Jan Ainali

Extracurricular academic courses

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2 ECTS.

Uppsala University, 3 ECTS.

Södertörn University, 7.5 ECTS. Op-ed written during the course (in Swedish) published in Sweden's third largest newspaper.

University of Skövde, 7.5 ECTS.

Uppsala University, 5 ECTS.

Mid Sweden University, 7.5 ECTS.

Örebro University, 7.5 ECTS.

Karlstad University, 15 ECTS.

Örebro University, 7.5 ECTS.

University of Skövde, 7.5 ECTS.

University of Skövde, 3 ECTS.

Karlstad University, 7.5 ECTS.

Karlstad University, 7.5 ECTS.

Karlstad University, 7.5 ECTS.

Karlstad University, 7.5 ECTS.

Karlstad University, 7.5 ECTS.

Karlstad University, 7.5 ECTS.

Karlstad University, 7.5 ECTS.

Other courses

Interoperable Europe Academy.

Interoperable Europe Academy.

Westanders.

Berghs School of Communication.

Dale Carnegie.

Social Media Academy.

The English Learning Centre, Brighton.

PTK.

Syntell.

WEA Sydney.

Åsa Folkhögskola.

STF Ingenjörsutbildning.

LA Marinesoft.

Robert McNeel & Associates.

Kairos Future.

Learning Tree International.

Swedish Defence Forces, 297 days.

Wikimedia

Live streamed show of editing and querying Wikidata. So far, over 100 shows. Playlist, overview.

In 2021, the initative got the WikidataCon Community Award for Community Building.

Podcast about Wikipedia. Weekly episodes in Swedish, special episodes in English. The recording of the show is also live streamed to several platform. As of 2024, we are well over 200 episodes. Besides hosting, I also edit and publish the podcast.

Co-founded and one of the leaders of the user group that helps bring together Wikimedians engaged in matters of sustainable development, be they individuals or involved with any of the Wikimedia movement affiliates. The group's focus includes work on all topics related to sustainable development, including in particular the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Website.

Besides having participated in this conference every year since 2008, I have also made contributions to it by organizing sessions and volunteering in other ways.

2024

Summarizing blog post.

• Poster: Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory [poster]
• Poster: Climate policy in Wikidata [poster]

2023

Summarizing blog post.

• Lightning talk: 63% done – 365 climate edits [video] [slides]
• Panel: Livestreaming editing [video]
• Lecture: Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory [video]
• Poster: Wikiproject Govdirectory [poster]

2022

• Lightning talk: Podcasting about Wikimedia in your language [video] [slides]
• Game session: ████ ███████ ██ redactled

2021

Summarizing blog post.

• Lecture: Getting started on Govdirectory [slides]
• Lecture: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development User Group: Looking at Sustainability Through Wikimedia Lenses [video] [slides]
• Lightning talk: Shortcutting the Identify topics for impact recommendation by reusing free content [video]
• Workshop: Wikimedia and Sustainability – Selecting topics for impact [video]

2019

During the Wikimania in Stockholm I was the coordinator for the volunteer team handling video recording and live streaming the sessions. We were seven volunteers trying to record up to 15 parallel tracks. Thanks to good preparations, where I had pre-created YouTube streams and written detailed instructions for managing OBS Studio, we managed to stream 56 and record another 100 of the about 220 sessions.

Leading up to the conference, I also ran the Wikidata Menu Challenge to be able to have multilingual information about the food being served. The Challenge later got a WikidataCon award in the category Languages.

2018

In 2018, I was awarded a scholarship (report) and as one of the results I created a learning pattern on Documenting your event experience. I consider this very useful for myself, but also a transparent way to let other participants what one is doing at the event and a way for anyone to start a conversation about common interests.

2017

Summarizing blog post (in Swedish).

• Lightning talk: 400-year-old news papers come to life [video]

2016

In 2016, I was awarded a scholarship (report).

2011

In 2011, I was awarded a partial scholarship.

• Lecture: Project Internet in Sweden [video]

I was part of the interim board before starting the chapter. We prepared the founding in 2007. I was a board member 2008-2013, first secretary, then treasurer and finally chairman. Under my chairmanship, we went from an all volunteer association to have a staffed secretariat.

• Blog posts

OpenRefine

Member of the Advisory Committee of the codebase that cleans messy data.

Website.

Govdirectory

The Govdirectory is an effort to collect all public organizations of all levels in the entire world and their contact details in one place through crowdsourcing on Wikidata.

The project won the WikidataCon community award in 2021, was recognized as a Digital Public Goods by the Digital Public Goods Alliance in September 2022 and made the finalists in the category Peace – Building peaceful and inclusive societies in the SDG Game Changes Award in September 2023.

Website.

Talks

• The growth of Govdirectory: 2 years and 10,000 contact points later, Code for All, 2023 [video].
• Wikidata for civic tech, Wikidata reuse days, 2022 [video], [slides]
• LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call, 2021 [video]
• Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory (workshop), Wikimedia CEE online, 2021 [video]
• Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government, Civic Hacker Summit, 2021
• Govdirectory - just another WikiProject?, WikidataCon, 2021 [video]
• Wikidata in your CivicTech Project, Code for all, 2021 [video], [slides]

Publications

Ainali, J., Andersson, A., & Berger, A. (1999). (Bachelor thesis)

Supervisor

Helgeson, B. (2015). The Swedish Wikipedia gender gap.

Öberg, E., Sondell, B., & Nordin, A. (2006). BOSSE: Bofors Soldatsystem Ex-jobb.

Citations

Vrandečić, D., Pintscher, L., & Krötzsch, M. (2023, April). Wikidata: The Making Of. In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (pp. 615-624).

Van Dijk, Z. (2021). Wikis und die Wikipedia verstehen: eine Einführung (p. 340). transcript Verlag.

Aouicha, M. B. (2021). Coupling Wikipedia Categories with Wikidata Statements for Better Semantics.

Project crew

Turki, H., Hadj Taieb, M. A., Shafee, T., Lubiana, T., Jemielniak, D., Aouicha, M. B., ... & Mietchen, D. (2022). Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of Wikidata. Semantic Web, 13(2), 233-264.

Turki, H., Jemielniak, D., Taieb, M. H., Gayo, J. L., Aouicha, M. B., Banat, M. A., ... & Mietchen, D. (2020). Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata. en. In.

Rundkvist, M. Lifestyles at the Medieval Strongholds of Östergötland, AD 1200–1530.

Acknowledgements

Morshed, M. (2024). Using Wikidata Lexemes and Items to Generate Text from Abstract Representations. Semantic Web Journal (2024),(Preprint).

Media

Rundkvist, M. Lifestyles at the Medieval Strongholds of Östergötland, AD 1200–1530.

Rundkvist, M., & Heijne, C. V. (2017). Magnus Erikssons mynt från Skällviks borg i Östergötland. Nordisk Numismatisk Unions Medlemsblad, 4.

Finnegan, R., Moore, J. R., & Geimer, P. R. (2021). Vibration of natural rock arches and towers excited by helicopter-sourced infrasound. Earth Surface Dynamics, 9(6), 1459-1479.

Leip, A., Carmona-Garcia, G., & Rossi, S. (2017). Mitigation measures in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector. Quantifying mitigation effects at the farm level and in national greenhouse gas inventories. Publication Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. Doi, 10, 51052.

Gossard, A. (2022). Learning strategies for computational MRI (Doctoral dissertation, Université Paul Sabatier-Toulouse III).

Kowalik, M., Zalecki, R., Giebułtowski, M., Tokarz, W., Niewolski, J., & Wolski, S. The application of unsupervised learning to a dataset of AC susceptibility measurements of HTS. Tc, 5, 0E-06.

Lacko, D., The application of 3D anthropometry for the development of headgear, A case study on the design of ergonomic brain-computer interface devices (2017). (Doctoral dissertation, KU Leuven).

Hédouin, R. (2017). Diffusion MRI processing for multi-comportment characterization of brain pathology (Doctoral dissertation, Université Rennes 1).

Guzman Roca, J. A. (2017). Quantification of track-weighted functional connectivity longitudinally during Constraint Induced Movement Therapy for poststroke hemiparesis: An application of Graph Theory (Doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University).

Desrosiers, S. La revanche des électrons dans un monde organique. (2017) Université de Sherbrooke.

Hecht, E., & Stout, D. (2015). Techniques for studying brain structure and function. Human paleoneurology, 209-224.

Lamecker, H., Hege, H. C., Tabelow, K., & Polzehl, J. CT image processing: What you see is what you get?. MATHEON – Mathematics for Key Technologies, European Mathematical Society, 2014, chapter F2, pp. 359-376.

Furze, J., & Harrison, T. (2014). Elements in danger!.

Ahmed, J. (2024). Photovoltaic-powered vehicles: Current trends and future prospects. Photovoltaics Beyond Silicon (pp. 647-674). Elsevier.

Karlsberg, J. P., & Melton, S. (2014). Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors.

Schweitzer, C., & Johansen, J. (2014). Kriege verhindern oder stoppen-der Beitrag von Friedensbewegungen.

Karimzadeh, N. (2018). Sitting on the dock of the bay - a design proposal for the dock area at Kvarnholmen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Bolin, H., Irskog, S., & McWilliams, A. (2018). Lärarhandledning för SFI-undervisning i kulturmiljöer. Södertörns högskola.

Lindi, J., & Klemetti, S. (2019). Markkinakartoitus sirkkojen käytöstä Kuopion ja Kajaanin alueen ravintoloissa ja elintarvikeyrityksissä - Case Savonia Grasshopper OY (Market survey on cricket use in restaurants and food businesses in the Kuopio and Kajaani regions - Case Savonia Grasshopper OY)

Informant / Test Subject

In this study by the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University, I was one of the test subjects. News reporting.

Lund, A. (2015). Frihetens rike: wikipedianer om sin praktik, sitt produktionssätt och kapitalismen. Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2015. Hägersten.

In this dissertation, I was one of the informants.