All Session Notes
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Friday session notes
Please add any unlisted sessions or breakout sessions at the bottom of the appropriate table.
Session 1: 11:30 - 12:30
Session 2: 14:00 - 15:30
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Session 3: 16:00 - 17:00
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Saturday session notes
Session 4: 11:00 - 12:30
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| Session Title | Theme | Category | Notes | Slides/Presenter Material | Recording (Y/N) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of SciHub | Education, Technology, Wikiculture & Community | Y - link to come | |||
| Knowledge, democracy, and the Wikipedian gender gap | Gender Gap | WikiCulture & Community | N | ||
| Reducing harassment on Wikimedia projects | Community health | WikiCulture & Community | N | ||
| Introducing Training Modules - multilingual training on combating harassment | Community health | WikiCulture & Community | Slides | N | |
| How Latin American Indigenous Communities are Sharing Free Knowledge on Wikipedia in their Native Languages | Global Outreach | WikiCulture & Community | N | ||
| What is the smallest community that can support a Wikipedia? | Global outreach | WikiCulture & Community | N | ||
| So, you have data. Now, what do you do? | Wikidata & Sister Projects | Technology, Interface & Infrastructure | N | ||
| New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons | Wikidata & Sister Projects | Technology, Interface & Infrastructure | slides | N | |
| Structured Commons: what changes are coming? | Wikidata & Sister Projects | Technology, Interface & Infrastructure | N | ||
| Shining Light on Legal Threats to Free Knowledge | Legal: Advocacy | Legal & Free Culture | Notes | N | |
| New frontiers in digital censorship and circumvention for Wikipedia users | Legal: Advocacy | Legal & Free Culture | Notes | N | |
| Editing challenges in multi-script wikis | Technology: editing tools | Technology, Interface & Infrastructure | N | ||
| Wikipedia will soon speak to you | Technology: editing tools | Technology, Interface & Infrastructure | N | ||
| Write in Wikipedia Like You Chat With Your Friends: Editing Through Messenger Apps | Technology: editing tools | Technology, Interface & Infrastructure | N | ||
| Global GLAM-Wiki meetup | Roundtables: Community & education | GLAM | [2] | N | |
| Wikipedia Visiting Scholars | Roundtables: Community & education | GLAM, Education | N | ||
| Transl-a-thon: Wikidata in your language | Workshop: Translathon | Translation, Sister Projects | N |
Session 5: 11:30 - 12:30
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Session 6: 16:00 - 17:00
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Sunday session notes
Session 7 11:00 - 12:30
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Session 8 14:00 - 15:30
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| Session Title | Category | Theme | Notes | Slide/Presenter Material | Recording (Y/N) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Coolest Projects of Wikimedia Chapters - Be Inspired | The Coolest Projects | WikiCulture & Community | Notes | Y - link to come | |
| Results from a global Wikimedia survey | Research: Understanding ourselves to improve | WikiCulture & Community | N | ||
| The Keilana Effect: Visualizing the closing coverage gaps with ORES | Research: Understanding ourselves to improve | WikiCulture & Community | N | ||
| Fundraising messaging that moves our readers: What we’ve learned from testing thousands of fundraising appeals | Fundraising + covering the community | Communications |  |
N | |
| Covering the Wikimedia Community | Fundraising + covering the community | Communications, WikiCulture & Community | Etherpad | [3] | N |
| Methods to enhance the production of Wikipedia articles on specific topics: articles related to the South African primary school curriculum | Global editathons | WikiCulture & Community | N | ||
| Wikilesa I, II and III: the first edit-a-thon about forced disappearances in Argentina during the dictatorship | Global editathons | GLAM | N | ||
| AfroCROWD: A panel discussion on the work of Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia and Running Monthly Wikipedia Edit-a-thons. | Global editathons | Sister Projects | N | ||
| The Value of a Wikimedian | Higher education | Education | Slides | N | |
| Two years of cooperation: The University of Heidelberg, the SFB 933 and Wikipedia | Higher education | GLAM, Education | N | ||
| Translating Wikipedia as an educational tool | Higher education | Education | N | ||
| On-Wiki Campaigning to Engage New Editors | GLAM & community |
WikiCulture & Community |
N | ||
| What do we know about GLAM-Wiki? | GLAM & community | GLAM | Notes | N | |
| Movement strategy Q&A | Roundtables: Strategy & global health | WikiCulture & Community, Movement Strategy | N | ||
| Knowledge for everyone: making access affordable | Roundtables: Strategy & global health | WikiCulture & Community, Access | Notes! | N | |
| Mapathon! Contribute and connect OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia using Wikidata | Workshop: OpenStreetMap | Technology, Interface & Infrastructure | N | ||
| Wikidata + heritage data: Where do we stand? What's next? | Workshop: GLAM & Wikidata | GLAM, Wikidata | N |
Session 9 16:00 - 17:00
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| Session Title | Category | Theme | Notes | Slide/Presenter Material | Recording (Y/N) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hackathon Showcase | Hackathon Showcase | Technology | Y - link to come | ||
| A Medieval pope skeleton dancing with Taylor Swift in an Iraqi telecom commercial | Communicating Wikimedia | Communications | |||
| Lightning talks 4 | Lightning Talks | ||||
| Patterns and Antipatterns in Volunteer Leaders | Community health and the WMF | WikiCulture & Community | |||
| Future of Wikimania | Future of Wikimania | WikiCulture & Community | |||
| Wikidata "ask us anything" | Roundtables: Wikidata | Sister Projects | |||
| Wikidata Pink Pony Session | Roundtables: Wikidata | Sister Projects | |||
| 100wikibirds of a feather | Breakout session | WikiCulture & Community |