2021:Potential Wikimania sessions for newcomers

Day 2 (August 14):

LECTURE - BUILDING 2 (15:15-16:45)

• Education, Wikimedia Projects and Digital Literacy during COVID-19 Pandemic
• Topics: Education and GLAM, New Voices and Newcomers, Innovation and Research, Gender, Diversity and Inclusion, Our Stories

SERIES OF LIGHTNING TALKS - BUILDING 3 (15:15-16:15)

• Lightning Talk 1 - Creating a tool that lets people listen to Wikipedia
• Topics: Languages

• Lightning Talk 2 - How to innovate in free knowledge? – New pathways to promote new projects and attract innovators for free knowledge from across the world
• Topics: Strategy 2030, Innovation and Research

• Lightning Talk 3 - Photography documentation of built heritage of rural West Bengal for Wikimedia Commons
• Topics: Innovation and Research

SERIES OF LIGHTNING TALKS - BUILDING 3 (16:15-16:45)

• Lightning Talk 1 - Importance of reliable sources: citing dictionaries, glossaries and atlas as an example
• Topics: Community Topics, New Voices and Newcomers, Innovation and Research, Languages

• Lightning talk 2 - Documenting Women Artists in the University of Salford Art Collection Through Wikidata
• Topics: Education and GLAM, Gender, Diversity and Inclusion

• Lightning Talk 3 - From the Brussels War Room: Current Legislative Files Important for Wikimedia
• Topics: Advocacy, Safety and Community Health

SERIES OF LECTURES - BUILDING 3 (17:00-18:00)

• Lecture 1 - An overview of the COVID-19-related content of Wikimedia projects
• Topics: Community Topics, Other

• Lecture 2 - Creating a Wiki Time Capsule and the first 24 hour Global Edit-a-thon
• Topics: Partnerships, Community Topics, Innovation and Research, Gender, Diversity and Inclusion, Languages, Other

• Lecture 3 - After the lifting of the block: Case study of Turkey
• Topics: Partnerships, Community Topics, Our Stories

Day 3 (August 15):

PANEL - BUILDING 5 (15:00-16:00)

• Revisiting the AfroCROWD Juneteenth Wiki Civil Rights
• Topics:Diaspora, marginalized communities

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS - BUILDING 2 (15:00-16:30)

• State of GLAM Wiki in 2021
• Topics: Education and GLAM, Partnerships, Community Topics, New Voices and Newcomers, Innovation and Research, Gender, Diversity and Inclusion

PANEL - BUILDING 3 (16:45-17:30)

• Can we rid Wikipedia of its content gender gap? Views from Women in Red
• Topics: Gender, Diversity and Inclusion

SERIES OF LECTURES - BUILDING 3 (21:00-22:00)

• Lecture 1 - Wikimedia Legal History: Past Practice and Future Trends
• Topics: Advocacy, Safety and Community Health, Strategy 2030, Our Stories

• Lecture 2 - Exploring the possibility of outreach in Asia
• Topics: Partnerships, Advocacy, Safety and Community Health, Community Topics

• Lecture 3 - Documenting social movements through the Wikimedia Projects: Argentina, Chile and Colombia experiences
• Topics: Human Rights, Activism

Day 4 (August 16)

LECTURE - BUILDING 3 (9:30-10:15)

• The experiences of WikiGap and WikiForHumanRights. Working with UN experts on topics for impact
• Speakers: John Cummings, Ben Vershbow, Alex Stinson, Eric Luth  

ROUNDTABLE - BUILDING 5 (11:00-11:45)

• Universal Code of Conduct Roundtable
• Topics: Advocacy, Safety and Community Health

Day 5 (August 17):

DISCUSSION - BUILDING 2 (14:30-16:00)

• Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom-- learning from a pilot project in Bolivia, Morocco and the Philippines
• Topics: Education and GLAM, Partnerships

PANEL DISCUSSION - BUILDING 3 (14:30-15:15)

• Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects
• Topics: Community Topics, Innovation and Research, Languages, Other

PANEL DISCUSSION - BUILDING 3 (15:15-16:00)

• Raising the voices of indigenous communities from Latin America through Wikimedia Projects
• Speakers: Angie Cervellera, Shailili Zamora Aray, Oscar Costero, Constanza Veron

SERIES OF LIGHTNING TALKS - BUILDING 5 (16:15-17:00)

• The top 9 things to know about safety and inclusion at Wikimedia online events
• Topics: Community Topics, Gender, Diversity and Inclusion

PANEL - BUILDING 3 (16:15-17:00)

• "We write Wikipedia. Participation of women in the free and collaborative encyclopedia on the Internet
• Topics: Gender, Diversity and Inclusion

MEETUP - BUILDING 2 (16:15-17:45)

• "#VisibleWikiWomen community meetup: how far we’ve come, what future we want to build together
• Topics: Partnerships, Gender, Diversity and Inclusion

MIXED FORMAT - BUILDING 2 (17:45-19:15)

• Art+Feminism: Beyond the Edit-a-thon
• Topics: Education and GLAM, Advocacy, Safety and Community Health, Community Topics, New Voices and Newcomers, Innovation and Research, Gender, Diversity and Inclusion, Languages, Our Stories