Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2018/Submissions

Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2018

Lviv, Ukraine, October 13-15

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Call for submissions closed on August 26, 2018, 23:59:59 (UTC).

Programme scope

Based on survey's results the program committee decided that the following topics are to be taken into consideration when submitting the applications for lectures, workshops and discussion panels:

1. Strategic discussions:
   • Increasing the level of cooperation on the level of communities.
   • New cross-border projects, instead of or in addition to the existing CEE Spring.
   • Attracting new editors and creating comfortable conditions for them.
   • Developments of small communities.
   • Implementation of Wikimedia 2030 strategy in the region.
   • Gender gap.
2. Capacity development:
   • Creation and development of local communities. Recognition from WMF. Support of small communities.
   • Wikidata, particularly integration into local wikis.
   • Encouragement of new editors.
   • Outreach, particularly in education.
   • Conflict resolution.
   • Dealing with paid editing.
   • Writing and using learning patterns.
   • Technical skills, particularly to speed up the editing.
3. Working groups:
   • Trans-border cooperation (several separate topics of cooperation applicable, particularly, article contests, GLAM and other projects).
   • Trans-border contests: CEE Spring, WLE, WLM, European Science Photo Competition, Wikiexpeditions. Particularly, a lot of applicants mentioned desire to discuss the future of CEE Spring, or another contest which will replace it.
   • Advocacy & Copyright Law.
   • Gender Gap.

Submissions

We welcome different types of submissions - workshops, discussion panels etc. We also have two requirements:

1. your submission must fit with one of the topics listed above, and
2. your submission must include time for discussions/work; we don't welcome lectures without interaction with the audience.

List of submissions

• Future of CEE Spring
• WikiOnTheRoad
• Targeted projects - an effective tool for attracting new editors. WMROMD experience
• After spring comes summer? CEESpring roundtable
• Wikidata’s Magic Button
• Wikipedias in the languages of Russia: Growing multilingualism online
• Searching and integrating the positive intention in conflicts
• Vulnerability in society: how the Wikimedia Movement can make a difference
• Open Library and Open Heritage projects
• CEEbots coming - how to run a bot and how bots can help all CEE communities
• Healthy Wikimedia Communities - what do they need?
• Edu Wiki camp: Interactive approach to attracting volunteers
• Wiki ambassador: Undercover Wikimedian at university
• How can we work better together?
• How to retain new editors
• Serbia Loves Wikipedians in Residence
• Seminars of professional development
• Wikimedia 2030 Come & Tell - what needs to change in our movement?
• Make an impactful outreach to your local community
• Developments of small communities: Experiences of Wikimedia Community of the Republic of Srpska
• Outreach in education
• Lviv Then and Now: Rephotography Workshop
• Chapter daily toil: what works, what works not, what can be improved?
• Wikimedia & Education: developing a framework that values our community
• Organise a prehackaton!
• Wiki loves Yerevan
• Create your first Wikidata Lua infobox
• Lexeme editing session
• How Wikimedia CEE Spring can benefit from the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory (WCDO)
• Enrichment of multilingual Wikipedia based on quality analysis
• "Free" or "stable" encyclopedia? Dilemmas of Wikimedia communities in authoritarian countries