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Please see the moderation schedule to find out who is moderating each session.
See also: category:Schedule
The schedule is subject to change according to the status of presenters and the discussion among program committee members.
(Of course smaller events actually start 8/1. See Main Page for the big picture.)
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Friday, 3 August
In doubt, see Final Schedule for printing (PDF)
Saturday, 4 August
| Time | Lecture Room 318(170 seats) |
Room 325 (70 seats) |
Room 328 (80 seats) |
Room 332 (70 seats) |
Room 334 (70 seats) | Lounge & Open Space at 319 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00~9:15 (01:00~01:15UTC) | Welcome, daily announcements and overview | ||||||
| 9:15~9:30 (01:15~01:30UTC) | Break | ||||||
| 9:30~10:30 (01:30~02:30UTC) Session 5 |
session 501 Achal Prabhala: Wikimedia in the offline world |
session 502 Haidong Pan Democracy and business model: wikipedia and wiki ecosystem in China Mathias Schindler:The economics of writing and publishing an encyclopedia |
session 503 Teemu Leinonen: Vision for Wikiversity: academy, popular education/folk high school and free school Cormac Lawler: Learning and learning about learning in Wikiversity |
session 504 Brian Mingus: Using Natural Language Processing to determine the quality of Wikipedia articles Luca De Alfaro: A Content-Driven Reputation System for the Wikipedia |
session 505 Panel Craig Spurrier, Andrew Lih, Rebecca MacKinnon, Erik Moeller: Grass Root media and CJU review |
session 506 | |
| 10:30~10:45 (02:30~02:45UTC) | Break | ||||||
| 10:45~11:45 (02:45~03:45UTC) Session 6 |
session 601Panel Ward Cunningham, Jack Herrick, James Forrester, Dirk Riehle: The future of wikis |
session 602 Chao-Kuei Hung: Free Culture Advocacy: A General Strategy and Some Examples Involving Social Movement Groups and Community Universities |
session 603 Isaac Mao: Knowledge Forming, Heredity, and Variation |
session 604 David Pendery: Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: The Mind of Wikipedia KaKan Lo: Another role of Wikipedians: Guiding machines to do intelligent tasks |
session 605 | session 606 BOF Li-Hua Wu: The Accumulation of Local Knowledge and Public Participation:A case study of Chu-Tien, Liu-Dui Jun-Fa Wong: How to gathering local knowledge?─Public Participation mechanism of 2007 localogy GIS project. | |
| 11:45~1:15pm (03:45~05:15UTC) | Lunch | ||||||
| 1:15~2:15pm (05:15~06:15UTC) Session 7 |
session 701 Raoul Weiler: Compilation of Ethnographic Objects from Museums Reserves |
session 702 Renaud Gaudin: moulin - offline wikipedia for the developing world Kim Tucker: Libre Knowledge and Another World is Possible |
session 703 Jan-bart De Vreede : Wiki's in Dutch Education |
session 704 Michael Dale: Metavid Wiki - Real Time Collaborative Semantic Audio/Video Metadata in MediaWiki. Ping Yeh: Embeddable Wiki Engine: proof of concept and application ideas |
session 705 | session 706 Brianna L, Commons HOWTO Tutorial | |
| 2:15~2:30 (06:15~06:30UTC) | Break | ||||||
| 2:30~3:30pm (06:30~07:30UTC) Session 8 |
session 801 Melissa Hagemann: Open Access and how it can support the work of Wikipedia Erin McKean: What Does Reference Look Like? (And Why Looks Don't Matter Much) |
session 802 Kate (Aude): Free, open source geospatial mapping tools and use in Wikimedia projects Evan Prodromou: Extending wikis with social networking tools |
session 803 Workshop Cormac Lawler: Understanding, defining, and developing Wikiversity |
session 804 Workshop Alexis Rondeau, Hector Rinaldi, Stan Wiechers: Distribute knowledge using cell-phone readable physical hyperlinks |
session 805 Panel Election Panel (briefing and accept questions from the audience) Jon Harald Søby |
session 806 David Still, Audio in Wikimedia HOWTO | |
| 3:30~3:45pm (07:30~07:45UTC) | Break | ||||||
| 3:45~4:45pm (07:45~08:45UTC) Session 9 |
session 901 Panel Mike Godwin, Kat Walsh, James Forrester, Andrew Lih: The shifting nature of the English Wikipedia community |
session 902 Workshop Yuri Astrakhan: Direct data access with MediaWiki API |
session 903 Workshop Kim Tucker: WikiMedia and Education: extending Wikimedia tools for Collaborative Learning |
session 904 Workshop Dirk Riehle: Bringing Wikipedia to Work: Open Collaboration within Corporations |
session 905 Workshop Adam Hyde: Free Manuals for free software |
session 906 Lightning talks #2 | |
| 4:45~5:00pm (08:45~09:00UTC) | Afternoon break | ||||||
| 5:00~5:10pm (09:00~09:10UTC) | Daily wrapup, session summary; Poster Session | ||||||
| 6:30-9:50pm (10:00~13:50UTC) | Wikimania Party and Film Festival | ||||||
Sunday, 5 August
| Time | Hall (300 seats) | Auditorium (800 seats) | Room 325 (70 seats) tech 2 |
Room 328 (80 seats) admins |
Room 332 (70 seats) | Room 334 (70 seats) | Lounge & Open Space at 319 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00~9:15 (01:00~01:15UTC) | Welcome, daily announcements and overview | ||||||
| 9:15~9:30 (01:15~01:30UTC) | Break | ||||||
| 9:30~10:30 (01:30~02:30UTC) Session 10 |
session 1001 Wayne Mackintosh: Sustainable innovation in mega-projects Delphine Ménard: Virtual and national cultures: Wikimedia, projects and organisation |
session 1002 | session 1003 Brion Vibber: Hacking Days Review Brian Behlendorf: What Open Source and Wiki Communities Can Teach Businesses About Innovation and Collaboration |
session 1004 Brianna Laugher: Special:Contributions/newbies: a study of newly-registered user behaviour James Hare: How to Effectively Deal with Disputes |
session 1005 LIN, Yu-Shyen: Evaluating the Effectiveness of TaiwanBaseballWiki Kwang-Tsao Shao: how to apply Wiki system on Taiwanese Encyclopedia of Life |
session 1006 Rebecca MacKinnon: Citizen media: Why Global Voices isn't trying to be a news agency. Craig Spurrier: Wikinews: How it is unique, and what the future holds |
session 1007 BOF Lodewijk Gelauff: Wikimedia conferences - Local opportunities Guillaume Paumier : Wikimedia Meta-Wiki as a thematic coordination platform for WikiProjects |
| 10:30~10:45 (02:30~02:45UTC) | Break | ||||||
| 10:45~11:45 (02:45~03:45UTC) Session 11 |
Plenary - Joi Ito: the Sharing Economy | session 1107 | |||||
| 11:45~1:15pm (03:45~05:15UTC) | Lunch | ||||||
| 1:15~2:15pm (05:15~06:15UTC) Session 12 |
session 1201 Benjamin Mako Hill: Supporting Collaboration in Branched Articles Alain Desilets: Making WikiMedia resources more useful for translators |
session 1202 | session 1203 Christoph Sauer, Chuck Smith: WikiCreole and its practical applications - the future of wiki interaction Jon Phillips: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - Wikibiblio: A Community-based Bibliographic System |
session 1204 Workshop Heather Ford, Elizabeth Stark, Sylvain Zimmer: iCommons, Creative Commons and a new global movement around Free Culture |
session 1205 Panel Hon-Him Cheung, Yan-Kit Lam :Digital Art, Open source and open content. |
session 1206 Greg Stein: Google and wiki |
session 1207 |
| 2:15~2:30 (06:15~06:30UTC) | Break | ||||||
| 2:30~3:50pm (06:30~07:50UTC) Session 13 |
Plenary: Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel | session 1307 | |||||
| 3:50~4:00pm (07:50~08:00UTC) | Break | ||||||
| 4:00~4:30pm (08:00~08:30UTC) Session 14 |
Closing Speech-Jimmy Wales | session 1407 | |||||
| 4:30~4:40pm (08:30~08:40UTC) | Afternoon break. Closing photo session with all attendants (outdoor stairs in front of the auditorium building) | ||||||
| 4:40~5:10pm (08:40~09:10UTC) | Awards session | ||||||
| 5:10~5:30pm (09:10~09:30UTC) | Wrap-up, closing gala & ceremony | ||||||
See Main Page for post conference events.