Grants:TPS/Benoit Rochon/Wikimania/2014/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2014!

Participant

Outcome

Shared Experience and New Creation

This was my third participation for Wikimania, and London was particularly productive! First, Charles (WMCH) and I put the stands of Francophone chapters together at the Community Village, which allowed many exchanges between members and contributors of Francophone projects. A journalist from the famous Le Monde interviewed me at our stand (here) and now I'm invited in many Canadian medias since I'm back from London!

Then, a short but rewarding meeting with Magnus Manske has set up a metric page and thus consolidate the GLAM Poirier Project between Wikimedia Canada and National Library and Archives of Quebec. A pilot project where we are currently uploading on Wikimedia Commons a thousand pictures from Canadian Public Domain.

I'm coordinator of WikiFranca and animate the meeting of the francophones for a third consecutive year, and this year the French were very numerous. We discussed several topics, including the International Francophone Month contribution (prezi slides) which is currently in preparation for a second year (see all workshops on a map).

I did a lot of other things at WM2014, this is why I like Wikimania sooooo much!

Connections

I met a lot of people, beginning by the French speaker meetup, around 40 people showed up. I was the animator and I also did a presentation about Contribution Month; good discussions have emerged from this meeting, which lasted two hours.

I also had a breakfast with Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi) about The Wikipedia Library to have it in French. A short meeting with Magnus Manske about the Baglama tool. My roommate Abbad Diraneyya (User:عباد ديرانية) and I, had great talks about the situation of Wikipedia in Arabic World and especially in Jordan; we will work together in order to have documents translated and maybe a Wikipedia Takes Amman.

And of course nice talks around a glass of wine with members of Iberocoop. Wikimania is always very prolific in terms of meeting people.

Anything else

Prezi slides : http://prezi.com/pqy540nukyuk/mois-international-de-la-contribution-francophone/
Interview in the Newspaper Le Monde: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuxLMl_CYAAuTsp.jpg:large
All my pictures are on Twitter for now: https://twitter.com/Berochon/media (I'll transfer them on Commons as soon as I have a moment)

Finally, I want to thank Wikimedia Foundation very much for giving me the opportunity of attending to Wikimania; it's such a pleasure to meet, discuss, listen and share about my passion, Wikipedia. Best regards.