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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 220xframeless 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: 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 frameless 2017 Presentation "How Latin American Indigenous Communities are Sharing Free Knowledge on Wikipedia in Their Native Languages" 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 frameless contribute to fill the knowledge gap 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 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 frameless for Wikimania 2017 Community Health Legal Defense Presentation 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 N
Patrolling with ORES and the New Filters for Edit Review beta Workshop: ORES Technology, Interface & Infrastructure frameless from the Wikimania 2017 presentation, "Patrolling with ORES and the New Filters for Edit Review beta" 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 frameless presented at Wikimania 2017. N
Fundraising messaging that moves our readers: What we’ve learned from testing thousands of fundraising appeals Fundraising + covering the community Communications frameless fundraising presentation from Wikimania 2017. Full title: Fundraising messaging that moves our readers — What we’ve learned from testing thousands of fundraising appeals 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 frameless to enhance the production of Wikipedia articles on specific topics 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