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Friday 20 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 Plenary 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
Language & literacy Content Quality 

10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 12:00 Building tools to serve diverse users: Community Centered Software Development

Lea Voget (WMDE), Birgit Müller (WMDE)
Workshop Language & literacy Access & accessibility 

Real-Time Collaboration: Connecting Humanity

Cscott, TChan_(WMF), Catrope, ESanders_(WMF)
Workshop Access & accessibility Participation & representation 

11:00 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30 How to start a developer community in your country, the AWMD way

Flixtey, Alangi Derick
Participation & representation Knowledge forms 

#1lib1ref: Reaching 5 million librarians around the world

Ocaasi (WMF)
Ideal for newbies Content Quality Participation & representation 

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
Workshop Access & accessibility Participation & representation 

EU Copyright Reform: Google vs. the content industry. Is Wikimedia stuck in the middle?

dimi_z, Ana Mazgal
Legal & policy 

14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00 Copyright – what could possibly go wrong? Copyfights as a global challenge

a2namzg, JGerlach (WMF)
Workshop Legal & policy 

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
Content Quality Community health 

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
Knowledge forms Community health 

16:30 – 17:00
17:00 – 18:00
Dr. Martin Dittus Plenary session 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 Plenary session
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

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 Plenary session 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)
Panel Language & literacy Knowledge forms 

10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 How majorities can support minority languages

Jon Harald Søby (WMNO), Astrid Carlsen (WMNO), Amqui, Barrioflores
Language & literacy Participation & representation 

What everyone can learn from Wiki Loves Monuments in the European Year of Cultural Heritage

Martin Rulsch (WMDE), Maria Heuschkel (WMDE)
Ideal for newbies Content Quality Participation & representation 

11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00 Including minority languages in Wikimedia projects, a strategic approach

Great11-Bachounda
Language & literacy 

Wiki Loves Monuments, Hands-on

Lokal_Profil, LilyOfTheWest, effeietsanders, Jean-Frédéric, Yarl, M.hekmat
Workshop Ideal for newbies Content Quality Participation & representation 

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
Content Quality Community health 

Wikimedia vs. Disinformation

dimi_z, JGerlach
Legal & policy 

Introduction to Low Context and High Context: Communicate Effectively Between Cultures

Notafish
Workshop Ideal for newbies Language & literacy Community health 

14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00 Ubuntu for who? Equity by Free Knowledge?

friedelitis, edp05mab, Taskeeeners, 14prinsp, thatpsychprof, SukainaWalji, ShanaliG
Workshop Ideal for newbies Access & accessibility Participation & representation 

How can "open" also be safe and welcoming? Perspectives from around the world

Anasuyas, alshafei86
Workshop Participation & representation Community health 

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 Plenary session 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

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 Plenary session 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
Ideal for newbies Participation & representation Community health 

Which parts of an article are actually being read?

Tbayer (WMF)
Language & literacy Access & accessibility 

Zooming in on Africa-related research: Wikidata-based scholarly profiles of people, papers, places, topics and more

Daniel Mietchen
Workshop Content Quality Knowledge forms 

Working towards Growing Local Language Content on Wikipedia (GLOW)

JRabah (WMF), JVargas (WMF), Titodutta
Language & literacy Participation & representation 

We learned one thing from organizing the Wikimedia Conference. How could we apply this in the Movement?

Cornelius Kibelka (WMDE), Nicole Ebber (WMDE)
Participation & representation Community health 

10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 Women leading the way toward gender equity

Rosiestep
Ideal for newbies Panel Access & accessibility Participation & representation 

Introducing Wikipedia to New Readers

SGill (WMF), ZMcCune (WMF), Hindi volunteer (TBC), Nigerian volunteer (TBC), Sarmad (TBC), Mexican volunteer (TBC)
Panel Participation & representation Community health 

Record every languages of the world village by village, with Lingua Libre

0x010C
Language & literacy Knowledge forms 

Workshopping event safety

JSutherland (WMF), PEarley (WMF), Kalliope (WMF), Jalexander-WMF
Workshop Participation & representation Community health 

11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00 Building new bridges to close the Wikimedia gendergap

Denise Jansen, WMNL
Ideal for newbies Participation & representation Community health 

Pattypan workshop

Yarl
Workshop Content Quality Access & accessibility 

Every Language in the World: Introducing Wikitongues

Dbudell
Language & literacy Access & accessibility 

11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30 What can we learn from the Feminist movement for knowledge equity?

Asaf (WMF)
Ideal for newbies Content Quality Participation & representation 

Beyond the meat grinder: building better new editor experiences through research and dialogue

ARipstra (WMF), Neil P. Quinn-WMF
Participation & representation 

Diglossia and Multilingualism: A help or a Hindrance to Arabic Wikipedians?

bks-WMIL
Language & literacy Knowledge forms 

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
Ideal for newbies Participation & representation Community health 

What does this mean in ...? - building bridges with machine-readable lexicographical data in Wikidata

Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)
Language & literacy Knowledge forms 

Eight Things You Can Do Today To Improve Offline Access

Stephane - Kiwix
Language & literacy Access & accessibility 

Wikipedia and digital equity in Education: digital skills for life and free knowledge for the world

NSaad_(WMF)
Workshop Access & accessibility Knowledge forms 

Building capacity with communities: WMF's Community Capacity Development program

Asaf (WMF)
Workshop Community health 

14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00 Hackathon Showcase

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Ideal for newbies Panel Content Quality 

Learn how to model the words of your language in Wikidata

Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
Workshop Language & literacy Knowledge forms 

How to kick-start communities or How to boldly go where no editor has gone before

Gereon K.
Participation & representation 

14:30 – 15:00
Kiwix & Raspberry Pi - build your own wikipedia Wifi hotspot

GastelEtzwane
Workshop Access & accessibility 

15:00 – 15:30 Lessons from creating a diversity toolkit

Rohini, Chinmayisk
Participation & representation 

15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 15:45
Break
15:30 – 16:00
15:45 — 17:30
Closing session Plenary 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.

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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