WikiArabia 2019/Program
| WikiArabia 2019 | Venue | Program | Participants | Travel Guide | Submissions | Team | Friendly Space Policy | FAQ | Extra Activities |
The program is subject to change.
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 - Workshop
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 - Group discussions
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 - Panel
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 - Lightning talks
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 – Ideal for newcomers
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 – Plenary session
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| Friday 4 October | |||
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| Room | Averroes (100-150 people) | ||
| 8:30 | Registration
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| 9:30 | Welcoming word from the Organization Team
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| 9:50 | Welcoming word from WMF
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| 10:00 | WikiArabia 2017 Results Mohamed Ouda
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| 10:15 – 10:30 |  Tea break | ||
| Qadi Ayyad (~50 people) | Averroes (100-150 people) | Ibn Tashfin (~50 people) | |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Google Projects .svg){kind=icon}
Samer Ead and Jack Rabah |
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| 11:35 – 12:05 | Knowledge Equity and Spatial Justice on Wikipedia
Martin Dittus |
GLAM Experience in Tunisia
Emna Mizouni | |
| 12:10 – 12:40 | State of Arabic projects on Wikimedia in 2019 _-_The_Noun_Project.svg){kind=small}
Helmi Hamdi and Alaa Najjar |
Arabic GLAM Projects 
Emna Mizouni | |
| 12:45 – 13:05 | |||
| 13:05 – 15:00 |  Lunch and Friday prayer | ||
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Skill-building and a culture of experimentation for WikiArabia
Asaf Bartov |
Wikipedia Zero (Experience sharing and Future)
Musab Banat and Jack Rabah |
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| 16:05 – 16:35 | Wikimedia Space
Elena Lappen |
Wiki MOOC
Mohammed Bachounda | |
| 16:35 – 17:00 | Tea break | ||
| 17:00 – 17:15 | WikiMed projects
Alaa Najjar |
Feminism projects on Arabic Wikipedia
Walaa Abdel Manaem |
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| 17:15 – 17:30 | How to choose and apply a license?
Helmi Hamdi | ||
| 17:35 – 18:35 | Learning to write Tifinagh (Amazigh characters) 
Abdellah Bouzandag – Abdeslam Boumisser | ||
| 19:00 – 20:00
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Meet-up (Wikimedia Morocco) | Dinner |
Meet-ups (Strategy at WikiArabia) |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | WikiGap Preparation Meeting | Meet-ups | |
| 21:00 – 22:00 | Refunds | Meet-ups | |
| 22:00 – 23:00 | Meet-ups | Meet-ups | |
| Saturday 5 October | |||
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| Qadi Ayyad (~50 people) | Averroes (100-150 people) | Ibn Tashfin (~50 people) | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Arab User Groups representatives 
Anass Sedrati (moderator) |
WikiGap
Walaa Abdel Manaem and Ian Borim | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Knowledge in the time of Crisis
Mina Theofilatou | ||
| 10:05 – 10:45 | A look into the future: Supporting Arabic Wikipedia with Wikidata and ArticlePlaceholder
Lucie-Aimée Frimelle |
Dadd initiative to develop Arabic Wikipedia
Mohammed Abdellatif | |
| 10:35 – 11:00 | Tea break | ||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Wikidata Workshop (introduction and tools)
Helmi Hamdi and Alaa Najjar |
Wikipedia Education Program in the service of native languages
Mekia Bennama and Aicha Rai | |
| 11:35 – 12:05 | Vulgarization of science in Darija
Najib El Mokhtari | ||
| 12:10 – 12:40 | How to Build Technical Capacity for the Arabic Community
Birgit Mueller and Zakaria Oudrhiri |
Presence of the Amazigh language in the Internet
Abdellah Bouzandag – Abdeslam Boumisser | |
| 12:45 – 13:15 | |||
| 13:15 – 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Arabic Wikipedia administrators
Alaa Najjar, Helmi Hamdi, Mohamed Ouda, Walaa Abdel Manaem, Mossab Banat, Anass Sedrati (moderator) |
Organising cross regional programs to improve the local Wikipedias
Felix Nartey | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Content translation tool: helping communities grow with translation
Pau Giner | ||
| 15:15 – 23:00 | Social event and group picture
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