Wikimania – The International Wikimedia Conference*

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Wikimania – The International Wikimedia Conference is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia community celebrating Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects with conferences, discussions, meetups, training and a hackathon. Hundreds of volunteer editors come together to learn about and discuss projects, approaches and issues.

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16th Wikimania 2021, August 13-17, 2021, Bangkok, Thailand Virtual venue

Conference Theme: 20 years of Wikipedia

Note: The 16th Wikimania was originally scheduled for August 5-9, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the theme “Power of diverse collaboration: Sharing knowledge brings people together”

Roundtables:
Knowledge Equity – A Collection of Voices to Pave the Path
Wikilearn: pilot results and open questions on a new online learning platform for the movement

Panel Discussions:
How Wiki Education Foundation promotes knowledge equity

Lectures:
Conservation through knowledge sharing
Cross-wiki ideological conflict and Wikimedia’s vision of knowledge equity
How to innovate in free knowledge? – New pathways to promote new projects and attract innovators for free knowledge from across the world
Editing with machine learning: a case study on link recommendations
Mapping the present and future of the Wiki philosophy: challenges and opportunities
Thematic weeks as a tool for strengthening the community
Discussion on the technical learning needs and support formats in smaller wiki communities

Lightning Talks:
Wiki Ghonya (how to promote free knowledge using modern music)
Wikispore and Innovating Free Knowledge
Community content planning for lesser-resourced wikis

15th Wikimania 2019, August 14-18, 2019, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Conference Theme: Stronger Together: Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals

Workshops:
Make people care: using SDGs to talk about Free Knowledge
QUIPU: Quechua Language based Knowledge Graph
Defending heritage through free knowledge: the importance of Wikimedia projects against cultural predation
How to build regional partnerships between free knowledge organizations
WikiAfrica: Creating the Open Knowledge Curriculum
Platform Regulation, Content Moderation, and Free Knowledge Advocacy

Group Discussions:
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing. Except we’re not…
Addressing knowledge equity in cultural heritage projects
Building Locally Relevant Knowledge with Wikisource
Capacity Building
Scaling Wiki in Education: Overcoming Challenges & Growing

Panel Discussions:
Towards Knowledge Equity through Accessibility
Scaling Wiki in Education: Overcoming Challenges & Growing

Spotlight Sessions:
Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals

Lectures, Talks, Presentations:
Improving Knowledge Base Construction from Robust Infobox Extraction
Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata
School Strike for Climate: Free Knowledge and the Climate Emergency
Frameworks for Free Knowledge Partnerships

Lightning Talks:
Video for knowledge creation
Wiki in Education: Lightning Talks Session
Access to Knowledge: Commercial Initiatives for the Public Interest
Transforming Universities though open knowledge and action research: Reflecting on the case of Dimmons, an action research group in the Open University of Catalonia

14th Wikimania 2018, July 18-22, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa

Conference Theme: Bridging knowledge gaps: the Ubuntu way forward

Track: Knowledge forms

Workshops:
Design challenge workshop: How can multilingual structured metadata bring knowledge equity to Commons?
Ubuntu for who? Equity by Free Knowledge?

Panel Discussions:
Centering Knowledge from the Margins: A Whose Knowledge? discussion with communities from around the world
The State of Research in Knowledge Gaps

Round Tables:
What can we learn from the Feminist movement for knowledge equity?

Presentations:
Building an International Knowledge Base for the Performing Arts: Thoughts on Providing Knowledge as a Service and Enhancing Knowledge Equity
The Visibility Gap: #VisibleWikiWomen’s campaign for visual knowledge

Posters & Art Exhibition:
What is Knowledge? Art Exhibition
A Roadmap for the Environmental Sustainability of Free Knowledge
#No(Upload)Filter – A campaign to prevent internet filters that threaten free knowledge

13th Wikimania 2017, August 9-13, 2017, Montreal, Canada

Roundtables:
Knowledge for everyone: making access affordable

Panels:
Centering Knowledge From The Margins (w. roundtable discussion)
The Internet Archive and Wikimedia – Common Knowledge Goals (w. roundtable discussion)
Shining Light on Legal Threats to Free Knowledge
Indigenous Knowledge on Wikipedia: Lessons Learned from the Project Wikipetia Atikamekw Nehiromowin (Indigenous knowledge session)

Keynotes:
Libraries, Archives and sharing knowledge
Community and information in a partisan world

Lectures, Presentations:
Knowledge, democracy, and the Wikipedian gender gap
How Latin American Indigenous Communities are Sharing Free Knowledge on Wikipedia in their Native Languages
WikiCite — Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
The (Wiki)Data (R)Evolution
Student Learning Outcomes using Wikipedia based assignments
How to create a good school project on Wikipedia

Lightning Talks:
How does common knowledge sound? My experience uploading audio files to Commons

Posters:
BIAS in knowledge creation

12th Wikimania 2016, June 21-28, 2016, Esino Lario, Italy

Presentations:
Privacy – a limit to “the sum of all knowledge”?
Finding a good balance between protecting net neutrality and bringing free knowledge to the people
Lessons learned building machine learning models for Wikidata

11th Wikimania 2015, July 15-19, 2015, Mexico City, Mexico

Featured Speakers Session: Knowledge

Presentations, Talks:
Failures that made us better: A brief history of the Wikimedia Foundation as a learning organization
Los proyectos enciclopédicos y la construcción del conocimiento: La investigación histórica en Wikipedia
Wikipedia y la construcción colectiva del conocimiento. Más allá del fetichismo tecnológico
Engaging Wikipedia’s Natural Ally: How to unlock and amplify the access, knowledge, skills and resources of University and Research Libraries
How do we gather knowledge
Non-copyright Restrictions on Free Knowledge?
Amplify Free Knowledge with Public Policy
Wikipedia Values and Peeragogical Methods in Knowledge Production

10th Wikimania 2014, August 6-10, 2014, London, United Kingdom

Workshops:
P2Pvalue directory: A collaborative resource to map common-based peer production

Discussions:
The fount of all knowledge – Wikipedia as the front matter to all research

Panels:
Open Data Roundtable
Wikipedia Education Cooperative Panel
Virtual Community Roundtable

Presentations:
Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia (On Trust, Distrust, Betrayal and Loyalty)
Human-centered design for free knowledge (w. workshop components)
Access to Knowledge and Wikipedia Zero
Why we need to pay people to create free knowledge
Open Knowledge and the National Institutes of Health of the United States
Learning Literacy with Wikipedia
Informed but unempowered

9th Wikimania 2013, August 7-11, 2013, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

(Host: School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Panels:
Wikimedia storytelling: how we show the movement to the world

Presentations:
The State of the Wiki (plenary)
Indigenous knowledge for Wikipedia: Bending the rules?
Hacking Brussels: Giving Free Knowledge a Voice (with the possibility of a panel discussion)
Wiki Ecology: Understanding Wiki-Success Through Comparative Analysis
Flow: The future of collaboration
Open Culture, Open Data, Open Source

Pre-conference Events:
Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU – Meet & Greet

8th Wikimania 2012, July 12-15, 2012, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA

Panels:
Wiki Academy – Wikipedia in Schools, Wiki Technology: Uses in Education and Business, Uses of Wiki Technology in Higher Education
Semantic MediaWiki and towards a Semantic Wikipedia

Presentations:
Wikipedia, Ethos, and the Production of Knowledge
Using Semantic Mediawiki and DBpedia as a platform for Space Data
The State of the Wiki (closing ceremony)

7th Wikimania 2011, August 4-7, 2011, Haifa, Israel

Workshops:
Reflecting knowledge diversity

Presentations:
People are Knowledge (w. film screening, panel & discussion)

6th Wikimania 2010, July 9-11, 2010, Gdansk, Poland

Main Tracks: KaC – Knowledge and Collaboration

Panels:
Towards a free culture and access to knowledge movement? (open discussion)

Presentations:
Open-source knowledge, the history, the present and the future.
Wikipedia is not the sum of all human knowledge: do we need a wiki for open data?
Beyond the Encyclopedia: The Frontiers of Free Knowledge
Forbidden love or the case of collaborative knowledge in an Argentinian University
Semantic Search on Heterogeneous Wiki Systems
The Wiki as an Organism (with examples from Wikipedia)

Posters:
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware – Software made the wiki way

Co-located Conferences:
WikiSym – International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, Jul 7–9

5th Wikimania 2009, August 26-28, 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Panels:
Knowledge as a social good and the Library of Babel
Semantic MediaWiki

Presentations:
Improving collaboration
The State of the Wiki (keynote)

4th Wikimania 2008, July 17-19, 2008, Alexandria, Egypt

Presentations:
Free Knowledge & Wikimedia projects: is the Law an ally?
The role of free content in learning
The state of Semantic MediaWiki
Creating the structured semantic wiki

Lightning Talks:
Islam and open knowledge

3rd Wikimania 2007, August 3-5, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan

Workshops:
Distribute knowledge using cell-phone readable physical hyperlinks
WikiMedia and Education: extending Wikimedia tools for Collaborative Learning

Panels:
How to gathering local knowledge?─Public Participation mechanism of 2007　localogy GIS project.
The Semantic Web and Wikipedia/ MediaWiki
The future of wikis

Presentations:
Debate on the Authority of Knowledge vis a vis Wikipedia
Wiki2Wiki: Wikimedia and the new ecosystem of knowledge
Knowledge Forming, Heredity, and Variation
Libre Knowledge and Another World is Possible
Wikipedia: A Powerful Tool of Knowledge or an Internet Phenomena? A Survey Study of Singapore Language Teachers’ Perspectives on the Use of Wikipedia in Teaching
Challenges in a growing wiki : The wikiHow case study
Learning and learning about learning in Wikiversity
Extending wikis with social networking tools
What Open Source and Wiki Communities Can Teach Businesses About Innovation and Collaboration

Lightning Talks:
Knowledge Management in Wiki spirits

BoFs:
The Accumulation of Local Knowledge and Public Participation: A case study of Chu-Tien, Liu-Dui

2nd Wikimania 2006, August 4-6, 2006, Boston, USA

(Host: Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School)

Workshops:
Using Wikipedia’s Knowledge in Your Applications

Panels:
Wikis: Enabling library knowledgebases
Wikipedia and the Semantic Web
Creating a wiki-like college
Organizational uses of wiki technology
Wiki uses in learning and teaching

Presentations:
Universal Access to All Knowledge (plenary)
What’s happening to knowledge? (plenary)
A Tale of Two Wikis: Techniques for building, managing and promoting collaborative communities

BoFs:
Enterprise MediaWiki

1st Wikimania 2005, August 4-8, 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Workshops:
Getlets: extending the interwiki concept beyond any limits
Analysing and visualizing Wikipedia
Extending and Customizing MediaWiki

Panels:
The Politics of Wikimedia
Global Voices

Presentation Series: Semantic web
An ontology for describing and exchanging articles
Wikipedia and the Semantic Web
Mining the Wiki
Metadata with Personendaten and beyond

Presentations:
Wikipedians’ sense of community, motivations, and knowledge building: a cross-cultural study
Creating knowledge in virtual communities
Enterprise Wiki use – Case studies and analysis (keynote)
Wikis then and now (keynote)
Wikipedia as a learning community: content, conflict and the ‘common good’

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