- Sessions will be assigned a chairperson in the programme. Please expect an email from your chairperson and let them know if you have any questions or concerns. Please be ready to share your presentation files or links with your chair.
- Presenters should upload their presentations to WikiCommons before the Convention.
- Please bring a laptop to your session and any needed dongle adapter. If you are unable to bring a laptop, please let us know before Dec. 2024.
- More information to come.
This is the final draft of the programme schedule, though it may undergo slight changes leading up to the conference to better support sessions and presenters.
All the sessions have a corresponding EtherPad, you can find the links on the programme. We encourage attendees to actively take collaborative notes.
Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention takes place over three days, 15-17 January, 2025
Session Key
| 📝 Registration
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🤗 Welcome Session
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☕ Break
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🍽️ Lunch
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| 🗫 Panel
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💡 Presentation
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🛠️ Workshop
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👩🏻💻 Demonstration
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| 🚌 Travel
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🎉 Social Event
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📢 Keynote
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📷 Group Photo
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Wednesday, January 15
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| Program
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| 08:00-09:00
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📝 Registration
Place: Library entrance
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08:00-09:00
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| 09:00-09:30
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🤗 Welcome Session
Auditorio Alfonso Reyes (120)
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09:00-09:30
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Parallel sessions
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| Unconference Room
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Computer Lab (Room 5)
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| 09:30-11:00
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🛠️ Workshop for newcommers in English
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🛠️ Taller para principiantes en Español
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09:30-11:00
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| 11:00-11:30
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☕Break
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11:00-11:30
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Parallel sessions
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| Alfonso Reyes A (40)
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Room 4 (40)
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Computer Lab (Room 5)
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| 11:30-13:00
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🗫 A positive agenda for a healthy information environment: Wiki-Library Synergies
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👩🏻💻 El rol de Wikipedia en el ecosistema de la Ingelitengia Artificial y la lucha contra la desinformación (demo en Español)
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👩🏻💻Why do librarians become Wikibrarians? A decade of insights from the Wikimedia movement’s blog and newsletter (demo in English)
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11:30-13:00
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| 13:00-14:15
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🍽️ Long lunch with coffee
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13:00-14:15
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| 14:15-15:00
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📢Disinformation Keynote (Constanza)
Place: Alfonso Reyes Auditorium
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14:15-15:00
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| 15:00-15:15
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☕Break
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15:00-15:15
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Parallel sessions
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| Alfonso Reyes Auditorium
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Computer Lab (Room 5)
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| 15:15-15:30
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💡Libraries as Pillars of Truth: Wikimedia Ukraine’s Role in Combating Disinformation and Preserving Culture During the Russo-Ukrainian War
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🛠️The Wikiverse as a Tool for Information Diplomacy: Strategies for Citizen Diplomats in the Fight Against Disinformation (workshop)
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15:15-15:30
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| 15:30-15:45
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💡Combatting Disinformation though Citation Genealogy Analysis - An Approach to Tracing Misinformation Lines in Historical Publications and now Digital Form
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15:30-15:45
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| 15:45-16:00
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💡Natural Language Processing (NLP) for empowering information literacy of library users with regard to disinformation
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15:45-16:00
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| 16:00-16:15
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💡Strengthening Wikipedia's Accuracy: The Role of Librarians in Combating Disinformation
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16:00-16:15
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| 16:15-16:45
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DISCUSSION
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16:15-16:45
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| 17:00-18:00
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🚌 Travel to Xochimilco
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17:00-18:00
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| 18:00-19:30
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🎉 Trajineras tour / Dinner
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18:00-19:30
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| 19:30-20:00
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🚌 Travel back to hotel
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19:30-20:00
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Thursday, January 16
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| Program
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| 08:00-09:00
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📝Registration
Library entrance
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08:00-09:00
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| 09:00-09:15
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🤗Good morning & expectations for the day
Auditorio Alfonso Reyes (120)
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09:00-09:15
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| 09:15-10:00
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📢Wikidata
Speaker: Alan Ang
Auditorio Alfonso Reyes (120)
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09:15-10:00
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| 10:00-10:45
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📢Disnformation and COVID
López Gatell Ramírez + United Nations + Fósforo + Iván WMMX
Auditorio Alfonso Reyes (120)
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10:00-10:45
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| 10:45-11:00
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[Questions]
PlaceAuditorio Alfonso Reyes (120)
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10:45-11:00
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| 11:00-11:30
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Break
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11:00-11:30
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Parallel sessions
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| AI Track
Room 4 (40)
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Disinfo Workshop
Room 6 Lab (20)
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GLAM track
Unconference room (35)
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| 11:30-11:45
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💡Chat with Creative Commons: All about Open Licensing and Its Impact on Disinformation and AI
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🛠️ An antidote to disinformation
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💡Improving public domain information with Wikidata and Paulina
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11:30-11:45
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| 11:45-12:00
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💡Advancing Factual Claim Verification and Hallucination Detection with Large Language Models and Wikibase Knowledge Graphs for Enhanced Accuracy and Reliability in Biographies
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💡#EveryBookItsReader campaign: a librarians initiative to safeguard Literary Knowledge
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11:45-12:00
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| 12:00-12:15
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💡Rethinking Information Literacy in the Age of Generative AI: Can Wikipedia help?
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💡Investigadoras en los Archivos Estatales. Programa de colaboración entre Wikiesfera y el Ministerio de Cultura de España
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12:00-12:15
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| 12:15-12:30
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💡Natural Language Processing (NLP) for empowering information literacy of library users with regard to disinformation
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💡The National Library of Israel's Multi-Dimensional Engagement with Wikimedia Projects: Enriching Free Knowledge (Orly)
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12:15-12:30
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| 12:30-13:00
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DISCUSSION
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DISCUSSION
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12:30-12:45
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| 13:00-14:15
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🍽️ Lunch
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13:15-14:15
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| 14:15-14:30
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📷 Group Photo
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14:15-14:30
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Parallel sessions
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| Room 4 (40)
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Unconference room (50)
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| 14:30-14:45
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💡Beyond ‘deepfakes’: Stewarding Authenticity in Digital Cultural Heritage (Clifford)
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💡GLAM digital collections usage as trustworthy Wiki-sources: Western Balkans case study
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14:30-14:45
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| 14:45-15:00
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Disinformation Markets in the age of AI: Deepfakes, Synthetic Media, and the Future of Computational Propaganda on Digital Platforms (panel)
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💡Wikibase for Welsh Name Authority
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14:45-15:00
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| 15:15-15:30
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💡WikiBibliotecas: introduction to wikimedia projects for Brazilian information professionals
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15:15-15:30
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| 15:30-15:45
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💡How Wikidata community can encourage national libraries to join VIAF as a part of increasing collaboration between national libraries and Wikidata (and Commons)
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15:30-15:45
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| 15:45-16:00
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💡Cooperation between Wikimedia Georgia and the National Library of Georgia for reliable information
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15:45-16:00
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| 16:00-17:00
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🎉Tour
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16:00-17:00
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| 17:00-21:00
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🎉Dinner in Coyoacán
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17:00-21:00
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| Program
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| 08:00-09:00
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📝Registration
Library entrance
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08:00-09:00
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| 09:00-09:30
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🤗Good morning & expectations for the day
Stavenhagen (120)
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09:00-09:30
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| 09:30-11:00
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🙋🏻♀️Engagment & WLUG Business meeting (Plenary and Interactive session)
Stavenhagen (120)
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09:30-11:00
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| 11:00-11:30
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☕ Break
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11:00-11:30
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Parallel sessions
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| Alfonso Reyes A (40)
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Alfonso Reyes (40)
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Room 4 (40)
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Unconference room (35)
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| 11:30-13:00
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🗫 Bridging the Gender Gap: The Vital Role of Librarians in Shaping Knowledge Systems on Wikipedia and Wikidata (panel)
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🗫 Strengthening the Information Ecosystem: Wikimedia and Multi-Sector Efforts to Counter Disinformation (panel)
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🗫"A positive agenda for a healthy information environment: Wiki-Library Synergies (panel)"
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Capacity Exchange for Wikibrarians
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11:30-13:00
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| 13:00-14:00
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🍽️Lunch
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13:00-14:00
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Parallel sessions
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| Knowledge equity track
Alfonso Reyes A (40)
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Open Access track
Alfonso Reyes (40)
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| 14:00-14:15
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💡Biografías de mujeres paraguayas para mitigar el negacionismo histórico
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💡Presencia de revistas de acceso abierto en Wikidata a partir del Directorio de Revistas de Acceso Abierto (DOAJ)
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14:00-14:15
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| 14:15-14:30
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💡Whose voices are (not) online? Unpacking disinformation from a knowledge justice perspective
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💡El dominio público mexicano en Wikidata.
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14:15-14:30
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| 14:30-14:45
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💡Combating disinformation and historical negationism in health: experience from Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz
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💡Las bibliotecas: pilares del acceso a los bienes públicos digitales.
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14:30-14:45
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| 14:45-15:15
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Discussion
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Discussion
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14:45-15:15
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| 15:15-15:45
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☕ Break
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15:15-15:45
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| 16:00-17:00
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Farewell session: givaways + survey
Stavenhagen (120)
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16:00-17:00
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| 17:00-21:30
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🎉Farewell party + dinner at COLMEX
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17:00-21:30
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- Fact-checking and countering disinformation through Wikimedia projects
- It takes a village: collaborations for fighting disinformation on Wikipedia and sister projects
- Reimagining digital literacy training within the Wikiverse
- Strategies for identifying and addressing biased information
- The role of libraries in promoting media literacy and critical thinking
- Case studies on successful interventions against disinformation in Wikimedia
- Leveraging technology and AI to detect and prevent disinformation
- Community engagement and education in combating disinformation
- Ethical considerations in managing and curating content on Wikimedia platforms
- Wikipedia as a tool
- Wikidata
- Library content contribution to Wikicommons
- Wiki-Library Advocacy:
- Wikimedian-in-Residence Work
- Libraries & Wikimedia campaigns
- Wikilibrarian training
- Mexico/South America WikiProjects
- WikiProjecs: The Wikipedia Library, 1Lib1ref etc.
- Wikibase
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Workshops: Beginners & Advanced
- Unconference Spaces
With support from the Wikimedia Foundation, we are excited to announce the second Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention, to be held in Mexico City, Mexico, 15-17 January, 2025, following the first-ever WikiLibCon held in Ireland on 2022.
While a limited number of scholarships are available, individuals do not need to be awarded a scholarship to participate. As the inaugural conference for professionals working at the intersection of Wikimedia and libraries, we seek proposals that engage all aspects of libraries and information literacy work happening in and alongside the Wikimedia movement. Wikimedia's core-knowledge projects (especially Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons) provide the community, resources, and technical infrastructure that enable free educational content on a global scale.
Submit your proposal here.
