Lightning talks

Lightning talks are fun!

M109 is a room dedicated for lightning talks.

Details

• Where: M109
• When: 9–10 August
• What: Every speaker is given 5–10 minutes, and if there's enough applause he or she will get another full minute.

List of lightning talks

Lightning Talks I

Paralympics

• Wikipedians at the Sochi 2014 Paralympics
• Wikipedians at the London 2012 Paralympics
  • Watch on YouTube

Replay Edits

• Making page edits easier to view
  • Watch on YouTube

Lightning Talks II

• Editing (South-)East Asian Topics in English - Chris Woodrich (Video)
• Using sound on Wikipedia - Adam Cuerden (Video)
• Crash course on Wikipedia editing - impromptu item by Chris Woodrich (Video)

Lightning Talks III

Session cancelled

Lightning Talks IV

GWicke

• Parsoid: Wikitext to HTML+RDFa (and back) - mw:User:GWicke
• Using rich Parsoid HTML+RDFa for bots, content analysis and offline readers - mw:User:GWicke
  • Video of GWicke's session

• 
  Wikitext to HTML+RDFa (and back)
• 
  Using Parsoid HTML + RDFa - Wikimania 2013.pdf

MarkTraceur

• The future of beta-status features in MediaWiki - User:MarkTraceur
• A new hope for thumbnails on wiki pages - User:MarkTraceur
  • Video of MarkTraceur's session

Lightning Talks V

• HTTPS implementation plans, and countries who block HTTPS --Ryan Lane
  • Video of session
• WorkingWiki: Open Science and Collaborative Code Authoring in MediaWiki --Lee Worden
  • Video of session

Lightning Talks VI

• The Basics of Image Restoration - w:en:User:Adam Cuerden
  • Video of session