Wikimedia and Libraries User Group/Wikimania 2018

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The main gathering, where everyone will attend, is:

Birds of a Feather Lunch: GLAM and Heritage Birds of a Feather Lunch on July 21st, 13:00 to 14:00 in the London room. Get your lunch and then gather in the London room.

If you're in town early, there is a Wikipedia 101 for Librarians (in the Wale room, City Bowl hotel at 9:00 am), and various other training and editing activities on Wednesday.

Name of the Event Time Venue
Friday, July 10th
Wikimedia Commons and GLAM needs around the world 10:30 - 11:00 London
Gaps in Global GLAM capacity: A Discussion 11:00 - 12:00 London
#1lib1ref: Reaching 5 million librarians around the world 12:00 - 12:30 London
Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity 14:00 - 15:00 Esino Lario
Centering Knowledge from the Margins: A Whose Knowledge? discussion with communities from around the world 16:00 - 17:00 Montreal + Mexico City
Saturday, July 21st
Building an International Knowledge Base for the Performing Arts: Thoughts on Providing Knowledge as a Service and Enhancing Knowledge Equity 10:30 - 11:00 Hong Kong
The State of Research in Knowledge Gaps 10:30 - 11:30 Montreal
Wikicite: Lifting a veil on the sources of free knowledge 11:30 - 12:30 Montreal
The Wikipedia Library Card Platform: How you have access to 100,000 journals 12:00-12:30 Hong Kong
Wikimedia vs. Disinformation 14:00 - 14:30 Esino Lario
Intellectual property barriers to GLAM projects in the global south 14:30 - 15:00 Esino Lario
Ubuntu for who? Equity by Free Knowledge? 14:30 - 15:30 Montreal
Sunday, July 22nd
Which parts of an article are actually being read? 10:30 - 11:00 Montreal
Every Language in the World: Introducing Wikitongues 11:30 - 12:00 London
Wikipedia and digital equity in Education: digital skills for life and free knowledge for the world 14:00 - 15:30 London

You can find the list of all programmes on the Wikimania programmes page. Hope to see many of you there!