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Pre-Conference Schedule

• The Pre-Conference hacking days and Unconference are open to all attendees. The program for these days will be primarily informal.

The Wikimania 2007 schedule. Credit: Kat Walsh

New York City Weekend, July 6-9

See details at Wikimania Takes Manhattan.

Hackathon, July 10-11

See also WALRUS Congress of Wiki-Americans.

Tuesday, July 10
	Marvin Center - George Washington University			Washington, D.C.
9:00 – 17:00	Hackathon		Morning Coffee Break and Snacks Lunch Afternoon Coffee Break and Snacks
17:00 – 19:00	Group hackers dinner
19:00 –	Hackathon continues
Wednesday, July 11
9:00 – 17:00	Hackathon	Board meeting (Board)	Morning Coffee Break and Snacks Lunch Afternoon Coffee Break and Snacks
13:00 – 17:00				OpenStreetMap mapping party
17:00 –	Group tours and dinner led by volunteers

AdaCamp, July 10-11

The Ada Initiative is holding its second AdaCamp (unconference) on July 10-11. It is

focused on increasing women’s participation in open technology and culture. AdaCamp brings together people to build community, discuss issues women have in common across open technology and culture fields, and find ways to address them. Open technology and culture includes open source software, Wikipedia and other wiki projects, open data, open government, fan/remix culture, open libraries, and more. Attendance is by invitation and attendees are selected from qualified applicants through an open invitation process. Attendance is open to people of all genders.

Applications close June 15 but it is recommended to apply early. See http://dc.adacamp.org/ for more information and to apply.

Conference Schedule

Please note that the following schedule information is subject to change.

Thursday, July 12

Thursday, July 12th
	JMA	301	307	308	310	Betts
07:00 – 09:00	On-Site Registration
09:00 – 11:15	Opening ceremony Greetings Opening keynote Mary Gardiner, Co-founder, Ada Initiative Opening plenary Plenary by Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Wikimedia Foundation: The Year In Review and The Year Ahead. Wikimedia Foundation executive director will recap the Foundation's activities of the past year, and look ahead to the opportunities and challenges facing the Wikimedia projects in 2012–13. This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with the Wikimedia Foundation WMF Board of Trustees. (Lisner Auditorium)
11:15– 11:40	Coffee break
11:40– 13:00	Chapters I Wikimedia Chapters	Technology and Infrastructure I CiviCRM - The Swiss Army knife for chapters Wikistream: Visualizing Wikipedia Updates in Realtime	WikiCulture and Community I “This is my voice”: the motivations of highly active Wikipedians Engaging the Community: What We've Tried and Where We're Going A mutually beneficial partnership : Wikipedia and Africa	Education I: Projects with Academy College Students' Perceptions of the Wikipedia-Assignment Experience Experimenting with Wikipedia at a Mexican university	Technology and Infrastructure II A Talk Page is a Broken Message Wall: Building a More Efficient Communication System Engaging editors on Wikipedia: A roadmap of new features	Tech@State I
13:00– 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 – 15:20	Technology and Infrastructure III: User experience The purpose-driven social network: Supporting WikiProjects with technology Life Without Brackets: Visual Editing for Wikitext The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015	GLAM I: Legal issues Hacking the public domain: taking digital arms to fight off copyfraud Artwork images on Commons Building a collaborative digital library for America Saving Egon Petri	WikiCulture and Community II Welcome to Wikipedia, now please go away: improving how we communicate with new editors 'Stop Spamming' vs. 'Nobody Told Me' - the state and future of movement broadcasting mechanisms	Research, Analysis, and Education II Can Social Awards Create Better Wikis? The State of Wikimedia Scholarship 2011-2012	Technology and Infrastructure IV The next billion users on Wikipedia with Open Source Webfonts The software localization paradox Cross-lingual Wiki Engine: Enabling Collaboration Across Language Barriers	Tech@State II: GLAM: Local wikis MonmouthpediA - A Grand Project Neighborhood Wikis
15:20– 15:40	Coffee break
15:40– 17:00	Technology and Infrastructure V: Data How Wikidata fits into the global web of data Wikidata as a platform Wikidata implementation and integration	Legal I A common answer to Commons problem Open Licenses and GLAM What makes sense? Attribution/Share-Alike and the impact on the incentives to contribute	GLAM II The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Territorial Control State of GLAM-Wiki in the US	Wikis and the Public Sector I 2011 Italian Wikipedia blackout Wikimedia relations with governments, lobbying and public relations Polish anti-ACTA protest from Wikimedia Polska perspective	Technology and Infrastructure VI: language Support Ask the Language Support People	Tech@State III Marine Corps Civil Information Management (MARCIM) Semantic Wiki
18:00 – 20:30

Friday, July 13

Friday, July 13th
	JMA	301	307	308	310	Betts
08:30– 08:50	Opening Talks (Betts Auditorium)
08:50– 09:00	Break
09:00– 10:20	GLAM III: Outreach Wiki, Women and Museums: The makings of a successful GLAM-WIKI project	Technology and Infrastructure VII Giving Readers a Voice: Lessons from Article Feedback v5 Accessibility Issues at Wikipedia Hey, it's Trending! Let's Update that Wikipedia Article!	Legal II Do editors have a right on privacy? The Impact of Digital Books and Copyright Law on Wikipedia	Sister Projects I Wikisource: what we've done, what we could do better	Technology and Infrastructure VIII: Ask the operators Ask the Operators Swift and the Media Storage System	Tech@State IV
10:20– 10:40	Morning Break
10:40– 12:00	GLAM IV: National GLAM Coordinator A National GLAM Coordinator - a crucial yet overlooked role	Technology and Infrastructure IX Article Quality Assessment using Content Analytics	Wikis and the Public Sector II: SOPA The Bad Assumptions of the Copyright Discussion Blacking out Wikipedia	Chapters II Chapters Committee: past, present and future	Technology and Infrastructure X Building a Chat feature on MediaWiki Embedded scripting: creating interactive diagrams, maps, and other media resources in MediaWiki Video on Wikipedia	Tech@State V
12:00– 13:10	Lunch break
13:10 – 14:30		Technology and Infrastructure XI The Wikipedia Mobile Experience	WikiCulture and Community IV: Improving Wikipedia Efficient and sustainable sponsored Wikipedia articles writing contests The short term, the long term, and the commons	Research, Analysis, and Education III What place for the “small languages” on Wikimedia projects?	Technology and Infrastructure XII: User Experience Bots and Wikipedia: It's OK to be lazy! Efficient and flexible text manipulation, spelling correction and page collections with Pywikibot	Features Session: GLAM The Great Debate Debating Bridgeman v Corel in a Wiki Era
14:30– 15:10	Coffee break
15:10– 16:30	GLAM V: Photo Hunts How to form a photo-hunting group? Or how Wiki-photogaphers can get organized? Following the footsteps of Mao Wikipedia Takes Montreal, a photographic scavenger hunt set to a hurricane Local photo events panel	Technology and Infrastructure XIII: Mobile II	Sister Projects II: Mapping Mapping by the Margins. New Cultures of Contribution Cooperation with OpenStreetMap The technology of WikiMiniAtlas	WikiCulture and Community V Like a phoenix from the ashes: history and future of Wikimedia podcasts Refighting the War of 1812 on Wikipedia	Technology and Infrastructure XIV Tutoring software development students to streamline Wikimedia Commons flow: from a digiKam export plugin to a Wordpress embedding plugin Wikicaptcha: a ReCAPTCHA-like solution for Wikisource Delivering MediaWiki faster, smoother and better	Features Session: WikiCulture and Community Wikimedia Community Fellows: what we're researching, piloting and doing to help the movement Benevolent dictator, monarch, spokesperson - the evolution of Jimbo's role in the community
16:30– 20:30

Saturday, July 14

Saturday, July 14th
	301	302	307	308	310	Amphitheatre	Betts	309
09:00– 09:20	Opening Talks (Betts Auditorium)
09:20– 09:30	Break
09:30– 10:50	GLAM VI: Science and Archives 5 Reasons Why Archives are an Untapped Goldmine for Wikimedians	Wikis and the Public Sector III Getting elected thanks to Wikipedia. How social networks influence politics, politicians and voters. Open Politics Through Wikis Wikis across government agencies	WikiCulture and Community VI: Partnerships CEEWikiLink How to run a successful project and involve new editors? Experiences from Czech WikiProject Protected areas Regional cooperation as the ultimate way of Wikimedia community collaboration	WikiCulture and Community VII WikiCast Iterate your cross-pollinatated strategic synergy, just not on my Wikipedia! A Room of One's Own - Virgina Woolf and Female Wikipedia Editing	Technology and Infrastructure XV Transparency and collaboration in Wikimedia engineering Fundraising: Under the Hood We want scores!	Features Session: WikiCulture and Community II Wikimedia on Social Media Engage or Perish	Technology and Infrastructure XVI: Semantic Wikis Using Semantic Mediawiki and DBpedia as a platform for Space Data	Workshops I Wikipedia & Research: A love–hate relationship
10:50– 11:00	Break
11:00– 12:20	GLAM VII: Tools The GLAMwiki toolset project - work in progress Open Access Media Importer Supporting tools for a diversified Wikipedia	WikiCulture and Community VIII: Wiki and Women I So few women editors: an analysis and proposal	Wikis and the Public Sector IV Ten things you can do without blacking out Wikipedia Research institution collaboration	WikiCulture and Community IX: Small Languages Have you heard about the Uzbek Wikipedia? Neither have the Uzbeks.	Funds Funds for Free Knowledge: Wikimedia Foundation Grantmaking Why Does Wikimedia Need Money When We Have Volunteers? How to squeeze as much motivation as possible out of a dollar: microgrants for Wikimedians	Features Session: WikiCulture and Community III	Technology and Infrastructure XVII ResourceLoader 2: The Future of Gadgets What Does THAT mean? Engineering Jargon And Procedures Explained MediaWiki Extensions:What they are and why we love them	Workshops II How to motivate older people to become active Wikipedians?
12:30– 13:30	Lunch break
13:30 – 14:50	GLAM VIII: Wiki Loves Monuments Wiki Loves Monuments Wiki Loves Monuments goes global: Q&A Wiki Loves Monuments in Austria – Challenges and Solutions	WikiCulture and Community X: Wiki and Women II WikiWomenCamp Women on wikiHow Wikipedia as a battlefield for a gender-neutral language	WikiCulture and Community XI: Improving Wikipedia Blocking of Wikipedia/Knockoff Wikipedias Measuring Quality Content: Article Feedback and Featured Articles A Wikipedian content-expert soliciting expert editors	WikiCulture and Community XII: History of Wikipedia 11 years of Wikipedia, or the Wikimedia history crash course you can edit The End of notability	WikiCulture and Community XIII: Improving Wikipedia II White Bag Vulva. How the German community thought about forking. Eternal December: How Awful Arguments are Killing the Wiki, and Why not to Make Them	Features Session: Technology and Infrastructure	Research, Analysis, and Education IV Wikipedia, Ethos, and the Production of Knowledge Almost Wikipedia: A What Eight Collaborative Encyclopedia Projects Reveal About Mechanisms of Collective Action	Workshops QRpedia and you
14:50– 15:00	Break
15:00– 16:30	Closing plenary Plenary by Jimmy Wales: The State of the Wiki Presentation of Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong (Lisner Auditorium)
16:30– 17:00	Group Photo

Unconference

Sunday, July 15

Time	Topic	Location	Group
10:00 – 17:00	Wiki Unconference! (optional)	TBA	Optional Participation
	Morning break and snacks	TBA	Optional Participation
	Lunch	TBA	Optional Participation
	Afternoon Coffee Break and Snacks	TBA	Optional Participation
11:00 –	WikiExpedition!	Washington, DC	Optional Participation