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16–19 August 2023, Singapore and Online
Diversity. Collaboration. Future.
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WikiMapathon
WikiWomen Summit
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Poster session
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Welcome to your
Wikimania program submission page

FAQ
Form questions
Raw submissions
Subcommittee
The
ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
invited the public to submit a program idea for Wikimania.
The program submission form was available in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. We are working on including Indonesian.
Submissions were accepted from
Tuesday, February 28
until
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
at
23:59 AoE
Anywhere on Earth
, equivalent to UTC-12)
Program proponents will get receive decision on their program proposal in
June 2023
There are different session types, themes, and program tracks to consider. So please read on to learn more.
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Theme
The theme for Wikimania 2023 is
Diversity, Collaboration, Future.
It is intended to be cross-cutting and to apply as a lens to all programming ideas. Your submission should have elements connecting to at least one of these. A lot of what we do every day in Wikimedia – on the projects or in the community – is already reflective of the theme and very much in line with how the ESEAP regional collaboration identifies and operates.
Diversity.
Wikimania will be an opportunity to showcase regional and thematic groups such as
ESEAP
as examples of inclusion: different volunteer groups, individuals, and affiliates, at different stages of development and from different cultures closely involved and collaborating in an equitable way.
Collaboration.
As a distributed, global event, Wikimania will be a way to learn from each other and share knowledge like community initiatives, tools usage, organizing events, governance, online campaigns and edit-a-thons, solving Wiki-related problems, and more.
Future.
Wikimania 2023 will be significant to many Wikimedians as a forum to discuss implementing the 2030
Wikimedia Movement Strategy
(#Wikimedia2030), and other current and future priorities facing our movement, from technology to policy around the world.
Tracks
To make the program submissions easier to organize and review, with the help of the
programming subcommittee
of volunteers, we have suggested 11 program tracks. Please see below for more information about the categories and their sub-categories. Think about which one best fits your program idea. If you think your submission applies to more than one track, you can specify a secondary track in the submission form.
Program track
Description
Sub-categories / suggested topics
Community Initiatives
This track welcomes affiliates and communities to present their content development campaigns and programs.
Campaigns
Editathons
Capacity development programs and trainings
Education
This track provides a space for initiatives and programs in education and academia.
Wikipedia in the classroom
Partnership with educational institutions or teachers' association
Higher education
Decolonizing knowledge
Equity, Inclusion, and Community Health
This track provides a space to discuss equity, inclusivity, and belonging as ways to improve community health.
Diversity centric discussions
Equity, Inclusion and belonging
Knowledge equity
User interface accessibility
Languages (& translations)
Gender gap and other gender diversity topics
IP address range blocks in countries with limited/ shared infrastructure
The Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
Safety of volunteer contributors
ESEAP (East, South East Asia, and the Pacific) Region
This track is meant to highlight initiatives by affiliates, communities, and individual contributors in improving content or concerns related to the East, South East Asia and the Pacific region.
Multicultural collaborations in ESEAP countries
Community developments
Capacity development in Small and Incubator language Wikimedia projects
GLAM, Heritage, and Culture
This track provides a space for initiatives and programs in heritage and cultural conservation, collaborations with cultural institutions that include Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums.
Digitalization programs
Open access advocacy
Working with Indigenous communities
Governance
This track supports community discussions focused on governance, structures and reform, key initiatives from the Movement Strategy.
Movement Charter
Regional and thematic hubs
Roles and responsibilities in the movement
Decision-making processes
Wikimedia Global Council
Administrative specific governance (projects, community, affiliates)
Legal, Advocacy, and Risks
This track includes established topics of discussion, such as copyrights and digital accessibility, and newly emerged issues, such as rising censorship and misinformation in the world, as well as public policy and human rights.
Blocking of Wikipedia in certain countries
Misinformation
Censorship
Legal threats, takedown requests
Government relations
Copyright reforms (Freedom of Panorama, free licenses, etc.)
Digital accessibility
Environmental sustainability and climate crisis
Open Data
This track gives space for community initiatives in data use and reuse, linking different Wikimedia projects together and beyond.
Publicly accessible statistical data
Data use/ reuse
Open data and transparency
Interlinking geographic data, socio-economic data, demographic data
Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons
Research, Science, and Medicine
This track welcomes works of research with topics relevant to Wikimedia and the theme of Wikimania. It is also a space to discuss various content initiatives in the fields of science, nature, and medicine.
Environmental studies and climate crisis
Studies on behavioral patterns in contributing content
Content quality research
Knowledge reliability
Public health and wellness wiki initiatives
Science and Wiki
Taxonomy, Species
Technology
The classic track dedicated to discussing everything product and technology in the Wikimedia movement.
Latest products and features
Tool demonstration or tutorials
Tools in development or testing stage
Technological innovations
Automation, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
User interface and user experience
Wild Ideas
A future-oriented open track for Wikimedians to discuss wild ideas and predictions of the future... for good or bad.
Scenarios in the near or far future
Black Mirror
scenarios
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
The chatbot take over!!!
As you think about your Wikimania program submission, remember that we would like to highlight the great work happening across all Wikimedia projects, not just the big ones. We would also like to highlight work happening in all regions of the movement, especially those under or unrepresented at global Wikimedia events.
We plan on sharing program submission abstracts here on this wiki to create opportunities for collaboration. If somebody else proposes a similar topic or discussion, why not collaborate or combine? One-way lectures can be made into interactive panels or collaborative workshops. See below for more information.

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Submission types
There will be several formats, including lectures, panel presentations, discussions, and workshops focused on skill development. There will also be sessions of lightning talks and social interaction. We are also open to new and original program format ideas, including combinations of types.
Type
Description
Standard allocated time
Visual
Workshops
These are sessions where the audience is actively interacting with the topic, usually focused on practical work, acquiring or strengthening a specific skill, or accomplishing a specific task.
60 minutes
Demonstration
In these sessions, the audience is given a live presentation or demonstration, such as technological innovation.
30 minutes
Lecture
This is an oral presentation intended to introduce information, share ideas about a particular subject, or summarize the results of a project.
30 minutes
Panel
This is a small group of subject matter experts or those with real lived experience speaking before an audience. It often includes a moderator who guides the discussion and sometimes elicits audience questions. Audiences are invited to interact with the panel and ask questions
30 minutes
Roundtable /
open discussion
This is a structured conversational process for discussing specific topics, sharing knowledge, and often collective decision-making.
90 minutes
Lightning talk
This is a short, sharp presentation to enable a speaker to share a concept or idea, often as a teaser or a starting point for the audience to learn more. Lightning talks are often organized as a succession of speakers one after another.
10 minutes (or less)
Poster session
Whether in-person or remote, you will have a dedicated time to present your poster topic and for the audience to ask you questions. Poster sessions can cut across topics and themes, usually presenting a project report or initiative, study results, research, or technology.
TBD
Entertainment session
Activities such as cultural demonstrations, games, movement, food, talk shows, podcasts, and other forms of entertainment can go here.
30 minutes
Other
These are all other activities such as outdoor activities, photography walks, editathons, datathon, resource, and citation hunts, etc.
30 minutes
(duration may vary)
In imagining your Wikimania session, we encourage you to
prioritize interactive concepts like workshops and discussions
. This is our first time coming back together after 3 years, and it would be good to benefit from that as much as we can by collaborating together and engaging in conversations like we always do. At the same time, over the past few years, we have gained a great deal of experience organizing events online and would love to create a balance between onsite, in-person programming, and virtual. If your program idea is more a focused presentation or a one-way information share out, why not consider submitting pre-recorded and on-demand video content, a short lightning talk, or a poster session in the exhibition space? This year we plan on using our spacious venue and hope to maximize poster sessions with times dedicated to interacting with brilliant people and ideas.

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Hybrid, Satellite events, Video on Demand
Movement groups can think about self-organizing watch parties and other remote events with the possibility of connecting live with Singapore during dedicated times each day. Not everyone in the community can or wants to travel to connect with other Wikimedians. You and your colleagues can organize a satellite event during a specific day or time of Wikimania. For Wikimedia affiliates, satellite events can be scheduled and funded as part of
General Support Funds
. Even if not initially included as a proposal, moving funds around in your budget might be possible to create an event.
Find out more
and please use its talk page for discussing ideas in advance.
If your submission is not accepted as you submitted it, think about contributing pre-recorded short video content that will be made available on-demand or create a 1 to 3-minute short video presenting your topic, like a virtual poster session.-->
Questions?
If you are interested to know the contents of the program submission form, you can go to the
form questions
page. Reviewing the questions and preparing your answers before submitting them would be helpful.

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We have set up a
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
page for you. If you have other questions and they are not in the FAQ, you can email the
program subcommittee
at:
wikimania
wikimedia.org
or also add your questions to the
help page
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