Signed up, and voted :)
Good luck!
v/
On 8/8/24 07:17, Franziska Putz wrote:
Hi friends,
I hope you're all enjoying Wikimania, online or onsite! If you're in
Katowice, please come say hi to me.
I'm sharing this message because we need to crowdsource some WikiLove
for an important policy event. As many of you know, explaining the
Wikimedia model to policy stakeholders is a key priority for our
movement. We've identified a BIG stage where we'd like to do this: the
South by Southwest 2025 <https://www.sxsw.com/>[1] conference in
Austin, Texas. They have a unique process, and we need your help - to
win a popularity contest.
*How you can help:* We submitted a panel proposal (details below the
line) titled "How can fictional futures help us strengthen truth and
facts online?". Panels that are selected are those that get the
most votes. Voting is open between now and August 18th. If there's one
thing we're really good at, it's crowdsourcing. Please vote for our
panel here <https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/151603> [2], and help us
explain the model to this audience.
Grateful if you could also share this with your friends in the
movement and beyond!
Best,
Ziski
[1] https://www.sxsw.com/
[2] https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/151603
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The panel, "How can fictional futures help us strengthen truth and
facts online?",will bring together speakers from the worlds of tech,
fiction and journalism, to talk about how we can create a future where
reliable, well-sourced, and human-verified information is not only
flourishing, but public trust in it is growing. The speakers include:
*
Sewell Chan
<https://www.texastribune.org/about/staff/sewell-chan/>(Moderator)
– Editor-in-Chief, Texas Tribune
*
Karen Lord <https://karenlord.wordpress.com/>– Award-winning
science fiction author
*
Stephen Harrison <https://www.stephenharrison.com/>– Contributing
Editor, Slate
*
Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President Global Advocacy, WMF
As part of these discussions, we will raise awareness about how
Wikipedia’s human-led content moderation model is an antidote to mis-
and disinformation. As we enter into a time where the use of
artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly prevalent,
Wikipedia’s human approach to verifying content becomes more important
than ever; this is something that our teams have collectively been
emphasizing in our external messaging to help educate the media,
lawmakers and the wider public about how this model is important in
maintaining information integrity, and why it should be protected.
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Senior Movement Advocacy Manager
Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
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Veni
https://www.veni.com
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