2019:Program
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 - Plenary session
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 - Ideal for newbies
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 - Workshop
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 - Group discussions
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 - Panel
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 - Lightning talks
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 - Livestream
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 - No photography
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Have you ever thought about the Wikimedia movement in terms of sustainable development? How free knowledge could have the potential to radically change peoples’ lives? Or how we through cooperation, innovation and passion actually could build a better world? Perhaps you haven’t, but we want to think about it and start a conversation.
The theme of Wikimania 2019 will be: Stronger together: Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals. The theme will permeate the program and guide our communication, cooperation and outward work.
Program design
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As Wikimania has grown and matured over the years, the physical format has remained relatively constant. Traditionally, a central program committee makes a general ‘call for submissions’; the vast majority of submissions received are for the ‘presentation’ format; and approximately two-thirds of all submissions must be rejected due to time/space constraints. Once the submissions are reviewed and accepted, they are scheduled into sessions with other talks on a similar topic.
- This year, the Wikimania Stockholm organising team are trying something new...
Rather than a centrally-controlled program weighted towards individual, retrospective presentations and a passive audience, we believe that this year’s conference theme requires a format that is future-oriented, collaborative, active, and focused on practical problem-solving. The outcomes targeted should be those that can be most efficiently achieved at in person events, namely: practical training, learning, idea-sharing and cross-cultural collaboration.
This year’s program will feature a series of parallel Spaces, a.k.a. "tracks" or "symposia", each focused on a particular topic area (examples below), with its own dedicated room in the venue, its own leaders, and a small team to help build and promote their specific program.
Rooms
editAt the University of Stockholm, the conference will be using four buildings. The rooms have all been named after Nobel prize laureates of various disciplines and from various countries. There are also many meeting points around and among the buildings for impromptu gatherings.
 Aula Magna
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 Södra Huset
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Szymborska | A wing classroom. Room A5137 | 30 | ||
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Murad | left main hall | 700 | 
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Maathai | B wing lecture hall. Room B5 | 100 | |
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Arnold | right main hall | 600 | _(cropped).jpg){kind=small}
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Strickland | B wing classroom. Room B315 | 30 | |
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Gbowee | classroom on top level. Officially Kungstenen |
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Menchú | B wing classroom. Room B487 | 30 | |
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Curie | classroom on top level. Officially Bergsmannen |
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Tu | B wing classroom. Room B497 | 40 | |
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Karman | open space on middle level | 30 | 
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Ostrom | D wing classroom. Room D307 | 30 | |
 Allhuset
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Ebadi | D wing classroom. Room D315 | 30 | ||||
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Lessing | D wing classroom. Room D499 | 70 | |
 Juristernas hus
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Alexievich | D wing classroom. Room D416 | 100 | ||||
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Montalcini | downstairs hall. Officially the Reinholdssalen |
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Williams | upstairs classroom | 30 | |||||
Related activities
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Before or after the main conference days there are also several related activities that will take place outside of the conference venue. These activities are free to join. They include the Cultural Crawl, City tours and some other activities which may be found here. You may revisit that page to find additional information the closer we get to the conference. If you have any proposals for related activities, feel free to propose them at the talk page. For the related activities, you do not have to register for the pre-conference days as they take place outside of the venue.
Community curated schedules
editThe following are community-made alternative formats, or curated specific-interest groupings, of the program.
Note: These are not necessarily maintained to match any changes in the official program.
Search keywords: calendar export, ical, offline, Android app.
- All
Wikidata-related sessions - Library-related sessions
- Education-related sessions
- LGBT+-related sessions
- Technology-related sessions
- Research-related sessions
- Program in pentabarf XML format
- Complete program in PDF, as of 10 August [now partially out of date]
- Program in Giggity Android app (works offline)
- Program List (mobile friendly)
- Web based scheduling tool (mobile friendly) Same as was used for Wikimedia Conference
- What’s being presented right now? (Mobile view)
Meetups
editThere are also multiple meetups planned during Wikimania 2019. These include, but are not limited to such topics as a quick and dirty course on Northern Sámi, using incubator projects to revitalize Taiwan's Endangered Aboriginal languages, an Iberocoop meetup, and a meetup for people on the spectrum.
Preconference
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The pre-conference days runs from Wednesday 14 to Thursday 15 August. The pre-conference activities on the University Campus include two specific activities: the hackathon and the learning days. In order to take part in these activities, you have to register for the pre-conference days.
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| All day | Hackathon (program) | Learning Days |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Introduction to Wikimania 
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| Thursday 15 | ||
| All day | Hackathon (program) | Learning Days |
Friday 16 August
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Community Village
Hackathon upstairs in Juristernas hus
Wikitongues language recording station
Friday program chronological list view (mobile friendly)
Saturday 17 August
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- Community Village in the foyer of the ground floor of Aula Magna
- Hackathon upstairs in Juristernas hus
- Wikitongues language recording station
Saturday program chronological list view (mobile friendly)
Sunday 18 August
editAll day events:
- Community Village in the foyer of the ground floor of Aula Magna
- Hackathon upstairs in Juristernas hus
- Wikitongues language recording station
Sunday program chronological list view (more mobile friendly)
| Building | Aula Magna |
Allhuset |
Juristernas hus |
Södra Huset |
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| Room | Murad | Arnold | Gbowee | Curie | Karman | Yousafzai | Montalcini | Szymborska A5137 |
Maathai B5 |
Strickland B315 |
Menchú B487 |
Tu B497 |
Ostrom D307 |
Ebadi D315 |
Lessing D499 |
Alexievich D416 |
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| Space | TECHNOLOGY | TRANSCRIPTION | RESEARCH | STRATEGY | EDUCATION | QUALITY | READERSHIP | ENVIRONMENT | MULTIMEDIA | LANGUAGES | LIBRARIES | LIBRARIES | ADVOCACY | DIVERSITY | LIBRARIES | Space | |
| 14:00 | Building Locally Relevant Knowledge with Wikisource SGill (WMF)
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State of Wikimedia Research 2018-2019 Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Reem Al-Kashif, Tilman Bayer, Matej Grochal, Miriam Redi, Aaron Shaw, Benjamin Mako Hill |
Resource Allocation Daria Cybulska, Michal Buczyński et al.
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Contextualizing Wikimedia in education: Creating a Roadmap to becoming a Wiki in Education Leader Melissa Guadalupe Huertas, Shani Evenstein, TBD
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Idea jam: future dimensions of quality
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Wikipedia everywhere - for you, your neighbours, your school Emmanuel Engelhart
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School Strike for Climate: Free Knowledge and the Climate Emergency Isabelle and Sophia Axelsson
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Portrait photography photo booth Ailura, Martin Kraft
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A wealth of opportunities hiding in plain sight Kimberli Mäkäräinen, Susanna Ånäs |
Map making workshop – from Wikidata to interactive off-wiki maps in three steps
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Open Refine: MARC & EAD (continued)
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How to talk about advocacy so that people do not fall asleep? Alek Tarkowski, Natalia Mileszyk
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Lightning talks 2
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Idea discussions (continued)
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| 14:30 | Hackathon Showcase Rachel Farrand, Siebrand Mazeland
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Updating the desktop experience for Wikipedia Olga Vasileva, Alex Hollender
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Towards Knowledge Equity through Accessibility Volker E., Laney Feingold
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| 14:45 | DIVERSITY | Documentation and quality process workshop Documentation and quality process workshop
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Pouring coastal water on Wikidata - Can we add more? Axel Petterson, Josefina Algotsson, Alicia Fagerving
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How to include oral culture in Wikimédia movement? Lionel Scheepmans
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| Wiki LGBT+ meetup Shikeishu, Jeffrey Keefer, Lane Rasberry
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| 15:00 | Wrap-up (closing session) VIGNERON
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Radio to illustrate Wikipedia. Creative examples already put in practice Francesc Fort |
Lightning talks
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Platform Regulation and Free Knowledge Advocacy Lilli Iliev, John Weitzmann, and Natalia Mileszyk |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Break | 15:30 – 16:00 | |||||||||||||||
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Closing session
Farhad Fatkullin – 2018 Wikimedian of the Year; Jimmy Wales, announcing the 2019 winner; |
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| 17:30 – 20:00 | 17:30 – 20:00 | ||||||||||||||||
| 20:00 – 24:00 | Closing party | 20:00 – 24:00 | |||||||||||||||
Remote attendance
editPresentation files
editMany presentations are available here as pdf files in the category commons:Category:Wikimania 2019 presentations.
Recording 
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All sessions will be recorded by the Knowledge savers team and published on Wikimedia Commons at category Wikimania 2019 videos, with the exception of sessions that have requested not to be filmed. .
Live streaming 
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- All sessions in room Murad will be live streamed on the Wikimedia Foundation's YouTube channel (CC BY).
- Sessions in rooms Arnold, Yousafzai, Montalcini, Szymborska, Maathai, Lessing and Alexievich will be live streamed on Wikimedia Sverige's YouTube channel (CC BY).
With the exception of sessions that have requested not to be filmed.
. - All will be added to the "Wikimania 2019 collaborative playlist" on Wikimedia Foundation's YouTube channel.
- They will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons later, in the category commons:Category:Wikimania 2019 videos.
Sessions notes
editThe Knowledge savers team will take notes at almost all sessions.