User:Giantflightlessbirds/Europe 2022

In 2022 I was chosen to be the New Zealand delegate to the 9–11 September Wikimedia Summit in Berlin. Because travelling 36 hours to Berlin only to attend a conference for a few days seemed to fly in the face of a) climate change, and b) jet lag, I applied for funding to spend a month in Europe and take advantage of the opportunity. I was awarded the Paul Reynolds (No Numpties) Scholarship by LIANZA to cover spending time in Berlin, Utrecht, Prague, and Stockholm, to see how OpenRefine is being employed in European galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM), and how these institutions are engaging with Wikipedia. What I learn will be shared with the New Zealand GLAM community in articles, conference presentations, and training workshops in 2022–2023.

Itinerary
Month Travel Staying Notes
Thu 1 Sept CHC–SIN
Fri 2 Sept SIN–FRA–Berlin Berlin
Sat 3 Sept Berlin–Wismar Wismar Recovering from jet lag!
Sun 4 Sept Wismar Ditto
Mon 5 Sept Wismar–Berlin Berlin
Tue 6 Sept Berlin Wikimedia DE offices, meeting with Lucy Patterson: case studies applicable to NZ
Wed 7 Sept Berlin Wikimedia DE offices, meeting with Lozana Rossenova: Wikibase
Thu 8 Sept Berlin Wikimedia DE offices, meeting with Lucy Patterson and Cin Pietschmann: marginalised knowledge
Fri 9 Sept Berlin Wikimedia Summit
Sat 10 Sept Berlin Wikimedia Summit
Sun 11 Sept Berlin Wikimedia Summit: sketchnoted Oral Citation session
Mon 12 Sept Berlin–Prague Prague
Tue 13 Sep Prague Sketching; meeting GLAMWiki group
Wed 14 Sep Prague Euro GLAMWiki meeting: presented on NZ Thesis Project
Thu 15 Sep Prague Euro GLAMWiki meeting: presented on marginalised knowledge
Fri 16 Sep Prague Euro GLAMWiki meeting: Klementinum visit
Sat 17 Sep Prague Sketching
Sun 18 Sep Prague–Utrecht Utrecht
Mon 19 Sep Utrecht Wikimedia Nederland offices; brainstormed Surinam publishing project, met WMNL board
Tue 20 Sep Utrecht Wikimedia Nederland offices; planning Caribbean projects
Wed 21 Sep Utrecht Delft trip to meet Vera de Kok and Douglas McCarthy
Thu 22 Sep Utrecht Sick day (cancelled trip to The Hague)
Fri 23 Sep Utrecht Amsterdam trip to meet Richard van Alph, assisted with LGBT edit-a-thon, met with Jan Ainali
Sat 24 Sep Utrecht Field trip to Tiengementen
Sun 25 Sep Utrecht–Stockholm Stockholm
Mon 26 Sep Stockholm Wikimedia SE offices
Tue 27 Sep Stockholm Wikimedia SE offices
Wed 28 Sep Stockholm Wikimedia SE offices
Thu 29 Sep Stockholm Wikimedia SE offices
Fri 30 Sep Stockholm–Berlin Berlin
Sat 1 Oct BER–FRASIN
Sun 2 Oct SIN–CHC

Useful links and insights to come!