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The main gathering, where everyone will attend, is:
Birds of a Feather Meetup: Wikipedia + Libraries meetup on August 11th, 13:00 to 14:00 in Joyce/Jarry (level A) There will be a buffet lunch set up outside starting at 12:30 - get your lunch and then gather in Joyce/Jarry.
If you're in town early, there is a scan-a-thon at the National archives , and various other training and editing activities on Wednesday.
Name of the Event
Time
Venue
Friday, August 11th
Wikipédia, les bibliothèques publiques et Montréal 11:00 - 11:30
Ballroom West (level 4)
Creating a local digital community. Prototyping a collaborative workshop in libraries / Création d'une communauté numérique locale. Prototypage d'un atelier contributif en bibliothèque 11:30 - 12:00
Ballroom West (level 4)
Centering Knowledge From The Margins 11:30 - 12:30
Drummond West (level 3)
Birds of a feather meetups: Wikipedia + Libraries meetup 13:00 - 14:00
Joyce/Jarry (level A)
The Internet Archive and Wikimedia - Common Knowledge Goals 14:00 - 15:00
Drummond Center (level 3)
Growing a User Group, a roadmap for survival 16:00 - 17:00
Drummond Center (level 3)
Saturday, August 12th
Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of SciHub 11:00-12:00
Ballroom West (level 4)
Structured Commons: what changes are coming? 11:30 - 12:00
Drummond Center (level 3)
Wikipedia Visiting Scholars 11:45 - 12:30
Salon 5 (level 2)
Wikicite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge 14:00-14:30
Drummond West (level 3)
Journals Cited by Wikipedia: Evaluating the Impact of Journals on Wikipedia 14:30 - 15:00
Drummond West (level 3)
Is Wikipedia ready for videos? 16:00 - 16:30
Drummond East (level 3)
Dana Wager - FactsCan, political fact checking 16:00 - 17:00
Ballroom West (level 4)
State of Video in the Wikimedia Movement 16:30 - 17:00
Drummond East (level 3)
Sunday, August 13th
Frédéric Giuliano & Hélène Laverdure, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec: Libraries, Archives and sharing knowledge 09:00-10:30
Ballroom West + Center
Brick by Brick: Libraries and Wikimedia building on each other 11:00 - 11:30
Ballroom Center (level 4)
Libraries and Wikipedia: Global perspectives and opportunities 11:30 - 12:30
Ballroom Center (level 4)
You can find the list of all programmes on the Wikimania programmes page . Hope to see many of you there!
