The main gathering, where everyone will attend, is:
Birds of a Feather Meetup: Wikipedia + Libraries meetup on August 11th, 13:00 to 14:00 in Joyce/Jarry (level A) There will be a buffet lunch set up outside starting at 12:30 - get your lunch and then gather in Joyce/Jarry.
If you're in town early, there is a scan-a-thon at the National archives, and various other training and editing activities on Wednesday.
Name of the Event |
Time |
Venue
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Friday, August 11th
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Wikipédia, les bibliothèques publiques et Montréal (head of the Montreal Public Library, translation provided |
11:00 - 11:30 |
Ballroom West (level 4)
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Creating a local digital community. Prototyping a collaborative workshop in libraries / Création d'une communauté numérique locale. Prototypage d'un atelier contributif en bibliothèque translation provided |
11:30 - 12:00 |
Ballroom West (level 4)
|
Centering Knowledge From The Margins |
11:30 - 12:30 |
Drummond West (level 3)
|
Birds of a feather meetups: Wikipedia + Libraries meetup |
13:00 - 14:00 |
Joyce/Jarry (level A)
|
The Internet Archive and Wikimedia - Common Knowledge Goals |
14:00 - 15:00 |
Drummond Center (level 3)
|
Growing a User Group, a roadmap for survival |
16:00 - 17:00 |
Drummond Center (level 3)
|
Saturday, August 12th
|
Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of SciHub |
11:00-12:00 |
Ballroom West (level 4)
|
Structured Commons: what changes are coming? |
11:30 - 12:00 |
Drummond Center (level 3)
|
Wikipedia Visiting Scholars |
11:45 - 12:30 |
Salon 5 (level 2)
|
Wikicite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge |
14:00-14:30 |
Drummond West (level 3)
|
Journals Cited by Wikipedia: Evaluating the Impact of Journals on Wikipedia |
14:30 - 15:00 |
Drummond West (level 3)
|
Is Wikipedia ready for videos? |
16:00 - 16:30 |
Drummond East (level 3)
|
Dana Wager - FactsCan, political fact checking |
16:00 - 17:00 |
Ballroom West (level 4)
|
State of Video in the Wikimedia Movement |
16:30 - 17:00 |
Drummond East (level 3)
|
Sunday, August 13th
|
Frédéric Giuliano & Hélène Laverdure, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec: Libraries, Archives and sharing knowledge |
09:00-10:30 |
Ballroom West + Center
|
Brick by Brick: Libraries and Wikimedia building on each other |
11:00 - 11:30 |
Ballroom Center (level 4)
|
Libraries and Wikipedia: Global perspectives and opportunities |
11:30 - 12:30 |
Ballroom Center (level 4)
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You can find the list of all programmes on the Wikimania programmes page. Hope to see many of you there!