2024:Program

⧫ Collaboration of the Open ⧫

Program published

Wikimania 2024 Programming Call for Proposals

Program has been published.

• Tuesday, 6 August: Tours and other activities around the city of Katowice. All-day hangout space at the Diament Plaza Hotel. No conference programming on this day. Some groups and committees may organize meetings for themselves.
• Wednesday, 7 August: Regular programming at ICC Katowice from 9:00 until 17:00 local time. Opening ceremony including Wikimedian of the Year in the evening.
• Thursday, 8 August: Regular programming at ICC Katowice from 9:00 until 17:45 local time. Evening activities.
• Friday, 9 August: Regular programming at ICC Katowice from 9:00 until 17:45 local time. Evening poster session.
• Saturday, 10 August: Regular programming at ICC Katowice from 9:00 until 17:45 local time. Closing ceremony and party in the evening.
• Sunday, 11 August: Departures. Some activities around the city.

See the more detailed schedule grid below.

• GLAM Global meetup – 6 August
• Common(s) cause – Public policy – 6 August
• Volunteer Supporters' Network Meetup - 6 August
• WikiWomen Summit – 7 August
• Hackathon – 8–10 August

Please note that the schedule presented above may change.

Additional rooms will be allocated for:

• Prayer rooms
• Social spaces
• Quiet room
• Childcare room

This year's spirit is Collaboration of the Open. While preparing your submission, choosing potential topics and thinking about the audience, we ask you to consider the collaborative and open aspects of your topic(s).

What may the audience learn and/or how may they join your initiative? We would especially love to see submissions going beyond the existing groups, transcending the Wikimedia borders. We welcome submissions about open research, open data, open government – initiatives that may connect Wikimedians with the wide world, inspire others, and strengthen the impact of open knowledge. We also welcome submissions of people who can clearly see collaborations within Wikimedia groups, or even better, between Wikimedia groups and non-Wikimedians, collaborating in education, culture, technologies, governance, and more.

To make the program submissions easier to organize and review, we have suggested 12 program tracks. Think about which one best fits your program idea. If your submission applies to more than one track, you may specify a secondary track in the submission form.

• Education – initiatives and programs in education and academia
• GLAM – initiatives and programs in heritage and cultural conservation, collaborations with cultural institutions that include galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and more
• Partnerships – initiatives pairing the Wikimedia movement and its activities with external institutions to produce beneficial results
• Technology – product and technology in the Wikimedia movement
• Community Engagement – the activities aimed at increasing the number of contributors, attracting new editors, making sure they are welcome and willing to stay for the ride
• Community Health – issues related to retaining those editors and contributors that are already active. How to provide them with what they need to keep on contributing.
• Research – research with topics relevant to Wikimedia and the spirit of Wikimania, as well as research that uses Wikimedia data and content
• Diversity & Inclusion – making sure that Wikimedia projects appeal to as wide audience as possible, and can be edited by as wide group of contributors as possible, to cater for variety and to invite everyone
• Legal & Advocacy – copyrights and digital accessibility, censorship and disinformation / misinformation, public policy and human rights
• Open Data – initiatives in data use and reuse
• Governance & Strategy (alternatively, Governance or Strategy) – discussions focused on structures and reform, key initiatives from the Movement Strategy
• Wild Ideas – anything Wikimedia-related that does not fit well into any of the above or is so wild it needs a category of its own!

We will support onsite, virtual, and hybrid sessions. We'll share more on the logistics side at a later date. Now though, we can confirm that:

• Virtual sessions need to be recorded ahead of time
• Both presenters and the audience may dial in to take part in hybrid sessions. However, live interactions between the remote and onsite participants may be limited.

• Workshop (85 minutes) – interactive format to work out a solution or provide learning experiences
• Demonstration (40 minutes) – live demonstration of e.g. a tool, possibly with interactive elements
• Lecture (25 minutes)
• Panel (55 minutes) – a discussion with a few contributors and an audience
• Roundtable (40 minutes) – a discussion where everyone has equal right to participate
• Lightning talk (5 minutes) – a quick presentation of a concept or story
• Poster (time duration not applicable–will be part of shared poster session) – posters will need to be submitted as files once accepted
• Other. Please specify in Notes section (25 minutes) – anything that does not fit into any of the above format

I am a speaker. Where can I find more information?

Please see the speaker resources page.

Will the program be available on wiki?

Until the end of Wikimania, the program will only be available on Eventyay, which is the only source of truth about the schedule. We are going to copy it over to wiki after Wikimania concludes.

Contact / Help / I have questions not answered on this page.

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