Schedule

The Call for Papers details the various tracks of the conference. There are also some side-events.

Pre-conference programme

Developer meetings

Developer meetings (hacking days), a mini Chapters Meeting and other pre-conferences (see Meetings) will take place on Tuesday, August 2nd, and on Wednesday, August 3rd, in the Hecht House.

Tuesday, August 2nd
	Arbel	Gilboa	Tavor	Meron	Lounge
09:00 – 18:30	Movement Roles Meeting * Images	Developer Days	Global South Meeting * Images	openZIM Developers Meeting	Developing for Beginners
20:30	Waterloo – Abba song Festival at Gan Ha'em, across from the Dan Panorama Hotel
21:45	Movie Screening at the garden across from the venue
Wednesday, August 3rd
09:00 – 13:00	Chapters Meeting * Images	Developer Days	Communications Committee Meeting	openZIM Developers Meeting	Lounge
14:00 – 17:00
17:00 – 20:00
20:00 – 50:00	Welcome Party at Tiltan College Selected images of the party

Video - Pre conference summary

Main Event Programme

Early Comers Party at Tiltan – Wednesday, August 3rd

On Wednesday, August 3rd, at 20:00 we will host an early comers' party.

Location: Tiltan College of Design, On the roof - with a panorama of the Haifa port and Mount Carmel.
Transportation: Shuttles will leave the conference area near the beginning of the event. Shuttles back to the dorms and to the hotels area will be provided at the end of the event. Google Map.
Selected images of the party

Thursday, August 4th

Thursday, August 4th
	Cinematheque	Rapaport	Arbel	Gilboa	Tavor
08:00 – 09:30	On-Site Registration
09:30 – 10:45	Opening ceremony Greetings Meir Sheetrit - Chairman, Science and Technology Committee of the Knesset (The Israeli Parliament) Opening plenary by Prof. Yochai Benkler: Benkler's slides From networked cooperation to human sociality: Wikipedia as the model for a new view of social relations A decade ago Wikipedia burst into a world not ready to comprehend it. Thousands of people cooperating effectively, without price signals to offer “incentives” or managerial hierarchy to direct efforts was an impossibility. And yet, it moves. And as it moved it combined with a deep shift across many disciplines, from biology and neuroscience to organizational sociology, experimental economics, and social psychology to paint a very different view of who we are, as human beings, and what we are capable of when we build and inhabit systems that rely on our better selves rather than on the cramped, pessimistic view of traditional economic modeling. A decade ago our explanations of Wikipedia depended on the uniqueness of the Net. Today, we are ready to learn the deeper lessons: that we are more cooperative than we came to believe in the last half century, and that our challenges lie in learning how to build a new field of cooperative human systems design not only online, but for our lives more generally as the kind of social human beings we really are. (Rapaport Hall) Video
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45	Wiki Academy: Wikipedia in Schools (Hebrew) Panel headed by prof. Judit Bar-Ilan Using wiki to create a Mathematics school textbook Opinions of Teachers and Students on Wikipedia Integrating Wikis in Pre-service Education: Teacher-educators’ Perspective Video	Plenary by Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Wikimedia Foundation: The Year In Review and The Year Ahead. Wikimedia Foundation executive director will recap the Foundation's activities of the past year, and look ahead to the opportunities and challenges facing the Wikimedia projects in 2011–12. This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with the Wikimedia Foundation WMF Board of Trustees. (Rapaport Hall) Video
12:45 – 14:00	Lunch break (foyer)
14:00 – 15:30	Wiki Academy: Wiki Technology: Uses in Education and Business (Hebrew, translation to English will be provided) Panel headed by Prof. Sheizaf Refaeli The "Long Tail" Potential of Wiki Technology: Uses in Education and Business Information behaviors and management of Wikipedians in the context of their involvement with Hebrew Wikipedia The Africa Project - Bringing Wikipedia to Africa Video	GLAMorous What next in GLAM? State of the GLAM: DC State of GLAM in the Netherlands Palace of Versailles and Wikimedia projects Video	Wikipedia editorial policy Categorization system strengths and pitfalls Cultural Configuration: Autoreferentiality in Wikipedia Chiara Ohoven and the strange tale of German Leistungsethik Video	Editor surveys and analysis Wikimedia Foundation Studies of Editor Trends 2010-2011 Global distribution of our community and readers Editor Satisfaction Survey Video	Workshops MediaWiki extension development Collaborative Watchlist Video
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30	Wiki Academy: Uses of Wiki Technology in Higher Education (English, translation to Hebrew will be provided) Panel headed by Dr. Ory Amitay – University of Haifa Using wiki to create a learning community: The case of chemistry teacher's leaders Teaching the Humanities in a Wiki Environment Video Taking Wikipedia in Higher Education to the next level Video	Copyright and Intellectual Property Panel headed by Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren Freedom of panorama and Wikimedia Commons Cultural Fair Use, Political Narrative and Copyright Fighting The Intellectual Property Regime Wikimedia and the Public Domain Video	Movement Roles Presentation on Movement roles and responsibilities: Movement charter + recommendations Financial transparency and accountability: setting solid plans and budgets (Stu West) Video	Mobile Wikipedia Mobile Wikipedia: What we've learned and where we're headed Video	Workshops Best practices in mentoring programs GlobalMelt
18:00 – 20:30	Opening cocktail and buffet dinner (Auditorium Garden) Images from the party

Friday, August 5th

Friday, August 5th
	Rapaport	Cinematheque	Arbel	Gilboa	Tavor
08:30 – 09:00	Coffee Break
9:00 – 9:45	Plenary by Dr. Joseph Reagle Wikipedia And/Or: Prophecy Fulfilled, Happy Accident, Informational Apocalypse? In light of Wikipedia's 10th year anniversary, Dr. Reagle will ask three different historical questions about Wikipedia. First, is Wikipedia an amazing novelty or the fulfillment of a centuries-old pursuit? Second, despite its founding mythology, wasn't Wikipedia, in fact, just an accident? Finally, is Wikipedia a beneficent undertaking or a harbinger of doom? Link to the presentation Video
9:45 – 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:45	Chapters and co. Wikimedia Chapters Changing the world, one law at a time (Lobbying for Wikimedians) Video	Languages and cultures Challenges in Wikimedia projects for endangered languages Cooperation across different Wikipedia languages - the death anomalies case study The campaign for the development of the Greek-language Wikipedia Language policies on the Tagalog Wikipedia Video	The Campus Ambassadors Program Experiences from the Campus Ambassadors Program GLAMorous II New opportunities in GLAM-Wiki collaboration WikiProject: Public Art Museum Artist files on Wikipedia Video	MediaWiki development Testing for Mediawiki Video Ask the Developers	Workshops Don't burn the committees: set up your own Grey Revolution: Motivating Older Persons to Participate in Wikipedia or "How scary is Wikipedia for non-machos?" Video
11:45 – 12:00	Break
12:00 – 13:30	Encouraging Participation Encouraging Participation in Wikimedia Projects What place for companies on Wikipedia ? Newbies Incubator Account Creation Improvement Project Video	Global South activities People are Knowledge WikiAfrica: Call for last mile operators Going to Africa Video	Wiki and Education Designing a Lecture Course on Wikipedia and Wiki Technologies Wikipedia and L2 Learning (CALL) Wikipedia en el aula Spread the Word: Defocussing educational efforts Video	MediaWiki development (II): Better Editing How to get what you want from MediaWiki developers Editing 2.0: MediaWiki's upcoming visual editor and the future of templates The Site Architecture You Can Edit Woogle4MediaWiki - An Extension to improve Search and Guide Contributions Video	Workshops The line of sufficiency Wikipedia Illustrated Video
13:30 – 14:30	Lunch Break (foyer)				Wikichicks lunch * images from the lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Evaluation and documentation of Wikipedia Writing Wikipedia Social Histories Hebrew Wikipedia entries in the eyes of experts Young Wikipedians’ perceptions of Wikipedia: a case study in Hong Kong Wikipedia content - thematics analysis Video	Encouraging Participation II WikiGuides and new users Incentivizing the engagement for freely licensed material and projects Video	Wiki in Education II Wiki as a means to enhance dialog in the classroom Lessons Learned from the Lessons Taught Wikipedia and the Commons in instructional design and learning activities Video	Anti vandalism; Operations overview Anti-Vandalism Research: The Year in Review Autonomous Detection of Collaborative Link Spam Wikimedia Operations Overview Video	Workshops A framework to visualizing wiki-based transclusion Wikimedia Offline Video
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:45	Conflict resolution Where Wikipedia has gone wrong, what we can do to bring it back on track Hippies with guns: how ideological conflict shapes Wikipedia and what we can learn from it How Rules and Resources Constrain Social Memory on Wikipedia: the case of 2011 Japan earthquake From on-wiki conflicts to real-life collaboration Video	Intercultural issues Missing Wikipedias Intercultural Issues Across Wikimedia Projects Iberocoop: Regional cooperation in action Video	Encouraging Participation III Barriers and opportunities for expert participation in Wikipedia Student clubs: How to maintain student contributors Article creation in the composition classroom Video	Statistical analysis; MediaWiki development How to handle data and run statistical analyses in Mediawiki ResourceLoader A Qt library for MediaWiki, and what you can do with it Opening up Wikipedia's data: A lightweight approach to Wikipedia as a platform Video	Workshops The Free Wiki World Map: Openstreetmap Video
17:45 – 18:00	Break
18:00 – 19:00			Lightning Talks (Register here!)		OpenStreetMap mapping party (in the streets of Haifa)
19:00 – 22:00	Free Time Activities

Saturday, August 6th

Saturday, August 6th
	Rapaport	Cinematheque	Arbel	Gilboa	Tavor
08:30 – 09:00	Coffee Break
9:00 – 10:30	Wikipedia reconsidered Everything You Know About Wikipedia Is Wrong Video	GLAMorous III Finding Hidden Value - Panel sponsored by ISOC, headed by Dr. Yesha Sivan GLAMDerby - Collaborating with a smaller museum GLAM partnerships in the real life Pikiwiki, Free Image Collection of Israel – Convergence between Cultural Value, Usability and Copyrights Discussion Video	Influence of Wikipedia How Wikipedia spreads to other media Outreach projects I Quality and Engagement: Making the Connection An open-access and open-data policy for projects of the Wikimedia Foundation Let's get local! Video	Multilingual projects CoSyne: Multilingual Content Synchronization with Wikis Discussion and Improvement Proposals for the Current Interwiki Linking System on Wikipedia Interscript Transliteration A Case for Konkani Language Interlanguage links in Wikipedia: current problems and future development Video	OTRS Volunteer Response Team Workshop The Volunteer Response Team: Willing hands working unseen Video
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Event organization How to Start a Party on Six Continents Wiki Loves Monuments Wikipedia Takes Your City Video	Wikipedia, the Law and the Real World Collaborative Diplomacy Wikipedia is afraid of governments May it please the court Video	Wikipedia and/as the community Wikis Love Leaders! Identity, Reputation, and Gratitude Wiki Migration Video	Semantic, better wikis Towards a Semantic Wikipedia Collaborative Hypervideo Authoring in Common Wikis Engines Wiki-based National Content Development Video	Chapters and co. II From a group of volunteers to a professional team Growth and development of Wikimedia Deutschland Video
12:30 – 13:45	Lunch Break (foyer)
13:45 – 15:15	Events; Fundraising Wikimedia events "Get Jimmy off my screen!" - the donations model for the 2010-2011 fundraiser Video	Wikipedia as UNESCO World Heritage Wikipedia as UNESCO World Heritage Outreach projects II Wikimedia & Indigenous Peoples: Pros, Cons and Community Stand Up, Speak Words, Spread WikiPassion Video	Research projects Participating in research projects Reflecting knowledge diversity Project Internet in Sweden Video	Wikiversity and Wikinews Strategies for Wikinews Wikipedia and Wikinews: differences between news articles and encyclopedic news From the Wikiversity content to its conflicts Video	Workshops Projects in languages with singular status
15:15 – 15:30	Micro-Break
15:30 – 16:45	Closing ceremony: Video – Conference summary clip Plenary by Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia: "The State of the Wiki" Ten years ago, Jimmy Wales typed Hello World! into a wiki, and Wikipedia was born. Today, Wikipedia is the fifth most-popular site on the internet, and the Wikimedia projects are collectively one of the world's largest and most useful repositories of human knowledge. In recent years though, we've begun to see signs that the Wikimedia community is less healthy than it used to be. The number of active editors is slowly declining, and community members report increased bureaucracy, unwelcoming behaviour, and growing barriers to participation. In this talk, Jimmy Wales will call for a renewed commitment to openness, that will revitalize the projects. Video Closing Ceremony Images Wikimania 2012 Washington D.C. Presentation
16:45 – 17:15	Wiki photo session (Auditorium Garden)
17:15 – 19:30	Break (time to go to hotel/dorms to get ready for the beach)
17:15 – 19:30	Beach Time (optional) Selected images of the Beach time
19:30 – 23:30	Closing party and dinner at the beach Selected images of the Beach Party Video – Beach Party video clip

Beach Party – Saturday, August 6th

On Saturday, August 6th, at 19:00 we will host the closing event - a beach party.

Location: Nirvana Restaurant, Carmel Beach, David Elazar St. see location.
Transportation: Shuttles will be provided from the venue, the dorms and the hotels. Shuttles back to the dorms and to the hotels area will be provided at the end of the event.
Entrance only with your participant tag.
Seleceted images of the Beach Party

Sunday, August 7th

Tours are offered free of charge, but need be booked in advance and are based on availability and on minimum number of participants.

Sunday, August 7th
Tour to Jerusalem Selected images from the tour	Tour to Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee Selected images from the tour	Tour to Baha'i Gardens and the German Colony Selected images from the tour	Tour to Acre (Acco)	Beach Day