User:Dmitri Lytov

Je vais porter ce symbole lors de Wikimania. Je n'était pas l'un d'entre eux par mon origine, mais je suis fièrement devenu un membre de cette communauté en vivant dans cet environnement.

C'est moi

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My user pages in English, French, German, Russian

I am coming to Wikimania 2012 with my wife and son.

Schedule

• July 11 - leave Ottawa, cross Canada-US border, stay overnight in Binghamton (Red Roof Hotel)
• July 12 - arrive in Washington DC around 1 pm, stay in Arlington
• July 12 - attend Wikimania Main Conference
• July 13 - spend time in DC
• July 14 - attend Wikimania Main Conference
• July 15 - attend Unconference (maybe), leave DC, stay overnight in Binghamton (Red Roof Hotel)
• July 16 - cross US-Canada border, arrive to Ottawa

Interested in Lectures & Workshops

• Wikipedia in the future:interface, globalization, better cooperation and communication - some topics I would like to discuss with interested attendees.

Thursday, July 12

My first birthday to celebrate in the US.

I'm arriving at about 12 pm, so most probably I will miss these:

• 11.40 - 13.00:
  • 301 - Wikistream: Visualizing Wikipedia Updates in Realtime
  • 302 - A mutually beneficial partnership : Wikipedia and Africa
  • 310 - Engaging editors on Wikipedia: A roadmap of new features

After the lunch break:

• 14.00 - 15.20, Grand Ballroom:
  • The purpose-driven social network: Supporting WikiProjects with technology
  • Life Without Brackets: Visual Editing for Wikitext
  • The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015
• 14.00 - 15.20, 310 (less probably):
  • The software localization paradox
  • Cross-lingual Wiki Engine
• 15:40 - 17:00 (not attending but interested)
  • How Wikidata fits into the global web of data
• 15:40 - 17:00, 310 (surely attending):
  • Supporting languages, all of them
  • A Tale of Language Support
  • Ask the Language Support People

Friday, July 13

Will attend only workshops early in the morning, but still interested in some other of them:

• 9:00 - 10:20:
  • 301 - The process of creating new Wikipedias: past, present, future
  • 307 - The Impact of Digital Books and Copyright Law on Wikipedia
• 10:50 - 12:20:
  • 308: Wikipedia Translation and Transnational Scholarship
  • 310: Embedded scripting: creating interactive diagrams, maps, and other media resources in MediaWiki
• 13:10 - 14:30:
  • 307: The short term, the long term, and the commons

15:10 - 16:30:

• • 307: Cooperation with OpenStreetMap
  • 310: Translating the wiki way
• 16:30 - 20:30: Wikipedia Education Program Meetup at Saylor Foundation offices, 1000 Wisconsin Ave NW

Saturday, July 14

• 10:30 - 11:50:
  • 307: Regional cooperation as the ultimate way of Wikimedia community collaboration
  • Amphitheatre: Using Semantic Mediawiki and DBpedia as a platform for Space Data
  • 309: Wikipedia & Research: A love–hate relationship
• 12:10 - 13:30,
  • 310 - Supporting tools for a diversified Wikipedia
  • 308 (WikiCulture):
    • The African Story
    • Read and Write in your language
    • Have you heard about the Uzbek Wikipedia? Neither have the Uzbeks
• 14:30 - 15:50:
• 16 - 17: closing session
• 17.00 - 17.30 - group photo
• 18:00 - 21:00:
  • Francophone meetup (Local 301, Marvin Center, George Washington University)
• 21:00 - 24:00
  • Attendee party at Buffalo Billiards

Sunday, July 15

Will decide on site.

Interested in Meetups

• Digital Commons Meetup
• German language meetup (if any)