2019:Program

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The group photo of Wikimania 2018
The group photo of Wikimania 2018

Legend[edit | edit source]

Theme[edit | edit source]

More info: Theme
Session Identifiers
Plenary session - Plenary session - Ideal for newbies
- Workshop - Group discussions
- Panel - Lightning talks
- Livestream - No photography

Have you ever thought about the Wikimedia movement in terms of sustainable development? How free knowledge could have the potential to radically change peoples’ lives? Or how we through cooperation, innovation and passion actually could build a better world? Perhaps you haven’t, but we want to think about it and start a conversation.

The theme of Wikimania 2019 will be: Stronger together: Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals. The theme will permeate the program and guide our communication, cooperation and outward work.

Program design[edit | edit source]

More info: Program design

As Wikimania has grown and matured over the years, the physical format has remained relatively constant. Traditionally, a central program committee makes a general ‘call for submissions’; the vast majority of submissions received are for the ‘presentation’ format; and approximately two-thirds of all submissions must be rejected due to time/space constraints. Once the submissions are reviewed and accepted, they are scheduled into sessions with other talks on a similar topic.

This year, the Wikimania Stockholm organising team are trying something new...
Participants at the 'Decolonsing the internet' workshop, Wikimania 2018

Rather than a centrally-controlled program weighted towards individual, retrospective presentations and a passive audience, we believe that this year’s conference theme requires a format that is future-oriented, collaborative, active, and focused on practical problem-solving. The outcomes targeted should be those that can be most efficiently achieved at in person events, namely: practical training, learning, idea-sharing and cross-cultural collaboration.

This year’s program will feature a series of parallel Spaces, a.k.a. "tracks" or "symposia", each focused on a particular topic area (examples below), with its own dedicated room in the venue, its own leaders, and a small team to help build and promote their specific program.

Rooms[edit | edit source]

At the University of Stockholm, the conference will be using four buildings. The rooms have all been named after Nobel prize laureates of various disciplines and from various countries. There are also many meeting points around and among the buildings for impromptu gatherings.

Aula Magna Södra Huset
Plenary sessions Plenary session combined left & right halls 1200 Szymborska A wing classroom. Room A5137 30
Murad left main hall 700 Maathai B wing lecture hall. Room B5 100
Arnold right main hall 600 Strickland B wing classroom. Room B315 30
Gbowee classroom on top level.
Officially Kungstenen
30 Menchú B wing classroom. Room B487 30
Curie classroom on top level.
Officially Bergsmannen
50 Tu B wing classroom. Room B497 40
Karman open space on middle level 30 Ostrom D wing classroom. Room D307 30
Allhuset Ebadi D wing classroom. Room D315 30
Yousafzai Hall. Officially the Rotunda 120 Lessing D wing classroom. Room D499 70
Juristernas hus Alexievich D wing classroom. Room D416 100
Montalcini downstairs hall.
Officially the Reinholdssalen
75
Williams upstairs classroom 30

Related activities[edit | edit source]

A map of the conference buildings and rooms. Click to enlarge.

Before or after the main conference days there are also several related activities that will take place outside of the conference venue. These activities are free to join. They include the Cultural Crawl, City tours and some other activities which may be found here. You may revisit that page to find additional information the closer we get to the conference. If you have any proposals for related activities, feel free to propose them at the talk page. For the related activities, you do not have to register for the pre-conference days as they take place outside of the venue.

Community curated schedules[edit | edit source]

The following are community-made alternative formats, or curated specific-interest groupings, of the program.
Note: These are not necessarily maintained to match any changes in the official program.
Search keywords: calendar export, ical, offline, Android app.

Meetups[edit | edit source]

There are also multiple meetups planned during Wikimania 2019. These include, but are not limited to such topics as a quick and dirty course on Northern Sámi, using incubator projects to revitalize Taiwan's Endangered Aboriginal languages, an Iberocoop meetup, and a meetup for people on the spectrum.

Preconference[edit | edit source]

Participants at the Hackathon, 2018

The pre-conference days runs from Wednesday 14 to Thursday 15 August. The pre-conference activities on the University Campus include two specific activities: the hackathon and the learning days. In order to take part in these activities, you have to register for the pre-conference days.

Wednesday 14
All day Hackathon (program) Learning Days
17:30 – 18:30 Introduction to Wikimania Ideal for newbies

Spelbomskan - Aula Magna, top floor

Thursday 15
All day Hackathon (program) Learning Days

Friday 16 August[edit | edit source]

All day events:

Friday program chronological list view (mobile friendly)

Building Aula Magna Building
08:30 – 10:00 Registration 08:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 12:00 Welcome session Plenary session Live streaming

Keynote address – Michael Peter Edson
co-founder and Associate Director of The Museum for the United Nations — UN Live
Share your SDG story

10:00 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
& meetups
12:00 – 13:00
Building Aula Magna Allhuset Juristernas hus Södra Huset Building
Room Murad Arnold Curie Karman Yousafzai Montalcini Szymborska
A5137
Maathai
B5
Strickland
B315
Menchú
B487
Tu
B497
Ostrom
D307
Ebadi
D315
Lessing
D499
Room
Space Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development GoalsSpotlight Session Live streaming RESEARCH STRATEGY EDUCATION GROWTH TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS MULTIMEDIA GLAM Space
13:00 Tutorial: Discovering and Analyzing Wikimedia Images
Miriam Redi
Workshop 
Capacity Building
Jeffrey Keefer, Liang-chih ShangKuan et al.
Group discussion 
Intro to the Education Space: Wikimedia & SDG 4
Shani Evenstein, Melissa Guadalupe Huertas, Ryan Merkley, TJ Bliss, Ad Huikeshoven, Naureen Nayyar
Ideal for newbies Panel Livestream 
Introductory panel to the Growth Space: Challenges and approaches to Community Growth
Rita Ho, Rosiestep, Manavpreet Kaur, Juandev, Samat
Ideal for newbies Panel Livestream 
Let's completely change how wiki links work
Amir Aharoni
Strengthening Human Rights through Wikimedia
Laurent Sauveur, Jeff Lee, Jorge Vargas, Anna Torres
Workshop Panel 
Building Technical Capacity in Smaller Wikis
Birgit Müller
Group discussion 
One World, One Wiki!
C. Scott Ananian
Group discussion 
Welcome to the Health Space
Dr. James Heilman
Everyone gets one - Wikibase and the Wikibase Ecosystem
Lydia Pintscher, Jens Ohlig
Behind the scenes of the Odia Wikipedia how-to video tutorials
Subhashish Panigrahi, Soumendra Kumar Sahoo
Workshop 
Introduction to the GLAM Space
GLAM space team
13:00
13:15 Editing Wikipedia as a health expert - are the challenges simply academic
Stuart Ray, M.D.
13:15
13:30 What we know about newcomers and how to nurture them
Marshall Miller, Rita Ho, Benoît Evellin, Revi, Martin Urbanec
Livestream 
URL shortener: How something so simple can be so complicated
Amir Sarabadani
Challenges when going on photo walks
Mike Peel, Sturm
Group discussion 
Mini Keynote: What we did when the National Museum in Brazil burned
Giovanna Fontenelle and Éder Porto
13:30
13:45 Keynote I: EDUWiki & OERs + discussion on OERs and their place in the Wikiverse
Aram Pakhchanian
Ideal for newbies Panel Group discussion Livestream 
Offline Health Resources - expanding content for Internet in a Box
Tim Moody
Workshop Group discussion 
13:45
14:00 GlobalFactSync
Sebastian Hellmann, Tina Schmeißner, Johannes Frey
Let's completely change how templates work
C. Scott Ananian
Group discussion 
Ensuring visibility for your country's GLAM institutions on the Wikimedia projects
Alicia Fagerving
Group discussion 
360° photography
Martin Kraft
Workshop 
Mini Keynote: State of Wikidata in 2019
Lydia Pintscher
14:00
14:15 14:15
14:30 – 15:00 Break 14:30 – 15:00
Building Aula Magna Allhuset Juristernas hus Södra Huset Building
Room Murad Arnold Gbowee Curie Karman Yousafzai Montalcini Szymborska
A5137
Maathai
B5
Strickland
B315
Menchú
B487
Tu
B497
Ostrom
D307
Ebadi
D315
Lessing
D499
Room
Space Continued: Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development GoalsSpotlight Session Live streaming RESEARCH RESEARCH STRATEGY EDUCATION GROWTH TECHNOLOGY LANGUAGES LIBRARIES STRATEGY HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS GLAM GLAM Space
15:00 Tutorial: Testing ideas for flourishing communities: Imagining practical & ethical A/B tests
Nathan Matias, Julia Kamin, and Max Klein
Workshop 
Diversity
Marc Miquel, Iván Martínez et al.
Group discussion 
Keynote II: EDUWiki & Researchers - Engaging researchers to contribute to Wikipedia
Olle Terenius
Livestream 
Building organizations for growth: Wikidata in India, Wikimedia Armenia, Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing, and Wikimedia Sweden
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Bodhisattwa, Satdeep Gill; Susanna Mkrtchyan; Manavpreet Kaur; Sofie Jansson
Panel Livestream 
An introduction to Phabricator, where the developers are
Andre Klapper
Workshop 
How to sustain your language online
Daniel Bögre Udell
Workshop Group discussion 
Libraries in Wikidata tutorial
Workshop 
Make people care: using SDGs to talk about Free Knowledge
Maiken Hagemeister, Lisa Dittmer, Jan Apel, Tjane Hartenstein
Workshop Ideal for newbies 
Offline in Senegal and Nigeria
GastelEtzwane, Gabriel Thullen, Jack Rabah
Open Data Partnerships
Jens Ohlig, Barbara Fischer, Alice Wiegand
Wiki loves Monuments: Case studies and workshop
Effeietsanders, Rainer Halama, Luca Landucci, Davide Pedalà
Workshop 
The Smithsonian: A Partnership to Improve Gender Representation Online
Kelly Doyle, Effie Kapsalis
15:00
15:15 15:15
15:30 Enhancing Students' Learning through EDUWiki Initiatives.
TBD
Ideal for newbies Panel Group discussion Livestream 
PARTNERSHIPS Expanding IIAB content
Group discussion 
15:30
How can we more easily organize multi-chapter projects?
BugWarp, DerHexer, Marcus Cyron
15:45 Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons for GLAM-Wiki
Sandra Fauconnier, Satdeep Gill, André Costa
15:45
16:00 Affiliates Research meetup
Phabricator for chapters
Sebastian Berlin
Workshop 
Cochrane
Syliva
16:00
16:15 Advancing Minority Languages through Wikimedia projects in Educational Settings
TBD
Ideal for newbies Panel Livestream 
16:15
16:30 Q&A: Ask us anything about Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy
Nicole Ebber, Kaarel Vaidla
Events? Competitions? Engagement? CentralNotice is your friend
David Strine, Joseph Seddon
Livestream 
Personalised search
Juandev
Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata
Edward Betts
What happened this year with WPMed Foundation?
James Heilman, Shani Evenstein
16:30
16:45 16:45
17:00 – 20:00 Welcome reception at City Hall - Hosted by City of Stockholm
(Shuttle bus from Aula Magna directly to City Hall - at 17:30)

Including group photo

17:00 – 20:00
Evening Meetups Evening

Saturday 17 August[edit | edit source]

All day events:

  • Community Village in the foyer of the ground floor of Aula Magna
  • Hackathon upstairs in Juristernas hus
  • Wikitongues language recording station

Saturday program chronological list view (mobile friendly)

Building Aula Magna Allhuset Juristernas hus Södra Huset Building
Room Murad Arnold Gbowee Curie Karman Yousafzai Montalcini Szymborska
A5137
Strickland
B315
Menchú
B487
Tu
B497
Ostrom
D307
Ebadi
D315
Lessing
D499
Alexievich
D416
Room
Space PARTNERSHIPS HEALTH SAFETY RESEARCH STRATEGY EDUCATION GROWTH TECHNOLOGY MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGES TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS ADVOCACY DIVERSITY GLAM Space
09:30 VideoWiki
Ian Furst, Pratik Shetty
Welcome to "Thriving in Safety"
Christel Steigenberger
No photography 
The Role of Wikimedia on the AI Ecosystem
Diego Saez
Roles & Responsibilities
Anne Clin, Zeineb Takouti et al.
Group discussion 
Scaling Wiki in Education: Overcoming Challenges & Growing
TBD
Ideal for newbies Panel Group discussion Livestream 
Campaigning for growth: Women in Red; WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique; and Caucasian collaboration
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Florence Devouard, Mehman Ibragimov and Oleg Abarnikov
Ideal for newbies Livestream 
Tools for partnerships – developing the technology our partners need
John Andersson, Sandra Fauconnier
Bringing Wikipedia Alive: Using animation for storytelling, a new way of preserving oral history
Raphael Berchie, Felix Nartey
ConLangs in Wikimedia: From dreams to reality
KuboF Hromoslav
Open Data to tackle corruption in the Nordic-Baltic Region
Alina Ostling, Toni Mickiewicz, Antonio Greco, Pierre Mesure
Panel Group discussion 
Big Open partnerships at national level
Maja Bogataj, Peter Leth, Rachmat Wahidi
What we are advocating for and why
Douglas Scott
Group discussion No photography 
Let's Talk about Campaigns and Contests
Alex Stinson, Satdeep Gill
Group discussion 
Wikidata for Wikimedia Commons users, Wikidata for beginners
Jan Lochman
Workshop 
The process of upload, disseminate and report a GLAM and how wikidatifying it improves it: a Brazilian experience
Éder Porto
09:30
09:45 09:45
Supporting deliberation and resolution on Wikipedia
Amy Zhang
10:00 Attribution - Laws and Norms within Open Communities and Communicating to the Public
Meredith Jacob, Diane Peters
Ideal for newbies Panel Livestream 
Universal Code of Conduct
Patrick Earley, Neha Nair
Group discussion No photography 
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. Except we’re not...
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Felix Nartey, Kimberli Mäkäräinen
Group discussion 
QUIPU: Quechua Language based Knowledge Graph
Elwin Huaman
Internet is for the people - the future we want
Natalia Mileszyk, Alek Tarkowski
Workshop 
Mapping the gender gap: Testimonies from the Indian Wikimedia community
Anwesha Chakraborthy, Netha Hussain
10:00
10:15 All Talk? The effects of easier communication interfaces (than user talk pages) on collaborative production
Aaron Shaw
Measuring Success: Planning outcomes for Wikimedia & Education projects
Melissa Guadalupe Huertas
Workshop Ideal for newbies 
Why do museums decide to open up their collections?
Aleksandra Janus, Anna Mazgal, Douglas McCarthy, Dr. Karin Glasemann
10:15
10:30 A new year of TechStorming
Danielle Jansen
The difficulties of Wikipedias in languages that are not taught in school
Zita Ursula Zage, Gereon Kalkuhl
HEALTH Shrinking Spaces for Civil Society on the Web: Wikipedia blocks in Turkey and China
Andressa Barp Seufert, Bernd Fiedler
Group discussion 
Bridging the gender gap with Wiki Loves Campaigns
Rupika Sharma
10:30
Hidden Gems in the Wikipedia Discussions: The Wikipedians’ Rationales
Lu Xiao
Wikidata and Health: Current situation and perspectives
Houcemeddine Turki, Mina Theofilatou
Panel 
10:45 10:45
11:00 – 11:30 Break 11:00 – 11:30
Building Aula Magna Allhuset Juristernas hus Södra Huset Building
Room Murad Arnold Gbowee Curie Karman Yousafzai Montalcini Szymborska
A5137
Strickland
B315
Menchú
B487
Tu
B497
Ostrom
D307
Ebadi
D315
Lessing
D499
Alexievich
D416
Room
Space GLAM SAFETY RESEARCH STRATEGY EDUCATION GROWTH TECHNOLOGY MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGES HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS ADVOCACY DIVERSITY GLAM Space
11:30 Creating visibility for the world’s cultural heritage institutions – what has been done and what is still left to do?
John Andersson, Alicia Fagerving
Livestream 
Mental Health a case study for the Wikimedia Movement
Justice Okai-Allotey, Christel Steigenberger
Workshop Group discussion No photography 
Characterizing Reader Behavior on Wikipedia
Isaac Johnson
Advocacy
Alice Wiegand et al.
Group discussion 
Using Internet-in-a-box for Education
Tim Moody
Ideal for newbies 
Onboarding and Retention: Hungarian and French Wikipedias
Trizek, Samat
Ideal for newbies Livestream 
Wikidata Problems: Workshop on obstacles to faster Wikidata acceptance and how to overcome them
David MCEddy, Lydia Pintscher
Workshop 
Wiki Loves campaigns: Past, Present & Future
Rupika Sharma, KCVelaga
Workshop Group discussion 
Why indigenous languages matter more (now) and what we can do for them
Subhashish Panigrahi, Anass Sedrati, Kristen Tcherneshoff
Panel 
WikiJournal
Mikael
Frameworks for Free Knowledge Partnerships
Christian Friedrich, Christer Gundersen, Tgr, Mayo Fuster Morrel
Defending heritage through free knowledge: the importance of Wikimedia projects against cultural predation
Pepe Flores, Iván Martínez
Workshop Group discussion 
Interwiki Women Collaboration, a cross-wiki global campaign
Camelia Boban, Arminé Aghayan
How to engage Wikimedia community and GLAM: Russian experience
Ivan Zassoursky, Nataliia Trishchenko
11:30
11:45 11:45
Characterizing Wikipedia Citation Usage
Leila Zia (filling in for the authors)
12:00 Public Domain Awareness Project: enhancing use of CC’s Public Domain tools to serve the needs of GLAM institutions and reusers
Maarten Zeinstra, Scann, Alex Stinson, Sandra Fauconnier
Panel Livestream 
Encouraging the spirit of new editors - A structured approach to mapping onboarding efforts
Christine Domgörgen, Verena Lindner
Workshop Livestream 
Wiki Loves campaigns: Past, Present & Future (continued)
Rupika Sharma, KCVelaga
Workshop Group discussion 
Wikipedian in Residence working with Health Technology Assessments
Carl Fredrik Sjöland
Digital Security 101
Sukhbir Singh
Workshop No photography 
AfroCROWD at the United Nations and in the International Community
Sherry Antoine, Linder Fletcher
12:00
12:15 Redefining Safety: Addressing the unregistered concerns
Manavpreet Kaur
Workshop No photography 
Dwelling on Wikipedia: Investigating time spent by global encyclopedia readers
Nathan Teblunthuis
EDUWiki & Medicine
Panel 
Australian Indigenous language on Wikipedia
Ingrid Cumming
DIVERSITY Bootstrapping the Worldwide Inventory of Heritage Institutions
Beat Estermann, John Andersson, Giovanna Fontenelle
12:15
Addressing knowledge equity in cultural heritage projects
Lucy Patterson, Åsa Paaske Gulbrandsen
Group discussion 
12:30 Evolving wikitext: embracing incrementalism
S. Subramanya Sastry, C. Scott Ananian
The gender gap and me
Laliv Gal
12:30
Wikipedia graph mining: dynamic structure of collective memory
Volodymyr Miz
12:45 12:45
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
& meetups
13:00 – 14:00
Building Aula Magna Allhuset Juristernas hus Södra Huset Building
Room Murad Arnold Gbowee Curie Karman Yousafzai Montalcini Szymborska
A5137
Strickland
B315
Menchú
B487
Tu
B497
Ostrom
D307
Ebadi
D315
Lessing
D499
Alexievich
D416
Room
Space DIVERSITY SAFETY RESEARCH STRATEGY EDUCATION GROWTH GROWTH MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGES HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS ADVOCACY DIVERSITY GLAM Space
14:00 Addressing The Safety Needs: Collaborative Solutions For Mitigating Risks
Rupika Sharma
Workshop Group discussion No photography 
Understanding content moderation on English Wikipedia
Casey Tilton
Community Health
Jackie Koerner, Pavan Santhosh et al.
Group discussion 
Education & Libraries: Opportunities Explored
Shani Evenstein, Merrilee Proffitt, Trudi, Silvia E. Gutiérrez De la Torre, Jacobson, Orly Simon
Ideal for newbies Panel Group discussion 
Technology for Growth: future of mobile editing
Olga Vasileva, Alex Hollender, Jess Klein, Ed Sanders, Peter Pelberg
Livestream 
Designing for Organizing in the Wikimedia Movement
Alex Stinson, Maria Cruz
Group discussion 
Lightning talks
Lightning talks 
Wikidata in your language
Pymouss
Ideal for newbies 
Strategy to improve public health content in Wikipedia
TMorata, John Sadowski, Max Lum
Case studies of partnerships
Lucy Cromption-Reid, TJ Bliss, Itzik Edir, Michal Lester, Sailesh Patnaik
Advocacy Lightning Talks
John Weitzmann, XanonymusX, Liang-chih Shang Kuan, Casey Tilton, Enming Yan, Boyu Zhang
Lightning talks 
Experience makes the difference in improving gender equality in Wikipedia
Lina Eidmark, John Andersson
Workshop 
From a messy spreadsheet to Wikidata: start mass data uploads with OpenRefine
Alicia Fagerving
Workshop 
Serbian Ministry of Culture supporting GLAM
Filip Maljković
14:00
14:15 14:15
Sockpuppet detection in the English Wikipedia
Leila Zia (filling in for Srijan Kumar)
14:30 Wikidata Infoboxes
Mike Peel, Deryck Chan, RexxS
Workshop 
A meta-search engine for science
Cailbhe Doherty
14:30
14:45 The Equal Edit - a panel discussion on gender diversity
Eva Bonde, Sofie Jansson and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Livestream 
Do we need a global dispute resolution committee?
Ajraddatz, Martin Rulsch
Workshop Group discussion No photography 
Despite the ban: doing good work anonymously on Wikipedia
Nora Mcdonald
Wiktionary & Wikisource in EduWiki Initiatives: Challenges and Opportunities
Reem Al-Kashif, Oved Cohen
Ideal for newbies Panel Group discussion 
14:45
15:00 Technology for growth: tools and experiments from Scribe and CivilServant
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Hady Elsahar, Nathan Matias, Julia Kamin, Max Klein
Livestream 
Wikidata lexemes
Finn Årup Nielsen
Workshop 
Improving discovery of medical journal articles
Lane Rasberry
Ideal for newbies 
Diversity and sources
Sabine Rønsen
15:00
Wiki-Atlas: Rendering Wikipedia Content through Cartographic and Augmented Reality Mediums
Anastasios Noulas and Jimin Tan
15:15 15:15
15:30 – 16:00 Break 15:30 – 16:00
Building Aula Magna Juristernas hus Södra Huset Building
Room Murad Arnold Gbowee Curie Karman Montalcini Szymborska
A5137
Maathai
B5
Strickland
B315
Menchú
B487
Tu
B497
Ostrom
D307
Ebadi
D315
Lessing
D499
Alexievich
D416
Room
Space EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY SAFETY RESEARCH STRATEGY GROWTH GROWTH PARTNERSHIPS EDUCATION LANGUAGES HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS ADVOCACY DIVERSITY GLAM Space
16:00 Integrating Wikidata into Education
Shani Evenstein, João Alexandre Peschanski, Ewan McAndrew, Will Kent, Daniel Mietchen, Giovanna Fontenelle, Martin Poulter, Éder Porto
Ideal for newbies Panel Group discussion Livestream 
Coolest Tool Award 2019
Birgit Müller
Evidence of Dark Matter: Assessing the Contribution of Subject-matter Experts to Wikipedia
Alex Yarovoy (filling in for Ofer Arazy et al.)
Revenue Streams
Guillaume Paumier, Megan Hernandez et al.
Group discussion 
Lightning talks: growth ideas to take home
Lightning talks Livestream 
After Flow: A new direction for improving talk pages
Danny Horn, Benoît Evellin, Peter Pelberg
Group discussion Livestream 
How to build regional partnerships between free knowledge organizations
Hogne Neteland, Toni Ristovski
WikiAfrica: Creating the Open Knowledge Curriculum
Isla Haddow, Florence Devouard
Workshop Ideal for newbies 
LinguaLibre
Hugo Lopez, Lucas, Mahuton Possoupe
MEDRS - bulwark or barrier?
RexxS
Reflections on partnerships:
William Beutler, John Cummings, Farhad Fatkullin, Andrew Lih, David McEddy,
Rethinking public sector data ecosystems - Open Government Data, Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata
Bernhard Krabina
Lightning talks
Lightning talks 
Lightning talks
Manfred Moosleitner, Rupika Sharma,Emily I. Spratt, Ana Gerlin Hernández Bonilla
Lightning talks 
The Met Museum and New Frontiers in Wikidata engagement
Richard Knipel, Andrew Lih
16:00
16:15 16:15
Gender Equality in Wikipedia: What can we learn from Behavioral Economics?
Jérôme Hergueux
16:30 Health efforts in India
Manavpreet Kaur
Wiki- ... who? Brands, Titles and Representation in policy matters
John Weitzmann, Lilli Iliev
Workshop 
Institutional ingestion of Wikimedia Data: Trust, Tooling and Expectations
Albin Larsson
16:30
16:45 Make conflict possible again!
Vera Krick
Group discussion No photography 
Research lightning talks
multiple presenters
Lightning talks 
SAFETY MULTIMEDIA 16:45
A more flexible approach to blocking
Thalia Chan
Commons photographer's meetup
Group discussion 
17:00 Luganda Wikipedia
Paulina Bäckström, Caroline Gunnarsson, Dan Frendin, Paul Kiguba
Discussion with the board of WikiProject Med Foundation
Panel Group discussion 
EU Copyright Directive Transposition Bootshop
Teresa Nobre, Dimi Dimitrov
Workshop 
Integrating Wiki-Menstruation to Achieve the SDGs
Chaste Inegbedion, Linda Fletcher
17:00
17:15 17:15
17:30 – 19:00 POSTER SESSION with Appetizers & drinks

in the Aula Magna foyer: level 4 & 5

17:30 – 19:00
Evening meetups Evening

Sunday 18 August[edit | edit source]

All day events:

  • Community Village in the foyer of the ground floor of Aula Magna
  • Hackathon upstairs in Juristernas hus
  • Wikitongues language recording station

Sunday program chronological list view (more mobile friendly)

Building Aula Magna Allhuset Juristernas hus Södra Huset Building
Room Murad Arnold Gbowee Curie Karman Yousafzai Montalcini Szymborska
A5137
Maathai
B5
Strickland
B315
Menchú
B487
Tu
B497
Ostrom
D307
Ebadi
D315
Lessing
D499
Alexievich
D416
Room
Space READERSHIP TRANSCRIPTION RESEARCH STRATEGY EDUCATION QUALITY TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGES SAFETY PARTNERSHIPS ADVOCACY DIVERSITY LIBRARIES Space
09:30 Increasing Wikimedia’s Readership: Advocating the change with SDG Goals
Zachary McCune, Rupika Sharma
Panel Livestream 
Wikisource Year in Review 2019
How can Research Help in Reducing the Language Gap on Wikipedia
Hady Elsahar, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
Product & Technology
RYU Cheol, Matanya Moses et al.
Group discussion 
Wiki in Education: Lightning Talks Session
Melissa Guadalupe, Dominik Theis, TBD
Ideal for newbies Lightning talks 
How to measure a giant squid and other thoughts about Wikipedia’s quality
Frank Schulenburg
Group discussion 
Deploying in WMF: A new paradigm
Alexandros Kosiaris
How can we better work with environmental organisations?
John Cummings
Workshop 
Commons categorisers meetup
Group discussion 
Translate and translatewiki.net: challenges of software translation
Niklas Laxström
Workshop Group discussion 
Why do Wikimedians need digital security?
Christel Steigenberger
Group discussion No photography 
Partnership peer consultation
Nicola Zeuner, Alek Tarkowski
Group discussion 
Practical aspects of legislative advocacy
Douglas Scott
Group discussion 
Northeastern University's "Women Writers in Review" and the case for developing a Wikidata model depicting Cultures of Reception
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Lightning talks
Alicia Fagerving, Maxlath, Houcemeddine Turki, Jason Evans
Lightning talks 
09:30
09:45 09:45
Crosslingual Embedding via Generalized Eigenvalue Decomposition
Martin Josifoski
10:00 Data Quality in Wikidata
Cristina Sarasua, Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Müller-Birn, Lydia Pintscher
Workshop Group discussion 
Developing community norms for critical bots and tools
Bryan Davis
Q&A with the Wikimedia Foundation Policy Team
Jan Gerlach, Sherwin Siy, Allison Davenport
Group discussion 
Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory (WCDO): Empowering Communities to Bridge the Culture Content Gaps
Marc Miquel
10:00
10:15 Improving Knowledge Base Construction from Robust Infobox Extraction
Vivek Raghuram
How Wiki Loves Earth benefits (and harms) nature
Anton Protsiuk
Panel 
Structured Data on Commons hands-on training
Sandra Fauconnier
Workshop 
MediaWiki software and documentation translation marathon
Amir E. Aharoni
Workshop 
Draft: as a safe space
C. Scott Ananian
10:15
10:30 Lightning talks
Marc Miquel, Chris Schilling, Biplab Anand
Lightning talks Livestream 
Using transcribed content for community building and more...
Ankry
No photography 
Wiki Scholars & Scientists
Ryan McGrady
Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
Sami Mlouhi
Group discussion 
How to narrow the Visual Gender Gap
Deror Avi
Idea pitches
10:30
Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata
Maximilian Marx
10:45 10:45
11:00 – 11:30 Break 11:00 – 11:30
Building Aula Magna Allhuset Juristernas hus Södra Huset Building
Room Murad Arnold Gbowee Curie Karman Yousafzai Montalcini Szymborska
A5137
Maathai
B5
Strickland
B315
Menchú
B487
Tu
B497
Ostrom
D307
Ebadi
D315
Lessing
D499
Alexievich
D416
Room
Space EDUCATION TRANSCRIPTION RESEARCH STRATEGY EDUCATION QUALITY READERSHIP ENVIRONMENT MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGES TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIES ADVOCACY DIVERSITY LIBRARIES Space
11:30 Enhancing Awareness to the Gender Gap through EDUWiki
Shani Evenstein, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Anna Åberg, Vassia Atanassova, Justine Toms, May Hashem, Manavpreet Kaur
Ideal for newbies Panel Livestream 
Sharing best practices among Wikisource communities
Bodhisattwa, Ankry
Learning from experience -What can we learn from the Wikipedia Community when designing algorithmic systems?
Claudia Müller-Birn
Partnerships
John Cummings, Alek Tarkowski et al.
Group discussion 
How to effectively manage Wiki initiatives with the Programs & Events Dashboard (and Event Metrics!)
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Ryan McGrady, Sam Walton
Workshop Ideal for newbies 
Reforming the Featured Article process in the Indonesian Wikipedia
HaEr48
Increasing New Readers through product interventions
Angie Muigai
Climate change, civil engineering, and butterflies - a panel on how to cover environmental sustainability topics on Wikimedia projects
Phoebe Ayers, Deryck Chan, Atudu
Panel 
Copyrights in Wikidata
Hanno Lans
Workshop 
Organizing Translation Workshops
Blossom Ozurumba
How to grow the technical community by 2030
Tgr
Group discussion 
Open Refine: MARC & EAD
Workshop 
Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA: An Update
James Buatti
No photography 
Raising awareness for diversity issues of Wikipedia authors
Leserättin, IvaBerlin
Workshop No photography 
Idea discussions
Group discussion 
11:30
11:45 11:45
Analyzing the evolution of wikis with WikiChron
Javier Arroyo
12:00 Quality issues in the Northern Saami Wikipedia
Kimberli Mäkäräinen, Astrid Carlsen
Rapid Grants to Increase Awareness of Wikimedia Projects
Woubzena Jifar, Satdeep Gill



Wikispeech - making Wikipedia accessible through speech technology
Sebastian Berlin, André Costa
Copyright advocacy mapping
Douglas Scott, Sean Flynn, Meredith Jacob
Workshop Group discussion No photography 
12:00
12:15 GLAM Peer production of community science with personal data
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Wikimedia Foundation: What we've learned about environmental sustainability
Deb Tankersley
Describing files on Structured Commons: problems and opportunities
Sandra Fauconnier
Workshop 
Gender Gap projects across Africa
Isla Haddow-Flood, Florence Devouard
Panel 
12:15
Coolest projects
Deror Avi
Ideal for newbies Livestream 
12:30 A general annotation service
C. Scott Ananian
Lightning talks 
Lightning talks
Andrea Knabe-Schönemann, Andra Waagmeester, Liam Wyatt, Edward Betts
Lightning talks 
Analysing the Wikipedia Street Take Over
Blossom Ozurumba
Reviving the wiki in your language
Amir E. Aharoni
Workshop 
Wikidata & ETL
Jakub Klímek, Petr Škoda
Workshop 
Who wants to be a terrorist? A rough guide to over-regulating free speech with anti-terrorist measures
Anna Mazgal, Diego Naranjo
Group discussion 
12:30
How much are digital platforms based on open collaboration?
Mayo Fuster Morell
12:45 Subtitling the Chaos Communication Congress: An Experience Report
Akorenchkin
Lightning talks 
12:45
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
& meetups
13:00 – 14:00
Building Aula Magna Allhuset Juristernas hus Södra Huset Building
Room Murad Arnold Gbowee Curie Karman Yousafzai Montalcini Szymborska
A5137
Maathai
B5
Strickland
B315
Menchú
B487
Tu
B497
Ostrom
D307
Ebadi
D315
Lessing
D499
Alexievich
D416
Room
Space TECHNOLOGY TRANSCRIPTION RESEARCH STRATEGY EDUCATION QUALITY READERSHIP ENVIRONMENT MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGES LIBRARIES LIBRARIES ADVOCACY DIVERSITY LIBRARIES Space
14:00 Building Locally Relevant Knowledge with Wikisource
SGill (WMF)
Group discussion 
State of Wikimedia Research 2018-2019
Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Reem Al-Kashif, Tilman Bayer, Matej Grochal, Miriam Redi, Aaron Shaw, Benjamin Mako Hill
Resource Allocation
Daria Cybulska, Michal Buczyński et al.
Group discussion 
Contextualizing Wikimedia in education: Creating a Roadmap to becoming a Wiki in Education Leader
Melissa Guadalupe Huertas, Shani Evenstein, TBD
Workshop Ideal for newbies Group discussion 
Idea jam: future dimensions of quality
Group discussion 
Wikipedia everywhere - for you, your neighbours, your school
Emmanuel Engelhart
Workshop 
School Strike for Climate: Free Knowledge and the Climate Emergency
Isabelle and Sophia Axelsson
Ideal for newbies 
Portrait photography photo booth
Ailura, Martin Kraft
Workshop 
A wealth of opportunities hiding in plain sight
Kimberli Mäkäräinen, Susanna Ånäs
Map making workshop – from Wikidata to interactive off-wiki maps in three steps
Workshop 
Open Refine: MARC & EAD (continued)
Workshop 
How to talk about advocacy so that people do not fall asleep?
Alek Tarkowski, Natalia Mileszyk
Group discussion 
Lightning talks 2
Lightning talks 
Idea discussions (continued)
Group discussion 
14:00
14:15 14:15
14:30 Hackathon Showcase
Rachel Farrand, Siebrand Mazeland
Ideal for newbies Panel Livestream 
Updating the desktop experience for Wikipedia
Olga Vasileva, Alex Hollender
Workshop 
Towards Knowledge Equity through Accessibility
Volker E., Laney Feingold
Panel 
14:30
14:45 DIVERSITY Documentation and quality process workshop
Documentation and quality process workshop
Workshop 
Pouring coastal water on Wikidata - Can we add more?
Axel Petterson, Josefina Algotsson, Alicia Fagerving
Panel 
How to include oral culture in Wikimédia movement?
Lionel Scheepmans
Workshop 
14:45
Wiki LGBT+ meetup
Shikeishu, Jeffrey Keefer, Lane Rasberry
Group discussion 
15:00 Wrap-up (closing session)
VIGNERON
Group discussion 
Radio to illustrate Wikipedia. Creative examples already put in practice
Francesc Fort
Lightning talks
Lightning talks 
Platform Regulation and Free Knowledge Advocacy
Lilli Iliev, John Weitzmann, and Natalia Mileszyk
15:00
15:15 15:15
15:30 – 16:00 Break 15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 17:30 Closing session Plenary session Live streaming

Farhad Fatkullin – 2018 Wikimedian of the Year; Jimmy Wales, announcing the 2019 winner;
Katherine Maher – Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, discussing The Future of the Wikimedia Movement;
Presentation by ESEAP, hosts of Wikimania 2020;
Acknowledgements & thanks

16:00 – 17:30
17:30 – 20:00 17:30 – 20:00
20:00 – 24:00 Closing party 20:00 – 24:00

Remote attendance[edit | edit source]

Presentation files[edit | edit source]

Many presentations are available here as pdf files in the category commons:Category:Wikimania 2019 presentations.

Recording [edit | edit source]

Links for all recorded presentations

All sessions will be recorded by the Knowledge savers team and published on Wikimedia Commons at category Wikimania 2019 videos, with the exception of sessions that have requested not to be filmed. No photography.

Live streaming [edit | edit source]

Links for all live streamed presentations
  • All sessions in room Murad will be live streamed on the Wikimedia Foundation's YouTube channel (CC BY).
  • Sessions in rooms Arnold, Yousafzai, Montalcini, Szymborska, Maathai, Lessing and Alexievich will be live streamed on Wikimedia Sverige's YouTube channel (CC BY).
    With the exception of sessions that have requested not to be filmed. No photography.
  • All will be added to the "Wikimania 2019 collaborative playlist" on Wikimedia Foundation's YouTube channel.
  • They will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons later, in the category commons:Category:Wikimania 2019 videos.

Sessions notes[edit | edit source]

Links for all sessions notes (etherpads)

The Knowledge savers team will take notes at almost all sessions.