User:Econterms/Presentation to Federal MediaWiki SIG

Wikimania 2017 was in Montreal in August. This is the main annual conference of Wikimedians.
This page is on the web site for the conference -- the "conference wiki."
The program of the conference is online, and slides and notes from many sessions are linked indirectly from it

September 2017 presentation

Submissions/User digest/State of Wikimedia Research 2016-2017
Show slides and Etherpad
Analysis of
Srijan Kumar ; Robert West ; Jure Leskovec. 2016 "Disinformation on the Web" Proceedings of WWW 2016
Study is of Wikipedia hoaxes -- detecting them, their characteristics, and their effect ("impact")
- Hoaxes: humans classify things as hoaxes ; so do machines ("machine classifiers") and they compare these
- most hoaxes are caught and wiped out within a day
Benjamin Smith ; Abel Gustafson "Using Wikipedia to predict election outcomes"
- Counts of page views of an article on a candidate are positive predictors of the candidate's vote total in the election, even holding other info constant

Relatedly, keynote speaker from FactsCan: Keynotes#Dana_Wagner

Hackathon preconference

Afterwards there was a presentation afterward of new developments

Wikitext <==> Visual editor <==> presentation in HTML 5 will call for some changes in the underlying parsing; it will change/break the way a few pages appear
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikitext:_upcoming_changes,_available_tools,_what_you_can_do.

Excellent Wikidata training by Andrew Lih in the preconference -- can add link here later

Remembering Bassel Khartabil

BAnQ with Wikimedians scanning and digitizing at the upper left

We visited the Osler library of history of medicine

(1) Etytree presentation about etymology based on Wiktionary and/or Wikdata info: show Wiktionary 1 and Wiktionary 2 ; visit https://tools.wmflabs.org/etytree/etymology/index.html, and try "celery" and "pistachio" ; This was funded researchGrant info;

(2) WikiCite projects and conferences: [1] and go to slide 14 -- note the questions asked and the technologies of answering