos, Segovia</a>, we have Florencia Claes, president of Wikimedia Spain, who tells us that this experience allowed her to get in touch with a topic far from her daily routine. For her, connecting with people dedicated to activities very different from her own, but with a common passion for the dissemination of knowledge, was a highlight. This interaction showed her that, despite different interests, there is a shared essence in the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge.  </p> <p>Another attendee at Bernardos was Miguel Sevilla-Callejo, a member of OpenStreetMap (OSM). Sevilla-Callejo emphasised how enriching it was to have direct contact with the archaeological subject matter in the field. Being able to contextualise the findings in their historical space and time allowed him to learn first-hand about the historical and archaeological richness of places that, at first glance, might seem to be ‘in the middle of nowhere’. This experience opened his eyes to the importance and potential of these sites. </p> <p>Finally, Ismael Olea, member of Wikimedia Spain, reflects on his experience in Bernardos, highlighting the excitement of learning about issues beyond computer science, his usual field. On this occasion, discovering the reality of the archaeological profession and the enormous heritage potential was impressive.   </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Generating synergies for documentation and dissemination</strong> </h2> <p>The archaeological Wiki Takes have strengthened the links between the different communities dedicated to free knowledge and heritage preservation. For this reason, it is emphasised that this type of activity not only educates, but also inspires people to continue collaborating for the common benefit of society.  </p> <p>Adrián, for his part, highlights the general and introductory talk that helped people to learn not only about the Wiki Takes project, but also about the broader meaning of free knowledge. The importance of documenting cultural and archaeological heritage was also discussed. </p> <p>Discovering the rural landscape of Burgos and its charming villages has been a fantastic experience for Santiago. ‘Not only did we have the opportunity to be surrounded by the natural beauty of the region, but we were also accompanied by a group of experts who instructed us in its local history’.   </p> <p>Florencia highlighted the opportunity to strengthen ties. ‘One of the things I have enjoyed the most is to strengthen ties with the OSM community. I think we have a lot in common and we can work hand in hand,’ she said. Both groups are voluntary communities committed to digital procommons in an altruistic way and with a clear positive impact on society. Friki calls friki! </p> <p><em>‘One of the things I’ve enjoyed the most is the closer ties with the OSM community. I think we have a lot in common and we can work together. </em></p> <p> </p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-full"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136762"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136762" height="599" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dolmen_de_Santa_Ines_4.jpg?resize=796%2C599" width="796"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dolmen_de_Santa_In%C3%A9s_4.jpg"> Ismael Olea</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>For his part, Miguel emphasised the importance of gathering information in the field. ‘Undoubtedly, gathering information on the ground from the people involved in the recognition and appreciation of the archaeological heritage of the area is fundamental. In addition, we were helping to upload some of that knowledge to the Wikimedia and OSM platforms,’ he said.  </p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><em>‘Undoubtedly, gathering information on the ground from the people involved in the recognition and appreciation of the archaeological heritage of the area is fundamental’.</em>  </p> </blockquote> <p>Ismael shared his satisfaction with the accommodation and logistics of the event. ‘The accommodation was magnificent. The treatment was excellent. The attitude of the participants was also magnificent. The visit to the three sites was great,’ he said with great enthusiasm.  </p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><em>‘The accommodation was great. The treatment was excellent. The attitude of the participants, also magnificent…’.</em> </p> </blockquote> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>What reflections do you take away with you? </strong> </h2> <p>Adrian stresses the importance of creating an organisational protocol for the Wiki Takes. Although improvisation can result in good photos, a well-structured plan ensures that everything is carried out in an orderly way. In the field of archaeology, he considers it essential to catalogue each campaign annually to document progress. In addition, he stresses the importance of creating Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items about the findings, including links to relevant publications. Archaeology professionals, with their knowledge of access to free documentation, can contribute significantly to referencing this content. </p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><em>‘I think in the field of archaeology it is nice to catalogue each campaign annually, so that we can document the progress made. </em>  </p> </blockquote> <p>For his part, Santiago points out that this experience was a unique opportunity to think outside the box and explore how editors and the Wikimedia community can interact more dynamically in the field, without limiting themselves to online editing. Furthermore, this initiative allowed us to discover the wealth of knowledge that both the archaeological group and the local inhabitants possess, knowledge that is invaluable for accessing information. They can guide and show where, while we can help digitize them, establishing a crucial symbiosis for the preservation and dissemination of knowledge.   </p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><em>‘A clear example is the bibliographic material of the town of Guzmán, which included signatures of historical people in the public domain, such as that of Bishop Cristóbal de Guzmán Santoyo de Beltrán. In other circumstances, this information would have been much more difficult to obtain’.</em> </p> </blockquote> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136763"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136763" height="683" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Wiki_Takes_Arqueologia_Rural_en_Guzman_-_grupo.jpg?resize=1024%2C683" width="1024"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Takes_Arqueolog%C3%ADa_Rural_en_Guzm%C3%A1n_-_grupo.jpg"> Estevoaei</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Florencia highlights the multiple ways of sharing knowledge and strengthening the digital positioning of rural areas through <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portada" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>. She underlines the importance of raising awareness among local actors about the value of heritage and how they can collaborate in adding materials. Florencia also mentions the importance of raising awareness on the ground about heritage care and the need to publicize this work.  In addition, she identifies potential in working with different agents, from universities to town councils, to promote quality tourism and enhance the value of sites and local heritage. </p> <p>Miguel argues that activities on the ground multiply synergies to enhance the value of rural areas. He proposes to continue working with free knowledge communities, such as Wikimedia and OSM. He considers that there is much to be done in terms of locating and mapping archaeological sites and places, as well as related infrastructure. Suggests exploring collaborations with projects such as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.facebook.com/p/Eresma-Arqueol%C3%B3gico-100035120804228/?locale=es_LA" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Eresma Arqueológico</a>, town councils and other institutions to promote and subsidise these activities. </p> <p>Finally, Ismael finds many possibilities for collaboration in the field of archaeology. He proposes adjusting the format of these initiatives to a retreat or workshop, including site visits. This structure could facilitate closer and more effective collaboration between the different actors involved.  </p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-full"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136764"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136764" height="450" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dolmen_de_Santa_Ines_wikitakes_arqueo-10.jpg?resize=800%2C450" width="800"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dolmen_de_Santa_In%C3%A9s_wikitakes_arqueo-10.jpg"> Florenciac</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>This activity not only allowed participants to broaden their knowledge and skills, but also to value the work and dedication of those who strive to preserve our cultural heritage. Furthermore, the integration of initiatives such as Wiki Takes with archaeology offers a vast field of possibilities for documenting and promoting local cultural heritage.   </p> <p class="has-text-align-center"><strong><em>Collaboration between professionals, institutions and local communities is key to maximising impact and ensuring the preservation and dissemination of knowledge. </em>  </strong></p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2024/10">Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2024/10</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Wednesday, 11 September 2024 18:02 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" dir="ltr" lang="en"> <p><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter">News and updates for administrators</a> from the past month (September 2024).</p> <figure class="mw-halign-right"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ANEWSicon.png"><img class="mw-file-element" height="151" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/ANEWSicon.png/150px-ANEWSicon.png" width="150"></a></figure> <p><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Administrator.svg"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Wikipedia_Administrator.svg/20px-Wikipedia_Administrator.svg.png" width="20"></a></span> <b>Administrator changes</b></p> <dl> <dd><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg" title="Added"><img alt="added" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Gnome-colors-list-add.svg/20px-Gnome-colors-list-add.svg.png" width="20"></a></span> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Asilvering" title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Asilvering">Asilvering</a></dd> <dd><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg" title="Readded"><img alt="readded" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg/20px-Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg.png" width="20"></a></span></dd> <dd><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg" title="Removed"><img alt="removed" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg/20px-Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg.png" width="20"></a></span> · <div class="hlist inline"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1243351441#Wikipedia:Inactive_administrators/2024#September_2024" title="Special:PermanentLink/1243351441">Good Olfactory</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1243351441#Wikipedia:Inactive_administrators/2024#September_2024" title="Special:PermanentLink/1243351441">Hesperian</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1243351441#Wikipedia:Inactive_administrators/2024#September_2024" title="Special:PermanentLink/1243351441">I JethroBT</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1244096990#Desysop_request_(Woody)" title="Special:PermanentLink/1244096990">Woody</a></li> </ul> </div> </dd> </dl> <p><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Checkuser_Logo.svg"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/Checkuser_Logo.svg/20px-Checkuser_Logo.svg.png" width="20"></a></span> <b>CheckUser changes</b></p> <dl> <dd><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg" title="Readded"><img alt="readded" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg/20px-Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg.png" width="20"></a></span> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1244158429#Change_to_the_Functionary_team" title="Special:PermanentLink/1244158429">Barkeep49</a></dd> <dd><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg" title="Removed"><img alt="removed" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg/20px-Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg.png" width="20"></a></span> <div class="hlist inline"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1245151768#Change_to_the_Checkuser_team" title="Special:PermanentLink/1245151768">Doug Weller</a></li> <li><a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/27415814#Spicy@enwiki" title="m:Special:Permalink/27415814">Spicy</a></li> </ul> </div> </dd> </dl> <p><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_check.svg"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png" width="20"></a></span> <b>Guideline and policy news</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrator_elections" title="Wikipedia:Administrator elections">Administrator elections</a> are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RFA" title="Wikipedia:RFA">requests for adminship</a> (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SecurePoll" title="meta:SecurePoll">SecurePoll voting</a> from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrator_elections" title="Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections">Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections</a>.</li> </ul> <p><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Octicons-tools.svg"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Octicons-tools.svg/20px-Octicons-tools.svg.png" width="20"></a></span> <b>Technical news</b></p> <p><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scale_of_justice_2.svg"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Scale_of_justice_2.svg/20px-Scale_of_justice_2.svg.png" width="20"></a></span> <b>Arbitration</b></p> <p><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Info_Simple_bw.svg"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="20" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Info_Simple_bw.svg/20px-Info_Simple_bw.svg.png" width="20"></a></span> <b>Miscellaneous</b></p> <hr> <div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <div class="hlist"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators%27_newsletter" title="Wikipedia talk:Administrators' newsletter">Discuss this newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/Subscribe" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/Subscribe">Subscribe</a></li> <li><a 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title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2019/7">07</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2019/8" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2019/8">08</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2019/9" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2019/9">09</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2019/10" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2019/10">10</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2019/11" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2019/11">11</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2019/12" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2019/12">12</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>2020</b>: <a 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title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2020/6">06</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2020/7" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2020/7">07</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2020/8" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2020/8">08</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2020/9" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2020/9">09</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2020/10" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2020/10">10</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2020/11" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2020/11">11</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2020/12" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2020/12">12</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>2021</b>: <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/1" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/1">01</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/2" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/2">02</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/3" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/3">03</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/4" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/4">04</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/5" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/5">05</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/6" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/6">06</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/7" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/7">07</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/8" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/8">08</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/9" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/9">09</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/10" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/10">10</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/11" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/11">11</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2021/12" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2021/12">12</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>2022</b>: <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/1" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/1">01</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/2" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/2">02</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/3" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/3">03</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/4" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/4">04</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/5" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/5">05</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/6" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/6">06</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/7" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/7">07</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/8" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/8">08</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/9" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/9">09</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/10" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/10">10</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/11" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/11">11</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2022/12" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2022/12">12</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>2023</b>: <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/1" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/1">01</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/2" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/2">02</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/3" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/3">03</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/4" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/4">04</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/5" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/5">05</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/6" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/6">06</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/7" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/7">07</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/8" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/8">08</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/9" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/9">09</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/10" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/10">10</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/11" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/11">11</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2023/12" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/12">12</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>2024</b>: <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2024/1" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2024/1">01</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2024/2" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2024/2">02</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2024/3" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2024/3">03</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2024/4" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2024/4">04</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2024/5" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2024/5">05</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2024/6" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2024/6">06</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2024/7" 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Archive  >></a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimedia.brussels/wikipedia-and-the-digital-services-act-lessons-on-the-strength-of-community-and-the-future-of-internet-regulation/">Wikipedia and the Digital Services Act: Lessons on the strength of community and the future of internet regulation</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Wednesday, 11 September 2024 11:09 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p><em>Written by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.thenewfederalist.eu/_jacob-rogers-associate-general-counsel-at-the-wikimedia-foundation_"> Jacob Rogers, Associate General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation</a></em>. Here, you may find the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.thenewfederalist.eu/wikipedia-and-the-digital-services-act-lessons-on-the-strength-of?lang=fr"> link to the original interview.</a></p> <p><em><strong>We share some considerations about the application of the recently adopted Digital Services Act (DSA), which lays down a new set of rules for online platforms. Under these new rules, Wikipedia has been designated as a VLOP and therefore bears some specific obligations. After one year of formal application, a first preliminary evaluation can be done. In this sense, the interview highlights Wikipedia’s specific characteristics, analyses the compliance burdens for the Wikimedia Foundation and offers some guidance for the future in order to preserve the Wikimedia model.</strong></em></p> <span id="more-3408"></span> <p>This week marks one year since the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-services-act_en"> European Union’s Digital Services Act</a> (DSA) formally applied to Wikipedia. The DSA is a law that governs how to host websites for people in the European Union (EU). Wikipedia is just one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/list-designated-vlops-and-vloses"> 19 platforms</a> to be designated as a “Very Large Online Platform”; (VLOP) under the DSA because of its many European readers, meaning it now faces greater regulatory scrutiny. Notably, Wikipedia stands apart as the only VLOP that is hosted by a not-for-profit organization, the Wikimedia Foundation.</p> <p>For many, including tech journalists and policymakers, it may come as a surprise to learn that Wikipedia is in the same DSA category as some of the best known for-profit social media websites, such as Facebook, TikTok, X (Twitter), and YouTube. Besides its nonprofit status, Wikipedia is unique because it is truly community governed. The information on Wikipedia is written and verified by a global community of over 265,000 volunteers, contributing to more than 63 million articles in over 300 languages. Moreover, those users, and not the Wikimedia Foundation as website host, set the editorial policies that determine what information will be on Wikipedia and how to write about it.</p> <p>Volunteers compile and share information on notable subjects, citing reliable sources such as newspaper articles and peer-reviewed journals, according to the encyclopedia’s editorial <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Core_content_policies">policies and guidelines</a>. Only encyclopedic content is allowed on Wikipedia. Personal experiences, opinions, or original research are not permitted. The site is not funded by advertising; it does not track your activity, sell your information, or use algorithms to promote content. No matter where you are in the world, which device you are using, or what’s in your browser history, everyone sees the exact same information on Wikipedia.</p> <p>After one year of working to meet a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-services-act/europe-fit-digital-age-new-online-rules-platforms_en#tailored-asymmetric-obligations"> wide range of obligations</a> under the DSA, we are reflecting on our learnings and perspectives on this law and its possible impact in the EU and beyond. While there are many positive aspects of the DSA — such as its emphasis on human rights, transparency, and accountability — the law presents compliance burdens for nonprofits like ours, and its approach may backfire if applied to countries with weaker governance systems.</p> <p><strong>The Global Implications of the DSA: A Cautionary Note</strong></p> <p>The DSA aims to create a safer internet by requiring platforms to implement measures that mitigate risks, prevent the spread of illegal content, and ensure users’ rights are protected. These principles have long been championed by Wikipedia: The platform’s open-editing system, combined with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8dQVKUE9go&list=PLVx9pX-VnGVh9Akb-O-SAKZ-GDTVTHZqS&index=7"> robust moderation</a> by volunteers, has made it a trusted source of information for people worldwide.</p> <p>We believe the DSA is a solid blueprint for legislation in other democratic jurisdictions with strong regulatory institutions, free press, and independent legal systems. It has the potential to help protect the rights of internet users across Europe. However, we are concerned about how the DSA’s approach and requirements could be misused in countries with weaker democratic institutions, where the law’s provisions could be used to intimidate website hosts into stifling free expression and access to information.</p> <p>Even within the EU, during this past year, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/27/high-stakes-for-the-wikimedia-projects-in-portugal-fighting-a-strategic-lawsuit-against-public-participation-slapp/"> several</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/08/26/wikimedia-foundation-defeats-gambling-magnates-lawsuit-in-germany/"> people</a> have attempted to use claims of illegal content to get legitimate information removed from Wikipedia. These <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation"> “SLAPP” (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation)</a> cases are lawsuits in which powerful individuals or entities try to use claims of illegal content to prevent public discussion and knowledge sharing on important topics. In regions without robust safeguards, regulations like the DSA that require platforms to respond to these demands of illegality could push platforms into the role of censors on behalf of governments or those with power.</p> <p><strong>Compliance Burdens for Nonprofits</strong></p> <p>A major challenge of the DSA is the compliance burdens it places on nonprofits like the Wikimedia Foundation. While we recognize the value of Wikipedia’s compliance with the DSA, and are working tirelessly to meet its requirements, the burden is substantial.</p> <p>Other VLOPs are primarily for-profit corporations with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://about.fb.com/news/2023/08/new-features-and-additional-transparency-measures-as-the-digital-services-act-comes-into-effect/"> vast resources</a> that are able to absorb the DSA’s regulatory impact more easily. Wikipedia, on the other hand, relies on donations and volunteer support. Even with highly efficient compliance efforts, the DSA likely represents a larger share of the Wikimedia’s Foundation’s resources than for any other VLOP. Despite these challenges, we have adapted to the DSA with resilience, demonstrating the strength of our model, centered on the contributions of hundreds of thousands of volunteers around the world who strive to make reliable knowledge accessible for all.</p> <p><strong>A Call for Harmonized Risk Assessments</strong></p> <p>We applaud that the DSA asks VLOPs to consider the risks their platforms pose to society, requiring annual <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/funding/digital-services-act-call-tenders-support-contract-systemic-risks-stemming-very-large-online#:~:text=Article%2034%20of%20the%20DSA,Dissemination%20of%20illegal%20content"> risk assessments</a>. When looking ahead to how internet regulations are developed worldwide, we advocate a harmonized approach to risk assessments that supports global human rights standards. This would minimize additional legal burdens on platforms and avoid a situation in which we must repeat nearly the same exercise to satisfy multiple jurisdictions.</p> <p>Further, a harmonized approach would be particularly beneficial for platforms like Wikipedia, which operates on the basis of language, not country or jurisdiction. The online encyclopedia must appear the same wherever it is accessed in order to enable volunteer editors, wherever they are, to collaborate together in their chosen language.</p> <p>By streamlining compliance, we can continue to focus on what we do best: providing free and open access to knowledge for everyone.</p> <p><strong>Community Resilience and Positive Impact Under the DSA</strong></p> <p>Over the past year, Wikipedia’s volunteer communities have <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Legal/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability/Trust_and_Safety/EP_report_2024"> successfully navigated</a> the threats of misinformation and disinformation to multiple elections held within the EU. By providing reliable and accurate information about candidates and issues to millions of people across several languages, volunteers demonstrate the alignment between Wikipedia’s mission and the intent of the DSA to benefit society.</p> <p>The DSA’s respect for and support of this community-led approach have been crucial to protect Wikipedia as a vital information resource. The DSA has played a role in ensuring that platforms like ours can continue to serve the public good without compromising our values of openness and neutral point of view.</p> <p>We are proud of our progress in meeting the DSA’s standards. While we share in much of the DSA’s spirit, there are important learnings from our experiences of working to comply with the law. Looking to the future, there are opportunities for improvement in how internet regulations are developed worldwide. To support websites like Wikipedia that are built in the public interest, governments must ensure compliance burdens are reasonable for nonprofits. Further, we encourage all governments to ensure that their laws do not inadvertently force websites to become censors for the rich and powerful.</p> <p>As the Wikimedia Foundation reaches this one-year milestone, we reaffirm our commitment to transparency, accountability, and free knowledge. With the support of our global volunteer community, we’re ready to continue to make reliable knowledge available for everyone, everywhere.</p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://glamwiki.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/this-month-in-glam-august-2024/">This Month in GLAM: August 2024</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Wednesday, 11 September 2024 10:50 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Aruba_report"> Aruba report</a>: Vacancy Wikimedian in Residence for Wikipedia on Aruba – Aruba on Wikipedia project</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Brazil_report"> Brazil report</a>: Technology and biodiversity: “Amazonian Knowledge on Wiki”</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Colombia_report"> Colombia report</a>: Colombia in Wikimania Mood</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Czech_Republic_report"> Czech Republic report</a>: Cooperation between National Library and Wikimedia CR was presented at Wikimania 2024</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/India_report"> India report</a>: Wikimedians-in-residence assigned to add lexicographical data of 5 endangered languages of West Bengal</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Netherlands_report"> Netherlands report</a>: 10 reasons why the National Library of the Netherlands moved its Wikimedia-related publications from SlideShare to Zenodo, and keeps them on Wikimedia Commons</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/New_Zealand_report"> New Zealand report</a>: Looking for Aotearoa’s next roving Wikipedian, a Wikidata Te Papa research expeditions publication & the Wikidata WikiProject IBC follow-up workshop</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Macedonia_report"> North Macedonia report</a>: An insight of Wkikimedia MKD’s 2024 GLAM Programme</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Poland_report"> Poland report</a>: What’s up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Switzerland_report"> Switzerland report</a>: Swiss GLAM Programme</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/UK_report"> UK report</a>: Indonesian Featured Article award</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/USA_report"> USA report</a>: Wikimania report and meetups</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library_report"> Biodiversity Heritage Library report</a>: BHL-Wiki Working Group August monthly highlights</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Special_story"> Special story</a>: Global GLAM Wiki Meetup – Future meetings and outcomes</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/AvoinGLAM_report"> AvoinGLAM report</a>: AvoinGLAM at Wikimania</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Content_Partnerships_Hub_report"> Content Partnerships Hub report</a>: Content Partnerships Hub at Wikimania; The Helpdesk; Metabase; UN collaboration day</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/WMF_GLAM_report"> WMF GLAM report</a>: Commons Impact Metrics, WikiLibCon25, and WikiConference North America</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2024/Contents/Events"> Calendar</a>: September’s GLAM events</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_4.2.0_released">Semantic MediaWiki 4.2.0 released</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Wednesday, 11 September 2024 00:50 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <div class="mw-parser-output"> <p><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Semantic MediaWiki 4.2.0 released</a></p> </div> <div class="mw-parser-output"> <div class="sil-interlanguagelink"></div> <p><b>July 18, 2024</b></p> <p><b><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Semantic_MediaWiki_4.2.0" title="Special:MyLanguage/Semantic MediaWiki 4.2.0">Semantic MediaWiki 4.2.0</a> (SMW 4.2.0) has been released today as a new version of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Semantic_MediaWiki" title="Special:MyLanguage/Semantic MediaWiki">Semantic MediaWiki</a>.</b></p> <p>It is a feature release that brings a faceted search interface (Special:FacetedSearch) and adds the source parameter to the "ask" and "askargs" API modules. Compatibility was added for MediaWiki 1.40.x and 1.41.x as well as PHP 8.2.x. It also contains maintenance and translation updates for system messages. Please refer to the help pages on <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Installation" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:Installation">installing</a> or <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Upgrade" title="Help:Upgrade">upgrading</a> Semantic MediaWiki to get detailed instructions on how to do this.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-165-btb-digest-26">Episode 165: BTB Digest 26</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Tuesday, 10 September 2024 23:56 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>🕑 23 minutes</p> <p>It's another BTB Digest, with highlights from five recent episodes. Jeffrey Wang discusses competing for European users, Taavi Väänänen describes the RealMe extension, Megan Cutrofello defends video game wikis with "spoilers", Moritz Schubotz analyzes MediaWiki as a math publishing tool, Viktor Schelling reminisces on the early days of a consulting company, and more!</p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikiedu.org/blog/2024/09/10/exploring-underwater-mountains-students-add-marine-microbial-hotspots-to-wikipedia/">Exploring underwater mountains: Students add marine microbial hotspots to Wikipedia</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Tuesday, 10 September 2024 16:00 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you think of the ocean, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Perhaps you envision well-known animals like whales or sharks, or the seemingly-endless horizon across the water. Few of us would picture the estimated 25 million underwater mountains rising from the ocean floor, and even fewer would think of the unique and diverse microscopic ecosystems which live on these seamounts.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ecologically critical yet underrepresented in public knowledge, these underwater microbial communities piqued the interest of two science students at the University of British Columbia. The duo teamed up to enhance the way we understand the ocean and some of its smallest life forms – through a</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamount_microbial_communities"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> new Wikipedia article</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for all to read.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Seamount microbial communities play significant ecological roles that are not well-documented, and we wanted to shed light on their potential impact on oceanic nutrient cycling and biodiversity conservation,” said fourth-year student Alia Kogiso. “This topic offered a unique opportunity to explore an underrepresented area in marine microbiology.”</span></p> <figure class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_82832" style="width: 380px;"><img alt="Alia Kogiso headshot" class="wp-image-82832" height="380" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://wikiedu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Alia-Kogiso-square-500x500.jpg" width="380"> <figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-82832"> Alia Kogiso. Image courtesy Alia Kogiso, all rights reserved.</figcaption> </figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kogiso, an Integrated Sciences major with a focus on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Structural Geology, worked with biology major Alyssa Jung to collect, review, and synthesize the related existing literature on the microbial communities. Together they brought the new, robust article to Wikipedia as their final project for Dr. Curtis Suttle’s</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/University_of_British_Columbia/EOSC_475_Marine_Microbiology_Spring_2024_(2)/home"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">marine microbiology course</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">this spring.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the article outlines, seamounts provide a variety of habitats, including rocky surfaces and hydrothermal vents, which support a wide range of microbial life. The microbial communities, characterized by their microbial diversity and adaptability to extreme conditions,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">such as high pressure, low temperatures, and limited nutrient availability, play crucial roles in nutrient cycling and ecosystem functioning, making them a critical part of ocean life. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our main goal was to ensure literature was being well-documented in an easier format than scientific paper,” said Jung, underscoring Wikipedia’s role as the world’s go-to source of information. “We hope that readers get a glimpse of the importance of microbes in an underexplored biodiversity such as seamounts.”</span></p> <figure class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_82835" style="width: 380px;"><img alt="Alyssa Jung headshot" class="wp-image-82835" height="380" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://wikiedu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ayssa-Jung-square-resized-500x500.jpg" width="380"> <figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-82835"> Alyssa Jung. Image courtesy Alyssa Jung, all rights reserved.</figcaption> </figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jung and Kogiso also ensured greater awareness of the implications of microbial communities in seamount ecosystems on biodiversity and ecological productivity, known as the “seamount effect.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The seamount effect alters ocean current patterns, enhancing biodiversity and productivity, making these areas crucial for understanding microbial community structures and ecosystems,” explained Kogiso. “We hope that our article helps readers unravel this complexity and inspires further exploration in this field.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The science students added an impressive 9375 words and 89 references to create the article, contributing to the incredibly impactful work of their class. Collectively, Suttle’s students in the spring 2024 course added 86K words to Wikipedia while creating 10 new articles and enhancing 35 existing articles through their</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikipedia assignments</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Their work on Wikipedia has been viewed nearly 500K times. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I loved this assignment because it allowed us to engage with a wider audience and develop skills in communicating science to the public, which I believe will be invaluable in a professional setting after graduation,” said Kogiso, who plans to pursue a career in environmental consultancy and project management. “This kind of opportunity is often lacking in traditional assignments.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From scientific research to writing in a neutral, accessible style, both assignment partners noted a range of skills and knowledge they developed throughout the process. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Writing this article not only enhanced my research skills but also deepened my understanding of marine ecosystems from a microbiological perspective,” said Kogiso, reflecting on her assignment experience. “I learned how to adapt complex scientific information for Wikipedia, which requires unique editorial considerations such as maintaining neutrality and citing reliable sources extensively.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Echoing her classmate’s reflection, Jung also emphasized the fun of learning new science-related concepts.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My family is very science-oriented,” Jung explained. “My father always taught me the fundamentals of the scientific method and different topics he was working on – I am glad to have something new to tell him!” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kogiso particularly enjoyed the collaborative nature of working on Wikipedia, noting both the challenge and pleasure of bringing different perspectives and expertise into a cohesive, unbiased narrative, a process that enhanced her own understanding of the topic.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The project was meaningful because it allowed me to contribute to a public platform that educates both myself and others, reinforcing my passion for environmental science and biology,” said Kogiso, who plans to continue to edit Wikipedia.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Like Kogiso, Jung also emphasized her interest in editing Wikipedia in the future as topics and new research catch her eye. Jung plans to pursue a career in secondary education, bringing her biology expertise to the high school classroom.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our support for STEM classes like Alia’s and Alyssa’s is available thanks to the</span></i> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/10/26/a-special-thanks-to-guru-krupa-foundation-for-supporting-students-in-stem/"> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Guru Krupa Foundation</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p> <hr> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interested in incorporating a Wikipedia assignment into your course? Visit</span></i> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/http://teach.wikiedu.org/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">teach.wikiedu.org</span></i></a> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">to learn more about the free resources, digital tools, and staff support that Wiki Education offers to postsecondary instructors in the United States and Canada.</span></i></p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://words.theresnotime.co.uk/2024/broken-nic-on-gpd-pocket/">Broken NIC on GPD Pocket</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Tuesday, 10 September 2024 00:00 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>[Just a quick post to get info in one place, sorry!] Info I have a GPD Pocket: running Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS with a BCM4356 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (PCI ID 14e4:43ec) with some issues: It appears like only 2.4GHz networks are being detected, and not 5GHz networks. That being said, our router is dual-band and I can’t see either network. Attempting to connect to a random 2.4GHz network crashes the network manager (WiFi icon/settings entry disappears, then reappears after a few seconds).</p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/09/tech-news-2024-37/">Tech/News/2024/37</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Monday, 9 September 2024 19:32 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>Latest <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">tech news</a></strong> from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/37">Translations</a> are available.</p> <p><strong>Feature news</strong></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Starting this week, the standard <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror">syntax highlighter</a> will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what’s to come on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror">help page</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365311">[1]</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059">[2]</a></li> <li>Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions <code>entity:getSitelink()</code> and <code>mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)</code> will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects/Projects/Watchlist_Wikidata_Sitelinks_Tracking">inconsistent sitelinks tracking</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295356">[3]</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Project updates</strong></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370962">[4]</a></li> <li>Contributors of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538#10123348">11 Wikipedias</a>, including English will have a new <code>MOS</code> namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with <code>MOS:</code> (usually shortcuts to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style">Manual of Style</a>) are not broken by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Moor%C3%A9">Mooré</a> Wikipedia (language code <code>mos</code>). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538">[5]</a></li> </ul> <p><em><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Tech news</a></strong> prepared by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers">Tech News writers</a> and posted by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery">bot</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute">Contribute</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/37">Translate</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech">Get help</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News">Give feedback</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors">Subscribe or unsubscribe</a>.</em></p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/09/wikimedia-japan-malaysia-and-turkey-friendship-editing-month-september-2024-has-started/">Wikimedia Japan, Malaysia, and Turkey Friendship Editing Month September 2024 has started!</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Monday, 9 September 2024 17:45 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>Hi! This is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Eugene_Ormandy">User:Eugene Ormandy</a>, a member of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toumon_Wikipedian_Club_Japan">Toumon Wikipedian Club Japan</a>. I’m very happy to announce that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Japan-Malaysia_Friendship/Wikimedia_Japan,_Malaysia,_and_Turkey_Friendship_Editing_Month_September_2024"> Wikimedia Japan, Malaysia, and Turkey Friendship Editing Month September 2024</a> has started!</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136485"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136485" height="600" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_d8d664.png?w=424&resize=424%2C600" style="width: 400px;" width="424"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Kurmanbek, CC BY 4.0</figcaption> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">What is it?</h2> <p>It is a Wikimedia editing campaign during September 2024. In the campaign, participants contribute to Wikimedia projects about something related to Japan, Malaysia, or Turkey.</p> <p>There are no strict rules! If you are interested in this activity, don’t hesitate to add your name to MetaWiki [[<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Japan-Malaysia_Friendship/Wikimedia_Japan,_Malaysia,_and_Turkey_Friendship_Editing_Month_September_2024">Wikimedia Japan-Malaysia Friendship/Wikimedia Japan, Malaysia, and Turkey Friendship Editing Month September 2024</a>]] and edit! It doesn’t matter which countries you live or which languages you use.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">History</h2> <p>This campaign is for the one year anniversary of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Japan-Malaysia_Friendship"> Wikimedia Japan-Malaysia Friendship</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Japan-T%C3%BCrkiye_Friendship"> Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship</a>. For these projects, various events such as a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/05/japan-themed-edit-a-thon-was-held-in-turkiye-hosted-by-bilgi-wikipedia-student-club/"> Japan-themed editathon at Istanbul Bilgi University</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/01/05/wikimedia-japan-malaysia-friendship-asean-japan-50-editathon/"> simultaneous editathons in Japan and Malaysia</a>, have been implemented.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/01/05/monthly-report-from-eugene-caner-and-taufik-november-2023/japan_themed_editathon_in_istanbul_bilgi_university_wikipedia_student_club_i_08/"> <img alt="" class="wp-image-110758" height="768" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Japan_themed_editathon_in_Istanbul_Bilgi_University_Wikipedia_Student_Club_I_08.jpg?w=1024&resize=1024%2C768" width="1024"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">A Japan-themed editathon at Istanbul Bilgi University (Kurmanbek, CC BY-SA 4.0)</figcaption> </figure> <p>In addition, because of the contribution of the projects, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kurmanbek">Caner</a>, one of the organizers from Turkey, was selected as one of the Wikimedian of the Year 2024 winners! (Needless to say, it is just one of the reasons — Caner achieved a lot of things!) To celebrate the achievements and strengthen our friendship more and more, we decided to hold editing month.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/14/monthly-report-from-eugene-caner-and-taufik-september-2023/image-82-2/"> <img alt="" class="wp-image-104086" height="495" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-82.png?w=512&resize=512%2C495" style="width: 400px;" width="512"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Ahmad Ali Karim, CC BY-SA 4.0</figcaption> </figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/09/28/diffquote-volume-1-9-september-2023/image-21-7/"> <img alt="" class="wp-image-102964" height="166" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-21.png?w=226&resize=226%2C166" style="width: 364px; height: auto;" width="226"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Kurmanbek, CC BY-SA 4.0</figcaption> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Flexible activities</h2> <p>We welcome flexible activities for the editing month! For example, we already had an online meetup on 1 September 2024 and we will write collaborative Diff posts. Moreover, I will join the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2024">CEE Meeting 2024</a> in Istanbul on 20-22 September from Japan.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136554"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136554" height="327" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_ff0ff7.png?resize=437%2C327" style="width: 400px;" width="437"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Kurmanbek, CC BY-SA 4.0</figcaption> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">For future</h2> <p>I hope this editing month strengthen the friendship between the three countries and encourage global Wikimedia Movement. If you are interested in this project, don’t hesitate to join!</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136352"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136352" height="600" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_ae59a8.png?w=450&resize=450%2C600" style="width: 400px;" width="450"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The organizers of the editing month at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Wikimania">Wikimania 2024</a> in Katowice, Poland. From left to right, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tofeiku">Taufik Rosman</a> (Malaysia), <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Eugene_Ormandy">User:Eugene Ormandy</a> (Japan), and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kurmanbek">Caner</a> (Turkey) / Rafli Noer Khairam, CC BY-SA 4.0</figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/technews/20240909000000/en">Tech News issue #37, 2024 (September 9, 2024)</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Monday, 9 September 2024 00:00 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content 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title="तकनीकी/समाचार/२०२४/३७ (43% translated)">हिन्दी</a></li> <li><a class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" dir="ltr" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/37/bn" lang="bn" title="প্রযুক্তি/সংবাদ/২০২৪/৩৭ (100% translated)">বাংলা</a></li> <li><a class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" dir="ltr" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/37/zh" lang="zh" title="2024年第37期技術新聞 (100% translated)">中文</a></li> <li><a class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" dir="ltr" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/37/ko" lang="ko" title="2024년 제37주 기술 소식 (100% translated)">한국어</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"> <h2 id="Tech_News:_2024-37"><span id="h-Tech_News:_2024-37"></span>Tech News: 2024-37</h2> </div> <div class="plainlinks"> <p>Latest <b><a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">tech news</a></b> from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/37" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/37">Translations</a> are available.</p> <p><b>Feature news</b></p> <ul> <li>Starting this week, the standard <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror">syntax highlighter</a> will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror">help page</a>. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365311">[1]</a><a class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059">[2]</a></li> <li>Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions <code>entity:getSitelink()</code> and <code>mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)</code> will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects/Projects/Watchlist_Wikidata_Sitelinks_Tracking" title="m:Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects/Projects/Watchlist Wikidata Sitelinks Tracking"> inconsistent sitelinks tracking</a>. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295356">[3]</a></li> </ul> <p><b>Project updates</b></p> <ul> <li>Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370962">[4]</a></li> <li>Contributors of <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538#10123348" title="phab:T363538">11 Wikipedias</a>, including English will have a new <code>MOS</code> namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with <code>MOS:</code> (usually shortcuts to the <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style">Manual of Style</a>) are not broken by <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Moor%C3%A9" title="w:en:Mooré">Mooré</a> Wikipedia (language code <code>mos</code>). <a class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538">[5]</a></li> </ul> <p><i><b><a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Tech news</a></b> prepared by <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers">Tech News writers</a> and posted by <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery">bot</a> • <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Contribute</a> • <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/37" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/37">Translate</a> • <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech" title="m:Tech">Get help</a> • <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News" title="m:Talk:Tech/News">Give feedback</a> • <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors" title="m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors">Subscribe or unsubscribe</a>.</i></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/08/protecting-the-people-some-recommendations-for-safety-while-contributing-to-wikimedia-projects/">Protecting the people: Some recommendations for safety while contributing to Wikimedia projects</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Sunday, 8 September 2024 12:00 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136270"><img alt="Image of the title slide of the presentation by the Wikimedia Foundation Human Rights Team from Wikimania 2024. The text says, "Protecting the people: Human Rights risks and recommendations for safety"" class="wp-image-136270" height="579" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Human-Rights-Team-Wikimania-2024.png?w=1024&resize=1024%2C579" width="1024"></a></figure> <p>Members of the Human Rights Team presented at Wikimania in Poland to raise awareness about some of the human rights risks that may be associated with volunteering on wiki projects and provide contributors with recommendations to maintain a safe and secure environment.</p> <p>Human rights are a little like oxygen: people tend to take it for granted until something goes wrong. We also tend to assume it’s all the same all over—at least until we transition from sea level to higher elevation and find out it’s not just the view that’s different. But the human rights that are recognized vary from place to place–not only across legal boundaries, but in different spaces within them. For instance, many of us can recall a time where online harassment was not taken seriously anywhere in the world. Additionally, the freedom to share information safely is not a guaranteed right. The United Nations has undertaken to recognize some <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights"> human rights as universal</a>, and in 2021 it affirmed that the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Human_Rights_Policy">The Human Rights Policy</a> commits the Wikimedia Foundation to protect, respect, and support the rights of users within our ecosystem. This includes how we respond to and protect members of our movement against demands and threats from governments that violate the human rights of people who contribute to or interact with the Wikimedia movement; how we respond to and protect against threats by malign non-state actors; how our projects and platforms can protect the rights of children; and all other ways that the activities and operations of our foundation, projects, and movement might affect the rights of employees, volunteers, audiences, donors, and the communities they belong to.</p> <p><strong>“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”</strong></p> <p>It is unfortunate that some people and entities would challenge the human rights of those who seek to share knowledge. As one of the teams at the Foundation committed to this work, the Human Rights Team supports volunteers being persecuted by governments or other organized actors for their good-faith contributions to the movement. Our objectives are twofold: first, to raise awareness among Wikimedia volunteers and the broader community about the potential human rights challenges that can arise from their invaluable work so that they can make informed choices about where and how to participate. Second, to present effective tools, strategies, and support to safeguard themselves against these risks, helping to create a safer and more secure environment for all contributors. </p> <p>Sharing with our contributors some of the fundamental threats against human rights can help create and foster a culture of respect and vigilance. The Human Rights Team believes that an informed volunteer is an empowered volunteer. We also aim to provide digital and physical safety measures for those at risk. </p> <p><strong>Human Rights are essential to enable the 2030 Vision. </strong></p> <p>While the Human Rights Team has a very specific focus, we work with other teams at the Foundation who are charged with creating the safety our movement needs to reach its 2030 vision: “By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us.” For example, we partner closely with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Legal/Global_Advocacy"> Global Advocacy team</a> whose role includes, among other things, overseeing the framework to ensure all Wikimedia Foundation operations and movement activities respect and protect the rights of everyone who touches and is touched by our projects. Like us, they also raise awareness of potential risks as they advocate for laws that enhance the safety of people participating in the free knowledge ecosystem. </p> <p>At our presentation and digital safety clinic in Poland, drawing from best practices and advice of multiple teams and community members, the Human Rights Team outlined some recommendations designed to enhance personal security, digital security, protect privacy, and promote a culture of respect and safety online for our volunteer community. Focusing on some of the more common issues encountered online, we discussed cyberbullying, doxing, and harassment, which are only some of the ways the human rights of people online are harmed.</p> <p>You can learn more about digital security and human rights by accessing our Learning Modules: </p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_HUM001+2022/about"> Assess your digital security risks</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_HUM002+2023/about"> Safety for Grant Recipients</a></li> </ul> <p>You can also view some of our online safety resources on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Legal/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability/Human_Rights/Digital_Security_Resources"> Meta-wiki</a>.</p> <p><strong>Safety is crucial if we are to meet our goal of promoting the free exchange of information. </strong></p> <p>Recognizing the importance of our work in free knowledge cannot be done without mentioning the importance of mental health for those doing the work. The Foundation has created and curates a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mental_health_resources">list of resources</a> for Wikimedians struggling with emotional challenges. In addition, for those Wikimedians working with our Human Rights Team because they are targeted by organized efforts to compromise their freedom and safety, we may be able to recommend access to counseling and support groups, ensuring our contributors can work safely and confidently without compromising their well-being. Please contact us at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/mailto:talktohumanrights@wikimedia.org">talktohumanrights@wikimedia.org</a> if you would like more information about this service.</p> <p><strong>Our duty and our responsibility.</strong></p> <p>Our vision is powerful, and it comes with a cost. Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://press.un.org/en/1997/19970623.sgsm6268.html">said</a>, “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” He also said that “What is so thrilling about our time is that the privilege of information is now an instant and globally accessible privilege. It is our duty and our responsibility to see that gift bestowed on all the world’s people, so that all may live lives of knowledge and understanding.” Upholding the right to safety while also enabling the free exchange of knowledge and ideas is critical to building a reliable knowledge ecosystem. </p> <p>Please contact us at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/mailto:talktohumanrights@wikimedia.org">talktohumanrights@wikimedia.org</a> if:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>You or someone you know face an organized threat to your safety or freedom based on your contributions to Wikimedia</li> <li>You want more information and resources to proactively protect yourself or your community against threats associated with your contributions to Wikimedia</li> </ul> <p>For emergencies that require immediate response, please email us at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/mailto:emergency@wikimedia.org">emergency@wikimedia.org</a> </p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/17480">weeklyOSM 737</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Sunday, 8 September 2024 10:13 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>29/08/2024-04/09/2024</p> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 710px;"> <p class="wp-caption-text"><img alt="lead picture" height="700" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/737_all.gif" width="700"></p> <p class="wp-caption-text">Tricks and tips on how to draw buildings [<a href="#wn737_31311"><sup>1</sup></a>] | © <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Koreller/">Koreller</a> | Map data © <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_and_Legal_FAQ"> OpenStreetMap contributors</a></p> </div> <h2 id="wn737_mapping">Mapping</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31311">[1] Koreller <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Koreller/diary/404988">showed</a> us a series of tricks and tips on drawing buildings (and shapes in general) using JOSM with the best symmetry and alignment.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_mapping_campaigns">Mapping campaigns</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31318">Inspired by the Paris 2024 Olympic Games the UN Mappers <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.linkedin.com/posts/un-mappers_competition-mappingchampionship-mapping-activity-7226226755429138435-ra_3"> hosted</a> a mapping competition in August. Check out the final <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.linkedin.com/posts/un-mappers_mappingchampionship-activity-7236684673161039872-jqhh"> results.</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_community">Community</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31308">Bastian Greshake Tzovaras <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://tzovar.as/open-source-streetview/">wrote</a> about why Panoramax is an important contribution to the open source mapping landscape.</li> <li id="wn737_31312">In Episode 249 of the Geomob Podcast, Ed <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-249">interviewed</a> Jo Walsh, an early OpenStreetMap pioneer, exploring the beginnings of the open data movement, the rise of initiatives like OpenStreetMap, and the ongoing challenges and future prospects for open data.</li> <li id="wn737_31314">Ceejay Abilay <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/PCeej/diary/404978">shared</a> his experience of speaking at the OpenStreetMap in-person training event hosted by Grab Philippines and the OpenStreetMap Philippines Community.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_events">Events</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31301">SotM Latam 2024 has extended the deadline for submitting proposals until Tuesday 10 September. You can <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://talks.osgeo.org/sotm2024-latam/cfp">send</a> your abstract of up to 500 words via the event’s Pretalx platform. Those who are unable to attend in person will be able to submit their presentation, in video format of up to 10 minutes, at a later stage. Registration is free.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_education">Education</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31309">Marcos Dione had an OpenStreetMap <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.osm.town/@mdione/113061632508819348">editing</a> session with his kids and later asked if there was a staging tool for parents to review and correct their children’s edits. NeatNit <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://fosstodon.org/@neatnit/113062044779767692">recommended</a> using the OSM sandbox instance for this purpose, while Matt Whilden <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.osm.town/@watmildon/113063537143789251">suggested</a> using the iD/Rapid export edits feature.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_osm_research">OSM research</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31299">A team of researchers has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://activmap.limos.fr/en/">developed</a> a suite of computer-assisted map design tools, aimed at creating maps accessible to visually impaired individuals, based on OSM data.</li> <li id="wn737_31306">HeiGIT <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://heigit.org/analysis-of-osm-building-data-completeness-using-new-data/"> reported</a> that they have <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/GIScience/global-urban-building-completeness-analysis/tree/master/notebooks"> assessed</a> the completeness of OSM building data using new data. Results indicate that from 2023 to 2024 completeness in most areas of the world rose more slowly than in previous years.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_software">Software</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31300">Due to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/#tethered-network-services"> introduction</a> of a new class of anti-feature and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3347">problems</a> with the F-Droid update, Organic Maps has been <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://fosstodon.org/@organicmaps/113050148958376004">hidden</a> from the default F-Droid search results for some users.</li> <li id="wn737_31317">Yohan Boniface <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://forum.openstreetmap.fr/t/beta-testeurs-needed/26689">invites</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/fr.svg"> you to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://dev.umap-project.org/en/">participate</a> in the beta testing of a new version of uMap.</li> <li id="wn737_31313">catme0w, a Google Summer of Code 2024 contributor, has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/catme0w/diary/404954">shared</a> their progress made on Stadia Maps’ Ferrostar project, an SDK for building turn-by-turn navigation applications.</li> <li id="wn737_31320">The latest version of JOSM has a new <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/23849">option</a>, ‘warn’, to only print warnings and errors to the terminal. This can be useful when collecting information to report a bug.</li> <li id="wn737_31323">Miles Alan has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://mepo.lrdu.org/">developed</a> Mepo, an OSM map viewer app for mobile and desktop Linux.</li> <li id="wn737_31321">A <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/9049">bug</a> in the Android version of Organic Maps 2024.08 is adding <code>outdoor_seating=no</code> to POIs when they are edited. The bug is currently being worked on.</li> <li id="wn737_31315">Raymond Camden <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.raymondcamden.com/2024/09/02/using-csv-data-with-leaflet"> explained</a> how to load CSV data into a Leaflet web map.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_programming">Programming</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31316">BuntingLabs has a fee-based service for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://buntinglabs.com/solutions/openstreetmap-extracts">downloading</a> OpenStreetMap data as GeoJSON. You can filter by tags, select by bounding box, and export as GeoJSON, all in a single curl command.</li> <li id="wn737_31324">Marquis de Geek has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ohai.social/@marquisdegeek/113073595907940148">developed</a> FlightSpy, a JavaScript application that generates an itinerary of what you’ll see from an aeroplane’s window throughout your entire journey. It uses both Flightradar and OSM data.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_releases">Releases</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31319">Beta 1.1.0 of the Panoramax Android app has been <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/nobelization/panoramax-mobile-app/releases/tag/v1.1.0-beta"> released</a>. It allows you to conveniently contribute street images to the open Street View alternative from your mobile phone. The release has an APK <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://github.com/nobelization/panoramax-mobile-app/releases/download/v1.1.0-beta/app-release.apk"> attached</a>, in case you want to give it a try.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_did_you_know_…">Did you know …</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31302">… that you can monitor OpenStreetMap edits in real time using <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://live.openstreetmap.fr/">OpenStreetMap live edits</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osm-in-realtime.jwestman.net/">OSM In Realtime</a>, or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/">Show Me The Way</a>?</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_other_“geo”_things">Other “geo” things</h2> <ul> <li id="wn737_31322">Mountain biking in Germany’s forests will be still <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.dimb.de/2024/08/22/bundeswaldgesetz-mtb-community-kann-aufatmen/"> allowed</a> <img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/de.svg">►<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www-dimb-de.translate.goog/2024/08/22/bundeswaldgesetz-mtb-community-kann-aufatmen/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN"><img src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/en-green.svg"></a>, at least according to a new draft of the Federal Forest Act. A previous draft of the act last November (we <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/16974#wn702_29737">reported</a> earlier) caused significant concern in the biking community, as it proposed major restrictions on mountain biking.</li> <li id="wn737_31305"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://geoo.fun/play">Geoo</a> is a geography learning game where you guess flags, capitals, and landmarks, and then compete with others on an online leaderboard.</li> <li id="wn737_31297">In the latest <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://youtu.be/WL0jY51PQR8">episode</a> of Developer Voice, Stadia Maps’ co-founder, Ian Wagner, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.osm.town/@stadiamaps/113044944989930186">discussed</a> Ferrostar, Stadia Maps’ Rust-based open-source navigation SDK.</li> </ul> <h2 id="wn737_upcoming_events">Upcoming Events</h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Where</th> <th>What</th> <th>Online</th> <th>When</th> <th>Country</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Stadtgebiet Bremen</td> <td><img alt="🗺" class="wp-smiley" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f5fa.png" style="height: 1em;"><img alt="🎂" class="wp-smiley" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f382.png" style="height: 1em;"> [Bremen] Mobile Mappingparty mit Kuchen <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3065/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-01 – 2024-10-01</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nairobi</td> <td>State of the Map 2024 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2642/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-06 – 2024-09-08</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ke.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bengaluru</td> <td>IndiaFOSS 4.0 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2964/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-06 – 2024-09-07</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/in.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>København</td> <td>OSMmapperCPH <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3087/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-08</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/07/dk.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Grenoble</td> <td>Atelier de rentrée du groupe local OpenStreetMap de Grenoble <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3091/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-09</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/02/fr.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>中正區</td> <td>OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #68 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2463/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-09</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/05/tw.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hamburg</td> <td>Hamburger Mappertreffen <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3105/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-10</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Salt Lake City</td> <td>OSM Utah Monthly Map Night <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2937/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-12</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/us.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Stainach-Pürgg</td> <td>14. Österreichischer OSM-Stammtisch (online) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2168/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-11</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/02/at.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lorain County</td> <td>OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2569/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td>✓</td> <td>2024-09-12</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/us.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Berlin</td> <td>195. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3086/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-12</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bochum</td> <td>Bochumer OSM Treffen <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2910/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-12</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>München</td> <td>Münchner OSM-Treffen <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2547/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-12</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3092/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-13</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lynnwood</td> <td>Mapping Lynnwood <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3100/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-14</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/us.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bielefeld</td> <td>OSM Ostwestfalen-Lippe <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2960/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-16</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>England</td> <td>OSM UK Online Chat <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3097/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-16</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/uk.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3079/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-17</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lyon</td> <td>Réunion du groupe local de Lyon <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3101/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-17</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/02/fr.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bonn</td> <td>180. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/2599/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-17</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>London</td> <td>Geomob London <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3039/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-18</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/uk.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Karlsruhe</td> <td>Stammtisch Karlsruhe <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3074/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-18</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kiel</td> <td>OSM auf den 22. Kieler Open Source und Linux Tagen <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3021/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-19 – 2024-09-21</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Amsterdam</td> <td>Maptime Amsterdam End of Summer Meetup <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3078/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-19</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2015/07/nl.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dresden</td> <td>Stammtisch Dresden <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3088/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-19</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dresden</td> <td>OSM auf den Datenspuren Dresden <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3089/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-21</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/01/de.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dublin</td> <td>OpenStreetMap Ireland AGM 2024 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3098/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-21</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://www.weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ie.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lamego (Almacave e Sé)</td> <td>Dia do Software Livre <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3093/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-21 – 2024-09-22</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/10/pt.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Strasbourg</td> <td>1er Atelier de cartographie sur OpenStreetMap <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3096/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-23</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/02/fr.svg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Arlon</td> <td>Rencontre OSM Luxembourg <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/event/3095/"><img height="16" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/osmcal.png" width="16"></a></td> <td></td> <td>2024-09-23</td> <td><img alt="flag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/05/be.svg"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Note:<br> If you like to see your event here, please put it into the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://osmcal.org/">OSM calendar</a>. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.</p> <p align="right"><i>This weeklyOSM was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/de/map/weeklyosm-is-currently-produced-in_56718#2/8.4/108.3"> produced</a> by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MatthiasMatthias">MatthiasMatthias</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Raquel%20Dezid%C3%A9rio%20Souto"> Raquel Dezidério Souto</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Strubbl">Strubbl</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheSwavu">TheSwavu</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/barefootstache">barefootstache</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/derFred">derFred</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/rtnf">rtnf</a>.<br> We welcome link suggestions for the next issue via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://weeklyosm.eu/en/this-news-should-be-in-weeklyosm">this</a> form and look forward to your contributions.</i></p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/08/celebrating-100-guest-speakers-and-their-audience/">Celebrating 100 guest speakers (and their audience)</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Sunday, 8 September 2024 07:00 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136073"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136073" height="768" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Wolken_und_Licht._Impressionismus_in_Holland_Museum_Barberini_Potsdam-40405.jpg?resize=1024%2C768" width="1024"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">© Raimond Spekking, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wolken_und_Licht._Impressionismus_in_Holland,_Museum_Barberini,_Potsdam-40405.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Wolken und Licht. Impressionismus in Holland, Museum Barberini, Potsdam-40405</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></figcaption> </figure> <p><strong>A pandemic baby of the Wikiverse has come to stay. For Wikimedia Deutschland in Germany and Wikimedia Österreich in Austria, the video conferences of the <em>GLAM Digital</em> event series have gone from being an emergency solution to a permanent additional service. The idea is simple: virtual specialist lectures by selected cultural and memory institutions (GLAMs) on various topics, followed by direct exchanges between our Wikipedia communities and the institution.</strong></p> <p>On the occasion of the 100th guest lecturer, it’s time to take stock. The 100 speakers came from 64 institutions. We have welcomed 1022 participants to the 41 events held to date. The participating institutions ranged from large institutions such as the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna or the Museum Barberini in Potsdam to discoveries such as the Archive of German Women’s Movements or the Wurzerhof Farm Museum in East Tyrol. Museum associations and national UNESCO commissions were also among the guests.</p> <p>The range of content was broad: from sharpening the art-historical view of individual exhibits to understanding socio-political contexts in the history of minorities. As we all know, sharing knowledge is not a one-way street. The institutions also gained new insights into free knowledge and the Wikimedia projects during the discussions. With <em>GLAM Digital</em>, we can provide old and new strategic partners with an attractive additional offer that gives them low-threshold direct contact with our communities in Austria and Germany.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>How it all began</strong></h2> <p>During the first major Covid lockdowns in February and March 2021, Wikimedia Österreich and Wikimedia Deutschland began holding the first GLAM video conferences of this kind, initially side by side. These were intended as a temporary solution and as a makeshift translation of existing GLAM event formats into the virtual space. An unexpected added value soon became apparent.</p> <p>In Wikimedia Österreich’s general community survey in 2021, respondents were asked what kind of virtual Wikimedia events they would be interested in attending. Guest lectures by cultural organizations were at the top of the answers. In the direct feedback from participants on Wikipedia, we read things like: “Thank you very much for the great, entertaining tour and the patience with our questions” and “I’d be very grateful for a continuation of the event series and I’m already looking forward to it.” Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimedia Österreich then combined their activities and developed a concept for <em>GLAM Digital</em> as a joint ongoing series of events.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>What happens next</strong></h2> <p>We’re again planning ten virtual events for next year. The two-hour video conferences will take place on Monday evenings as usual. All interested Wikipedia editors are invited to take part in the meetings; our code of conduct for video conferences applies. Registration takes place on the Wikipedia page for the individual event. You can also add your name to the invitation list for GLAM events and will then receive a notification of upcoming events on your user discussion page.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=136076"><img alt="" class="wp-image-136076" height="1024" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GLAM_Logo_DACH.svg_.png?w=1024&resize=1024%2C1024" style="width: 300px;" width="1024"></a></figure> <h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Links (in German)</strong></h3> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAM_digital">GLAM Digital</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Einladungsliste">Invitation list for GLAM events</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/07/inaugural-reading-wikipedia-in-the-classroom-workshop-for-dagbani-language-teachers-in-tamale-organized-by-the-dagbani-wikimedians-user-group/">Inaugural ‘Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom’ workshop for Dagbani Language Teachers in Tamale, organized by the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Saturday, 7 September 2024 17:59 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>As part of its annual programs, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/http://dagbaniwikimedia.org/">Dagbani Wikimedians User Group</a> held a training workshop to train Dagbani teachers on how to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool to facilitate teaching and learning as part of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom’ program. <strong>Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom</strong> is the Wikimedia Foundation’s flagship teacher training program that seeks to help educators develop vital media and information literacy skills for the 21st century. This program helps secondary school teachers learn how to integrate Wikipedia into their classrooms to foster media and information literacy (MIL) skills. The curriculum of this program is aligned with UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy Framework, and it connects different approaches and methodologies used in the classroom to leverage the power of Wikipedia. The Dagbani Wikimedians User Group is therefore using program to train Dagbani language teachers in and around Tamale on how to effectively utilize Wikipedia as a teaching and learning resource in their classrooms.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/rwic4/"><img alt="Abdul-Rashid facilitating a session." class="wp-image-136057" height="640" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/rwic4.jpg?w=960&resize=960%2C640" width="960"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom, Northern Ghana organized by the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group.</figcaption> </figure> <p>Fortunately for the User Group, three of its team members were privileged to have previously undergone a RWCR training of trainers’ program organized by the Wikimedia education team and have thus become certified trainers. The two of RWCR-certified trainers in turn organized a training workshop for the rest of the team members to ensure their effective participation in the upcoming training for teachers. The training sessions led by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Din-nani1">Abdul-Rasheed Yussif</a> focused on three modules: how information is produced, accessed, retrieved, and evaluated on Wikipedia. </p> <p>as the projimplemented in collaboration with the <strong>Dagbani Teachers Association (DTA)</strong>. The DTA assisted in mobilizing 30 teachers of the Dagbani language for training. The certified trainers from DWUG, with the help of other team members of the DWUG, commenced the main training session on March 30th, 2024, for selected Dagbani language teachers to equip them with 21st-century ICT and media and information literacy skills. In all, three sessions over three weeks (every Saturday) were held at the DWUG office to take participants through the three modules of the RWCR training manual. Below are the details of the training sessions for the various weeks and modules:</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/rwic6/"><img alt="Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom, Northern Ghana" class="wp-image-136055" height="574" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/rwic6.jpg?w=960&resize=960%2C574" width="960"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom, Northern Ghana</figcaption> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Week One</h2> <p>Participants were introduced to the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program. Here, they were taken through the need for the program and its significance for teachers and learners. They were then introduced to the first module of the RWCR program, which focuses on ‘Accessing Information. Participants were introduced to Wikipedia, as most of them were new in the Wikimedia space. They were taken through what Wikipedia is, the common misconceptions people have about Wikipedia, why they should use Wikipedia, who does and doesn’t write Wikipedia, and how to navigate Wikipedia, among others. The team assisted participants new to Wikimedia to create their Wikimedia accounts. Participants could not hide their excitement at getting the opportunity to create their own Wikimedia accounts.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Week Two</h2> <p>This week’s focus was on Module 2 of the Teachers Guide, where participants were taken through the 5 pillars of Wikipedia and notability criteria guidelines, an overview of a Wikipedia article structure, references and verifiability, ways to evaluate a Wikipedia article, and facilitating access to quality academic sources on Wikipedia and more. Participants were especially shown how to search for articles on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%C9%94%C9%A3u">Dagbani Wikipedia</a> relevant to their Dagbani lessons, so that the same can be used for teaching in their classrooms. A Dagbani teacher at <strong>Hanara Junior High School</strong> remarked, “<em>This has been educative, and I will do the same with my students by teaching them what Wikipedia is and how they can use it. Together, we will be able to edit on Wikipedia and also help our language be recognized online</em>“.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Week Three</h2> <p>In the final week of the training, participants were taken through Module 3 of the RWCR manual, which focused on ‘Information Creation’. This was more of a practical session for participants after two weeks of theoretical training. They were taken through the steps to create a user page for themselves and various ways of editing on Wikipedia. Participants felt excited for being able to make their first ever contribution to <span class="wmf-wp-with-preview">Wikipedia</span>. They were also introduced to the various campaigns and programs organized by the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. All participants after successfully completing week 3 of the workshop were awarded certificates of participation and were integrated into the Dagbani Wikimedia community. A participant shared; “<em>Through the training, I have been able to create a Wikipedia account and learned how to search for information on Wikipedia. Also, I have shared the site (dag.wikipedia.org) with the parents of my students who find it difficult to help their wards with their Dagbanli homework</em>. Another participant, a Dagbani teacher at Excel for Children’s Education, also shared, “<em>The training has improved my digital skills, which will help me have a collaborative classroom. With regards to information, I will be able to access and analyze it on Wikipedia, this will help me deliver the lessons successfully.</em>“.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/rwic7/"><img alt="Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom, Northern Ghana. Workshop organized by the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group" class="wp-image-136054" height="900" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/rwic7.jpg?w=675&resize=675%2C900" width="675"></a> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom, Northern Ghana</figcaption> </figure> <p>We are extremely excited about our partnership with the <strong>Dagbani Teachers Association (DTA)</strong> and the generous support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and we hope to expand this program to cover the other 4 language communities that are currently being supported under the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group.</p> <p>See more photos at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_Classroom,_Northern_Ghana"> Category:Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom, Northern Ghana</a></p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/07/an-introduction-to-wikipedia-a-free-online-course-for-beginners/">An Introduction to Wikipedia: A free online course for beginners</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Saturday, 7 September 2024 12:40 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=135627"><img alt="" class="wp-image-135627" height="1024" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_1cf89e.png?resize=1024%2C1024" style="width: 794px; height: auto;" width="1024"></a></figure> <p>There are many ways to learn about Wikipedia when you’re just beginning.</p> <p>Previously I ran edit-a-thons and introduction sessions with Wikimedia Australia, as well as online drop in sessions to help beginners with any questions they had. But they all required people to take time out of their day to attend.</p> <p>I wished there was an online course someone could take to learn about Wikipedia in their own time. So I created one!</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:JamesGaunt+000+2024/about">An Introduction to Wikipedia</a> is a free online course for beginners that guides them through everything from how to edit Wikipedia, understanding good references and notability, to creating a new Wikipedia article.</p> <p>The lessons are presented as short videos, and students watch my screen as I guide them through each step so they can learn how to contribute to Wikipedia.</p> <p>Each section is followed by a quiz to reinforce the lessons, and at the end each student receives a certificate and micro credential badge to show they have completed the course.</p> <div class="wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile"> <figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img alt="" class="wp-image-135623 size-full" height="657" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-01-at-1.08.29%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=1024%2C657" width="1024"></figure> <div class="wp-block-media-text__content"> <p>Below each video lesson are links to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_for_Introduction_to_Wikipedia"> download the videos from Wikimedia Commons</a>.</p> <p>There is also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Documents_for_Introduction_to_Wikipedia"> a PDF version of each lesson</a> for people who prefer to read along, rather than watch videos.</p> <p>Then there are links to relevant pages on Wikipedia, such as help pages, policies, and guides.</p> </div> </div> <p>The course is hosted on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/http://learn.wiki/">WikiLearn</a>, an online learning platform that hosts courses developed by and for the Wikimedia community.</p> <p>Unlike most Wikimedia projects, it doesn’t run on MediaWiki and instead uses Open edX. But anyone taking a course can log in using their Wikimedia identity (OAuth). So after signing up to an account on Wikipedia (or other Wikimedia project), they can log in using the same account.</p> <p>The course is broken up into 11 sections. Starting with an introduction and ending with a final quiz.</p> <div class="wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile"> <div class="wp-block-media-text__content"> <p>In between, I explain what Wikipedia is, what all the menus and notifications are, how to use your Homepage, User page, and Talk page, where to get help, how to edit your Sandbox, a brief introduction to copyright and Creative Commons, how to add good references, as well as how to find your local community and attend events like Wikimania. Finally, we cover notability and how to create an article.</p> </div> <figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=135625"><img alt="" class="wp-image-135625 size-full" height="839" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://diff.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-01-at-1.17.47%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=1024%2C839" width="1024"></a></figure> </div> <p>That’s a lot to take in! But I made the course self-guided so students can complete the course in their own time, with no deadline.</p> <p>If you want to do it all in one week or over several months, it won’t affect whether you can get the certificate.</p> <p>I hope that this course will serve as a simple introduction to beginners, and bring newcomers into the Wikimedia movement who will contribute for years to come.</p> <p>You can also adapt the materials as I’ve released them under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License, and they <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiLearn:_An_Introduction_to_Wikipedia"> can all be found on Wikimedia Commons</a>. Additionally, anyone interested in translating the course into another language for WikiLearn should reach out to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLearn">Community Development team in charge of WikiLearn</a>.</p> <p>An Introduction to Wikipedia is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:JamesGaunt+000+2024/about">live on WikiLearn</a> for anyone to enrol now.</p> <p>For more information on how I created this course, you can watch my <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/VJUYUP/">Wikimania 2024 presentation</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/live/QKPni-4S5yw?feature=shared&t=7920"> here</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikiedu.org/blog/2024/09/06/engineering-student-brings-bioinspired-armor-to-wikipedia/">Engineering student brings bioinspired armor to Wikipedia</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Friday, 6 September 2024 16:00 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bioinspired armor – it may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but what exactly is it? Thanks to the brand new</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinspired_armor"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikipedia article</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">created by Liv Vizzini and her classmates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this spring, our curiosity can be satisfied.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Throughout our Biological Materials course, we explored the remarkable ways nature has evolved to provide living organisms with structure and protection,” said Vizzini. “We were surprised to discover that there wasn’t already a dedicated Wikipedia article on this topic!”</span></p> <figure class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_82662" style="width: 454px;"><img alt="Liv Vizzini headshot" class="wp-image-82662" height="472" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://wikiedu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Liv-Vizzini-Headshot-481x500.jpg" width="454"> <figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-82662"> Liv Vizzini. Photo courtesy Liv Vizzini, all rights reserved.</figcaption> </figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the new Wikipedia article explains, bioinspired armor are human-created materials inspired by the microstructures found in nature’s defense mechanisms. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From mollusk and turtle shells to horns, hooves, and scales, naturally-occurring protections against high-speed collision, blunt impact, and puncture provide no shortage of inspiration for the creation of high-performance materials like helmets, military and sports equipment, and even medicinal applications.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The materials and structures we discuss in the article have been perfected over millions of years through evolution,” explained Vizzini. “Even with all our modern techniques and technology, engineers and scientists still struggle to replicate them. It’s incredible that such complex and effective designs can emerge from such humble origins.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Vizzini, who graduated in May with a biomedical engineering major and a philosophy minor, the Wikipedia assignment was a unique opportunity to deepen her research and writing skills while exploring a topic she found particularly fascinating.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Writing this article taught me a lot about various organisms – from sharks to spiders to goats – but more importantly, I learned how to present complex information to a broad audience in an accessible way,” reflected Vizzini.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To organize their work, Vizzini and her three groupmates first outlined the sections they intended to include based on the common themes they found in their research, then assigned each student to a section that matched their interests, ensuring tasks were evenly distributed.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I wish I could do this assignment for every class!” emphasized Vizzini, who expressed gratitude to her professor, Dr. Edmund Palermo, for incorporating the Wikipedia assignment. “It’s truly a win-win: we gained a deep understanding of the subject, had the chance to share it with a broader community, and contributed to the already vast Wikipedia library.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reflecting on the assignment and the impact of her work, Vizzini underscored the role of Wikipedia in shaping public knowledge.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Wikipedia is incredibly powerful because it’s often the first place people go to learn about a new topic,” noted Vizzini. “Its accessibility and broad reach make it a key resource for spreading knowledge and increasing awareness on a global scale.” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vizzini hopes readers of the new article come away with her same sense of appreciation for nature and the way it can inspire innovation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In writing this scientific article, I was able to dive deeper into the intricate relationship between biology and technology,” said Vizzini. “It reinforced my passion for finding innovative solutions to the real-world health challenges that drew me to the field of Biomedical Engineering in the first place. Sharing this knowledge felt rewarding since it could have a similar impact on others!”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vizzini, now working as an engineer in test method development at Becton Dickinson, plans to continue editing Wikipedia. She particularly enjoys editing text and formatting articles, noting the ease of the citation and insert functions.</span></p> <p><em>Our support for STEM classes like Liv’s is available thanks to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/10/26/a-special-thanks-to-guru-krupa-foundation-for-supporting-students-in-stem/"> Guru Krupa Foundation</a>.</em></p> <hr> <p><i>Interested in incorporating a Wikipedia assignment into your course? Visit</i> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/http://teach.wikiedu.org/"><i>teach.wikiedu.org</i></a><i> to learn more about the free resources, digital tools, and staff support that Wiki Education offers to postsecondary instructors in the United States and Canada. Apply by September 8 for the fall 2024 term!</i></p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Artbank%27s_editathon_for_gender_equity_in_Australian_visual_arts">Artbank's editathon for gender equity in Australian visual arts</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Thursday, 5 September 2024 12:00 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <div class="mw-parser-output"> <p><br></p> <div style="font-size: larger; margin: 1em 0;">Earlier this week Artbank Sydney’s vibrant gallery space transformed into a dynamic hub of creativity, knowledge-sharing, and digital activism.</div> <div style="color: #444; font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 2em;"> <time datetime="2024-09-05T00:00:00+00:00">5 September 2024</time>, <strong><a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Belinda_Spry" title="Belinda Spry">Belinda Spry</a></strong>.</div> <p>The occasion? A highly successful editathon focused on amplifying the voices of women and non-binary artists, showcasing their invaluable contributions to the Australian visual arts community.</p> <figure class="mw-halign-right"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belinda_instructing_participants_at_the_Artbank_Sydney_editathon_2024.jpg" title="Belinda instructing participants at the Artbank Sydney"><img alt="Belinda instructing participants at the Artbank Sydney" height="188" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Belinda_instructing_participants_at_the_Artbank_Sydney_editathon_2024.jpg/250px-Belinda_instructing_participants_at_the_Artbank_Sydney_editathon_2024.jpg" width="250"></a> <figcaption>Belinda instructing participants at the Artbank Sydney</figcaption> </figure> <p>The event brought together a diverse group of participants — seasoned Wikipedians, enthusiastic newcomers, artists, and advocates—all united by a shared goal: to close the gender gap on Wikipedia, one edit at a time.</p> <p>Held in the gallery space at <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.artbank.gov.au/" rel="nofollow">Artbank Sydney</a>, the energy in the room was tangible, as keyboards clicked and conversations flowed, creating an atmosphere of collaboration and learning.</p> <h3><span id="Why_Artbank_and_Women_and_Non-Binary_Artists.3F"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Why_Artbank_and_Women_and_Non-Binary_Artists?">Why Artbank and Women and Non-Binary Artists?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artbank%27s_editathon_for_gender_equity_in_Australian_visual_arts&veaction=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Why Artbank and Women and Non-Binary Artists?">edit</a> <span class="mw-editsection-divider">|</span> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artbank%27s_editathon_for_gender_equity_in_Australian_visual_arts&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Why Artbank and Women and Non-Binary Artists?">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Despite their profound impact on the art world, women and non-binary artists remain significantly underrepresented on Wikipedia. This editathon was part of a broader movement to change that, ensuring these artists receive the recognition they deserve. Participants learnt the basics of editing Wikipedia, and then worked tirelessly to create and improve articles, highlighting these artists' contributions and affirming their importance within the cultural landscape. By holding the editathon in partnership with Artbank, Wikimedia Australia has been able to support Artbank's objective of promoting the value of Australian contemporary art to the broader public.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Power_of_the_Countess_Report">The Power of the Countess Report</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artbank%27s_editathon_for_gender_equity_in_Australian_visual_arts&veaction=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Power of the Countess Report">edit</a> <span class="mw-editsection-divider">|</span> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artbank%27s_editathon_for_gender_equity_in_Australian_visual_arts&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Power of the Countess Report">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <figure class="mw-halign-right"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elvis_Richardson_speaking_at_Artbank_Sydney.jpg" title="Elvis Richardson speaking at Artbank Sydney"><img alt="Elvis Richardson speaking at Artbank Sydney" height="333" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Elvis_Richardson_speaking_at_Artbank_Sydney.jpg/250px-Elvis_Richardson_speaking_at_Artbank_Sydney.jpg" width="250"></a> <figcaption>Elvis Richardson speaking at Artbank Sydney</figcaption> </figure> <p>A key resource during the editathon was the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://countess.report/Reports-1" rel="nofollow">Countess Report</a>, a vital tool that tracks gender representation in Australian contemporary art. This report, instrumental in spotlighting disparities in the art world, guided participants in identifying which artists required improved coverage on Wikipedia.</p> <p>We were privileged to have Elvis Richardson, one of the authors of the Countess Report, attend the editathon and share insights into the challenges and barriers facing women and non-binary artists. After the editathon, Elvis spoke at the “<a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.artbank.gov.au/exhibitions/equalessable" rel="nofollow">Equalessable</a>” exhibition opening in the Artbank gallery space.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="A_Day_of_Learning_and_Collaboration">A Day of Learning and Collaboration</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artbank%27s_editathon_for_gender_equity_in_Australian_visual_arts&veaction=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: A Day of Learning and Collaboration">edit</a> <span class="mw-editsection-divider">|</span> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artbank%27s_editathon_for_gender_equity_in_Australian_visual_arts&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: A Day of Learning and Collaboration">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>One of the most inspiring aspects of the editathon was the spirit of collaboration. Experienced editors shared their knowledge with beginners, guiding them through the intricacies of Wikipedia editing. Artists and curators provided insights into the work and significance of the featured artists, enriching the content being added. This exchange of ideas and skills was a reminder of the power of community-driven initiatives.</p> <figure class="mw-halign-right"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artbank_Sydney_artist_Rox_De_Luca.jpg" title="Rox assists new editor Mandy at the editathon"><img alt="Rox assists new editor Mandy at the editathon" height="216" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Artbank_Sydney_artist_Rox_De_Luca.jpg/250px-Artbank_Sydney_artist_Rox_De_Luca.jpg" width="250"></a> <figcaption>Rox assists new editor Mandy at the editathon</figcaption> </figure> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Looking_Ahead">Looking Ahead</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artbank%27s_editathon_for_gender_equity_in_Australian_visual_arts&veaction=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Looking Ahead">edit</a> <span class="mw-editsection-divider">|</span> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artbank%27s_editathon_for_gender_equity_in_Australian_visual_arts&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Looking Ahead">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Although this was our first event with Artbank, its impact was clear: an engaged group committed to raising awareness of the underrepresentation of women and non-binary artists, and a strong sense of accomplishment among all participants. But the work doesn’t end here. This editathon is just one step in an ongoing effort to ensure that Wikipedia reflects the diversity of voices in the art world.</p> <p>The success of this event at Artbank is a testament to what can be achieved when people come together with a shared mission. It serves as a reminder that anyone can contribute to making the internet—and the world—a more inclusive place.</p> <figure class="mw-halign-right"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artbank_editathon.png" title="Countesses are Calculating 2023. Courtesy of the artist."><img alt="Countesses are Calculating 2023. Courtesy of the artist." height="250" src="/web/20240915162006im_/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/thumb.php?f=Artbank_editathon.png&width=250" width="250"></a> <figcaption>Countesses are Calculating 2023. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption> </figure> <dl> <dd><i>"At 63%, women continue to comprise the majority of graduates from Australian art schools while men account for only 21%. State galleries continue to significantly under-represent women artists in their exhibition programs, with no increase from the 34% recorded in 2018."</i><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://countess.report/Reports-1" rel="nofollow">2022 Countess.Report</a></dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/phame/live/21/post/315/moving_performance_testing_tools_out_of_aws/">Moving performance testing tools out of AWS</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Wednesday, 4 September 2024 16:25 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p>Some time ago I did the final work to move out the web performance tooling out of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It's been a long journey. Let me tell you how it all started.</p> <p>But first, what is the performance tooling? It's tools that automate the web browsers, where we navigate to Wikipedia and measure the performance of Wikipedia pages. When we are measuring the performance we want as stable server and environment as possible. The more stable server where we deploy our tool, the smaller performance regressions we can pick up.</p> <h3 class="remarkup-header">The AWS Background</h3> <p>In 2015 I deployed our first own hosted version of the Open Source web performance tool WebPageTest (<a class="phui-tag-view phui-tag-type-object" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109666"><span class="phui-tag-core-closed"><span class="phui-tag-core phui-tag-color-object">T109666</span></span></a>). At that time, WebPageTest was Windows only and we didn't want to host Windows machines in our own hosting so we started to use AWS. Hosting outside of our data center also made sense since we wanted to simulate performance testing as our users. Our users do not live in our data center. We started out with a couple of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud servers and used Amazon object storage for hosting the HTML reports from the tool.</p> <p>A couple of years later (2018 in <a class="phui-tag-view phui-tag-type-object" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189184"><span class="phui-tag-core-closed"><span class="phui-tag-core phui-tag-color-object">T189184</span></span></a>), the tool evolved and moved to Linux. I did a lot of testing to make Firefox work in the new setup. We continued to use AWS because it was easy to just spin up a couple of Linux servers.</p> <p>We also started to host our own time series database outside of our own hosting, to make it easy to add metrics from servers running outside of our own hosting. Have you guessed where it ended up? On AWS because it was easy.</p> <p>We continued to work on our performance testing and <a class="phui-tag-view phui-tag-type-person" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Gilles/"><span class="phui-tag-core phui-tag-color-person">@Gilles</span></a> and I started to try out front end performance testing using replay proxies (<a class="phui-tag-view phui-tag-type-object" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176361"><span class="phui-tag-core-closed"><span class="phui-tag-core phui-tag-color-object">T176361</span></span></a>). A replay proxy records the web traffic and replay it locally. That way you measure the front end performance without the disturbance of the internet. That worked out great and we also tried out different host providers to see where we would get the most stable metrics and at that point it was on AWS. With the replay proxy tests, we added a couple of more servers.</p> <p>We also tried running tests on bare metal servers, however in retrospect, at that time I didn't have the correct skills to configure the servers correctly and AWS gave us better results so we continued to use AWS.</p> <h3 class="remarkup-header">The AWS Problem</h3> <p>Why did we want to move out of AWS? The numbers were good compared to other cloud providers. However we still had problems. One thing that the <a class="remarkup-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYbgcDfM2Ts" rel="noreferrer">Netflix team talked</a> about how even if you deploy the same EC2 type, the performance can vary between 10-20% of the instance. You can read more about the variance at Brendan Greggs <a class="remarkup-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-12-31/reinvent-netflix-ec2-tuning.html" rel="noreferrer">blog post</a>. We also did try to measure the variance. We could see that we had different performance on the same EC2 type. That meant we needed to make sure that a test ran on a specific EC2 instance. If it ran on another one, we would have a change in our performance metrics.</p> <p>We also have seen that performance changes over time and that we get different performance at different times <a class="phui-tag-view phui-tag-type-object" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289516"><span class="phui-tag-core-closed"><span class="phui-tag-core phui-tag-color-object">T289516</span></span></a>. That makes it harder to find small performance regressions.</p> <h3 class="remarkup-header">The New Setup</h3> <p>A couple of years ago I re-evaluated running tests on bare metal servers and it worked out great this time. We can get stable metrics on bare metal servers . We can get the same performance all the time by tuning and configuring the server.</p> <p>I started to move all of our testing out of AWS to use bare metal (<a class="phui-tag-view phui-tag-type-object" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311981"><span class="phui-tag-core-closed"><span class="phui-tag-core phui-tag-color-object">T311981</span></span></a> and <a class="phui-tag-view phui-tag-type-object" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345595"><span class="phui-tag-core-closed"><span class="phui-tag-core phui-tag-color-object">T345595</span></span></a>). The price for the servers was also cheaper, so the move was a win/win. The new provider re-use old servers from other customers. Instead of buying new hardware we can reuse older ones that were bought for other purposes. That's better in an ecological aspect.</p> <p>A couple of weeks ago I took the last step and moved our time series database to another host <a class="phui-tag-view phui-tag-type-object" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362020"><span class="phui-tag-core-closed"><span class="phui-tag-core phui-tag-color-object">T362020</span></span></a> and instead of Amazon object storage we store the performance result on a disk on a server.</p> <p>The new setup run on <a class="remarkup-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_server" rel="noreferrer">bare metal servers</a>. That is cheaper and gives us more reliable performance metrics. For services that do not need that stability we use <a class="remarkup-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS" rel="noreferrer">Cloud VPS</a>.</p> <h3 class="remarkup-header">The Result</h3> <p>By moving the test servers to a cheaper provider I could run more performance tests at a lower price. We increased the number of test servers with a lower total price. With more test servers, we can do more tests and more runs.</p> <p>I used extra test runs to implement the <a class="remarkup-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%E2%80%93Whitney_U_test" rel="noreferrer">Mann Whitney U test</a> (<a class="phui-tag-view phui-tag-type-object" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T351929"><span class="phui-tag-core-closed"><span class="phui-tag-core phui-tag-color-object">T351929</span></span></a>). By running more tests and using Mann Whitney we know if a performance regression is of statistical significance. That way we can make sure that we only alert on real regressions. That decreases the number of false alerts and time spent investigating regressions. I'll write more about how we use Mann Whitney U in my next blog post.</p> </div> </div> </div><div class="card article"> <div class="card-content"> <div class="media"> <div class="media-content has-text-centered"> <p class="title article-title"><a class="boxh2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimedia.brussels/a-joint-statement-on-the-use-of-surveillance-spyware-in-the-eu-and-beyond/">A Joint Statement on the Use of Surveillance Spyware in the EU and Beyond</a></p> <div class="tags has-addons level-item"> <span class="tag is-rounded">Wednesday, 4 September 2024 06:12 UTC</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content article-body"> <p><em><strong>We took stance against the use of spyware in the EU and beyond. This pervasive technology poses significant threat to European fundamental values, such as democracy and rule of law, and risks severely infringing fundamental rights to privacy and data protection as well as freedom of expression. Alongside with other civil society and journalists’ organisations we called on the new EU Institutions and Member States to take swift action and ban the use of such a technology. We need to protect citizens, including Wikimedians, and their fundamental rights from undue interference and arbitrary behaviours. Here below you can read the statement with the specific calls for action.</strong></em></p> <span id="more-3393"></span> <p>We are a coalition of civil society organisations and journalists’ organisations committed to the protection of fundamental rights, transparency, and accountability in relation to spyware technologies. Spyware poses a significant threat to EU democratic values, public debate and healthy civic spaces by undermining critical pillars such as independent decision-making among lawmakers and the ability of journalists and activists to hold power accountable. Furthermore, as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://edps.europa.eu/system/files/2022-02/22-02-15_edps_preliminary_remarks_on_modern_spyware_en_0.pdf"> highlighted by the European Data Protection Supervisor</a>, the level of intrusiveness of modern spyware tools undermines the essence of the fundamental right to privacy and data protection, which makes them illegal under Union law.</p> <p>The European Parliament Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA Committee) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2023-0260_EN.pdf"> concluded in May 2023</a> that the majority of EU Member States had purchased spyware tools and that some of them have used spyware to unlawfully and arbitrarily surveil journalists, human rights defenders, and politicians within the EU, as reported by several civil society organisations.</p> <p>We deeply regret that the EU Institutions have failed to provide effective solutions and a more comprehensive approach to the numerous reports of maladministration and abuse of power by Member States during the last legislative term.</p> <p>Moreover, the recently adopted <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32024R1083"> European Media Freedom Act</a> (EMFA) sets a troubling precedent. Despite its commendable intentions, the law fails to fully protect journalists from spyware, lacking essential safeguards against their surveillance and creating sweeping legal grounds for its use against them in the EU. Consequently, both spyware victims and EU society as a whole still await an appropriate institutional response to this threat to fundamental rights.  </p> <p>We, the undersigned organisations, believe that the new legislative term provides an opportunity for the incoming EU Institutions to take more decisive action and implement the EU <em>acquis</em> on this matter. The Commission, the Council and the Parliament must urgently take robust measures to curtail the abuse of spyware in the EU and uphold EU values by respecting and protecting fundamental rights, introducing effective accountability mechanisms and delivering remedies to victims of illegal spyware surveillance. Moreover, Member States are responsible for safeguarding the fundamental rights of all individuals under their jurisdiction.</p> <p>We urge the incoming EU Institutions and EU Member States to adopt the following measures without delay: </p> <p><strong>EU Commission</strong></p> <ul> <li>Propose a new EU legal framework that addresses the challenges posed by spyware, which includes an EU-wide ban on the production, export, sale, import, acquisition, transfer, servicing and use of spyware, which disproportionately interfere with fundamental rights and for which no safeguards are adequate to prevent and redress harms to human rights. </li> <li>Impose a moratorium in the EU until this new legal framework is put in place.</li> <li>Push for the implementation of a complete ban on the development and sale of commercial spyware by private companies.</li> <li>Make sure that existing legal framework is adequately implemented by the MS, by conducting a comprehensive and in-depth assessment of Member States’ compliance with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32002L0058"> ePrivacy</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32016L0680"> Law Enforcement</a> Directives and with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32021R0821"> Dual-Use Regulation</a> and launch infringement procedures against those whose trade and use of spyware breach those instruments. </li> <li>Strengthen the export control regime by reviewing and amending the EU Dual-Use Regulation, notably by incorporating spyware into the definition of cyber-surveillance tools and including obligations guaranteeing these goods are not used for repression or human rights violations.</li> <li>Utilise the instruments available within the rule of law toolbox to monitor the use of spyware by Member States, including deploying the Rule of Law Framework, incorporating findings into the Annual Rule of Law Report, initiating infringement procedures where necessary and applying the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2020/2092/oj?locale=en">Conditionality Regulation</a> to suspend EU funds in cases where spyware use undermines the rule of law and in case of failing oversight mechanisms. </li> <li>Mandate transparency in EU Member States government contracts and operations involving spyware, ensuring accountability for abuses.</li> <li>Propose a harmonised legal definition of national security and set guidelines for Member States to determine a genuine and serious threat to national security.</li> <li>Enforce a ban on the commercial trade of vulnerabilities for any purpose other than strengthening systems security and mandate the responsible disclosure of vulnerability research findings.</li> <li>Ensure that any future legislative proposal  potentially replacing the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eprivacy-regulation"> ePrivacy Regulation proposal</a> provides for stronger  guarantees to protect the confidentiality of communications, notably by strengthening the right to protection of terminal equipment already afforded by the ePrivacy Directive.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Council of the EU</strong></p> <ul> <li>Refrain from introducing wide national security exceptions into EU legislation, as such carve-outs create significant gaps in the applicability and enforcement of EU legal instruments and expose citizens to further fundamental rights violations. </li> <li>Organise a debate on the use of spyware within the EU in the General Affairs Council and adopt relevant conclusions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>EU Member States</strong></p> <ul> <li>Suspend all exports out of the EU on the sale and transfer of surveillance technology that have been authorised in breach of international human rights standards. </li> <li>Refrain from derogating from their  fundamental rights obligations under the E<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commission.europa.eu/aid-development-cooperation-fundamental-rights/your-rights-eu/eu-charter-fundamental-rights_en">U Charter of Fundamental Rights</a> and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://70.coe.int/pdf/convention_eng.pdf">European Convention on Human Rights</a> by claiming national security exemptions.</li> <li>Impose sanctions on vendors found to have infringed their due-diligence obligations under EU law.</li> <li>Commit to maintaining the higher or absolute  level of protection at national level, by not relying on the derogation under Article 4, Paragraph 5, of the EMFA concerning the possibility for Member States to deploy intrusive surveillance software. </li> <li>Eliminate all existing obstacles preventing victims of spyware from accessing justice and appropriate remedies and ensure that all police and judicial investigations are dealt with promptly, effectively and transparently. </li> </ul> <p><strong>EU Parliament</strong></p> <ul> <li>Continue its work investigating, monitoring and proposing recommendations to curtail the abuses of surveillance spyware by Member States and continue calling for the full implementation of the recommendations of the PEGA committee. </li> <li>Make use of all resources at its disposal to exercise its scrutiny powers over the EU Commission and Council and to hold them accountable for their inaction, insufficient actions or non-compliance with existing Union acquis.</li> </ul> <p>We emphasise that all the decision-makers concerning the aforementioned recommendations, without exception, should make their decisions only after consulting publicly and transparently with relevant national and international stakeholders, including civil society organisations, human rights groups, and representative bodies of surveillance victims.</p> <p>We, the undersigned organisations, representing a diverse cross-section of civil society and journalists’ organisations, stand united in demanding immediate action to respect and protect the rights of all individuals in the EU from the pervasive threat of spyware.</p> <p><strong>Members of the Coordination Group</strong></p> <p>Access Now</p> <p>ARTICLE 19</p> <p>Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe (CDT EU)</p> <p>Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties)</p> <p>Data Rights</p> <p>Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)</p> <p>Epicenter.works – for digital rights</p> <p>European Digital Rights (EDRi)</p> <p>European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)</p> <p>The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU)</p> <p>Privacy International (PI)</p> <p>Wikimedia Europe</p> <p><strong>Additional signatories</strong></p> <p>Aspiration</p> <p>Digital Rights Ireland</p> <p>Data Privacy Brasil</p> <p>Centre for Peace Studies</p> <p>Citizen D / Državljan D</p> <p>Civil Rights Defenders</p> <p>European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL)</p> <p>Fundación Karisma (Colombia)</p> <p>Homo Digitalis </p> <p>Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights (CILD)</p> <p>IT-Pol Denmark</p> <p>Ligue des droits humains (Belgium)</p> <p>Panoptykon Foundation</p> <p>Peace Institute (Slovenia)</p> <p>Sflc.in (India)</p> <p>Vrijschrift.org</p> <p>Xnet, Institute for Democratic Digitalisation (Spain)</p> <p><strong>V</strong><strong>ersions:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Civil-society-joint-statement-on-the-use-of-surveillance-spyware-English-.pdf"> English version</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Civil-society-joint-statement-on-the-use-of-surveillance-spyware-Spanish.pdf"> Spanish version</a></p> <p><a 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title="meta:User:Nadzik">Maciej Nadzikiewicz</a></span></div> </div> <div class="hidden-piccyembed" style="display: none;"> <span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024_group_photograph.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="1" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Wikimania_2024_group_photograph.jpg/1px-Wikimania_2024_group_photograph.jpg" width="1"></a></span></div> <div class="signpost-article" style="margin: 0 auto;"> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-full"> <dl> <dd><i><a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nadzik" title="meta:User:Nadzik">Maciej Nadzikiewicz (User:Nadzik)</a> was the Wikimania 2024 lead.</i></dd> <dd>In 2024, Wikimania returned to Central and Eastern Europe for the first time since 2010. Back then, it was also in Poland – in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk" title="Gdańsk">Gdańsk</a> (see <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-07-12/News_and_notes#Wikimania" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-07-12/News and notes">previous <i>Signpost</i> coverage</a>). The outside world has changed a lot since then, but luckily so did our movement. Read more about what happened at Wikimania this year!</dd> </dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="What_happened_during_Wikimania_2024?"><span id="What_happened_during_Wikimania_2024.3F"></span><span id="h-What_happened_during_Wikimania_2024?-signpost-article-title"></span>What happened during Wikimania 2024?</h3> </div> </div> <div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"> <figure class="mw-halign-center"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024_Day_1_-_RD_001.jpg"><img alt="Main entrance to the International Congress Centre in Katowice with Wikimania branding" class="mw-file-element" height="226" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Wikimania_2024_Day_1_-_RD_001.jpg/300px-Wikimania_2024_Day_1_-_RD_001.jpg" width="300"></a></figure> <div class="signpost-fillerimage">Main entrance to the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Congress_Centre_in_Katowice" title="International Congress Centre in Katowice">International Congress Centre in Katowice</a> with Wikimania branding</div> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>This August, over 1,100 people met in person (with an additional 1500+ joining online) to celebrate the Wikimedia movement and its contributors, in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Katowice" title="Katowice">Katowice</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>. People came from 143 countries on all continents (except <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">the continent with no countries</a>), and were engaged in discussions about the future of our movement and the direction in which Wikipedia and her sister projects are heading.</p> <p>The conference lasted from 6 to 10 August, with the main programme held on 7–10 August. It was available in six languages through online translations: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. In total, over 300 sessions (on 12 tracks in 8 parallel rooms) were available to the community. In addition, the <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/WikiWomen_Summit" title="wikimania:2024:Program/WikiWomen Summit">WikiWomen Summit</a> and <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/Hackathon" title="wikimania:2024:Program/Hackathon">Wikimania 2024 Hackathon</a>, and many other <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Tours_and_Side_Events" title="wikimania:2024:Tours and Side Events">side events</a> took place during the event.</p> <div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><b>Wikimania sessions and recording are available on Commons:<br> <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2024_day_1_recordings" title="commons:Category:Wikimania 2024 day 1 recordings">day 1</a> · <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2024_day_2_recordings" title="commons:Category:Wikimania 2024 day 2 recordings">day 2</a> · <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2024_day_3_recordings" title="commons:Category:Wikimania 2024 day 3 recordings">day 3</a> · <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2024_day_4_recordings" title="commons:Category:Wikimania 2024 day 4 recordings">day 4</a><br> You can also check out the <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2024" title="commons:Category:Wikimania 2024">pictures by the community and organisers</a></b></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"> <h4 id="Day_1_–_Opening_of_the_conference"><span id="Day_1_.E2.80.93_Opening_of_the_conference"></span><span id="h-Day_1_–_Opening_of_the_conference-What_happened_during_Wikimania_2024?"></span>Day 1 – Opening of the conference</h4> </div> </div> <div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"> <figure class="mw-halign-center"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_Katowice_2024-08-07_International_Congress_Centre_WikiWomen_Summit_02_MW.jpg"> <img alt="Participants of the WikiWomen Summit 2024" class="mw-file-element" height="169" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Wikimania_Katowice_2024-08-07_International_Congress_Centre_WikiWomen_Summit_02_MW.jpg/300px-Wikimania_Katowice_2024-08-07_International_Congress_Centre_WikiWomen_Summit_02_MW.jpg" width="300"></a></figure> <div class="signpost-fillerimage">Participants of the WikiWomen Summit 2024</div> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>On the first day of the conference, the <b><a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/WikiWomen_Summit" title="wikimania:2024:Program/WikiWomen Summit">WikiWomen Summit</a></b> took place. This event, created by the community, was attended by a group of female Wikimedians to address gender imbalance within Wikimedia projects. Discussions focused on the challenges faced by women in the movement, the persistence of stereotypes about them on Wikipedia, and the exploration of new technological solutions and other strategies to close the gender gap.</p> </div> <div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"> <figure class="mw-halign-center"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024,_day_1,_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_06.jpg"><img alt="Awardees of the Wikimedian of the Year 2024 on stage with Jimmy Wales" class="mw-file-element" height="200" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Wikimania_2024%2C_day_1%2C_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_06.jpg/300px-Wikimania_2024%2C_day_1%2C_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_06.jpg" width="300"></a></figure> <div class="signpost-fillerimage">Awardees of the Wikimedian of the Year 2024 on stage with Jimmy Wales</div> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>During the official opening of the conference, we met the <b><a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_of_the_year" title="Wikimedian of the year">Wikimedians of the year</a></b>, awarded by <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo" title="User:Jimbo">Jimbo</a>. This included a new category for the award: "Functionary of the Year". This year, the following contributors were recognized:</p> <ul> <li><b>Wikimedian of the Year:</b> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss" title="User:Clovermoss">Clovermoss</a>, for her project "<i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss/Editor_reflections" title="User:Clovermoss/Editor reflections">Editor reflections</a></i>"</li> <li><b>Wikimedia Laureate:</b> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DerHexer" title="User:DerHexer">DerHexer</a>, longest-serving Steward in the Wikimedia Movement</li> <li><b>Media Contributor of the Year:</b> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kurmanbek" title="User:Kurmanbek">Kurmanbek</a>, for his volunteer work on graphic design for Wikimedia conferences</li> <li><b>Newcomers of the Year:</b> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wayuu_Wikipedia" title="Wayuu Wikipedia">Wayuu community</a>, represented by <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Leonfd1992" title="User:Leonfd1992">Leonfd1992</a></li> <li><b>Functionary of the Year:</b> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D0%90%D1%82%D0%B0" title="User:Ата">Vira Motorko</a>, administrator on the Ukrainian Wikipedia and active UK-EN translator</li> <li><b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Motoko_C._K." title="User:Motoko C. K.">Gu Eun-ae</a>, executive director and co-founder of <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Korea" title="meta:Wikimedia Korea">Wikimedia Korea</a></li> <li><b>Tech Contributor of the Year:</b> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SD0001" title="User:SD0001">Siddharth VP</a>, a contributor to MediaWiki core infrastructure in the Echo and Gadget extensions</li> </ul> <p>You can read more stories about this year's winners <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/08/07/meet-the-wikimedians-of-the-year-2024/" title="wmfblog:2024/08/07/meet-the-wikimedians-of-the-year-2024/">on Diff</a>.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"> <h4 id="Day_2_–_Welcoming_the_newcomers"><span id="Day_2_.E2.80.93_Welcoming_the_newcomers"></span><span id="h-Day_2_–_Welcoming_the_newcomers-What_happened_during_Wikimania_2024?"></span>Day 2 – Welcoming the newcomers</h4> </div> <p>Wikimania 2024 was unique in the type of contributors it brought together. Over half of all participants were under the age of 35, representing the generational shift in the structure of the Wikimedia Movement. For almost 50% of all participants, Katowice was the first Wikimania they ever attended. Previous Wikimaniae in Europe (but not the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Central_and_Eastern_Europe" title="Central and Eastern Europe">CEE</a> region) were <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Wikimania" title="wikimania:2019:Wikimania">Stockholm, Sweden, in 2019</a> and <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Esino Lario, Italy, in 2016</a>). Special <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Meetups/Young_Wikimedians_meeting" title="wikimania:2024:Meetups/Young Wikimedians meeting">youth-oriented meetups took place</a>, which allowed community members from various countries to exchange their ideas, learn about new projects, or just get to know each other.</p> </div> <div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"> <figure class="mw-halign-center"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_Hackathon_room,_Katowice_Poland.jpg"><img alt="Wikimania Hackathon room" class="mw-file-element" height="216" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Wikimania_Hackathon_room%2C_Katowice_Poland.jpg/300px-Wikimania_Hackathon_room%2C_Katowice_Poland.jpg" width="300"></a></figure> <div class="signpost-fillerimage">Wikimania Hackathon room</div> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>The <b>Wikimania 2024 Hackathon</b> was one of the hottest (and not due to the AC malfunction!) events this year. <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/7284" title="phab:7284">On Phabricator</a> you can check out the tasks that developers were engaged with during Wikimania. The Wikimedia Foundation presented their strategy for the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/ALSZWU/" rel="nofollow">future of MediaWiki</a> and discussed the Foundation's current work on the MediaWiki software's core infrastructure. One of the other topics discussed was the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/8H77YZ/" rel="nofollow">Trust & Safety (T&S) Product's tools</a> that presented the research results of the T&S team that will lead to improving blocks on the Wikimedia projects, with the aim to limit the collateral effects of the blocks, and the current developments in temporary accounts.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"> <h4 id="Day_3_–_Focusing_on_the_technological_debt"><span id="Day_3_.E2.80.93_Focusing_on_the_technological_debt"></span><span id="h-Day_3_–_Focusing_on_the_technological_debt-What_happened_during_Wikimania_2024?"></span>Day 3 – Focusing on the technological debt</h4> </div> </div> <div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"> <figure class="mw-halign-center"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boles%C5%82awiec_pottery_workshop_at_Wikimania_2024_10.jpg"> <img alt="Wikimedians during the Bolesławiec pottery workshop at Wikimania 2024" class="mw-file-element" height="225" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Boles%C5%82awiec_pottery_workshop_at_Wikimania_2024_10.jpg/300px-Boles%C5%82awiec_pottery_workshop_at_Wikimania_2024_10.jpg" width="300"></a></figure> <div class="signpost-fillerimage">Wikimedians during the Bolesławiec pottery workshop at Wikimania 2024</div> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>Wikimania serves as a means to introduce its participants to the country's culture and the region in which it takes place. This year, the cultural elements of Poland and the Central and Eastern Europe region were present in the conference's design. Polish <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wycinanki" title="Wycinanki">wycinanki</a> were a base for the Wikimania 2024 graphic design. The attendees of the conference had a chance to visit the museums of Katowice, take guided walks through the historical <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nikiszowiec" title="Nikiszowiec">Nikiszowiec</a> neighborhood, and participate in the traditional <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82awiec_pottery" title="Bolesławiec pottery">Bolesławiec pottery</a> workshops. During the day, the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/%C5%81owiczans" title="Łowiczans">traditional Łowiczan group</a> performed dances and songs from their region.</p> <p>With over 200 people attending the Wikimania 2024 Hackathon, the focus on technology and product work was visible throughout the Wikimania program. Sometimes, the interest was so overwhelming that there was no more space in the rooms, and even the in-person attendees had to listen to the session online! The day was dominated by discussions on the Wikimedia Movement's infrastructure and its integration with the broader internet. Among the topics of the sessions were <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/FKSMST/" rel="nofollow">cooperation of Wikipedia with the GenAI developments</a> and the panel on how the Wikimedia Foundation is <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/8SNLVU/" rel="nofollow">proceeding with its own Artificial Intelligence activities</a>. In the second part of the day, attendees participated in the poster session, where over 30 different projects were introduced.</p> <p>All posters are available <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2024_Posters" title="commons:Category:Wikimania 2024 Posters">on Wikimedia Commons</a>.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"> <h4 id="Day_4_–_Goodbye_to_Wikimania_2024"><span id="Day_4_.E2.80.93_Goodbye_to_Wikimania_2024"></span><span id="h-Day_4_–_Goodbye_to_Wikimania_2024-What_happened_during_Wikimania_2024?"></span>Day 4 – Goodbye to Wikimania 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"> <figure class="mw-halign-center"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiOrchestra_-_Wikimania_2024-08-10_(28).jpg"><img alt="The WikiOrchestra playing Karliku (recording on YouTube)" class="mw-file-element" height="200" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/WikiOrchestra_-_Wikimania_2024-08-10_%2828%29.jpg/300px-WikiOrchestra_-_Wikimania_2024-08-10_%2828%29.jpg" width="300"></a></figure> <div class="signpost-fillerimage">The WikiOrchestra playing <i>Karliku</i> (<a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/live/Xxdm_bsuQWY?feature=shared&t=6085" rel="nofollow">recording on YouTube</a>)</div> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>During the last day of Wikimania, we wrapped up the program by thinking about the future of our Movement. Among the topics discussed was the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/YCK9VK/" rel="nofollow">Future of Wikimania</a>, which guided our thinking about the upcoming Wikimania conferences. We had a chance to talk about <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/9J73YN/" rel="nofollow">the position of Wikipedian in Residence</a> in the Wikimedia Movement and how the role has evolved since it was first introduced, as well as how we can <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/TTUWTB/" rel="nofollow">address our Future Audiences</a>. There were also <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/ATKZBN/" rel="nofollow">presentations of the candidates in the upcoming Wikimedia Foundation 2024 elections</a>.</p> </div> <div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"> <figure class="mw-halign-center"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(As_Presented)_Coolest_Tool_Award_2024_-_Wikimania_Katowice.pdf"> <img alt="Wikimania 2024 Coolest Tool Award" class="mw-file-element" height="169" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/%28As_Presented%29_Coolest_Tool_Award_2024_-_Wikimania_Katowice.pdf/page1-300px-%28As_Presented%29_Coolest_Tool_Award_2024_-_Wikimania_Katowice.pdf.jpg" width="300"></a></figure> <div class="signpost-fillerimage">Wikimania 2024 Coolest Tool Award</div> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>During the closing ceremony, the first-ever international performance of the <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:WikiOrchestra" title="wikimania:2024:WikiOrchestra">WikiOrchestra</a> took place. It performed two short pieces of Polish music: <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nocturnes,_Op._9_(Chopin)#Nocturne_in_E-flat_major,_Op._9,_No._2" title="Nocturnes, Op. 9 (Chopin)">Nocturne in E-flat major op. 9 no. 2</a> by <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin" title="Frédéric Chopin">Frédéric Chopin</a> and <i><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/406235/karliku-karliku" rel="nofollow">Karliku</a></i>, a Silesian traditional folk song by <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw_Pyzik" title="pl:Zdzisław Pyzik">Zdzisław Pyzik</a>. The 5th edition of the <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award_2024" title="meta:Coolest Tool Award 2024">Coolest Tool Award</a> was presented, with the following winners by category:</p> <ul> <li><b>Quality:</b> <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Web2Cit" title="meta:Web2Cit">Web2Cit</a> by <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Diegodlh" title="User:Diegodlh">Diegodlh</a>,</li> <li><b>Editor:</b> <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cat-a-Lot" title="meta:Cat-a-Lot">Cat-a-Lot</a> by <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske" title="User:Magnus Manske">Magnus Manske</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ilmari_Karonen" title="User:Ilmari Karonen">Ilmari Karonen</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DieBuche" title="User:DieBuche">DieBuche</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rillke" title="User:Rillke">Rillke</a>, and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Perhelion" title="User:Perhelion">Perhelion</a>,</li> <li><b>Experience:</b> <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://integraality.toolforge.org/">InteGraality</a> by <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric" title="User:Jean-Frédéric">Jean-Frédéric</a>,</li> <li><b>Tiny:</b> <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikidatawalkabout.org/" rel="nofollow">Wikidata Walkabout</a> by <a class="new" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Yaron_Koren&action=edit&redlink=1" title="User:Yaron Koren (page does not exist)">Yaron Koren</a> and <a class="new" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sahajsk&action=edit&redlink=1" title="User:Sahajsk (page does not exist)">Sahajsk</a>,</li> <li><b>Newcomer:</b> <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://view-it.toolforge.org/">View It!</a> by <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster" title="User:SuperHamster">SuperHamster</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JamieF" title="User:JamieF">JamieF</a>, and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic" title="User:Dominic">Dominic</a></li> <li><b>Honorable Mention:</b> CampWiz by <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nokib_Sarkar" title="User:Nokib Sarkar">Nokib Sarkar</a>, <a class="new" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mst._Rukaiya&action=edit&redlink=1" title="User:Mst. Rukaiya (page does not exist)">Mst. Rukaiya</a>, <a class="new" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Islam_Tonni&action=edit&redlink=1" title="User:Islam Tonni (page does not exist)">Islam Tonni</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tiven2240" title="User:Tiven2240">Tiven2240</a>, <a class="new" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mrb&action=edit&redlink=1" title="User:Mrb (page does not exist)">Mrb</a>, <a class="new" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rafi&action=edit&redlink=1" title="User:Rafi (page does not exist)">Rafi</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wasiul_Bahar" title="User:Wasiul Bahar">Wasiul Bahar</a>, and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Joy" title="User:Joy">Joy</a></li> <li><b>Eggbeater:</b> ISA Tool by <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere" title="User:Anthere">Anthere</a> et al.</li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Thank_you_to_the_Wikimania_2024_team"><span id="h-Thank_you_to_the_Wikimania_2024_team-signpost-article-title"></span>Thank you to the Wikimania 2024 team</h3> </div> <p>Each Wikimania is a Herculean effort by the volunteers who organize it. Over the past 20 months, since <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/pl/2023/03/20/oglaszamy-gospodarza-wikimanii-2024/" title="wmfblog:pl/2023/03/20/oglaszamy-gospodarza-wikimanii-2024/">we learned that Poland would be hosting Wikimania 2024</a>, we have gathered an amazing group of people to work on the event: from the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Polska" title="Wikimedia Polska">Wikimedia Polska</a>, and most importantly, from the community.</p> <p>In total, over 80 volunteers from 20 countries participated in Wikimania 2024 preparations, to whom I am personally amazingly grateful. We took over 200 meetings together and exchanged more text in e-mails and Slack/Discord messages than there is in the <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="The Lord of the Rings">The Lord of the Rings</a></i> by <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>.</p> </div> <div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"> <figure class="mw-halign-center"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024_closing_ceremony_by_Le_Commissaire_-_46.jpg"> <img alt="Members of the COT and EOT on stage during the Closing Ceremony" class="mw-file-element" height="200" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Wikimania_2024_closing_ceremony_by_Le_Commissaire_-_46.jpg/300px-Wikimania_2024_closing_ceremony_by_Le_Commissaire_-_46.jpg" width="300"></a></figure> <div class="signpost-fillerimage">Members of the COT and EOT on stage during the Closing Ceremony</div> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>Special thanks go to the members of the Core Organizing Team <b>(COT)</b> and the Extended Organizing Team:</p> <ul> <li><b><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:K2suvi" title="User:K2suvi">Käbi & Kiur Laan</a></b> from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a> <b>(COT)</b> – who headed a team responsible for reviewing over 3600 scholarship applications and was the organizer of WikiWomenSummit,</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wojciech_P%C4%99dzich" title="User:Wojciech Pędzich">Wojciech Pędzich</a></b> from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> <b>(COT)</b> – who oversaw the creation of the Wikimania 2024 programme puzzle out of over 300 individual fragments and 550+ applications,</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_L%C3%B3cesilion" title="User:Tar Lócesilion">Tar Lócesilion</a></b> from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> <b>(COT)</b> – who created and oversaw the execution of the Wikimania 2024 communications strategy and made the Wikimania 2024 Hackathon happen,</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kiril_Simeonovski" title="User:Kiril Simeonovski">Kiril Simeonovski</a></b> from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a> – who co-created the Wikimania 2024 programme,</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Janbery" title="User:Janbery">Janbery</a></b> from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> – who coordinated Wikimania 2024 social media presence</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Msz2001" title="User:Msz2001">Msz2001</a></b> from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> – who was the wiki-wizard behind the Wikimania 2024 wiki</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Natalia_%C4%86wik_(WMPL)" title="User:Natalia Ćwik (WMPL)">Natalia Ćwik</a></b> from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> – Executive Director of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Polska" title="Wikimedia Polska">Wikimedia Polska</a> and a liaison with their amazing team who helped the Wikimania 2024 come true!</li> </ul> <p>There are many amazing people on the Wikimania 2024 team who deserve credit for their help in creating this event with us – <b>you can see all of them <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Organisers" title="wikimania:2024:Organisers">Wikimania-wiki page</a></b>. I feel proud of leading such an amazing and diverse team, the past 20 months have sure been an adventure!</p> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="signpost-article-footer"> <div class="signpost-succession"> <div class="signpost-succession-prev"><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-11-20/Wikimania" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-11-20/Wikimania">← <span class="signpost-succession-casing">Previous</span> "Wikimania"</a></div> </div> <div class="signpost-inthisissue"> <div> <div class="signpost-inthisissue-heading"> <figure class="mw-halign-right skin-invert-image"><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost"><img alt="S" class="mw-file-element" height="48" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg/40px-WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg.png" width="40"></a></figure> <span>In this issue</span></div> <div class="signpost-inthisissue-toc"><span><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2024-09-04" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2024-09-04">4 September 2024</a></span> <span class="signpost-comments-disclaimer">(<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2024-09-04" title="Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2024-09-04">all comments</a>)<br> </span> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/News_and_notes" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-09-04/News and notes">News and notes</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/In_the_media" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-09-04/In the media">In the media</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Recent_research" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-09-04/Recent research">Recent research</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/News_from_the_WMF" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-09-04/News from the WMF">News from the WMF</a></li> <li><b>Wikimania</b></li> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity">Serendipity</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Traffic_report" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-09-04/Traffic report">Traffic report</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Humour" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-09-04/Humour">Humour</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="signpost-comments" id="comments"> <div class="signpost-comments-heading"> <div><span class="signpost-comments-add plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?editintro=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Templates/Comment-editnotice&title=Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Wikimania&action=edit&preload=Wikipedia:Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-comments-end/preload"> + Add a comment</a></span> <h2 class="signpost-comments-discuss" id="Discuss_this_story"> <span id="h-Discuss_this_story-20240905111500"></span>Discuss this story</h2> </div> </div> <div class="signpost-comments-disclaimer"><span id="c-HJ_Mitchell-20240905111500-Discuss_this_story"></span>These comments are automatically <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from this article's <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Wikimania" title="Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-09-04/Wikimania">talk page</a>. To follow comments, <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Wikimania&action=watch"> add the page to your watchlist</a>.</span> If your comment has not appeared here, you can try <span class="noprint plainlinks purgelink"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Wikimania&action=purge"> <span title="Purge this page">purging the cache</span></a></span>.</div> <div class="nomobile"></div> <ul> <li>I'm very fortunate to have been to four Wikimaniae and I've loved them all for different reasons. I was part of the organising team in 2012 in London so I know how much work goes in behind the scenes and you guys did a fabulous job. Well done. You should be proud. <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:HJ_Mitchell" title="User:HJ Mitchell"><b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma;">HJ Mitchell</b></a> | <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:HJ_Mitchell" title="User talk:HJ Mitchell"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman;" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts?</span></a> <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Wikimania#c-HJ_Mitchell-20240905111500-Discuss_this_story"> 11:15, 5 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span></li> <li><span id="c-Oltrepier-20240905120000-HJ_Mitchell-20240905111500"></span>By the way, did you know... that there's <b><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/GKS_Katowice" title="GKS Katowice">a football club</a></b> from Katowice that got promoted to the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ekstraklasa" title="Ekstraklasa">national top-tier</a> while celebrating their 60th anniversary? Maybe improving this article could be a cheeky way to pay further homage to this edition of Wikimania! : D --<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oltrepier" title="User:Oltrepier">Oltrepier</a> (<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Oltrepier" title="User talk:Oltrepier">talk</a>) <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Wikimania#c-Oltrepier-20240905120000-HJ_Mitchell-20240905111500"> 12:00, 5 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><br> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="signpost-footer"> <div 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title="User:CAWylie">CAWylie</a>.</i></dd> </dl> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-full"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="We_were_staying_in_Paris_(July_28_to_August_3)"><span id="We_were_staying_in_Paris_.28July_28_to_August_3.29"></span><span id="h-We_were_staying_in_Paris_(July_28_to_August_3)-signpost-article-title"></span>We were staying in Paris (July 28 to August 3)</h3> </div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Rank</th> <th>Article</th> <th>Class</th> <th>Views</th> <th>Image</th> <th>Notes/about</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Imane_Khelif" title="Imane Khelif">Imane Khelif</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>6,746,991</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imane_Khelif_Jeux_panarabes_2023.png"><img class="mw-file-element" height="128" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Imane_Khelif_Jeux_panarabes_2023.png/100px-Imane_Khelif_Jeux_panarabes_2023.png" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>Would be nice if the Olympics (#3) propelled an athlete to the top of this list simply for excelling in sport. Instead, the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics#Women's_boxing_controversy" title="Concerns and controversies at the 2024 Summer Olympics">gender controversies</a> that are all the rage nowadays manifested once Imane Khelif, an Algerian boxer competing in the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boxing_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_66_kg" title="Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 66 kg">women's 66 kg division</a>, won her opening bout in less than a minute, with just one punch.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Simone_Biles" title="Simone Biles">Simone Biles</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>4,580,661</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simone_Biles_-_2016_Olympics_podium_(cropped_01).jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="154" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Simone_Biles_-_2016_Olympics_podium_%28cropped_01%29.jpg/100px-Simone_Biles_-_2016_Olympics_podium_%28cropped_01%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>Three years after a much hyped appearance in the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics" title="2020 Summer Olympics">Tokyo Olympics</a> that didn't pan out because she felt ill during the initial competitions, the most decorated gymnast in history is dominating the gymnastics competitions in Paris like she did <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics" title="Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics">in Rio</a>, having won three golds in team, individual all-around and vault, and has become the most successful U.S. gymnast in the Olympics (and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medal_leaders_in_women%27s_gymnastics" title="List of Olympic medal leaders in women's gymnastics">third overall</a>) with ten medals, seven of which are golden. Her closest competitor is another Black gymnast from the Americas, Brazilian <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rebeca_Andrade" title="Rebeca Andrade">Rebeca Andrade</a>, who won a gold in Biles' absence in Tokyo, but so far only managed to gain two silvers and a bronze.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics" title="2024 Summer Olympics">2024 Summer Olympics</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>3,486,142</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris2024_-_Racewalking_-_01.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="75" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Paris2024_-_Racewalking_-_01.jpg/100px-Paris2024_-_Racewalking_-_01.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>France receives the biggest multi-event sport in the world, mostly in host city <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, but with some sports being held in 15 other <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_France" title="Metropolitan France">Metropolitan France</a> cities, and going as far as <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a> for the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Surfing_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics">surfing competitions</a>. 32 sports are being contested, including the debut of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Breaking_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics">breakdancing</a>, and for the third time a controversy made Russian athletes compete with a different collective name. After the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Russian_doping_scandal" title="Russian doping scandal">Russian doping scandal</a> led to them being the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Athletes_from_Russia_at_the_2018_Winter_Olympics" title="Olympic Athletes from Russia at the 2018 Winter Olympics">Olympic Athletes from Russia</a> and the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Russian_Olympic_Committee_athletes_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics" title="Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics">Russian Olympic Committee</a>, this time the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a> propelled a ban of just about every Russian and Belarusian athlete, and the select few who could enter are competing as <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Neutral_Athletes_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics">Individual Neutral Athletes</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_%26_Wolverine" title="Deadpool & Wolverine">Deadpool & Wolverine</a></i></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>3,467,395</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Best_frenemies_(52419062085).jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="67" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Best_frenemies_%2852419062085%29.jpg/100px-Best_frenemies_%2852419062085%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>Again the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe" title="Marvel Cinematic Universe">Marvel Cinematic Universe</a> provides a movie full of nostalgia, fanservice and multiversal shenanigans. Only this time it's far from family-friendly entertainment, as the transition of the X-Men from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Men_(film_series)" title="X-Men (film series)">the Fox film series</a> to the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Studios" title="Marvel Studios">Marvel Studios</a> stable is led by the ultraviolent and potty-mouthed anti-hero <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deadpool" title="Deadpool">Deadpool</a>, who tries to prevent the destruction of his universe by teaming up with the most famous of the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mutant_(Marvel_Comics)" title="Mutant (Marvel Comics)">Mutants</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wolverine_(character)" title="Wolverine (character)">Wolverine</a>, who in spite of being another Canadian fond of bloodshed, is not as welcoming to the buffoonery of the "Merc with a Mouth". The combined power of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Reynolds" title="Ryan Reynolds">Ryan Reynolds</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Jackman" title="Hugh Jackman">Hugh Jackman</a> in their signature roles, along with the usual action and comedy (only more graphic this time around - there is a man getting his skin ripped off and over 100 F-bombs!) and added tributes to many past Marvel movies, led to <i>Deadpool & Wolverine</i> becoming a smash hit, with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_%26_Wolverine#Critical_response" title="Deadpool & Wolverine">positive reviews</a> and massive <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_%26_Wolverine#Box_office" title="Deadpool & Wolverine">box office intakes</a> - the $200 million budget alone was covered by the North American opening weekend, and analysts think a billion dollars worldwide is very possible, in spite of high content ratings.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>2,522,226</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kamala_Harris_lunch_with_Washington,_D.C._interns_38013369184_2e54dcb69a_h_(cropped).jpg"> <img class="mw-file-element" height="126" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Kamala_Harris_lunch_with_Washington%2C_D.C._interns_38013369184_2e54dcb69a_h_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Kamala_Harris_lunch_with_Washington%2C_D.C._interns_38013369184_2e54dcb69a_h_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The American <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">vice-president</a> is now officially the Democrats' candidate for the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election" title="2024 United States presidential election">2024 United States presidential election</a>, quite progressive to rely on a Black woman (no matter if the competition <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c06k07dn1zjo" rel="nofollow">questions her ethnicity</a>). Expect the next edition to have high views for her and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tim_Walz" title="Tim Walz">the guy Harris chose as her running mate</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Katie_Ledecky" title="Katie Ledecky">Katie Ledecky</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,951,185</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olympic_Gold_Medalist_Katie_Ledecky.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="125" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Olympic_Gold_Medalist_Katie_Ledecky.jpg/100px-Olympic_Gold_Medalist_Katie_Ledecky.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td rowspan="2">Two American women returning to Olympic glory. Ledecky is the most decorated female swimmer ever, and in her fourth Olympic appearance reached 14 medals with the four she got at #3, including gold in both the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_800_metre_freestyle" title="Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle"> 800m</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_1500_metre_freestyle" title="Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metre freestyle"> 1500m</a> freestyle races. Lee was the gymnastics team standout in Tokyo once #2 bailed out, winning the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_artistic_individual_all-around" title="Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic individual all-around"> all-around competition</a>, whereas this time she shared the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_artistic_team_all-around" title="Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around"> team gold</a> with Biles and was behind her and Andrade in the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_artistic_individual_all-around" title="Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic individual all-around"> all-around podium</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sunisa_Lee" title="Sunisa Lee">Sunisa Lee</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,604,952</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunisa_Lee_2024.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="133" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Sunisa_Lee_2024.jpg/100px-Sunisa_Lee_2024.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Michael_Phelps" title="Michael Phelps">Michael Phelps</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><span title="Good article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/16px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png" width="16"></span></span></td> <td>1,590,737</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MICHAEL_PHELPS_E_KATIE_LEDECKY_CONCEDEM_ENTREVISTAS_NO_PARQUE_OL%C3%8DMPICO_(28747883515).jpg"> <img class="mw-file-element" height="67" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/MICHAEL_PHELPS_E_KATIE_LEDECKY_CONCEDEM_ENTREVISTAS_NO_PARQUE_OL%C3%8DMPICO_%2828747883515%29.jpg/100px-MICHAEL_PHELPS_E_KATIE_LEDECKY_CONCEDEM_ENTREVISTAS_NO_PARQUE_OL%C3%8DMPICO_%2828747883515%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td rowspan="2">Two athletes not competing at #3 but present in Paris for other reasons. Phelps is the male equivalent of #6, who became the most decorated Olympian ever by dominating the pools in four different games (this after not winning anything in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics" title="2000 Summer Olympics">his debut</a>!), with 28 medals and only 5 of them not being gold; this year, though, his appearance rather included <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE03syvLGT0" rel="nofollow">a video with</a> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Snoop_Dogg" title="Snoop Dogg">Snoop Dogg</a>, who is showing up in a lot of competitions. Owens will never be an Olympian, given <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> is far from entering the programme, but was cheering on wife #2, which always leads to <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://people.com/thmb/eylx1vrpZ-3Op9UwMFJDlxQs57o=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(640x0:642x2)/simone-biles-jonathan-owens-4-073124-7a63a11b6ab44fcf8e1aefe43c7ec5f9.jpg" rel="nofollow">amusing pictures</a>, since he's one head taller than her.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Owens" title="Jonathan Owens">Jonathan Owens</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,382,247</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonathan_Owens_(cropped).jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="160" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Jonathan_Owens_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Jonathan_Owens_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="India at the 2024 Summer Olympics">India at the 2024 Summer Olympics</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,295,100</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Prime_Minister,_Shri_Narendra_Modi_interacting_with_the_sportspersons_who_shall_be_representing_India_at_forthcoming_Rio_Olympic_Games,_in_New_Delhi_on_July_04,_2016_(2).jpg"> <img class="mw-file-element" height="75" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_interacting_with_the_sportspersons_who_shall_be_representing_India_at_forthcoming_Rio_Olympic_Games%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_July_04%2C_2016_%282%29.jpg/100px-thumbnail.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>No surprise in seeing this here, or that the country did not perform well in spite of its huge population. Still, the first week of #3 had <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics#Shooting" title="India at the 2024 Summer Olympics">three bronze medals from shooting</a>, two with air pistols and one with rifles. Near medaling was achieved with fourth places in both shooting and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics#Archery" title="India at the 2024 Summer Olympics">archery</a>. As a sidenote, the Indian <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics_Parade_of_Nations" title="2024 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations">flag bearers</a> at the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony" title="2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony">opening ceremony</a> were two people good with rackets: <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Shuttler" title="Shuttler">shuttler</a> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/P._V._Sindhu" title="P. V. Sindhu">P. V. Sindhu</a> (who didn't get her third Olympic medal due to falling in the first round of the playoffs) and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sharath_Kamal" title="Sharath Kamal">Sharath Kamal</a> of table tennis.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-full"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Let's_show_them_we_are_better_(August_4_to_10)"><span id="Let.27s_show_them_we_are_better_.28August_4_to_10.29"></span><span id="h-Let's_show_them_we_are_better_(August_4_to_10)-signpost-article-title"></span>Let's show them we are better (August 4 to 10)</h3> </div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Rank</th> <th>Article</th> <th>Class</th> <th>Views</th> <th>Image</th> <th>Notes/about</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tim_Walz" title="Tim Walz">Tim Walz</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>6,659,696</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tim_Walz_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="122" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Tim_Walz_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/100px-Tim_Walz_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>Harris (#8), the vice-president and Democratic candidate for the upcoming United States election, has picked the progressive <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Minnesota" title="Governor of Minnesota">Governor of Minnesota</a> to be her running mate.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics" title="2024 Summer Olympics">2024 Summer Olympics</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>3,234,409</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olympic_rings_on_the_Eiffel_Tower_2024_(3).jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="178" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Olympic_rings_on_the_Eiffel_Tower_2024_%283%29.jpg/100px-Olympic_rings_on_the_Eiffel_Tower_2024_%283%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The Games of the 33rd <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympiad</a> hosted in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> is reaching its conclusion <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics_closing_ceremony" title="2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony">this Sunday</a>, with only one question remaining, whether <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics">US</a> or <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="China at the 2024 Summer Olympics">China</a> will finish atop the medal table. As much as the competitions were entertaining, the Games saw their fair share of problems, like the Olympic Village having <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics#Temperature_concerns" title="Concerns and controversies at the 2024 Summer Olympics">no air conditioning</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics#Quality_of_food_at_Olympic_Village" title="Concerns and controversies at the 2024 Summer Olympics">insufficient food</a>, the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Seine" title="Seine">Seine</a> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics#Water_pollution_of_the_Seine_and_uncertain_role_in_the_wider_Games" title="Concerns and controversies at the 2024 Summer Olympics">not being clean enough</a> yet still serving as swimming venue for two sports, and the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Surfing_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics">surfing competition</a> held in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a> having an unfortunate lack of waves during its decisive semifinals and finals.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_%26_Wolverine" title="Deadpool & Wolverine">Deadpool & Wolverine</a></i></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>2,452,770</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deadpool_Wolverine_cosplay.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="138" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Deadpool_Wolverine_cosplay.jpg/100px-Deadpool_Wolverine_cosplay.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/X_Gon%27_Give_It_to_Ya" title="X Gon' Give It to Ya">X(-Men) gon' give it to ya!</a> The team-up of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Reynolds" title="Ryan Reynolds">Ryan Reynolds</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Jackman" title="Hugh Jackman">Hugh Jackman</a> as two anti-heroic <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mutants_(Marvel_Comics)" title="Mutants (Marvel Comics)">Mutants</a> fond of slashing people in their debut at the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe" title="Marvel Cinematic Universe">Marvel Cinematic Universe</a> is wrecking the box office, and should soon join another comic book-based movie, <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Joker_(2019_film)" title="Joker (2019 film)">Joker</a></i>, in making a billion dollars in spite of an <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_film_rating_system#R-rated" title="Motion Picture Association film rating system">R-rating</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Simone_Biles" title="Simone Biles">Simone Biles</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,740,385</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simone_Biles,_Antwerp_October_2023_(cropped).jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="124" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Simone_Biles%2C_Antwerp_October_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Simone_Biles%2C_Antwerp_October_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The most decorated gymnast ever had a dominating performance at #2, winning golds with the U.S. team, the individual all-around, and the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_vault" title="Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's vault">vault</a>. Only the last day of competition had Biles being surpassed, as she first missed the podium altogether with a fifth place in the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_balance_beam" title="Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam">balance beam</a>, and then getting the silver at the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_floor" title="Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's floor">floor</a>, beaten by her Brazilian friendly rival <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rebeca_Andrade" title="Rebeca Andrade">Rebeca Andrade</a>, who Biles <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/ce9zz211zxno" rel="nofollow">made sure to bow to in the medal presentation</a> (the other woman paying respects, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Chiles" title="Jordan Chiles">Jordan Chiles</a>, is currently <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_floor#Controversy" title="Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's floor">threatened to lose her bronze</a>).</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Imane_Khelif" title="Imane Khelif">Imane Khelif</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,726,957</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imane_Khelif_Jeux_panarabes_2023.png"><img class="mw-file-element" height="128" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Imane_Khelif_Jeux_panarabes_2023.png/100px-Imane_Khelif_Jeux_panarabes_2023.png" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>#2 could simply be the pinnacle of this Algerian boxer's career, having won the gold medal. Yet Khelif earned a lot of attention for less flattering reasons, given that after quickly winning her first fight, she was subject to accusations of the most outrageous sort, leading to her opening a criminal complaint against the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transvestigation" title="Transvestigation">transvestigation</a> full of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cyberbullying" title="Cyberbullying">cyberbullying</a> that in her words, "harms human dignity".</td> </tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Armand_Duplantis" title="Armand Duplantis">Armand Duplantis</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,622,327</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armand_Duplantis_in_2019-8.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="83" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Armand_Duplantis_in_2019-8.jpg/100px-Armand_Duplantis_in_2019-8.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>Still in #2, this Swedish <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pole_vault" title="Pole vault">pole vaulter</a> successfully <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_pole_vault" title="Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault">defended the gold medal</a> he had first earned in <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_2020" title="Tokyo 2020">Tokyo 2020</a>, breaking his own <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_pole_vault_world_record_progression" title="Men's pole vault world record progression">world record</a> in the process. The record-setting jump of 6.25 m earned extra attention for its heartwarming follow-up, as Duplantis <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://people.com/mondo-duplantis-kisses-girlfriend-after-setting-world-record-at-olympics-8691002" rel="nofollow">rushed to the stands to kiss his girlfriend.</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Hasina" title="Sheikh Hasina">Sheikh Hasina</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,483,799</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheikh_Hasina_Gopalganj_in_2023_(cropped).jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="138" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Sheikh_Hasina_Gopalganj_in_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Sheikh_Hasina_Gopalganj_in_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td> <p>The daughter of the "<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman" title="Sheikh Mujibur Rahman">founder of Bangladesh</a>", <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman" title="Sheikh Mujibur Rahman">Sheikh Mujibur Rahman</a>, Hasina served as the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Prime_minister_of_Bangladesh" title="Prime minister of Bangladesh">prime minister of Bangladesh</a> from January 2009 to August 2024. Her reign was marked by government corruption, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding" title="Democratic backsliding">democratic backsliding</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Enforced_disappearances_in_Bangladesh" title="Enforced disappearances in Bangladesh">enforced disapperances</a>, and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(Bangladesh)" title="Crossfire (Bangladesh)">extrajudicial killings</a>. Domestically, she was criticised as being too close to <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>.</p> <p><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Bangladesh_quota_reform_movement" title="2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement">Protests and riots</a> broke out in June. Initially, they were meant to reform the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quota_system_of_Bangladesh_Civil_Service" title="Quota system of Bangladesh Civil Service">quota system</a>, which prescribes quotas to government jobs, but evolved into anti-government protests. At least a thousand protesters died, with many more injured. The movement eventually <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-cooperation_movement_(2024)" title="Non-cooperation movement (2024)">demanded Hasina's resignation</a> on 4 August. She resigned on 5 August, and has fled to India.</p> <p>In the meantime, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a> winner <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus" title="Muhammad Yunus">Muhammad Yunus</a> has <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Taken_over" title="Taken over">taken over</a> the seat as a <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chief_Adviser_(Bangladesh)" title="Chief Adviser (Bangladesh)">caretaker leader</a>.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,470,024</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kamala_Harris_(48390414112)_(crop1).jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="126" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Kamala_Harris_%2848390414112%29_%28crop1%29.jpg/100px-Kamala_Harris_%2848390414112%29_%28crop1%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>I can't wait for this <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election" title="2024 United States presidential election">election</a> to end.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Noah_Lyles" title="Noah Lyles">Noah Lyles</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,363,713</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noah_Lyles_Olympic_Games_03.08.2024.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="133" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Noah_Lyles_Olympic_Games_03.08.2024.jpg/100px-Noah_Lyles_Olympic_Games_03.08.2024.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>Last year, this American sprinter earned attention as his response to winning three golds in the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023_World_Athletics_Championships" title="2023 World Athletics Championships">2023 World Athletics Championships</a> was complaining about a habit of the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Major_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada" title="Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada"> American major leagues</a>: "You know the thing that hurts me the most? I have to watch the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a> and they have '<a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.naturaldiamonds.com/culture-and-style/ingenious-denver-nuggets-2023-championship-diamond-ring/" rel="nofollow">world champion</a>' on their head. World champion of WHAT? The United States?" #2 made Lyles become both world and Olympic champion by winning <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/olympics-2024-mens-100m-photo-finish" rel="nofollow">by a chin</a> the most prestigious race, the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_100_metres" title="Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres">100 metres</a>. He contracted <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> in the days before the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_200_metres" title="Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres">200m race</a>, but decided to compete in the final regardless: eventually, despite winning the bronze, he was so exhausted that he left the track in a wheelchair. And <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_basketball_team" title="United States men's national basketball team">the basketballers</a> decided to remember Lyles' swipe by celebrating their gold medal by posting on social media "<a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://x.com/usabasketball/status/1822405777640112396" rel="nofollow">Are we world champs now?</a>" (to which the response was "No, you're Olympic champions, the basketball world champions are <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Germany_men%27s_national_basketball_team" title="Germany men's national basketball team">those</a> who win the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Basketball World Cup">World Cup</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023_FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup" title="2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup">and you didn't.</a>")</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vinesh_Phogat" title="Vinesh Phogat">Vinesh Phogat</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,359,234</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vinesh_Phogat_receives_Arjuna_Award_in_2016.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="125" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Vinesh_Phogat_receives_Arjuna_Award_in_2016.jpg/100px-Vinesh_Phogat_receives_Arjuna_Award_in_2016.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>This Indian freestyle wrestler competed under the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_freestyle_57_kg" title="Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 57 kg">50kg women's category</a> at #2 and had qualified for the Final, even defeating the reigning Olympic and world champion <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yui_Susaki" title="Yui Susaki">Yui Susaki</a> in the first round. But during the weigh-in on the morning of the finals, she was disqualified for being above the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Weight_class" title="Weight class">stipulated weight</a> by 100 g (3.5 oz) and was relegated to last place in the classification. Although she had appealed against the decision to the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Arbitration_for_Sport" title="Court of Arbitration for Sport">Court of Arbitration for Sport</a>, she was ultimately declared as "Lost by forfeit", <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LODzEkPACkI" rel="nofollow">breaking the hearts of many Indians</a> in the process.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-full"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Just_like_a_prayer,_you_know_I'll_take_you_there_(August_11_to_17)"> <span id="Just_like_a_prayer.2C_you_know_I.27ll_take_you_there_.28August_11_to_17.29"> </span><span id="h-Just_like_a_prayer,_you_know_I'll_take_you_there_(August_11_to_17)-signpost-article-title"></span>Just like a prayer, you know I'll take you there (August 11 to 17)</h3> </div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Rank</th> <th>Article</th> <th>Class</th> <th>Views</th> <th>Image</th> <th>Notes/about</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_%26_Wolverine" title="Deadpool & Wolverine">Deadpool & Wolverine</a></i></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,865,839</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Diego_Comic-Con_2024_Masquerade_-_Deadpools_and_Wolverine_3.jpg"> <img class="mw-file-element" height="150" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/San_Diego_Comic-Con_2024_Masquerade_-_Deadpools_and_Wolverine_3.jpg/100px-San_Diego_Comic-Con_2024_Masquerade_-_Deadpools_and_Wolverine_3.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>A few weeks after its release, the sole <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe" title="Marvel Cinematic Universe">Marvel Cinematic Universe</a> movie of the year managed to top the Report. It's no surprise, as it was a sure fire way to get a hit by teaming up the two <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Men" title="X-Men">X-Men</a> that earned solo movies, the overtly irreverent <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deadpool" title="Deadpool">Deadpool</a> and the embittered and grumpy <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wolverine_(character)" title="Wolverine (character)">Wolverine</a>, and fans also liked to see along with the expected action and comedy the unexpected return of characters from non-MCU Marvel adaptations (including from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gambit_(unproduced_film)" title="Gambit (unproduced film)">a movie that never came out</a>). <i>Deadpool & Wolverine</i> made over a billion dollars and surpassed <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Joker_(2019_film)" title="Joker (2019 film)">Joker</a></i> as the highest-grossing R-rated movie, although <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Joker_(character)" title="Joker (character)">the clown</a> from the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">Distinguished Competition</a> will have a chance to earn its belt back in October, when <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Joker:_Folie_%C3%A0_Deux" title="Joker: Folie à Deux">Joker: Folie à Deux</a></i> will probably make some people go <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga" title="Lady Gaga">gaga</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a></i></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,299,377</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museo_Cinema_Torino_-_Aliens.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="133" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Museo_Cinema_Torino_-_Aliens.jpg/100px-Museo_Cinema_Torino_-_Aliens.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>Like the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Predator_(alien)" title="Predator (alien)">Predator</a> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2022_film)" title="Prey (2022 film)">two years ago</a>, the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alien_(franchise)" title="Alien (franchise)">Alien</a> got another chance at the movies. Set between <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">the first</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">second</a> installment of the series, <i>Alien: Romulus</i> has a group of scavengers raiding an abandoned space station, only to discover the place was used to study <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Xenomorph" title="Xenomorph">a particularly vicious alien creature</a> who is subsequently out to get them. Reviewers and fans alike were impressed at how director <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fede_Alvarez" title="Fede Alvarez">Fede Alvarez</a> made <i>Alien: Romulus</i> both frightening and stylistically faithful to the earlier <i>Alien</i> movies, and already made back its budget in a single weekend with $108 million worldwide.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics" title="2024 Summer Olympics">2024 Summer Olympics</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,252,858</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olympic_rings_on_the_Eiffel_Tower_2024_(21).jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="56" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Olympic_rings_on_the_Eiffel_Tower_2024_%2821%29.jpg/100px-Olympic_rings_on_the_Eiffel_Tower_2024_%2821%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad hosted by <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> concluded last Sunday, with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics">US</a> finishing <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics_medal_table" title="2024 Summer Olympics medal table">atop the table</a> for the fourth consecutive time and overall 19th time - it was a tight affair, though, given the US had the same number of golds as <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="China at the 2024 Summer Olympics">China</a> (not helped by Russia's absence). The event <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics_closing_ceremony" title="2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony">called it a day</a> with the Olympic flag being handed over to <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise" title="Tom Cruise">Tom Cruise</a>, who then carried it to <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, the host city of the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2028_Summer_Olympics" title="2028 Summer Olympics">next Olympics</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/It_Ends_with_Us" title="It Ends with Us">It Ends with Us</a></i></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_start_class.svg" title="Start-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/16px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,032,327</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:It_Ends_with_Us_Movie_Logo.svg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="55" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/It_Ends_with_Us_Movie_Logo.svg/100px-It_Ends_with_Us_Movie_Logo.svg.png" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>This 2016 romance novel, about dealing with domestic violence and emotional abuse, nearly spawned a coloring book in 2023, until author <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Hoover" title="Colleen Hoover">Colleen Hoover</a> wisely changed her mind. Instead, it was adapted into a film (#8) that released last week.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2024" title="Deaths in 2024">Deaths in 2024</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><span title="List-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Symbol_list_class.svg/16px-Symbol_list_class.svg.png" width="16"></span></span></td> <td>981,509</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_rey_San_Pascual.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="139" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/El_rey_San_Pascual.jpg/100px-El_rey_San_Pascual.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/If_I_Ever_Feel_Better" title="If I Ever Feel Better">They say an end can be a start<br> Feels like I've been buried, yet I'm still alive...</a></i></td> </tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stree_2" title="Stree 2">Stree 2</a></i></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_start_class.svg" title="Start-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/16px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>893,252</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Actor_Rajkummar_Rao.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="150" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Actor_Rajkummar_Rao.jpg/100px-Actor_Rajkummar_Rao.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>This Bollywood sequel to the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stree_(2018_film)" title="Stree (2018 film)">2018 film</a> was released last Friday coinciding with the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(India)" title="Independence Day (India)">Indian Independence day</a> and opened to positive reviews from critics. The film has already emerged as the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_films_of_2024#Box_office_collection" title="List of Indian films of 2024">sixth highest-grossing Indian film of 2024</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindi_films_of_2024" title="List of Hindi films of 2024">third highest-grossing Hindi film of 2024</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Gunn" title="Rachael Gunn">Rachael Gunn</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_start_class.svg" title="Start-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/16px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>842,250</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breakdancing_pictogram.svg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="100" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Breakdancing_pictogram.svg/100px-Breakdancing_pictogram.svg.png" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>"Raygun" had a rough week. She entered the Olympics as a <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Breakdancing" title="Breakdancing">breakdancer</a> with her <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Australia_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics#Breaking" title="Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics">Australian team</a> (albeit not in the proper attire), scored zeroes in the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Breaking_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics">first round</a> against three competitors, and quickly became the target of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cyberbullying" title="Cyberbullying">online bullies</a>, to the point that a petition on <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Change.org" title="Change.org">Change.org</a> was made regarding her "unethical conduct" and whether or not she should have even been on an Olympic team. <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Australian_Olympic_Committee" title="Australian Olympic Committee">AOC</a> executive <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Matt_Carroll_(sports_administrator)" title="Matt Carroll (sports administrator)">Matt Carroll</a> saw the veiled bullying of an entry and called for its subsequent removal. Gunn herself has lashed out at the internet trolls.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/It_Ends_with_Us_(film)" title="It Ends with Us (film)"><i>It Ends with Us</i> (film)</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_start_class.svg" title="Start-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/16px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>824,641</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Justin_Baldoni_at_2015_PaleyFest.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="150" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Justin_Baldoni_at_2015_PaleyFest.jpg/100px-Justin_Baldoni_at_2015_PaleyFest.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Justin_Baldoni" title="Justin Baldoni">Justin Baldoni</a>-directed adaptation of #4 opened second at the box office, right behind #1. The competition between husband and wife <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Reynolds" title="Ryan Reynolds">Ryan Reynolds</a> and #10's latest cinema releases over the top spot certainly does resemble <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Barbenheimer" title="Barbenheimer">last year's unforgettable battle between a doll and an atomic bomb</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>762,832</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kamala_Harris_February_2023.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="138" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Kamala_Harris_February_2023.jpg/100px-Kamala_Harris_February_2023.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>Americans <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/18/us/politics/undecided-voters-kamala-harris-donald-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EU4.TE85.3pQkJE6acdjc" rel="nofollow">don't really know what Harris stands for</a>, apparently, so they go to Wikipedia.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blake_Lively" title="Blake Lively">Blake Lively</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>701,559</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blake_Lively_Cannes_2016_2.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="150" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Blake_Lively_Cannes_2016_2.jpg/100px-Blake_Lively_Cannes_2016_2.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The wife of #1 star <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Reynolds" title="Ryan Reynolds">Ryan Reynolds</a> plays the lead character in #8. Though the film did come in second at the box office, right behind Marvel's latest release, Lively's presence on this list is most likely enhanced due to the feud with her co-star and director <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Justin_Baldoni" title="Justin Baldoni">Justin Baldoni</a> and the unusual press tour of <i>It Ends with Us</i>, which had the two lead stars promoting the film separately (unlike the currently inseparable Reynolds and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Jackman" title="Hugh Jackman">Hugh Jackman</a>), as well as Lively framing her movie like a celebratory girls' night, despite its heavy subject on domestic violence and physical abuse, and promoting her new haircare line.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-full"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="I_close_my_eyes,_Heaven_help_me_(August_18_to_24)"> <span id="I_close_my_eyes.2C_Heaven_help_me_.28August_18_to_24.29"></span><span id="h-I_close_my_eyes,_Heaven_help_me_(August_18_to_24)-signpost-article-title"></span>I close my eyes, Heaven help me (August 18 to 24)</h3> </div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Rank</th> <th>Article</th> <th>Class</th> <th>Views</th> <th>Image</th> <th>Notes/about</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>2,232,813</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kamala_Harris_lunch_with_Washington,_D.C._interns_38013369414_d97e84fce4_h_(cropped).jpg"> <img class="mw-file-element" height="117" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Kamala_Harris_lunch_with_Washington%2C_D.C._interns_38013369414_d97e84fce4_h_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Kamala_Harris_lunch_with_Washington%2C_D.C._interns_38013369414_d97e84fce4_h_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2024 Democratic National Convention">2024 Democratic National Convention</a> was held from August 19 to 22 in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>: a loud, boisterous convention with lots and lots of speeches. It's also where <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Delegate_(American_politics)#Democratic_Party" title="Delegate (American politics)">delegates</a> selected the presidential nominee. Harris, the current Vice-President who was literally the only candidate standing, was selected.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lynch_(businessman)" title="Mike Lynch (businessman)">Mike Lynch (businessman)</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>2,079,337</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr_Michael_Lynch_OBE_FREng_FRS.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="150" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Dr_Michael_Lynch_OBE_FREng_FRS.jpg/100px-Dr_Michael_Lynch_OBE_FREng_FRS.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The British tech tycoon died by drowning on August 19, aged 59, after his superyacht <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_(yacht)" title="Bayesian (yacht)">Bayesian</a></i> sank off the coast of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a> during a violent storm. He had just been fully <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lynch_(businessman)#Civil_and_criminal_cases" title="Mike Lynch (businessman)">acquitted of fraud</a> during an American criminal trial in June, a case where he had just a 0.5% chance of acquittal. Lynch's co-defendant in the trial, Stephen Chamberlain, had just been killed after being hit by a car whilst running on August 17.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stree_2" title="Stree 2">Stree 2</a></i></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_start_class.svg" title="Start-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/16px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,468,938</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raj_Yadav.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="129" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Raj_Yadav.jpg/100px-Raj_Yadav.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>This Bollywood <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comedy_horror" title="Comedy horror">comedy horror</a> film released last week, has made ₹505 crore at the box office (against a budget of ₹50 crore) and already is the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_films_of_2024#Box_office_collection" title="List of Indian films of 2024">second highest-grossing Indian film of 2024</a>, behind only <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kalki_2898_AD" title="Kalki 2898 AD">Kalki 2898 AD</a></i>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a></i></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,294,533</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H.R._Giger%E2%80%99s_Xenomorph_(Ank_Kumar_)_04.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="67" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/H.R._Giger%E2%80%99s_Xenomorph_%28Ank_Kumar_%29_04.jpg/100px-H.R._Giger%E2%80%99s_Xenomorph_%28Ank_Kumar_%29_04.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The latest installment in the 45-year old franchise about <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Xenomorph" title="Xenomorph">slimy and particularly invasive extraterrestrials</a>, announced at the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/CinemaCon" title="CinemaCon">2019 CinemaCon</a> and taking place between the first two films of the franchise, opened last week to positive reviews from critics and has grossed $129 million worldwide so far.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alain_Delon" title="Alain Delon">Alain Delon</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,269,691</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alain_Delon_1961.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="129" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Alain_Delon_1961.jpg/100px-Alain_Delon_1961.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>An icon of French cinema, who worked for at least six decades (which included forays into Hollywood like <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lost_Command" title="Lost Command">Lost Command</a></i> and <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Red_Sun" title="Red Sun">Red Sun</a></i>, plus playing <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> in <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Asterix_at_the_Olympic_Games_(film)" title="Asterix at the Olympic Games (film)">Asterix at the Olympic Games</a></i>), actor Alain Delon died at the age of 88 of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/B-cell_lymphoma" title="B-cell lymphoma">B-cell lymphoma</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tim_Walz" title="Tim Walz">Tim Walz</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,187,274</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tim_Walz_is_sworn_in_as_Minnesota%27s_41st_governor_at_the_Fitzgeral_Theater_in_St_Paul,_Minnesota.jpg"> <img class="mw-file-element" height="67" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Tim_Walz_is_sworn_in_as_Minnesota%27s_41st_governor_at_the_Fitzgeral_Theater_in_St_Paul%2C_Minnesota.jpg/100px-Tim_Walz_is_sworn_in_as_Minnesota%27s_41st_governor_at_the_Fitzgeral_Theater_in_St_Paul%2C_Minnesota.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>#20 on last week’s report. #1 on the week before last week. You probably already know who he is: The Democrats' VP pick. A slight boost in page views this week can be attributed to the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2024 Democratic National Convention">DNC</a> occurring this week, where Harris and Walz were official locked in as the Democratic Party's nominees for the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election" title="2024 United States presidential election">presidential election in November</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr." title="Robert F. Kennedy Jr.">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,175,853</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_F._Kennedy,_Jr._by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="136" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Robert_F._Kennedy%2C_Jr._by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/100px-Robert_F._Kennedy%2C_Jr._by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The son of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a>, Kennedy Jr. is an <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Environmental_lawyer" title="Environmental lawyer">environmental lawyer</a> turned <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-vaxxer" title="Anti-vaxxer">anti-vaxxer</a> who <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr._2024_presidential_campaign" title="Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign">ran for US president</a>, but gave up on August 23, subsequently endorsing <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, due to dismal polling and campaign funds running out. He <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-says-court-filing-endorsing-trump-ending-presidential-hopes-rcna165936" rel="nofollow">blamed his failed campaign on Democrats</a>, and he could potentially have a position in Trump's administration if he wins.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_%26_Wolverine" title="Deadpool & Wolverine">Deadpool & Wolverine</a></i></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,111,265</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYCC_2011_-_Wolverine_%26_Deadpool_(6291092340).jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="67" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/NYCC_2011_-_Wolverine_%26_Deadpool_%286291092340%29.jpg/100px-NYCC_2011_-_Wolverine_%26_Deadpool_%286291092340%29.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>The savior of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/MCU" title="MCU">MCU</a>, released a month ago has made $1.16 billion worldwide, and became the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_in_film#Highest-grossing_films" title="2024 in film">second-highest-grossing film of 2024</a> behind <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inside_Out_2" title="Inside Out 2">another Disney movie</a>. It has now surpassed the <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_Civil_War" title="Captain America: Civil War">Civil War</a></i> to become the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films#Box_office_performance" title="List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films">8th highest grossing film in the franchise</a> and is expected to surpass the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(2012_film)" title="The Avengers (2012 film)">original Avengers film</a> soon.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Harris" title="Donald J. Harris">Donald J. Harris</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" width="16"></a></span></td> <td>1,038,889</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donald_J._Harris_in_1974.png"><img class="mw-file-element" height="85" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Donald_J._Harris_in_1974.png/100px-Donald_J._Harris_in_1974.png" width="100"></a></span></td> <td>Yes, he is #1's father, and his English Wikipedia page most likely rose to #9 because <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a> claimed that the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> emeritus professor is a "<a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marxist" title="Marxist">Marxist</a> economist" (did you mean: <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marxian_economist" title="Marxian economist">Marxian economist</a></i>) in his <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/trump-elon-musk-interview-key-takeaways" rel="nofollow">live conversation</a> with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> on <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">X</a> on August 12, telling people to look it up if they didn't believe him.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2024" title="Deaths in 2024">Deaths in 2024</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer"><span title="List-Class article"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" height="16" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Symbol_list_class.svg/16px-Symbol_list_class.svg.png" width="16"></span></span></td> <td>998,439</td> <td><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apparition_by_Eugeniu_Voinescu.jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="133" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Apparition_by_Eugeniu_Voinescu.jpg/100px-Apparition_by_Eugeniu_Voinescu.jpg" width="100"></a></span></td> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Universe" title="Across the Universe">Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns<br> It calls me on and on across the universe</a></i></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-full"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Exclusions"><span id="h-Exclusions-signpost-article-title"></span>Exclusions</h3> </div> <ul> <li>These lists exclude the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link" title="Wikipedia:Red link">redlinks</a>), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Top_25_Report" title="Wikipedia talk:Top 25 Report">Top 25 Report talk page</a> if you wish.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"> <h2 id="Most_edited_articles"><span id="h-Most_edited_articles"></span>Most edited articles</h2> </div> <p>For the July 19 – August 19 period, per <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Most_edited_articles_last_month" title="Wikipedia:Database reports/Most edited articles last month">this database report</a>.</p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Title</th> <th>Revisions</th> <th>Notes</th> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kamala_Harris_2024_presidential_campaign_endorsements" title="List of Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign endorsements">List of Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign endorsements</a></td> <td>2678</td> <td>A laundry list of people supporting the Vice-President in the upcoming election. These include even <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose_the_Donald_Trump_2024_presidential_campaign" title="List of Republicans who oppose the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign"> Republicans and conservatives</a>, showing how controversial her opposition is.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2024" title="Deaths in 2024">Deaths in 2024</a></td> <td>2153</td> <td>Our version of the obituary, and the period had among its deceased actress <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gena_Rowlands" title="Gena Rowlands">Gena Rowlands</a>, executive <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki" title="Susan Wojcicki">Susan Wojcicki</a>, voice actress <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Lillis" title="Rachael Lillis">Rachael Lillis</a> and musician <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kihn" title="Greg Kihn">Greg Kihn</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2024 Venezuelan presidential election">2024 Venezuelan presidential election</a></td> <td>1974</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chávez</a> used questionable tactics to remain in power in Venezuela, and his successor <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Maduro" title="Nicolas Maduro">Nicolas Maduro</a> is more of the same, as there was strong evidence that opposing candidate <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edmundo_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Urrutia" title="Edmundo González Urrutia">Edmundo González Urrutia</a> had more votes in the latest presidential election but the incumbent government insisted they still won through fraudulent claims. <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_protests" title="2024 Venezuelan protests">The Venezuelans protested</a>, leading to <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tun_Tun" title="Operation Tun Tun">an attempted crackdown by the government</a>, and many countries <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="International reactions to the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election"> are questioning the election results</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Wayanad_landslides" title="2024 Wayanad landslides">2024 Wayanad landslides</a></td> <td>1842</td> <td>India is infamous for <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Monsoon_of_South_Asia" title="Monsoon of South Asia">heavy rain</a>, and a consequence of this was that the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wayanad_district" title="Wayanad district">Wayanad district</a> of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a> saw hillsides collapsing in the early hours of July 30, sending torrents of mud, water, and boulders. It is the deadliest tragedy in Kerala history, with reports of over 420 fatalities, 397 injuries, and more than 118 people still missing.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics">United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics</a></td> <td>1785</td> <td>Most countries treat the United States in the Olympics like <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OpposingSportsTeam" rel="nofollow">the antagonists in sports movies</a>. Even if the hosts have representatives in all sports, the U.S. still are the country with the most athletes (592, as opposed to 573 for <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/France_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="France at the 2024 Summer Olympics">France</a>), who seem to win just about every competition – and while Paris was an exception, there are occasions where <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://media.gettyimages.com/id/591901232/pt/foto/rio-de-janeiro-brazil-silver-medalist-nia-ali-of-the-united-states-gold-medalist-brianna.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=sh7AMnBQ54gqix-o2rb5DU8GogVxB1rJ0nHKcvQlmO4=" rel="nofollow">all three medals go to Americans</a>. And to make matters worse, when Team USA don't have the most gold medals, their media starts counting by total medals so they remain as the top team. With that out of the way, the U.S. was again atop the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics_medal_table" title="2024 Summer Olympics medal table">medal table</a> with 40 gold medals and 126 total. And they are the next hosts, so don't be surprised if the numbers are even bigger in 2028 (even if not as massive as <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_1984_Summer_Olympics" title="United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics">the last time Los Angeles had the Games</a>).</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-cooperation_movement_(2024)" title="Non-cooperation movement (2024)">Non-cooperation movement (2024)</a></td> <td>1627</td> <td>As mentioned above, a protest against the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Bangladesh" title="Government of Bangladesh">government of Bangladesh</a> that eventually led to its Prime Minister, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Hasina" title="Sheikh Hasina">Sheikh Hasina</a>, resigning.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_%26_Wolverine" title="Deadpool & Wolverine">Deadpool & Wolverine</a></i></td> <td>1517</td> <td>After a bumpy 2023 for Disney, the company is making all the money in 2024 with two billion dollar movies, <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inside_Out_2" title="Inside Out 2">Inside Out 2</a></i> and the sole <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe" title="Marvel Cinematic Universe">Marvel Cinematic Universe</a> release of the year, featuring two Mutant heroes and a cluster of cameos and role reprisals. Given how full the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Studios" title="Marvel Studios">Marvel Studios</a> schedule is, no word on when a proper <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Men" title="X-Men">X-Men</a> movie will be made.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony" title="2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony">2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony</a></td> <td>1465</td> <td>A rainy affair that included the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics_Parade_of_Nations" title="2024 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations">Parade of Nations</a> being boats sailing down the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Seine" title="Seine">Seine</a>, things like a masked torchbearer and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gojira_(band)" title="Gojira (band)">Gojira</a> playing a <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://consequence.net/2024/07/gojira-epic-performance-olympics-opening-ceremony/" rel="nofollow">heavy metal version</a> of "<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/%C3%87a_Ira" title="Ça Ira">Ça Ira</a>" in front of decapitated <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette" title="Marie Antoinette">Marie Antoinettes</a> (here's hoping Australia copies that by doing a <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max" title="Mad Max">Mad Max</a></i> tribute, complete with <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1bZYdfvmBk" rel="nofollow">flaming guitar</a>, in <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_2032" title="Brisbane 2032">Brisbane 2032</a>!), and a (supposed) recreation of <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo)" title="The Last Supper (Leonardo)">The Last Supper</a></i> that made conservatives angry.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Bangladesh_quota_reform_movement" title="2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement">2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement</a></td> <td>1436</td> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> has a <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quota_system_of_Bangladesh_Civil_Service" title="Quota system of Bangladesh Civil Service">quota system for government jobs</a>. A movement initially focused on restructuring it eventually expanded against what many perceive as an authoritarian government, and the hundreds of protestors and civilians, most of whom were students, were often met with armed resistance by the police and other government forces, leading to 354 dead and thousands injured, including children. Once the movement refused negotiations with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina due to the violence, it evolved into the aforementioned <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-cooperation_movement_(2024)" title="Non-cooperation movement (2024)">non-cooperation movement</a>, who proceeded to basically take over capital <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dhaka" title="Dhaka">Dhaka</a>, leading Hasina to resign and flee to <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="India at the 2024 Summer Olympics">India at the 2024 Summer Olympics</a></td> <td>1409</td> <td>Another instance of India not being a sports potency like <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="China at the 2024 Summer Olympics">its neighbor that also has over a billion people</a>, with six medals (China usually gets that in a single day... or <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Table_tennis_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics">sport</a>), none golden – at most <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Neeraj_Chopra" title="Neeraj Chopra">Neeraj Chopra</a> tried to defend <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_javelin_throw" title="Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw">his Tokyo title</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_javelin_throw" title="Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw">got the silver</a>, with the remaining five bronzes being three in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics#Shooting" title="India at the 2024 Summer Olympics">shooting</a>, and one each in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics#Field_hockey" title="India at the 2024 Summer Olympics">field hockey</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics#Wrestling" title="India at the 2024 Summer Olympics">wrestling</a>. And that's not counting all the close calls (4th places at archery, badminton, shooting and weightlifting) and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vinesh_Phogat" title="Vinesh Phogat">Vinesh Phogat</a> being disqualified just when she was guaranteed at least silver. In any case, <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_2028" title="Los Angeles 2028">Los Angeles 2028</a> has a possible podium, as <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Twenty20" title="Twenty20">Twenty20</a> cricket will be one of the competitions.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bigg_Boss_OTT_(Hindi_Digital_series)_season_3" title="Bigg Boss OTT (Hindi Digital series) season 3">Bigg Boss OTT (Hindi Digital series) season 3</a></td> <td>1399</td> <td>One of the Indian versions of <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(franchise)" title="Big Brother (franchise)">Big Brother</a></i> has a streaming spin-off, with the "OTT" standing for "over-the-top".</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics">Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics</a></td> <td>1397</td> <td>The UK remain reaping the sports investments made for <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/London_2012" title="London 2012">London 2012</a>, as they matched the 65 medals won as hosts, albeit the 14 golds were the lowest amount since the 9 of <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Athens_2004" title="Athens 2004">Athens 2004</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_riots" title="2024 United Kingdom riots">2024 United Kingdom riots</a></td> <td>1330</td> <td>Shortly after the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_France_railway_arson_attacks" title="2024 France railway arson attacks">2024 France railway arson attacks</a>, things got even worse across the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a>, with looting and hate crimes along with the fires. It started with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024_Southport_stabbing" title="2024 Southport stabbing">a mass stabbing in Southport</a> on July 29, and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Misinformation" title="Misinformation">misinformation</a> was spread that the attacker was a Muslim migrant or <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Asylum_seeker" title="Asylum seeker">asylum seeker</a> (the one arrested suspect is a British citizen of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda">Rwandan</a> descent), leading to an attack to a <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosque</a> the following day, followed by many oft-violent far-right, anti-immigration protests until August 5, leading to over a thousand arrests.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chronological_summary_of_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Chronological summary of the 2024 Summer Olympics">Chronological summary of the 2024 Summer Olympics</a></td> <td>1286</td> <td><i><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZySl72EByI" rel="nofollow">How high can I jump</a><br> How high can I throw<br> How high can I run<br> How long can I <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_swimming" title="Synchronized swimming">hold my breath and stay underwater and wave my legs around in perfect unison with my partner who really doesn't understand me</a><br> Or my Olympic dream...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="China at the 2024 Summer Olympics">China at the 2024 Summer Olympics</a></td> <td>1229</td> <td>With <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> banned (aside from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Neutral_Athletes_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics">a small contingent of athletes</a>) due to <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">that awful thing that doesn't end</a>, it was a tighter race between the U.S. and the last team to <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics_medal_table" title="2008 Summer Olympics medal table">beat them at the medal table</a>. China had 40 of their 91 medals be golden (including all in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Table_tennis_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics">table tennis</a>!), and given the Americans had the same amount, the Asians only got down to second place due to tiebreaker by number of silvers. No word if they repeated the 'laughable sore loser excuse to claim the top spot' – just like the U.S. shifts to total medals, after <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_2020" title="Tokyo 2020">Tokyo 2020</a> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics" title="China at the 2020 Summer Olympics">China</a> tried to say they were #1 by <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.businessinsider.com/china-claims-olympic-medal-table-victory-over-usa-altered-count-2021-8" rel="nofollow">counting the medals of Taiwan and Hong Kong</a>.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><br></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="signpost-article-footer"> <div class="signpost-succession"> <div class="signpost-succession-prev"><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-08-14/Traffic_report" 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There is hope for the world. <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Smallchief" title="User:Smallchief">Smallchief</a> (<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Smallchief" title="User talk:Smallchief">talk</a>) <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Traffic_report#c-Smallchief-20240904144900-Discuss_this_story"> 14:49, 4 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span> <dl> <dd><span id="c-Bri-20240904161400-Smallchief-20240904144900"></span>It is noteworthy that Walz and Harris (and her family member) appear a total of five times, and Trump and Vance collectively zero times. Plus the list-topping List of Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign endorsements in most frequently edited articles. Interesting. ☆ <span style="white-space: nowrap; font-family: Papyrus;"><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bri" title="User:Bri">Bri</a></span> (<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bri" title="User talk:Bri">talk</a>) <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Traffic_report#c-Bri-20240904161400-Smallchief-20240904144900"> 16:14, 4 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span></dd> </dl> </li> <li><span id="c-Polygnotus-20240914045000-Smallchief-20240904144900"></span><q class="inline-quote-talk">a case where he had just a 0.5% chance of acquittal.</q> Yeah no. The figure seems to come from, like <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://news.sky.com/story/key-members-of-mike-lynchs-legal-success-now-centre-of-tragedy-after-superyacht-sinking-13200393" rel="nofollow">Sky says</a>, the statistic that <q class="inline-quote-talk">less than 0.5% of federal criminal cases in the United States end in acquittal.</q> but realistically that number probably goes way up if you are a white male who just happens to be a billionaire. So we shouldn't repeat it as if it makes any sense. <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polygnotus" title="User:Polygnotus">Polygnotus</a> (<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Polygnotus" title="User talk:Polygnotus">talk</a>) <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Traffic_report#c-Polygnotus-20240914045000-Smallchief-20240904144900"> 04:50, 14 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><br> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="signpost-footer"> <div class="signpost-issue-navigation noprint"></div> <div class="signpost-ticker">It's your <i>Signpost</i>. 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title="User:Clovermoss">Clovermoss</a></span></div> </div> <div class="hidden-piccyembed" style="display: none;"> <span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannah_Clover_at_Wikimania_2024_(cropped).jpg"><img class="mw-file-element" height="1" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Hannah_Clover_at_Wikimania_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg/1px-Hannah_Clover_at_Wikimania_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="1"></a></span></div> <div class="signpost-article" style="margin: 0 auto;"> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"></div> <div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"> <figure class="mw-halign-center"><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannah_Clover_at_Wikimania_2024_(cropped).jpg"><img alt="This is a photograph of me at the opening ceremony." class="mw-file-element" height="401" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Hannah_Clover_at_Wikimania_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg/300px-Hannah_Clover_at_Wikimania_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="300"></a></figure> <div class="signpost-fillerimage">This is a photograph of me at the opening ceremony.</div> </div> <div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>I attended my first <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania" title="Wikimania">Wikimania</a> this year in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Katowice" title="Katowice">Katowice</a>, Poland. I thought about applying for a <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Scholarships" title="wikimania:2024:Scholarships">scholarship</a> when the process was open, but ultimately decided against it. I figured that attending <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_North_America" title="WikiConference North America">WikiConference North America</a> was enough for one year; obviously, I changed my mind once I was chosen as the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_of_the_Year" title="Wikimedian of the Year">Wikimedian of the Year</a>. I had never been outside of North America before this event, so this experience was a lot of firsts for me. If I had told younger me that my first trip to Europe would be in Poland, she would have been very confused.</p> <p>In late May, I received an email telling me that I was one of the five people shortlisted for the award. I tried not to think about it too much: I didn't think I'd actually be the winner and that one of the other four editors would be chosen. I didn't consider my accomplishments to be even remotely comparable to those of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Stephenson-Goodknight" title="Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight">Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight</a> or <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Emily_Temple-Wood" title="Emily Temple-Wood">Emily Temple-Wood</a>, so why would it be me? I was told to expect a response within three weeks, but it ended up taking longer than that (apparently, there were unexpected challenges internally, and I was told it wasn't my fault). I found out that it was actually me on July 4, which gave me about a month to come to terms with my upcoming fame. I was excited for the most part, but I was also terrified; sometimes it felt like a countdown of doom, where my life would never be normal again.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"> <h2 id="August_6_–_Tuesday"><span id="August_6_.E2.80.93_Tuesday"></span><span id="h-August_6_–_Tuesday"></span>August 6 – Tuesday</h2> </div> <p>This was a pre-conference culture crawl day, so there were no sessions to attend. Katowice is six hours ahead of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls,_Ontario" title="Niagara Falls, Ontario">Niagara Falls</a>, where I live, so I was also trying to recover from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jet_lag" title="Jet lag">jet lag</a>. I didn't really see much of the city other than getting a super secret tour of the venue and hanging out with some staff members in the attached café. We had some interesting conversations, though: I found out that the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> owns their <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_center" title="Data center">data centres</a> for privacy reasons, that this practice is incredibly expensive, and that it's unusual for tech companies to do this. A new data centre was recently built in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, and this took a lot of work: <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/26/the-journey-to-open-our-first-data-center-in-south-america/"> you can read about it here</a>. I was also told that the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Codebase" title="Codebase">codebase</a> for <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> is incredibly old: as a result, this presents unique challenges and a lot of things are "hacks on top of hacks". I was encouraged to attend a session where <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/ALSZWU/" rel="nofollow">this topic was featured</a>, which can be watched <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/live/iRw444uS1-E?feature=shared&t=5698" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Unfortunately, I did not manage to do so.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"> <h2 id="August_7_–_Wednesday"><span id="August_7_.E2.80.93_Wednesday"></span><span id="h-August_7_–_Wednesday"></span>August 7 – Wednesday</h2> </div> <p>I had breakfast in the hotel lobby and talked to New Zealand user <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Giantflightlessbirds" title="User:Giantflightlessbirds">Giantflightlessbirds</a>, who told me about some interesting work he does as a Wikipedian at Large (an alternative name for a <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_residence" title="Wikipedian in residence">Wikipedian in Residence</a>) in his home-country. I also talked to a few other Wikimedians... but did not get their usernames. Finally, I showed one young woman my knitting and we took a selfie together.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Sessions"><span id="h-Sessions-August_7_–_Wednesday"></span>Sessions</h3> </div> <ul> <li>I attended the orientation from 9:00 to 9:45 am. It was mostly some background on how the 2024 Wikimania conference was moved from <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Kraków</a> to Katowice (including some friendly banter about how they were going to <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gaslight" title="Gaslight">gaslight</a> us with the slides and merchandise), some anecdotes about <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polish_cuisine" title="Polish cuisine">Polish cuisine</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polish_culture" title="Polish culture">culture</a> (did you know that <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pierogies" title="Pierogies">pierogies</a> can have a blueberry filling?), to follow the <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policies" title="meta:Friendly space policies">friendly space policies</a> (essentially, don't be a jerk), and to exercise caution regarding alcoholic beverages.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/JHCWVE" rel="nofollow">Volunteer Supporter's Network</a> session from 10:00 to 10:25 am. I noted that these resources were only offered to affiliates, so at the end of the session, I asked someone from the audience about my desire to know more about the type of activities affiliates participate in, since I think this process can be somewhat confusing from the outside looking in. However, I have not heard back yet.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/8H77YZ/" rel="nofollow">blocking</a> and <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/Q3VG9B/" rel="nofollow">temporary accounts</a> sessions by <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety" title="meta:Trust and Safety">Trust and Safety</a>, and I found them incredibly informative. The latter session ran into unexpected challenges when the pre-recorded video lost audio, but I think <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> did a good job stepping in and making the best of it.</li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Opening_ceremony"><span id="h-Opening_ceremony-August_7_–_Wednesday"></span>Opening ceremony</h3> </div> <p>Preparation for the opening ceremony started at 1 pm. I was one of two recipients who misunderstood that I was supposed to have lunch before meeting <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a>; luckily, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vermont" title="User:Vermont">Vermont</a> saved the day by finding us meals and beverages. Apart from that, my introduction to Wales and the rest of the recipients went smoothly. We sat next to each other in one big circle and shared who we are and which category we were chosen for. Then, we rehearsed the ceremony itself.</p> <p>After the rehearsal finished, I spent time with a bunch of friends behind a staircase (we had a table and it's way less gloomy than it sounds). Some plans were made for after the opening ceremony, because "it's not like any of us will have anything to do". It was incredibly difficult to keep a straight face and not give the secret away at that point. When we all sat down at a table in the room for the opening ceremony, at 5 pm, my heart was pounding, but I tried my best to remain calm and just act like everything was normal, and I think I did a good job acting the part. On the inside, I felt like I was experiencing something akin to an <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response" title="Fight-or-flight response">adrenaline rush</a>: it's difficult to explain precisely what I was feeling, but it was incredibly intense. I was sitting next to <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Seddon" title="User:Seddon">Seddon</a>, and he was determined to update all the award recipients as they were announced. However, he had no idea that I was going to be one of them, and his laptop died, so he switched to his tablet to edit through the app when my time came. It was oddly fitting, given that I'm <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss/Mobile_editing" title="User:Clovermoss/Mobile editing">known for mobile editing</a>... The secret was out once <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSzafran-WMF" title="wikimania:User:NSzafran-WMF">Natalia</a> started describing me; Seddon suddenly looked up from his tablet and literally blurted out, "It's you!" We shared a knowing look: sure enough, it was me. My name was announced, the lights that gave everyone a headache went crazy, and I forced myself to walk onto the stage.</p> <p>I admit I have very limited experience with public speaking: I had never been on a stage before, and I had a thousand people watching me for the first time in my life. I could literally feel my legs shake, and I spent a lot of my mental effort just trying to stay still and not fall. I was told by a few people afterwards that I did look a little nervous, but the situation didn't look as dire as it felt. If you wish to watch it, you can do so <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/live/BI9R11gaWTM?t=8346" rel="nofollow">here</a>. In retrospect, I'd empty my pockets beforehand (my wallet and passport are bulky)... I would also have spoken more slowly, deliberately, and with less <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Filler_word" title="Filler word">filler words</a>. After the ceremony ended, I mingled with the other conference participants, because I'm a social butterfly. A bunch of people congratulated me and asked for a selfie, and one person even asked me to sign their copy of <i><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/All_the_Knowledge_in_the_World" title="All the Knowledge in the World">All the Knowledge in the World</a></i>.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"> <h2 id="August_8_–_Thursday"><span id="August_8_.E2.80.93_Thursday"></span><span id="h-August_8_–_Thursday"></span>August 8 – Thursday</h2> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Sessions_2"><span id="h-Sessions_2-August_8_–_Thursday"></span>Sessions</h3> </div> <ul> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/RA8R3V/" rel="nofollow">Opening the Academia keynote</a> session from 9:00 to 9:55 am. It was a panel with four participants, and I listened to what the speakers had to say about their experiences; I particularly agreed with the argument that academic publishing should be more <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_access" title="Open access">open access</a> than it currently is. Later on, I heard something that stood out to me: <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/live/wYc5gnZfnpU?si=Nw5xLON-x8dbNVnh&t=4094" rel="nofollow">"If you're a scholar and you do not ask your students to write Wikipedia articles as a form of submitting your essay for a grade, you're a loser. You're a massive loser."</a> This comment concerned me for multiple reasons: one question posed in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss/Editor_reflections" title="User:Clovermoss/Editor reflections">editor reflections</a> is about <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation" title="Wiki Education Foundation">WikiEd</a>, with numerous people having used this space to share that they have cleaned up after student editors and that they found this experience frustrating. I don't think this conclusion is surprising to anyone who has read an <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents">WP:ANI</a> thread where a WikiEd class has gone wrong. So hearing someone say, "If you do this, Wikipedia editors will oftentimes check to see if it's <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism" title="Wikipedia:Plagiarism">plagiarized</a> or not, they will make comments, they will edit it for you", and, "<a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/live/wYc5gnZfnpU?si=dE9I05Sbxhn8dhrJ&t=4623" rel="nofollow">If from a class of thirty people... five articles remain, it's zero versus five</a>", it came across as a somewhat reckless mentality to have. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/live/wYc5gnZfnpU?si=D-dafcVjweaKHvCi&t=4869" rel="nofollow">I expressed these concerns</a> when questions and comments were opened up to members of the audience:</li> </ul> <blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>"You mentioned you were very pro-student editing and how you think everyone should do it, right? Obviously, I'm cool with young people editing, because I'm 21 and if I was against that, I wouldn't be editing at all. But I think maybe there are more factors to consider than just seeing if some articles stay. From the newcomer's perspective, you don't want to be setting people up to fail. Then, from the community outreach perspective, [...] yes, people will clean up after the people who are doing things that they aren't supposed to be, but it kind of diminishes the volunteer morale a bit? [If] they're constantly flooded with content that they need to clean up, then it can be a bit of a vicious cycle where they're less welcoming to student editors. So, I was just wondering if you've ever considered that, and if you had any thoughts on how you might want to mitigate factors like that?"</p> </blockquote> <ul> <li>In response, they said:</li> </ul> <blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>"I think it's a very good argument that you're making, but there's two things that I wanted to add to that. First of all, editors are already flooded with bad quality edits. [<i>I interrupted them to clarify that my concerns were related to the scale in which these issues can arise. Then they said:</i>] I would still argue that the average quality of professor-supervised class editing will be higher than the average quality of a newcomer edit. Mainly because students have access to all those journal libraries and are, by design, probably the top 1% of knowledge-privileged people. By design, their edits will most likely not be horrible, although probably not great, either. Second, I think the problem you're raising is super important, that we do not discourage people by hanging them out to dry, go out and edit Wikipedia and of course, prepare them. I think you're very right that, first of all, we need to let people know what the rules are, maybe get them familiar with the format, but isn't that true of academic writing in general? You do not ask people to start writing journals."</p> </blockquote> <ul> <li>In retrospect, I wouldn't have interrupted them as they were speaking, as I did a few times in that exchange: I think I was treating it like a conversation, but in this context, it comes across as somewhat rude. If I meet him again someday, I'd likely apologize for that. Afterwards, I had a brief conversation with other audience members in the hallway, where I discussed how I think Wikipedia works best when someone's heart is in it, and not because they're doing it for a grade. I mentioned another editor I had met at a <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toronto_WikiClub">Toronto meetup</a>, who has a Wikipedia club at their university: I brought this up as an example of how one can mitigate the potential disadvantages of large scale student editing without getting rid of the advantages, such as new editors and access to university resources.</li> <li>I attended <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/FUWGZJ/" rel="nofollow">this session</a> about human rights from 10:00 to 10:55 am: it was not uploaded on YouTube, but the slides are available <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Kj1giqdF-2GAmd3NJvN3CAGbbEkLySItpeJIxePra-k/edit#slide=id.g2a22c4815bd_0_3031" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It was a bit odd to hear about general internet safety after outing myself to more than a thousand people the night before, but I think it was interesting, nonetheless. Here are some key takeaways: women are more likely to be <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cybercrime#Harassment" title="Cybercrime">harassed online</a>, people <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_imprisoned_for_editing_Wikipedia" title="List of people imprisoned for editing Wikipedia">have gone to jail for editing Wikipedia</a>, and it's important to respond quickly to safety concerns. I asked a question about how they determine the "realness" of a threat, and it turned out that it depends a lot on the context of the specific situation. Do they live in a country with a good human rights record? Does the project itself, or the person, see the threat as concerning? Sometimes the foundation does not get involved because they don't want to do any harm (e.g. if they make a public statement, they might put the victim's family in danger). There was some audience participation about the general nature of how some editors are more open about their identities than others, and how it's very much a personal choice that we should not judge others for.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/ANQYUV/" rel="nofollow">Information Integrity during Elections</a> session from 11 am to 11:55 am. One key takeaway was that <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DISINFO" title="Wikipedia:DISINFO">disinformation on Wikipedia</a> looks different from how it would on a social media site (for example, targeted ads cannot be bought), but Wikipedia's increased visibility raises the motivation for bad actors. If a government fails to censor its opponents, they usually try to discredit the information source and threaten people: at the start of election cycles, sometimes people will contact political parties directly to remind them of the rules. When there's political violence, chapters and admins collaborate in private channels. Trust and Safety performs investigations and has a disinformation team. I learned that the <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-Disinformation_Repository" title="m:Anti-Disinformation Repository">Anti-disinformation Repository</a> is a resource that exists. I also learned that occasionally the foundation does policy advocacy when it has implications for Wikimedia projects. An example was <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Texas_House_Bill_20" title="Texas House Bill 20">a Texas law</a>, which would later become the subject of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Moody_v._NetChoice,_LLC" title="Moody v. NetChoice, LLC">a Supreme Court case</a>, that would make it possible to construe reverting content from an unreliable source as political speech. Other examples given were <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/01/26/dont-blink-protecting-the-wikimedia-model-its-people-and-its-values-in-december-2023/"> surveillance reform advocacy</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Section_230" title="Section 230">Section 230</a> protections.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/J99QZH/" rel="nofollow">Frontlines of Truth</a> and <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/VNEDAU/" rel="nofollow">Learn from each other with linked data</a> sessions to fulfill my duties as a volunteer. Anyone who receives a scholarship to attend Wikimania is required to do this; I had to send a few emails to get this rearranged a few times, though. The first time I was chosen to do video editing (which I have no idea how to do), while the second time I was chosen to take notes for a session that was being presented in Spanish (a language I do not understand). I tried my best to take notes during these two sessions for the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Etherpad" title="Etherpad">Etherpad</a>, but I had no idea how that was supposed to work, and it stressed me out a little. The latter session was aimed towards a very technically minded audience, so I asked the speaker a bunch of questions during a break, just to make sure I was not misrepresenting what was being said.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/FTB9NL/" rel="nofollow">Fireside Chat with the Wikimedia Foundation Executives</a> from 5 to 5:55 pm. There was a demo of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_check" title="Wikipedia:Edit check">Edit Check</a>, which was incredibly exciting to see! The gist is that this feature will encourage editors to cite a source before adding content, or explain why they do not want to do so. It'd be a game changer. Apart from that, there was some discussion about how the foundation is concerned about the future of search engine traffic and keeping younger editors engaged. The time for questions was extended to allow me to <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.youtube.com/live/wYc5gnZfnpU?si=ClOuTZ_sJ_3KTxQX&t=34550" rel="nofollow">ask one</a>:</li> </ul> <blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>"[How did] you [come] to the conclusion that there are less younger editors that are interested in contributing? I think I actually had a conversation with <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Selena_Deckelmann" title="meta:User:Selena Deckelmann">Selena</a> about this briefly at WikiConference North America, [where] I talked a bit about how I know lots of people my age that edit. [Obviously,] anecdotal experience isn't everything, but I assume you have pretty good reasons for coming to that conclusion?"</p> </blockquote> <ul> <li>In response, Selena Deckelmann said:</li> </ul> <blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>"I think there's editing and there's readers, so I can talk about the editing piece of it. With editors, it's complex. There are things that have shifted over time, and I actually have this really promising report the Community Metrics team put together, that says we're starting to see a rise in younger editors overall. That doesn't [necessarily] translate to functionaries, but I don't have as good data on [them] overall. They're a crucial population of people that make the whole system work, so for me there's data that shows that younger editors are kind of turning in a different direction, and if you dig in and look at each region, you start to see different stories. So it's quite a complex picture. Overall, I would say I get a lot of feedback from the administrators, in particular, that they're just seeing their numbers drop, that we're not getting enough new people into that system, so those are the factors and data that I have about admins and I'm really interested in more."</p> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Conversations"><span id="h-Conversations-August_8_–_Thursday"></span>Conversations</h3> </div> <ul> <li>I had breakfast, and then arrived at the conference venue absurdly early (like 7 am). I had trouble sleeping after the intensity of the previous night, and I woke up around 4 am. I had a conversation with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ocaasi" title="User:Ocaasi">Ocaasi</a>, as I talked a bit about my personal life and my ambitions, and we discussed how he wants more experienced Wikimedians to be a part of Residence programs. We also discussed how he does a lot of work guiding newbies, noting that when they don't make mistakes, they're often accused of being sockpuppets. He stated that I'm good at "constructive dissent": I'd never heard that phrase before, but I think it describes me well.</li> <li>During the election disinformation session, I had a whispered conversation with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shikeishu" title="User:Shikeishu">Shikeishu</a>, who is an active editor on <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata" title="Wikidata">Wikidata</a>. They showed me some interesting things, like Wikidata query, their community portal and project chat.</li> <li>At lunch, I had a conversation with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tohaomg" title="User:Tohaomg">Tohaomg</a>: I told him about my goal to understand affiliates and what they do a bit more. He was willing to talk about what <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ukraine" title="Wikimedia Ukraine">Wikimedia Ukraine</a> does, being a board member of the organization since February 2021. He said that a lot of what they do when interacting with the public is correcting common misconceptions (an example being that projects don't operate like a business and there are no clearly defined hierarchies). We talked a lot about how the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a> impacted daily life and in turn, Wikimedia Ukraine itself: a lot of Wikipedians either died, were <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Ukraine" title="Conscription in Ukraine">conscripted</a>, or moved to <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>, so the organization asked for help from other projects to help keep up with the maintenance of the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Wikipedia" title="Ukrainian Wikipedia">Ukrainian Wikipedia</a>, while assigning temporary admin rights to volunteers who were interested. However, most people had other priorities than editing Wikipedia, and even if they wanted to, power outages were common. There were also other practical issues, like how most European keyboards do not support typing in <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>, and highly skilled workers having to take lower-paying jobs because their qualifications were not transferable to other countries. Other concerns were <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Russian_information_war_against_Ukraine" title="Russian information war against Ukraine">Russian disinformation</a> and being contacted by <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_government" title="Ukrainian government">Ukrainian government</a> officials (he said that sometimes people will ask how to add an image, or that they don't like that certain content exists, in which case they are told that they would be reverted if they tried to remove it, and that Wikimedia Ukraine cannot control what's on the Ukranian Wikipedia). I was somewhat shocked, because it must be really intimidating to receive a phone call from government officials out of the blue like that. What's more, Ukraine does not have <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama" title="Freedom of panorama">freedom of panorama</a>, and that impacts what images are allowed to be uploaded to <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons" title="Wikimedia Commons">Commons</a>: Tohaomg said that the organization had tried to get members of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Ukraine" title="Parliament of Ukraine">national parliament</a> to recognize why changing these rules would be useful, but it took so long that <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election">other people got elected</a>, and so they would have to start over if they tried again. Then the war happened, so obviously politicians have different priorities. Still, Wikimedia Ukraine supports local contests to improve articles and add photos, while also partnering with other affiliates to do something called <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2024">CEE Spring</a>, which involves a lot of cross-project collaboration. For example, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polish_Wikipedia" title="Polish Wikipedia">Polish Wikipedians</a> will write content about Ukraine, and vice versa. Wikimedia Ukraine also does outreach work with libraries and museums. Finally, they have monthly awards where the most active editor and newbie win... a can of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Condensed_milk" title="Condensed milk">condensed milk</a>. If you're as confused as I am, it's a play on words in Ukrainian, where the phrasing for "condensed milk" and "milk you don't pay for" is similar. They also support an annual event called <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/03/18/wikimarathon-2024-in-ukraine-results-and-impressions/"> Wikimarathon</a>.</li> <li>I talked for an hour with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cscott" title="User:Cscott">cscott</a> about template parsing and a possible new feature regarding talk pages. I repeatedly emphasized the importance of how the community would much rather have years of backlogs worth of technical issues dealt with, compared to radically reinventing features. We also talked a bit about how sometimes people in the community and the WMF don't understand each other that well and some possible sources of that tension (what I refer to as the "<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram" title="Venn diagram">Venn diagram</a> situation"). He told me that when the fundraising banners were less manipulative and also less effective last year, they had to lay off 20% of their staff. Apparently, the endowment was created as a buffer, so when people donate less often, the foundation will still be okay.</li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"> <h2 id="August_9_–_Friday"><span id="August_9_.E2.80.93_Friday"></span><span id="h-August_9_–_Friday"></span>August 9 – Friday</h2> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Sessions_3"><span id="h-Sessions_3-August_9_–_Friday"></span>Sessions</h3> </div> <ul> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/9UJWCY/" rel="nofollow">Exploiting Wikimedia foundation platforms</a> session, because it sounded fascinating. Unfortunately, I did not find it to actually be that way, and ended up leaving early. It mostly seemed to be about... one editor being upset that Commons did not block a specific person? They suggested a foundation committee needed to be established for this, which confused me. It's possible I didn't understand the importance of what they were trying to get at.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/CYAPDR/" rel="nofollow">Citation Watchlist session</a> after I left the previous one. I learned that the foundation has not given technology grants for awhile, so the project was being supported by Hacks/Hackers. More information about the script can be found on <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_Watchlist" title="Wikipedia:Citation Watchlist">this page</a>.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/K8EKEM/" rel="nofollow">Universities and Wikimedia</a> session from 10:30 to 10:55 am. Some key takeaways were: most Wiki Education efforts have been in North America, targeting faculty and databases; libraries are a vast resource of pay-walled or otherwise hard to access sources, and if 1% of American university students made a contribution, it'd be 150,000 contributions. Then the talk switched to something I had talked about with other people yesterday: Wikipedia clubs! The speaker made the argument that students can write about what they're interested in, which provides a lot of good long-term engagement. One of the downsides, though, is that it can take a lot of work to establish one of these clubs.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/CGBQMB/" rel="nofollow">10 Years and 20 Million Links Fixed</a> session from 11:00 to 11:25 am. This session was about <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:InternetArchiveBot" title="User:InternetArchiveBot">InternetArchiveBot</a>, and I thought it was really interesting. The foundation does not fund this; that comes from a partnership with the Internet Archive itself.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/FALUVE/" rel="nofollow">Student Engagement with Openness</a> session from 11:30 to 11:55 am. I thought it was a very interesting success story for what Wikimedian in Residence programs can accomplish. The slides are linked at the session page for others who are curious.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/HBP7TM/" rel="nofollow">Remixing Open Culture</a> session from 3:30 to 4:10 pm. The poster I created can be found <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://mastodon.social/@HannahClover/112932533418979303" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Conversations_2"><span id="h-Conversations_2-August_9_–_Friday"></span>Conversations</h3> </div> <ul> <li>Before the sessions started, I had a conversation with other editors. Someone told me about how they attended a wedding of two Wikipedians and the lead section of <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">marriage</a> was read at the ceremony. He also said that there have been people that got married at Wikimania. I also got some advice about how the foundation might offer me a job at some point, because they like "poaching" prominent community members; however, I was warned that this experience can be incredibly frustrating. Another editor, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ragesoss" title="User:Ragesoss">Ragesoss</a>, showed me something called Impact Visualizer, which I thought was a really cool tool. I then talked to central notice admin <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TheresNoTime" title="User:TheresNoTime">TheresNoTime</a> about how they improved <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK" title="Wikimedia UK">Wikimedia UK</a> budgets (this affiliate does <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimedia.org.uk/partnership-projects/" rel="nofollow">a lot of GLAM work</a> with museums and libraries). <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vermont" title="User:Vermont">Vermont</a> told me about how they broke temporary accounts during the <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/Hackathon" title="wikimania:2024:Program/Hackathon">hackathon</a>: they found a way to give a temporary account sysop rights and the ability to block an admin. It's only possible because they're a <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Global_rights_policy#Stewards" title="Wikipedia:Global rights policy">steward</a>, but the issue is going to be fixed, regardless. This is also when I found out I now have <a class="extiw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hannah_Clover" title="c:Category:Hannah Clover">a Commons category</a> and a <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128757159">Wikidata item</a>.</li> <li>While I did not attend this session, I was told that my <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss/Mobile_editing" title="User:Clovermoss/Mobile editing">mobile editing essay</a> was mentioned at the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/LBDZPC/" rel="nofollow">Board of Trustees meeting</a>.</li> <li>I had lunch with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:HJ_Mitchell" title="User:HJ Mitchell">HJ Mitchell</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ToBeFree" title="User:ToBeFree">ToBeFree</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hawkeye7" title="User:Hawkeye7">Hawkeye7</a>. Then, I got an email from a Foundation employee to tell me that <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s <i>Tech Life</i> wanted to interview me, so I cut lunch a bit short and headed up to the press room. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5wmj" rel="nofollow">My interview starts at 20:20.</a> I talked for longer than what was actually included in the interview. For example, I was asked what my favourite article was: it was a question that caught me somewhat off-guard, but I said that it was <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_chip" title="Ketchup chip">ketchup chip</a>, due to its novelty. If you tell any Canadian that this article didn't exist until I wrote it this year, they'd be shocked. Anyways, I realized that the article could be in better shape than it was, so I expanded it after I finished the interview. I bought an <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/E-book" title="E-book">e-book</a> about the history of Canadian snack food and read portions of it while hanging out with other editors in the hackathon room. I did this for the rest of the day and hung out with editors Chlod, Dreamy Jazz, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Novem_Linguae" title="User:Novem Linguae">Novem Linguae</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Leaderboard" title="User:Leaderboard">Leaderboard</a>, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Harej" title="User:Harej">Harej</a> and <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cyberpower678" title="User:Cyberpower678">Cyberpower678</a> (I did take a quick break to attend the remixing open culture session linked above).</li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"> <h2 id="August_10_–_Saturday"><span id="August_10_.E2.80.93_Saturday"></span><span id="h-August_10_–_Saturday"></span>August 10 – Saturday</h2> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Sessions_4"><span id="h-Sessions_4-August_10_–_Saturday"></span>Sessions</h3> </div> <ul> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/P9KK7K/" rel="nofollow">Older vs younger generations</a> session from 10:00 to 10:25 am. There were fancy charts, <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pie_charts" title="Pie charts">pie charts</a>, and conclusions, but I believe that the sample size was far too small to do any of that, since all of this was based off a survey where there had been just 28 participants. I talked with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DerHexer" title="User:DerHexer">DerHexer</a> after the session concluded, and he let me know about an equivalent <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Deutschland/Community-Portal/Beteiligung/Debattieren_und_analysieren/Community-Umfrage_2023"> German Wikipedia survey</a> with more than 1,000 participants. Unfortunately, I don't understand German, but I think that's a more representative sample size than 28.</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/8T9RJR/" rel="nofollow">Understanding and assisting with undisclosed paid editing enforcement</a> session from 11:00 to 11:55 am. The speaker was employed by the Foundation's legal department and it was a pre-recorded presentation. Details were limited, because there's only so much that can be shared, but I found what was presented interesting. Key takeaways were that they've taken down 150 domains, have created lines of communication with platforms where <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UPE" title="Wikipedia:UPE">UPE</a> scams are provided, and have performed more than 50 informal settlements. He repeatedly thanked the members of the community who offer leads into these investigations, as the team has to focus on the worst offenders due to limited resources.</li> <li>I attended <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/9J73YN/" rel="nofollow">The Future of the Wikipedian in Residence Position</a> from 1:30 to 1:55 pm. I admit to being intrigued about the concept of the position itself (it's near the top of the list for my dream job aspirations).</li> <li>I attended the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/DFFDKQ/" rel="nofollow">closing ceremony</a>, and then the closing party, where I mostly just had conversations with other editors. Someone shared a screenshot of a mobile fundraising project with me, which prompted me to start <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Mobile_fundraising_experiment" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)">a thread over at the village pump</a>.</li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Conversations_3"><span id="h-Conversations_3-August_10_–_Saturday"></span>Conversations</h3> </div> <ul> <li>I wanted to watch the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/C9F9RB/" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia and television session</a>, as well, but I got lost trying to find the room, so I gave up and returned to the hackathon to hang out with people again. It was mostly the same group as yesterday, although <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Samwalton9" title="User:Samwalton9">Samwalton9</a> also joined us. Whenever I was not attending a session, I was there.</li> <li>I had lunch with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pacita_(WikiNYC)" title="User:Pacita (WikiNYC)">Pacita (WikiNYC)</a>: she's a relatively new editor, and we had a very interesting conversation together, mainly talking about <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Perennial_sources" title="Wikipedia:Perennial sources">perennial sources</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RFA" title="Wikipedia:RFA">RfA</a>, and sources of tension between the Foundation and community.</li> <li>I received a coffee mug and keyboard mouse as a gift from the city of Katowice. The organizers of the conference itself handed these gifts to me and the other Wikimedian of the Year winners.</li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"> <h2 id="August_11_–_Sunday"><span id="August_11_.E2.80.93_Sunday"></span><span id="h-August_11_–_Sunday"></span>August 11 – Sunday</h2> </div> <p>I woke up early to check out of the hotel, because my shuttle back to the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Katowice_Airport" title="Katowice Airport">Katowice Airport</a> would leave at 9 am. It was about a half-hour drive, and I had a fun time talking with several other editors on the bus.</p> <p>When we arrived at the airport, I said an official goodbye to some editors, and we arranged a group photo where we all showed our passports. However, plenty of us didn't have flights for hours, so we organized an impromptu <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon" title="Edit-a-thon">edit-a-thon</a> in the airport café. I unpacked my backpack to show <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kingoflettuce" title="User:Kingoflettuce">Kingoflettuce</a> the books I had brought to the conference, and he did start reading one of these books: <i>Jehovah's Witnesses: A New Introduction</i> by <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/George_Chryssides" title="George Chryssides">George Chryssides</a>. He got about halfway through it, and then we talked a bit about the lack of active editors in the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Jehovah's Witnesses">topic area</a>, and how I've been trying to reduce the reliance on primary sources; he told me what he knew about the group's history <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_in_Singapore" title="Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore">in Singapore</a>. On a side note, <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chlod" title="User:Chlod">Chlod</a> said that he was going to try to nominate an article for <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GA" title="Wikipedia:GA">good article status</a> for the first time, so we all encouraged him to go for it!</p> <p>Finally, I learned a little bit about how <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_names" title="Malaysian names">Malaysian names</a> worked from <a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Taufik_Rosman" title="Taufik Rosman">Taufik Rosman</a>, and he also told me about the work he does across projects. It was really cool to have an extended conversation with the previous Wikimedian of the Year!</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"> <h2 id="Gallery"><span id="h-Gallery"></span>Gallery</h2> </div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 450px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 448px;"><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021-10_Katowice_.KTW_(2).jpg" title="The buildings to the left and right of the conference venue. I coined the term "Lego building" to refer to the latter when giving people directions and it caught on. Someone else coined "UFO" to refer to building on the left."> <img alt="The buildings to the left and right of the conference venue. I coined the term "Lego building" to refer to the latter when giving people directions and it caught on. Someone else coined "UFO" to refer to building on the left." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/2021-10_Katowice_.KTW_%282%29.jpg/672px-2021-10_Katowice_.KTW_%282%29.jpg" width="448"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The buildings to the left and right of the conference venue. I coined the term "Lego building" to refer to the latter when giving people directions and it caught on. Someone else coined "UFO" to refer to building on the left.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 402px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 400px;"><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024-08-07_Wikimania_Katowice_1st_day.jpg" title="The ICC building where Wikimania was held."><img alt="The ICC building where Wikimania was held." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/2024-08-07_Wikimania_Katowice_1st_day.jpg/600px-2024-08-07_Wikimania_Katowice_1st_day.jpg" width="400"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Congress_Centre_in_Katowice" title="International Congress Centre in Katowice">ICC</a> building where Wikimania was held.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 453.33333333333px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 451.33333333333px;"> <span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024_-_Day_4_-_by_Le_Commissaire_-_02.jpg" title="Inside the conference venue."><img alt="Inside the conference venue." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Wikimania_2024_-_Day_4_-_by_Le_Commissaire_-_02.jpg/677px-Wikimania_2024_-_Day_4_-_by_Le_Commissaire_-_02.jpg" width="452"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Inside the conference venue.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 402px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 400px;"><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_cream_in_Katowice.jpg" title="Ice cream I bought at the plaza across from my hotel on the first day."> <img alt="Ice cream I bought at the plaza across from my hotel on the first day." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ice_cream_in_Katowice.jpg/600px-Ice_cream_in_Katowice.jpg" width="400"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ice cream I bought at the plaza across from my hotel on the first day.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 227.33333333333px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 225.33333333333px;"> <span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannah_Clover_and_Jimmy_Wales.jpg" title="A selfie with Jimmy Wales."><img alt="A selfie with Jimmy Wales." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Hannah_Clover_and_Jimmy_Wales.jpg/338px-Hannah_Clover_and_Jimmy_Wales.jpg" width="226"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A selfie with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 452px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 450px;"><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024_-_Day_3_-_NC_02.jpg" title="Being interviewed by another Wikimedian in front of the hack-a-thon room."> <img alt="Being interviewed by another Wikimedian in front of the hack-a-thon room." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Wikimania_2024_-_Day_3_-_NC_02.jpg/675px-Wikimania_2024_-_Day_3_-_NC_02.jpg" width="450"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Being interviewed by another Wikimedian in front of the hack-a-thon room.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 384px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 382px;"><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosie_%26_Hannah_at_Wikimania_2024.png" title="A selfie with Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight."><img alt="A selfie with Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Rosie_%26_Hannah_at_Wikimania_2024.png/573px-Rosie_%26_Hannah_at_Wikimania_2024.png" width="382"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A selfie with <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Stephenson-Goodknight" title="Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight">Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 373.33333333333px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 371.33333333333px;"> <span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024_-_Day_3_-_NC_20.jpg" title="A talented artist creating a representation of Wikimania."><img alt="A talented artist creating a representation of Wikimania." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Wikimania_2024_-_Day_3_-_NC_20.jpg/557px-Wikimania_2024_-_Day_3_-_NC_20.jpg" width="372"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A talented artist creating a representation of Wikimania.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 536.66666666667px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 534.66666666667px;"> <span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024_graphic_recording_by_Gosia_Tshorzewska_(GoTek_Rysuje)_01.jpg" title="My spot on the board :)"><img alt="My spot on the board. :)" class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Wikimania_2024_graphic_recording_by_Gosia_Tshorzewska_%28GoTek_Rysuje%29_01.jpg/802px-Wikimania_2024_graphic_recording_by_Gosia_Tshorzewska_%28GoTek_Rysuje%29_01.jpg" width="535"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">My spot on the board :)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 226.66666666667px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 224.66666666667px;"> <span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024_closing_party_food.jpg" title="The food I ate at the closing party."><img alt="The food I ate at the closing party." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Wikimania_2024_closing_party_food.jpg/337px-Wikimania_2024_closing_party_food.jpg" width="225"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The food I ate at the closing party.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 402px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 400px;"><span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katowice_Airport_Editathon_20240811.jpg" title="Edit-a-thon at the airport."><img alt="Edit-a-thon at the airport." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Katowice_Airport_Editathon_20240811.jpg/600px-Katowice_Airport_Editathon_20240811.jpg" width="400"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Edit-a-thon at the airport.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 301.33333333333px;"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 299.33333333333px;"> <span><a class="mw-file-description" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedian_Passports_at_Wikimania_2024.jpg" title="I'm the maple leaf in the top right."><img alt="I'm the maple leaf in the top right." class="mw-file-element" height="300" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240915162006im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Wikimedian_Passports_at_Wikimania_2024.jpg/449px-Wikimedian_Passports_at_Wikimania_2024.jpg" width="300"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">I'm the <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Canadian_passport" title="Canadian passport">maple leaf</a> in the top right.</div> </li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="signpost-article-footer"> <div class="signpost-succession"> <div class="signpost-succession-prev"><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-02-13/Serendipity" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-02-13/Serendipity">← <span class="signpost-succession-casing">Previous</span> "Serendipity"</a></div> </div> <div class="signpost-inthisissue"> <div> <div class="signpost-inthisissue-heading"> <figure 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class="noprint plainlinks purgelink"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity&action=purge"> <span title="Purge this page">purging the cache</span></a></span>.</div> <div class="nomobile"></div> <ul> <li>Great read! I had no idea there were so many things going on at Wikimania! <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Reconrabbit" title="User:Reconrabbit"><span style="color: #6BAD2D;">Recon</span></a><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Reconrabbit" title="User talk:Reconrabbit"><span style="color: #2F3833;">rabbit</span></a> <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity#c-Reconrabbit-20240904143400-Discuss_this_story"> 14:34, 4 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span></li> <li><span id="c-Asparagusus-20240904182600-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"></span>Very good article! Congrats! <span style="font-family: Serif;"><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Asparagusus" title="User:Asparagusus"><span style="color: #562;"><b>—asparagusus</b></span></a> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Asparagusus" title="User talk:Asparagusus"><span style="color: #682;">(interaction)</span></a> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Asparagusus/Sprouts" title="User:Asparagusus/Sprouts"><sup style="color: #562;"><i>sprouts!</i></sup></a></span> <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity#c-Asparagusus-20240904182600-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"> 18:26, 4 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span></li> <li><span id="c-Cullen328-20240905091400-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"></span>A fascinating travelogue which, as all good travel writing does, tells your readers a lot about you as well as your trip. I am glad we share an interest in mobile editing, and also that you had a great time. Way back when I was in college well over 40 years ago, I did some fairly serious research comparing and contrasting the teachings and practices of the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mennonites and the Quakers with regards to military conscription. <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cullen328" title="User:Cullen328">Cullen328</a> (<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cullen328" title="User talk:Cullen328">talk</a>) <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity#c-Cullen328-20240905091400-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"> 09:14, 5 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span></li> <li><span class="template-ping"><span id="c-Oltrepier-20240905100500-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"></span>@<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss" title="User:Clovermoss">Clovermoss</a>:</span> This was just great to read (and review). Once again, congratulations for your massive achievement! I don't know who "Natasha" is, though... <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oltrepier" title="User:Oltrepier">Oltrepier</a> (<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Oltrepier" title="User talk:Oltrepier">talk</a>) <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity#c-Oltrepier-20240905100500-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"> 10:05, 5 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span> <dl> <dd><span id="c-Clovermoss-20240905151500-Oltrepier-20240905100500"></span>Oh no! I totally misspelled her name. It's Natalia. I think my phone autocorrected me there. I'm going to go fix that now. But she's one of the organizers of the conference. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSzafran-WMF">[1]</a> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss" title="User:Clovermoss"><span style="color: darkorchid;">Clovermoss</span><span style="color: green;">🍀</span></a> <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Clovermoss" title="User talk:Clovermoss">(talk)</a> <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity#c-Clovermoss-20240905151500-Oltrepier-20240905100500"> 15:15, 5 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span> <dl> <dd><span class="template-ping"><span id="c-Oltrepier-20240905211100-Clovermoss-20240905151500"></span>@<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss" title="User:Clovermoss">Clovermoss</a>:</span> No worries, and thank you for clarifying! : ) <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oltrepier" title="User:Oltrepier">Oltrepier</a> (<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Oltrepier" title="User talk:Oltrepier">talk</a>) <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity#c-Oltrepier-20240905211100-Clovermoss-20240905151500"> 21:11, 5 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span></dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> </li> <li><span id="c-VulcanSphere-20240905145200-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"></span>A very well-written personal account of Wikimania, Vulcan loves this!--<span style="background: #202122; font-family: monospace; padding: 4px 3px 3px;"><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VulcanSphere" title="User:VulcanSphere"><span style="color: #8DFF1A;">Vulcan</span></a><span style="color: #8DFF1A;">❯❯❯</span><a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VulcanSphere" title="User talk:VulcanSphere"><span style="color: #FF8F1A;">Sphere!</span></a></span> <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity#c-VulcanSphere-20240905145200-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"> 14:52, 5 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span></li> <li><span id="c-SophieWMCA-20240905174300-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"></span>Love seeing the ketchup chips mentioned of course! We’ll have toast to you and this award at the next WikiClub meeting. <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SophieWMCA" title="User:SophieWMCA">SophieWMCA</a> (<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SophieWMCA" title="User talk:SophieWMCA">talk</a>) <small class="autosigned">— Preceding <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures" title="Wikipedia:Signatures">undated</a> comment added <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity#c-SophieWMCA-20240905174300-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"> 17:43, 5 September 2024 (UTC)</a></small><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span></li> <li><span class="template-ping"><span id="c-Jim.henderson-20240907200000-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"></span>@<a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss" title="User:Clovermoss">Clovermoss</a>:</span> Excellent indeed. Of course, now that you're world-famous it took slightly more effort to talk to you than last time in Toronto, what with my own minor illness also slowing me down this time. Yes, I saw other bright young people besides you, doing more, learning more, getting a little scared, a bit dizzy with absorbing the many novelties. They were all a delight even though I couldn't hope to keep up. Ah, if only I could be merely thrice your age again, but clearly Wikiism is falling into good hands. <a href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jim.henderson" title="User:Jim.henderson">Jim.henderson</a> (<a class="mw-redirect" href="/web/20240915162006/https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jim.henderson" title="User talk:Jim.henderson">talk</a>) <a class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-09-04/Serendipity#c-Jim.henderson-20240907200000-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"> 20:00, 7 September 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" href="" tabindex="0">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span></li> <li><span id="c-Clovermoss-20240908054700-Reconrabbit-20240904143400"></span>I received a comment off-wiki disputing the accuracy of <q class="inline-quote-talk">I found out that the Wikimedia Foundation owns their data centres for privacy reasons, that this practice is incredibly expensive, and that it's unusual for tech companies to do this</q>. They said that while it is better for privacy implications, hosting Wikipedia at the scale it is now would be prohibitively expensive if they <i>didn't</i> have their own data centres. I'm not a tech person and this piece just repeats what I remember being told that day. But I do think it's worth mentioning that the accuracy of something I said was disputed. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://opensourceexile.blogspot.com/search/label/wikipedia">Open Source Exile</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://opensourceexile.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/wikipedia/">XML</a></td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:01</td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 17:01</td> </tr> <tr class="feedsrow"> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://original-research.blogspot.com/search/label/wikipedia">Original Research</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://original-research.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/wikipedia">XML</a></td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:01</td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 17:01</td> </tr> <tr class="feedsrow"> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://chriswaterguy.livejournal.com/">Pablo Garuda</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/feed/14/">Phabricating Phabricator</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/feed/14/">XML</a></td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:01</td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 17:01</td> </tr> <tr class="feedsrow"> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/tag/planet-wikimedia/">Planet Wikimedia Archives - Entropy Wins</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/tag/planet-wikimedia/feed/atom/">XML</a></td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:01</td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 17:01</td> </tr> <tr class="feedsrow"> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://blog.openmeetings.org/">Planet Wikimedia – OpenMeetings.org | Announcements</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" 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17:01</td> </tr> <tr class="feedsrow"> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/">Posts (#wikimedia)</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/wikimedia.rss">XML</a></td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:01</td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 17:01</td> </tr> <tr class="feedsrow"> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://professional.wiki/blog/feed">Professional Wiki Blog</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://professional.wiki/blog/feed">XML</a></td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:01</td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 17:01</td> </tr> <tr class="feedsrow"> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://greensmw.wordpress.com/">project-green-smw</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" 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<td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 17:01</td> </tr> <tr class="feedsrow"> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/feed/8/">Score all the things</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/feed/8/">XML</a></td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:01</td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 17:01</td> </tr> <tr class="feedsrow"> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category%3AWikipedia+Scripts%2B%2B+issues">Scripts++</a></td> <td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240915162006/https://mediawiki-feeds.toolforge.org/feed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2F&category=Category%3AWikipedia+Scripts%2B%2B+issues&title=Scripts%2B%2B&type=rss">XML</a></td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:01</td> <td>Sunday, 15 September 2024 17:01</td> </tr> <tr class="feedsrow"> <td><a 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