Wikimania 2022/Individual Reports/User: Ngozi Stella Udechukwu
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- Username
- Ngozi Stella Udechukwu
- How did you attend Wikimania (virtually or in-person)?
Virtually
- What did you spend the scholarship funds on?
1. Data 2. Transportation to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where it will be conducive for me to attend the online meeting without distractions. 3. Feeding 4. Baby sitter 5. I replaced my laptop battery charger that spoilt.
- Takeaways – choose 3 specific Wikimania sessions you attended and describe your key take-aways per session.
The festival was an interesting occasion that showed me that there are a lot of things going on in the Wikimedia community. I listened to many topics/session but for the bemefot of this report, I will talk about the following three: 1. Digital Security Basics at Tent 3 - In this session, my eyes was opened on how it is important for me to be security conscious as we use to be in our physical space. Digital space is another global space where everything one does is monitored and one can be embarrassed if care is not taken. It was adviced that we should use different names in our user page other than our real name. I also learnt that it is better to use different password for different digital space. For instance, the password for your email address should be different from the one used for Wikipedia editing articles. Infact, I learnt many things on the digital security bassics, which time will not permit me to share here. 2. Wikimedia sound logo round table session: I was privilleged to understand that in the wikimedia, there is group of people that are working on sound logo and one can get involved in such project. It was quite interesting to know that in the wikimedia one can conceptualize an idea that can represent their community, which can be assessed and if acceptable it will be adopted in the Wikimeta. The progress report and the contest that will take place in this September gave me idea of what can be done with sound/logo production. I learnt that anybody can make sound logo and you may join them even when you do not have previous experience on how to do that. The sounds has to be original. 3. Wikifunctions: A new Wikimedia project - It is interesting to know that wikifunctions is all about different new projects that one would like to do like counting ages, dates, and so on. There were many Wikifunctions that was sounding like programming, Wikifunctions and codex, natural language generation using templates enhanced with dependancy grammar. However, I was happy to learn how to use Event Registration Tool v.0. It was interesting to know how to create beta account. Here you build you event center, event registration for the organizer, for the participants and control the events. It is possible to see the list of events. This being my first time at this event, it was an exciting experience.
- How did you connect with other people during Wikimania 2022? How did you celebrate at Wikimania 2022?
It was somehow difficult to connect with others during the meeting due to unfamiliar nature of the Pheedloop environment, However, through the helpdesk, I was able to connect with the people giving technical assistant to participants and from there, I happened to meet with many participants. With the assistant of such telegram connection, all my questions was answered and it was interesting. The experience is well appreciated and want to thank the Wikimedia Foundation for this opportunity and their financial support. I wish you greater enlargement in your vision to increase access to open knowledge.
- (Optional) Please share link(s) to your social media post(s) about Wikimania