User:Ijon/Talks

I give talks sometimes. Here are slides and (where available) recordings:

Wikimedia-related

Wikidata

• Wiki + data = Wikidata, and why you should care (New Zealand, November 2018) + video recording on YouTube (7 minutes)
• Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (I-II) (2 hour video; Istanbul, 2022)
• A Gentle Introduction to Querying Wikidata with SPARQL (I-II) (2 hour video; Istanbul, 2022)
• Modelling our Languages with Lexeme (I-II) (2 hour video; Istanbul, 2022)
  • Recording pronunciations with LinguaLibre and Wikidata Query Service (15m tutorial, part of above tutorial)
  • Adding lexeme usage examples from Wikisource easily with Luthor (15m video tutorial about a tool I created)
• OpenRefine + Wikidata = ~{Magic}~ (90 minute video tutorial; Wikimania 2024 in Katowice)

Older versions

• Wikidata: A Gentle Introduction for Complete Beginners (Estonia, November 2017) -- latest slides
• Wikidata: A Gentle Introduction for Complete Beginners (Wikimedia Foundation, Feb 2017)
  • video recording of this talk (3 hours long, with section markers)
• Wikidata for Digital Humanists (Digital Humanities Estonia 2017)
• Video recording of 2-hour SPARQL tutorial (San Francisco, June 2018)

Miscellaneous

• What can we learn from the Feminist movement? slides, video recording (Wikimania 2018)
• What can we learn from the Feminist movement? slides (CEE Online Meeting 2020)
• 101 Ways to Contribute to Wikimedia: on untapped potential slides (CEE Online Meeting 2020)
• Libraries and Wikimedia: Natural Partners slides (Occupy Library 2020)
• Wikimedia in the Service of Media Professionals slides (a public outreach talk aimed at teaching bloggers and journalists how to make the most of Wikimedia projects)
• A Culture of Experimentation for Wikimedia slides (WikiArabia 2019)

Community Capacity Development material

I created a number of talks and training materials as part of the CCD program. Those are here: CCD materials

Other topics

Latin for Beginners 2020 Contra Pestilentiam

Below are video recordings of lessons in an online Latin for Beginners class I have been teaching since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

1. Lesson 001: Introduction and 1st and 2nd conjugation of present active verbs
2. Lesson 002: Grammatical gender and case; 1st declension nouns and adjectives
3. Lesson 003: 2nd declension masculine nouns and adjectives; apposition
4. Lesson 004: 2nd declension neuters; adjectives as substantives; 'sum' in present indicative
5. Lesson 005: Imperfect and Future tenses; -ne interrogatives
6. Lesson 006: Imperfect and Future of sum and possum; complementary infinitives
7. Lesson 007: 3rd declension nouns
8. Lesson 008: 3rd conjugation verbs
9. Lesson 009: demonstrative pronouns
10. Lesson 010: 4th conjugation verbs and 3rd conjugation -iō verbs
11. Bonus and review lesson A: review of Lessons 1–10
12. Lesson 011: Personal pronouns
13. Lesson 012: The Active Perfect, Pluperfect, and Future perfect
14. Lesson 013: The reflexive pronouns, reflexive possessive adjectives, and intensive pronoun
15. Lesson 014: i-stem 3rd declension nouns; Ablatives of Accompaniment and Manner
16. Lesson 015: Numerals; Genitive of the Whole; Ablative of the Whole; Ablative of Time
17. Lesson 016: 3rd declension adjectives
18. Lesson 017: Relative pronouns and relative clauses
19. Lesson 018: Present system passive forms for 1st and 2nd conjugation
20. Lesson 019: Perfect system passive forms; interrogative pronouns and adjectives
21. Lesson 020: 4th declension nouns; ablative of origin; ablative of separation
22. Bonus and review lesson B: review of Lessons 11–20
23. Lesson 021: 3rd and 4th conjugation present passive; introduction to English participles
24. Lesson 022: 5th declension; Ablative of place where; summary of ablatives
25. Lesson 023: Participles
26. Lesson 024: Ablative absolute; passive periphrastic; dative of agent
27. Lesson 025: Infinitives; Indirect statements (ACI)
28. Practice and review lesson C: Review of lessons 21–23
29. Practice and review lesson D: reading passages of chapter 23
30. Practice and Review Lesson E: Review of lessons 24–25
31. Practice and review lesson F: reading passages of chapter 24
32. Practice and review lesson G: reading passages of chapter 25
33. Practice and review lesson H: exercises and reading passages of chapter 25
34. Lesson 026a: Comparatives and Superlatives; Ablative of comparison
35. Lesson 026b: homework review and passages of chapter 26
36. Lesson 027a: Irregular comparatives and superlatives
37. Lesson 027b: homework review and passages of chapter 27
38. Lesson 028a: The subjunctive mood; the present subjunctive; the jussive; purpose clauses
39. Lesson 028b: homework review and passages of chapter 28
40. Lesson 029a: Imperfect subjunctive; Subjunctive of sum and possum; result clauses
41. Lesson 029b: homework review and passages of chapter 29
42. Lesson 030a: Perfect and Pluperfect subjunctives; Indirect questions; Sequence of tenses
43. Lesson 030b: homework review and passages of chapter 30
44. Practice and review lesson I: review of lessons 26–30
45. Lesson 031a: Cum clauses; Ferō
46. Lesson 031b: homework review and passages of chapter 31
47. Lesson 032a: Adverbs; volō, nōlō, and mālō; proviso clauses
48. Lesson 032b: homework review and passages of chapter 32
49. Lesson 033a: Conditionals
50. Lesson 033b: homework review and passages of chapter 33
51. Lesson 034a: Deponent verbs; Ablative with certain deponents
52. Lesson 034b: homework review and sententiae of chapter 34
53. Lesson 034c: passages of chapter 34
54. Lesson 035a: Dative with adjectives; Dative with special verbs; Dative with compound verbs + Sallust from chapter 34
55. Lesson 035b: homework review and sententiae of chapter 35
56. Lesson 035c: passages of chapter 35
57. Lesson 036a: Jussive noun clauses; Fīō
58. Lesson 036b: homework review and sententiae of chapter 36
59. Lesson 036c: passages of chapter 36
60. Lesson 036d: PDF passage of chapter 36
61. Lesson 037a: eō, īre; place and time constructions
62. Lesson 037b: Sententiae of chapter 37
63. Lesson 037c: passages of chapter 37
64. Lesson 038a: Relative clauses of characteristics; dative of reference; supines
65. Lesson 038b: Sententiae of chapter 38
66. Lesson 038c: passages of chapter 38
67. Lesson 038d: more passages of chapter 38
68. Lesson 039a: Gerunds and gerundives
69. Lesson 039b: Sententiae of chapter 39
70. Lesson 039c: passages of chapter 39
71. Lesson 039d: more passages of chapter 39
72. Lesson 040a: -Ne, Num, and Nōnne in Direct Questions; Fear Clauses; Genitive and Ablative of Description
73. Lesson 040b: Sententiae of chapter 40
74. Lesson 040c: passages of chapter 40
75. Lesson 040d: passages of chapter 40
76. Intermediate Latin – Locī Antīquī 1
77. Intermediate Latin – Locī Antīquī 2
78. Intermediate Latin – Locī Antīquī 3
79. Intermediate Latin – Locī Antīquī 4
80. Intermediate Latin – Locī Antīquī 5
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82. Intermediate Latin – Locī Antīquī 7
83. Intermediate Latin – Locī Antīquī 8
84. Intermediate Latin – Locī Antīquī 9
85. Intermediate Latin – Locī Antīquī 10
86. Intermediate Latin – Locī Immūtātī 1
87. Intermediate Latin – Locī Immūtātī 2
88. Intermediate Latin – Locī Immūtātī 3
89. Intermediate Latin – Locī Immūtātī 4
90. Intermediate Latin – Locī Immūtātī 5
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Miscellaneous

• The Old New Thing: Crowdsourcing the Digitization of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's Dictionary (Wikimania 2014)
  • Video recording of the above talk
• Poetryphobia series:
  • Poetryphobia #1: What is Lyric Poetry, or: How the Poets Cultivate their Sex Lives
  • Poetryphobia #2: Figurative Language: Similes and Sonnets
  • Poetryphobia #3: Poems and Politics