Inuka team/Community Events Reports

Wikimania 2023, Singapore
Sudhanshu attended Wikimania in Singapore in August 2023. This was a unique experience offering a variety of valuable perspective. The discussions around artificial intelligence were noteworthy; they offered a balanced view of both the challenges and opportunities AI brings to the table.

Diving into different Wikimedia projects like Wikisource, Wikidata was another highlight. These sessions served as quick refreshers to think about new use cases. For example, the workshop on digitizing manuscripts offered interesting insights into the process, and the discussions on Wikidata presented a range of innovative applications. Open discussions about various issues such as gender gap and content representation within the movement were also valuable. These discussions added depth to understanding of the community's complexities. At the end, Wikimania brought a feeling of being more connected to the movement, gaining a deeper understanding and commitment to its collective goals.

Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, Athens, Greece
Eduardo Medina attended the Wikimedia hackathon in May 2023. It was a great experience to connect with other mediawiki developers in person for the first time and meet colleagues from Language and other teams. Eduardo worked on improvements to the Wikipedia Library and attended a Wikibase Cloud session (one learning from the latter: Wikibase is kinda like what Mediawiki is to Wikipedia, Wikidata is based on top of Wikibase). Eduardo helped community member Diego on enabling Wikipedia Previews via bookmarklets (which was a great idea by Diego to empower users to have more ways to use Wikipedia Preview).( Video minute 39;45 )  Also the Inuka team found Wikipedia section summaries of interest ahead of the scoping  of the 1st hypothesis experimentation.

Wikiconference India 2023, Hyderabad India
Inuka team representatives Runa Bhattacharjee and Purity Waigi attended Wiki Conference India, 2023 in Hyderabad, India. Purity contributed in a panel discussion session on Role of Technology in Open Knowledge where she spoke about how design, product development and technology building can help in building sustainable communities across our region.



Wikindaba 2022, Kigali, Rwanda
Inuka team representatives Purity Waigi  & Mary Munyoki attended Wikindaba 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda. Among other presentations we attended, this was a chance to host a session to share about the work our team has been doing in building for audiences that have the ability to benefit from digital information and services in a format that fits their access pattern through exploring new form factors. This was also an opportunity to engage and receive feedback on Wikistories. Participants provided feedback around 3 questions collected on retroboard

1) What did you like about Wikistories

2) What can be considered about Wikistories

3) What value you see in Wikistories

WikiNusantara, 2022,Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia


WikiNusantara, 2022 Inuka team Product Ambassador, Bonaventura Aditya Perdana, attended WikiNusantara 2022. WikiNusantara 2022 is a conference held by Wikimedia Indonesia to gather all Indonesian Wikimedia contributors for learning, sharing, and getting to know each other. This event took place on Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia on 4-5th July 2022 and attended by 68 participants from around Indonesia. This was an opportunity for us to host a session on Wikistories. Session started by Bonaventura  for sharing information regarding Wikistories creation background and showcase about Wikistories features. After that, Bonaventura led the demo about creating a story on Wikistories and the participants had a chance to try Wikistories too. After the demo, Satdeep Gill explained how Wikistories can be applicable for GLAM projects using Wikimedia Commons. Before the session ended, Bonaventura  requested the participants to fill the form for Wikistories feedback, and we received 13 responses;