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2023 Wikimania Scholar Report

Participant

 * Malikxan
 * Uzbek Wikipedia

SPARQL: access and analyze data from Wikidata
Although I already had some experience with SPARQL, I attended this session to enhance my skills in using SPARQL to query Wikidata. I gained insights into visualizing query results using the Wikidata Query Service interface and its features. This session proved to be both beneficial and captivating for me.

How not to lose a volunteer after the first edit: volunteer retention strategies
I found this hands-on session very interesting. Preventing volunteers from losing interest after their first contribution is a big issue on the Uzbek Wikipedia, where I'm an admin and bureaucrat. In this session, I learned a beneficial strategy: matching new contributors with relevant Wikimedia activities. This approach encourages newcomers to persist in their volunteer engagement.

Bashkir Wikipedia - 18 years of sustainable development
During this session, Rustam Bеy Nuryev, a dedicated contributor to the Bashkir Wikipedia, shared insights from their extensive long-time experience with the project.

Wikifunctions is here
In the session led by Denny Vrandečić and James Forrester, I gained a deeper understanding of the new Wikimedia project, Wikifunctions. This project enables anyone to create and maintain a library of code functions, providing support not only for Wikimedia projects but also extending beyond them.

Bridge the Digital Language Divide: Can Machine Translation Narrow Knowledge Gap?
The session delved into a research project that explores the influence of machine translation on content generation across various language versions of Wikipedia. The primary focus was on its potential to diminish the knowledge gap among different language communities.

After the session, I had the opportunity to share the experience of the Uzbek Wikipedia with Kai Zhu, the session conductor, and Santhosh.thottingal, a software engineer at Language Engineering team. I highlighted that tens of thousands of articles have been created using ContentTranslation (a tool that assists users in translating existing Wikipedia articles from one language to another) on the Uzbek Wikipedia. Additionally, I offered some suggestions to enhance MinT's English-to-Uzbek translation, as GoogleTranslate often makes errors in this context.

Support for new and small wikis: from 2006 to 2023 and the future
The session provided a pragmatic and realistic overview of the evolution of new wiki creation and the sustenance of smaller wikis.

Connections
During Wikimania 2023 in Singapore, I had the opportunity to meet many new Wikimedians, as well as acquaintances I had met at Wikimedia CEE 2022. We exchanged our experiences with each other. While I made numerous connections, I'm able to provide some of their usernames below that I remember or managed to find.


 * Eugene Ormandy – he shared his experience about student clubs in Tokyo, Japan.
 * Janbery – he shared his experience as a videomaker for Wikimedia Czech Republic with me.
 * Kai Zhu – we discussed Content translation, a tool that assists users in translating existing Wikipedia articles from one language to another, as well as the motivations that prompt contributors to create articles using this tool. On the Uzbek Wikipedia, tens of thousands of articles have been created using this tool.
 * Kruusamägi – he shared his experience regarding the Wiki Science Competition, which led me to contemplate the possibility of Uzbek Wikipedia's participation in the competition in the coming years. I also talked with him about the successes of the Wiki Loves Earth in Uzbekistan contest and the WikiStipendiyta project.
 * Kurmanbek – he shared his experience on Turkish Wikipedia with me. Moreover, through him, I joined the CEE Youth Group during Wikimania 2023.
 * Santhosh.thottingal – we discussed ContentTranslation and the MinT translation service, as he is a part of the WMF's Language Engineering team. I shared Uzbek Wikipedia's experience on creating articles using machine translation and provided some suggestions to improve MinT's English-to-Uzbek translation since GoogleTranslate often makes errors in this context.
 * Toghrul R – After Wikimedia CEE 2022, I met with him again at Wikimania 2023. We discussed tool developments in Wikimedia Wikimedia projects.
 * TRistovski-CEEhub – I met with him for the second time. The first time we met was at Wikimedia CEE 2022 in Ohrid, North Macedonia. Although we didn't have a lengthy conversation during Wikimedia CEE 2022, at Wikimania 2023, we discussed the CEE Youth Group, which I joined during the conference.