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Join us for
five keynote sessions from world-renowned experts

over a hundred community-submitted talks
two days of hackathon and preconferences
and over a dozen workshops

The Wikimania pre-conference meetings will be held from August 9-10; the main program will be held from August 11-13. Check out our listing of social events for local tourist attractions and interesting things to do in Montreal while you're around for Wikimania!

Attention presenters: please double-check the time and room of your submission for last-minute changes. If you notice a problem or conflict, please email wikimania-program@wikimedia.org. Thank you!

Registration Hours

Preconference registration
Tuesday, August 8: 16:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, August 9: 07:00 - 16:00
Thursday, August 10: 08:00 - 20:00
During the conference
Friday, August 11: 08:00 - 16:00
Saturday, August 12: 08:00 - 16:00
Sunday, August 13: 08:00 - 12:00 (1 person at Help Desk from 12:00 - 17:00)

Wednesday August 9

Thursday, August 10

Room key

Levels are in order from highest floor to lowest floor

  • Level 4: Ballroom West & Center, Community Village, Registration, Volunteer & staff headquarters
  • Level 3: Drummond East, West, Center; Hackathon room (Salon 7, open 24 hours a day), Movement strategy drop-in space(Salon 6)
  • Level 2: Salon 1, 3, 4, 5
  • Level 1: hotel registration, street level
  • Level A: Joyce/Jarry, lunch
  • Level B: Lunch and breakout space


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08:00 On-site registration

(Open all day)

08:00
08:30 08:30
08:45 Moosetown drummers 08:45
09:00 Opening ceremony
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
09:00
09:15 09:15
09:30 Jimmy Wales in conversation with Gabriella Coleman
moderated by Evan Prodromou Questions
Community and information in a partisan world
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
09:30
09:45 09:45
10:00 10:00
10:15 10:15
10:30 Break Room set-up; briefing,
Movement Strategy - Remote conversations (Outside ballroom)
10:30
time Ballroom West
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Drummond West
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Salon 3
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Salon 5
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Joyce/Jarry
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Salon 1
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Salon 4
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Salon 6
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Session 1: 11:00-12:30 s1: Libraries & Education
in French, simultaneous translation provided
s2: The future of editing s3: Community: Bias and marginalization s4: Education: Education programs s5: Why & what we read s6: Wikidata: Wikidata & arts r1: Roundtables 1 w1: Workshop 1: Communication b1: Open for breakout sessions b2: Open for breakout sessions Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space Session 1: 11:00-12:30
11:00 Wikipédia, les bibliothèques publiques et Montréal Wikitext: upcoming changes, available tools, what you can do Birth of Bias: implicit bias’ permanence on Wikipedia Speaking the Language of the Non-Wikipedians Readership metrics: Trends and stories from our global traffic data The (Wiki)Data (R)Evolution Wikiversities: get over the content, serve the flow How good communication can help you talk to reporters, rule the world, and do other cool stuff: An introductory guide to public relations Wikipedian-in-Residence Birds of a Feather Breakout sessions Strategic Direction Feedback 03 11:00
11:15 11:15
11:30 Création d'une communauté numérique locale. Prototypage d'un atelier contributif en bibliothèque Editing in the year to come – what the Foundation's Annual Plan means for editing tools Centering Knowledge From The Margins How to develop an education program from scratch Why We Read Wikipedia Modelling and Ingesting Performing Arts Related Data into Wikidata Breakout sessions 11:30
11:45 Building a Better Dispute Resolution System 11:45
12:00 Distinguer les cultures éditoriales pour promouvoir Wikipédia à l’université The Wikipedia Year of Science 2016: What worked, what didn't, and how you can pull off a large-scale content initiative The Sum of all paintings is just the start Breakout sessions Breakout sessions 12:00
12:15 12:15
12:30 Lunch
level A & B
12:30
13:00 Birds of a feather meetups: Wikipedia + Libraries meetup, Joyce/Jarry (level A) 13:00
13:30 13:30
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Drummond West
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Drummond Center
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(level 3)
Salon 3
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Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
(level A)
Salon 1
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Salon 4
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Salon 6
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Session 2: 14:00-15:30 s8: Libraries & education (2)
in French, simultaneous translation provided
s7: Collaboration around the globe s11: GLAM: Collaborations s10: Community health & Education s12: Legal: Advocacy s13: Wikidata: Invoke:Wikidata w4: Workshop: Teambuilding w3: Workshop: Wikidata r2: Roundtables 2: Community health b2: Open for breakout sessions Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space Session 2: 14:00-15:30
14:00 Sciences, histoire et projets Wiki, le mariage unique québécois Free knowledge for complete beginners: introducing Wikipedia to new readers The Internet Archive and Wikimedia - Common Knowledge Goals Possible strategies of increasing involvement of scientists and academics in Wikimedia projects Legal Advocacy for the Projects and the Movement Wikidata & infoboxes panel: Building your team: a guide to working together A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Complete Beginners From Mexico City to Montréal: The Code of Conduct and You Art+Feminism Meetup 14:00
14:15 14:15
14:30 The WikiMOOC, a new way to learn how to edit Wikipedia Student Learning Outcomes using Wikipedia based assignments New Wikimedian Order - How to represent Wikimedia's values in international organisations? 14:30
14:45 How does a toxic environment affect community health, and which way forward? 14:45
15:00 How to create a good school project on Wikipedia Constitutional Court meets Wikipedia Breakout sessions 15:00
15:15 15:15
15:30 Break 15:30
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Drummond Center
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Salon 3
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Salon 5
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Joyce/Jarry
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Salon 1
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Salon 4
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Salon 6
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Session 3: 16:00-17:00 s14: Research s15: Community: Gender gap s16: Lightning talks 1 s17: Community: Global outreach s18: Community conferences s19: New Voices s20: GLAM w5: Workshop: SPARQL w6: Workshop: editing tools (French) b2: Open for breakout sessions Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space Session 3: 16:00-17:00
16:00 State of Wikimedia Research 2016-2017 (end at 16:55) Wiki Loves Women Lightning talks 1 Growing a User Group, a roadmap for survival Hackathon goes Hogwarts: Creating learning environments at tech events Bringing all the voices to the conversation: what the Wikimedia movement has learned from lower awareness regions Other-a-thon: Roundtable on alternative models for public outreach events SPARQL – a gentle introduction to the Wikidata Query Service Utilisation avancée de l'éditeur visuel Commons categorizer meetup 2017 16:00
16:15 16:15
16:30 Art + Feminism (end at 16:55) Bringing Wikimedia conferences to the next level – Experiences and learnings from three years of organizing Commons categorizer meetup 2017 16:30
16:45 16:45
17:00 Break 17:00
17:15 Katherine Maher & Christophe Henner
Wikimedia 2030
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
17:15
17:30 17:30
17:45 17:45
18:00 18:00
18:15 Happy hour
Poster session & community village reception
(Level 3 (posters) & 4 (community village))
18:15
18:30 18:30
19:00 19:00
19:30 Unconference and Meetups; BasselPedia Party (hosted by Creative Commons) 19:30
20:00 20:00
20:30 20:30
21:00

23:00
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Drummond Center
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Joyce/Jarry
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Salon 1
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08:00 On-site registration

(Open all day)

08:00
08:30 08:30
09:00 Announcements 09:00
09:15 Susan Herman
Wikidemocracy: How We Can Save Free Speech, Privacy, and Democratic Values
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
09:15
09:30 09:30
09:45 09:45
10:00 10:00
10:30 Break Room set-up; briefing,
Facebook Live?
10:30
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Drummond West
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Drummond Center
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Salon 5
(level 2)
Joyce/Jarry
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Salon 1
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(level 2)
Salon 6
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Session 4: 11:00-12:30 s21: s22: Gender gap s23: Global outreach s24: Wikidata & sister projects s25: Legal: Advocacy s26: Technology: editing tools r3: Roundtables: Community & education w7: Workshop: Translathon Open for breakout sessions Open for breakout sessions Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space Session 4: 11:00-12:30
11:00 Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of SciHub Knowledge, democracy, and the Wikipedian gender gap How Latin American Indigenous Communities are Sharing Free Knowledge on Wikipedia in their Native Languages So, you have data. Now, what do you do? Shining Light on Legal Threats to Free Knowledge Editing challenges on multi-script wikis Global GLAM-Wiki meetup Transl-a-thon: Wikidata in your language Breakout sessions Edit-a-thon in honor of Bassel Khartabil New Voices: Learn about the movement strategy research 11:00
11:15 11:15
11:30 Reducing harassment on Wikimedia projects New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons Wikipedia will soon speak to you 11:30
11:45 What is the smallest community that can support a Wikipedia? Wikipedia Visiting Scholars 11:45
12:00 Introducing Training Modules - multilingual training on combating harassment Structured Commons: what changes are coming? New frontiers in digital censorship and circumvention for Wikipedia users Write in Wikipedia Like You Chat With Your Friends: Editing Through Messenger Apps 12:00
12:15 12:15
12:30 Lunch 12:30
13:00 Lunch + Birds of a feather meetups: WikiWomen's Lunch, Joyce/Jarry (level A) 13:00
13:30 13:30


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Session 5: 14:00-15:30 Open s27: The Big Open / WMF Board panel s28: Citations & references s29: GLAM: outreach s26: Sound & Image s30: Technology: editing tools r4: Roundtables: cultural heritage w9: Workshop: Wiktionary & AI s52: Wiki Loves Monuments Open for breakout sessions Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space Session 5: 14:00-15:30
14:00 Open The Big Open: A conversation between Katherine Maher (WMF), Ryan Merkley (Creative Commons), and Mark Surman (Mozilla) WikiCite — Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge Small GLAMs: opportunities & possibilities of working together with small cultural heritage institutions How does common knowledge sound? My experience uploading audio files to Commons Visual editor session: Visual diffs & Unifying the editing experience We dreamt big - What did Connected Open Heritage manage to achieve? Kathabhidhana: Recording words for Wiktionary and preparing for an AI assistant Breakout sessions Edit-a-thon in honor of Bassel Khartabil 14:00
14:15 14:15
14:30 Journals Cited by Wikipedia: Evaluating the Impact of Journals on Wikipedia It is not a matter of visibility: GLAMs contribute to fill the knowledge gap. New metrics for GLAMs and GLAM-Wiki cooperation Photography panel: 5 years of Festivalsommer, Diva in front of the camera, How I learnt basics of Photography Waiting for Real-Time Collaboration Everything You Need to Know About Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 14:30
14:45 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Q&A Panel 14:45
15:00 WikiFactMine - Enhancing Wikidata by Mining the Scientific Literature Lingua Libre: Massive Open Audio Recording Community Wishlist: What We've Done, What's Coming Up Starting, Sticking, and Growing: Exploring and Scaling What’s Working for Cultural Heritage Organizations and Volunteers Workshops 15:00
15:15 15:15
15:30 Break 15:30
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Session 6: 16:00-17:00 s37: Invited speaker s35: Global trends for the future s36: Lightning talks s32: Learning from each other s33: Video s34: New readers s31: Community health Board breakout discussions r5: Workshop: Technical request session breakout discussions Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space Session 6: 16:00-17:00
16:00 Dana Wagner
The year in fact-checking (ends at 16:55)
What should we know for the future? Global trends that will impact the next 15 years of Wikimedia (ends at 16:55) Lightning talks 2 How not to reinvent the wheel: learning from others in the Wikimedia movement Is Wikipedia ready for videos? How to raise awareness for Wikipedia: lessons from Iraq & Nigeria From open hostility to collaboration: The WMF, the VisualEditor and the German-language Wikipedia WMF Board breakout discussions Cats, goats and awesome requests: Highlights from the Technical Wishlist Structured Data on Commons: Design discussion 16:00
16:15 16:15
16:30 Wikispecies and Wikidata - a match made in heaven, or hell? State of Video in the Wikimedia Movement Wikistress: A Survival Guide WMF Board breakout discussions 16:30
16:45 Breakout discussions 16:45
17:00 Break 17:00
17:15 Esra'a Al-Shafei
Experiences from the Middle East: Overcoming Challenges and Serving Communities
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
Please note: NO PHOTOS, VIDEO OR STREAMING FOR THIS SESSION. why?
17:15
17:30 17:30
17:45 17:45
18:00 Group Photo Directions 18:00
18:30 Unconference and Meetups 18:30
19:00 19:00
19:30 19:30
20:00 20:00
20:30 20:30
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08:00 On-site registration

(Open all day)

08:00
08:30 08:30
09:00 Announcements 09:00
09:30 Frédéric Giuliano & Hélène Laverdure, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)
Libraries, Archives and sharing knowledge
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
in French, simultaneous translation provided
09:30
10:00 10:00
10:30 Break Room set-up; briefing,
Facebook Live?
10:30
time Ballroom West
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Joyce/Jarry
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Session 7: 11:00-12:30 s35: Indigenous knowledge s36: GLAM: Libraries s38: Lightning talks 3 s39: Education & Medicine s40: Legal: Advocacy s41: Sister projects r6: Roundtables: Strategy w10: Workshop: Emergency response Workshop: ORES Open for breakout sessions Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space Session 7: 11:00-12:30
11:00 Indigenous Knowledge on Wikipedia: Lessons Learned from the Project Wikipetia Atikamekw Nehiromowin
in French, simultaneous translation provided
Brick by brick: Libraries and Wikimedia building on each other Lightning talks 3 Going green: How we can reduce the environmental impact of Wikipedia Fair Use in Australia campaign Wikisource Year in Review Movement strategy: How Wikimedians imagine and shape the future of our movement

MOVED TO SALON 6 on Level 3

The role of Wikimedia in emergency response Patrolling with ORES and the New Filters for Edit Review beta Editathon for Bassel Movement strategy: How Wikimedians imagine and shape the future of our movement 11:00
11:15 11:15
11:30 Libraries and Wikipedia: Global perspectives and opportunities Wikipedia and Medicine, A Year in Review It's alive! The EU copyright reform is coming and will affect Wikipedia. How to debug Wikisource metadata management? Editathon for Bassel 11:30
11:45 11:45
12:00 Making Women Blue - The Impact of Women in Red Bringing languages closer to enrich each other Community Health Legal Defense Bringing lexicographical data to Wikidata: supporting Wiktionary and beyond breakout sessions Breakout sessions Editathon for Bassel 12:00
12:15 12:15
12:30 Lunch 12:30
13:00 Lunch + Strategy breakout discussions: Joyce/Jarry / 100wikibirds of a feather: Joyce/Jarry 13:00
13:30 13:30
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Session 8: 14:00-15:30 s42: The Coolest Projects s43: Research: Understanding ourselves to improve s45: Fundraising + covering the community s53: Global editathons s47: Higher education s48: GLAM & community r7: Roundtables: Strategy & global health w12: Workshop: OpenStreetMap w13: Workshop: GLAM & Wikidata Open for breakout sessions Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space Session 8: 14:00-15:30
14:00 The Coolest Projects of Wikimedia Chapters - Be Inspired Results from a global Wikimedia survey Fundraising messaging that moves our readers: What we’ve learned from testing thousands of fundraising appeals Methods to enhance the production of Wikipedia articles on specific topics: articles related to the South African primary school curriculum The Value of a Wikimedian On-Wiki Campaigning to Engage New Editors Movement strategy Q&A Mapathon! Contribute and connect OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia using Wikidata Wikidata + heritage data: Where do we stand? What's next? Editathon for Bassel 14:00
14:15 14:15
14:30 Covering the Wikimedia Community Wikilesa I, II and III: the first edit-a-thon about forced disappearances in Argentina during the dictatorship Two years of cooperation: The University of Heidelberg, the SFB 933 and Wikipedia What do we know about GLAM-Wiki? Editathon for Bassel 14:30
14:45 Knowledge for everyone: making access affordable Movement Strategy Q&A, more time for discussion 14:45
15:00 The Keilana Effect: Visualizing the closing coverage gaps with ORES AfroCROWD: A panel discussion on the work of Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia and Running Monthly Wikipedia Edit-a-thons. Translating Wikipedia as an educational tool Open 15:00
15:15 15:15
15:30 Break 15:30
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Session 9: 16:00-17:00 Hackathon showcase s50: Communicating Wikimedia Lightning talks 4 s49: Community health and the WMF s51: Future of Wikimania Open for breakout sessions r8: Roundtables: Wikidata Open for breakout sessions 100wiki days meetup
MOVED TO LUNCH, LEVEL A
Open for breakout sessions Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space Session 9: 16:00-17:00
16:00 Hackathon Showcase A Medieval pope skeleton dancing with Taylor Swift in an Iraqi telecom commercial Lightning talks 4 Patterns and Antipatterns in Volunteer Leaders Future of Wikimania Breakout sessions Wikidata "ask us anything" Breakout sessions Wikibirds: moved to lunch! Breakout sessions Considerations for Phase 2: What are the though questions that we need to tackle in the next phase of the strategy process? 16:00
16:15 16:15
16:30 Wikidata Pink Pony Session Breakout sessions Breakout sessions 16:30
16:45 16:45
17:00 Break 17:00
17:15 Closing ceremony
Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
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17:30 17:30
18:00 18:00
18:30 Break 18:30
19:00 Closing party
Windsor Station [clearer map (Google)] map
Dinner provided: 7-9pm
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