Hi Edward, Some links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSDEM https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM/2015
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88414 Greetings, Romaine 2015-02-03 8:32 GMT+01:00 Edward <[email protected]>: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > >
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