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| Session Identifiers | |
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 - Plenary session |  - Ideal for newbies |
 - Workshop |  - Group discussions |
 - Panel |  - Lightning talks |
 - Livestream |  - No photography |
Have you ever thought about the Wikimedia movement in terms of sustainable development? How free knowledge could have the potential to radically change peoples’ lives? Or how we through cooperation, innovation and passion actually could build a better world? Perhaps you haven’t, but we want to think about it and start a conversation.
The theme of Wikimania 2019 will be:Stronger together: Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals. The theme will permeate the program and guide our communication, cooperation and outward work.
As Wikimania has grown and matured over the years, the physical format has remained relatively constant. Traditionally, a central program committee makes a general ‘call for submissions’; the vast majority of submissions received are for the ‘presentation’ format; and approximately two-thirds of all submissions must be rejected due to time/space constraints. Once the submissions are reviewed and accepted, they are scheduled into sessions with other talks on a similar topic.
Rather than a centrally-controlled program weighted towards individual, retrospective presentations and a passive audience, we believe that this year’s conference theme requires a format that is future-oriented, collaborative, active, and focused on practical problem-solving. The outcomes targeted should be those that can be most efficiently achieved at in person events, namely: practical training, learning, idea-sharing and cross-cultural collaboration.
This year’s program will feature a series of parallel Spaces, a.k.a. "tracks" or "symposia", each focused on a particular topic area (examples below), with its own dedicated room in the venue, its own leaders, and a small team to help build and promote their specific program.
At the University of Stockholm, the conference will be using four buildings. The rooms have all been named afterNobel prize laureates of various disciplines and from various countries. There are also many meeting points around and among the buildings for impromptu gatherings.
 Aula Magna |  Södra Huset | |||||||
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| Plenary sessions | combined left & right halls | 1200 | .jpg) | Szymborska | A wing classroom. RoomA5137 | 30 | ||
_(cropped).jpg) | Murad | left main hall | 700 |  | Maathai | B wing lecture hall. RoomB5 | 100 | |
.jpg) | Arnold | right main hall | 600 | _(cropped).jpg) | Strickland | B wing classroom. RoomB315 | 30 | |
.jpg) | Gbowee | classroom on top level. OfficiallyKungstenen | 30 | .jpg) | Menchú | B wing classroom. RoomB487 | 30 | |
 | Curie | classroom on top level. OfficiallyBergsmannen | 50 |  | Tu | B wing classroom. RoomB497 | 40 | |
.jpg) | Karman | open space on middle level | 30 |  | Ostrom | D wing classroom. RoomD307 | 30 | |
 Allhuset | .jpg) | Ebadi | D wing classroom. RoomD315 | 30 | ||||
 | Yousafzai | Hall. Officiallythe Rotunda | 120 | .jpg) | Lessing | D wing classroom. RoomD499 | 70 | |
 Juristernas hus |  | Alexievich | D wing classroom. RoomD416 | 100 | ||||
 | Montalcini | downstairs hall. Officially theReinholdssalen | 75 | |||||
 | Williams | upstairs classroom | 30 | |||||
Before or after the main conference days there are also severalrelated activities that will take place outside of theconference venue. These activities are free to join. They include theCultural Crawl,City tours and some other activities which may be foundhere. You may revisit that page to find additional information the closer we get to the conference. If you have any proposals for related activities, feel free to propose them at thetalk page. For the related activities, youdo not have to register for the pre-conference days as they take place outside of the venue.
The following are community-made alternative formats, or curated specific-interest groupings, of the program.
Note: These arenot necessarily maintained to match any changes in the official program.
Search keywords: calendar export, ical, offline, Android app.
Wikidata-related sessionsThere are also multiplemeetups planned during Wikimania 2019. These include, but are not limited to such topics as aquick and dirty course on Northern Sámi,using incubator projects to revitalize Taiwan's Endangered Aboriginal languages, anIberocoop meetup, and ameetup for people on the spectrum.
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The pre-conference days runs from Wednesday 14 to Thursday 15 August. The pre-conference activities on the University Campus include two specific activities: thehackathon and thelearning days. In order to take part in these activities, you have to register for the pre-conference days.
| Wednesday 14 | ||
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| All day | Hackathon (program) | Learning Days |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Introduction to Wikimania
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| Thursday 15 | ||
| All day | Hackathon (program) | Learning Days |
All day events:
Community Village
Hackathon upstairs inJuristernas hus
Wikitongues language recording stationFriday program chronological list view (mobile friendly)
All day events:
Community Village in the foyer of the ground floor ofAula MagnaHackathon upstairs inJuristernas husWikitongues language recording stationSaturday program chronological list view (mobile friendly)
All day events:
Community Village in the foyer of the ground floor ofAula MagnaHackathon upstairs inJuristernas husWikitongues language recording stationSunday program chronological list view (more mobile friendly)
| Building | Aula Magna | Allhuset | Juristernas hus | Södra Huset | Building | ||||||||||||
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| Room | Murad | Arnold | Gbowee | Curie | Karman | Yousafzai | Montalcini | Szymborska A5137 | Maathai B5 | Strickland B315 | Menchú B487 | Tu B497 | Ostrom D307 | Ebadi D315 | Lessing D499 | Alexievich D416 | Room |
| Space | TECHNOLOGY | TRANSCRIPTION | RESEARCH | STRATEGY | EDUCATION | QUALITY | READERSHIP | ENVIRONMENT | MULTIMEDIA | LANGUAGES | LIBRARIES | LIBRARIES | ADVOCACY | DIVERSITY | LIBRARIES | Space | |
| 14:00 | Building Locally Relevant Knowledge with Wikisource SGill (WMF) | State of Wikimedia Research 2018-2019 Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Reem Al-Kashif, Tilman Bayer, Matej Grochal, Miriam Redi, Aaron Shaw, Benjamin Mako Hill | Resource Allocation Daria Cybulska, Michal Buczyński et al. | Contextualizing Wikimedia in education: Creating a Roadmap to becoming a Wiki in Education Leader Melissa Guadalupe Huertas, Shani Evenstein, TBD | Idea jam: future dimensions of quality | Wikipedia everywhere - for you, your neighbours, your school Emmanuel Engelhart | School Strike for Climate: Free Knowledge and the Climate Emergency Isabelle and Sophia Axelsson | Portrait photography photo booth Ailura, Martin Kraft | A wealth of opportunities hiding in plain sight Kimberli Mäkäräinen, Susanna Ånäs | Map making workshop – from Wikidata to interactive off-wiki maps in three steps | Open Refine: MARC & EAD (continued) | How to talk about advocacy so that people do not fall asleep? Alek Tarkowski, Natalia Mileszyk | Lightning talks 2 | Idea discussions (continued) | 14:00 | ||
| 14:15 | 14:15 | ||||||||||||||||
| 14:30 | Hackathon Showcase Rachel Farrand, Siebrand Mazeland | Updating the desktop experience for Wikipedia Olga Vasileva, Alex Hollender | Towards Knowledge Equity through Accessibility Volker E., Laney Feingold | 14:30 | |||||||||||||
| 14:45 | DIVERSITY | Documentation and quality process workshop Documentation and quality process workshop | Pouring coastal water on Wikidata - Can we add more? Axel Petterson, Josefina Algotsson, Alicia Fagerving | How to include oral culture in Wikimédia movement? Lionel Scheepmans | 14:45 | ||||||||||||
| Wiki LGBT+ meetup Shikeishu, Jeffrey Keefer, Lane Rasberry | |||||||||||||||||
| 15:00 | Wrap-up (closing session) VIGNERON | Radio to illustrate Wikipedia. Creative examples already put in practice Francesc Fort | Lightning talks | Platform Regulation and Free Knowledge Advocacy Lilli Iliev, John Weitzmann, and Natalia Mileszyk | 15:00 | ||||||||||||
| 15:15 | 15:15 | ||||||||||||||||
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Break | 15:30 – 16:00 | |||||||||||||||
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Closing session Farhad Fatkullin – 2018Wikimedian of the Year; Jimmy Wales, announcing the 2019 winner; | 16:00 – 17:30 | |||||||||||||||
| 17:30 – 20:00 | 17:30 – 20:00 | ||||||||||||||||
| 20:00 – 24:00 | Closing party | 20:00 – 24:00 | |||||||||||||||
Many presentations are available here as pdf files in the categorycommons:Category:Wikimania 2019 presentations.
All sessions will be recorded by theKnowledge savers team and published on Wikimedia Commons at categoryWikimania 2019 videos,with the exception of sessions that have requested not to be filmed..
.TheKnowledge savers team will take notes at almost all sessions.