Schedule

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Pre-Conference Schedule

The Wikimania 2007 schedule. Credit: Kat Walsh

• The Pre-Conference hacking days and Unconference are open to all attendees. The program for these days will be primarily informal.

New York City Weekend, July 6–9

See details at Wikimania Takes Manhattan.

Hackathon, AKA Newcomer-friendly project day, July 10-11

This hackathon is newcomer-friendly: no programming or background required. See details at Hackathon

• If you want to get to know Wikipedia better and contribute without programming, you'll enjoy the list of tasks we've prepared that don't require programming.
• If you want to do development, you'll enjoy the high-quality laptop setup guide we've prepared (you can work through it on-site).
• Either way, you'll enjoy the special "beginners" table, with friendly people willing to help you. Prior experience with MediaWiki software, or even programming at all, is not required. Join us for the whole two days, or drop by for just a few hours!

AdaCamp, July 10–11

The Ada Initiative is holding its second AdaCamp (unconference) on July 10–11.

It is focused on increasing women’s participation in open technology and culture. AdaCamp brings together people to build community, discuss issues women have in common across open technology and culture fields, and find ways to address them. Open technology and culture includes open source software, Wikipedia and other wiki projects, open data, open government, fan/remix culture, open libraries, and more. Attendance is by invitation and attendees are selected from qualified applicants through an open invitation process. Attendance is open to people of all genders.

Attendance at AdaCamp is application-only, and applications closed June 22. Follow http://adainitiative.org/ for info on future AdaCamps.

Tuesday, July 10

Tuesday, July 10
Time	Event	Location
09:00 – 17:00	Hackathon (newcomers and non-programmers welcome)	Marvin Center Betts Auditorium – Day Starts at 9 Grand Ballroom – 9:30 onward Rooms 307, 308, 310 – as needed
09:00 – 17:00	Wikimedia Chapters Association and Chapter Activities	Marvin Center Room 301
	Morning Break	Continental Ballroom
	Lunch	Grand Ballroom
	Afternoon Break	Continental Ballroom
	Hackathon Group Dinner
Throughout Day	Side Events Tours in D.C	External Locations

Wednesday, July 11

Wednesday, July 11
Time	Event	Location
09:00 – 17:00	Hackathon (newcomers and non-programmers welcome)	Marvin Center Betts Auditorium – Day Starts at 9 Grand Ballroom – Rest of day Rooms 307, 308, 310 – as needed
09:00 – 17:00	Wikimedia Chapters Association and Chapter Activities	Marvin Center Room 301
11:00 – 13:00	WALRUS Congress of Wiki-Americans (Super-Lunch)	Room 307
13:00 – 17:00	Wikipedia Loves Libraries	Gelman Library room 702
	Morning Break	Continental Ballroom
	Lunch	Grand Ballroom
	Afternoon Break	Continental Ballroom
19:00 – 20:30	Google Opening Reception, showcasing the World Digital Library	Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building Great Hall 10 First St. SE Washington DC 20540
Throughout Day	Board Meeting Side Events Tours in D.C	External Locations

Conference Schedule

For event locations, please see the list of venues Please note that the following schedule information is subject to change.

Thursday, July 12

Thursday, July 12th
	Grand Ballroom	301	302	308	310	Betts
07:00 – 09:00	On-Site Registration
09:00 – 11:10	Opening ceremony Greetings Opening keynote Mary Gardiner, Co-founder, Ada Initiative "Fostering diversity: not a boring chore, a critical opportunity" Opening plenary Plenary by Jimmy Wales: The State of the Wiki (Lisner Auditorium)
11:10 – 11:40	Coffee break
11:40 – 13:00	Chapters I Wikimedia Chapters	Technology and Infrastructure I CiviCRM – The Swiss Army knife for chapters Wikistream: Visualizing Wikipedia Updates in Realtime	WikiCulture and Community I Working with Wikiproject:National Register of Historic Places Is my grandmother able to contribute A mutually beneficial partnership: Wikipedia and Africa	Education I: Projects with Academy College Students' Perceptions of the Wikipedia-Assignment Experience Experimenting with Wikipedia at a Mexican university US National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Health: systematic reviews as a resource for Wikipedia medical pages	Technology and Infrastructure II Engaging the Community: What We've Tried and Where We're Going Engaging editors on Wikipedia: A roadmap of new features	Tech@State I: Opening Session Keynote Speech – Beth Simone Noveck: 'Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful' Ignite sessions featuring new ideas for wikis and associated technologies
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch break / Travel guide discussion
14:00 – 15:20	Technology and Infrastructure III: User experience Life Without Brackets: Visual Editing for Wikitext The purpose-driven social network: Supporting WikiProjects with technology The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015	GLAM I: Legal issues Hacking the public domain: taking digital arms to fight off copyfraud Artwork images on Commons Building a collaborative digital library for America Saving Egon Petri	WikiCulture and Community II A Talk Page is a Broken Message Wall: Building a More Efficient Communication System Welcome to Wikipedia, now please go away: improving how we communicate with new editors 'Stop Spamming' vs. 'Nobody Told Me' – the state and future of movement broadcasting mechanisms	Research, Analysis, and Education II Can Social Awards Create Better Wikis? The State of Wikimedia Scholarship 2011–2012 Wiki for Everyone: Culture and Features at wikiHow	Technology and Infrastructure IV The next billion users on Wikipedia with Open Source Webfonts The software localization paradox Cross-lingual Wiki Engine: Enabling Collaboration Across Language Barriers	Tech@State II: Institutions: A wiki platform to develop, publish and update cancer treatment guidelines Research institution collaboration UNDP Teamworks Discussion/Q&As
15:20 – 15:40	Coffee break
15:40 – 17:00	Technology and Infrastructure V: Data Wikidata introduction and presentation Wikidata implementation and integration Wikidata as a platform	Legal I A common answer to Commons problem Open Licenses and GLAM What makes sense?	GLAM II The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Territorial Control GLAM and Outreach in India Toulouse a GLAMour City State of GLAM-Wiki in the US	Wikis and the Public Sector I 2011 Italian Wikipedia blackout Wikimedia relations with governments, lobbying and public relations Polish anti-ACTA protest from Wikimedia Polska perspective	Technology and Infrastructure VI: Language Support Supporting languages, all of them A Tale of Language Support Ask the Language Support People	Tech@State III: GLAM: Local wikis MonmouthpediA Fairfaxpedia NYC Wiki The LocalWiki project
18:00 – 20:30	GLAM Night Out: Party & Media Panel at the Newseum (REGISTRATION CLOSED) / Zoomph Wikimania Happy Hour/ Meetups / Free time

Friday, July 13

Friday, July 13th
	Grand Ballroom	Amphitheater	307	308	310	Betts
08:00 – 08:45				Funds Dissemination Committee Presentation
09:00 – 10:20	GLAM III: Outreach Wiki, Women and Museums: The makings of a successful GLAM-WIKI project GLAM Professionals Panel	WikiCulture and Community III: Improving Wikipedia I Giving Readers a Voice: Lessons from Article Feedback v5 Accessibility Issues at Wikipedia The process of creating new Wikipedias: past, present, future	Legal II Top 10 Legal Issues Do editors have a right on privacy? The Impact of Digital Books and Copyright Law on Wikipedia	Sister Projects I Wikisource: what we've done, what we could do better Getting ebooks on Wikisource Wikicaptcha: a ReCAPTCHA-like solution for Wikisource	Technology and Infrastructure VII: Ask the operators Ask the Operators Swift and the Media Storage System	Tech@State IV: Federal Agency Wikis Interagency Wikis USMC Semantic Wiki GCPEDIA Discussion/Q&As
10:20 – 10:50	Morning Break / Meetups
10:50 – 12:10	GLAM IV: National GLAM Coordinator A National GLAM Coordinator – a crucial yet overlooked role	Chapters II Chapters Committee: past, present and future Chapters producing knowledge WikiTV	Sister Projects II The hundred-year old websites Let’s talk about Wikidata and what it means for you!	WikiCulture and Community IV Wikipedia in the Twitter age Wikipedia Translation and Transnational Scholarship Video from session	Technology and Infrastructure VIII Building a Chat feature on MediaWiki Embedded scripting: creating interactive diagrams, maps, and other media resources in MediaWiki Small process helpers: The case for widgets	Tech@State V: Intellipedia Powerpedia Diplopedia Wikireaucracy Discussion/Q&As
12:10 – 13:10	Lunch break WikiProject Medicine Lunch
13:10 – 14:30	GLAM V: Wiki Loves Monuments Wiki Loves Monuments Wiki Loves Monuments goes global: Q&A Wiki Loves Monuments in Austria – Challenges and Solutions	Technology and Infrastructure IX: Mobile I The Wikipedia Mobile Experience Wiktionary Mobile The Wikipedia Smartphone Apps Story	WikiCulture and Community V: Improving Wikipedia II Eternal December: How Awful Arguments are Killing the Wiki, and Why not to Make Them “This is my voice”: the motivations of highly active Wikipedians	Research, Analysis, and Education III Hey, it's Trending! Let's Update that Wikipedia Article! New User Coaching & Article Quality Assessment using Content Analytics	Technology and Infrastructure X: User Experience Bots and Wikipedia: It's OK to be lazy! Efficient and flexible text manipulation, spelling correction and page collections with Pywikibot Wikimedia Labs and the state of our open source infrastructure	Featured Session: Legal Issues The debate: That all Wikimedia projects should have Fair Use or none of them.
14:30 – 15:10	Coffee break / Meetups
15:10 – 16:30	GLAM VI: Photo Hunts How to form a photo-hunting group? Or how Wiki-photogaphers can get organized? Following the footsteps of Laozi Wikipedia Takes Montreal, a photographic scavenger hunt set to a hurricane Local photo events panel	Technology and Infrastructure XI: Mobile II Reaching the Next Billion Users: Wikipedia on mobile Removing the barriers of access to Wikipedia	Sister Projects III: Mapping Mapping by the Margins. New Cultures of Contribution Cooperation with OpenStreetMap The technology of WikiMiniAtlas	WikiCulture and Community VI: Improving Wikipedia III What place for the “small languages” on Wikimedia projects? Like a phoenix from the ashes: history and future of Wikimedia podcasts Refighting the War of 1812 on Wikipedia	Technology and Infrastructure XII Tutoring software development students to streamline Wikimedia Commons flow: plugins for digiKam & Wordpress Translating the wiki way Delivering MediaWiki faster, smoother and better	Featured Session: WikiCulture and Community Wikimedia Community Fellows: What we're Researching, Piloting and Building to Support the Community Benevolent dictator, monarch, spokesperson – the evolution of Jimbo's role in the community
16:30 – 20:30	Meetups (Digital Commons, Dispute Resolution, Education Program, Happy Hour, LGBT, Scholarships, SMW, Turkic, Wikia, Women, ...) / Free time

Saturday, July 14

Saturday, July 14th
	301	302	307	308	310	Betts	Amphitheatre	309
09:00 - 09:05	Reinforcing the Friendly Space Policy Lisner Auditorium
09:05 – 10:05	Opening plenary Plenary by Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Wikimedia Foundation: The Year In Review and The Year Ahead. Wikimedia Foundation executive director will recap the Foundation's activities of the past year, and look ahead to the opportunities and challenges facing the Wikimedia projects in 2012–13. This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with the Wikimedia Foundation WMF Board of Trustees. (Lisner Auditorium)
10:00 – 10:30	Break / Meetups
10:30 – 11:50	GLAM VII: Science and Archives 5 Reasons Why Archives are an Untapped Goldmine for Wikimedians Science GLAM Wikisource and the US National Archives: a case study	Wikis and the Public Sector III Getting elected thanks to Wikipedia. How social networks influence politics, politicians and voters Open Politics Through Wikis Ten things you can do without blacking out Wikipedia	WikiCulture and Community VII: Partnerships How to run a successful project and involve new editors? Experiences from Czech WikiProject Protected areas Regional cooperation as the ultimate way of Wikimedia community collaboration Wikipedia in Parliament	WikiCulture and Community VIII Iterate your cross-pollinated strategic synergy, just not on my Wikipedia! A Room of One's Own – Virgina Woolf and Female Wikipedia Editing	Technology and Infrastructure XIII Transparency and collaboration in Wikimedia engineering Fundraising: Under the Hood We want scores!	Featured Session: WikiCulture and Community II Wikimedia on Social Media Engage or Perish	WikiCulture and Community IX: Improving Wikipedia V The Land of Wikis Beyond Wikimedia Open Systems Management: Lessons from the Internet Using Semantic Mediawiki and DBpedia as a platform for Space Data	Workshops I Wikipedia & Research: A love–hate relationship
11:50 – 12:10	Break
12:10 – 13:30	GLAM VIII: Tools The GLAMwiki toolset project – work in progress Open Access Media Importer Supporting tools for a diversified Wikipedia	WikiCulture and Community X: Wiki and Women I 10 women in 10 minutes	Workshops II Offline Workshop	WikiCulture and Community XI: Small Languages The African Story Read and Write in your language Have you heard about the Uzbek Wikipedia? Neither have the Uzbeks	Funds Funds for Free Knowledge: Wikimedia Foundation Grantmaking Why Does Wikimedia Need Money When We Have Volunteers? How to squeeze as much motivation as possible out of a dollar: microgrants for Wikimedians	Featured Session: Wikis and the Public Sector: SOPA The Bad Assumptions of the Copyright Discussion Blacking out Wikipedia	Technology and Infrastructure XIV What Does THAT mean? Engineering Jargon And Procedures Explained ResourceLoader 2: The Future of Gadgets MediaWiki Extensions:What they are and why we love them	Workshops III How to motivate older people to become active Wikipedians?
13:30 – 14:30	Lunch break WikiWomen's Lunch, Meetups
14:30 – 15:50	WikiCulture and Community XII: History of Wikipedia 11 years of Wikipedia, or the Wikimedia history crash course you can edit The End of notability	WikiCulture and Community XIII: Wiki and Women II WikiWomenCamp Women on wikiHow Wikipedia as a battlefield for a gender-neutral language	WikiCulture and Community XIV: Improving Wikipedia V Measuring Quality Content: Article Feedback and Featured Articles A Wikipedian content-expert soliciting expert editors Wikipedia Books: How Offline Drives Online	Workshops IV Building a lasting movement: Imagining Wikimania 2022	WikiCulture and Community XV: Improving Wikipedia VI Blocking of Wikipedia/Knockoff Wikipedias White Bag Vulva. How the German community thought about forking Wikipedian among Professionals	Featured Session: Technology and Infrastructure Ask the Developers	Research, Analysis, and Education IV Wikipedia, Ethos, and the Production of Knowledge Almost Wikipedia: What Eight Collaborative Encyclopedia Projects Reveal About Mechanisms of Collective Action Taking Offline Wikipedia to Schools	Workshops V QRpedia and you
15:50 – 16:00	Break
16:00 – 17:00	Closing Plenary – Mr. David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States Presentation of Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong (Lisner Auditorium)
17:00 – 17:30	Group Photo
17:30 – 20:30	Meetups / Free time
21:00 – 24:00	Attendee party Buffalo Billiards

Unconference

Sunday, July 15

Live and most actual Unconference Schedule

Time	Event	Location
9.30 - 9.50	Quick briefing: What is the new Wikimedia Chapters Association and what does it do? (WCA Council Chair)	Grand Ballroom
10:00 – 17:00	Unconference	Grand Ballroom – Opening and Main Schedule; Chapters discussions WCA committees discussion to finish before 1pm. Continental Ballroom – Lounge 301 – Cultural, Legal, and Policy Issues 302 – Outreach (including Wikimania and GLAM) 308 – Technology 309 - Editing 310 – Workshops Meetups African language Wikipedias Hackpad for organising
	Morning Break	Continental Ballroom
	Lunch	Grand Ballroom
	Afternoon Break	Continental Ballroom
10:00 – 12:00	OpenStreetMap mapping party (part 1)	Congressional Cemetery
13:00 – 15:00	OpenStreetMap mapping party (part 2)	Wikimania Lounge @ GWU
11:00 –	WikiExpedition!	Washington, DC

Documentation

• Wikimania 2012 presentation slides - category on Commons
• Videos of presentations are being uploaded.