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Herald: So now we present our next
speaker, who is Andre, and he will talk
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about some cool tools related to the
Wikimedia stuff that you, as, maybe,
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Wikimedia users could use and do cool
stuff with it. So let's have some applause
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for Andre, please.
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Andre: Batterien? Oh, it works, right?
Perfect. Sorry for that. Thanks for
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coming. I'm Andre. I work for Wikimedia. I
was even wondering whether I should put
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the logo here, because this actually has
nothing to do with the Wikimedia
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Foundation itself. So this is all about
volunteer work, volunteer software,
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because it's always a mix between several
entities like Wikimedia Deutschland,
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Wikimedia Foundation, Sweden, also lots of
other companies, for example.
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And I decided to give this talk because there is
if you are on a Wikimedia website, for
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example, Wikipedia, there is some obvious
software there. Of course, the wiki
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software itself, which allows you to view
and edit pages. There are a lot of
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extensions, about 130 deployed on
Wikimedia servers, but there's also lots
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of software around, which pretty often
isn't very visible.
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Wikimedia Tech world is pretty complex, it's all free and
open source software, and some areas are
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actually fully covered by volunteers, and
especially I'm going to be in the bots,
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gadgets, user scripts, tools, and, a bit,
mobile apps area today. We have many
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communities, many languages, for example,
there's already more than 300 Wikipedias
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when it comes to different languages. So
there's a lot of diverse interests, use
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cases, technical needs. You can probably
imagine a few things technically already
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when it comes to different scripts used in
different cultures or right-to-left, left-
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to-right. Many other examples like this.
And as everything is Free and Open Source,
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a lot of volunteers experiment with new
ideas they have and also bridge some
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workflow gaps that might exist for these
communities and maybe other communities
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are not even aware of that. So pretty
often it happens, that some
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community members come up with some ideas
and over time they evolve. Sometimes they
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even become a code repository or a gadget
that also gets copied to another Wikimedia
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site like a different language Wikipedia.
These kinds of things. And earlier this
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year, some people decided that it would be
beautiful to appreciate the work and
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create a showcase of the most impressive
software solutions which were implemented
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outside of the Wikimedia Core Code
repository and the extensions.
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Both to celebrate the software solutions and also
the people behind the tools. Because this
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is a lot about ideas, about passion, about
skills. Pretty often also finding maybe
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somebody who has more experience or
knowledge in a certain culture. If you
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cannot create something yourself, and
teaming up. So, early this year, the idea
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came up to celebrate such great pieces of
software by creating an award. And there
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was a Wikimedia conference, I think, in
August in Stockholm, it's called
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Wikimania, which is not only about
technical aspects, it's really about
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everything related to the Wikimedia
communities. And we, beforehand, there was
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there were a few people who came together
and tried to find categories and, for
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tools to give an award to in these
categories. So I'm basically remixing this
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award session from earlier this year here
without giving out awards. And my hope is
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that you might see some great stuff,
might find some stuff interesting.
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It's not necessarily if you run your own
Mediawiki installation on your server,
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some stuff might be too Wikimedia-specific
use cases, but maybe you might get some
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ideas or also stuff you weren't aware of
and might want to use. Because there are a
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lot of tools out there, as I said, and
sometimes it's really hard to discover
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them because they're. soundproblems Oh, thank you,
because they might be on on separate
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wikis. All right, so the first category
was or is experience, and it was won by
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the locator tool by Simon04. It's a tool
that helps you adding the geocode, the
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exact position to existing images,
especially on Wikimedia Commons, which is
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the place to share free media images,
videos, things like this. And why it
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received this prize is because it's really
intuitive and easy to use. You can add
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coordinates to one or more files. You can
find it in user preferences. So it's a bit
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easier to discover. It's available in many
languages, it had great tutorials.
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Actively maintained and it's been used
already a lot. So this is the tool.
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I wonder if I should zoom in a bit. It's
called locator tool and you can enter a
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category name here. For example, I have
one hand less than usual I realize.
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"Coolest tool award"… In theory it should
also autocomplete. Let's try. Showcases.
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Maybe if I… let's try something
else, then, I mean, that's what
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autocomplete is for. And let's load. So in
theory, you get the map here with a
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pointer on it. Or pointers of the files in
this category. In practice, I probably
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chose a bad example, and the Wi-Fi isn't
that fast. Or maybe none of the images in
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that category already has a location. That
might also be the case here. It's not the
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category I tried beforehand when I tried
to prepare this session. Sorry for that.
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I'll go back to the screenshot, where
you can hopefully imagine how things
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should look like. The next one would
be HotCat, which is a pretty tiny
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codebase, actually, but used a lot.
And "cat" in this case stands for
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Categories, because that is one way to
organize, for example, files on Wikimedia
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Commons, but also articles on
Wikipedias. So this is a screenshot
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from a file on Wikimedia Commons. And at
the bottom you can see the categories,
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and you can easily add categories via this
tool and also remove, change, add
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categories. And it's also pretty
discoverable via the user preferences. So
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to compare this, how much should I zoom
in? This here, down here you can see the
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categories, how it usually looks.
Basically just the names, and you can
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click the categories to get to the
overview page. If you've enabled the
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gadgets, you see a few more buttons here,
which are added by JavaScript so you can
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easily remove a category or add a category
by clicking the plus at the very end.
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And then you could also type-ahead and add a
new category. It works on almost all
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wikis, it actually has the highest number
when it comes to users. And yeah, as
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usual, code is public. Several people
contributed.
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"Impact". There is Internet Archive Bot by cyberpower, you
probably can guess a little bit from the
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name what it's supposed to do. We are not
running an archive service. We're not
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archive.org. But pretty often,
Internet websites or pages go down or get
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removed or get moved. And as especially
Wikipedia articles have a lot of
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references, then suddenly you cannot check
for references anymore. Or if that
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statement is actually true because that
website got down. But there is the
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Internet Archive and they archive
regularly websites and Web pages by
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crawling the Internet. And then this
little Bot replaces those links and, or
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references in, for example, Wikipedia
articles at the bottom by the link to
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Internet Archive. So you can still
actually reach the Page, that was
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referenced a while ago when that page
still existed. And the great thing about
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this is that it automates work that
usually would be very cumbersome and very
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tiresome to do, and the configuration also
depends on local wiki needs. As an example
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I won't show you now running Internet Archive Bot
on some page,
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but you can see here, I basically took the last
edits, a totally random one on English
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Wikipedia. And you can see here that this
is a history of that article called
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Gilberto Hernandez Ortega. And this is the
last edit that Internet Archive Bot made
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on English Wikipedia by replacing this
obviously dead link here that you can see
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on the left by a link to web.archive.org.
So if you go to that article on English
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Wikipedia and you want to go to that
reference, you actually see the reference
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and not a dead link, that's what it does.
Then we had a "reusable" category.
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If you wonder where we are, if you get tired,
this is the fourth out of 10. That's page
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views by MusicAnimal, Kaldari, Marcel Ruiz
Forns. It does what it says.
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It's basically getting an idea how often does a
certain page on one of the Wikimedia sites
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get accessed. So it's a pretty simple
graph, but that can be pretty useful when
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when you want to have statistics, maybe
not necessarily about… well, also, some
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people want to find out if… which articles
are the most popular ones on some
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Wikipedias. Some people want to find that
out. But for me, for example, it's pretty
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useful when when there are, when it comes
to technical documentation on
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mediawiki.org and I wonder, OK, these two
pages kind of overlap when it comes to
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their content and I would like to merge
them. But which one is more popular and
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which way should I merge it. So these
things can be pretty useful.
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You can include all wikis. You can also change
the time frame. You can get statistics
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over a year now, that was recently
implemented. Before, it was per month.
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And in life this, these are two pages
I'm comparing on meta.wikimedia.org.
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You can see that I'm looking at the daily
statistics and in a certain time frame,
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which you can change here, and I'm
comparing these two pages called the
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Coolest Tool Award page and a page called
Requests for New Languages. And so here
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you can see like on which day, how many
times those two pages were accessed.
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Then there is quick statements by Magnus.
That's true, that's true. I tried to
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access that earlier, and it somehow didn't
work for me when preparing this. So in
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theory, it's a powerful editor for
Wikidata. You can use statements,
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labels, descriptions and aliases to add
and remove them, via rather simple
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text commands and you can see simply by
the numbers on Wikidata that it's
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pretty popular. As I said, I wasn't able
to play with that yet myself. So I can
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only read this text for you right now. So,
you can prepare things already in a
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spreadsheet or a text editor to to run
several commands in a row.
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Batch edits, basically, semi-automatically. And there's
also other tools like OpenRefine, the
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Disambiguater, which also use this tool.
So as it was down, I could only go to its
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help page and looked a little bit at the
statements down here. I hope that one
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day I'm going to find time to try this
myself. Let's see.
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Then, for developers, an award was given to MediaWiki Code
Search by Legoktm. Because, once upon a
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time, there were, there was, for example,
a service by Google to do search
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explicitly, like, public code, source code
repositories, and we wanted to have that,
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especially for Wikimedia code. So
everything that's in WikiMedia git,
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Gerrit, I don't think it supports stuff
that… all our Wikimedia code repositories
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that are in GitHub or somewhere else. It's
a pretty simple interface. You can see on
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the top you can filter by categories, in
which code bases you're looking for a
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certain expression. Gerrit, it says
here at the bottom. And this is super easy
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to use. Well, at least, if you know a
little bit of regular expressions or if
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you just want to enter the name of a
function, for example, because one very
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or, a great use case we actually have is,
when some function gets deprecated or even
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later on even removed in the MediaWiki
core code base. Of course, somebody needs
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to find and update all the extensions out
there, which might rely on that very
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function in the MediaWiki core code base.
And this makes it way easier.
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Of course you could also locally check out all the
extension repositories and then grep and
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try to find that. But this makes it
especially, for those, or most people,
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I guess, who don't have a complete check out
of all extensions and code repositories on
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their own computer, to quickly use it on
the Internet online. I guess I don't need
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to show you how to enter a search string
here. Still, if I, for example, enter,
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getText, which would be a function name,
you'd then get the results listed by
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repository. And then you could filter on
the top. If the server or the Internet is
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fast enough. I might get back to you
later.
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Seventh one out of ten we awarded is the "Mobile" area, there is a
Commons mobile app which is also entirely
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run, managed, worked on by volunteers like
Josephine, Yuvi, Neshlihan, Vivek.
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It allows you to upload photos to Wikimedia
Commons directly from your mobile phone or
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from your smartphone, and you can
also, of course, add categories, or view
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nearby missing images. So if you use your
GPS, if you know your location, that can
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be helpful to find out which articles, for
example, on Wikipedia, still lack
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images and view your contributions to
Commons in its own gallery. Those numbers
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are probably now outdated. But what is
impressive to me is simply the large
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number of different people who have
already contributed to the code base.
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Still no results. OK. I don't think
I'm going to play that YouTube video for
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for you now. Plus, I haven't sorted out
the sound beforehand, I realize. But you
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can… oh, this just shows some of the
images uploaded via it, but it's a pretty
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intuitive user interface. It's also
interesting to see that of course, it
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also makes uploading content a bit easier
that might not be suitable for Wikimedia
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Commons, like, for example, your selfies
of you and your friends.
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But I think that's also being worked on and better
filter nowadays, for example, by
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categorizing if this is a completely new
user and these kinds of things on Commons.
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Then the category "Newcomer" is called NOA
Upload Tool by HappeJ, Sohmen. So this
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takes scientific Open Access articles out
there, and fetches the images included in
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them, and then anybody can help deciding
if this is suitable when it comes to the
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content of, I mean, the license is already
pretty clear. But the content, if this
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could be helpful on Wikimedia Commons. So
you go to the website, basically you get a
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random image and you can help. Could or
should this be uploaded to Wikimedia
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Commons to make it broader available to
make it more discoverable? It's beautiful
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because it also gets a bit more into Open
Science. It's probably the most simple
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user interface in this collection here,
and it does the attribution correctly.
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Randomized. That's probably also
something. So I went to that tool.
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And as you can see, you get a random image.
So the caption would be taken over and you
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can click "Mark for upload" or "next
image". To actually upload it, you will…
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It's probably a bit small… you would have
to log in, of course, first and authenticate.
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Then when it comes to
outreach, more to social activities, there
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is a programs and events dashboard by Sage
and others. So this is a bit more when it
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comes to the teaching part or running
workshops for, for example, editors,
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writers, uploading media. Or, for example,
Wikiversity, which is another Wikimedia
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site which has courses. And this helps you
to get an idea how much outcome, how much
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effect your program has. And it's pretty
useful and actually used by quite some
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event organizers out there, for example,
by the Wikimedia chapters in quite some
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countries. You can create and manage
education programs, you, as I said, track
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some metrics and it's been used for more
than 100, or, with more than 100 000
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students and editors, over a million
articles since 2010.
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So this is the default view you would end up with on the
programs and event dashboard.
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And you can see here the campaigns on the left, for
example, this was the Art and Feminism
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2018 campaign. Related programs that were
run. And, for example, the number of
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articles created, edited, and the number
of editors here, in the very end.
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So you get an idea how much, actually, outcome
you have.
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And, last but not least, probably Eggbeater doesn't tell you
anything. That was the logo we chose for
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the award, and it's basically the
special or lifetime award or something
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like that. That's probably how you would
translate it. Twinkle. It's also a
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JavaScript gadget by AzaToth, Ioeth,
Amathea, atlight, MusikAnimal, AmoryMeltzer.
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And this is when, when
you're a bit more of an experienced,
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for example, Wikipedia user, it helps you
a lot with maintenance tasks like dealing
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reverting vandalism, unscontract–
unconstructive edits. Which makes
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administrative tasks way easier. It's
been around for 15 years, it has pretty
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good help. And to give you a simple idea,
this would be the normal or nearly normal
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view, I think I also have some some custom
gadgets enabled, on on a Wikipedia page
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when you're logged in and you can see up
here, read, edit, view history.
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The watch list, star button. When I enable
Twinkle, you see there's another drop
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down, which leads to, for example, the
first link request, speedy deletion.
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According to CSD, I should probably
know what that means. Speedy deletion?
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And a few other options like "show most recent
diff", "unlink backlinks", a lot of
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functionality that is way easier to access
and more common, especially if you try to
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revert vandalism and watch pages.
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This is a photo of, at the end of that actual award ceremony, of all the
people being around. There were also definitely a few
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maintainers, developers, stewards of these
code bases around. So not everybody was
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present at that conference, but we could
actually hand out some awards which were eggbeaters.
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And what was this was
basically about was, as I said earlier,
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appreciating, all the code in between,
that might not be obvious to you.
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Sometimes, it might not even be obvious to
you that this is custom code or a gadget,
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not in the core functionality, added by a
volunteer, because it is enabled by
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default. And you just expect like, OK,
this is probably part of the core
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software, but it's actually not. And, of
course, also, thanks a lot to all the
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users of these tools. So if anything
was interesting here or if you have more
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curiosity, you will find links on
meta.wikimedia.org, on the page
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Coolest Tool Award. If you are generally
interested in the technical parts of it,
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not necessarily only as a user using these
tools, I would recommend how to contribute
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on mediawiki.org, which both covers how to
get technically involved, but also other areas.
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For example, of course,
editing, but also, design, local user
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groups, outreach or other things. So these
are probably only the credits.
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So I'm done. Thank you.
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applause
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Herald: Hello, hello? Yeah. Thank you,
Andre! So do we have any questions in the
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audience? If you do raise your hands and I
will hand you my microphone?
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Andre: Basically, I would even say feel
free to ask anything. I mean, I might not
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know the answer. It's not that I'm
actively working in all of these tools or
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anything, but I can try to find out.
Q: I thank you for your speech.
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Do you have a favorite tool for locations of
articles, how to add them, or edit them?
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Andre: A favorite tool for locations of
articles, how to edit them?
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Q: You can have locations for the images,
but also add locations to articles on the
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other side? And I find it unhandy to
always copy paste a code with geolocation
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and all that stuff. And I would also
prefer there to have a tool where I could
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click on a map and say, OK, it's there.
Maybe it's existing.
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Andre: That that is a good question. So,
yeah, so you basically go to an article
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and you hope for some button, which
probably opens a map and then you say it's
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here on this map. And then you edit with
one click the coordinates to the article,
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I guess. Right? I'm not sure myself. I
would have to try to find out. Let me come
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back to you later, please.
Herald: Any other questions? I don't think
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I see any, but so then again, thank you,
have some applause for Andre please!
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