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Not all events are official events. Attendees are welcome to organize meetups, tours and other events here.

August 25: 12:00 - 15:00: Richard Stallman free (as in beer!) and open talk "The Free Software Movement". Music show and launch of the "Free software song contest" at Teatro Presidente Alvear (in Spanish)
August 25: 16:00 - 18:30 Press Conference. Room C. Centro Cultural General San Martín
August 25-28: Wikimania Codeathon
August 26-28: Poster display. Posters approved by the Program Committee will be exhibited in the main lounge (Hall A/B)

Lunchtime events

August 26, lunch, room D: Chapters meeting
August 27, lunch: Strategy Planning
August 28, lunch: Wikimania planning/future of Wikimania discussion -- Sala C
August 28, lunch: Lobby - Wikiwomen group photo. Meet in the lobby at the beginning of lunch.

Evening events

August 25:
- 20:00 Welcome Dinner at Bauen Hotel (free for all registered attendees)
August 26:
- 19:00: Tango Workshop at the Bauen Hotel (free for all registered attendees)
- 21:00 Wikia party at Bauen Hotel, after the tango workshop (unofficial)
August 27:
- 18:00: La foto de Wikipedia en español (unofficial)
- 20:00 Wikichix dinner -- meet in Bauen hotel lobby
August 28: Closing party

Language		Track		Session Type		Topics
EN	English language	ACA	Academic track	WS	Workshop	COM	Communities
ES	Spanish language	-	Casual track	DISC	Open space discussion	CON	Content
				PANEL	Panel	LAT	Latin America
				-	Single session	TEC	Technology
Session length		Colour code				EDU	Education
30	30-minute session		Confirmed
45	45-minute session		Not confirmed
60	60-minute session
90	90-minute session

Day 1 (August 26)

	Fourth Floor "Enrique Muiño" (EN/ES)		Room F (EN/ES)		Room C		Room D		Third Floor "Madres de Plaza de Mayo"
Start time	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags
9:15	Opening Ceremony
	Richard Stallman: Before, after, and around Wikipedia

10:50	Coffee Break
11:30	Einar Spetz: A story of love and hate? How teachers at upper secondary schools in Sweden use Wikipedia and what they think of the free encyclopedia (video)	EN ACA EDU 30	Christian Becker: DBpedia - Extracting structured data from Wikipedia (video)	EN TEC 30	Sorin Adam Matei, David Braun, Horia Petrache: The structure of social collaboration on Wikipedia (video)	EN ACA COM 30	Christoph W. Breitler, Kurt Kulac: Quality Control Mechanisms in the german Wikipedia (video)	EN CON 45	Dror Kamir: My parents went on their honeymoon, and the rest is history - the Pikiwiki project as an example of enhancing outreach (video)	EN CON 30
	Iván Alejandro Martínez: Wikipedia usage by Mexican students. The constant usage of copy and paste. (video)	ES ACA EDU LAT 30	Heiko Hees: Wikis in Print - Everything you wanted to know about the new "book tool" (video)	EN TEC 30	Jan Philipp Schmidt: Wikipedia Survey Results - Presentation and Discussion	EN COM 60	Martin Alec Walker: Wikipedia 1.0: Offline releases of the English Wikipedia (video)	EN CON 45	Jeromy-Yu Chan: Keeping Wikimedia Chapter abreast with Local Free Culture counterparts (video)	EN PANEL COM 60
	Olga Cavalli: Uso de Wikipedia para publicación de trabajos de investigación (video)	ES EDU 30	Frank Schulenburg, Jay Walsh: NIH Academy 2009 – lessons learnt and what we left behind (video)	EN COM 30
13:00	Lunch
14:15	Pedro Sanchez: Wikis and mathematics teaching challenges (video)	ES EDU 30	Rob Halsell: Wikimedia Servers & Infrastructure (video)	EN TEC 45	Travis Kriplean: Tools for Supporting Deliberation on Project-Level Issues (video)	EN COM 30	Mayo Fuster Morell: The governance of digital commons: Wikimedia Governance Case Study (video)	EN ACA COM 30	Melissa R. Hagemann, Jan-Bart de Vreede: Workshop: Moving towards national OER strategies (video)	EN WS EDU CON 90
	Lila Pagola: Wikipedia en el mundo académico: Generación Google y estrategias docentes para colaborar en la construcción de conocimiento. (video)	ES EDU ACA 30	Daniel Kinzler: The Toolserver: The hacker's way of surfing the wiki (video, slides)	EN TEC 45	Craig Spurrier: Wiki Communities from a Social Science Perspective (video)	EN COM 30	Erik Möller: Scaling Up: Can Wikimedia Become A 300 Million People Movement By 2020? (video)	EN COM CON 60
	Samuel Klein: Wikipedia in rural schools: offline wikireaders in Peru (video)	EN EDU LAT 30
15:45	Coffee Break
16:15	Special event: Knowledge as a social good and the Library of Babel (video)		Roan Kattouw: The MediaWiki bot API (video)	EN TEC 45	Ayelet Oz: Wikipedia as a system of acoustic separation (video)	EN ACA 30	Jennifer Riggs: What can Wikimedia learn from the Red Cross and other large volunteer-driven organizations? (video)	EN COM 45	P. Bradley Baker, J. Jill Kidd, P. O'Shea, J. Alisha Kaufman, D. Allen, A. Whitworth: Student-Authored Wikibooks as University Textbooks: Reflections on Three Years of Successful Implementation (video)	EN ACA CON EDU 45
			Gerard Meijssen: Testing the MediaWiki software and its extensions (video)	EN TEC 45	Rut Jesus: Articles and Authors of Meta Communities in the South American Wikipedias and MetaWiki (video)	EN ACA COM LAT 30	Florence Devouard: Improving collaboration (video)	EN COM 45	Lodewijk Gelauff: Legislation lobby discussion (video)	EN COM 45

17:45

Day 2 (August 27)

	Fourth Floor "Enrique Muiño" (EN/ES)		Room F (EN/ES)		Room C		Room D		Third Floor "Madres de Plaza de Mayo"
Start time	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags
9:30
	Jimmy Wales: The State of the Wiki (video)


10:30	Coffee Break
11:15	Roberto B. Andrade: Hacia una Wikipedia en mapudungun. Desafíos y potencialidades (video)	ES LAT COM 30	Andrew Lih: Interpreting Wikipedia’s Demographic Decline: Implications for an Emergent Community (video)	EN PANEL COM 90	Katie Filbert: Integrating NASA WorldWind and custom map types into Wikipedia (video)	EN TEC CON 30	Ting Chen: Preparation for Board of Trustees Election (video)	EN COM 45
	BalaSundaraRaman L: Tamil Wikipedia: A case study (video)	EN COM 30			Christian Becker: Linked Geodata (video)	EN TEC CON 30	James R. Redmond: Wikimedia OTRS: the first line of communication (video)	EN PANEL COM 45	Lightning talks (video)
	Dennis Tobar: ¿Por qué Wikinoticias no ha despegado en la versión en español? (video, slides)	ES COM 30			Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: OpenStreetMap integration into Wikimedia projects (video, slides)	EN TEC CON 30
12:45	Lunch
14:00	Galileo Vidoni, Ivana E. Lysholm: Repensando el punto de vista neutral (video, slides)	ES CON 45	Erik Zachte: Wikimedia in numbers (video) Sheets: (pdf) (odp])	EN CON COM 45	Chitu Okoli, Kira Schabram, Bilal Abdul Kader: From the Academy to the Wiki: Practical Applications of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia (video)	EN ACA COM 45	Yaron Koren: Using external data in MediaWiki (video)	EN TEC CON 30	Siebrand Mazeland: Workshop: MediaWiki localisation using translatewiki.net	EN WS TEC CON 90
	Federico Heinz: Encouraging Quality as Emergent Behaviour (video)	EN CON 45	Stu West: Measuring our impact	EN CON COM 45	Benjamin Mako Hill: The State of Wikimedia Scholarship: 2008-2009 (video)	EN ACA COM 45	Manuel Schneider: openZIM - serving the Wikipedia Offline Projects (video)	EN TEC CON 30
							Teemu Leinonen, Jukka Purma: Audio Wiki for Mobile Communities: Information Systems for the Rest of Us (video)	EN TEC CON 30
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Nahuel Kahles: Medición de calidad en Wikipedia en español (video, slides)	ES CON LAT 30	Marc-André Pelletier, Jimmy Wales, Sydney Poore et. al.: Growing Pains (video)	EN PANEL COM 90	Catrin Schoneville: More media, more donations (video)	EN COM 30	Naoko Komura: Wikipedia Usability Initiative (video)	EN TEC 30
	Enrique A. Chaparro: "Mouses" y ratones: conflicto lingüístico en la Wikipedia en castellano (video)	ES CON LAT 60			Sebastian Moleski: Media literacy by way of Wikipedia	EN CON 30	Angela B. Starling: BOF: MediaWiki Usability discussion (video)	EN DISC TEC 60	Lightning talks (video)
					Joan R. Gomà, J. Gustavo Góngora: The “Associació d’amics de la viquipèdia”. An initiative to promote and support wikimedia projects in Catalan speaking territories. (video)	EN COM 30
17:30

Day 3 (August 28)

	Fourth Floor "Enrique Muiño" (EN/ES)		Room F (EN/ES)		Room C		Room D		Third Floor "Madres de Plaza de Mayo"
Start time	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags	Speaker / Title	Tags
9:15	Matías Federico Battocchia: Open source governance - Practical Direct Democracy through the Web 2.0 (video)	ES COM 30	Liam Wyatt: Wikimedia & Museums - why we need each other and what we can do about it (video)	EN CON 45	Daniel Kinzler: WikiWord: multilingual image search and more (video, slides)	EN ACA TEC 30	Micah Alpern: Designing a large scale community moderation system for Yahoo! Answers (video)	EN TEC COM 30
	Shun-ling Chen, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Adam Hyde: Authorship, Licenses, and the Wiki Borg (video)	EN PANEL CON 60	Mathias Schindler: The anatomy of the Bundesarchiv cooperation: 100.000 freely licensed images for Wikimedia Commons (video)	EN CON 45	Robert Stojnic: Wikipedia search (video)	EN TEC 30	HaeB: Lessons from Citizendium (no video per speaker request) (slides)	EN COM 30	Special event: Latest news on interactive generations (video)
						EN COM DISC 30	Jack Herrick: Lessons from wikiHow (video)	EN CON COM 30
10:45	Coffee Break
11:15	Arkaitz Zubiaga: Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags (video)	ES ACA TEC CON 30	Matthew Curinga: Wikipedia and Jacques Rancière's philosophy of radical equality (video)	EN COM ACA 45	Erik Möller, Michael Dale, Ron Yekutiel: Launching Collaborative Video on Wikipedia (video)	EN TEC CON 30	Brianna Jane Laugher: Panel on Wikimedia chapters (video)	EN PANEL COM 90	Luca de Alfaro, Bo Adler, Ian Pye, Vishwanath Raman: What should user reputation be on Wikipedia? (video)	EN WS ACA CON 90
	Denny Vrandecic, Markus Krötzsch, Yaron Koren: Semantic MediaWiki (video)	EN PANEL TEC CON 60	Jennifer Shkabatur: Wiki Democracy: The Promise of Wikis for Civic Engagement in Policymaking (video)	EN ACA COM 30	Michael Dale: State of Open Media on Wikipedia	EN TEC CON 60

12:45	Lunch
14:00	Jorge Machado, Felipe Almeida, Andreia da Silva: Wikipedia vs Enciclopedia Master Un estudio comparativo de enciclopedias en lengua portuguesa	ES ACA CON 30	Murugan Pal, Mike Linksvayer, Samuel Klein: 'OER Content Interoperability' for WikiMedia platforms (video)	EN PANEL EDU CON 60	Brion Vibber: Codeathon round-up (video)	EN PANEL TEC 60	Andrew Lih: Challenges of Covering the Wikimedia Community (video)	EN PANEL COM 60	Martin Alec Walker, Nigel Wheatley: WikiProjects: Improving Wikipedia by organising and assessing articles (video)	EN CON 30
	Jhessica Francielli Reia: Alternative Licensing and the Free Culture community in São Paulo (video)	EN ACA COM 30							Frank Schulenburg: Best practice documentation - preventing to "reinvent the wheel" in public outreach (video)	EN COM 30
15:00	Coffee Break
15:45	Sue Gardner: The Wikimedia Foundation: The Year In Review and The Year Ahead (video)
16:30	Break
16:45	Wikimedia Board Q&A session
17:45	Closing ceremony (video)
18:15

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