* ar/العربية missing ) * cs/čeština * de /Deutsch (proofreading) * el/Ελληνικά * en/English * eo/Esperanto * es/español in progress ) * eu/euskara * he/עברית * fa/فارسی * fr/français * hu/magyar missing ) * ia/interlingua * it/italiano * ja/日本語 * ko/한국어 * ml/മലയാളം * ms/Bahasa Melayu * nl/Nederlands missing ) * pl /polski (needs updating) * pt/português * ro/română * ru/русский missing ) * scn/sicilianu * sv/svenska * tr/Türkçe * uk/українська * zh-hans/中文（简体） * zh-hant/中文（繁體） *
destination: Schedule
See also Lightning talks .
Official Wikimedia Argentina event photos are available at Flickr . There is also a general Wikimania2009 Flickr group . Please add your photos with a CC license.
Not all events are official events. Attendees are welcome to organize meetups, tours and other events here. August 25: 12:00 - 15:00: Richard Stallman free (as in beer!) and open talk "The Free Software Movement ". Music show and launch of the "Free software song contest" at Teatro Presidente Alvear (in Spanish)
August 25: 16:00 - 18:30 Press Conference. Room C. Centro Cultural General San Martín
August 25-28: Wikimania Codeathon
August 26-28: Poster display. Posters approved by the Program Committee will be exhibited in the main lounge (Hall A/B) Lunchtime events
Evening events
August 25:
20:00 Welcome Dinner at Bauen Hotel (free for all registered attendees)
August 26:
19:00: Tango Workshop at the Bauen Hotel (free for all registered attendees)
21:00 Wikia party at Bauen Hotel, after the tango workshop (unofficial)
August 27:
August 28: Closing party
Language
Track
Session Type
Topics
EN
English language
ACA
Academic track
WS
Workshop
COM
Communities
ES
Spanish language
-
Casual track
DISC
Open space discussion
CON
Content
PANEL
Panel
LAT
Latin America
-
Single session
TEC
Technology
Session length
Colour code
EDU
Education
30
30-minute session
Confirmed
45
45-minute session
Not confirmed
60
60-minute session
90
90-minute session
Fourth Floor
"Enrique Muiño" (EN/ES)
Room F (EN/ES)
Room C
Room D
Third Floor
"Madres de Plaza de Mayo"
Start time
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9:15
Opening Ceremony
Richard Stallman :Before, after, and around Wikipedia
10:50
Coffee Break
11:30
Einar Spetz :A story of love and hate? How teachers at upper secondary schools in Sweden use Wikipedia and what they think of the free encyclopedia (video )
EN
Christian Becker :DBpedia - Extracting structured data from Wikipedia
(video )
EN
Sorin Adam Matei , David Braun , Horia Petrache :The structure of social collaboration on Wikipedia
(video )
EN
Christoph W. Breitler , Kurt Kulac :Quality Control Mechanisms in the german Wikipedia
(video )
EN
Dror Kamir :My parents went on their honeymoon, and the rest is history - the Pikiwiki project as an example of enhancing outreach
(video )
EN
Iván Alejandro Martínez :Wikipedia usage by Mexican students. The constant usage of copy and paste.
(video )
ES
Heiko Hees :Wikis in Print - Everything you wanted to know about the new "book tool"
(video )
EN
Jan Philipp Schmidt :Wikipedia Survey Results - Presentation and Discussion
EN
Martin Alec Walker :Wikipedia 1.0: Offline releases of the English Wikipedia
(video )
EN
Jeromy-Yu Chan :Keeping Wikimedia Chapter abreast with Local Free Culture counterparts
(video )
EN
Olga Cavalli :Uso de Wikipedia para publicación de trabajos de investigación
(video )
ES
Frank Schulenburg , Jay Walsh :NIH Academy 2009 – lessons learnt and what we left behind
(video )
EN
13:00
Lunch
14:15
Pedro Sanchez :Wikis and mathematics teaching challenges
(video )
ES
Rob Halsell :Wikimedia Servers & Infrastructure
(video )
EN
Travis Kriplean :Tools for Supporting Deliberation (video )
EN
Mayo Fuster Morell :The governance of digital commons: Wikimedia Governance Case Study
(video )
EN
Melissa R. Hagemann , Jan-Bart de Vreede :Workshop: Moving towards national OER strategies
(video )
EN
Lila Pagola :Wikipedia en el mundo académico: Generación Google y estrategias docentes para colaborar en la construcción de conocimiento.
(video )
ES
Daniel Kinzler :The Toolserver: The hacker's way of surfing the wiki
(video , slides )
EN
Craig Spurrier :Wiki Communities from a Social Science Perspective
(video )
EN
Erik Möller :Scaling Up: Can Wikimedia Become A 300 Million People Movement By 2020?
(video )
EN
Samuel Klein :Wikipedia in rural schools: offline wikireaders in Peru
(video )
EN
15:45
Coffee Break
16:15
Special event: Knowledge as a social good and the Library of Babel (video )
Roan Kattouw :The MediaWiki bot API
(video )
EN
Ayelet Oz :Wikipedia as a system of acoustic separation
(video )
EN
Jennifer Riggs :What can Wikimedia learn from the Red Cross and other large volunteer-driven organizations?
(video )
EN
P. Bradley Baker , J. Jill Kidd , P. O'Shea , J. Alisha Kaufman , D. Allen , A. Whitworth :Student-Authored Wikibooks as University Textbooks: Reflections on Three Years of Successful Implementation
(video )
EN
Gerard Meijssen :Testing the MediaWiki software and its extensions
(video )
EN
Rut Jesus :Articles and Authors of Meta Communities in the South American Wikipedias and MetaWiki
(video )
EN
Florence Devouard :Improving collaboration
(video )
EN
Lodewijk Gelauff :Legislation lobby discussion
(video )
EN
17:45
Fourth Floor
"Enrique Muiño" (EN/ES)
Room F (EN/ES)
Room C
Room D
Third Floor
"Madres de Plaza de Mayo"
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9:30
Jimmy Wales :The State of the Wiki (video )
10:30
Coffee Break
11:15
Roberto B. Andrade :Hacia una Wikipedia en mapudungun. Desafíos y potencialidades
(video )
ES
Andrew Lih :Interpreting Wikipedia’s Demographic Decline: Implications for an Emergent Community
(video )
EN
Katie Filbert :Integrating NASA WorldWind and custom map types into Wikipedia
(video )
EN
Ting Chen :Preparation for Board of Trustees Election
(video )
EN
BalaSundaraRaman L :Tamil Wikipedia: A case study
(video )
EN
Christian Becker :Linked Geodata
(video )
EN
James R. Redmond :Wikimedia OTRS: the first line of communication
(video )
EN
Lightning talks (video )
Dennis Tobar :¿Por qué Wikinoticias no ha despegado en la versión en español?
(video , slides )
ES
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason :OpenStreetMap integration into Wikimedia projects
(video , slides )
EN
12:45
Lunch
14:00
Galileo Vidoni , Ivana E. Lysholm :Repensando el punto de vista neutral
(video , slides )
ES
Erik Zachte :Wikimedia in numbers
(video ) (pdf ) (odp ])
EN
Chitu Okoli , Kira Schabram , Bilal Abdul Kader :From the Academy to the Wiki: Practical Applications of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia
(video )
EN
Yaron Koren :Using external data in MediaWiki
(video )
EN
Siebrand Mazeland :Workshop: MediaWiki localisation using translatewiki.net
EN
Federico Heinz :Encouraging Quality as Emergent Behaviour
(video )
EN
Stu West :Measuring our impact
EN
Benjamin Mako Hill :The State of Wikimedia Scholarship: 2008-2009
(video )
EN
Manuel Schneider :openZIM - serving the Wikipedia Offline Projects
(video )
EN
Teemu Leinonen , Jukka Purma : Audio Wiki for Mobile Communities: Information Systems for the Rest of Us
(video )
EN
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00
Nahuel Kahles :Medición de calidad en Wikipedia en español
(video , slides )
ES
Marc-André Pelletier , Jimmy Wales , Sydney Poore et. al.:Growing Pains
(video )
EN
Catrin Schoneville :More media, more donations
(video )
EN
Naoko Komura :Wikipedia Usability Initiative
(video )
EN
Enrique A. Chaparro :"Mouses" y ratones: conflicto lingüístico en la Wikipedia en castellano
(video )
ES
Sebastian Moleski :Media literacy by way of Wikipedia
EN
Angela B. Starling :BOF: MediaWiki Usability discussion
(video )
EN
Lightning talks (video )
Joan R. Gomà , J. Gustavo Góngora :The “Associació d’amics de la viquipèdia”. An initiative to promote and support wikimedia projects in Catalan speaking territories.
(video )
EN
17:30
Fourth Floor
"Enrique Muiño" (EN/ES)
Room F (EN/ES)
Room C
Room D
Third Floor
"Madres de Plaza de Mayo"
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9:15
Matías Federico Battocchia :Open source governance - Practical Direct Democracy through the Web 2.0
(video )
ES
Liam Wyatt :Wikimedia & Museums - why we need each other and what we can do about it (video )
EN
Daniel Kinzler :WikiWord: multilingual image search and more (video , slides )
EN
Micah Alpern :Designing a large scale community moderation system for Yahoo! Answers (video )
EN
Shun-ling Chen , Melanie Dulong de Rosnay , Adam Hyde :Authorship, Licenses, and the Wiki Borg (video )
EN
Mathias Schindler :The anatomy of the Bundesarchiv cooperation: 100.000 freely licensed images for Wikimedia Commons (video )
EN
Robert Stojnic :Wikipedia search (video )
EN
HaeB :Lessons from Citizendium
(no video per speaker request) (slides )
EN
Special event: Latest news on interactive generations (video )
EN
Jack Herrick :Lessons from wikiHow (video )
EN
10:45
Coffee Break
11:15
Arkaitz Zubiaga :Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags (video )
ES
Matthew Curinga :Wikipedia and Jacques Rancière's philosophy of radical equality (video )
EN
Erik Möller , Michael Dale , Ron Yekutiel :Launching Collaborative Video on Wikipedia
(video )
EN
Brianna Jane Laugher :Panel on Wikimedia chapters (video )
EN
Luca de Alfaro , Bo Adler , Ian Pye , Vishwanath Raman :What should user reputation be on Wikipedia? (video )
EN
Denny Vrandecic , Markus Krötzsch , Yaron Koren :Semantic MediaWiki
(video )
EN
Jennifer Shkabatur :Wiki Democracy: The Promise of Wikis for Civic Engagement in Policymaking (video )
EN
Michael Dale :State of Open Media on Wikipedia
EN
12:45
Lunch
14:00
Jorge Machado , Felipe Almeida , Andreia da Silva :Wikipedia vs Enciclopedia Master Un estudio comparativo de enciclopedias en lengua portuguesa
ES
Murugan Pal , Mike Linksvayer , Samuel Klein :'OER Content Interoperability' for WikiMedia platforms (video )
EN
Brion Vibber :Codeathon round-up (video )
EN
Andrew Lih :Challenges of Covering the Wikimedia Community (video )
EN
Martin Alec Walker , Nigel Wheatley :WikiProjects: Improving Wikipedia by organising and assessing articles (video )
EN
Jhessica Francielli Reia :Alternative Licensing and the Free Culture community in São Paulo (video )
EN
Frank Schulenburg :Best practice documentation - preventing to "reinvent the wheel" in public outreach (video )
EN
15:00
Coffee Break
15:45
Sue Gardner :The Wikimedia Foundation: The Year In Review and The Year Ahead (video )
16:30
Break
16:45
Wikimedia Board Q&A session
17:45
Closing ceremony (video )
18:15
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