Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024/Programme

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Programme Committee

• Chair: Kiril Simeonovski (Wikimedia CEE Hub)
• Local Team: Başak Tosun (Wikimedia UG Türkiye)
• Local Team: Mehman Ibragimov (Wikimedia UG Georgia)
• Nataliia Tymkiv (Wikimedia Ukraine)
• Wojciech Pędzich (Wikimedia CEE Hub)
• Barbara Klen (Wikimedia CEE Hub)
• Natalia Ćwik (Wikimedia Polska)
• Vjollca Merdani (Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group)
• Marios Magioladitis (Wikimedia UG Greece)

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Schedule

See: Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023/Submissions

Session identifiers
Session format	- Plenary session	- Lecture (30 minutes)	- Demonstration (60 minutes)	- Workshop (90 minutes)
	- Panel (60 minutes)	- Roundtable (45 minutes)	- Lightning talk (5 minutes)	- Social event
Advancement level	- Basic	- Medium	- Advanced
Technical support	- Recording	- Live stream

Halls
İstanbul (150 people)	Ankara (45 people)	İzmir (25 people)

Day 1 (Friday, 20 September 2024)

08:00 - 09:00	Registration
Hall	İstanbul
09:00 - 09:30	Opening session TBD
Theme	Technology
09:30 - 10:30	The Future of Wikimedia in the AI Era Natalia Ćwik, Marios Magioladitis
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Hall	İstanbul	Ankara	İzmir
Theme	Governance & Strategy	Technology	Education
11:00 - 12:30	State of CEE 2024 Barbara Klen, Philip Kopetzky, Toni Ristovski	Your first Wikifunction Mārtiņš Bruņenieks	WikiOutdoor Training 2024 Nino Bogdanovski, Dean Lazarevski
	Meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Trustees Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska		The Best Day of My Life "Arhavi WikiCamp" Oner Hoca
			Financial-Economic Wikimonths in Wikimedia Armenia Arshak Shahinyan
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch + Group photo
Theme	Parnterships	Wikidata & Technology	Media Outreach
14:00 - 15:30	A Case Study for Türkiye to Build A Knowledge Repository for Cultural Heritage in Wikimedia: The R-RF-2308-13594 Project Nurdan Atalan Çayırezmez, Deniz Çit, Aslı Batırbaygil, Nurcan Atalan Helicke	Serbian novels on Wikidata Ranka Stanković, Filip Maljković	Crafting Connections: Unveiling the Art of Strategic PR & COMMS Anna Prodromou
	Experiment, Fail, Learn: Innovative Strategies for Engaging Partner’s Staff in Wikipedia Editing Kamila Neuman	Pattypan - a tool demonstration Wojciech Pędzich
	Heritage Guard Network Mehman Ibragimov, Eric Luth, Natalia Ćwik, Olesia Lukaniuk
15:30 - 16:00	Break
Theme	Community Engagement	Technology	Outreach
16:00 - 17:30	OpenStreetMap and Wikidata in Disaster Times Orkut Murat Yılmaz	Uploading from a museum website? Some custom JavaScript can help you Vitaly Zdanevich	How to present Wikipedia to newbies Anton Protsiuk
	CEE Youth Group: one year on Nikos Likomitros, Mari Avetisyan, Yılmaz Caner Özyayıkçı
	Employer Branding Without a Budget: Attracting Volunteers and Staff to Your Affiliate Jolanta Drzewakowska	Bots and Wikimedia Fatih
17:30 - 18:00	Wrap-up
18:00 - 20:00	Dinner

Day 2 (Saturday, 21 September 2024)

08:30 - 09:00	Walk-in
Hall	İstanbul	Ankara	İzmir
Theme	Education	Community Engagement	Strategy
09:00 - 10:30	Empowering Students: Creating Local Heritage Websites with Jekyll, Wikipedia and Wikidata Dimitrios Ringas, Eleni Christopoulou	Temporary accounts Szymon Grabarczuk, Niharika Kohli	CEE Hub - how do we get to a membership system? Philip Kopetzky, Tisza Gergő, Michał Buczyński, Klára Joklová
	Youth - the end or the future of Wikimedia? Kacper Szymański, Grzegorz Kopaczewski	Polish Wikipedia admin support program Tomasz Wszeborowski	How to Overcome Small Community Struggles that Wikimedia Chooses to Ignore: The Case of Montenegrin Wikipedia Ivana Novaković-Leković, Kristina Bojanović
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Theme	Research	Technology	Governance
11:00 - 12:30	Building a sustainable Wikimedia movement: A contribution from the CEE region Kiril Simeonovski	AutoWikiBrowser Marios Magioladitis	My first staff member Frans Grijzenhout
	Research:Integration of New Editors into the Serbian Wikipedia Community Ivana Madžarević, Miroslav Loci
	Research to support multilingual knowledge on Wikipedia Pablo Aragón	VRT for smaller languages and projects – does this pay off? Bence Molnár
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
Theme	Community Health	Technology	Strategy
14:00 - 15:30	Defending our wikis against weaponized generative AI Asaf Bartov	The Wikibase Software: Data and Collections in the Linked Open Data web Christos Varvantakis	CEE Hub Year 3 Workshop Barbara Klen, Philip Kopetzky, Klára Joklová, Natalia Ćwik
	Collaborative Pathways: Sharing thematic success of CEE across the movement Sailesh Patnaik, Başak Tosun
	Overview of the campaigns/contests through the CEE Region Toni Ristovski	Building a music data sharing space with Wikibase Daniel Antal, Matej Grochal, Andor Barat, Christos Varvantakis
15:30 - 16:00	Break
Theme	Governance	Diversity	Sharing & Learning
16:00 - 17:30	Good governance in your affiliate: lessons learnt in the Movement Michał Buczyński	Quick and Low Cost Social Media: Effective Strategies for Small Wikimedia Affiliates Jolanta Drzewakowska	Advocacy Updates from Kultur Envanteri and Wikipedia Relations Caner Cangül
			Temporary administrators on Ukrainian Wikipedia – how an emergency measure morphed into a long-term practice Anton Protsiuk
			Do we need to do everything by ourselves? Social media as a source of donations Modri Dirkac
			Albanian — Georgian Wikimedia Cooperation Mehman Ibragimov, Vjollca Merdani
			Marathon on writing Crimean Tatar Wikipedia in Ukraine: results and prospects Mariana Senkiv
	Wikipedia for Women Mari Avetisyan		Integrating Wikipedia-related assignments in the higher education - lessons learned Iglika Ivanova
			Reviving the Past: How Wikilala Reshaped the Ways for Researchers? Sadi Özgür, Harun Tuncer
			Visualizing cultural heritage through Wikidata Enrique Tabone
			Promotion and engagement of volunteers for an international project: Wiki Loves Earth practices Olesia Lukaniuk
			Wiki Loves Eurovision Toni Sant, Wojciech Pędzich, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska, Barbara Klen
	Bridging the gender gap: Writing women's biographies in Wikibooks Camelia Boban		Wiki Loves Rephotography Olesia Lukaniuk
			Wikimedian in Residence - a new definition of the librarian Elena Ancu Damian
			Wikipedia 201 video set: Knowledge for everyone, everywhere Yılmaz Caner Özyayıkçı
			Wiki Science Competition as an article competition Ivo Kruusamägi
			WMCZ - Wikinside statistic tool – new tool for long-term monitoring of statistics Klára Joklová, Martin Urbanec
17:30 - 18:00	Buses for city tour
18:00 - 20:30	City tour
20:30 - 23:00	Dinner
23:00	First bus to hotel
23:30	Second bus to hotel

Day 3 (Sunday, 22 September 2024)

08:30 - 09:00	Walk-in
Hall	İstanbul	Ankara	İzmir
Theme	Community Engagement	Legal & Advocacy	Education & Technology
09:00 - 10:30	Bridging the Gap Between Wikipedians and Scientists with Terminology-Aware Translation: A Case Study in Turkish Ali Gebeşçe, Gözde Gül Şahin, Gürkan Soykan	Crowdsourcing Wikimedia viewpoints, attitudes and positions on AI and the impact on the platforms Eric Luth, John Cummings	Inter regional cooperation - Education Klára Joklová, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska, Barbara Klen, Toni Ristovski
	Reflecting on Two Years of WikiStipendiya: Lessons Learned and Future Directions Nodir Ataev, Kamara Vrandecic
	Unity through Understanding: The Polish Wikipedia Conflict Management Project Małgorzata Gramatnikowska		Auto-revert tools: what we learned from their usage in CEE Strainu
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Theme	Governance & Legal	GLAM & Partnerships	Community Engagement
11:00 - 12:30	Guide by the CEE Hub staff: What you need to include in your grant proposals? Barbara Klen, Toni Ristovski	How to use Wikidata for GLAM institutions: Case Study for museums in Türkiye and person data Nurdan Atalan Çayırezmez, Gonca Özger, Burcu Akşahin, Hakan Melih Aygün	How to keep Wiki Loves participants interested even after 10+ editions Mykola Kozlenko, Nataliia Tymkiv
		Smart GLAM-Wiki Partnerships: Learning from Others' Mistakes with Limited Resources Kamila Neuman
	How to influence national policy? Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz	Fiscal sponsorships for smaller Wiki communities Arianit Dobroshi
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
Hall	İstanbul
Theme	Governance
14:00 - 14:45	CEE Hub Year 3 Approval CEE Hub Steering Committee and Staff
14:45 - 15:15	Break
15:15 - 16:00	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

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us via cee24.program@wikimedia.org.tr.