Presenters of a panel discussion at Wikimania 2017
This Wikimania, the theme of the conference is Bridging knowledge gaps, the ubuntu way forward .
All submissions must address the theme and explain how they relate to it. You can learn about this theme, why and how it was selected for Wikimania, at this blogpost . All presentations have one or two coloured “beads” shown in the program indicating their relationship to the theme.
The venue website meeting rooms floorplan diagram and room capacity information . During the conference we are renaming the conference rooms after the host cities of previous Wikimanias:
Montreal Mexico City Combined Montreal and Mexico City form the main plenary hall “VOC Center” with a maximum capacity of 650. All plenaries will be live streamed LIVE
Esino Lario London Hong Kong Finally, Washington DC Hackathon space. Subscribe to unofficial Google Calendar of all sessions and public events to receive alerts. [Maintained by Viswaprabha ]
For the complete schedule see Preconference
There will be various miniconferences and meetings happening on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th of July. These include the Hackathon , Water sustainability Edit-a-thon , Learning Days , Decolonizing the Internet conference (invite only), Globalizing Copyright User Rights meetup, Wikipedia 101 for Librarians , Social Media One-Night Stand , etc.
The happy hour welcome event for preconference attendees Tuesday 17 July :
The welcome reception for all conference attendees Thursday 19 July :
All day events:
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 (data )
09:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
Break 10:00 – 10:30
AFRICA
COMMUNITIES
COLLABORATION
GLAM
WIKIDATA
10:30 – 11:00
Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias michaelgraaf
What tools do we need for small Wikis to increase content and quality? Helmoony
Reintegrating persons with mental illnesses to the community using Wikiquote project Jaluj
Wikimedia Commons and GLAM needs around the world SandraF (WMF), Jmorgan (WMF)
Wikidata: building bridges every single day Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 12:00
Africa's Wikipedias Bobbyshabangu, Thuvack, Oesjaar, Emnamizouni, Nozibele
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)
Gaps in Global GLAM capacity: A Discussion African Hope, Zeinebtakouti, Flixtey, Rachmat04, Astinson (WMF)
A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners + Wikidata Query Tutorial - part1 Asaf (WMF)
11:00 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30
The quotation of oral sources in a decolonization context Bobbyshabangu, Stefanie Kastner (Goethe Institut)
How to start a developer community in your country, the AWMD way Flixtey, Alangi Derick
Senior Citizens write Wikipedia Keren - WMIL
#1lib1ref: Reaching 5 million librarians around the world Ocaasi (WMF)
12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00
Lunch Lightning talks (Meetups (12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00
13:00 – 14:00
Room
Montreal Mexico City Esino Lario London Hong Kong Room
Topic
OUTREACH
STRATEGY
ACCESS
ADVOCACY
WIKIDATA
Topic
14:00 – 14:30
Helping new editors not to hit brick walls: a guide Lodewijk Gelauff (14:00-14:10)
Wikimedia 2030: What needs to change for the movement to move in our new strategic direction? Nicole Ebber (WMDE), Kaarel Vaidla (WMF), Bhavesh Patel
Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity SandraF (WMF), Abittaker (WMF) + panelists
EU Copyright Reform: Google vs. the content industry. Is Wikimedia stuck in the middle? dimi_z, Ana Mazgal
A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners + Wikidata Query Tutorial - part2 Asaf (WMF)
14:00 – 14:30
Coolest African Projects - Be inspired Emnamizouni, Flixtey, Thuvack (14:10-15:00)
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
Coolest Projects of Wikimedia Chapters - Be Inspired Deror Avi
Design challenge workshop: How can multilingual structured metadata bring knowledge equity to Commons? Abittaker (WMF), SandraF (WMF)
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
Break 15:30 – 16:00
Room
Montreal Mexico City Esino Lario London Hong Kong Room
Topic
COMMUNITIES
COLLABORATION
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
Topic
16:00 – 16:30
Centering Knowledge from the Margins: A Whose Knowledge? discussion with communities from around the world Seeeko, Anasuya_s
Wikidata Babel workshop Kvardek du
Building a Better Harassment Reporting System TBolliger (WMF), SPoore (WMF)
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 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 20:00 – 21:30
21:30 – Late
Meetups 21:30 – Late
All day events:
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 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
Wikipedia for Indigenous Communities Peter Gallert
The State of Research in Knowledge Gaps SalimJah, Cervisiarius, RYazdanian, LZia_(WMF), Miriam_(WMF), Diego_(WMF), BMansurov_(WMF)
How do teachers in Chad use Wikipedia to fill the knowledge gap? Abdallahbigboy
Documenting rural areas by WikiTakes activities Estevoaei, Rodelar, Millars, Gini10
Building an International Knowledge Base for the Performing Arts: Thoughts on Providing Knowledge as a Service and Enhancing Knowledge Equity Beat Estermann
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
How majorities can support minority languages Jon Harald Søby (WMNO), Astrid Carlsen (WMNO), Amqui, Barrioflores
Activating the next generation : Wikipedia in Schools Islahaddow, Anthere
What everyone can learn from Wiki Loves Monuments in the European Year of Cultural Heritage Martin Rulsch (WMDE), Maria Heuschkel (WMDE)
How can the Wikimedia community work better with experts? Using open license text to collaborate, a case study from UNESCO John Cummings, Celina Recalde
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00
Including minority languages in Wikimedia projects, a strategic approach Great11-Bachounda
WikiCite: Lifting a veil on the sources of free knowledge Dario (WMF), Daniel Mietchen, Pigsonthewing
Wiki Loves Monuments, Hands-on Lokal_Profil, LilyOfTheWest, effeietsanders, Jean-Frédéric, Yarl, M.hekmat
Wiki-fy The Met, and Met-ify the Wiki Pharos
11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30
Bridging knowledge gaps: Wikipedia and Bhutan can learn from each other Doctor 17
AfroCROWD: expanding into the African Diaspora MassiveEartha, Shanluan, Siarus1074
The Wikipedia Library Card Platform: How you have access to 100,000 journals Ocaasi (WMF)
12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00
Lunch Lightning talks (Meetups (12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00
13:00 – 14:00
Room
Montreal Mexico City Esino Lario London Hong Kong Room
Topic
RESEARCH
COMMUNITIES
ADVOCACY
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
Topic
14:00 – 14:30
State of Wikimedia Research 2017-2018 Tilman Bayer, Benjamin Mako Hill, Reem Al-Kashif, Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
The Visibility Gap: #VisibleWikiWomen's campaign for visual knowledge May Hachem93, Seeeko
Wikimedia vs. Disinformation dimi_z, JGerlach
Introduction to Low Context and High Context: Communicate Effectively Between Cultures Notafish
How wikidata infoboxes can help bridge content and language gaps Gamaliel, fuzheado
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
Intellectual property barriers to GLAM projects in the global south Rohini, Lahariyaniyathi
14:30 – 15:00
Wikidata-enabled Infobox Workshop Mike Peel
15:00 – 15:30
One Image at a time; How Governments can help in bridging the information gap on Wikipedia Saileshpat
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
Break 15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 17:00
Katherine Maher Wikimedia and the spirit of Ubuntu: The power of unity in action With panel: Samuel Guebo, Erina Mukuta, Olushola Olaniyan, Emna Mizouni 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
All day events:
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 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 Lightning talks (Meetups (12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00
13:00 – 14:00
Room
Montreal Mexico City Esino Lario London Hong Kong Room
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 – 15:45
15:45 — 17:30
Closing session Cape Choir , Jimmy Wales, 2017 Wikimedian of the Year - Felix Nartey,
Announcement of the 2018 winner, presentation by Wikimania 2019 Sweden, & group photo
15:45 – 17:30
17:30 – 18:30
From 18:00 – Meetups
17:30 – 18:30
19:00 – Midnight
Closing party
(Departure shuttle from hotel at 18:30)
19:00 – Midnight
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
Montreal
Filming a Wikimania session in 2014 Friday 20 JulyAFRICA session. Featuring:
"Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias" (YouTube)
"Africa's Wikipedias" (YouTube)
"The quotation of oral sources in a decolonization context" (YouTucebe)
OUTREACH session <link TBA when published>. Featuring:
"Helping new editors not to hit brick walls: a guide" (YouTube)
"Coolest African Projects - Be inspired" (YouTube)
"Coolest Projects of Wikimedia Chapters - Be Inspired" (YouTube)
COMMUNITIES session <link TBA when published>. Featuring:
"Centering Knowledge from the Margins: A Whose Knowledge? discussion with communities from around the world". Saturday 21 JulyLANGUAGE 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 JulyCOMMUNITIES 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".
Telegram: main channel / social channel
Twitter: #Wikimania 
Language & literacy (see all)
Content quality (see all)
Access & accessibility (see all)
Legal & policy (see all)
Participation & representation (see all)
Knowledge forms (see all)
Community health (see all)
– Workshop
– Plenary (
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rooms)
– Panel
– Ideal for newbies
is “VOC North”, maximum capacity 325. All sessions in Montreal will be filmed 
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is “VOC South” maximum capacity 325.
Montreal and Mexico City form the main plenary hall “VOC Center” with a maximum capacity of 650. All plenaries will be live streamed 
is “Paarl”, maximum capacity of 60
is “Constantia”, maximum capacity of 180
is “Stellenbosch”, also with a maximum capacity of 180 people.
is “Villa”, maximum capacity of 100 and will be the dedicated Hackathon space.
& Mexico City 
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.
