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Join us for
five keynote sessions from world-renowned experts
over a hundred community-submitted talks
two days of hackathon and preconferences
and over a dozen workshops
The Wikimania
pre-conference
meetings will be held from August 9-10; the main program will be held from August 11-13. Check out our listing of
social events
for local tourist attractions and interesting things to do in Montreal while you're around for Wikimania!
Attention presenters:
please double-check the time and room of your submission for last-minute changes. If you notice a problem or conflict, please email wikimania-program@wikimedia.org. Thank you!
Registration Hours
Preconference registration
Tuesday, August 8: 16:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, August 9: 07:00 - 16:00
Thursday, August 10: 08:00 - 20:00
During the conference
Friday, August 11: 08:00 - 16:00
Saturday, August 12: 08:00 - 16:00
Sunday, August 13: 08:00 - 12:00 (1 person at Help Desk from 12:00 - 17:00)
Notetaking
Notetaking issues
For session notes, in Etherpads, and slides, see
All Session Notes
Wednesday August 9
Technical
Hackathon
and
Preconference
, including
Wikimedia Foundation Learning Days
and
WikiConference North America
Wikimania Hackathon schedule
WikiConference North America schedule
Scan-a-thon of BAnQ Archives about First Nations
: scan 1,000 negatives, upload thousands of scanned manuscripts that are two centuries old, and more.
Thursday, August 10
Technical
Hackathon
and
Preconference
, including
Wikimedia Foundation Learning Days
and
WikiConference North America
WikiProject Med Conference
WMCON Follow-Up Day
and
Movement Strategy Space
Edit-a-thon for First Nations on Wikipedia
Welcome reception/dinner at Sheraton Hotel for registered attendees, 7-9 p.m.
Room key
Levels are in order from highest floor to lowest floor
Level 4:
Ballroom West & Center, Community Village, Registration, Volunteer & staff headquarters
Level 3:
Drummond East, West, Center; Hackathon room (Salon 7, open 24 hours a day),
Movement strategy drop-in space
(Salon 6)
Level 2:
Salon 1, 3, 4, 5
Level 1:
hotel registration, street level
Level A:
Joyce/Jarry, lunch
Level B:
Lunch and breakout space
Friday, August 11
time
time
08:00
On-site registration
(Open all day)
08:00
08:30
08:30
08:45
Moosetown drummers
08:45
09:00
Opening ceremony
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
09:00
09:15
09:15
09:30
Jimmy Wales in conversation with Gabriella Coleman
moderated by Evan Prodromou
Questions
Community and information in a partisan world
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
09:30
09:45
09:45
10:00
10:00
10:15
10:15
10:30
Break
Room set-up; briefing,
Movement Strategy - Remote conversations (Outside ballroom)
10:30
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Session 1: 11:00-12:30
s1: Libraries & Education
in French, simultaneous translation provided
s2: The future of editing
s3: Community: Bias and marginalization
s4: Education: Education programs
s5: Why & what we read
s6: Wikidata: Wikidata & arts
r1: Roundtables 1
w1: Workshop 1: Communication
b1: Open for breakout sessions
b2: Open for breakout sessions
Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space
Session 1: 11:00-12:30
11:00
Wikipédia, les bibliothèques publiques et Montréal
Wikitext: upcoming changes, available tools, what you can do
Birth of Bias: implicit bias’ permanence on Wikipedia
Speaking the Language of the Non-Wikipedians
Readership metrics: Trends and stories from our global traffic data
The (Wiki)Data (R)Evolution
Wikiversities: get over the content, serve the flow
How good communication can help you talk to reporters, rule the world, and do other cool stuff: An introductory guide to public relations
Wikipedian-in-Residence Birds of a Feather
Breakout sessions
Strategic Direction Feedback 03
11:00
11:15
11:15
11:30
Création d'une communauté numérique locale. Prototypage d'un atelier contributif en bibliothèque
Editing in the year to come – what the Foundation's Annual Plan means for editing tools
Centering Knowledge From The Margins
How to develop an education program from scratch
Why We Read Wikipedia
Modelling and Ingesting Performing Arts Related Data into Wikidata
Breakout sessions
11:30
11:45
Building a Better Dispute Resolution System
11:45
12:00
Distinguer les cultures éditoriales pour promouvoir Wikipédia à l’université
The Wikipedia Year of Science 2016: What worked, what didn't, and how you can pull off a large-scale content initiative
The Sum of all paintings is just the start
Breakout sessions
Breakout sessions
12:00
12:15
12:15
12:30
Lunch
level A & B
12:30
13:00
Birds of a feather meetups:
Wikipedia + Libraries meetup
, Joyce/Jarry (level A)
13:00
13:30
13:30
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Session 2: 14:00-15:30
s8: Libraries & education (2)
in French, simultaneous translation provided
s7: Collaboration around the globe
s11: GLAM: Collaborations
s10: Community health & Education
s12: Legal: Advocacy
s13: Wikidata: Invoke:Wikidata
w4: Workshop: Teambuilding
w3: Workshop: Wikidata
r2: Roundtables 2: Community health
b2: Open for breakout sessions
Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space
Session 2: 14:00-15:30
14:00
Sciences, histoire et projets Wiki, le mariage unique québécois
Free knowledge for complete beginners: introducing Wikipedia to new readers
The Internet Archive and Wikimedia - Common Knowledge Goals
Possible strategies of increasing involvement of scientists and academics in Wikimedia projects
Legal Advocacy for the Projects and the Movement
Wikidata & infoboxes panel
Put data on it: Using Wikidata data in Wikimedia projects
Integrating Wikidata to Infoboxes
Automatic infoboxes with Wikidata (workshop)
invoke:Wikidata (discussion)
Building your team: a guide to working together
A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Complete Beginners
From Mexico City to Montréal: The Code of Conduct and You
Art+Feminism Meetup
14:00
14:15
14:15
14:30
The WikiMOOC, a new way to learn how to edit Wikipedia
Student Learning Outcomes using Wikipedia based assignments
New Wikimedian Order - How to represent Wikimedia's values in international organisations?
14:30
14:45
How does a toxic environment affect community health, and which way forward?
14:45
15:00
How to create a good school project on Wikipedia
Constitutional Court meets Wikipedia
Breakout sessions
15:00
15:15
15:15
15:30
Break
15:30
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Session 3: 16:00-17:00
s14: Research
s15: Community: Gender gap
s16: Lightning talks 1
s17: Community: Global outreach
s18: Community conferences
s19: New Voices
s20: GLAM
w5: Workshop: SPARQL
w6: Workshop: editing tools
(French)
b2: Open for breakout sessions
Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space
Session 3: 16:00-17:00
16:00
State of Wikimedia Research 2016-2017
(end at 16:55)
Wiki Loves Women
Lightning talks 1
Growing a User Group, a roadmap for survival
Hackathon goes Hogwarts: Creating learning environments at tech events
Bringing all the voices to the conversation: what the Wikimedia movement has learned from lower awareness regions
Other-a-thon: Roundtable on alternative models for public outreach events
SPARQL – a gentle introduction to the Wikidata Query Service
Utilisation avancée de l'éditeur visuel
Commons categorizer meetup 2017
16:00
16:15
16:15
16:30
Art + Feminism
(end at 16:55)
Bringing Wikimedia conferences to the next level – Experiences and learnings from three years of organizing
Commons categorizer meetup 2017
16:30
16:45
16:45
17:00
Break
17:00
17:15
Katherine Maher & Christophe Henner
Wikimedia 2030
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
17:15
17:30
17:30
17:45
17:45
18:00
18:00
18:15
Happy hour
Poster session
& community village reception
(Level 3 (posters) & 4 (community village))
18:15
18:30
18:30
19:00
19:00
19:30
Unconference and
Meetups
BasselPedia Party
(hosted by Creative Commons)
19:30
20:00
20:00
20:30
20:30
21:00
23:00
21:00
23:00
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Saturday, August 12
time
time
08:00
On-site registration
(Open all day)
08:00
08:30
08:30
09:00
Announcements
09:00
09:15
Susan Herman
Wikidemocracy: How We Can Save Free Speech, Privacy, and Democratic Values
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
09:15
09:30
09:30
09:45
09:45
10:00
10:00
10:30
Break
Room set-up; briefing,
Facebook Live?
10:30
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Session 4: 11:00-12:30
s21:
s22: Gender gap
s23: Global outreach
s24: Wikidata & sister projects
s25: Legal: Advocacy
s26: Technology: editing tools
r3: Roundtables: Community & education
w7: Workshop: Translathon
Open for breakout sessions
Open for breakout sessions
Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space
Session 4: 11:00-12:30
11:00
Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan
, founder of SciHub
Knowledge, democracy, and the Wikipedian gender gap
How Latin American Indigenous Communities are Sharing Free Knowledge on Wikipedia in their Native Languages
So, you have data. Now, what do you do?
Shining Light on Legal Threats to Free Knowledge
Editing challenges on multi-script wikis
Global GLAM-Wiki meetup
Transl-a-thon: Wikidata in your language
Breakout sessions
Edit-a-thon in honor of Bassel Khartabil
New Voices: Learn about the movement strategy research
11:00
11:15
11:15
11:30
Reducing harassment on Wikimedia projects
New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons
Wikipedia will soon speak to you
11:30
11:45
What is the smallest community that can support a Wikipedia?
Wikipedia Visiting Scholars
11:45
12:00
Introducing Training Modules - multilingual training on combating harassment
Structured Commons: what changes are coming?
New frontiers in digital censorship and circumvention for Wikipedia users
Write in Wikipedia Like You Chat With Your Friends: Editing Through Messenger Apps
12:00
12:15
12:15
12:30
Lunch
12:30
13:00
Lunch + Birds of a feather meetups:
WikiWomen's Lunch
, Joyce/Jarry (level A)
13:00
13:30
13:30
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Session 5: 14:00-15:30
Open
s27: The Big Open / WMF Board panel
s28: Citations & references
s29: GLAM: outreach
s26: Sound & Image
s30: Technology: editing tools
r4: Roundtables: cultural heritage
w9: Workshop: Wiktionary & AI
s52: Wiki Loves Monuments
Open for breakout sessions
Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space
Session 5: 14:00-15:30
14:00
Open
The Big Open: A conversation between Katherine Maher (WMF), Ryan Merkley (Creative Commons), and Mark Surman (Mozilla)
WikiCite — Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
Small GLAMs: opportunities & possibilities of working together with small cultural heritage institutions
How does common knowledge sound? My experience uploading audio files to Commons
Visual editor session:
Visual diffs
Unifying the editing experience
We dreamt big - What did Connected Open Heritage manage to achieve?
Kathabhidhana: Recording words for Wiktionary and preparing for an AI assistant
Breakout sessions
Edit-a-thon in honor of Bassel Khartabil
14:00
14:15
14:15
14:30
Journals Cited by Wikipedia: Evaluating the Impact of Journals on Wikipedia
It is not a matter of visibility: GLAMs contribute to fill the knowledge gap. New metrics for GLAMs and GLAM-Wiki cooperation
Photography panel:
5 years of Festivalsommer
Diva in front of the camera
How I learnt basics of Photography
Waiting for Real-Time Collaboration
Everything You Need to Know About Wiki Loves Monuments 2017
14:30
14:45
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Q&A Panel
14:45
15:00
WikiFactMine - Enhancing Wikidata by Mining the Scientific Literature
Lingua Libre: Massive Open Audio Recording
Community Wishlist: What We've Done, What's Coming Up
Starting, Sticking, and Growing: Exploring and Scaling What’s Working for Cultural Heritage Organizations and Volunteers
Workshops
15:00
15:15
15:15
15:30
Break
15:30
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Session 6: 16:00-17:00
s37: Invited speaker
s35: Global trends for the future
s36: Lightning talks
s32: Learning from each other
s33: Video
s34: New readers
s31: Community health
Board breakout discussions
r5: Workshop: Technical request session
breakout discussions
Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space
Session 6: 16:00-17:00
16:00
Dana Wagner
The year in fact-checking
ends at 16:55
What should we know for the future? Global trends that will impact the next 15 years of Wikimedia
ends at 16:55
Lightning talks 2
How not to reinvent the wheel: learning from others in the Wikimedia movement
Is Wikipedia ready for videos?
How to raise awareness for Wikipedia: lessons from Iraq & Nigeria
From open hostility to collaboration: The WMF, the VisualEditor and the German-language Wikipedia
WMF Board breakout discussions
Cats, goats and awesome requests: Highlights from the Technical Wishlist
Structured Data on Commons: Design discussion
16:00
16:15
16:15
16:30
Wikispecies and Wikidata - a match made in heaven, or hell?
State of Video in the Wikimedia Movement
Wikistress: A Survival Guide
WMF Board breakout discussions
16:30
16:45
Breakout discussions
16:45
17:00
Break
17:00
17:15
Esra'a Al-Shafei
Experiences from the Middle East: Overcoming Challenges and Serving Communities
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
Please note: NO PHOTOS, VIDEO OR STREAMING FOR THIS SESSION.
why?
17:15
17:30
17:30
17:45
17:45
18:00
Group Photo Directions
18:00
18:30
Unconference and
Meetups
18:30
19:00
19:00
19:30
19:30
20:00
20:00
20:30
20:30
21:00
23:00
21:00
23:00
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Sunday, August 13
time
time
08:00
On-site registration
(Open all day)
08:00
08:30
08:30
09:00
Announcements
09:00
09:30
Frédéric Giuliano & Hélène Laverdure, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)
Libraries, Archives and sharing knowledge
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
in French, simultaneous translation provided
09:30
10:00
10:00
10:30
Break
Room set-up; briefing,
Facebook Live?
10:30
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Session 7: 11:00-12:30
s35: Indigenous knowledge
s36: GLAM: Libraries
s38: Lightning talks 3
s39: Education & Medicine
s40: Legal: Advocacy
s41: Sister projects
r6: Roundtables: Strategy
w10: Workshop: Emergency response
Workshop: ORES
Open for breakout sessions
Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space
Session 7: 11:00-12:30
11:00
Indigenous Knowledge on Wikipedia: Lessons Learned from the Project Wikipetia Atikamekw Nehiromowin
in French, simultaneous translation provided
Brick by brick: Libraries and Wikimedia building on each other
Lightning talks 3
Going green: How we can reduce the environmental impact of Wikipedia
Fair Use in Australia campaign
Wikisource Year in Review
Movement strategy: How Wikimedians imagine and shape the future of our movement
MOVED TO SALON 6 on Level 3
The role of Wikimedia in emergency response
Patrolling with ORES and the New Filters for Edit Review beta
Editathon for Bassel
Movement strategy: How Wikimedians imagine and shape the future of our movement
11:00
11:15
11:15
11:30
Libraries and Wikipedia: Global perspectives and opportunities
Wikipedia and Medicine, A Year in Review
It's alive! The EU copyright reform is coming and will affect Wikipedia.
How to debug Wikisource metadata management?
Editathon for Bassel
11:30
11:45
11:45
12:00
Making Women Blue - The Impact of Women in Red
Bringing languages closer to enrich each other
Community Health Legal Defense
Bringing lexicographical data to Wikidata: supporting Wiktionary and beyond
breakout sessions
Breakout sessions
Editathon for Bassel
12:00
12:15
12:15
12:30
Lunch
12:30
13:00
Lunch +
Strategy breakout discussions
: Joyce/Jarry /
100wikibirds of a feather
: Joyce/Jarry
13:00
13:30
13:30
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Session 8: 14:00-15:30
s42: The Coolest Projects
s43: Research: Understanding ourselves to improve
s45: Fundraising + covering the community
s53: Global editathons
s47: Higher education
s48: GLAM & community
r7: Roundtables: Strategy & global health
w12: Workshop: OpenStreetMap
w13: Workshop: GLAM & Wikidata
Open for breakout sessions
Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space
Session 8: 14:00-15:30
14:00
The Coolest Projects of Wikimedia Chapters - Be Inspired
Results from a global Wikimedia survey
Fundraising messaging that moves our readers: What we’ve learned from testing thousands of fundraising appeals
Methods to enhance the production of Wikipedia articles on specific topics: articles related to the South African primary school curriculum
The Value of a Wikimedian
On-Wiki Campaigning to Engage New Editors
Movement strategy Q&A
Mapathon! Contribute and connect OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia using Wikidata
Wikidata + heritage data: Where do we stand? What's next?
Editathon for Bassel
14:00
14:15
14:15
14:30
Covering the Wikimedia Community
Wikilesa I, II and III: the first edit-a-thon about forced disappearances in Argentina during the dictatorship
Two years of cooperation: The University of Heidelberg, the SFB 933 and Wikipedia
What do we know about GLAM-Wiki?
Editathon for Bassel
14:30
14:45
Knowledge for everyone: making access affordable
Movement Strategy Q&A, more time for discussion
14:45
15:00
The Keilana Effect: Visualizing the closing coverage gaps with ORES
AfroCROWD: A panel discussion on the work of Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia and Running Monthly Wikipedia Edit-a-thons.
Translating Wikipedia as an educational tool
Open
15:00
15:15
15:15
15:30
Break
15:30
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
Session 9: 16:00-17:00
Hackathon showcase
s50: Communicating Wikimedia
Lightning talks 4
s49: Community health and the WMF
s51: Future of Wikimania
Open for breakout sessions
r8: Roundtables: Wikidata
Open for breakout sessions
100wiki days meetup
MOVED TO LUNCH, LEVEL A
Open for breakout sessions
Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space
Session 9: 16:00-17:00
16:00
Hackathon Showcase
A Medieval pope skeleton dancing with Taylor Swift in an Iraqi telecom commercial
Lightning talks 4
Patterns and Antipatterns in Volunteer Leaders
Future of Wikimania
Breakout sessions
Wikidata "ask us anything"
Breakout sessions
Wikibirds: moved to lunch!
Breakout sessions
Considerations for Phase 2: What are the though questions that we need to tackle in the next phase of the strategy process?
16:00
16:15
16:15
16:30
Wikidata Pink Pony Session
Breakout sessions
Breakout sessions
16:30
16:45
16:45
17:00
Break
17:00
17:15
Closing ceremony
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
17:15
17:30
17:30
18:00
18:00
18:30
Break
18:30
19:00
Closing party
Windsor Station
clearer map (Google)
map
Dinner provided: 7-9pm
19:00
19:30
19:30
20:00
20:00
20:30
20:30
21:00
00:00
21:00
00:00
time
Ballroom West
(level 4)
Ballroom Center
(level 4)
Drummond West
(level 3)
Drummond Center
(level 3)
Drummond East
(level 3)
Salon 3
(level 2)
Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
(level 2)
Salon 4
(level 2)
Salon 6
(level 3)
time
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