Birgit Mueller
Birgit Mueller is the Director of Product for MediaWiki and Developer Experiences at the Wikimedia Foundation. She joined the Wikimedia movement as a staff member of Wikimedia Deutschland in 2014 and moved to the Foundation in 2019 to support Wikimedia's developer ecosystem as the Director of Technical Engagement. Since 2023, she has been focusing on evolving the MediaWiki platform and improving the experiences of developers within Wikimedia’s ecosystem.
Sessions
🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/xCFVtAk2EGw?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfIr2HbYikIz4XMBXKTGytWY&t=1097 🎥
The Product and Technology Advisory Council is a group recently formed to advise on the development of product and technology in the Wikimedia ecosystem. It is composed of community members and some Foundation representatives.
In this session, the PTAC members will present the Council, its work in these first few months, and its recommendations, followed by questions and discussion.
🎥 Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/3s9mKEoP2Qs?feature=shared&t=8662 🎥
The Wikimedia projects are the largest collection of open knowledge in the world. This has made our knowledge infrastructure an invaluable destination not just for humans, but also for search and AI companies that access our content automatically as a core input to their products. With the rise of AI, the demand for human created content has grown exponentially, which in return has led to an unsustainable increase in automated traffic to our sites. In this session we will explore the dynamics and impact of this trend on our infrastructure, discuss how a sustainable knowledge as a service model could look like, and share about the work that is underway to enable responsible content reuse.