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Wednesday, July 11
Wednesday, July 11
Time
Event
Location
09:00 – 17:00
Hackathon (newcomers and non-programmers welcome)
Marvin Center
Betts Auditorium – Day Starts at 9
Grand Ballroom – Rest of day
Rooms 307, 308, 310 – as needed
09:00 – 17:00
Wikimedia Chapters Association and Chapter Activities
Marvin Center
11:00 – 13:00
WALRUS Congress of Wiki-Americans (Super-Lunch)
13:00 – 17:00
Wikipedia Loves Libraries
Gelman Library room 702
Morning Break
Continental Ballroom
Lunch
Grand Ballroom
Afternoon Break
Continental Ballroom
19:00 – 20:30
Google Opening Reception , showcasing the World Digital Library
Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson Building Great Hall
10 First St. SE
Washington DC 20540
Throughout Day
Board Meeting
Side Events
External Locations
Conference Schedule
Thursday, July 12
Thursday, July 12th
Grand Ballroom
301
302
308
310
Betts
07:00 – 09:00
On-Site Registration
09:00 – 11:10
Opening ceremony
Greetings
Opening keynote
Mary Gardiner , Co-founder, Ada Initiative
"Fostering diversity: not a boring chore, a critical opportunity"
Opening plenary
Plenary by Jimmy Wales : The State of the Wiki
(Lisner Auditorium)
11:10 – 11:40
Coffee break
11:40 – 13:00
Chapters I
Technology and Infrastructure I
WikiCulture and Community I
Education I: Projects with Academy
Technology and Infrastructure II
Tech@State I: Opening Session
Keynote Speech – Beth Simone Noveck : 'Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful'
Ignite sessions featuring new ideas for wikis and associated technologies
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:20
Technology and Infrastructure III: User experience
GLAM I: Legal issues
WikiCulture and Community II
Research, Analysis, and Education II
Technology and Infrastructure IV
Tech@State II: Institutions:
15:20 – 15:40
Coffee break
15:40 – 17:00
Technology and Infrastructure V: Data
Legal I
GLAM II
Wikis and the Public Sector I
Technology and Infrastructure VI: Language Support
Tech@State III: GLAM: Local wikis
18:00 – 20:30
GLAM Night Out: Party & Media Panel at the Newseum, RSVP here! / Zoomph Wikimania Happy Hour / Meetups / Free time
Friday, July 13
Friday, July 13th
Grand Ballroom
301
307
308
310
Betts
08:00 – 08:45
Funds Dissemination Committee Presentation
09:00 – 10:20
GLAM III: Outreach
WikiCulture and Community III: Improving Wikipedia I
Legal II
Sister Projects I
Technology and Infrastructure VII: Ask the operators
Tech@State IV: Federal Agency Wikis
10:20 – 10:50
Morning Break / Meetups
10:50 – 12:10
GLAM IV: National GLAM Coordinator
Chapters II
Sister Projects II
WikiCulture and Community IV
Technology and Infrastructure VIII
Tech@State V:
12:10 – 13:10
Lunch break WikiProject Medicine Lunch
13:10 – 14:30
GLAM V: Wiki Loves Monuments
Technology and Infrastructure IX: Mobile I
WikiCulture and Community V: Improving Wikipedia II
Research, Analysis, and Education III
Technology and Infrastructure X: User Experience
Featured Session: Legal Issues
14:30 – 15:10
Coffee break / Meetups
15:10 – 16:30
GLAM VI: Photo Hunts
Technology and Infrastructure XI: Mobile II
Sister Projects III: Mapping
WikiCulture and Community VI: Improving Wikipedia III
Technology and Infrastructure XII
Featured Session: WikiCulture and Community
16:30 – 20:30
Meetups (Digital Commons , Dispute Resolution , Education Program , Happy Hour , LGBT , Scholarships , SMW , Turkic , Wikia , Women , ...) / Free time
Saturday, July 14
Saturday, July 14th
301
302
307
308
310
Betts
Amphitheatre
309
09:00 – 10:00
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)
10:00 – 10:30
Break / Meetups
10:30 – 11:50
GLAM VII: Science and Archives
Wikis and the Public Sector III
WikiCulture and Community VII: Partnerships
WikiCulture and Community VIII
Technology and Infrastructure XIII
Featured Session: WikiCulture and Community II
WikiCulture and Community IX: Improving Wikipedia V
Workshops I
11:50 – 12:10
Break
12:10 – 13:30
GLAM VIII: Tools
WikiCulture and Community X: Wiki and Women I
Workshops II
WikiCulture and Community XI: Small Languages
Funds
Featured Session: Wikis and the Public Sector: SOPA
Technology and Infrastructure XIV
Workshops III
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch break WikiWomen's Lunch , Meetups
14:30 – 15:50
WikiCulture and Community XII: History of Wikipedia
WikiCulture and Community XIII: Wiki and Women II
WikiCulture and Community XIV: Improving Wikipedia V
Workshops IV
WikiCulture and Community XV: Improving Wikipedia VI
Featured Session: Technology and Infrastructure
Research, Analysis, and Education IV
Workshops V
15:50 – 16:00
Break
16:00 – 17:00
Closing Plenary – Mr. David Ferriero , Archivist of the United States
Presentation of Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong
(Lisner Auditorium)
17:00 – 17:30
Group Photo
19:30 – 20:30
Meetups / Free time
21:00 – 24:00
Attendee partyBuffalo Billiards