Wiki Student Summit 2024/Programs
16-18 July 2024, Arusha and Online
Beyond Borders: Collaborating for Positive Impact.
Sessions[edit]
WSS 2024 Theme.[edit]
This year's theme is Beyond Borders: Collaborating for Positive Impact. While preparing your submission, choosing potential topics and thinking about the audience, we ask you to consider the collaborative and impact aspects of your topic(s).
What may the audience learn and/or how may they join your initiative? We would especially love to see submissions going beyond the existing groups, transcending the Wikimedia borders. We welcome submissions about open research, open data, open government – initiatives that may connect Wikimedians with the wide world, inspire others, and strengthen the impact of open knowledge. We also welcome submissions of people who can clearly see collaborations within Wikimedia groups, or even better, between Wikimedia groups and non-Wikimedians, collaborating in education, culture, technologies, governance, and more.
Programs categories[edit]
To make the program submissions easier to organize and review, we have suggested 12 program categories. Think about which one best fits your program idea. If your submission applies to more than one track, you may specify a secondary track in the submission form.
- Education – initiatives and programs in education and academia
- GLAM – initiatives and programs in heritage and cultural conservation, collaborations with cultural institutions that include galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and more
- Partnerships – initiatives pairing the Wikimedia movement and its activities with external institutions to produce beneficial results
- Technology – product and technology in the Wikimedia movement
- Community Engagement – the activities aimed at increasing the number of contributors, attracting new editors, making sure they are welcome and willing to stay for the ride
- Community Health – issues related to retaining those editors and contributors that are already active. How to provide them with what they need to keep on contributing.
- Research – research with topics relevant to Wikimedia and the spirit of Wiki Student Summit, as well as research that uses Wikimedia data and content.
- Diversity & Inclusion – making sure that Wikimedia projects appeal to as wide audience as possible, and can be edited by as wide group of contributors as possible, to cater for variety and to invite everyone
- Legal & Advocacy – copyrights and digital accessibility, censorship and disinformation / misinformation, public policy and human rights
- Open Data – initiatives in data use and reuse
- Governance & Strategy (alternatively, Governance or Strategy) – discussions focused on structures and reform, key initiatives from the Movement Strategy
- Wild Ideas – anything Wikimedia-related that does not fit well into any of the above or is so wild it needs a category of its own!
Session formats[edit]
We will support onsite, virtual, and hybrid sessions. We'll share more on the logistics side at a later date. Now though, we can confirm that:
- Virtual sessions need to be recorded ahead of time
- Both presenters and the audience may dial in to take part in hybrid sessions. However, live interactions between the remote and onsite participants may be limited.
Session types[edit]
- Workshop (90 minutes) – interactive format to work out a solution or provide learning experiences
- Demonstration (45 minutes) – live demonstration of e.g. a tool, possibly with interactive elements
- Lecture (25 minutes)
- Panel (60 minutes) – a discussion with a few contributors and an audience
- Roundtable (40 minutes) – a discussion where everyone has equal right to participate
- Lightning talk (5/10 minutes) – a quick presentation of a concept or story
- Poster (time duration not applicable–will be part of shared poster session) – posters will need to be submitted as files once accepted
- Other. Please specify in Notes section (25 minutes) – anything that does not fit into any of the above format
Proposal Form Questions[edit]
Session info[edit]
| Question - Page 1 | Required |
| What is the title of your session submission? | X |
Session type.
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What program track best fits your session? This is your session's primary thematic category.
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| Language. What is the primary language of your session? Sessions delivered in English will receive live interpretation into all Wikimania Katowice languages. Sessions delivered in other Wikimania Katowice languages will have live interpretation only into English. | X |
| Abstract. A brief description of your session. (Please write at most 100 words.) | X |
| Description. A full description of your session, including aims and objectives. (Please write at most 500 words.) | X |
| Notes. Optional notes to the organisers. | |
| Additional speaker. If you have a co-speaker, you can add their email address. | OPTION TEMPORARILY NOT AVAILABLE |
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| Question - Page 2 | Required |
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| How does your session relate to the event themes: Collaboration of the Open? | X |
What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.This will be shown publicly.
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| Are there any other tags that you would like to associate with your proposal? Please add a comma between tags. | |
| Tell us a bit about yourself and your experience in relation to this submission. | X |
| Do you have any experience in public speaking, leading workshops or trainings, participating on a panel or delivering sessions? If yes, please describe. | |
What would the desired time for your session be?
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What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
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| Have you applied for a Wikimania Travel scholarship? This will NOT be shown publicly and is only used for cross-referencing with the scholarship process. | X |
How do you plan to deliver this session? You will be asked to confirm this closer to the date in case of changes to the format.
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| Have you presented on this topic before or do you have any related references? If yes, please share a link. | |
| Are there any other needs or requests for your session not mentioned elsewhere in this application (all rooms have microphones and projectors but, for example, will you need a flip chart, markers, post-its etc)? | |
| Should your session be selected for the program, do you consent to having your session and supporting materials released on-wiki and on the eventyay platform under CC BY-SA 4.0? If you selected “Do not record this session” your session will not be filmed and no video will appear online.* | X |
| Question & info text - Page 3 | Required |
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| Speaker image. Please upload an image from Wikimedia Commons. This will be shown publicly in your speaker profile on eventyay. | |
| Image attribution. Please provide the author name and image license info. | |
| Image attribution: Please provide the image credit URL from Wikimedia Commons. | |
| Name or username. Please enter the name you wish to be displayed publicly. This name will be used for all events you are participating in on this server. | X |
| Biography. Please provide a brief personal biography with information about your past involvement in the Wikimedia movement. This will be shown publicly in your user profile on eventyay. | X |