Wikimania is the annual conference celebrating all the free knowledge projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation – Commons, MediaWiki, Meta-Wiki, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary – with three days of conferences, discussions, meetups, training, and workshops. Hundreds of volunteers and Free Knowledge leaders from around the world gather to discuss issues, report on new projects and approaches, and exchange ideas.
Wikimania 2023 is held at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore, from 14th to 20th August 2023. Houcemeddine Turki represents Tunisia at this international conference and discusses many issues related to Wikimedia Research and Development.
Report:
Sessions:
Wednesday, August 16 at 14:15 (6:45 UTC, Room 309): How to use Wikidata to build web tools for the social good [Slides]
Thursday, August 17 at 13:45 (5:45 UTC, Room 310): Mastering the Secrets of the Wikimedia Research and Development Ecosystem in Africa [Slides, Session]
Thursday, August 17 at 15:30 (7:30 UTC, Room 310): Let us upgrade medical practice with Wikidata [Slides, Session]
Friday, August 18 at 14:45 (6:45 UTC, Room 326): Attributing the sum of all human knowledge: WikiCite discussion [Slides, Video, Session]
Friday, August 18 at 16:00 (8:00 UTC, Room 311): Empowering Wikidata and Wikipedia with Generative AI: Unlocking the Potential of Scholarly Publications [Slides, Session]
Facts:
The Wikimedia Technical Community has been working on multiple interesting projects: I should acknowledge the efforts to create Phorge, an improved fork of Phabricator that allows the automation of many important developer tasks, by Valerio Bozzolan and the creation of Wikidata-driven subsets of Offline Wikipedia for supporting museum knowledge, by Yamen Bousrih et al.
It was interesting to network with many people from the Technical Community including Gopa Vasanth, Nicolas Vigneron, and Santhosh Thottingal. It is an honor for me to collaborate with them on upcoming projects.
I thank Lane Rasberry, James Heilman, Yamen Bousrih, Thomas Shafee, and Mossab Banat for helping me run my sessions at Wikimania.
I highly appreciated all the excellent notes and responses I received regarding my sessions. I liked them and look forward to being more productive in the next years.
I thank Benjamin Mako-Hill, Leila Zia, Ferdinando Traversa, Netha Hussain, Lorenzo Moja, Zarah Ziadi, and many other people for their productive discussion with me.
Singapore is an excellent country that can be a good example of how maintenance and good faith can build a country even if it lacks significant resources.
I learned a lot from visiting Google Asia Pacific and the National Library of Singapore. In fact, we should learn as a community how to establish win-win relationships with such institutions to grow. It is challenging but still possible.
I have to thank Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team, including Butch Bustria and Gisca Syalindri for their support to me. I tried to be useful to them by taking Etherpad notes for six sessions. But, I know that this does not count when seeing the huge efforts they have provided. Congratulations on this best edition ever of Wikidata.
It was interesting visiting all the main monuments of Singapore. The country maintains an excellent culture and productive mindset. This could be seen when dealing with local people.
Thank you for all those who took images for me during Wikimania 2023 including Mossab Banat, Zarah Ziadi, Jinoy, and iKunq. All the images are released under the CC-BY License.