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Saturday, August 14

Time UTC (click to see local time)	Building 1 – Mainstage Join in Remo or If building 1 in Remo is full, please join another building to watch the plenary					Building 6 Join in Remo	Time UTC (click to see local time)
9:00 - 10:00	Telegram group for Tech Support					Unconference and Social Space	9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30	Welcome session Speakers: Phoebe Ayers, Iolanda Pensa, Joel Letang, Sandister Tei, Gnangarra, Jess Wade and Jimmy Wales en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00	Cook-along: Drunken Noodles Speakers: Chef Hnoi en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						10:30 - 11:00
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11:00 - 11:30	Community Village, Help Desk, WMF Desk	Email campaigning for onboarding new volunteers Speakers: Merle von Wittich (WMDE) and Hanna Klein (WMDE) en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	A variety of approaches to teaching students in Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, Wiki camp and beyond) Speakers: Ferdinando Traversa Maristella Gatto Andrew Krizhanovsky Nebojsa Ratkovic en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Transposing the EU Copyright Reform in 28+ countries Speakers: Dimi Dimitrov and Teresa Nobre en	Wikipedian in Residence in the Battle for Cultural Heritage Speakers: Gorana Gomirac en	Unconference and Social Space	11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45		Product Platform Strategy from the Wikimedia Foundation Speakers: Carol Dunn, Margeigh Novotny and Amanda Bittaker en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh		Section Translation-New Ways to Contribute on Mobile Devices Speakers: Runa Bhattacharjee, Engineering Director, Language & Inuka teams, WMF Amir Aharoni, Language Strategist, Language team, WMF Pau Giner, Principal UX Designer and Product Manager, Language team, WMF Nik Gkountas, Senior Software Engineer, Language team, WMF en			11:30 - 11:45
11:45 - 11:50			Sharing decolonization strategies throughout Wikimedia projects Speakers: Ian Ramjohn, Mariana Fossatti, Luisina Ferrante en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh		Knowledge Equity – A Collection of Voices to Pave the Path Speakers: Lilli Iliev (WMDE) Anna Mazgal (WMDE) Nicola Zeuner (WMDE) Allison Davenport (WMF) en		11:45 - 11:50
11:50 - 12:10				Mapping the present and future of the Wiki philosophy: challenges and opportunities Speakers: Abraham Samma en			11:50 - 12:10
12:10 - 12:20				BREAK			12:10 - 12:20
12:20 - 12:30				100 years of Weather Observations from the Meteorological Service of Canada in Wikimedia Commons Speakers: Miguel Tremblay, Environment and Climate change Canada Ha-Loan Phan, Wikimédia Canada, Pierre Choffet en			12:20 - 12:30
12:30 - 12:45		BREAK					12:30 - 12:45
12:45 - 13:30		Unpacking the Foundation Board Speakers: Dariusz Jemielniak, Esra'a Al Shafei, Dr. James Heilman, Nataliia Tymkiv, Raju Narisetti and Shani Evenstein en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	The Afrocine Project: Learnings from organizing a Pan-African Campaign Speakers: Sam Oyeyele, Winnie Kabinte, Antoni Mtavangu, Alaafiabami Oladipupo, and Camelia Boban en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Lingua Libre: What is it and how to take part in it? Speakers: Lucas Prégaldiny (WikiLucas00) en	Building a Wikimedia Community: an example of Wikimedians of DRCongo User Group Speakers: Abel Lifaefi Mbula en		12:45 - 13:30
13:30 - 13:40			Building a successful Wikimedia Community of African students Speakers: Bolaji Alabi, Alaafiabami Oladipupo and Isaac Oloruntimilehin en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Experiences of organizing Tamil Wikipedia 16 Years Celebrations Speakers: Sivakosaran en	Wikimedia Poland: Building a Holistic Support Infrastructure Speakers: Łukasz Garczewski (Chief Operating Officer, Wikimedia Poland) Paulina Studniczka, Klara Sielicka-Baryłka (Education Specialist, Wikimedia Poland) Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska (Community Support Officer, Wikimedia Poland) Wojciech Pędzich en		13:30 - 13:40
13:40 - 13:50			Co-creating pedagogical strategies with teachers: Wikimedia Chile’s Education program experience during Covid-19 pandemic Speakers: Rocío Aravena es Also available in: en				13:40 - 13:50
13:50 - 14:00			From Encyclopedia to Big Data: Past, present and future of Wikipedia data as a research source Speakers: Slavina Stefanova en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	To translate or not to translate by the machine is the question Speakers: Radhika Mamidi en			13:50 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:10			Gender inequalities in the Catalan Wikipedia categories Speakers: Mercè Piqueras en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				14:00 - 14:10
14:10 - 14:15			BREAK				14:10 - 14:15
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14:15 - 14:45	Quiz Speakers: James Forrester, Sam Klein, Phoebe Ayers, Deryck Chan (note: to participate in the quiz, join Remo) en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						14:15 - 14:45
14:45 – 15:15	The Wikimedia Foundation in conversation with community members Speakers: Lisa Gruwell, Chief Advancement Officer in conversation with User:Sandiooses Amanda Keton, General Counsel in conversation with User:Xeno Toby Negrin, Chief Product Officer in conversation with User:Alangi Derick User:Emnamizouni (moderator) en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						14:45 – 15:15
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15:15 – 15:35	Community Village, Help Desk, WMF Desk	Education, Wikimedia Projects and Digital Literacy during COVID-19 Pandemic Speakers: Luisina Ferrante (WMAR), Coordinadora del Programa de Educación y Derechos Humanos, Wikimedia Argentina Fernando Archuby, Grupo de Wikimedistas de La Plata Florencia Guastavino (WMAR), Asistente de Proyectos Educativos, Wikimedia Argentina Olga Lidia Paredes Alcoreza (Wikimedia Bolivia) Rocío Aravena (Wikimedia Chile) Florencia Claes (Wikimedia España) Alejandro José Reyes Wikimedia México es Also available in: en	Creating a tool that lets people listen to Wikipedia Speakers: Sebastian Berlin (WMSE) en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Developing a strategy, involving the entire organization Speakers: Josefine Hellroth Larsson (Wikimedia Sverige) en	Global templates, component templates Speakers: Amir Aharoni, Adam Wight en		15:15 – 15:35
15:35 – 15:45			How to innovate in free knowledge? – New pathways to promote new projects and attract innovators for free knowledge from across the world Speakers: Kannika Thaimai, Program Lead, WMDE en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				15:35 – 15:45
15:45 – 15:55				Cross-wiki ideological conflict and Wikimedia's vision of knowledge equity Speakers: Deryck Chan en	Wikimedia and GLAM in the Global South Speakers: Nassima Chahboun, Houcemeddine Turki, Olushola, Isaac, Joy Agyepong, Isla Haddow-Flood, Antoni Mtavangu, Ayokanmi Kaizen, Alice Kibombo, Clifford Anderson en		15:45 – 15:55
15:55 – 16:00			Photography documentation of built heritage of rural West Bengal for Wikimedia Commons Speakers: Amitabha Gupta en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				15:55 – 16:00
16:05 – 16:15				What do you eat intermediary liability with? Speakers: Amalia Toledo en			16:05 – 16:15
16:15 – 16:25			Importance of reliable sources: citing dictionaries, glossaries and atlas as an example Speakers: Sandra Hanbo en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	How to find tools to improve your workflows Speakers: Bryan Davis, Principal Software Engineer, WMF en			16:15 – 16:25
16:25 – 16:35			Documenting Women Artists in the University of Salford Art Collection Through Wikidata Speakers: Enrique Tabone en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Engaging with partners in the movement! WMF's approach Speakers: Jorge Vargas en			16:25 - 16:35
16:35 - 16:45			From the Brussels War Room: Current Legislative Files Important for Wikimedia Speakers: Anna Mazgal & Dimi Dimitrov en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				16:35 - 16:45
16:45 - 17:00		BREAK					16:45 - 17:00
17:00 - 17:20		Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia Speakers: Denny Vrandečić (WMF) Adam Baso (WMF) James Forrester (WMF) Genoveva Galarza (WMF) Arthur Lorenzi Cory Massaro (WMF) Quiddity (WMF) Lindsay Wardell Arthur Smith Lucas Werkmeister en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	An overview of the COVID-19-related content of Wikimedia projects Speakers: Daniel Mietchen and Netha Hussain en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Wikimedia Movement and the Paradox of Open Speakers: Alek Tarkowski, Anna Mazgal, Tanveer Hassan en	Women's Biographies, beyond Wikipedia: Wikibooks! Speakers: Camelia Boban, WikiDonne Luigi Catalani, Basilicata Wiki Lorenza Colicigno, Gender Citizenship Committee Daniela de Scisciolo, CIDI Potenza en		17:00 - 17:20
17:20 - 17:40			Creating a Wiki Time Capsule and the first 24 hour Global Edit-a-thon Speakers: Sherry Antoine en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				17:20 - 17:40
17:40 - 17:45			After the lifting of the block: Case study of Turkey Speakers: Basak and Khutuck en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				17:40 - 17:45
17:45 - 18:00				Editing the Wiki Way: software and the future of editing Speakers: Peter Pelberg (WMF), Marshall Miller (WMF), Leaderboard, ValeJappo and Enterprisey en	East African regional commitments for the future, a human collaborative reality Speakers: Douglas Ssebaggala, Antoni Mtavangu and Winnie Kabintie en		17:45 - 18:00
18:00 - 18:10			Wikipedia is Gamified: Prove me wrong Speakers: Destokado en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				18:00 - 18:10
18:10 - 18:20			Wikispore and Innovating Free Knowledge Speakers: Richard Knipel en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				18:10 - 18:20
18:20 - 18:30			Wiki Loves Women Focus Group Members programme Speakers: Candy Khohliwe en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				18:20 - 18:30
18:30 - 20:00		Social space continues in Building 1 & Building 6					18:30 - 20:00

Sunday, August 15

Time UTC (click to see local time)	Building 1 - Mainstage Join in Remo or If building 1 in Remo is full, please join another building to watch the plenary					Building 6 Join in Remo	Time UTC (click to see local time)
12:30 – 13:30	Telegram group for Tech Support					Unconference and Social Space	12:30 – 13:30
13:30 – 15:00	Wikimedian of the Year 2021 en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						13:30 – 15:30
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15:00 – 15:30	Community Village, Help Desk, WMF Desk	State of GLAM Wiki in 2021 Speakers: Andrew Lih: Wikimedia Strategist, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian Institution Dominic Byrd-McDevitt: Data Fellow, Digital Public Library of America Éder Porto: Products and Resources, Wiki Movimento Brasil Érica Azzellini: Communications Manager, Wiki Movimento Brasil Fiona Romeo: Senior Manager, GLAM and Culture, Wikimedia Foundation Giovanna Fontenelle: Program Officer, GLAM and Culture, Wikimedia Foundation Siobhan Leachman: co-organizer of the Wikipedians in Wellington Meetup and the Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup Susanna Ånäs: GLAM coordinator, Wikimedia Finland/AvoinGLAM en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Wikipedia 20: a collaborative collage Speakers: Mariana Fossatti en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	WikiCite-Recent achievements, what happens next? Speakers: Liam Wyatt, Phoebe Ayers and others en	Revisiting the AfroCROWD Juneteenth Wiki Civil Rights Conference of 2020 Speakers: Sherry Antoine (host), Alexandria Lockett, PHD, Brandon Sullivan, Linda Fletcher, Laurie Bridges, Olushola Olaniyan, Rosie Stevenson Goodnight, Adele Vrana, Pete Forsyth. With words from Anasuya Seguptana, Euphemia Uwandu, Wiki Vibrance en	Unconference and Social Space	15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 15:45			GLAMs and Open Access: The Met Museum and the Smithsonian Institution as Case Studies Speakers: Andrew Lih and Kelly Doyle en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				15:30 – 15:45
15:45 – 16:00				Editing with machine learning: a case study on link recommendations Speakers: Kosta Harlan, Software Engineer, Growth Team, WMF Martin Gerlach, Research Scientist, Research Team Marshall Miller, Product Manager, Growth Team, WMF Morten Warncke-Wang, Staff Data Scientist, Growth Team, WMF Rita Ho, Principal User Experience Designer, Growth Team, WMF en			15:45 – 16:00
16:00 - 16:05			Wikipedia and the Weird: covering humorous and unusual topics with respect and fairness Speakers: Yitzi Litt en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh		Peer-support networks - a working model for the support of targets of harassment in the Wikimedia movement? Speakers: Lea Volz, Christel Steigenberger, Justice Okai-Allotey & Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska en		16:00 - 16:05
16:05 – 16:10				Attracting experts to contribute to Wikimedia movement Speakers: Diptanshu Das en			16:05 – 16:10
16:10 - 16:20			One Thousand and One WikiProjects (Perspectives) Speakers: Mohammed Bachounda fr Also available in: ar,de,en,es,ru,zh				16:10 - 16:20
16:20 – 16:25			BREAK				16:20 – 16:25
16:25 – 16:30				BREAK			16:25 – 16:30
16:30 - 16:45		BREAK					16:30 - 16:45
16:45 – 17:15		Wikipedia20, 15 ans d’engagement bénévole au service de la connaissance libre en Côte d’Ivoire Speakers: Donatien Kangah fr Also available in: en	Can we rid Wikipedia of its content gender gap? Views from Women in Red Speakers: Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight & Roger Bamkin, Antiqueight, Brenda Wahler, Camelia Boban, Ewan McAndrew, HickoryOughtShirt?4, Lucy Moore, Penny Richards, Jess Wade, Carol Ann Whitehead, SusunW en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Wikilearn: pilot results and open questions on a new online learning platform for the movement Speakers: Asaf Bartov (WMF) & Simona Ramkisson (WMF) en	The Catalan Challenge: Amical Wikimedia's role in knitting diverse geographical areas and people together Speakers: Claudi Balaguer en		16:45 – 17:15
17:15 - 17:30		BREAK			Indicators for the Wikimedia Projects Speakers: Marc Miquel, Pablo Aragón (WMF), Martin Gerlach (WMF), Miriam Redi (WMF), David Laniado, Cristian Consonni en		17:15 - 17:30
17:30 - 18:15			English as a lingua franca of the Wikimedia movement: how do we ensure people's inclusion? Speakers: Anna Torres, Ivan Martinez, Celio Costa, + 2 more en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Creative Commons license stewardship: 20 years and beyond. Speakers: Kat Walsh & Sarah Hinchliff Pearson en			17:30 - 18:15
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18:15 - 19:15	SongDivision en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						18:15 - 19:15
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19:15 - 19:30	Community Village, Help Desk, WMF Desk	WikiAfrica Hour: The Xperience Speakers: Ceslause Ogbonnaya en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	GLAM Collaboration and Global Competitions: The India Office Records (IOR) Wikimedia Project and the Two Centuries of Indian Print Project (2CIP) at the British Library Speakers: Lucy Hinnie, Tom Derrick and Dominic Kane en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	RedWarn and improving Wiki counter vandalism into the 2020's Speakers: Ed Englefield & Chlod Alejandro en	Changing the self censoring tradition: One librarian at the time Speakers: Claudia Serbanuta & Strainu en		19:15 - 19:30
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19:35 - 19:45			How can I help? Reviving a wiki of which I do not speak the language Speakers: Ciell en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Copyright Trolling and the Commons Speakers: Kat Walsh and Sarah Hinchliff Pearson en			19:35 - 19:45
19:45 - 19:55					Structured data on Commons: today and tomorrow Speakers: Andrew Lih, Wikimedia Strategist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wikimedia Strategist and Wikimedian-at-large for the Smithsonian Institution Carly Bogen, Senior Program Manager, Structured Data, WMF Giovanna Fontenelle, Program Officer, GLAM and Culture, WMF Fiona Romeo, Senior Manager, GLAM and Culture, WMF Dominic Byrd-McDevitt en		19:45 - 19:55
19:55 - 20:15			Internet Archive and Wikimedia: a virtuous collaboration Speakers: Mark Graham en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				19:55 - 20:15
20:15 - 20:20			Just one article can change one’s judgement Speakers: Donia AlDomiaty en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				20:15 - 20:20
20:20 - 20:25				Conflict Resolution: Collective Responsibility Speakers: Asaf Bartov (WMF) en			20:20 - 20:25
20:25 - 20:35			Making collection data collaborative Speakers: Will Kent & Ian Gill en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				20:25 - 20:35
20:35 - 20:40			Makumbusho: a powerful tool to mobilize local communities and facilitate partnerships with Museums Speakers: Yamen Bousrih en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				20:35 - 20:40
20:40 - 20:45				BREAK			20:40 - 20:45
20:45 - 21:00		BREAK					20:45 - 21:00
21:00 - 21:15		How Wiki Education Foundation promotes knowledge equity Speakers: LiAnna Davis, Ian Ramjohn, Frank Schulenburg, Jami Mathewson & Will Kent en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Wikimedia Legal History: Past Practice and Future Trends Speakers: Jacob Rogers (WMF) and Stephen LaPorte (WMF) en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Full coverage of copyright status in heritage institutions Speakers: Hanno Lans en	10 years of Wikimedia RU contests and problems of international cooperation during the pandemic on the example of the WikiUral 2020 contest Speakers: Vladimir Medeyko, Director, WMRU Stas Kozlovsky, Executive Director, WMRU Dmitry Zhukov Oleg Abarnikov Nikolai Litvinov Gennady Lipunov en		21:00 - 21:15
21:15 - 21:20							21:15 - 21:20
21:20 - 21:30			Exploring the possibility of outreach in Asia Speakers: Venus Lui en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Newcomer Experience and Content Campaigns Speakers: Ilana Fried (WMF) and Marshall Miller (WMF) en			21:20 - 21:30
21:30 - 21:40				Large Scale Wikimedia Projects and Consistency Speakers: Hilary Thorsen, Susan Radovsky, Will Kent, Sarah Kasten en			21:30 - 21:40
21:40 - 21:45			Documenting social movements through the Wikimedia Projects: Argentina, Chile and Colombia experiences Speakers: Patricia Diaz Rubio and Luisina Ferrante & Juan Carlos Vargas es Also available in: en				21:40 - 21:45
21:45 - 21:50					Wikimedians for Sustainable Development User Group: Looking at Sustainability Through Wikimedia Lenses Speakers: Camelia Boban (Wikidonne), Ainali (Wikimedians for Sustainable Development), Joy Agyepong (Wikimedia User Group Ghana), Kiril Simeonovski (Macedonian Wikipedia), Scann (Wikiproyecto Cambio climático), Elisabeth von Muench, and more! en		21:45 - 21:50
21:50 - 22:00				Upcoming desktop design and usability improvements: updates and brainstorm Speakers: Olga Vasileva (WMF) en			21:50 - 22:00
22:00 - 22:10			Notability under non justice information Speakers: Adel Nehaoua ar Also available in: en				22:00 - 22:10
22:10 - 22:20			Providing alternative uncluttered text version of articles: context and overview Speakers: Mathieu Lovato Stumpf Guntz en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Wikimedia Enterprise: a sneak preview of the APIs and features Speakers: Ryan Brounley (WMF) and Liam Wyatt (WMF) en			22:10 - 22:20
22:20 - 22:30			Upcoming Project: Empowering Wikimedia strategies through SDGs Implementation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Speakers: Nanour Garabedian & Mervat Salam en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				22:20 - 22:30
22:30 - 24:00		Social space continues in Building 1 & Building 6					22:30 - 24:00

Monday, August 16

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05:00 – 06:00	Telegram group for Tech Support					Unconference and Social Space	05:00 – 06:00
06:00 – 06:30	GLAMWiki Tour (Africa) en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						06:00 – 07:00
06:30 – 07:00	Cook-along:Beef Fillet with Truffle Pomme Pureé Speakers: Chef Thando Xiphu en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						07:00 – 08:00
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07:00 – 07:20	Community Village, Help Desk, WMF Desk	Wikimedia Australia Speakers: Alex Lum, Sven Ouzman, Margaret Donald, Kelly Tall, Nathan Sentance, Kirsten Thorpe, Leia Corrie, Emilie Dotte-Saurot, Emily Grey, Sven Ouzman en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	OCR and other tools for Wikisource Speakers: Ruthven, Sam Wilson & Natalia Rodriguez (WMF} en Also available in: ar, de, es, fr, ru, zh	Domain Specific Content Generation using Human Bot Collaboration Speakers: Praveen Garimella & Vasudeva Varma en	Wikimedia belongs in Education - but how? Speakers: Dominik Theis, Sailesh Patnaik, Rocio Aravena, Maxwell Beganim, Nur Rahmi Nailah, Ilario Valdelli en	Unconference and Social Space	07:00 – 07:20
07:20 – 07:30			Contribution Gamification in Wikimedia Projects - The Chinese Wikipedia Experience Speakers: Michael Tse en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				07:20 – 07:30
07:30 – 07:40				Wikipedia and the Collaborative Humanities Speakers: Savannah Cragin & Melanie Kill en	For Grandmas, Girls and GLAM-Queens: WomenEdit Speakers: Iva Berlin en		07:30 – 07:40
07:40 - 07:50			Come on, It’s Wikipedia, not Westeros: A Brief Introduction to the Wikipedia Conspiracy Theory in Japan Speakers: Kitamura Sae en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh		cOSMopolIT - Diversity and Inclusion within OpenStreetMap Italy Speakers: Anisa Kuci, Chiara Ponti, Federica Gaspari, Lucia Argento en		07:40 - 07:50
07:50 – 08:00				Moderator Tools on Medium-sized Wikimedia projects Speakers: Sam Walton en			07:50 – 08:00
08:00 – 08:10			Add a pinch of Wikidata to your web browser: Entity Explosion Speakers: Toby Hudson en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Community content planning for lesser-resourced wikis Speakers: Ziko van Dijk en	Education & GLAM in North Macedonia during COVID-19 Speakers: Zana Violetova, Nikola MacedonianBoy en		08:00 – 08:10
08:10 - 08:20			A New Open GLAM Program at Creative Commons Speakers: Brigitte Vezina en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q Speakers: Mike Peel and Andy Mabbett en	The experience of Emirati User group projects Speakers: Serine Ben Brahim, Hani Yakan, Reda Kerbush & Ahlam Bolooki en		08:10 - 08:20
08:20 – 08:30			Do Something Doctrine - looking back on the Terrorist Content Regulation in EU Speakers: Anna Mazgal en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Shortcutting the Identify topics for impact recommendation by reusing free content Speakers: Jan Ainali en	WikiBarta - A "zero budget" community magazine for motivating Bengali wikimedia contributors Speakers: Shabab Mustafa en		08:20 – 08:30
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08:45 – 09:30		A Gift to the Commons: Public Value Broadcasters Speakers: Bernd Fiedler (WMDE) & Emilia Haas en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Supporting a gentle discussion - Can we raise awareness through research results to bring about change? Speakers: Lea Volz en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Joining forces to increase the knowledge of our native species Speakers: Malena, Anabela Plos, Cecilia Morgan es Also available in: en	WikiEducation Approach and GLAM Activities of Wikimedia Armenia Speakers: Mari Avetisyan (WMAM) en		08:45 – 09:30
09:30 - 09:40			The experiences of WikiGap and WikiForHumanRights. Working with UN experts on topics for impact Speakers: John Cummings, Alex Stinson & Eric Luth en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Making feedback loops work for Wikidata Speakers: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) en	Celebrating the Wikipedia Education Program Speakers: Susanna Mkrtchyan, LiAnna Davis, João Alexandre Peschanski, Filip Maljković & Ziko Van Dijk en		09:30 - 09:40
09:40 - 09:50				Makumbusho: a powerful tool to mobilize local communities and facilitate partnerships with Museums Speakers: Yamen Bousrih en			09:30 - 09:40
09:50 - 10:00				BREAK			09:50 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:15				How banner campaigns can be requested to reach marginalized groups or contents Speakers: Martin Rulsch (WMDE) en			10:00 - 10:15
10:15 - 10:35		Arabic Wikimedians User Group: Connecting Past, Present, and Future Speakers: Anass Sedrati, Ravan Al-Taie, Nanour Garabedian, Sarmad Said Yaseen ar Also available in: en	Spotting and understanding translated material in Wikipedia articles Speakers: Mark Shuttleworth, Janice Pan en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh		Bridging content gaps through large-scale campaigns: International Wiki Loves Earth and Ukrainian WikiGap Speakers: Anton Protsiuk, Anastasia Petrova and Mykola Kozlenko en		10:15 - 10:35
10:35 - 10:45			Towards a more environmentally sustainable Wikimedia Movement Speakers: Lukas Mezger & Bodhisattwa en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh				10:35 - 10:45
10:45 - 10:55				Introducing Curated Commons: A social curation plattform for freely licensed images Speakers: Christina Rupprecht (WMDE) and Lukas Walenciak (WMDE) en			10:45 - 10:55
10:55 - 11:00			Wikidata: What happened? Where are we going? Speakers: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Conservation through knowledge sharing Speakers: Ananya Mondal and Sandip Das en			10:55 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15					Universal Code of Conduct Roundtable Speakers: Ramzy Muliawan, Mervat Salman, Dariusz Jemelniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Sandra Rientjes, Maggie Dennis, Taylor_49, Barkeep49 en		11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:25			Hack4OpenGLAM 2021 - Co-creation event for learning, problem-solving and aligning action Speakers: Susanna Ånäs and Tove Ørsted en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Thematic weeks as a tool for strengthening the community Speakers: Ivana Madžarević, Aca en			11:15 - 11:25
11:25 - 11:35			BREAK				11:25 - 11:35
11:35 - 11:45			Increase viewership of Kannada Wikipedia: QR Code project for Indian medicinal plants Speakers: U.B. Pavanaja and Dhanalakshmi K T en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Inuka projects: designing products for users in growing Wikimedia communities Speakers: Runa Bhattacharjee, Angie Muigai, Sudhanshu Gautam en			11:35 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:00		BREAK					11:45 - 12:00
Building	Building 1 - Mainstage Join in Remo or If building 1 in Remo is full, please join another building to watch the plenary						Building
12:00 - 12:30	GLAMWiki Tour (Western Australia) en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						12:00 - 12:30
Building	Building 1						Building
12:30 - 13:30	Community Village	Social space continues in Building 1 & Building 6					12:30 - 13:30

Session Identifiers
Plenary session	Celebration	Mixed format	Ideal for newcomers
Lecture	Lightning talks	Case Study	Assume basic understanding (90% of community)
Roundtable	Panel discussion	Workshop	Assume medium understanding (10-50% of community)
			Assume advanced Wikimedians (<10% of community)

Language Identifiers
ar Arabic	de German	en English	es Spanish
fr French	ru Russian	zh Chinese

Tuesday, August 17

Time UTC (click to see time)	Building 1 - Mainstage Join in Remo or If building 1 in Remo is full, please join another building to watch the plenary					Building 6	Time UTC (click to see local time)
13:00 – 14:00	Telegram group for Tech Support					Unconference and Social Space	13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:30	Reflecting on the Past, Present and the Future Speakers: Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Butch Bustria, Phoebe Ayers, Ward Cunningham, Denny Vrandečić, Sal Khan, Winnie Kabintie en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						14:00 – 14:30
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14:30 – 14:40	Community Village, Help Desk, WMF Desk	Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom - learning from a pilot project in Bolivia, Morocco and the Philippines Speakers: Nichole Saad, Melissa Guadalupe Huertas Brahim Faraji, Soukaina Abelhad, Imelda Brazal, Imelda Boquiren, Erlan Vega, Vasanthi Hargyono & Sailesh Patnaik en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects Speakers: Mike Peel, Nirali Sahoo, EricaAzzellini, Benoît Prieur and Putnik en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Wiki Loves Monuments: Beyond the campaign Speakers: Axel Pettersson, Douglas Scott, Florence Devouard, Isaac Olatunde and Lodewijk Gelauff (moderator) en	BREAK	Unconference and Social Space	14:30 – 14:40
14:40 – 14:50					Organizing Wiki Education Program as a Non-credited Work: Motivation is the Pillar Speakers: Ankan Ghosh Dastider en		14:40 – 14:50
14:50 – 15:00					Adding content of unknown regions (Algerian experience) Speakers: Zinou Yahoui en		14:50 – 15:00
15:00 - 15:15	Community Village, Help Desk, WMF Desk Hackathon Showcase				The Future of Wikimania Speakers: Iolanda Pensa and Phoebe Ayers (Wikimania Steering Committee), Douglas Scott, Kelsi Stine-Rowe & Joel Letang en		15:00 - 15:15
15:15 – 16:00			Raising the voices of indigenous communities from Latin America through Wikimedia Projects Speakers: Angie Cervellera, Shailili Zamora Aray, Oscar Costero, Constanza Veron, Olga Lidia Paredes Alcoreza, Luis Álvaz es Also available in: en	One country in six pictures Speakers: Ziko van Dijk, Florence Devouard, Olatunde Isaac, Venus Lui en			15:15 – 16:00
16:00 - 16:15		BREAK					16:00 - 16:15
16:15 – 17:00		VisibleWikiWomen community meetup: how far we’ve come, what future we want to build together Speakers: Mariana Fossatti, Claudia Pozo es Also available in: en	We write Wikipedia. Participation of women in the free and collaborative encyclopedia on the Internet Speakers: Raquel Ramírez Salgado & Anna Torres en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Inclusive Product Development: Building With, Not For Speakers: Margeigh Novotny, Sr. Director of Product Design & Strategy (WMF) Jaz Tanner, Sr. Product Manager (WMF) en	The top 9 things to know about safety and inclusion at Wikimedia online events Speakers: Adélaïde Calais, Wikimédia France Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Deutschland Anisa Kuci, Wikimedia Italia Carla Toro, Wikimedia Chile Raimund Liebert, Wikimedia Österreich Flor Méchain, Wikimedia CH Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska, Wikimedia Polska Constanza Verón, Wikimedia Argentina Manfred Werner, Wikimedia Österreich Vic Sfriso, Wikimedia Argentina Christel Steigenberger, WMF en		16:15 – 17:00
17:00 - 17:20	Community Village, Help Desk, WMF Desk		Gawa, the new tool for centralizing biographies to be created and improved in Côte d'Ivoire Speakers: Yasield and Kod B fr Also available in: en	Dynamic history map Speakers: Andres Ferrando es	Partnerships for content, on a global level Speakers: John Cummings, John Andersson & Josefine Hellroth Larsson en		17:00 - 17:20
17:20 – 17:30			Exploring a cultural gap on Wikimedia: the case of the visual arts Speakers: Martin Poulter, Waqas Ahmed & Daria Cybulska en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Open History Map-Contextualizing in the past with modern tools Speakers: Marco Montanari en			17:20 – 17:30
17:30 – 17:40					A future Wikimedia Language Diversity hub Speakers: Jon Harald Søby en		17:30 – 17:40
17:40 - 17:45			Imagine all images described: Alternative text to images as cohesively structured data on Commons Speakers: Karsten Hein and Mathieu Lovato Stumpf Guntz en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata Speakers: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) en			17:40 - 17:45
17:45 - 18:00		Art+Feminism: Beyond the Edit-a-thon Speakers: Amber Berson, Kira Wisniewski, Medhavi Gandhi, Melissa Tamani Becerra, Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Monika Sengul-Jones, Richard Knipel, Sara Clugage, Zita Ursula Zage en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh					17:45 - 18:00
18:00 – 18:10			Wiki Ghonya (how to promote free knowledge using modern music) Speakers: Mohammed Ben Loulou en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	Wikimedia and Sustainability-Selecting topics for impact Speakers: Daniel Mietchen & Jan Ainali en			18:00 – 18:10
18:10 - 18:15			WikiFemales - To exceed Geographic borders Speakers: Bara'a Zama'reh, NEW Areen Aby Rumman, Donia ElDomiaty ar Also available in: en				18:10 - 18:15
18:15 - 18:20					Boosting GLAM partnerships with technology and statistics Speakers: Debora Lopomo, GLAM Program and Partnership Manager, Wikimedia CH Ilario Valdelli, Education and Community Manager, Wikimedia CH en		18:15 - 18:20
18:20 - 18:45			BREAK				18:20 - 18:45
18:45 - 19:05			Movement Strategy 2021 Crash Course Speakers: MNadzikiewicz (WMF) en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh	How The Wikipedia Library can help you write great articles Speakers: Sam Walton (WMF) en	Wikimedia Community in Nigeria: Highlight of our works and the celebration of the people behind the success stories; Challenges, Solutions and Impacts. Speakers: Olushola & Isaac (moderators), Yinka Maja, Omorodion Okuonghae, Dr. Nkem Osuigwe, Dr. Ngozi, Bukola James, John Joy, Dr. Yemisi Akinbobola en		18:45 - 19:05
19:05 - 19:15				BREAK			19:05 - 19:15
19:15 - 19:30		BREAK					19:15 - 19:30
Buildings	Building 1 - Mainstage Join in Remo or If building 1 in Remo is full, please join another building to watch the plenary						Buildings
19:30 - 20:30	Preventing misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: How Wikipedia, public health experts, and news media can collaborate to share trustworthy knowledge in times of crisis Speakers: Dr. Sanjay Gupta (moderator), CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Julio Frenk, Mexico’s former Minister of Health and current President of the University of Miami Dr. Netha Hussain, neuroscientist and active contributor to Wikipedia’s COVID-19 coverage Dr. Elaine O. Nsoesie, Computational Epidemiologist and Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University Dr. Peter Singer, Special Advisor to the Director-General of the World Health Organization en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						19:30 - 20:30
20:30 - 21:00	Science and storytelling: Why who we talk about matters Speakers: Jess Wade en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh Celebratory Toast and Social Time Speakers: The Wikimania Steering Committee en Also available in: ar,de,es,fr,ru,zh						20:30 - 21:00
21:00 - 22:30	Community Village	Social space continues in Building 1 & Building 6					21:00 - 22:30