WikiIndaba conference 2018/Program

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Program

You can check this programme on your mobile device via wikiindaba.wikimedia.tn.

Thursday 15 March

	Hotel El Mouradi Gammarth (Venue)
	Grande salle	Workshop
Time	200 pers.	30 pers.
15:00 – 18:30	Visit of the Medina of Tunis (photowalk)

Friday 16 March

	Hotel El Mouradi Gammarth (Venue)
	Grande salle	Workshop
Time	200 pers.	30 pers.
	R E G I S T R A T I O N
09:00 - 10:00	Opening ceremony
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30	How can affiliates work better together? Explorations on a shared partnerships statement and ideas for implications for the movement
11:30 - 12:30	Grants and other support from WMF: Presentation and small group discussion
12:30 - 13:30	L U N C H
13:30 - 14:15	Lightning talks: Projects Each lightning talk lasts 7 minutes. 10 minutes for Q&A at the end of the session. Using festivals as a tool for telling the story of Africa MedinaPedia Sfax Increasing female content on Wikimedia projects Refugee projects Teaching citizenship values and employability skills through Wikipedia (Case study)
14:15 - 15:30	Developer meetup Moderated by Felix Nartey Wiki resources in semantic technologies: The Tunisian experience Growing a community of developers to ensure adequate technical support for projects on the continent Improving the ways in which Afro-facts are added into Wikidata	Gender Gap meetup: roundtable discussion and meeting with Web Foundation
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 16:35	Education in Africa Roundtable	Beyond the GUI: Discover bots creation and API use
16:35 - 17:20	Raising awareness for Wikipedia: Lessons from Nigeria & beyond
17:20 - 18:00	Offline Projects: Updates and Opportunities Each talk lasts 10 minutes. 10 minutes for Q&A at the end of the session.. State of the Kiwi(x) 2018 WikiFundi: The first step towards Wikipedia in Africa New (secret) offline features in the Wikipedia App
19:30 – 22:00	Cocktail

Saturday 17 March

	Hotel El Mouradi Gammarth (Venue)
	Grande salle	Workshop
Time	200 pers.	30 pers.
09:00 - 10:30	Partnerships Clinic: Do’s and Don’ts when working with partners
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Research showcase Fostering the representation of African cultures in Wikipedia language editions with Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory (WCDO) WikiResearch in Africa: Situation and Challenges Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation Systems	Developing GLAM Partnerships
12:30 - 13:30	LUNCH - Thematic tables: Content gap research, Wiki Loves Monuments
13:30 - 14:00	Lightning talks: How to Each lightning talk lasts 7 minutes. 2 minutes for Q&A at the end of the session. How to support African languages Wikis? Hubs or Knobs: Building Capacity of Wikimedians in Nigeria Open Knowledge in Algeria. What Wikipedia can give when everything is free How to increase the visibility of minority languages in Wiktionary	Wikimedia and Libraries in Africa
14:00 - 15:00	User Group session Moderated by Emna Mizouni User Group Application Process - Before and After Wikimedia movement strategy process (documentation)	Wikidata workshop
15:00 - 15:30	Community management session Tactical approaches to securing free meetup venues An easy way to teach new editors 10 minutes for Q&A
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 16:15	Tool demos: Five-minute demos of reference tool, of using open source texts as inputs in Wikipedia, and of Wiktionary tutorial
16:15 - 17:00	Reference is needed but which reference? Using existing open license text on Wikipedia	The Wiktionary, a project in the service of African languages
17:00 - 18:00	Wiki Loves Africa / Wiki Loves Monuments: Presentations and Discussion Each discussion lasts 30 minutes. Wiki Loves Africa, now and beyond Making Wiki Loves Monuments thrive across Africa	McCune tutorials Each talk lasts 30 minutes. Social media skills for project promotion How to make animated GIFs
19:30 – 22:00	Cocktail

Sunday 18 March

	Hotel El Mouradi Gammarth (Venue)
	Grande salle	Workshop
Time	200 pers.	30 pers.
09:00 - 10:00	Future of Indaba
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30	Wikimania 2018: knowledge bridges
11:30 - 12:00	Group photo
12:00 - 13:00	L U N C H