2024:議程
Sessions
Spirit of Wikimania 2024
This year's spirit is Collaboration of the Open. While preparing your submission, choosing potential topics and thinking about the audience, we ask you to consider the collaborative and open aspects of your topic(s).
What may the audience learn and/or how may they join your initiative? We would especially love to see submissions going beyond the existing groups, transcending the Wikimedia borders. We welcome submissions about open research, open data, open government – initiatives that may connect Wikimedians with the wide world, inspire others, and strengthen the impact of open knowledge. We also welcome submissions of people who can clearly see collaborations within Wikimedia groups, or even better, between Wikimedia groups and non-Wikimedians, collaborating in education, culture, technologies, governance, and more.
Program tracks
To make the program submissions easier to organize and review, we have suggested 12 program tracks. Think about which one best fits your program idea. If your submission applies to more than one track, you may specify a secondary track in the submission form.
- Education – initiatives and programs in education and academia
- GLAM – initiatives and programs in heritage and cultural conservation, collaborations with cultural institutions that include galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and more
- Partnerships – initiatives pairing the Wikimedia movement and its activities with external institutions to produce beneficial results
- Technology – product and technology in the Wikimedia movement
- Community Engagement – the activities aimed at increasing the number of contributors, attracting new editors, making sure they are welcome and willing to stay for the ride
- Community Health – issues related to retaining those editors and contributors that are already active. How to provide them with what they need to keep on contributing.
- Research – research with topics relevant to Wikimedia and the spirit of Wikimania, as well as research that uses Wikimedia data and content
- Diversity & Inclusion – making sure that Wikimedia projects appeal to as wide audience as possible, and can be edited by as wide group of contributors as possible, to cater for variety and to invite everyone
- Legal & Advocacy – copyrights and digital accessibility, censorship and disinformation / misinformation, public policy and human rights
- Open Data – initiatives in data use and reuse
- Governance & Strategy (alternatively, Governance or Strategy) – discussions focused on structures and reform, key initiatives from the Movement Strategy
- Wild Ideas – anything Wikimedia-related that does not fit well into any of the above or is so wild it needs a category of its own!
Session formats
We will support onsite, virtual, and hybrid sessions. We'll share more on the logistics side at a later date. Now though, we can confirm that:
- Virtual sessions need to be recorded ahead of time
- Both presenters and the audience may dial in to take part in hybrid sessions. However, live interactions between the remote and onsite participants may be limited.
Session types
- Workshop (85 minutes) – interactive format to work out a solution or provide learning experiences
- Demonstration (40 minutes) – live demonstration of e.g. a tool, possibly with interactive elements
- Lecture (25 minutes)
- Panel (55 minutes) – a discussion with a few contributors and an audience
- Roundtable (40 minutes) – a discussion where everyone has equal right to participate
- Lightning talk (5/10 minutes) – a quick presentation of a concept or story
- Poster (time duration not applicable–will be part of shared poster session) – posters will need to be submitted as files once accepted
- Other. Please specify in Notes section (25 minutes) – anything that does not fit into any of the above format
Proposal form questions
Session info
| Question - Page 1 | Required |
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| What is the title of your session submission? | X |
Session type.
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What program track best fits your session? This is your session's primary thematic category.
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| Language. What is the primary language of your session? Sessions delivered in English will receive live interpretation into all Wikimania Katowice languages. Sessions delivered in other Wikimania Katowice languages will have live interpretation only into English. | X |
| Abstract. A brief description of your session. (Please write at most 100 words.) | X |
| Description. A full description of your session, including aims and objectives. (Please write at most 500 words.) | X |
| Notes. Optional notes to the organisers. | |
| Additional speaker. If you have a co-speaker, you can add their email address. |
| Question - Page 2 | Required |
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| How does your session relate to the event themes: Collaboration of the Open? | X |
What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.This will be shown publicly.
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| Are there any other tags that you would like to associate with your proposal? Please add a comma between tags. | |
| Tell us a bit about yourself and your experience in relation to this submission. | X |
| Do you have any experience in public speaking, leading workshops or trainings, participating on a panel or delivering sessions? If yes, please describe. | |
What would the desired time for your session be?
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What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
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| Have you applied for a Wikimania Travel scholarship? This will NOT be shown publicly and is only used for cross-referencing with the scholarship process. | X |
How do you plan to deliver this session? You will be asked to confirm this closer to the date in case of changes to the format.
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| Have you presented on this topic before or do you have any related references? If yes, please share a link. | |
| Are there any other needs or requests for your session not mentioned elsewhere in this application (all rooms have microphones and projectors but, for example, will you need a flip chart, markers, post-its etc)? | |
| Should your session be selected for the program, do you consent to having your session and supporting materials released on-wiki and on the eventyay platform under CC BY-SA 4.0? If you selected “Do not record this session” your session will not be filmed and no video will appear online.* | X |
Speaker info
| Question & info text - Page 3 | Required |
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| Speaker image. Please upload an image from Wikimedia Commons. This will be shown publicly in your speaker profile on eventyay. | |
| Image attribution. Please provide the author name and image license info. | |
| Image attribution: Please provide the image credit URL from Wikimedia Commons. | |
| Name or username. Please enter the name you wish to be displayed publicly. This name will be used for all events you are participating in on this server. | X |
| Biography. Please provide a brief personal biography with information about your past involvement in the Wikimedia movement. This will be shown publicly in your user profile on eventyay. | X |
FAQ
When are Wikimania 2024 program submissions accepted?
We will start that phase soon, and will accept submissions until April 10 at 12:00 UTC (check local time).
Where do I have to submit my program idea?
On eventyay.
Eventyay is an open-source event platform. If you took part in Wikimania last year, you used it to register at the event.
May I submit more than one session?
Yes.
May my team of co-speakers be hybrid?
Yes.
May I edit my submission once it's already been submitted?
Yes.
You will be able to log into eventyay using the account you created and edit your proposals until the call for proposals ends. You can also choose to save your proposal as a draft and submit it later. Organizers will not be able to see your proposal in progress, though they will be able to send you reminder emails about the upcoming deadline.
What types of sessions tend to be accepted? Where can I get inspiration for my session?
The Core Organizing Team is looking for sessions that illustrate the power of open collaboration. Creative, hands-on and interactive sessions are always encouraged.
The most helpful way to get inspiration for your session is by reviewing accepted sessions from previous Wikimanias. You can browse session videos from Wikimania 2023 or view the program in legacy format. The program is also available for 2022, 2021 and 2019.
What if my idea submission does not get accepted, what can I do instead?
Think about contributing pre-recorded short video content to be made available on-demand or creating a 1 to 3-minute short video presenting your topic like a virtual poster session.
When will I know if my idea was accepted?
Starting in May.
More specifically, we reviewed the submissions in April–May and communicating results with submitters began in May, through June.
I did not apply for a scholarship. Will I get a scholarship if my program submission for an onsite session is qualified?
No.
I want to present on site and I am on the scholarship waiting list. Should I select that I am a scholar in my program submission? You should receive a final decision about your scholarship application before the program submisssion deadline. If for any reason you need to submit your program before you receive a scholarship decision, please select that you are a scholar. We will cross-check your program submission with the scholars' database.
Will there be speaker trainings?
Yes.
Selected speakers will receive an invitation to participate in a speaker training closer to Wikimania. They will also receive a speaker guidebook with helpful tips and tricks for building their session.
We will notify speakers about the schedule.
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Programming working group
The programming working group has now been formed with dozens of volunteers. This group will be reviewing all program proposals and communicating about decisions in May through June.
Programming Orientation and Question and Answer session
An orientation and Q&A about programming was held during the call for proposals period, on Thursday, 21 March from 18:00 UTC - 19:00 UTC. The recording is available on Commons.