I'd be very interested in going to FOSDEM! It sounds brilliant, can I get some more information on it?
Kind regards, Edward Haigh Sent from my iPad > On 3 Feb 2015, at 03:38, Romaine Wiki <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > The past weekend was great! Wikimedia was at FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source > Software Developers' European Meeting, organised as the university ULB in > Brussels, Belgium! We had there a stand with flyers about Wikipedia, > Wikimedia, Wikimedia Belgium, and a lot of goodies. > > In the Wikimedia movement we often discuss the Gendergap, as one of the gaps > we have. Wikipedia/Wikimedia looks very much likes FOSDEM, but there the > Gendergap is even larger. Wikipedia/Wikimedia needs a more social > development, we need software which enables users to form groups in an easy > way. The female contributors to Wikipedia do like two things: having in > person meetings to socialize with other editors, and second they need more > social software. The education extension is a primitive form of what is > needed. We need an extension where users easily can form groups (namespace > Groups: or something, used by an extension), where they easily can see the > recent changes of edits of group members only, to be able to actively > interact with other group members and having a long term participation in > Wikipedia. Having software where users, interest groups or a group of editors > from an external organisation can work together. > > To translate it for the tech community: Wikipedia needs a kind of phabricator > with groups, tasks, assignments, and so on, but then for on Wikipedia itself. > > Yes, Wikipedia is not a social network, but we need to create an environment > in what we enable people to have a collaboration on a more visible way (if > people want to). > > That is my clear conclusion after this conference where I spoke with a lot of > women about editing on Wikipedia, but also based on many project of the past > years we organised. > > > At FOSDEM I also spoke with someone from the Dutch government who is working > on creating an open source free licensed dictionary for words that are used > in specific parts of the government and they like to do a project with > Wikimedia! > They also like to re-use the data from Wiktionary, but they experienced that > that was a bit difficult. So a large donation of words for Wiktionary is on > its way! > > > If anyone is interested to go to next years FOSDEM and want to help at the > stand, where we also like to include more information about MediaWiki, let us > know! > > Romaine > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
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