WikiConference UK 2011/Talk Submissions

This year, Wikimedia UK will be hosting WikiConference UK 2011 along with our Annual General Meeting in Bristol on Saturday, 16th April 2011. We're planning on having two parallel sessions during the conference: one on content and one on strategy. The deadline for talk proposals is 2 April 2011.

Content talks: These can be on anything related to content on any Wikimedia project. Examples include wikiprojects, technical work, outreach or entrenched problems on the Wikimedia Projects such as disputes, vandalism...

Strategy talks: These should focus on potential or current Wikimedia UK activities, or other free content activities within the UK.

To submit a talk, simply use the template below to specify the title of your talk, your name, how long your talk will be and a short blurb as to what it is about. Whilst your here comment on other peoples suggestions as to whether you think it is a good idea. You’ll 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 User:Mike Peel.

Template

Please use the template code below

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Talks

Moving on from UK GLAM events to long term collaborations, projects and partnerships.

• Presenter Name: Fae
• Talk Length: 15 minutes
• Talk Description: The good news is that in the UK our experience is growing at an exponential rate for how to run successful GLAM events (edit-a-thons, behind the scenes tours and backlogs/article improvement challenges). However this raises the questions:

1. "What happens next?"; how do we maintain interest for contributors with a wider variety of experience and how should we manage our long term relationships with GLAM institutions?
2. "How does WMUK adapt?"; exponential growth always leads to change, if WMUK is to support a growth spurt in GLAM relationships and interest from newcomers expecting chapter support as a GLAM champion, what are the demands on our organization likely to be over the next 12 months?

Wikipedia Ambassadors UK : Building a program

• Presenter Name: Sadads
• Talk Length: 25 minutes
• Talk Description: Discussing the Ambassador program in the United States briefly, and describing how Wikimedia UK members can help build a Wikipedia Ambassador Program in the UK and the current recruitment drive for Wikipedia teaching assignments and Wikipedia Ambassadors for the fall. Also exploring ideas about how Wikimedia UK members can do outreach with Academics in general.

Comments

I'd like to see the Ambassador Program succeed in this country too. It's great that we have Alex available to talk about it, and it would be valuable to discuss it with geographically diverse Wikimedians. MartinPoulter 12:00, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Talking with Authority

• Presenter Name: Victuallers
• Talk Length: 15 minutes
• Talk Description: Wikimedia has had its 10th birthday - in UK law a child takes responsibility at 10. The joke that you can't believe it has to ignore the 411m. users. The Wikimedia projects are starting to talk with authority. Of course university research doesnt require our help but many opinions on university research and cultural institutions like libraries, galleries and political parties are initially shaped by Wikimedia's projects. Wikipedia is not just "talking with authority" in as much as it is believed, but Wikimedia needs to also talk with authorities. The authorities behind institutions, in education, the environment and culture, now have enthusiastic members who believe that their authority needs to adapt - as Wikipedia is not going to just go away. We are involved with UK (and global) education. How are we going to cope with this responsibility? ... with the rush when these authorities realise that they want help? and how will we supply it until then? This talk will briefly cover Wikimedia's experience of collaborating with the British and Derby Museum (and the novel technology we are using to help the transition), but it will also try and explore the challenge of the many opportunities that are available.

QR Codes or Why It's illegal to not use Wikipedia

• Presenter Name: Victuallers
• Talk Length: 15 minutes
• Talk Description: (This was a talk given at the Wiki Academy in Bristol in March). The talk covers the problem of how to not only get information from Museums into the public domain (e.g. Wikipedia), but how we can get out information into institutions. An experiment using second generation bar codes at Derby Museum has shown that this is possible. The opportunities of technologies like QR codes means that we can supply accessible information directly to smart phone users. It also reveals an opportunity for Wikipedia to demonstrate that it is not only the World's largest but in some cases the best information source available.

Comments

Having seen this talk in Bristol, I can vouch that Roger is an excellent speaker and gets a very positive response from the audience. This talk certainly needs a wider audience. MartinPoulter 11:55, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Content and coverage; where are we 10 years into the project?

• Presenter Name: Johnbod
• Talk Length: er, as long as you like up to 30-45 mins, & discussion could go on indefinitely
• Talk Description: Thoughts on strengths & especially weaknesses in our content, and on how we can address them. Trends in content editing.

Wiki in the lecture room

• Presenter Name: Harrypotter
• Talk Length: 20mins
• Talk Description: Following from the excellent progress of UK GLAM events this talk will look at the use of Wikiversity in the delivery of the SPIR608 Political Simulations and Gaming course at the University of Wesminster. Previously, Academia has shied away from using Wikiversity in the UK, but this initiative is opening up other possibilities . . . but will they gain enough momentum to overcome the problems wikiversity has expereinced in recent years? This is put in the context of the broadening interest in Open Educational Resources that is gathering momentum