Gikü

About me

• User page: ro:Utilizator:Gikü
• Real name: George. Living in Chisinau, Moldova. Native Romanian, fluent English and Russian
• Contributing mainly to Romanian Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
• Interested in:
  • images management
  • organization of writing contests
  • involvement of people from offline
  • internationalization
  • spoken articles

Agenda

• June 21: arriving
• June 22:
  • 09:00 - Excursions/Valley of Valsassina and its cheeses
  • 14:00 - Excursions/Itinerary on the mountain San Defendente in the afternoon
• June 23:
  • 10:00 - Workshop: Engaging local Wikipedians ("Meeting" space)
  • 14:00 - Explainer Video Workshop (Museum)
  • 14:00 - Large contests, hosted by Nikola Kalchev (Gym palace)
  • 15:30 - Wikidata for Beginners, hosted by Asaf Bartov (Collaborative space)
  • 17:00 - Training sessions/Proposals/School of Rock(ing) EU Copyright (Community hall)
  • 21:00 - Excursions/Itinerary to the Belvedere of Agueglio in the evening
• June 24 (day 1):
  • 10:30 - Opening ceremony
  • 14:00 - Discussions/Glam (School, room 11)
  • 14:45 - Discussions/Education (School, room 11)
  • 14:00 - Training sessions/Proposals/Listening to Community Voices (Collaborative space)
  • 18:00 - CEE Meetup (School, room 11)
  • 19:40 - #100wikidays meetup (WMBG corner)
  • 21:00 - Evening programme/Country music and dance with the mechanical bull
• June 25 (day 2):
  • 10:30 - Training sessions/Proposals/SVG illustration workshop (Collaborative space)
  • 14:00 - Discussions/Content translation across Wikipedias (School, room 12)
  • 14:45 - Discussions/Misconceptions (School, room 11)
  • 16:00 - no plans
  • 17:30 - Wikidojo (School, room 12)
• June 26 (day 3):
  • 09:00 - Meetups/Commons categorizer meetup (School, room 30)
  • 09:30 - Programme/Guided tours of the cultural heritage of Esino Lario
  • 10:00 - Q&A with the executive director of Wikimedia Foundation (Gym palace)
  • 10:30 - Critical issues presentations/Global images initiative; adding images to 50.000 articles (Hall)
  • 14:00 - Tools, extensions (Gym palace)
  • 14:45 - Discussions/The future of Wikimania (School, room 12)
  • 16:00 - Programme/Wikimania closing ceremony and opening of Esino Lario collaborative space
• June 27: leaving

Ideas

• how about a pronunciation tool which would take an ogg file and a Wikidata item ID, then do the magic?
• I should learn Python and import mayors and population into Wikidata

Articles to write

• something on Basque country (hi Xabier!)
• Antonia Pozzi
• Emilio Mauri
• Eliyahu Meidnik