2021:Community Village

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Welcome to the 2021 Wikimania Community Village;
This space in Building 1 is for connecting with WMF Affiliates, WMF Community Groups like the Language committee, and VRT (formerly OTRS).

All WMF Affiliates and committees are encouraged to create their own sub-pages where they can highlight presentations of interest to their community. Affiliates can also announce community gatherings both online and in person through this space during Wikimania.

If you have questions, please ask on the talk page, or if it's urgent you can get in touch with User:Pharos, your village guide.


Community pages[edit | edit source]

In-person meetings[edit | edit source]

Wikimedians around the world are also hosting in-person events where it is safe to meet physically. For a full list of in-person events, see:

Community Village Table Information[edit | edit source]

Wikimania 2021 - Remo floor plans - Building 1 - Community village

There are 140 available tables for Affiliates in Building 1 of our event platform, Movement Groups and General Wiki Projects to have a space at the Wikimania 2021 Community Village. There are 10 "floors" in Building 1, and each floor holds four 10-seat tables and ten 6-seat tables, as well as numerous mini-tables. You can utilize this space to get attendee traffic around the work that you are doing and generate more traction and support for your work and local communities!

Attendees will be able to "take a seat" with you, hear about your portfolio of work and engage with you and your initiatives. You can take advantage of the following tools our event platform (Remo) has to offer:

  • Whiteboard: It is a Miro whiteboard and you can embed images, videos that are played on the platform (does not open a separate link, people can watch it "on site") and sticky notes.
  • Attendees will be able to ask you questions and engage in video/audio chat.
  • You can have a sign up/learn more link on your whiteboard as well.
  • Depending on your project or affiliate/movement group, you will be designated a 10 or 6 seater table for attendees to continuously interact with you and your table.
  • An actual human does not need to be staffing the table always - all though we recommend human presence for better engagement - you can always leave content on the whiteboard to watch or interact with.

Schedule (UTC)[edit | edit source]

Day 1 – 14 August (Saturday)

  • Closed—no community village is scheduled (but you can still hang out).

Day 2 – 15 August (Sunday)

Day 3 – 16 August (Monday)

Day 4 – 17 August (Tuesday)

Table Sign Up[edit | edit source]

Community village whiteboard of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group at Wikimania 2021

If you'd like to have a table at Wikimania 2021, please fill out the following table and we will reach out with additional information and table confirmation.

Affiliate/Movement Group Table Point of Contact Contact Information(Email or Wiki Username) Table Sub Name Notes
Floor 1
Movement Strategy and Governance (WMF) 17 Mervat
Ramzy Muliawan
msalman-ctr(at)wikimedia.org
ramzym-ctr(at)wikimedia.org
Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikidata (10) 1 Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) mohammed.abdulai@wikimedia.de Wikidata
Wikibase 2 Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry greenreaper@hotmail.com Wikibase
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 18 Coordinator: Mayur Paul

Moved to Unconference, Building 6, Floor 5

mpaul(at)wikimedia.org Meet the Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation Communications 19 Coordinator: Carla Casilli ccasilli@wikimedia.org Communications Department
Wikimedia Foundation Variety 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 WMF Variety Tables A, B, C, D, E
Floor 2
Wikimedia Germany 1 Léa Lacroix (temporary) lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de Wikimedia Germany
Technical Wishes (WMDE) 17 User:Johanna Strodt (WMDE) johanna.strodt@wikimedia.de Technical Wishes Hours:
  • Monday August 16, 7:00 am - 11:45 am (CEST)
  • Tuesday August 17, 2:30 pm - 6 pm (CEST)
WMAM 18 Susanna Mkrtchyan susanna.mkrtchyan@wikimedia.am WMAM
Nigerian Affiliates (Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Wiki NG) 19, 6 Tochiprecious tochiprecious2@gmail.com Igbo Wikimedians
Floor 3
Open Foundation West Africa 1 Ruby D-Brown/Eugene Masiku (OFWA) rbrown@ofwafrica.org Wiki rendezvou
Dagbani Wikimedians Usergroup 17 Masssly mohammed.sadat.abdulai@gmail.com Sokama maraaba na!
Wikimedia South Africa 18 Discott Discott Africa hangout (all welcome)
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development 19 Ainali Ainali Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
Floor 4
Wikimedia Indonesia 1 Hillun Vilayl Napis (WMID) hillun.napis@wikimedia.or.id Wikimedia Indonesia Meetup
Wikimedia Taiwan 17 Yuhsien Chen Joyce (WMTW) yuhsien.chen@wikimedia.tw Wikimedia Taiwan
Black Lunch Table Wikimedians 18 Eliza Myrie wiki@blacklunchtable.com Black Lunch Table
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group (WBG) 19 Bodhisattwa Bodhisattwa West Bengal Wikimedians
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia 4 Chongkian wikimedia.msia@gmail.com Boleh Land
Floor 5
WikiIndaba 2021 1 Geoffrey Kateregga kateregga1@gmail.com WikiIndaba 2021 Organising Committee
Wiki in Africa 17 Shoodho ckhohliwe@gmail.com WikiAfrica (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Women etc.)
Wikimedia Mexico 18 ProtoplasmaKid (temporary) On discussion Wikimedia Mexico
Karavali Wikimedians User Group (KVL) 19 Dr. U.B. Pavanaja Dr. U.B. Pavanaja Karavali Wikimedians
Wikiwomen Mangaluru 10 Dhanalakshmi K T lakshmikt96@gmail.com WikiWomen Mangaluru
Wikimedia Tanzania 8 Antoni Mtavangu Antoni Mtavangu Wikimedia Tanzania, East African Wiki Communities
Floor 6
WikiConference North America 1 econterms info@wikiconference.org WikiConference North America
WALRUS 1 Pharos Pharos US local regions
Wiki Women 18 Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight Rosiestep Wiki Women
Wikipedia in African Libraries/AfLIA 17 Alice Kibombo/Nkem Osuigwe alicekibombo@gmail.com Wikipedia in African Libraries
Wikimedia Ghana User Group 19 Justice Okai-Allotey community@wmgh.org Wikimedia Ghana User Group
Floor 7
Wikimedia Australia 17 Alex Lum alex.lum@wikimedia.org.au Wikimedia Australia
Wikimedia Canada 19 JP Béland (WMCA) jpbeland(at)wikimedia.ca Wikimedia Canada
Wikimedia Bangladesh 1 Shabab Mustafa shabab(at)wikimedia.org.bd Wikimedia Bangladesh
Wikimedia Israel 18 Deror Avi deror_avi(at)yahoo.com Wikimedia Israel
Floor 8
Affiliations Committee (AffCom) 1 affcom@wikimedia.org Affiliations Committee
Wikimedia CEE 17 Michał Buczyński michal.buczynski@wikimedia.pl Wikimedia CEE
Wikimedia Polska 18 Michał Buczyński michal.buczynski@wikimedia.pl Wikimedia Polska

WMF tables[edit | edit source]

Tables A-E on Floor 1 will be used by Wikimedia Foundation staff at specific times, per the schedule below:

Days Event Times (UTC) WMF Desk Open (UTC) Table A Table B Table C Table D Table E
Day 2: 14th August (Saturday) 10:00 – 18:30 11:00 - 14:15
15.15 - 16.15
15:15 - 18:30
Day 3: 15th August (Sunday) 13:30 – 22:30 15:00 - 18:15
18:45 - 19:45
19:30 - 22:30 Editing Team (Talk Pages, VE, etc.)

Peter Pelberg, TBD (will start at 19:30 UTC)

Day 4: 16th August (Monday) 06:00 – 12:30 07:00 - 11:45 CommTech & Wishlist Survey — Sam Wilson , Karolin Siebert, Emanuele Leoni Trust and Safety
07:00- 08:00
08:45 -09:45
10:45 - 11:45
Day 5: 17th August (Tuesday) 14:00 – 20:30 14:30 - 16:00 CommTech & Wishlist Survey — MusikAnimal, NRodriguez, HMonroy, Karolin Siebert, SGrabarczuk, Emanuele Leoni Newcomer experience & Growth team

Marshall Miller & Rita Ho

Campaigns team - Ilana Fried, Alex S. Trust and Safety Community Resources Mercedes Caso, Veronica Thamaini
16:00 - 17:00
16:15 - 17:15 Community Resources, Chris Schilling
16:15-18:00 Research, Emily Lescak / moved to floor 10, Table 17 Community Resources, Chris Schilling
16:15 - 19:15 Desktop Improvements, Web, Szymon Grabarczuk Movement Communications, Kelsi Stine-Rowe Community Resources, Chris Schilling
19:30 - 20:30 Community Resources, Marti Johnson