2025:Wikimania/Day Zero Advocacy Workshop/Agenda

Wikimania Day Zero Advocacy Workshop

In-person meeting agenda 10:00 - 14:00
Registration & Welcome
10:00 AM	Icebreaker & Introduction	Frame purpose of our session today and what we hope to achieve. Cover agenda for the day.
Messaging Workshop Goal: Strengthen narrative affirming Wikimedia's relevance and trustworthiness in the age of AI by aligning and practicing key messages.
10:10 - 12:00	Presentation & Workshop	1. Storytelling and messaging structure Activity: Stories for advocacy 2. How to be an effective spokesperson Activity: Interview role-playing
Break (10 min)
Copyright & AI Goal: Lay the groundwork for the free knowledge movement to arrive at clear policy positions on pressing issues related to Copyright and AI.
12:10 - 12:45	Framing: What are pressing issues related to Copyright and AI?	Describing the problem from regional perspectives Text and Data Mining Exceptions Use of Wikimedia content in AI training Attribution and summaries of sources Q&A Goal: ensure everyone in the room has the basic information required to participate in the rest of the activity.
12:45 - 13:30	Breakout groups	Developing policy positions on the 3 core topics Goal: arrive at core components for a policy position, which pre-identified individuals from each group commit to developing after the workshop.
13:30 - 13:45	Share-back	Breakout groups share a summary of their discussion with the room.
Closing
13:45 - 14:00	Final thoughts	Next steps for how this group might continue to work together.