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Opening ceremony + Wikimedian of the Year Awards

Join us for a night of performance and celebration and to find out who will be the next Wikimedian of the Year! Every year, hundreds of Wikimedians come together to celebrate free knowledge at the…

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Open as a Prerequisite for Solving the Climate Crisis

Join this session to hear from organizations who are collaborating on projects and initiatives to profile the role of open in addressing the climate crisis. We will profile successes to date,…

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What do educators think about using Wikipedia as a teaching tool?

Since its inception in 2001, educators have experimented with incorporating Wikipedia into higher education, primarily by assigning tasks to students for contribution. The literature on this practice…

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A brand new citation option – What does this mean for citation templates?

We, WMDE’s Technical Wishes team, are working on a new, optional way to create references: With a new attribute, you can reuse the same source in an article several times, but with different…

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View it! Tool: Utilizing Structured Data on Commons for Image Discovery

View it! is a suite of media search tools to show Wikimedia users (both editors and readers) Wikimedia Commons depicting– or otherwise related to– the article they are viewing. This tool…

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Past, present and future of Climate & Sustainability organizing in the Wikimedia movement

Let's reflect and workshop the future of organizing around climate and environmental justice in the Wikimedia movement. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times. And…

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Abstract Wikipedia and the dream of a Universal Language

Over centuries, academics and encyclopedists have been dreaming on the idea of a Universal Language. From Llull to Leibniz, from Descartes to Condorcet, the promise of a language that could be spoken…

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Museums, Media, Data & Gender: How to Make Images of Women More Visible on Wikimedia?

For this year’s Wikimania we are expanding on the themes of Collaboration of the Open through a GLAM and knowledge equity lens. We aim to establish a cross-community pathway to increase visual…

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Final Day Opening: Reflecting on the Past, Present and the Future

Final Day Opening: Reflecting on the Past, Present and the Future SpeakersSession host: Winnie Kabintie, Wikimania Core Organizing Team, Wikimedia User Group KenyaA greeting from the WHO:Dr Tedros…

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Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects

SpeakersIndividual presentations (5 minutes each):User:Mike Peel (overview) User:Nirali Sahoo (synchronising Wikipedia and Wikidata) EricaAzzellini (Mbabel) Benoît Prieur (French Wikipedia and…

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We write Wikipedia. Participation of women in the free and collaborative encyclopedia

We write Wikipedia. Participation of women in the free and collaborative encyclopedia on the Internet Speakers: Raquel Ramírez Salgado (Wikimedia México), Anna Torres (Wikimedia…

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Exploring a cultural gap on Wikimedia: the case of the visual arts

SpeakersMartin Poulter, User:MartinPoulter Waqas Ahmed, the Open University/ the Da Vinci Network Daria Cybulska, Wikimedia UK Girl Reciting Qur'an by Osman Hamdi Bey (1880)AbstractDemographic…

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Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata

Session Notes (etherpad)SpeakersLydia Pintscher is the product manager of Wikidata. She studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe before joining Wikimedia in 2012. She is a long-time…

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Wikimedia and Sustainability-Selecting topics for impact

SpeakersJan Ainali Daniel Mietchen AbstractThis workshop will address how the United Nations's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can serve as a framework that helps maximize the social impact…

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How The Wikipedia Library can help you write great articles

SpeakersSam Walton AbstractIn this session we will give an overview of what The Wikipedia Library is and how community members can access and use it effectively.The session will include a demo…

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Science and storytelling: Why who we talk about matters - Dr. Jess Wade at Wikimania 2021

LIGHTNING TALK: Science and storytelling: Why who we talk about matters & Celebratory Toast Dr. Jess Wade will talk about Science and storytelling: Who we talk about matters.Dr. Wade is a…

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