The Wikimania 2007 schedule. Credit: Kat Walsh
The Call for Papers details the various tracks of the conference. There are also some side-events.
Contents
- 1 Pre-conference programme
- 2 Main Event Programme
- 2.1 Early Comers Party at Tiltan – Wednesday, August 3rd
- 2.2 Thursday, August 4th
- 2.3 Friday, August 5th
- 2.4 Saturday, August 6th
- 2.5 Beach Party – Saturday, August 6th
- 2.6 Sunday, August 7th
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Pre-conference programme
Developer meetings
Developer meetings (hacking days), a mini Chapters Meeting and other pre-conferences (see Meetings) will take place on Tuesday, August 2nd, and on Wednesday, August 3rd, in the Hecht House.
Tuesday, August 2nd |
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Arbel |
Gilboa |
Tavor |
Meron |
Lounge |
09:00 – 18:30 |
Movement Roles Meeting
* Images |
Developer Days |
Global South Meeting
* Images |
openZIM Developers Meeting |
Developing for Beginners |
20:30 |
Waterloo – Abba song Festival at Gan Ha'em, across from the Dan Panorama Hotel |
21:45 |
Movie Screening at the garden across from the venue |
Wednesday, August 3rd |
09:00 – 13:00 |
Chapters Meeting
* Images |
Developer Days |
Communications Committee Meeting |
openZIM Developers Meeting |
Lounge |
14:00 – 17:00 |
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17:00 – 20:00 |
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20:00 – 50:00 |
Welcome Party at Tiltan College
Selected images of the party |
Video - Pre conference summary
Main Event Programme
Early Comers Party at Tiltan – Wednesday, August 3rd
On Wednesday, August 3rd, at 20:00 we will host an early comers' party.
- Location: Tiltan College of Design, On the roof - with a panorama of the Haifa port and Mount Carmel.
- Transportation: Shuttles will leave the conference area near the beginning of the event. Shuttles back to the dorms and to the hotels area will be provided at the end of the event. Google Map.
- Selected images of the party
Thursday, August 4th
Thursday, August 4th |
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Cinematheque |
Rapaport |
Arbel |
Gilboa |
Tavor |
08:00 – 09:30 |
On-Site Registration |
09:30 – 10:45 |
Opening ceremony
Greetings
Meir Sheetrit - Chairman, Science and Technology Committee of the Knesset (The Israeli Parliament)
Opening plenary by Prof. Yochai Benkler:
From networked cooperation to human sociality: Wikipedia as the model for a new view of social relations
A decade ago Wikipedia burst into a world not ready to comprehend it. Thousands of people cooperating effectively, without price signals to offer “incentives” or managerial hierarchy to direct efforts was an impossibility. And yet, it moves. And as it moved it combined with a deep shift across many disciplines, from biology and neuroscience to organizational sociology, experimental economics, and social psychology to paint a very different view of who we are, as human beings, and what we are capable of when we build and inhabit systems that rely on our better selves rather than on the cramped, pessimistic view of traditional economic modeling. A decade ago our explanations of Wikipedia depended on the uniqueness of the Net. Today, we are ready to learn the deeper lessons: that we are more cooperative than we came to believe in the last half century, and that our challenges lie in learning how to build a new field of cooperative human systems design not only online, but for our lives more generally as the kind of social human beings we really are.
(Rapaport Hall) Video
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10:45 – 11:15 |
Coffee break |
11:15 – 12:45 |
Wiki Academy: Wikipedia in Schools (Hebrew)
Panel headed by prof. Judit Bar-Ilan
- Using wiki to create a Mathematics school textbook
- Opinions of Teachers and Students on Wikipedia
- Integrating Wikis in Pre-service Education: Teacher-educators’ Perspective
Video
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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 2011–12.
This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with the Wikimedia Foundation WMF Board of Trustees.
(Rapaport Hall) Video
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12:45 – 14:00 |
Lunch break (foyer) |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Wiki Academy: Wiki Technology: Uses in Education and Business
(Hebrew, translation to English will be provided)
Panel headed by Prof. Sheizaf Refaeli
- The "Long Tail" Potential of Wiki Technology: Uses in Education and Business
- Information behaviors and management of Wikipedians in the context of their involvement with Hebrew Wikipedia
- The Africa Project - Bringing Wikipedia to Africa
Video
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GLAMorous
- What next in GLAM?
- State of the GLAM: DC
- State of GLAM in the Netherlands
- Palace of Versailles and Wikimedia projects
Video
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Wikipedia editorial policy
- Categorization system strengths and pitfalls
- Cultural Configuration: Autoreferentiality in Wikipedia
- Chiara Ohoven and the strange tale of German Leistungsethik
Video
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Editor surveys and analysis
- Wikimedia Foundation Studies of Editor Trends 2010-2011
- Global distribution of our community and readers
- Editor Satisfaction Survey
Video
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Workshops
- MediaWiki extension development
- Collaborative Watchlist
Video
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee break |
16:00 – 17:30 |
Wiki Academy: Uses of Wiki Technology in Higher Education (English, translation to Hebrew will be provided)
Panel headed by Dr. Ory Amitay – University of Haifa
- Using wiki to create a learning community: The case of chemistry teacher's leaders
- Teaching the Humanities in a Wiki Environment
Video
- Taking Wikipedia in Higher Education to the next level
Video
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Copyright and Intellectual Property
Panel headed by Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren
- Freedom of panorama and Wikimedia Commons
- Cultural Fair Use, Political Narrative and Copyright
- Fighting The Intellectual Property Regime
- Wikimedia and the Public Domain
Video
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Movement Roles
- Presentation on Movement roles and responsibilities: Movement charter + recommendations
- Financial transparency and accountability: setting solid plans and budgets (Stu West)
Video
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Mobile Wikipedia
- Mobile Wikipedia: What we've learned and where we're headed
Video
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Workshops
- Best practices in mentoring programs
- GlobalMelt
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18:00 – 20:30 |
Opening cocktail and buffet dinner (Auditorium Garden)
Images from the party |
Friday, August 5th
Friday, August 5th |
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Rapaport |
Cinematheque |
Arbel |
Gilboa |
Tavor |
08:30 – 09:00 |
Coffee Break |
9:00 – 9:45 |
Plenary by Dr. Joseph Reagle
Wikipedia And/Or: Prophecy Fulfilled, Happy Accident, Informational Apocalypse?
In light of Wikipedia's 10th year anniversary, Dr. Reagle will ask three different historical questions about Wikipedia. First, is Wikipedia an amazing novelty or the fulfillment of a centuries-old pursuit? Second, despite its founding mythology, wasn't Wikipedia, in fact, just an accident? Finally, is Wikipedia a beneficent undertaking or a harbinger of doom? Link to the presentation Video
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9:45 – 10:15 |
Coffee Break |
10:15 – 11:45 |
Chapters and co.
- Wikimedia Chapters
- Changing the world, one law at a time (Lobbying for Wikimedians)
Video
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Languages and cultures
- Challenges in Wikimedia projects for endangered languages
- Cooperation across different Wikipedia languages - the death anomalies case study
- The campaign for the development of the Greek-language Wikipedia
- Language policies on the Tagalog Wikipedia
Video
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The Campus Ambassadors Program
- Experiences from the Campus Ambassadors Program
GLAMorous II
- New opportunities in GLAM-Wiki collaboration
- WikiProject: Public Art
- Museum Artist files on Wikipedia
Video
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MediaWiki development
Video
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Workshops
- Don't burn the committees: set up your own
- Grey Revolution: Motivating Older Persons to Participate in Wikipedia or "How scary is Wikipedia for non-machos?"
Video
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11:45 – 12:00 |
Break |
12:00 – 13:30 |
Encouraging Participation
- Encouraging Participation in Wikimedia Projects
- What place for companies on Wikipedia ?
- Newbies Incubator
- Account Creation Improvement Project
Video
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Global South activities
- People are Knowledge
- WikiAfrica: Call for last mile operators
- Going to Africa
Video
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Wiki and Education
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