Wiki Movement Brazil User Group/Report/2024/Products and Technology
Report of activities for 2024 - Education and Scientific Dissemination
First quarter report (Jan-Mar)
Addressing the Lusophone technological wishlist proposals with the Outreachy program
Wiki Movimento Brasil has relied on the Outreachy program to implement technological requests from the Lusophone community. A program offering paid internships and support for underrepresented groups in the tech industry, Outreachy is an opportunity for interns to develop skills while contributing to open-source software. This activity is aligned with WMB's strategy under the axis of "(Re)imagining the socio-technical infrastructure of the Wikimedia Movement". Our aim in this program was to address a proposal from the Lusophone Technological Wishlist utilizing this space and resource.
In this context, we have successfully implemented an open version of the Dead Link Finder tool, capable of identifying broken external links on Wikimedia project pages.[1] With this project we have resolved the request that garnered the highest engagement in the Lusophone Technological Wishlist last year. The Outreachy program addressed the basic requirement of the request.[2]
Second quarter report (Apr-Jun)
Launching the Global Majority Wikimedia Technology Priorities
Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) and the Centre for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) have worked on a research project to identify and address the technology priorities of the Wikimedia Global Majority.[3] This initiative aims to create a multi-stakeholder action process to support these priorities. Our goal is to lead and collaborate with the global community to develop products and technologies that meet the needs of the Global Majority.[4]
The project aligns with WMB's strategy under the axis "(Re)imagine the sociotechnical infrastructure of the Wikimedia Movement." In this axis, it aligns specifically on "Research and identify needs of the Wikimedia Movement that can be addressed by developing or improving tools", "Collaborate with the Wikimedia Movement and with external stakeholders to develop open technologies that share the strategic direction of knowledge as a service" and "Act from a Global South perspective for global Wikimedia Movement discussions about access, user experience and innovation across platforms".
Through this research, we gathered diverse perspectives from Global Majority communities on their technology infrastructure needs, listed these priorities, and proposed changes and approaches for execution. In collaboration with various organizations and individuals, we identified ten major goals and challenges related to the Wikimedia Movement's socio-technical infrastructure and advocated for their prioritization within the Movement's activity plans.[3]
Third quarter report (Jul-Sep)
Wikidata IOLab
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Wikidata Labs are capacity-building workshops designed to train participants in integrating Wikidata with other Wikimedia projects, software, tools, and processes. The training was volunteer-led, with support and resources provided by WMB, which relates to our strategic directions to encourage community health through new communication spaces and integration between experienced volunteers, new contributors, cultural, educational, social organizations and other partners of open knowledge.
Wikidata IOLab took place during the 2024 International Linguistics Olympiad in Brasília.[5] Participants were taught how to edit language phonemes using a thematic app created for the event.[6] This collaboration with IOL and OBL enriched language-related information on Wikimedia projects. On the qualitative side, the participants were actively engaged and introduced to the open knowledge ecosystem. Quantitatively, 194 editors registered, with 206 people participating synchronously during the event, resulting in over 400 edits on 35 phonemes items on Wikidata.[7]
Operational and General metrics
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| Activity | Metrics | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Total | References |
| Community Sessions | Number of sessions | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | [8][9] |
| Capacity Building | Number of initiatives | 1 | - | 4 | - | 5 | [10][5][11][12][13] |
| Partnerships | Number of activated partnerships | 1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | [10][5] |
| Programs and Campaigns | Number of activities | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | [14] |
| Governance Sessions | Number of sessions | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | [15][16] |
| Communications Deliverables | Number of community publications | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | [17] |
| Products | Number of new or improved products | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | [1] |
| Resources | Number of resources | 24 | 5 | 7 | - | 36 | [10][14][3][9][8][4][18][5][12][13][19] |
| - | Number of media files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons | 1350 | 84 | - | - | 1434 | [14][20] |
| Number of items created or improved on Wikidata | - | 98 | 35 | - | 133 | [20][5] | |
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | 26 | - | 13 | - | 39 | [10][1][14][5][11][19] | |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | 4 | 3 | 7 | - | 14 | [10][1][14][3][9][8][4][20][18][17][5][15][16][11][12][13][19] | |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | 33 | - | - | - | 33 | [14] | |
| Number of participants | 41 | 79 | 303 | - | 423 | [10][3][9][8][5][15][16][11][12][13] | |
| Number of editors | 119 | - | 197 | - | 316 | [10][1][14][5][11][19] | |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 6 | 9 | - | 20 | [10][1][14][3][9][8][4][20][18][17][5][15][16][11][12][13][19] | |
References
- ↑ a b c d e f Addressing the Lusophone technological wishlist proposals
- ↑ Deadlinkchecker
- ↑ a b c d e f Global Majority Wikimedia Technology Priorities
- ↑ a b c d WikiMove 20: The Global Majority Speaks Out on Tech!
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Wikidata Lab XLI: Wikidata IOLab
- ↑ Phonemes at Toolforge
- ↑ Diff post: "Obelepédia: students of the Brazilian Linguistics Olympiad edit on Wikipedia"
- ↑ a b c d e Live of closing of Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 in Brazil and presentation
- ↑ a b c d e Meeting with Global South Wikimedia stakeholders
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Wikidata Lab XL: Querido Diário
- ↑ a b c d e f Wikidata Lab XLII: OpenRefine
- ↑ a b c d e Python Programming Workshop 2024 - Introduction to Python programming: Extracting data from Wikimedia projects
- ↑ a b c d e Python Programming Workshop 2024 - Data processing and analysis - Manipulating and visualizing data through scripts
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 in Brazil
- ↑ a b c d 1st meeting of the "(Re)imagine the sociotechnical infrastructure of the Wikimedia Movement" axis subcommittee
- ↑ a b c d 2nd meeting of the "(Re)imagine the sociotechnical infrastructure of the Wikimedia Movement" axis subcommittee
- ↑ a b c Diff post: Wiki Infographics: Creating informative and visually engaging infographics
- ↑ a b c Wiki Infographics - Technical Plan
- ↑ a b c d e Outreachy 2024: Create tool for informative infographics from structured information from Wikimedia projects
- ↑ a b c d Upload of media files and metadata of the Anais do Museu Paulista journal