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Wikimania lies at the intersection of many different circles of people — academics, legal scholars, subject experts, community leaders, software hackers and entrepreneurs. During the day, the conference rooms of the Haus der Jugend will be dedicated to presentations, workshops, and group discussions. Below is the programme of these events. There will be other spontaneous events at the conference develops; long lunches and breaks in the afternoon are reserved for people to make their own plans.
Not all presentations will be in English; the language of each will be made clear in the presentation abstracts linked to below. Times given are local to Frankfurt (UTC +2 at the time of the convention). Many of the presenters below wrote papers associated with their presentation; some people submitted excellent papers but were unable to come in person. A full list of accepted papers, presentations and workshops is being drafted as a Wikibook: Proceedings of Wikimania 2005. Posters will be on display thoughtout the event, and their creators will be available during afternoon break each day to answer questions about them. Recordings will be made of speakers in the Großer Saal (pronounced "Grosser", Big Hall) and Kleiner Saal (Small Hall). Translation may be available for some of the sessions in the Großer Saal. Photos and other media of the Wikimania events may be added to and found in the galleries on WikiCommons.
Tentative programme[edit]
| Thursday, 4th of August | |||||
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| 15:00-18:00 | ARRIVALS AND CHECK-IN | ||||
| Kleiner Saal: Informal discussions with visiting developers : Christophe Ducamp (Craowiki), Ludovic Dubost (xwiki), Sven Dowideit (Twiki), Eugene Kim (PurpleWiki), Brion Vibber (MediaWiki), Ward Cunningham (c2 wiki), and much, much more. | |||||
| Friday, 5th of August | |||||
| Time | Großer Saal | Kleiner Saal | SR E11 | SR E10 | SR E12 |
| 9:30-11:00 | Series: Semantic web Daniel Kinzler, Mining the Wiki John Breslin, An ontology for describing and exchanging articles² |
Erik Zachte, Timeline of Human History Samuel Klein, History of the Reference Work |
Cormac Lawler (Wikipedia as a learning community) Andreas Brand (Comparing WP with other open source projects) |
Oscar van Dillen: Wikimedia, somewhere between Art and Science Frédéric Philipp Thiele* (Wiki Trifft Pixel)² |
Workshop: Theodoranian, Chinese conversion the wiki way
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| 11:00-12:30 | Keynote: Jimmy Wales, Opening remarks | ||||
| 12:30-14:30 | LUNCH | PRESS CONFERENCE. | LUNCH | ||
| 14:30-16:30 | Series: Wikimedia in the Developing World: Florence Devouard, How to get Wikimedia into the developing world
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Domas Mituzas (HyperWiki)
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Boud (NPOV and meme evolution)
Revo Arko Soekatno (Indonesian language) |
Workshop: Jean-Baptiste Soufron and Enrique Chaparro, (Copyright lessons) |
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| 16:30-17:00 | Break with poster sessions and lightning talks | ||||
| 17:00-18:30 | The Politics of Wikimedia panel: Moderated by Andrew Lih. Jimmy Wales |
Salvor Gissurardottir (Education with wikis)² |
Workshop: Andre Engels, Pywikipedia bot framework | Workshop: Gerard Meijssen, Sound | Workshop: Thomas Gries (Interwiki) |
| 18:30-19:15 | Trivia contest (in the Terrasensaal) | ||||
| Saturday, 6th of August | |||||
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| Time | Großer Saal | Kleiner Saal | SR E11 | SR E10 | SR E12 |
| 09:30-11 | Erik Moeller (MediaWiki future)
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Andreas Brändle (Content quality), Tsahi Hayat (Cross-cultural study) | Workshop: Jakob Voss and Erik Zachte, Analysing and visualizing Wikipedia Robert Bonato (Network Analysis)² |
Workshop: Thomas Thaler, Strategies for free content Douwe Osinga Getting paid to write free content |
Workshop: Hanno Wagner, GPG workshop and key-signing |
| 11-12:30 | Keynote: Ross Mayfield (Enterprise Wiki use - Case studies and analysis) | ||||
| 12:30-14:30 | LUNCH | ||||
| 14:30-16:00 | Rodrigo Vergara* (Logos: world's largest free dictionary) Gerard Meijssen, (Ultimate Wiktionary) |
Eugene Kim (A look at modern collaboration) Tim Starling (How you can help out with MediaWiki) |
Jama Poulsen (Wikicompany) Jan Ulrich Hasecke (Wikitution)² |
Russell Buckley (Extending Wikipedia into the Physical World) |
Christina Hengel² & Barbara Pfeifer (VIAF: Linking the Library of Congress and OCLC records with Personendaten) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Break with poster sessions and lightning talks | ||||
| 16:30-18:30 | Keynote: Ward Cunningham, (Wikis then and now) | ||||
| 20:00 | BIG WIKIMANIA PARTY (off site) | ||||
| Sunday, 7th of August | |||||
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| Time | Großer Saal | Kleiner Saal | SR E11 | SR E10 | SR E12 |
| 9:30-11:00 | Sunir Shah (Wiki communities) Killian Kissling, Directmedia (German DVD) |
Stefan Magdalinski (WikiProxy) Jan-Bart de Vreede (Wiki in Dutch Education) |
Workshop, Frank Antwerpes: (Long-term support for Wikimedia) | Workshop: Arnulf Christi (Open Geo data projects)
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| 11:00-12:30 | Keynote: Richard Stallman, Copyright and Community | ||||
| 12.30-14.30 | LUNCH, final media-contest submissions & judging | ||||
| 14:30-16:00 | Global Voices panel: moderated by: Achal Prabhala:
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Lambert Heller (Scientific publishing via wiki), Marco Prestipino (Creating knowledge in virtual communities) | Workshop, Brion Vibber: Extending and Customizing MediaWiki | Workshop, Tobias Dahinden: Kartengestaltung in Wikipedia* | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Coffee break | ||||
| 16:15-17:00 | Awards ceremony | ||||
| 17:00-18:00 | Closing Session: Panel discussoin with the Wikimedia Board of Trustees | ||||
Key: Presentations marked with a "²" are 10-15 minutes long. Others are usually 30 minutes. Presentations marked with a "*" are given in a language other than English.
Additional Events[edit]
- The exibition Places & Spaces: Cartography of the Physical and the Abstract (see Website) with examples of fine cartography that will be shown during the conference.
- Tables will be set up with demonstrations of online mapping tools (thanks to Arnulf Christi) and recent integration of Wikipedia into Apple widgets (thanks to Apple representatives).
- Other tables will be set up with poster presentations of rcbirds (auralization of Wikipedia's Recentchanges) and recent university projects studying Wikipedia.
There will be a number of special trips on Monday -- including guided trips to the local library, a tour of the city, and some partying on Saturday night. (see Social events for more information).