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Please see the moderation schedule to find out who is moderating each session.

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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It is now 05:25 UTC. Note: local time in Taipei is +8 hours

Friday, 3 August

In doubt, see Final Schedule for printing (PDF)

Time	Hall (300 seats)	Room 325 (70 seats)	Room 328 (80 seats)	Room 332 (70 seats)	Room 334 (70 seats)	Wikimania Lounge at 319
9:00~10:15 (01:00~02:15UTC)	Welcome Speeches: Florence Nibart-Devouard (Anthere)/Jimmy Wales (Jimbo)
10:15~10:30 (02:15~02:30UTC)	Break, open space introduction
10:30~noon (02:30~04:00UTC) Session 1	session 101 Benjamin Mako Hill: Freedom's Standard Advanced Kat Walsh: The Conscientious Copyfighter	session 102 Panel Jakob Voss: The Semantic Web and why Wikipedia should bother Denny Vrandecic: Wikipedia 3.0: MediaWiki meets the Semantic Web	session 103 Enric Senabre Hidalgo: Meritocracy, vandalism and similarities with Open Source development Su-Chu Hsu, Ju-Chun Ko: Authorship and Liquidity in Wikiart Sylvain Zimmer: Building a sustainable economy around free music, the Jamendo way	session 104 Panel Anthony Mao, Thomas Tsai, Yu, Long-Shan: Library with Free Information and Free Software	session 105 Seth Anthony: Where Have All The Writers Gone: The Diversion, Distraction and Departure of Wiki "Content Creators"" Lawrence Liang - Debate on the Authority of Knowledge vis a vis Wikipedia	session 106
12:00~1:30pm (04:00~05:30UTC)	Lunch
1:30~2:30pm (05:30~06:30UTC) Session 2	session 201 Erik Moeller: Wiki2Wiki: Wikimedia and the new ecosystem of knowledge	session 202 Jack Herrick: Challenges in a growing wiki : The wikiHow case study	session 203 Revo Soekatno: Malay, Malaysian and Indonesian languages on Wikipedia Ravi Kant The history and the current status of Hindi wikipedia and it's communities.	session 204 Panel Lawrence Liang - open content licensing Teresa Malango : Licensing Strategy and Business model for Open Content	session 205 ME! (+Stewards)	session 206 BOF user:michele, Why is Media Wiki not (yet) the ideal Wiki-engine for (formal) educational settings? Naoko Kizu: Translation for Community Building
2:30~2:45pm (06:30~06:45UTC)	Break
2:45~3:45pm (06:45~07:45UTC) Session 3	session 301 Samuel Klein: OLPC and addressing systemic bias	session 302 Guillaume Paumier, Elisabeth Bauer: Strengthening and unifying the visual identity of Wikimedia projects: a step towards maturity	session 303 Sabahat Ashraf: National and Community Information Databases—WikiPakista, WikiIndia and HumanRights.ProgressiveIslam.org David Beall: SFHOMELESS.NET and Wikia: Wiki technology expanding into government and social service resources	session 304 Harel Cain: Hebrew language Wikipedia: what makes it special and what other projects can learn from it Chia-Wei Chiu: The Study of Wiki Editing Behavior of China Wikipedian - A Case Study of Wikipedia	session 305 Gerard Meijssen:OmegaWiki, Wiki for Professional, the launch of semantic support for Wikipedia and the use of OmegaWiki in education and publications	session 306 BoF Masayuki Hatta: The Issues on Wiki Licensing
3:45~4:00pm (07:45~08:00UTC)	Afternoon break
4:00~5:00pm (08:00~09:00UTC) Session 4	session 401 Jimmy Wales	session 402 Gerard Meijssen: languages, small projects, the language committee, fund raising, signwriting	session 403 Panel David Pendery: Wikipedia and Taiwanese Students--A Good Mix	session 404 Workshop Dominick Chen Remix with wikipedia, remix on wikipedia	session 405 Workshop Elizabeth Stark & Samuel Klein: Free Culture Spaces - Building a Network of Community Centers to Promote Free Content Development	session 406 Lightning talks #1
5:00~5:30pm (09:00~09:30UTC)	Wrap-up (summary of day's sessions); Poster Session

Saturday, 4 August

Time	Lecture Room (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	Welcome, daily announcements and overview
9:15~9:30	Break
9:30~10:30 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	Break
10:45~11:45 Session 6	session 601Panel Ward Cunningham, 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	Lunch
1:15~2:15pm 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 Ida Suandi: Wikipedia: A Powerful Tool of Knowledge or an Internet Phenomena? A Survey Study of Singapore Language Teachers' Perspectives on the Use of Wikipedia in Teaching. 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 SJ, Summer of Content 2007 & Curriculum Jam	session 706
2:15~2:30	Break
2:30~3:30pm Session 8	session 801 Melissa Hagemann: Open Access movement 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 Tim Starling Kizu Naoko Benjamin Mako Hill Cary Bass Jan-Bart de Vreede	session 806
3:30~3:45pm	Break
3:45~4:45pm Session 9	session 901 Panel Mike Godwin, Kat Walsh, James Forrester, Andrew Lih: The shifting nature of the 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	Afternoon break
5:00~5:10pm	Daily wrapup, session summary
6:30-9:50pm	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	Welcome, daily announcements and overview
9:15~9:30	Break
9:30~10:30 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 Lightning talks #3
10:30~10:45	Break
10:45~11:45 Session 11	Plenary - Joi Ito: the Sharing Economy						session 1107
11:45~1:15pm	Lunch
1:15~2:15pm 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 Digital Art, Open source and open content.	session 1206 Greg Stein: Google and wiki	session 1207 BOF Lodewijk Gelauff: Wikimedia conferences - Local opportunities Guillaume Paumier : Wikimedia Meta-Wiki as a thematic coordination platform for WikiProjects
2:15~2:30	Break
2:30~3:50pm Session 13	Plenary: Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel						session 1307
3:50~4:00pm	Break
4:00~4:30pm Session 14	Closing Speech-Jimmy Wales						session 1407
4:30~4:40pm	Afternoon break
4:40~5:10pm	Awards session
5:10~5:30pm	Wrap-up, closing gala & ceremony

See Main Page for post conference events.