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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.
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)
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 |
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PANEL |
Panel |
LAT |
Latin America |
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Single session |
TEC |
Technology |
| Session length |
Colour code |
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EDU |
Education |
| 30 |
30-minute session |
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Confirmed |
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| 45 |
45-minute session |
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Not confirmed |
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| 60 |
60-minute session |
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| 90 |
90-minute session |
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Day 1 (August 26)
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Fourth Floor
"Enrique Muiño" (EN/ES)
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Room F (EN/ES) |
Room C |
Room D |
Third Floor
"Madres de Plaza de Mayo"
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| Start time |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
Speaker / Title |
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Speaker / Title |
Tags |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
| 9:15 |
Opening Ceremony |
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Richard Stallman:
Before, after, and around Wikipedia |
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| 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
ACA
EDU
30 |
Christian Becker:
DBpedia - Extracting structured data from Wikipedia (video) |
EN
TEC
30 |
Sorin Adam Matei, David Braun, Horia Petrache:
The structure of social collaboration on Wikipedia (video) |
EN
ACA
COM
30 |
Christoph W. Breitler, Kurt Kulac:
Quality Control Mechanisms in the german Wikipedia (video) |
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 (video) |
EN
CON
30 |
| |
Iván Alejandro Martínez:
Wikipedia usage by Mexican students. The constant usage of copy and paste. (video) |
ES
ACA
EDU
LAT
30 |
Heiko Hees:
Wikis in Print - Everything you wanted to know about the new "book tool" (video) |
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 (video) |
EN
CON
45 |
Jeromy-Yu Chan:
Keeping Wikimedia Chapter abreast with Local Free Culture counterparts (video) |
EN
PANEL
COM
60 |
| |
Olga Cavalli:
Uso de Wikipedia para publicación de trabajos de investigación (video) |
ES
EDU
30 |
Frank Schulenburg, Jay Walsh:
NIH Academy 2009 – lessons learnt and what we left behind (video) |
EN
COM
30 |
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| 13:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:15 |
Pedro Sanchez:
Wikis and mathematics teaching challenges (video) |
ES
EDU
30 |
Rob Halsell:
Wikimedia Servers & Infrastructure (video) |
EN
TEC
45 |
Travis Kriplean:
Tools for Supporting Deliberation
on Project-Level Issues (video) |
EN
COM
30 |
Mayo Fuster Morell:
The governance of digital commons: Wikimedia Governance Case Study (video) |
EN
ACA
COM
30 |
Melissa R. Hagemann, Jan-Bart de Vreede:
Workshop: Moving towards national OER strategies (video) |
EN
WS
EDU
CON
90 |
| |
Lila Pagola:
Wikipedia en el mundo académico: Generación Google y estrategias docentes para colaborar en la construcción de conocimiento. (video) |
ES
EDU
ACA
30 |
Daniel Kinzler:
The Toolserver: The hacker's way of surfing the wiki (video, slides) |
EN
TEC
45 |
Craig Spurrier:
Wiki Communities from a Social Science Perspective (video) |
EN
COM
30 |
Erik Möller:
Scaling Up: Can Wikimedia Become A 300 Million People Movement By 2020? (video) |
EN
COM
CON
60 |
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| |
Samuel Klein:
Wikipedia in rural schools: offline wikireaders in Peru (video) |
EN
EDU
LAT
30 |
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| 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
TEC
45 |
Ayelet Oz:
Wikipedia as a system of acoustic separation (video) |
EN
ACA
30 |
Jennifer Riggs:
What can Wikimedia learn from the Red Cross and other large volunteer-driven organizations? (video) |
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 (video) |
EN
ACA
CON
EDU
45 |
| |
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Gerard Meijssen:
Testing the MediaWiki software and its extensions (video) |
EN
TEC
45 |
Rut Jesus:
Articles and Authors of Meta Communities in the South American Wikipedias and MetaWiki (video) |
EN
ACA
COM
LAT
30 |
Florence Devouard:
Improving collaboration (video) |
EN
COM
45 |
Lodewijk Gelauff:
Legislation lobby discussion (video) |
EN
COM
45 |
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| 17:45 |
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Day 2 (August 27)
| |
Fourth Floor
"Enrique Muiño" (EN/ES)
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Room F (EN/ES) |
Room C |
Room D |
Third Floor
"Madres de Plaza de Mayo"
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| Start time |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
Speaker / Title |
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Speaker / Title |
Tags |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
| 9:30 |
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Jimmy Wales:
The State of the Wiki (video) |
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| 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 |
Roberto B. Andrade:
Hacia una Wikipedia en mapudungun. Desafíos y potencialidades (video) |
ES
LAT
COM
30 |
Andrew Lih:
Interpreting Wikipedia’s Demographic Decline: Implications for an Emergent Community (video) |
EN
PANEL
COM
90 |
Katie Filbert:
Integrating NASA WorldWind and custom map types into Wikipedia (video) |
EN
TEC
CON
30 |
Ting Chen:
Preparation for Board of Trustees Election (video) |
EN
COM
45 |
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BalaSundaraRaman L:
Tamil Wikipedia: A case study (video) |
EN
COM
30 |
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Christian Becker:
Linked Geodata (video) |
EN
TEC
CON
30 |
James R. Redmond:
Wikimedia OTRS: the first line of communication (video) |
EN
PANEL
COM
45 |
Lightning talks (video) |
| |
Dennis Tobar:
¿Por qué Wikinoticias no ha despegado en la versión en español? (video, slides) |
ES
COM
30 |
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
OpenStreetMap integration into Wikimedia projects (video, slides) |
EN
TEC
CON
30 |
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| 12:45 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 |
Galileo Vidoni, Ivana E. Lysholm:
Repensando el punto de vista neutral (video, slides) |
ES
CON
45 |
Erik Zachte:
Wikimedia in numbers (video)
Sheets:
(pdf) (odp])
|
EN
CON
COM
45 |
Chitu Okoli, Kira Schabram, Bilal Abdul Kader:
From the Academy to the Wiki: Practical Applications of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia (video) |
EN
ACA
COM
45 |
Yaron Koren:
Using external data in MediaWiki (video) |
EN
TEC
CON
30 |
Siebrand Mazeland:
Workshop: MediaWiki localisation using translatewiki.net |
EN
WS
TEC
CON
90 |
| |
Federico Heinz:
Encouraging Quality as Emergent Behaviour (video) |
EN
CON
45 |
Stu West:
Measuring our impact |
EN
CON
COM
45 |
Benjamin Mako Hill:
The State of Wikimedia Scholarship: 2008-2009 (video) |
EN
ACA
COM
45 |
Manuel Schneider:
openZIM - serving the Wikipedia Offline Projects (video) |
EN
TEC
CON
30 |
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Teemu Leinonen, Jukka Purma:
Audio Wiki for Mobile Communities: Information Systems for the Rest of Us (video) |
EN
TEC
CON
30 |
|
| 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:00 |
Nahuel Kahles:
Medición de calidad en Wikipedia en español (video, slides) |
ES
CON
LAT
30 |
Marc-André Pelletier, Jimmy Wales, Sydney Poore et. al.:
Growing Pains (video) |
EN
PANEL
COM
90 |
Catrin Schoneville:
More media, more donations (video) |
EN
COM
30 |
Naoko Komura:
Wikipedia Usability Initiative (video) |
EN
TEC
30 |
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Enrique A. Chaparro:
"Mouses" y ratones: conflicto lingüístico en la Wikipedia en castellano (video) |
ES
CON
LAT
60 |
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Sebastian Moleski:
Media literacy by way of Wikipedia |
EN
CON
30 |
Angela B. Starling:
BOF: MediaWiki Usability discussion (video) |
EN
DISC
TEC
60 |
Lightning talks (video)
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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
COM
30 |
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| 17:30 |
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Day 3 (August 28)
| |
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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| Start time |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
Speaker / Title |
Tags |
| 9:15 |
Matías Federico Battocchia:
Open source governance - Practical Direct Democracy through the Web 2.0 (video) |
ES
COM
30 |
Liam Wyatt:
Wikimedia & Museums - why we need each other and what we can do about it (video) |
EN
CON
45 |
Daniel Kinzler:
WikiWord: multilingual image search and more (video, slides) |
EN
ACA
TEC
30 |
Micah Alpern:
Designing a large scale community moderation system for Yahoo! Answers (video) |
EN
TEC
COM
30 |
|
| |
Shun-ling Chen, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Adam Hyde:
Authorship, Licenses, and the Wiki Borg (video) |
EN
PANEL
CON
60 |
Mathias Schindler:
The anatomy of the Bundesarchiv cooperation: 100.000 freely licensed images for Wikimedia Commons (video) |
EN
CON
45 |
Robert Stojnic:
Wikipedia search (video) |
EN
TEC
30 |
HaeB:
Lessons from Citizendium (no video per speaker request) (slides) |
EN
COM
30 |
Special event: Latest news on interactive generations (video) |
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EN
COM
DISC
30 |
Jack Herrick:
Lessons from wikiHow (video) |
EN
CON
COM
30 |
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| 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 |
Arkaitz Zubiaga:
Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags (video) |
ES
ACA
TEC
CON
30 |
Matthew Curinga:
Wikipedia and Jacques Rancière's philosophy of radical equality (video) |
EN
COM
ACA
45 |
Erik Möller, Michael Dale, Ron Yekutiel:
Launching Collaborative Video on Wikipedia (video) |
EN
TEC
CON
30 |
Brianna Jane Laugher:
Panel on Wikimedia chapters (video) |
EN
PANEL
COM
90 |
Luca de Alfaro, Bo Adler, Ian Pye, Vishwanath Raman:
What should user reputation be on Wikipedia? (video) |
EN
WS
ACA
CON
90 |
| |
Denny Vrandecic, Markus Krötzsch, Yaron Koren:
Semantic MediaWiki (video) |
EN
PANEL
TEC
CON
60 |
Jennifer Shkabatur:
Wiki Democracy: The Promise of Wikis for Civic Engagement in Policymaking (video) |
EN
ACA
COM
30 |
Michael Dale:
State of Open Media on Wikipedia |
EN
TEC
CON
60 |
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| 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 (video) |
EN
PANEL
EDU
CON
60 |
Brion Vibber:
Codeathon round-up (video) |
EN
PANEL
TEC
60 |
Andrew Lih:
Challenges of Covering the Wikimedia Community (video) |
EN
PANEL
COM
60 |
Martin Alec Walker, Nigel Wheatley:
WikiProjects: Improving Wikipedia by organising and assessing articles (video) |
EN
CON
30 |
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Jhessica Francielli Reia:
Alternative Licensing and the Free Culture community in São Paulo (video) |
EN
ACA
COM
30 |
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Frank Schulenburg:
Best practice documentation - preventing to "reinvent the wheel" in public outreach (video) |
EN
COM
30 |
| 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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