Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023/Programme

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Programme Committee

• Chair: Kiril Simeonovski (Shared Knowledge)
• Local Team: Mehman Ibragimov (Wikimedia UG Georgia)
• Local Team: George Melashvili (Wikimedia UG Georgia)
• Philip Kopetzky (Wikimedia CEE Hub)
• Wojciech Pędzich (Wikimedia CEE Hub)
• Basak Tosun (Wikimedia UG Turkey)
• Nataliia Tymkiv (Wikimedia Ukraine)
• Barbara Klen (Wikimedia CEE Hub)

Development

See: Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023/Programme development

Meetups

For self-organised and informal meetups, please see Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023/Meetups.

Schedule

See: Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023/Submissions

Session identifiers
Session format	- Plenary session	- Group discussion	- Lecture (30 minutes)	- Workshop (90 minutes)
	- Panel (60 minutes)	- Lightning talk (5 minutes)	- Social event
Advancement level	- Basic	- Medium	- Advanced
Technical support	- Online session	- Recording	- Live stream	- Simultaneous interpretation

Halls
Ilia (160 people)	King Vakhtang (50 people)	King David (50 people)	Queen Tamar (50 people)

Learning Day (Thursday, 14 September 2023)

08:30 - 09:00	Walk-in
Hall	Queen Tamar
09:00 - 11:00	Conflict resolution for Humans Asaf Bartov
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:45	Conflict of Interest workshop Asaf Bartov
12:45 - 14:15	Lunch
14:15 - 15:00	Governance mistakes others have already made so you don't have to repeat them Asaf Bartov
15:00 - 15:45	Creative Thinking as Strategy - part 1 Asaf Bartov
15:45 - 16:00	Break
16:00 - 18:00	Creative Thinking as Strategy - part 2 Asaf Bartov
18:00 - 18:30	Wrap-up
19:00 - 20:00	Dinner

Day 1 (Friday, 15 September 2023)

08:00 - 09:00	Registration at the Tbilisi State University
Hall	Ilia
09:00 - 09:45	Opening session Mehman Ibragimov, Jimmy Wales, Maryana Iskander, Eliso Bolkvadze, Tinatin Berdzenishvili, Barbara Klen
09:45 - 10:30	Ice-breaker
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Hall	King Vakhtang	King David	Queen Tamar
Theme	Diversity	Technology & Legal	Community Engagement
11:00 - 12:30	From local edit-a-thons to international writing campaigns — a case study of Wikimedia Serbia Nevena Rudinac, Filip Maljković	Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Wikipedia Joris Darlington Quarshie	Bridging Divides, Embracing Diversity: The Role of Wikimedia Community Anna Prodromou
	Equity improvements in Wikimedia Foundation funding programs Chris Schilling Tools demonstration: List-Building, massviews, userviews, PetScan Asaf Bartov	Russia: editing Wikimedia projects in the time of cholera Victoria Doronina
	Telling the story of the movement - how Movement Communications can support you! Chris Koerner, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska	Digital Security Basics Chmielko Maslak
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch + Group photo
Theme	Education	Community Engagement	Collaboration
14:00 - 15:30	Education with Wikipedia in the Estonian way Ivo Kruusamägi, Pille Priks	Small projects, great ideas: Saving local culture one photo at a time Miroslav Loci, Marko Adam	Wikimania 2024 Maciej Nadzikiewicz, Szymon Grabarczuk, Käbi Laan, Wojciech Pędzich, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
	Microcontributions to Scholarship — Streamlining Wikipedia into Higher Education Hans Gutbrod	Sign language content as a new form of knowledge Nino Bogdanovski
	Opportunities of edit-a-thons in higher education Bence Molnár	WikiHerald — a way to inform and motivate the Wiki community. Ukrainian experience Yuri Perohanych
15:30 - 16:00	Break
Hall	King Vakhtang
Theme	Strategy
16:00 - 17:30	Movement Charter conversations with the CEE communities Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska, Michał Buczyński
17:30 - 18:00	Wrap-up
18:00 - 20:00	Dinner

Day 2 (Saturday, 16 September 2023)

08:30 - 09:00	Walk-in
Hall	King Vakhtang	King David	Queen Tamar
Theme	Research & Diversity	Content Quality	Community Engagement
09:00 - 10:30	Analysis of the programmes per community in the CEE Region Barbara Klen, Toni Ristovski	Propaganda and Disinformation - latest experiences Friederike von Franqué, Costanza Sciubba Caniglia CANCELLED	Wikification of Wikimedia Events Organizing Željko Blaće
	The invisible tax of free knowledge: Evidence from the Wikimedia projects in the CEE region Kiril Simeonovski
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Theme	Community Resources	Operational Planning	Capacity Development
11:00 - 12:30	Small Grants, Big Workshop: Let's share and publicize our microgrant programs! Chris Schilling Uzbek User Group experience Nikolay Artemev	CEE Hub Year 2 Plan Workshop CEE Hub Steering Committee and Staff	What makes my affiliate successful and the role of the board: Part 1 Frans Grijzenhout
	Adiutor Vikipolimer
	SPARQL Asaf Bartov
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
Theme	Community Health	GLAM & Partnerships	Capacity Development
14:00 - 15:30	Big Funnel: A new approach to outreach Asaf Bartov	GLAM program in Republic of Srpska Bogdan Lažetić, Mirjana Petković	What makes my affiliate successful and the role of the board: Part 2 Frans Grijzenhout
	Even smaller groups can do stuff Matej Grochal, Patrik Kunec	Cultural ambassadors as a link between Wikimedia projects and the GLAM world Gereon Kalkuhl
	Growing viewership multiplies newcomers Uladzimir Rusakovich	Collaborating across CEE and beyond: Best practices of Building a New Innovation Format for the Movement Lucia Obst, Ivana Madžarević
15:30 - 16:00	Break
Theme	Governance	Diversity	Sharing & Learning
16:00 - 17:30	Meet the Board of Trustees Nataliia Tymkiv, Victoria Doronina	Meet the CEE Youth group Mari Avetisyan, Jan Beránek, Valentyn Nefedov, Yılmaz Caner Özyayıkçı, Denis Smajlović, Barbara Klen, Klára Joklová	Advocacy Updates from Georgia Mehman Ibragimov
			2023 update from Wikimedia Community Malta Enrique Tabone, Toni Sant
			A Book Journey - Completing the Circle. From the Shelf to Wikipedia, from one person to all over the world Elena Damian
			Tatar Culture and Tatar Wikipedia: parallels, processes and values Farhad Bakhtiiari
			Gamified photo contests: implementing a quest format George Iordachi
			Implementation of the course "Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom" in Ukraine: challenges and results Nataliia Lastovets
			Rare diseases on Wikipedia Nataša Nedanoska
			Let's Connect Maciej Nadzikiewicz
			Üsküdar University Wikipedia Student Club Hanne İsna Sevinç
17:30 - 18:00	Buses for Mtskheta city tour
18:00 - 20:30	Mtskheta city tour
20:30 - 23:00	Dinner
23:00	First bus to hotel
23:30	Second bus to hotel

Day 3 (Sunday, 17 September 2023)

08:30 - 09:00	Walk-in
Hall	King Vakhtang	King David	Queen Tamar
Theme	Content Coverage	Education	Community Engagement
09:00 - 10:30	How we covered all Czech villages by photos and another Tadeáš Bednarz	Wiki-School Georgia Structuring Curricula Data on Wikidata Manana Shekiladze Sailesh Patnaik	CEE Spring: why you want less but better articles Mykola Kozlenko
	Drone images and Macedonian Wikiexpeditions Dean Lazarevski	WoALUG Experience in Education combined with GLAM Institutions in Albania and Kosovo Greta - User Margott
	Thematic challenges for Czech community Klára Joklová, Lucie Schubert	Adaptations in WikiCamps, Teachers training, and WikiClubs Arshak Shahinyan
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Theme	Governance & Safety	Technology	Sharing & Learning
11:00 - 12:30	AffCom meets community Mehman Ibragimov, Başak Tosun, Wojciech Pędzich, Manavpreet Kaur	Design the interface together: Vector 2022, dark mode, and other changes Szymon Grabarczuk bring your laptops!	6 Tactics to Grow Education Partnerships Başak Tosun, Zafer Batik
			"There is an error" - Czech educational & fundraising campaign Klára Joklová, Natálie Schejbalová
			Relations with historical and cultural institutions and local authorities as applied to Kazan and Tatarstan Vyacheslav Kirillin, Farhad Fatkullin
			Wikimedia Summit Engagement Eva Martin
			Micro-grants as an effective tool to engage the community Lucie Schubert, Klára Joklová
			Documenting the history of Wikipedia Ivo Kruusamägi, Pille Priks
			Past and present of Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group Yılmaz Caner Özyayıkçı
	Safety first: why it is worth working on anti-harassment procedures Natalia Ćwik, Tomasz Wszeborowski		Ukrainian Wikimarathon: how "crazy idea" turned into international event Valentyn Nefedov
			Fighting Gentrification with Commons Sonia Budini
			Wiki collaboration with embassies Snežana Štrkovska
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
Hall	Central Auditorium (I building of TSU)
Theme	Governance
14:00 - 15:30	CEE Hub Year 2 Approval CEE Hub Steering Committee and Staff
15:30 - 16:00	Break
16:00 - 17:00	Closing session
18:00 - 20:00	Dinner

Remote attendance

Live stream

• Link to the Wikimedia CEE channel on YouTube

Session notes

• Link to all session notes (etherpads)

Contact

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