Event:Wikicon Australia 2024/Reports/LPascal
Questions to be addressed
[edit]- Things learned at the conference
- How the participant hopes to use his/her new learnings/skills
- Comments about the conference
- Suggestions for future Wikicons
Response
[edit]I wrote in my application for a scholarship to WikiCon 2024 that I didn’t want to make a presentation but wanted to meet and learn from more experienced Wikipedians. This aim was fulfilled by attending WikiCon 2024 and its side events. I met and had good chats with people from the NZ arts community, Mongolian Wikipedia, the Noongarpedia and a young Russian migrant. All the presentations I attended were informative and useful and the side events and wandering around Adelaide gave me the chance to have some great conversations with fellow Wikipedians.
During the conference I was able to talk to people I had only met online or who had made helpful edits on my articles or agreed with me in deletion discussions. I also caught up with female Wikipedians who had taught and helped me since 2019 when I began writing about women artists, then women in religion as well.
There have been some frustrating issues with Wikidata and Commons that have impeded me from contributing more. I was able to ask those technical questions of other editors and happily I will be able to resolve the issues. I haven’t done a lot of focussed or in-depth work since the conference so I have a backlog of work I want to do. Now I have a better understanding of what I can do on Wikidata and with photos of art on Commons, I can contribute later in 2025. I’ll be putting more hardcopy reference sources on Wikidata, uploading photos of (out-of-copyright) art, continuing to support Know My Name women artist efforts, exploring Noongarpedia to find what I can incorporate into articles about Noongar people, writing about women in early and modern church history and including photos and artworks of them. LPascal (talk) 09:33, 14 January 2025 (UTC)