All Session Notes

Friday session notes

Please add any unlisted sessions or breakout sessions at the bottom of the appropriate table. More presentation notes may be found on Commons.

Session 1: 11:30 - 12:30

Session Title	Theme	Category	Notes	Slides / Presenter Material	Recording
Wikipédia, les bibliothèques publiques et Montréal	Libraries & Education	Education, Community, GLAM			YouTube
Création d'une communauté numérique locale. Prototypage d'un atelier contributif en bibliothèque	Libraries & Education	GLAM, Community, Commons			YouTube
Distinguer les cultures éditoriales pour promouvoir Wikipédia à l’université	Libraries & Education				YouTube
Wikitext: upcoming changes, available tools, what you can do	The future of editing	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure	notes		N
Editing in the year to come – what the Foundation's Annual Plan means for editing tools	The future of editing	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure	notes		N
Birth of Bias: implicit bias’ permanence on Wikipedia	Community: Bias and marginalization	Wikiculture & Community	notes		N
Centering Knowledge From The Margins	Community: Bias and marginalization	WikiCulture & Community			Audio
Speaking the Language of the Non-Wikipedians	Education: Education programs	WikiCulture & Community, Education			N
How to develop an education program from scratch	Education: Education programs	Education			N
The Wikipedia Year of Science 2016: What worked, what didn't, and how you can pull off a large-scale content initiative	Education: Education programs	WikiCulture & Community	notes		N
Readership metrics: Trends and stories from our global traffic data	Why & what we read	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			N
Why We Read Wikipedia	Why & what we read	Research			N
The (Wiki)Data (R)Evolution	Wikidata: Wikidata & arts	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			YouTube
Modelling and Ingesting Performing Arts Related Data into Wikidata	Wikidata: Wikidata & arts	GLAM, Wikidata		Slides	YouTube
The Sum of all paintings is just the start	Wikidata: Wikidata & arts	GLAM, Wikidata			YouTube
Wikiversities: get over the content, serve the flow	Roundtables	Sister Projects			N
Building a Better Dispute Resolution System	Roundtables	Wikiculture & Community	Notes		N
How good communication can help you talk to reporters, rule the world, and do other cool stuff: An introductory guide to public relations	Workshop 1: Communication	Communications	Notes	Google slides	N
Wikipedian-in-Residence Birds of a Feather	Breakout session	Wikiculture & Community	Notes		N
Wikipédia aime les bibliothèques	Breakout session	Libraries

Session 2: 14:00 - 15:30

Please add any unlisted sessions or breakout sessions at the bottom of the appropriate table.

Session Title	Theme	Category	Notes	Slides / Presenter Material	Recording
Sciences, histoire et projets Wiki, le mariage unique québécois	Libraries & education	GLAM, Education		Lien vers la présentation en ligne	YouTube
The WikiMOOC, a new way to learn how to edit Wikipedia	Libraries & education	Education			Wikimedia Commons YouTube
How to create a good school project on Wikipedia	Libraries & education	Libraries & education	meta:Simon Villeneuve/Wikimania2017		Wikimedia Commons YouTube
Free knowledge for complete beginners: introducing Wikipedia to new readers	Collaboration around the globe	Wikiculture & Community	Session notes		N
The Internet Archive and Wikimedia - Common Knowledge Goals	GLAM: Collaborations	WikiCulture & Community	Session notes	Slides	YouTube Live
Constitutional Court meets Wikipedia	GLAM: Collaborations	GLAM	Notes		N
Possible strategies of increasing involvement of scientists and academics in Wikimedia projects	Community health & Education	Education	Notes		N
Student Learning Outcomes using Wikipedia based assignments	Community health & Education	Education	Notes	Blog post about the study here. Research report here. Link to slides	N
Legal Advocacy for the Projects and the Movement	Legal: Advocacy	Legal & Free Culture	Notes		N
New Wikimedian Order - How to represent Wikimedia's values in international organisations?	Legal: Advocacy	Legal & Free Culture			N
Wikidata & infoboxes panel: Put data on it: Using Wikidata data in Wikimedia projects, Integrating Wikidata to Infoboxes, Automatic infoboxes with Wikidata (workshop), invoke:Wikidata (discussion)	Wikidata: Invoke:Wikidata	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure	Summary on Meta		N
Building your team: a guide to working together	Workshop: Teambuilding	WikiCulture & Community	notes		N
A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Complete Beginners	Workshop: Teambuilding	Sister Projects			N
From Mexico City to Montréal: The Code of Conduct and You	Roundtables: Community Health	WikiCulture & Community	Notes		N
How does a toxic environment affect community health, and which way forward?	Roundtables: Community Health	WikiCulture & Community	Notes		N
Art+Feminism Meetup	Breakout session	WikiCulture & Community			N

Session 3: 16:00 - 17:00

Please add any unlisted sessions or breakout sessions at the bottom of the appropriate table.

Session Title	Theme	Category	Notes	Slides/Presenter Material	Recording
State of Wikimedia Research 2016-2017	Research	WikiCulture & Community, Education	Notes	See abstract page	Y - link to come
Wiki Loves Women	Community: Gender Gap	WikiCulture & Community			N
Lightning talks 1	Lightning Talks			en:User:Headbomb/Bots	N
Growing a User Group, a roadmap for survival	Community: Global outreach	Community Building			N
Hackathon goes Hogwarts: Creating learning environments at tech events	Community conferences	WikiCulture & Community			N
Bringing Wikimedia conferences to the next level – Experiences and learnings from three years of organizing	Community conferences	WikiCulture & Community			N
Bringing all the voices to the conversation: what the Wikimedia movement has learned from lower awareness regions	New Voices	Movement Strategy			N
Other-a-thon: Roundtable on alternative models for public outreach events	GLAM	WikiCulture & Community, GLAM	etherpad notes		YouTube
SPARQL – a gentle introduction to the Wikidata Query Service	Workshop: SPARQL	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure, GLAM, Education		Query Helper help page Video: Zoo with lions & polar bears SPARQL Beginner Tutorial	N
Utilisation avancée de l'éditeur visuel	Workshop: editing tools	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			N
Commons categorizer meetup 2017	Breakout Session	WikiCulture & Community	etherpad notes	Google slides	N

Saturday session notes

Session 4: 11:00 - 12:30

Please add any unlisted sessions or breakout sessions at the bottom of the appropriate table.

Session Title	Theme	Category	Notes	Slides/Presenter Material	Recording
Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of SciHub		Education, Technology, Wikiculture & Community			Y - link to come
Knowledge, democracy, and the Wikipedian gender gap	Gender gap	WikiCulture & Community			N
Reducing harassment on Wikimedia projects	Community health	WikiCulture & Community			N
Introducing Training Modules - multilingual training on combating harassment	Community health	WikiCulture & Community			N
How Latin American Indigenous Communities are Sharing Free Knowledge on Wikipedia in their Native Languages	Global outreach	WikiCulture & Community			N
What is the smallest community that can support a Wikipedia?	Global outreach	WikiCulture & Community			N
So, you have data. Now, what do you do?	Wikidata & Sister Projects	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure	notes		N
New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons	Wikidata & Sister Projects	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			YouTube
Structured Commons: what changes are coming?	Wikidata & Sister Projects	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			YouTube
Shining Light on Legal Threats to Free Knowledge	Legal: Advocacy	Legal & Free Culture	Notes		N
New frontiers in digital censorship and circumvention for Wikipedia users	Legal: Advocacy	Legal & Free Culture	Notes		N
Editing challenges on multi-script wikis	Technology: editing tools	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			N
Wikipedia will soon speak to you	Technology: editing tools	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			Wikimedia commons
Write in Wikipedia Like You Chat With Your Friends: Editing Through Messenger Apps	Technology: editing tools	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			N
Global GLAM-Wiki meetup	Roundtables: Community & education	GLAM	[1]		N
Wikipedia Visiting Scholars	Roundtables: Community & education	GLAM, Education			N
Transl-a-thon: Wikidata in your language	Workshop: Translathon	Translation, Sister Projects			N

Session 5: 14:00 - 15:30

Please add any unlisted sessions or breakout sessions at the bottom of the appropriate table.

Session Title	Theme	Category	Notes	Slides/Presenter Material	Recording
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Q&A Panel	WMF Board panel				N
WikiCite — Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge	Citations & references	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure		slides	N
Journals Cited by Wikipedia: Evaluating the Impact of Journals on Wikipedia	Citations & references	GLAM, Wikiculture & Community, Legal & Free Culture		en:User:Headbomb/JCW	N
WikiFactMine - Enhancing Wikidata by Mining the Scientific Literature	Citations & references	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			N
Small GLAMs: opportunities & possibilities of working together with small cultural heritage institutions	GLAM: outreach	GLAM			YouTube
It is not a matter of visibility: GLAMs contribute to fill the knowledge gap. New metrics for GLAMs and GLAM-Wiki cooperation	GLAM: outreach	GLAM	Notes		YouTube From min. 33
Lingua Libre: Massive Open Audio Recording	GLAM: outreach	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure, Sister Projects, Wikiculture & Community			YouTube
How does common knowledge sound? My experience uploading audio files to Commons	Sound & Image	Legal & Free Culture			N
Photography panel: 5 years of Festivalsommer, Diva in front of the camera, How I learnt basics of Photography	Sound & Image	WikiCulture & Community			N
Visual editor session: Visual diffs & Unifying the editing experience	Technology: editing tools	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			YouTube Wikimedia Commons
Waiting for Real-Time Collaboration	Technology: editing tools	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure, Wikiculture & Community			Wikimedia Commons
Community Wishlist: What We've Done, What's Coming Up	Technology: editing tools	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			N
We dreamt big - What did Connected Open Heritage manage to achieve?	Roundtables: cultural heritage	GLAM			N
Starting, Sticking, and Growing: Exploring and Scaling What’s Working for Cultural Heritage Organizations and Volunteers	Roundtables: cultural heritage	GLAM	Notes	Google slides	N
Kathabhidhana: Recording words for Wiktionary and preparing for an AI assistant	Workshop: Wiktionary & AI	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure, Translation			N
Everything You Need to Know About Wiki Loves Monuments 2017	Wiki Loves Monuments	WikiCulture & Community	etherpad		N
Edit-a-thon in honor of Bassel Khartabil	Breakout Session				N
The Big Open Conversation	The Big Open		(see link)		Google Drive (.m4a audio file)

Session 6: 16:00 - 17:00

Please add any unlisted sessions or breakout sessions at the bottom of the appropriate table.

Session Title	Category	Theme	Notes	Slide/Presenter Material	Recording
Dana Wagner The year in fact-checking	Invited Speaker	Wikiculture & Community, Factchecking			Wikimedia Commons
What should we know for the future? Global trends that will impact the next 15 years of Wikimedia	Global trends for the future	Movement Strategy
Lightning talks 2	Lightning talks
How not to reinvent the wheel: learning from others in the Wikimedia movement	Learning from each other	WikiCulture & Community
Wikispecies and Wikidata - a match made in heaven, or hell?	Learning from each other	Sister Projects	Etherpad notes for Wikispecies + Wikidata
Is Wikipedia ready for videos?	Video	Sister Projects			YouTube
State of Video in the Wikimedia Movement	Video	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure		Google slides	YouTube Wikimedia Commons (first ten minutes)
How to raise awareness for Wikipedia: lessons from Iraq & Nigeria	New readers	WikiCulture & Community
From open hostility to collaboration: The WMF, the VisualEditor and the German-language Wikipedia	Community health	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure, WikiCulture & Community	etherpad
Wikistress: A Survival Guide	Community health	WikiCulture & Community
Cats, goats and awesome requests: Highlights from the Technical Wishlist	Workshop: Technical request session	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure

Sunday session notes

Session 7: 11:00 - 12:30

Please add any unlisted sessions or breakout sessions at the bottom of the appropriate table.

Session Title	Category	Theme	Notes	Slide/Presenter Material	Recording
Indigenous Knowledge on Wikipedia: Lessons Learned from the Project Wikipetia Atikamekw Nehiromowin	Indigenous Knowledge	WikiCulture & Community		Google slides	Wikimedia Commons
Making Women Blue - The Impact of Women in Red	Indigenous Knowledge	WikiCulture & Community		Google slides	Wikimedia Commons
Brick by brick: Libraries and Wikimedia building on each other	GLAM: Libraries	GLAM		Case study of 1Lib1Ref case study of QWiki Club	N
Libraries and Wikipedia: Global perspectives and opportunities	GLAM: Libraries	GLAM		* Merrilee Proffitt / Monika Sengul-Jones Tamás Mészöly (pdf) Mohsen Alex Stinson	N
Lightning talks 3	Lightning Talks				Yes, pending
Going green: How we can reduce the environmental impact of Wikipedia	Education & Medicine	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			N
Wikipedia and Medicine, A Year in Review	Education & Medicine	WikiCulture & Community		Google slides	N
Bringing languages closer to enrich each other	Education & Medicine	WikiCulture & Community		Google slides	N
Fair Use in Australia campaign	Legal: Advocacy	Legal & Free Culture		Google slides	Pending; WithFuzheado
It's alive! The EU copyright reform is coming and will affect Wikipedia.	Legal: Advocacy	Legal & Free Culture			N
Community Health Legal Defense	Legal: Advocacy	WikiCulture & Community, Legal & Free Culture			N
Wikisource Year in Review	Sister projects	Sister Projects	etherpad		N
How to debug Wikisource metadata management?	Sister projects	Sister Projects, Technology, Interface & Infrastructure	etherpad		N
Bringing lexicographical data to Wikidata: supporting Wiktionary and beyond	Sister projects	Sister Projects, Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			N
Movement strategy process Track A: How Wikimedia organizations, affiliates, and organized groups imagine and shape the future of our movement	Roundtables: Strategy	Movement Strategy, WikiCulture & Community			N
What Does the Movement Strategy Mean for Individual Contributors?	Roundtables: Strategy	Movement Strategy, Wikiculture & Community			N
The role of Wikimedia in emergency response	Workshop: Emergency response	WikiCulture & Community	Notes	Ideas You can still vote on them	N
Patrolling with ORES and the New Filters for Edit Review beta	Workshop: ORES	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			N

Session 8: 14:00 - 15:30

coPlease add any unlisted sessions or breakout sessions at the bottom of the appropriate table.

Session Title	Category	Theme	Notes	Slide/Presenter Material	Recording
The Coolest Projects of Wikimedia Chapters - Be Inspired	The Coolest Projects	WikiCulture & Community	Notes		Wikimedia Commons
Results from a global Wikimedia survey	Research: Understanding ourselves to improve	WikiCulture & Community			N
The Keilana Effect: Visualizing the closing coverage gaps with ORES	Research: Understanding ourselves to improve	WikiCulture & Community	Notes		N
Fundraising messaging that moves our readers: What we’ve learned from testing thousands of fundraising appeals	Fundraising + covering the community	Communications			N
Covering the Wikimedia Community	Fundraising + covering the community	Communications, WikiCulture & Community	Etherpad	Google slides	Yes, pending
Methods to enhance the production of Wikipedia articles on specific topics: articles related to the South African primary school curriculum	Global editathons	WikiCulture & Community	Notes		N
Wikilesa I, II and III: the first edit-a-thon about forced disappearances in Argentina during the dictatorship	Global editathons	GLAM			N
AfroCROWD: A panel discussion on the work of Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia and Running Monthly Wikipedia Edit-a-thons.	Global editathons	Sister Projects			N
The Value of a Wikimedian	Higher education	Education			Youtube Media Hopper
Two years of cooperation: The University of Heidelberg, the SFB 933 and Wikipedia	Higher education	GLAM, Education			N
Translating Wikipedia as an educational tool	Higher education	Education			N
On-Wiki Campaigning to Engage New Editors	GLAM & community	WikiCulture & Community			Wikimedia Commons
What do we know about GLAM-Wiki?	GLAM & community	GLAM	Notes		N
Movement strategy Q&A	Roundtables: Strategy & global health	WikiCulture & Community, Movement Strategy			N
Knowledge for everyone: making access affordable	Roundtables: Strategy & global health	WikiCulture & Community, Access	Notes!		N
Mapathon! Contribute and connect OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia using Wikidata	Workshop: OpenStreetMap	Technology, Interface & Infrastructure			N
Wikidata + heritage data: Where do we stand? What's next?	Workshop: GLAM & Wikidata	GLAM, Wikidata	Notes		N

Session 9: 16:00 - 17:00

Please add any unlisted sessions or breakout sessions at the bottom of the appropriate table.

Session Title	Category	Theme	Notes	Slide/Presenter Material	Recording
Hackathon Showcase	Hackathon Showcase	Technology			Wikimedia Commons
A Medieval pope skeleton dancing with Taylor Swift in an Iraqi telecom commercial	Communicating Wikimedia	Communications
Lightning talks 4	Lightning Talks
Patterns and Antipatterns in Volunteer Leaders	Community health and the WMF	WikiCulture & Community
Future of Wikimania	Future of Wikimania	WikiCulture & Community			YouTube
Wikidata "ask us anything"	Roundtables: Wikidata	Sister Projects
Wikidata Pink Pony Session	Roundtables: Wikidata	Sister Projects
100wikibirds of a feather	Breakout session	WikiCulture & Community