This page shows the preliminary program for the conference. This program is subject to changes.

Please note that you can sign up for delivering a lightning talk at Wikimania if you have something worth to communicate!

Special events

Not all events are official events. Attendees are welcome to organize meetups, tours and other events here.
  • August 25: 12:00 - 15:00: Richard Stallman free (as in beer!) and open talk "The Free Software Movement". Music show and launch of the "Free software song contest" at Teatro Presidente Alvear (in Spanish)
  • August 25: 16:00 - 18:30 Press Conference. Room C. Centro Cultural General San Martín
  • August 25-28: Wikimania Codeathon
  • August 26-28: Poster display. Posters approved by the Program Committee will be exhibited in the main lounge (Hall A/B)
  • Chapters meeting (time and date to be arranged)

Lunchtime events

Evening events

  • August 25:
    • 20:00 Welcome Dinner at Bauen Hotel (free for all registered attendees)
  • August 26:
    • 19:00: Tango Workshop at the Bauen Hotel (free for all registered attendees)
    • 21:00 Wikia party after the tango workshop (unofficial)
  • August 27:
  • August 28: Closing party


Day 1 (August 26)

  Room 1 (EN/ES) Room 2 (EN/ES) Room 3 Room 4 Room 5
Start time Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags
9:15 Opening Ceremony
  Richard Stallman:
Before, after, and around Wikipedia
   
10:50 Coffee Break
11:30 Einar Spetz:
A story of love and hate? How teachers at upper secondary schools in Sweden use Wikipedia and what they think of the free encyclopedia
EN
ACA
EDU
30
Christian Becker:
DBpedia - Extracting structured data from Wikipedia
EN
TEC
30
Sorin Adam Matei, David Braun, Horia Petrache:
The structure of social collaboration on Wikipedia
EN
ACA
COM
30
Christoph W. Breitler, Kurt Kulac:
Quality Control Mechanisms in the german Wikipedia
EN
CON
45
Dror Kamir:
My parents went on their honeymoon, and the rest is history - the Pikiwiki project as an example of enhancing outreach
EN
CON
30
  Iván Alejandro Martínez:
Wikipedia usage by Mexican students. The constant usage of copy and paste.
ES
ACA
EDU
LAT
30
Heiko Hees:
Wikis in Print - Everything you wanted to know about the new "book tool"
EN
TEC
30
Jan Philipp Schmidt:
Wikipedia Survey Results - Presentation and Discussion
EN
COM
60
Martin Alec Walker:
Wikipedia 1.0: Offline releases of the English Wikipedia
EN
CON
45
Jeromy-Yu Chan:
Keeping Wikimedia Chapter abreast with Local Free Culture counterparts
EN
PANEL
COM
60
  Olga Cavalli:
Uso de Wikipedia para publicación de trabajos de investigación
ES
EDU
30
Frank Schulenburg, Jay Walsh:
NIH Academy 2009 – lessons learnt and what we left behind
EN
COM
30
     
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Pedro Sanchez:
Wikis and mathematics teaching challenges
ES
EDU
30
Rob Halsell:
Wikimedia Servers & Infrastructure
EN
TEC
45
Travis Kriplean:
Tools for Supporting Deliberation
on Project-Level Issues
EN
COM
30
Mayo Fuster Morell:
The governance of digital commons: Wikimedia Governance Case Study
EN
ACA
COM
30
Melissa R. Hagemann, Jan-Bart de Vreede:
Workshop: Moving towards national OER strategies
EN
WS
EDU
CON
90
  Lila Pagola:
Wikipedia en el mundo académico: Generación Google y estrategias docentes para colaborar en la construcción de conocimiento.
ES
EDU
ACA
30
Daniel Kinzler:
The Toolserver: The hacker's way of surfing the wiki
EN
TEC
45
Craig Spurrier:
Wiki Communities from a Social Science Perspective
EN
COM
30
Erik Möller:
Scaling Up: Can Wikimedia Become A 300 Million People Movement By 2020?
EN
COM
CON
60
 
  Samuel Klein:
Wikipedia in rural schools: offline wikireaders in Peru
EN
EDU
LAT
30
       
15:45 Coffee Break
16:15 Special event: Argentina personalities roundtable Roan Kattouw:
The MediaWiki bot API
EN
TEC
45
Ayelet Oz:
Wikipedia as a system of acoustic separation
EN
ACA
30
Jennifer Riggs:
What can Wikimedia learn from the Red Cross and other large volunteer-driven organizations?
EN
COM
45
P. Bradley Baker, J. Jill Kidd, P. O'Shea, J. Alisha Kaufman, D. Allen, A. Whitworth:
Student-Authored Wikibooks as University Textbooks: Reflections on Three Years of Successful Implementation
EN
ACA
CON
EDU
45
    Gerard Meijssen:
Testing the MediaWiki software and its extensions
EN
TEC
45
Rut Jesus:
Articles and Authors of Meta Communities in the South American Wikipedias and MetaWiki
EN
ACA
COM
LAT
30
Florence Devouard:
Improving collaboration
EN
COM
45
Lodewijk Gelauff:
Legislation lobby discussion
EN
COM
45
           
17:45  

Day 2 (August 27)

  Room 1 (EN/ES) Room 2 (EN/ES) Room 3 Room 4 Room 5
Start time Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags
9:30  
  Jimmy Wales:
The State of the Wiki
   
   
10:30 Coffee Break
11:15 Roberto B. Andrade:
Hacia una Wikipedia en mapudungun. Desafíos y potencialidades
ES
LAT
COM
30
Andrew Lih:
Interpreting Wikipedia’s Demographic Decline: Implications for an Emergent Community
EN
PANEL
COM
90
Katie Filbert:
Integrating NASA WorldWind and custom map types into Wikipedia
EN
TEC
CON
30
Ting Chen:
Preparation for Board of Trustees Election
EN
COM
45
 
  BalaSundaraRaman L:
Tamil Wikipedia: A case study
EN
COM
30
  Christian Becker:
Linked Geodata
EN
TEC
CON
30
James R. Redmond:
Wikimedia OTRS: the first line of communication
EN
PANEL
COM
45
Lightning talks
  Dennis Tobar:
¿Por qué Wikinoticias no ha despegado en la versión en español?
ES
COM
30
  Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
OpenStreetMap integration into Wikimedia projects
EN
TEC
CON
30
   
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Galileo Vidoni, Ivana E. Lysholm:
Repensando el punto de vista neutral
ES
CON
45
Erik Zachte:
Wikimedia in numbers
EN
CON
COM
45
Chitu Okoli, Kira Schabram, Bilal Abdul Kader:
From the Academy to the Wiki: Practical Applications of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia
EN
ACA
COM
45
Yaron Koren:
Using external data in MediaWiki
EN
TEC
CON
30
Siebrand Mazeland:
Workshop: MediaWiki localisation using translatewiki.net
EN
WS
TEC
CON
90
  Federico Heinz:
Encouraging Quality as Emergent Behaviour
EN
CON
45
Stu West:
Measuring our impact
EN
CON
COM
45
Benjamin Mako Hill:
The State of Wikimedia Scholarship: 2008-2009
EN
ACA
COM
45
Manuel Schneider:
openZIM - serving the Wikipedia Offline Projects
EN
TEC
CON
30
 
        Teemu Leinonen, Jukka Purma:
Audio Wiki for Mobile Communities: Information Systems for the Rest of Us
EN
TEC
CON
30
 
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Nahuel Kahles:
Medición de calidad en Wikipedia en español
ES
CON
LAT
30
Marc-André Pelletier, Jimmy Wales, Sydney Poore et. al.:
Growing Pains
EN
PANEL
COM
90
Catrin Schoneville:
More media, more donations
EN
COM
30
Naoko Komura:
Wikipedia Usability Initiative
EN
TEC
30
 
  Enrique A. Chaparro:
"Mouses" y ratones: conflicto lingüístico en la Wikipedia en castellano
ES
CON
LAT
60
  Sebastian Moleski:
Media literacy by way of Wikipedia
EN
CON
30
Angela B. Starling:
BOF: MediaWiki Usability discussion
EN
DISC
TEC
60
Lightning talks
      Joan R. Gomà, J. Gustavo Góngora:
The “Associació d’amics de la viquipèdia”. An initiative to promote and support wikimedia projects in Catalan speaking territories.
EN
COM
30
   
17:30  

Day 3 (August 28)

  Room 1 (EN/ES) Room 2 (EN/ES) Room 3 Room 4 Room 5
Start time Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags Speaker / Title Tags
9:15 Matías Federico Battocchia:
Open source governance
ES
COM
30
Liam Wyatt:
Wikimedia & Museums - why we need each other and what we can do about it
EN
CON
45
Daniel Kinzler:
WikiWord: multilingual image search and more
EN
ACA
TEC
30
Micah Alpern:
Designing a large scale community moderation system for Yahoo! Answers
EN
TEC
COM
30
 
  Shun-ling Chen, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Adam Hyde:
Authorship, Licenses, and the Wiki Borg
EN
PANEL
CON
60
Mathias Schindler:
The anatomy of the Bundesarchiv cooperation: 100.000 freely licensed images for Wikimedia Commons
EN
CON
45
Robert Stojnic:
Wikipedia search
EN
TEC
30
HaeB:
Lessons from Citizendium
EN
COM
30
Special event: Telefónica education
      Phoebe Ayers:
The future of Wikimania
EN
COM
DISC
30
Jack Herrick:
Lessons from wikiHow
EN
CON
COM
30
 
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Arkaitz Zubiaga:
Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags
ES
ACA
TEC
CON
30
Matthew Curinga:
Wikipedia and Jacques Rancière's philosophy of radical equality
EN
COM
ACA
45
Michael Dale:
State of Open Media on Wikipedia
EN
TEC
CON
30
Brianna Jane Laugher:
Panel on Wikimedia chapters
EN
PANEL
COM
90
Luca de Alfaro, Bo Adler, Ian Pye, Vishwanath Raman:
What should user reputation be on the Wikipedia?
EN
WS
ACA
CON
90
  Denny Vrandecic, Markus Krötzsch, Yaron Koren:
Semantic MediaWiki
EN
PANEL
TEC
CON
60
Jennifer Shkabatur:
Wiki Democracy: The Promise of Wikis for Civic Engagement in Policymaking
EN
ACA
COM
30
Erik Möller, Michael Dale, Ron Yekutiel:
Launching Collaborative Video on Wikipedia
EN
TEC
CON
60
   
           
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Jorge Machado, Felipe Almeida, Andreia da Silva:
Wikipedia vs Enciclopedia Master Un estudio comparativo de enciclopedias en lengua portuguesa
ES
ACA
CON
30
Murugan Pal, Mike Linksvayer, Samuel Klein:
'OER Content Interoperability' for WikiMedia platforms
EN
PANEL
EDU
CON
60
Brion Vibber:
Codeathon round-up
EN
PANEL
TEC
60
Andrew Lih:
Challenges of Covering the Wikimedia Community
EN
PANEL
COM
60
Martin Alec Walker, Nigel Wheatley:
WikiProjects: Improving Wikipedia by organising and assessing articles
EN
CON
30
  Jhessica Francielli Reia:
Alternative Licensing and the Free Culture community in São Paulo
EN
ACA
COM
30
      Frank Schulenburg:
Best practice documentation - preventing to "reinvent the wheel" in public outreach
EN
COM
30
15:00 Coffee Break
15:45 Sue Gardner:
The Wikimedia Foundation: The Year In Review and The Year Ahead
16:30 Break
16:45 Wikimedia Board Q&A session
17:45 Closing ceremony
18:15