User:Nemo bis/Personal schedule
Program at a Glance
Friday
| Friday, July 9 – Baltic Philharmonic | ||||
| Concert hall | Jazz hall | Green hall | Oak hall | |
| 08:00 AM – 09:00 AM | On-Site Registration | |||
| 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Opening Ceremony (10 min for organizers) + Opening Plenary (Sue Gardner + WMF Board) + Wikimania Madness (last 15 min) | |||
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters | |||
| 11:30 AM – 01:00 PM | Panels: Chapters: Collaboration and Coordination | Workshop: Brainstorming Wikimedia and Social Media | Talks: Wikiversity | Talk+Workshop: Accessibility Workshop |
| 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM | Lunch Break at Baltic Philharmonic: Gdańsk salon and foyer level 1 | |||
| 02:30 PM – 04:00 PM | Talks: MultiWikiMedia: Multimedia on Wikimedia | Talks: Talk Pages / LiquidThreads | Talks: Governance in Wikipedia & Wikimedia | Workshop: Creating offline version of Wiki content |
| 04:00 PM – 04:30 PM | Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters | |||
| 04:30 PM – 06:00 PM | Talks+Q&A-Session: Usability Initiative & Informing Design with Data | Talks: About Us – Wikipedians: Motivations, Identities, Traits | Talks+Panel: Open Educational Resources (OER) | Workshop: Community driven publishing of Wikipedia Books |
| 06:00 PM – 06:40 PM | Polish Dinner (Time not confirmed) | |||
| 06:45 PM – 07:00 PM | Facilitated strategy discussion (intro) | |||
| 07:00 PM – 08:00 PM | Concert Preparations | Facilitated strategy discussion | Chapter Meetings: Sign Up! | |
| 08:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Concert (70min) followed by a reception | |||
Saturday
| Saturday, July 10 – Baltic Philharmonic | ||||
| Concert hall | Jazz hall | Green hall | Oak hall | |
| 08:30 AM – 09:00 AM | Wikimania Madness | |||
| 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Panels: Chapters: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Talks+Workshop: Wikipedia Offline ie. Books | Talk+Workshop: Scripting, Testing, Extension Management | Talk+Workshop: Wiki-based Scientific Writing |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters | |||
| 11:30 AM – 01:00 PM | Talk+Workshop: Wiki Community Best Practices | Workshop: Getting Video on Wikipedia #1 | Talk+Tutorial: Semantic MediaWiki #1 | Talk+Panel: Internationalization |
| 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM | Lunch Break at Baltic Philharmonic: Gdańsk salon and foyer level 1 | |||
| 02:30 PM – 04:00 PM | Invited Talks: Ortega & Möller | Workshop: Getting Video on Wikipedia #2 | Talks: Semantic MediaWiki #2 | Talks: Translation |
| 04:00 PM – 04:30 PM | Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters | |||
| 04:30 PM – 06:00 PM | Talks: Exodus: Is Wikipedia Dying or Maturing? | Talks+Panel: Wikipedias Are NOT Equal | Talks: Maps and Geo-information & SMW-based Language Wikis | Talk+Workshop+Tutorial: For Developers: Free Software, Batch Uploading |
| 06:00 PM – 06:30 PM | Polish Dinner (Wojskowa Grochowka or Bigos or both)? | |||
| 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM | Un-Conference Pitches (Concert Hall) followed by Sessions (Jazz Hall) | Chapter Meetings: Sign Up! | Talks: Libaries, Goverments, and Enterprises | |
| 08:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Screening of the movie "Truth in Numbers" followed by a panel discussion | |||
Sunday
| Sunday, July 11 – Baltic Philharmonic | ||||
| Concert hall | Jazz hall | Green hall | Oak hall | |
| 09:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Plenary Session – Jimmy Wales (1h+Q&A) + Wikimania Madness (last 15 minutes) | |||
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters | |||
| 11:30 AM – 01:00 PM | Panels: Academic Researchers and Wikipedia | Talks: From WMF with Love: Update for Developers | Talk+Panel: Free Culture and Humanities | Talks: Next generation Hypertext structures for Wikipedia |
| 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM | Lunch Break at Baltic Philharmonic: Gdańsk salon and foyer level 1 | |||
| 02:30 PM – 04:00 PM | Talks+Panel: Strategy | Tutorial+Workshop: Research on Wikipedia: HowTo | Talks: Education | Talks: Cultural Heritage and Wikipedia |
| 04:00 PM – 04:30 PM | Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters | |||
| 04:30 PM – 06:00 PM | Talks: Outreach | Talks: Wikipedia Credibility | Talks: Role of Women & WikiProjects Management | Talks: Wikis of the World |
| 06:00 PM – 07:00 PM | Closing Ceremony + Wikimania 2011 Presentation + Panel: How to Make a Wiki Event | |||
| 08:00 PM – 10:30 PM | !!! World Cup Final + After Party (City of Angels? Sopot?) !!! | |||
Talks on Friday: 11:30 AM – 01:00 PM
Chapters: Collaboration and Coordination
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P10 | Creative Commons global affiliate network–origin, role, future, including collaboration and shared learnings with Wikimedia chapters | Mike Linksvayer, Michelle Thorne, Alek Tarkowski | PaC | Creative Commons' 100+ affiliates are sometimes cited in Wikimedia chapter discussions. We'll discuss the reality of the network, how we've been inspired by Wikimedia chapters, future collaboration and lesson sharing. | Panel, 45min (11.30-12.15) | x |
Brainstorming Wikimedia and Social Media
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
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| W10 | Brainstorming Wikimedia and social media | Florence Devouard | PaC | Discussion and sharing of practices regarding use of social media to pursue our mission; Identification of benefits, opportunites, risks etc; Hopefully, some seeds for a future strategy or at least discovery of new uses or new tools. | Workshop, 1.5h | x |
Talks on Friday: 02:30 PM – 04:00 PM
Governance in Wikipedia & Wikimedia
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
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| 106 | Wikimedia: Striving for an International Organisational Scope, The Importance of Culture | Delphine Ménard | PaC | This presentation will be looking at Wikimedia and outside organisations to outline ideas of what models are desirable or possible to expand Wikimedia's outreach internationally, while pointing out the cultural differences that may hinder or foster development of an accepted chapter model. | lp (14.30-15.00) | x |
Creating Offline Version of Wiki Content (technical: tools, openZIM, wiki2cd)
Session Chair: Manuel Scheider
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
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| W28 | Creating offline version of Wiki content – Solutions and Challenges (Merge of W16,W22,W23) | Manuel Schneider, Santhosh Thottingal, Shiju Alex, Martin Walker | KaC/Inf | This workshop examines the available technologies for Creating Offline versions of wiki content and is divided into the following three sessions: 1. Extraction, 2. Storage, 3. Reading | Workshop, 1.5h | x |
Talks on Friday: 04:30 PM – 06:00 PM (uh?)
Community driven publishing of Wikipedia Books
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
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| W19 | Publishing Wikipedia Books: Implementing a community driven process to get Wikipedia into book stores | Heiko Hees | PaC | The goal of this workshop is to draft a viable community driven process to get selected parts of Wikipedia into bookstores. The basic idea is to provide and utilize the necessary tools (like the Book Tool) which allow the community to independently create, assess and publish books based on wiki content. | Workshop, 1,5h | x |
Talks on Saturday: 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Chapters: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
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| P5 | Allow, Invite, Encourage: Growing Wikimedia in the World | Achal Prabhala, Erik Möller, Delphine Ménard, Lodewijk Gelauff, Phoebe Ayers, Arne Klempert, Milos Rancic | PaC | This session is about the future of chapters and affiliation. We will analyse where things stand, and discuss concrete plans for growing Wikimedia projects by contributions from around the world. | Panel, 1h | x Fri/Sat |
| P8 | Conflicts between local Wikimedia chapters and their respective editor communities | Harel | PaC | This panel will let you understand the conflicts between your local chapter and your editor community, or avoid them if you're planning to start a chapter. | Panel, 1h | x Sat/Sun |
Talks on Saturday: 11:30 AM – 01:00 PM
Wiki Community Best Practices
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | From Russia with love and squalor: an overview of Russian Wikipedia | Vicki Doronina | PaC | Look inside one of the biggest Wikipedia chapters community usually separated by the language barrier. Learn from the past and present of the Russian Wikipedia. | lp | x |
| W24 | Wiki community best practices.Why are less people contributing? | Kim Bruning | PaC | Explanation of wiki best practices and why more people don't use them, followed by discussion on how to improve the situation. | Workshop, 60 | x |
Talks on Saturday: 02:30 PM – 04:00 PM
Ortega & Möller
Session Chair: Jacek Jankowski
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | Flagged revisions study results | Felipe Ortega | Inf | Relevant results and lessons learned from the study of impact of flagged revisions on the German Wikipedia, sponsored by Wikimedia Deutschland. Accessible level (even if you don't like stats). | 30min + 15min Q&A | x Sut/Sun (P4!) |
| 78 | Beyond the Encyclopedia: The Frontiers of Free Knowledge | Erik Möller | KaC | The Wikimedia community has successfully built the most comprehensive encyclopedia in human history. Will free culture succeed in other domains – like news, dictionaries, textbooks, maps, or 3D objects? | 30min + 15min Q&A | x |
Talks on Saturday: 04:30 PM – 06:00 PM
Exodus: Is Wikipedia Dying or Maturing?
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92 | Trends in Wikipedia Communities | Ronald Beelaard | PaC | Numerical analysis of database dumps shows a definite shrink of Wikipedia on certain key parameters, mainly related to changes in community demographics. This applies to the largest as well as smaller projects. | lp | x Sat |
| 39 | Why do Editors Leave Wikipedia? A Survey of Casual Contributors | Howie Fung | PaC | Why do editors leave Wikipedia? What can we do as a community to encourage promising newbies to stay? This presentation will review the findings of a survey of 1,200 casual contributors to the English Wikipedia who left during 2009. The survey was aimed at getting a better understanding of why editors leave Wikipedia and how factors such as community, complexity, and personal circumstances affect their decision to stay or leave. | sp | x |
| 29 | Edit & Revert Trends | Erik Zachte | PaC | I will present a per project visualization of revert trends similar to earlier presented edit trends, but with more detail. | sp | x |
| 76 | The Wiki as an Organism (with examples from Wikipedia) | Maysara Omar | PaC | IF a wiki, any wiki, was a living organism that is always dependent on others to live; what the "environment" in which this living organism grows and prospers would be like? And what possible elements and factors in that environment would cause it to diminish and decay, and how to handle them? | sp | x |
Maps and Geo-information & SMW-based Language Wikis
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | Maps and Semantic Maps | Jeroen De Dauw | Inf | Mapping on MediaWiki – A introduction to the capabilities of the Maps and Semantic Maps extensions and how you can use them to enrich your wiki. | lp (16.30-17.00) | x |
Talks on Saturday: 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM (also chapters)
Libaries, Goverments, and Enterprises
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 119 | Libraries and Wikipedia | John Dove | KaC | How can publishers, aggregators, and others with a commercial interest in libraries, and even libraries themselves work with Wikipedian editors in such a way as to strengthen Wikipedia entries and content while also serving libraries? | lp | x |
| 27 | Diplopedia: The Evolution of a Wiki | Tiffany Smith Liccardi , Linda G. Green | KaC | Learn about the dramatic growth and evolution of the United States Department of State’s internal wiki of foreign affairs information, Diplopedia, as well as plans for its future. | sp | x |
| 97 | Wiki Platforms in High Assurance Environments: Beyond Intellipedia | Nathan Singleton, Peter Gehres, John Hale | Inf | This session will cover concerns and issues related to sharing information in a collaborative Wiki type environment between organizations requiring integrity and confidentiality of data, and briefly provide potential solutions. | sp | x |
| 18 | Blue note – MediaWiki for enterprises | Markus Glaser | Inf | The talk will cover enterprise wiki use cases and their differences to wiki use out in the wild internet. Blue note, which is designed to account for enterprise demands, will be presented. | sp | x Sat/Sun |
Talks on Sunday: 11:30 AM – 01:00 PM
Academic Researchers and Wikipedia
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | The State of Wikimedia Scholarship 2009-2010: WikiSym and Beyond | Benjamin Mako Hill and Felipe Ortega. Also with Mayo Fuster Morell | PaC | This talk offers a tour of the last years scholarship on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects aimed at at Wikimedians and touching on several of the years most important findings. | 45min (11.30-12.15) | x Sat/Sun |
| P4 | Academic Researchers in Wikimedia Communities: Ethics, Methods, and Policies | R. Stuart Geiger | PaC | Researchers in my wiki? It’s more likely than you think. This panel will foster dialog between wiki researchers and the community over various logistical, ethical, and policy-related concerns. | Panel, 45min (12.15-13.00) | x |
From WMF with Love: Update for Developers
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
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| 102 | Wikimedia Germany's Software and Infrastructure Projects | Daniel Kinzler | Inf | This session will provide an overview of Wikimedia Germany's software development and hardware infrastructure activities. There will be some insight into onloing projects, the medium and long term strategy, and discussion of challanges. | lp (12.30-13.00) | x |
Talks on Sunday: 02:30 PM – 04:00 PM (many overlaps here)
Strategy
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | Wikimedia's Five Year Strategic Plan | Eugene Eric Kim | PaC | I'll discuss the five year, movement-wide strategic plan, describe how it emerged, and facilitate a discussion on opportunities and next steps for Wikimedia. | lp (14.30-15.00) | x |
| P1 | Issues with the numbers game that is the strategy project | Gerard Meijssen | KaC/Inf | The numbers that underpin the strategy for the next five years can be interpreted in many ways. This is partly due to sources that have provided incomplete data. This is partly due to a bias for the big Wikipedia languages. In this way the smaller projects and languages do not get the attention that they need. | sp | x |
| P6 | Deletion sprees to sticky prods – What has been happening to Biographies of Living People on EN wiki, and what can be learned from it? | User:WereSpielChequers | KaC | Discussion of one of EN Wiki's more turbulent areas with a diverse panel of Wikipedians. | Panel, 40min | x |
Education
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 109 | Wikipedia at schools. The Catalan experience. | Joan Ramon Gomà, Pau Cabot | KaC | The presentation will explain a experience of aplying Wikipedia at Balearic Islands schools. The obtained results and its evaluation will be presented as well as improvements foreseen for course 2010-2011 and the enlargement to schools of other Catalan speaking territories. | lp (14.30-15.00) | x |
| 38 | Forbidden love or the case of collaborative knowledge in an Argentinian University | Gabriela Mejias | KaC | The conflict between traditional education and the way students try to approach collaborative knowledge in an Argentinian university. How some possible usages of Wikipedia could promote collaboration in academic research. | sp | x |
Cultural Heritage and Wikipedia
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
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| 113 | Submissions/Wikipedian in Residence | Liam Wyatt | KaC | Outcomes and lessons learned from being the "Wikipedian in Residence" at the British Museum | lp (14.30-15.00) | x |
Talks on Sunday: 04:30 PM – 06:00 PM
Outreach
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
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| 81 | Wikiexpedtion – an approach to mix outreach and data colecting social activites | Kocio and Przykuta | PaC | Wikiexpedtion – an expedition around one of the regions of Poland focused on gathering photo documentation. We want to share our experience with Wikimedia community to spread our idea. | sp | x |
| 93 | Using Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool – the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative and the path to an effective and sustainable collaborative environment with the world of higher education | Pete Forsyth, Rod Dunican, Frank Schulenburg | PaC | This session will give an overview about a 17-month pilot program that will help inform how to best engage new contributors in the improvement of subject-specific articles on Wikipedia; it will introduce the new concept of "Wikipedia Ambassadors" as well as new software features and concepts that will help new contributors through their first 100 edits. The presentation will be followed by an open discussion about the future of using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education. | lp | x |
| 55 | Structure of the German Mentoring Program and international comparison | Tim Moritz Hector | PaC | "Best practices in mentoring programs": Introduction to the structure of the German mentoring program and mentoring programs in other language-versions. Includes a short discussion about other approaches and the most important components to build a good mentoring program. | sp | x |
| 103 | Wikimedia in Japan: Acculturation and Outreach | KIZU Naoko | PaC | This presentation will show you how Wikimedia culture and Japanese culture have interacted on Japanese language Wikimedia projects and what Japanese Wikimedians nowadays begin to give back to the Japanese society. | sp | x |
Role of Women & WikiProjects Management
Session Chair:
| Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary | Type | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89 | The role of Women in the Wikipedia community. A case study from Spanish Wikipedia. | Ivana Lysholm, Valeria Mina | PaC | We intend to explore the particularities of female involvement in es.wikipedia. We'll discuss an apparent paradox: few women, but a strong group leading the community. Why? What do women have to offer? How to tackle the sex divide? | lp | x |
The following may be interesting.