User:Seddon (WMF)/Programme

Friday 20 July

• Day 1 session notes

All day events:

• Community Village in the foyer outside Montreal & Mexico City
• Hackathon in Washington DC
• Strategy Space in room 3203 (schedule)
• What is Knowledge? Art Exhibition and Wiki Loves Africa photo exhibition in the 1st floor foyer

Room	Montreal	Mexico City	Esino Lario	London	Hong Kong	Room
08:00 – 09:00	Registration & Meetups					08:00 – 09:00
09:00 – 10:00	Welcome Session LIVE					09:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30	Break					10:00 – 10:30
	AFRICA	COMMUNITIES	COLLABORATION	GLAM	WIKIDATA
10:30 – 11:00		What tools do we need for small Wikis to increase content and quality? Helmoony				10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 12:00		Building tools to serve diverse users: Community Centered Software Development Lea Voget (WMDE), Birgit Müller (WMDE)	Real-Time Collaboration: Connecting Humanity Cscott, TChan_(WMF), Catrope, ESanders_(WMF)			11:00 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30		How to start a developer community in your country, the AWMD way Flixtey, Alangi Derick		#1lib1ref: Reaching 5 million librarians around the world Ocaasi (WMF)		12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00	Lunch					12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00						13:00 – 14:00
	OUTREACH	STRATEGY	ACCESS	ADVOCACY	WIKIDATA
14:00 – 14:30		Wikimedia 2030: What needs to change for the movement to move in our new strategic direction? Nicole Ebber (WMDE), Kaarel Vaidla (WMF), Bhavesh Patel		EU Copyright Reform: Google vs. the content industry. Is Wikimedia stuck in the middle? dimi_z, Ana Mazgal		14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00				Copyright – what could possibly go wrong? Copyfights as a global challenge a2namzg, JGerlach (WMF)		14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00	Break					15:30 – 16:00
	COMMUNITIES		COLLABORATION	COMMUNICATION	TECHNOLOGY
16:00 – 16:30					Using artificial intelligence to keep Wikipedia open EpochFail	16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00					Sister project incubator - or, how to deal with knowledge gaps inherent in "What Wikipedia is not" Tgr	16:30 – 17:00
17:00 – 18:00	Dr. Martin Dittus LIVE Knowledge Equity and Spatial Justice on Wikipedia					17:00 – 18:00
18:00 – 20:00	Meetups					18:00 – 20:00
20:00 – 21:30	Poster and Art Reception Featuring 30+ poster presenters, artists from the art exhibition, and complimentary drinks & dessert					20:00 – 21:30
21:30 – Late	Meetups					21:30 – Late

Saturday 21 July

• Day 2 session notes

All day events:

• Medicine track in City Bowl hotel, hosted by Wiki Project Med
• Strategy Space in room 3203 (schedule)
• Community Village in the foyer outside Montreal & Mexico City
• Hackathon in Washington DC
• What is Knowledge? Art Exhibition and Wiki Loves Africa photo exhibition in the 1st floor foyer

Room	Montreal	Mexico City	Esino Lario	London	Hong Kong	Room
08:00 – 09:00	Registration & Meetups					08:00 – 09:00
9:00 – 10:00	Dr. Sean Jacobs LIVE The Decolonizing Debate: Social Media as Source Archive and Wikipedia					9:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30	Break					10:00 – 10:30
Topic	LANGUAGE	RESEARCH	EDUCATION	OUTREACH	GLAM	Topic
10:30 – 11:00		The State of Research in Knowledge Gaps SalimJah, Cervisiarius, RYazdanian, LZia_(WMF), Miriam_(WMF), Diego_(WMF), BMansurov_(WMF)				10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30	How majorities can support minority languages Jon Harald Søby (WMNO), Astrid Carlsen (WMNO), Amqui, Barrioflores			What everyone can learn from Wiki Loves Monuments in the European Year of Cultural Heritage Martin Rulsch (WMDE), Maria Heuschkel (WMDE)		11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00	Including minority languages in Wikimedia projects, a strategic approach Great11-Bachounda			Wiki Loves Monuments, Hands-on Lokal_Profil, LilyOfTheWest, effeietsanders, Jean-Frédéric, Yarl, M.hekmat		11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30						12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00	Lunch From 13:00 – Lightning talks () & Meetups ( & )					12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00						13:00 – 14:00
Topic	RESEARCH	COMMUNITIES	ADVOCACY	COMMUNICATION	TECHNOLOGY	Topic
14:00 – 14:30	State of Wikimedia Research 2017-2018 Tbayer (WMF), Benjamin Mako Hill, Reem Al-Kashif		Wikimedia vs. Disinformation dimi_z, JGerlach	Introduction to Low Context and High Context: Communicate Effectively Between Cultures Notafish		14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00	Ubuntu for who? Equity by Free Knowledge? friedelitis, edp05mab, Taskeeeners, 14prinsp, thatpsychprof, SukainaWalji, ShanaliG	How can "open" also be safe and welcoming? Perspectives from around the world Anasuyas, alshafei86				14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30						15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00	Break					15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 17:00	Katherine Maher LIVE Wikimedia and the spirit of Ubuntu: The power of unity in action					16:00 – 17:00
17:00 – 18:00	Board mingle Meet the WMF Board of Trustees		Meetups			17:00 – 18:00
18:00 – Late	Meetups					18:00 – Late

Sunday 22 July

• Day 3 session notes

All day events:

• Community Village in the foyer outside Montreal & Mexico City
• Hackathon in Washington DC
• Strategy Space in room 3203 (schedule)
• What is Knowledge? Art Exhibition and Wiki Loves Africa photo exhibition in the 1st floor foyer

Room	Montreal	Mexico City	Esino Lario	London	Hong Kong	Room
08:00 – 09:00	Registration & Meetups					08:00 – 09:00
9:00 – 10:00	Joy Buolamwini LIVE The Dangers of Supremely White Data and The Coded Gaze					9:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30	Break					10:00 – 10:30
Topic	COMMUNITIES	RESEARCH	TECHNOLOGY	COMMUNICATION	COLLABORATION	Topic
10:30 – 11:00	Research on gender gap in Wikipedia: What do we know so far? Netha Hussain; Reem Al-Kashif	Which parts of an article are actually being read? Tbayer (WMF)	Zooming in on Africa-related research: Wikidata-based scholarly profiles of people, papers, places, topics and more Daniel Mietchen	Working towards Growing Local Language Content on Wikipedia (GLOW) JRabah (WMF), JVargas (WMF), Titodutta	We learned one thing from organizing the Wikimedia Conference. How could we apply this in the Movement? Cornelius Kibelka (WMDE), Nicole Ebber (WMDE)	10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30	Women leading the way toward gender equity Rosiestep	Introducing Wikipedia to New Readers SGill (WMF), ZMcCune (WMF), Hindi volunteer (TBC), Nigerian volunteer (TBC), Sarmad (TBC), Mexican volunteer (TBC)		Record every languages of the world village by village, with Lingua Libre 0x010C	Workshopping event safety JSutherland (WMF), PEarley (WMF), Kalliope (WMF), Jalexander-WMF	11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00	Building new bridges to close the Wikimedia gendergap Denise Jansen, WMNL		Pattypan workshop Yarl	Every Language in the World: Introducing Wikitongues Dbudell		11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30	What can we learn from the Feminist movement for knowledge equity? Asaf (WMF)	Beyond the meat grinder: building better new editor experiences through research and dialogue ARipstra (WMF), Neil P. Quinn-WMF		Diglossia and Multilingualism: A help or a Hindrance to Arabic Wikipedians? bks-WMIL		12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00	Lunch From 13:00 – Lightning talks () & Meetups ( & )					12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00						13:00 – 14:00
Topic	TECHNOLOGY	COMMUNICATION	OFFLINE	EDUCATION	COMMUNITIES	Topic
14:00 – 14:30	User Experience in Wikipedia: How Can We Improve It? Marc Miquel	What does this mean in ...? - building bridges with machine-readable lexicographical data in Wikidata Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)	Eight Things You Can Do Today To Improve Offline Access Stephane - Kiwix	Wikipedia and digital equity in Education: digital skills for life and free knowledge for the world NSaad_(WMF)	Building capacity with communities: WMF's Community Capacity Development program Asaf (WMF)	14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00	Hackathon Showcase '	Learn how to model the words of your language in Wikidata Lea Lacroix (WMDE)			How to kick-start communities or How to boldly go where no editor has gone before Gereon K.	14:30 – 15:00
			Kiwix & Raspberry Pi - build your own wikipedia Wifi hotspot GastelEtzwane
15:00 – 15:30					Lessons from creating a diversity toolkit Rohini, Chinmayisk	15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 15:45	Break					15:30 – 16:00
15:45 — 17:30	Closing session LIVE Featuring: Cape Choir, Jimmy Wales, 2017 Wikimedian of the Year - Felix Nartey, Announcement of the 2018 winner, presentation by Wikimania 2019 Sweden, & group photo					16:00 – 17:30
17:30						17:30
18:00 – Late	Closing party (Departure shuttle from hotel at 18:30)					18:00 – Late

Remote attendance

Live stream

LIVE. Plenary sessions (invited speakers & the opening/closing sessions) will be live streamed on the Wikimedia Foundation's YouTube channel (CC-BY) and added to the "Wikimania 2018" playlist. They will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons later.

• Friday 20 July
  • 09:00 local time (07:00 UTC). Welcome Session: live stream
  • 17:00 local time (15:00 UTC). Dr. Martin Dittus – Creating Knowledge Equity and Spatial Justice on Wikipedia: live stream

• Saturday 21 July
  • 09:00 local time (07:00 UTC). Dr. Sean Jacobs –The Decolonizing Debate: Social Media as Source Archive and Wikipedia: live stream
  • 16:00 local time (14:00 UTC). Katherine Maher – Wikimedia and the spirit of Ubuntu: The power of unity in action: live stream

• Sunday 22 July
  • 09:00 local time (07:00 UTC). Joy Buolamwini – The Dangers of Supremely White Data and The Coded Gaze: live stream
  • 15:45 local time (13:45 UTC). Closing session: live stream

Recording

All sessions being presented in the Montreal room will be professionally recorded and published before the end of the conference on the WMF YouTube channel and added to the "Wikimania 2018" playlist. They will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons later.
Note: Several video cameras are available for attendees to borrow. If you are interested in borrowing one to record any other sessions, please visit Community member camera rental.

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  Filming a Wikimania session in 2014

  Friday 20 July
  • AFRICA session <link TBA when published>. Featuring:
    • "Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias",
    • "Africa's Wikipedias", and
    • "The quotation of oral sources in a decolonization context".
  • OUTREACH session <link TBA when published>. Featuring:
    • "Helping new editors not to hit brick walls: a guide",
    • "Coolest African Projects - Be inspired", and
    • "Coolest Projects of Wikimedia Chapters - Be Inspired".
  • COMMUNITIES session <link TBA when published>. Featuring:
    • "Centering Knowledge from the Margins: A Whose Knowledge? discussion with communities from around the world".

• Saturday 21 July
  • LANGUAGE session <link TBA when published>. Featuring:
    • "Wikipedia for Indigenous Communities",
    • "How majorities can support minority languages",
    • "Including minority languages in Wikimedia projects, a strategic approach", and
    • "Bridging knowledge gaps: Wikipedia and Bhutan can learn from each other".
  • RESEARCH session <link TBA when published>. Featuring:
  • "State of Wikimedia Research 2017-2018" and
  • "Ubuntu for who? Equity by Free Knowledge?".

• Sunday 22 July
  • COMMUNITIES session <link TBA when published>. Featuring:
  • "Research on gender gap in Wikipedia: What do we know so far?",
    • "Women leading the way toward gender equity",
    • "Building new bridges to close the Wikimedia gendergap", and
    • "What can we learn from the Feminist movement for knowledge equity?".
  • TECHNOLOGY session <link TBA when published>. Featuring:
    • "User Experience in Wikipedia: How Can We Improve It?" and
    • "Hackathon Showcase".

Social Media

• Telegram: main channel / social channel
• Twitter: #Wikimania