Central Asian WikiCon 2025/Program
| Session format |  — Plenary session
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 — Lecture
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 — Demonstration
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 — Workshop
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 — Panel
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 — Roundtable
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 — Lightning talk
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 — Outdoor activity
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 — Social event
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| Advancement level |  — Basic
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 — Medium
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 — Advanced
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| Additional conditions |  — No media recording
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Pre-conference days
| Online | |
| April 3, 2025 | Growing The Central Asian Wikimedia Community Jessica Stephenson, Sailesh Patnaik, Chris Schilling
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| April 11, 2025 | Speaker Support Session Rachit Sharma
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| Tashkent | |
| April 18, 2025 | Welcome dinner for scholarship recipients
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Day 1 (Saturday, April 19, 2025)
Day 2 (Sunday, April 20, 2025)
| 09:00 — 09:30 | Walk-in | ||
| Hall | Tashkent pilaf 5th floor |
Samarkand pilaf 3rd floor |
Bukhara pilaf 3rd floor |
| 09:30 — 11:00 | Exploring and documenting local places with Wikiexpeditions Kiril Simeonovski
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Tips on fundraising and resource mobilization Mamatkazy Rasul uulu, Aida Akhmedova, Armen Mirzoyan
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Place for the off-schedule meetups and discussions |
| Cultural Preservation Through Wikipedia: Challenges and Opportunities in Central Asia Pedram H. Rad
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| Inclusive knowledge creation: Empowering minority languages communities through Wikimedia projects Maor Malul
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Directing the development of medium and small wiki communities Amir Aharoni
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| 11:00 — 11:30 | Break 2nd floor
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| 11:30 — 13:00 | CEE Youth Group Nursultan Tengge
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Wikimedia Commons Workshop Suyash Dwivedi, Ekaterina Borisova, Nikolai Bulykin
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Place for the off-schedule meetups and discussions |
| Acknowledging the digital and complex security resources by Digital Defenders Saadat
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| Iranian and Tajik Wikimedians User Groups Meetup (12:00 — 13:00)
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| 13:00 — 14:00 | Lunch + Group photo 2nd floor + 5th floor
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| 14:00 — 15:30 | How to Make (and Fix!) a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Funding Proposal Chris Schilling
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Motivating and retaining volunteers Asaf Bartov
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Place for the off-schedule meetups and discussions |
| 15:30 — 16:00 | Break 2nd floor
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| 16:00 — 17:30 | Five common mistakes already made by others, so you don't have to! Asaf Bartov
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Machine Translation vs. Wikipedia: Friend or Foe? Nodir Ataev, Ilnur Gabidulin, Batyrbek Alimzhanov, Hasan Alimov
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Place for the off-schedule meetups and discussions |
| Decolonizing of the Russian language: a way to the communal Wikispace Victoria Doronina
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| Hall | Tashkent pilaf 5th floor | ||
| 17:30 — 18:00 | Closing session
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| 18:00 — 20:00 | Dinner 2nd floor
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Post-conference days
| Online | |
| April 23, 2025 | CEE Catch up Nr. 9 Rachit Sharma, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
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