Asynchronous Pre-Recorded Lightning Talks and Viewing Discussions 2024

Editing Wikipedia Articles about Open Source Software

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Lightning talks

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13-5-2024 8:00 AM

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Wikipedia remains among the world's most highly requested, published, accessed, and consulted sources of information on many topics. It is also underutilized for communication impact. Here we present Wiki99 for Open Source Software, a university program to develop 99 Wikipedia articles on that topic, and to measure the reader impact of the same. The general model of this program could be replicated for any educational content development campaign.

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From Monday, May 13, 2024 through Thursday, May 16, 2024 there were asynchronous lightning talk viewings and discussions on Discord for OpenCon registrants. This pre-recorded lightning talk is now available for viewing below.

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May 13th, 8:00 AM

Editing Wikipedia Articles about Open Source Software

Wikipedia remains among the world's most highly requested, published, accessed, and consulted sources of information on many topics. It is also underutilized for communication impact. Here we present Wiki99 for Open Source Software, a university program to develop 99 Wikipedia articles on that topic, and to measure the reader impact of the same. The general model of this program could be replicated for any educational content development campaign.