Wikimania 2014 – London

Spider

Joined 10 January 2014
ORCID 0000-0001-7764-4224 Spider @ RU.Wiki Spider @ NL.Wiki Spider @ Commons Spider @ WikiData grammarware @ GitHub grammarware.net
Bas on the left, Hay on the right, yours truly in the middle

I am Vadim Zaytsev, also known as Spider on Wikimedia projects, as @grammarware on Twitter, Foursquare and Ingress, and by other names elsewhere.

My wikilife started in June 2004, my first featured article dated 2005, since 2006 I am administering several successful wikis on Wikia, in 2009 I served as a wiki admin at a totally un-wiki event and got many people there hooked up on wiki technologies, thanks to the partial scholarship I have attended Wikimania in 2011 with a presentation on wiki migration, later same year I have served as a program chair for Wikimedia Conference Netherlands, an exploit I have repeated the year after that, and I also got hooked up on Wikidata since 2013. Oh yeah, I have also participated in Wiki Loves Monuments in 2011 as a massively active contributor (third quantity prize for covering 800+ monuments with my ~2k submissions) and in 2013 as a jury for Azerbaijan and as a part of a team of crazy people who were recovering GLAM open data from all kinds of terribly inaccessible formats. Outside my wikilife I am actively contributing to many open source projects as a programmer, editor or illustrator, as well as attending and coorganising tons of (mostly academic) events. I also have a PhD in software language engineering, and I publish all my papers in open access.

Plans for Wikimania 2014:

Beurs Wikimedia Nederland

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ru-N Русский — родной язык этого участника.
en-3 This user has advanced knowledge of English.
nl-3 Deze gebruiker heeft gevorderde kennis van het Nederlands.
de-2 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf fortgeschrittenem Niveau.
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I hereby kindly request a scholarship to attend Wikimania in 2014 in London. I have been a member of WMNL since 2011 when I was invited by Dedalus to help with the Wikimedia Conference Netherlands: I served as a Program Chair for WCN 2011[1] and WCN 2012[2], as well as proceedings editor (in 2012 together with DDJJ for linguistic reasons), was a part of the organising/program committee for WCN 2013, I was playing some unidentified role for WLM 2013, got a third quantity prize at WLM 2011 and blogged[3] about it on request of Effeietsanders[4], spoke at Wikimania 2011[5], participated in Amsterdam wiki-hackathons in 2012 (post-WCN) and 2013 (the global one[6]), published wiki-related research results[7] in open access and attended dozens of WikiSaturdays[8] and some wiki-meetups in Haifa[9], Amsterdam[10][11], Utrecht[12], 's Hertogenbosch[13] and 's Gravenhage[14]. I am also currently involved in an unidentified role in Dutch Wiki Loves Earth 2014 for which I also give a lecture on 9 June 2014[15][16], and serve as a jury member at WLE Azerbaijan[17].

As my gratitude for getting a scholarship, I can promise one or more of the following:

  • tweet about Verenining Wikimedia Nederland, since my twitter audience is more than double of WMNL's[18]
  • write more articles about Dutch subjects on Russian wikipedia which usually turn out better than their Dutch and English counterparts[19][20][21][22][23]
  • write an extended blog post about my Wikimania experiences
  • help with on-site WMNL-related activities, as long as they neither conflict with my own presentations nor reduce my pepsi consumption
  • give a presentation on domain-specific wikis — a term I coined some time ago and yet not officially claimed even though it is used by others referring to me[24]
  • give a presentation on open notebook computer science, an open knowledge / open research methodology I developed and presented two years ago[25][26]
  • (last two items only if my submissions are accepted, which from current scores seems rather likely[27])

I hereby also claim to have read the terms and conditions and ask these four tildes to serve as my witnesses: Spider (talk) 22:01, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Sources

  1. ↑ Proceedings of WCN 2011, ISSN 2213-9400, page 3.
  2. ↑ Proceedings of WCN 2012, ISSN 2213-9400, page 2.
  3. ↑ Spoonful of Hacking, Wiki Loves Monuments.
  4. ↑ Testimonium of a hacker photographer.
  5. ↑ Wiki Migration, Wikimania 2011.
  6. ↑ Wikimedia Hackathon 2013, photo #27 by Sebastiaan ter Burg.
  7. ↑ Vadim Zaytsev. MediaWiki Grammar Recovery, Computing Research Repository (CoRR), volume 1107.4661, pages 1–47, ACM, July 2011.
  8. ↑ WikiSaturdays in 2011, 2012, 2013.
  9. ↑ Википедия:Викивстречи/Хайфа, 3-6 августа 2011.
  10. ↑ Википедия:Викивстречи/Амстердам, 14 августа 2011.
  11. ↑ Nieuwjaarsborrel Wikimedia Nederland.
  12. ↑ Algemene Ledenvergadering, Notulen 2011-10-22, Aanwezig.
  13. ↑ WP10NL: jubileum Nederlandstalige Wikipedia, Talent Factory Den Bosch.
  14. ↑ Nieuwjaarsborrel 2014.
  15. ↑ 9 juni schrijfworkshop: Nationaal Park De Alde Feanen in woord op Wikipedia
  16. ↑ commons:File:Werken met Wikipedia.pdf.
  17. ↑ commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2014 in Azerbaijan#Jury members
  18. ↑ @wmnl: 1393 followers; @grammarware: 3363 followers. 3363/1393 ≈ 2,4
  19. ↑ Adriaan van Wijngaarden.
  20. ↑ Gerard Unger.
  21. ↑ Lex Schrijver.
  22. ↑ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica.
  23. ↑ History of Dutch computer engineering.
  24. ↑ Thomas Schmorleiz, A Domain-specific Wiki for Programming Technologies, the Fourth Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering (GTTSE), 2011.
  25. ↑ Vadim Zaytsev, Open Notebook Computer Science. Presentation at Software Freedom Day “Open Education” (SFD), CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19 September 2012, 13:00.
  26. ↑ Vadim Zaytsev, Subatomic Scientific Knowledge Objects. Remote presentation at Software Languages, Software Linguistics and Software Language Engineering Body of Knowledge (SL(E)BOK), Dresden/Amsterdam, 25 September 2012.
  27. ↑ List of Presentation Proposals.
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