Schedule/Submission by Subject

From Wikimania 2011 • Haifa, Israel

This page gathers the submission by subject in order to make it easier to set out the schedule. The fact that a submission appears here does not mean it has been accepted. For acceptance results see this page. The grouping does not mean that all these lectures will be in the same session, but rather should be a tool for grouping lectures to one session.

Locations:

  • Rapaport Hall - up to 450 people
  • Cinematheque Hall - up to 150 people
  • Hecht 100 - up to 100 people
  • Hecht 101 - up to 80 people
  • Hecht 203 - up to 50 people
  • Hecth 204 - up to 50 people - workshops

Wiki Culture and the Community

Subject No. Session Subject Submission no. Submission Title Presenters Comments Suggested Location and date
1 WF and the community 5 "Get Jimmy off my screen!" Philippe Beaudette (Head of Reader Relations, Wikimedia) and Megan Hernandez (Community Officer, Wikimedia) 45 min Rapport Hall
2 Encouraging Participation in Wikimedia 7
21
29
33
62
81
82
93
102
147
170
57
92
Account Creation Improvement Project
Encouraging Participation in Wikimedia Projects
Grey Revolution: Motivating Older Persons to Participate in Wikipedia
How scary is Wikipedia for non-machos?
Support the miners - improving quality by boosting editors work
WikiAfrica: Call for last mile operators
Submissions/WikiGuides and new users
Wikipedia and beyond: Incentivizing the engagement for freely licensed material and projects
Wikipedia used to be cool
Barriers and opportunities for expert participation in Wikipedia: Results from a survey
Student clubs: How to maintain student contributors
Small Wikipedias, Great Expectations: Following the campaign for the development of the Greek-language Wikipedia.
Wikipedia and Academia: Experiences from the Campus Ambassadors Program in the US and UK
Lennart Guldbrandsson
Brandon Harris, Howie Fung, Steven Walling
Karen Torben-Nielsen, Jonathan Bennett, Stijn Bannier, Rüdiger Glott & Beat Estermann
Karen Torben-Nielsen & Jonathan Bennett
Denis Barthel
Isla Haddow, Iolanda Pensa
James Alexander
Nicole Ebber
Christophe Henner
Dario Taraborelli, Daniel Mietchen, Panagiota Alevizou
Cheryl Moy
Ilektra Pavlaki
Sadads
lectures 62 and 93 also applies to subject 10
3 Workshops 8
28
Best practices in mentoring programs
GlobalMelt
Tim Moritz
Michelle Thorne
Workshop Workshop room - Hecht 204
4 A Better Wikipedia - contents 9
13
16
23
38
65
97
103
Biography of living people : "Sorry I'm not dead"
Chiara Ohoven and the strange tale of German Leistungsethik
Cultural Configuration: Autoreferentiality in Wikipedia
Flagged Revisions - a step forward never taken?
Inclusionism, deletionism, bot created articles and notability exceptions correlated with user satisfaction
The line of sufficiency
Wikipedia Illustrated
WikiProject: Public Art
Thierry Coudray
Dirk Franke
Marc Miquel
Victoria Doronina
SpeedyGonsales
Kiril Simeonovski
Galia Offri & Mushon Zer-Aviv
Sarah Stierch
5 A Better Wikipedia - categories and interwiki 10 Categorization system strengths and pitfalls SpeedyGonsales
6 Wikipedia in deferent languages 11
15
39
44
107
176
Challenges encountered when working on Wikimedia projects for endangered languages
Cooperation across different Wikipedia languages - the death anomalies case study
Intercultural Issues Across Wikimedia Projects
Missing Wikipedias
Workshop. Projects in languages with singular status
Translating to Nepali from other languages
Carlos Manuel Colina
WereSpielChequers
Delphine Ménard
Milos Rancic, Jon Harald Søby
Goma
Rajesh Pandey
Rapaport Hall
7 Wikipedia, Law and Diplomacy 12
14
98
Changing the world, one law at a time (Lobbying for Wikimedians)
Collaborative Diplomacy
Wikipedia is afraid of governments
Mathias Schindler
Tiffany Smith
Deryck Chan
rapaport Hall Rapport Hall
8 Surveys - editors 17
18
19
20
Editor Satisfaction Survey
Editor Survey
Editor trends - Wikipedia PT
Editor Trends Study and Other WMF Research
Wikipedia Survey: The final results
Manuel Merz
Barry Newstead
Jonas Augusto Xavier
Howie Fung, Steven Walling, Diederik Van Liere
Stijn Bannier, Ruediger Glott
9 A Better Wikipedia - contents 22 Everything You Know About Wikipedia Is Wrong Mindspillage, Fluffernutter, Ironholds, Kim Bruning, and James F Full panel - 1.5 hours Rappaort Hall
10 Chapters 24
30
37
84
From a group of volunteers to a professional team
Growth and development of Wikimedia Deutschland
Iberocoop: Regional cooperation in action
Wikimedia Chapters
Beatriz Busaniche
Sebastian Moleski
Galileo Vidoni, Ivana Lysholm & Osmar Valdebenito
Lodewijk Gelauff
11 Wiki Conflicts 25
31
32
76
From on-wiki conflicts to real-life collaboration
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
Where Wikipedia has gone wrong, what we can do to bring it back on track
Milos Rancic
Oliver Keyes
Emmanuel Wathelet (PhD Student) François Lambotte (PhD, project supervisor)
Dror Kamir
12 GLAM 26
60
73
155
162
164
166
173
GLAM partnerships in the real life
State of the GLAM: DC
What next in GLAM?
GLAMDerby - Collaborating with a smaller museum
New opportunities in GLAM-Wiki collaboration
Palace of Versailles and Wikimedia projects : feedback on the experience
QRpedia
State of GLAM in the Netherlands
Adrienne Alix
User:Aude
Liam Wyatt
Victuallers -Roger Bamkin, Nick Moyes
Lori Phillips
Trizek
Terence Eden
Multichill
13 Readers distribution 27
51
Global distribution of our community and readers
Readership Survey
Erik Zachte
Barry Newstead
14 Events 35
77
85
101
How to Start a Party on Six Continents
Wiki Loves Monuments
Wikimedia events
Wikipedia Takes Your City
Jay Walsh, Steven Walling, Moka Pantages
Multichill & Lodewijk Gelauff
Phoebe Ayers
Ryan Kaldari
15 Influence of Wikipedia on outside contents 36
43
How Wikipedia spreads to other media
May it please the court
MADe
Kat Walsh
16 Chapters - participating in reserch 47
52
50
Participating in research projects
Reflecting knowledge diversity
Project Internet in Sweden
Mathias Schindler, Angelika Adam, Denny Vrandecic, Dario Taraborelli
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Johan Jönsson, Jan Ainali
17 Influence of Wikipedia on language 54
181
Revival of the Hindustani Language and the Role of Wikipedia
Wikinglish: Can the ‘Wikis’ Be the Point of Reference for the Emerging Trends in English?
Hindustanilanguage
Hindustanilanguage
18 Outreach 59
95
42
Stand Up, Speak Words, Spread WikiPassion
Wikipedia as UNESCO World Heritage - a status report
Let's get local!
Florence Devouard
Catrin Schoneville
Sylvain Boissel
19 Wikinews 61
94
Strategies for Wikinews
Wikipedia and Wikinews: differences between news articles and encyclopedic news
Milos Rancic
Iván Martínez and Dennis Tobar
20 The Volunteer Response Team 66 and 70
90
The Volunteer Response Team: Willing hands working unseen and Volunteer Response Team Workshop
Wikimedia technical staff vs. the World
Alice Wiegand
Guillaume Paumier
21 Wikipedia Community 78
105
122
Wiki Migration
Wikis Love Leaders!
Identity, Reputation, and Gratitude
Dr. Vadim Zaytsev
Michał Buczyński
Brandon Harris
22 Wiki Technology uses in creating knowledge 80 Wiki-based National Content Development Susanna Mkrtchyan
23 Wikpedia Mobile 87 and 106 and 140 Wikimedia Mobile Panel and WMF Mobile Research and Wikimedia Mobile Tomasz Finc, Mani Pande, Patrick Reilly, Parul Vora, Kul Wadhwa
38 Wikpedia in preservation of calture 180 Wikimedia & Indigenous Peoples: Pros, Cons and Community Sarah Stierch
39 Wikpedia contents evaluation 156
185
104
71
192
Hebrew Wikipedia entries in the eyes of experts
Wikipedia content - thematics analysis
Wikis considered as least energy systems: Cultutal and community implications for accuracy
War and Peace: Writing Wikipedia Social Histories
Young Wikipedians’ perceptions of Wikipedia: a case study in Hong Kong
Judit Bar-Ilan, Eti Yaari and Shifra Baruchson-Arbib
Andrij Bondarenko
Richard Farmbrough
Victoria Doronina
Dr. Chitat Chan

Wiki Infrastructure and Technology

Session No. Session Subject Submission no. Submission Title Presenters Comments Suggested Location and date
24 Infrastracture workshops 110
129 and 135
141
151
153
A framework to visualizing wiki-based transclusion
OpenStreetMap mapping party and The Free Wiki World Map: Openstreetmap
Wikimedia Offline
Collaborative Watchlist
Digital restorations
Jaime Penagos, Jean Pierre Charalambos
Aude and MADe
Manuel Schneider
Kurt Kulac
Peter Weis
25 Anti Vandalism 112
114
Anti-Vandalism Research: The Year in Review
Autonomous Detection of Collaborative Link Spam
Andrew G. West
Andrew G. West
26 Ask the Developers 113
120
134
Ask the Developers
How to get what you want from MediaWiki developers
Testing for Mediawiki
Daniel Kinzler
Sumana Harihareswara, with Mark Hershberger & Rob Lanphier
Mark Hershberger, Markus Glaser, Priyanka Dhanda, Trevor Parscal
27 Multilingual Content 116
118
125
131
138
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
Seamless integration of machine translation as an aid to Wikipedia readers and editors
WikiBhasha: Our Experiences in Enabling Multilingual Wikipedia Content Creation
A Bronner
Arkaitz Zubiaga
Gurudath Bantwalkar and Hari Prasad Nadig
Marek Blahuš
A Kumaran
28 Better Editing 119
123
136
Editing 2.0: MediaWiki's upcoming visual editor and the future of templates
InlineEditor: a new editing interface
The Site Architecture You Can Edit
Brion Vibber, Neil Kandalgaonkar, Trevor Parscal
Jan Paul Posma
Ryan Lane
29 Statistical analyses and Data use 121
128
How to handle data and run statistical analyses in Mediawiki
Opening up Wikipedia's data: A lightweight approach to Wikipedia as a platform
Juha Villman
Dario Taraborelli
30 Rich Media 126 Media Labs Mdale
31 Technological Tools 130
137
111
ResourceLoader
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware - Software made the wiki way
A Qt library for MediaWiki, and what you can do with it
Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal
Marc Laporte
Guillaume Paumier
32 Infrastructure 142 Wikimedia Operations Overview Rob Halsell
37 Semantic Wikipedia 175 Towards a Semantic Wikipedia Denny Vrandecic, Yaron Koren, Daniel Kinzler

Wiki Technology - Communication and Business

Session No. Session Subject Submission no. Submission Title Presenters Comments Suggested Location and date
33 Media Wiki Uses 144
149
MediaWiki as enterprise software
Collaborative Hypervideo Authoring in Common Wikis Engines
Yaron Koren
Niels Seidel

Wiki and Education - Wiki in Knowledge Collaboration

Session No. Session Subject Submission no. Submission Title Presenters Comments Suggested Location and date
34 Uses of Wiki Technology in Education 145
152
182
184
186
189
202
A Smart Dictionary. From Information to Knowledge
Designing a Lecture Course on Wikipedia and Wiki Technologies
Wikipedia and L2 Learning (CALL)
Wikipedia as Learning Management Software
Wikipedia en el aula
Wikipedia in the Academic World - Lessons learned from Christian Theology Writing Competition in Wikipedia Indonesia
An open-access and open-data policy for projects of the Wikimedia Foundation
Susana Martin
Vassia Atanassova
Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff
Maximilian Klein
Patricio Lorente
Stephen Suleeman
Daniel Mietchen
35 Wikiversity 154 From the Wikiversity content to its conflicts Jan Lochman
36 Wikipedia in education 159
172
63
Lessons Learned from the Lessons Taught
Spread the Word: Defocussing educational efforts
Taking Wikipedia in Higher Education to the next level
Vassia Atanassova and Maya Marinova
Denis Barthel
Frank Schulenburg

Wikis, free knowledge and copyright law

Session No. Session Subject Submission no. Submission Title Presenters Comments Suggested Location and date
40 Wikis, free knowledge and copyright law 1
3
4
83
Cultural Fair Use, Political Narrative and Copyright.
Fighting The Intellectual Property Regime
Freedom of panorama and Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia and the Public Domain
jon klinger
Nikolas Becker
Christopher Cooper
Ryan Kaldari
40 Workshop 2 Don't burn the committees: set up your own Jarosław Lipszyc (Rekrutacja), Kasia Sawko, Tomasz Ganicz