This page shows the preliminary program for the conference. This program is subject to changes.
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Special events
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)
Chapters meeting (time and date to be arranged)
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 after the tango workshop (unofficial)
August 27:
August 28: Closing party
Day 1 (August 26)
Room 1 (EN/ES)
Room 2 (EN/ES)
Room 3
Room 4
Room 5
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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
EN ACA EDU 30
Christian Becker :DBpedia - Extracting structured data from Wikipedia
EN TEC 30
Sorin Adam Matei , David Braun , Horia Petrache :The structure of social collaboration on Wikipedia
EN ACA COM 30
Christoph W. Breitler , Kurt Kulac :Quality Control Mechanisms in the german Wikipedia
EN CON 45
Dror Kamir :My parents went on their honeymoon, and the rest is history - the Pikiwiki project as an example of enhancing outreach
EN CON 30
Iván Alejandro Martínez :Wikipedia usage by Mexican students. The constant usage of copy and paste.
ES ACA EDU LAT 30
Heiko Hees :Wikis in Print - Everything you wanted to know about the new "book tool"
EN TEC 30
Jan Philipp Schmidt :Wikipedia Survey Results - Presentation and Discussion
EN COM 60
Martin Alec Walker :Wikipedia 1.0: Offline releases of the English Wikipedia
EN CON 45
Jeromy-Yu Chan :Keeping Wikimedia Chapter abreast with Local Free Culture counterparts
EN PANEL COM 60
Olga Cavalli :Uso de Wikipedia para publicación de trabajos de investigación
ES EDU 30
Frank Schulenburg , Jay Walsh :NIH Academy 2009 – lessons learnt and what we left behind
EN COM 30
13:00
Lunch
14:15
Pedro Sanchez :Wikis and mathematics teaching challenges
ES EDU 30
Rob Halsell :Wikimedia Servers & Infrastructure
EN TEC 45
Travis Kriplean :Tools for Supporting Deliberation on Project-Level Issues
EN COM 30
Mayo Fuster Morell :The governance of digital commons: Wikimedia Governance Case Study
EN ACA COM 30
Melissa R. Hagemann , Jan-Bart de Vreede :Workshop: Moving towards national OER strategies
EN WS EDU CON 90
Lila Pagola :Wikipedia en el mundo académico: Generación Google y estrategias docentes para colaborar en la construcción de conocimiento.
ES EDU ACA 30
Daniel Kinzler :The Toolserver: The hacker's way of surfing the wiki
EN TEC 45
Craig Spurrier :Wiki Communities from a Social Science Perspective
EN COM 30
Erik Möller :Scaling Up: Can Wikimedia Become A 300 Million People Movement By 2020?
EN COM CON 60
Samuel Klein :Wikipedia in rural schools: offline wikireaders in Peru
EN EDU LAT 30
15:45
Coffee Break
16:15
Special event: Argentina personalities roundtable
Roan Kattouw :The MediaWiki bot API
EN TEC 45
Ayelet Oz :Wikipedia as a system of acoustic separation
EN ACA 30
Jennifer Riggs :What can Wikimedia learn from the Red Cross and other large volunteer-driven organizations?
EN COM 45
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
EN ACA CON EDU 45
Gerard Meijssen :Testing the MediaWiki software and its extensions
EN TEC 45
Rut Jesus :Articles and Authors of Meta Communities in the South American Wikipedias and MetaWiki
EN ACA COM LAT 30
Florence Devouard :Improving collaboration
EN COM 45
Lodewijk Gelauff :Legislation lobby discussion
EN COM 45
17:45
Day 3 (August 28)
Room 1 (EN/ES)
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9:15
Matías Federico Battocchia :Open source governance
ES COM 30
Liam Wyatt :Wikimedia & Museums - why we need each other and what we can do about it
EN CON 45
Daniel Kinzler :WikiWord: multilingual image search and more
EN ACA TEC 30
Micah Alpern :Designing a large scale community moderation system for Yahoo! Answers
EN TEC COM 30
Shun-ling Chen , Melanie Dulong de Rosnay , Adam Hyde :Authorship, Licenses, and the Wiki Borg
EN PANEL CON 60
Mathias Schindler :The anatomy of the Bundesarchiv cooperation: 100.000 freely licensed images for Wikimedia Commons
EN CON 45
Robert Stojnic :Wikipedia search
EN TEC 30
HaeB :Lessons from Citizendium
EN COM 30
Special event: Telefónica education
Phoebe Ayers :The future of Wikimania
EN COM DISC 30
Jack Herrick :Lessons from wikiHow
EN CON COM 30
10:45
Coffee Break
11:15
Arkaitz Zubiaga :Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags
ES ACA TEC CON 30
Matthew Curinga :Wikipedia and Jacques Rancière's philosophy of radical equality
EN COM ACA 45
Michael Dale :State of Open Media on Wikipedia
EN TEC CON 30
Brianna Jane Laugher :Panel on Wikimedia chapters
EN PANEL COM 90
Luca de Alfaro , Bo Adler , Ian Pye , Vishwanath Raman :What should user reputation be on the Wikipedia?
EN WS ACA CON 90
Denny Vrandecic , Markus Krötzsch , Yaron Koren :Semantic MediaWiki
EN PANEL TEC CON 60
Jennifer Shkabatur :Wiki Democracy: The Promise of Wikis for Civic Engagement in Policymaking
EN ACA COM 30
Erik Möller , Michael Dale , Ron Yekutiel :Launching Collaborative Video on Wikipedia
EN TEC CON 60
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 ACA CON 30
Murugan Pal , Mike Linksvayer , Samuel Klein :'OER Content Interoperability' for WikiMedia platforms
EN PANEL EDU CON 60
Brion Vibber :Codeathon round-up
EN PANEL TEC 60
Andrew Lih :Challenges of Covering the Wikimedia Community
EN PANEL COM 60
Martin Alec Walker , Nigel Wheatley :WikiProjects: Improving Wikipedia by organising and assessing articles
EN CON 30
Jhessica Francielli Reia :Alternative Licensing and the Free Culture community in São Paulo
EN ACA COM 30
Frank Schulenburg :Best practice documentation - preventing to "reinvent the wheel" in public outreach
EN COM 30
15:00
Coffee Break
15:45
Sue Gardner :The Wikimedia Foundation: The Year In Review and The Year Ahead
16:30
Break
16:45
Wikimedia Board Q&A session
17:45
Closing ceremony
18:15