WikiConference UK 2013/Talk submissions

Wikimedia UK will be hosting WikiConference UK 2013 along with our Annual General Meeting in London on Saturday, 8 June..

To submit a talk, simply use the template below to specify the title of your talk, your name, how long it will be and a short blurb as to what it is about. Whilst you are here, consider commenting on other suggestions. You will be contacted in the coming weeks if your talk is selected.

If you have any questions, please post them on the talk page, and/or contact the Conference Committee, conference-committee-l@wikimedia.org.uk

Please see the talk submissions from last year for some examples.

Template

Please use the template code below

{{subst:SubmissionsWikiCon
| Talk title  = 
| Username    = 
| Length      = 
| Description = 
}}

Proposals

Example

• Presenter Name: Conference Committee
• Talk Length: 20 seconds
• Talk Description: This is an example.

Wikimania London

• Presenter Name: James Knight & Edward Saperia
• Talk Length: 10-15 Minutes
• Talk Description: Overview of Wikimania London (provisional on bid acceptance)

QRpedia latest

• Presenter Name: Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing
• Talk Length: 20 min (or as required)
• Talk Description: A brief overview of QRpedia for people new to it, and a summary of recent changes, developments and new/ planned deployments, including implications of the move to WMUK management.

Small is beautiful - GLAM in small museums

• Presenter Name: Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing
• Talk Length: 20 min (or as required)
• Talk Description: GLAM projects in major museums are well-known in the Wikimedia community; but what of local, specialist and other small GLAMs? The talk will examine recent successes and issues arising, and look at how we can unlock the hidden stories in the collections of smaller GLAMs. Based on my experiences as Wikipedian in residence at Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service, and in GLAM projects elsewhere.

Wikipedia is not an Encyclopedia!

• Presenter Name: Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing
• Talk Length: 30 min (or as required)
• Talk Description: Wikipedia as a database, geo-location resource, and more. What else do we produce, other than the on-screen pages we all know and love? How can editors account for this, when writing articles?

Lightening talks

• Presenter Name: Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing
• Talk Length: Flexible; up to an hour
• Talk Description: I would like to facilitate a session or sessions of lightening talks, like those I participated in at GLAMsterdam (see my blog post on the topic which explains the process and rationale). Any attendee can have, say, one minute or so (to be determined) to speak to everyone present, on any Wikimedia-related topic. Timing can be flexible, so this can fill gaps between more structured sessions. Also useful in case of under-runs, or planned speaker's not attending.

Have you heard?

• Presenter Name: Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing
• Talk Length: 20 min (or as required)
• Talk Description: Audio files on Wikipedia Commons, Wikipedia and other projects with particular reference to the "Voice Intro Project" (see WikiVIP blog post and WikiVIP project page). Why we need them, how we can generate more contributions, and barriers that need to be overcome.

Wikimedia UK's Virtual Learning Environment

• Presenter Name: User:Stevie Benton (WMUK)
• Talk Length: 15 minutes
• Talk Description: A brief introduction to the Wikimedia UK Virtual Learning Environment - what it is, how it works, what it will achieve and what's happening next.

Comments

• I am eager to hear about this topic. Yaris678 (talk) 12:27, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
• If both my talk and this talk are accepted — naturally I hope they are — it would make sense to have them adjacent in the programme. MartinPoulter (talk) 11:00, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Three prongs of outreach

• Presenter Name: User:MartinPoulter
• Talk Length: 20 minutes
• Talk Description: Partnerships with GLAMs are the jewel in the crown of Wikimedia UK's work, but there are two other major kinds of partnerships we can create: education projects and expert outreach. This is a round-up of the progress made in these two other areas, of the possibilities for the future and of the opportunities for volunteers.

Comments

• This is an excellent idea for a talk & I agree it should be combined with Stevie's talk - perhaps you could merge them together into a single 30-40 minute talk?? --ErrantX (talk) 22:54, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Example

• Presenter Name: Tom Morton
• Talk Length: 20 minutes
• Talk Description: Since November, Wikimedia UK has had two tech contractors working on their websites and services. This would be a quick overview of the work we've done so far, what is planned in the future, and a Q/A session - plus an opportunity to coerce encourage people to get involved in the tech committee etc.