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Wikimania 2023 lightning talk: audience shares Wikipedia contributions: transcript

At Wikimania 2023, a speaker used her lightning slot to ask the in-person audience where they came from, what articles they had contributed to, and what had inspired them. She shared stories of contributors she met and ended with notes on the closing ceremony and karaoke.

Key points

The speaker said she did not have a traditional lightning talk but had met many great people at the conference.
She asked the in-person audience to shout out where they had travelled from, and many places were called out.
She described meeting a contributor who wrote articles on all the Singapore MRT stations, one of which was the featured article on the main page on day one.
Audience members shouted out topics they had written about, including sandals with socks, Vikings, a platypus and women authors.
Audience members named inspiring things, such as 100 wiki days, writing an article every day for 100 days.
She mentioned her closing ceremony talk the next day and the karaoke that night, then handed over to Sherry.

Chapters

0:00Welcome and where the audience comes from
0:37Contributors met at the conference
2:19Audience shares articles and inspirations
3:08Closing remarks and karaoke rumor

Full transcript

0:00So it's also time right now to invite the next speaker to talk to us. Let's welcome her. Let's welcome her to the podium. Thank you. Sorry about the little delay. I don't really have a traditional lightning talk, but I have met so many great people.

0:37We've seen talks from people all the way from Uganda to Ukraine to Australia to Indiana to all over the place. I'm curious about our audience that we have hearsay in person, though. um so can you shout out it'll probably be a lot of sounds at once but shout out where you came from that was indeed a lot of places um okay another thing i am curious about um especially people from the front row because you're easiest to hear There are some people that I've met at this conference that have contributed to Wikipedia in ways that I find very interesting. I met somebody that created articles about all of the MRT stations in Singapore, and on the first day of the conference, one of his articles was the featured article on the main page, which was very fitting.

1:33I talked to somebody who made a lot of articles about orchids. When I was on the plane on the way here I was sitting and I was feeling kind of nervous before takeoff and I looked on Wikipedia for the type of airplane I was in and it was an Airbus and then I clicked on who made the article and it was Andrew Lee who's at this conference. So Wikipedia contributors are all around us doing interesting things, and I want you to shout out some articles or topics that you have contributed to. Wearing sandals with socks. I'm so glad that there is an encyclopedic entry on that.

2:19Vikings! Footholes? Okay, I recently wrote an article about a platypus. Anyone else? Women authors. That's important. Woohoo. Okay. I'm also curious if you have met anyone that's doing anything that inspires you. So now shout out something that you've heard about that inspired you. 100 wiki days, which is when you write an article every single day for 100 days. Very impressive.

3:08I was inspired by the sweetened condensed milk appreciation system anyone else feeling inspired by something today okay well that's all I have for you I'm doing a talk at the closing ceremony tomorrow and I believe that there is karaoke tonight and there's a rumor that we're going to see the first rendition of the Gloria Gaynor parody called I Will Revise since Wikimania and Alexandria Egypt so that's just a rumor and you didn't hear it from me and then we I think we're all finished but there might be more I'll hand it off to Sherry

Source and licence

Recording: File:Wikimania 2023 - Plenary - 18 August - Lightning Talk - The knowledge is there and then !.webm by Wikimania 2023 (2023-08-18), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.