WikiConference India 2023/Program
28 – 30 April, 2023
Hyderabad, India
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Themes
- Diversity
- Collaboration
- Technology
- Wikimedia Vibrance
- Engagement & Growth
The program for WikiConference has introduced a design that focuses on a single theme per session. The WCI program aims to build connections across interests, and ideas and identify requirements that are critical to the success of our movement in our region. All the sessions are divided into five different sub-themes.
Day 0
On 27th April, participants will arrive one day before the conference begins at the hotel and gather for the opening dinner on the premises at 7 pm.
Friday, 28 April 2023
[edit]| Day 1 | ||||
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| Time | Sessions | Type | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Opening to the conference: Welcome & Introductions Housekeeping (including timekeeping) T&S Announcement (Shared in advance) Maryana’s opening remarks |
Organizers' Briefing | ||
| Diversity | ||||
| 9:30 am - 10:30 am | How do we become more diverse as a movement? | Panel Discussion | ||
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Towards increasing diversity | Learning Activity | ||
| 11:30 am - 12:00 noon | Announcements & Tea Break
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| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Journey of Santali Wikipedia, challenges and possibility | Indic Community Showcase (Room: Istana) |
Encouraging the community to work on bridging Gender gap and diversity- a practitioner's story | Indic Community Showcase (Room: Deori) |
| Introduction of Doteli language and Wikipedia Language: English, Doteli, and Hindi |
Gujarati community - Audiobooks project | |||
| Promoting Assamese Wikipedia: The role and duties of Wikipedians Language: Assamese |
Kashmiri Wikipedia's Story | |||
| Writing for wiki-my experiences Language: Telugu |
Welcoming Angika Wikipedia | |||
| Q&A | Q&A | |||
| Collaboration | ||||
| 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm | Tamil Wikisource 2016-2022 Language: Tamil/English |
Indic Showcase (Room: Istana) |
Relicensing and Digitisation | Indic Showcase (Room: Deori) |
| The story behind the creation of a dictionary and encyclopedia for endangered language /Kannada/Tulu |
Ten years of Assamese Wikisource Language: Assamese | |||
| Strengthening the bonds by holding each other's hands | IIAB, an introduction and necessary modification Language: English/Hindi | |||
| Reflection and Q&A | Reflection and Q&A
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| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch
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| 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Engaging with partners in the movement! South Asia edition | |||
| 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm | Wikimedia Foundation APP conversation - Focus on collaboration with SA Communities | Panel Discussion | ||
| 3:15 pm - 3:25 pm | Break & Transfers
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| 3:25 pm - 3:50 pm | Feminism and Folklore Language: Tamil/English |
Global Showcase (Room: Istana) |
ESEAP Hub | Global Showcase (Room: Deori) |
| WikiLearn | Language Diversity Hub | |||
| Wikisource Loves Manuscripts | Let's Connect | |||
| Reflection and Q&A | Reflection and Q&A | |||
| 3:50 PM - 4:50 pm | Strengthening the bonds through peer support for targets of harassment | Workshop (Room: Istana) |
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Workshop (Room: Deori) |
| 4:50 pm - 5:00 pm | Recap of Day and Intro to Day 2
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| 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm | Cultural Performance | |||
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Dinner | |||
Saturday, 29 April 2023
[edit]| Day 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Sessions | Type | ||
| Technology | ||||
| 9:00 am to 9:10 am | Announcements and Day's overview | |||
| 9:10 am to 10:10 am | Role of Technology in Open Knowledge | Panel Discussion | ||
| 10:10 am to 10:40 am | Indic Wikimedia Developers User Group | Showcase | ||
| Smart way to improve the Wikimedia contribution by using Tech tools - Spell4Wiki, SpotWikiEdit, QuickWiktionary Langugage: English/Tamil | ||||
| The usage of Pywikibot in Tamil Wikisource Langugage: English/Tamil | ||||
| 10:40 am to 11:00 am | Tea Break | |||
| 11:00 pm - 12:00 pm | How to map and bridge the knowledge gaps in health-related articles on Wikipedia? | Indic Community Showcase (Room: Istana) |
Localisation Tools | Presentation(Room: Deori) |
| Wiki Loves Literature/Hindi | Content Translation Workshop | Workshop (Room: Deori)
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| How Data donation to Wikidata helps Wikimedia projects | ||||
| "Wiki_Patrika"- a community e-megazine Language: Hindi/Assamese | ||||
| Q&A | ||||
| Gender Gap in leadership with respect to South Asia | ||||
| Reimagining Oral Citations through Open Culture and filmmaking | ||||
| Wiki For Human Rights/Climate Change | Global Showcase (Room: Istana) | |||
| Wikibase | ||||
| Q&A | ||||
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Break & Transfers | |||
| 12:10 pm - 1:10 pm | Sip and Chat with the Wikimedia Foundation Leadership and Board of Trustees | Panel Discussion | ||
| 1:10 pm - 1:15 pm | Introduction to the upcoming parallel sessions | |||
| 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm | Lunch | |||
| Wikimedia Vibrance | ||||
| 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm | Wikimedia Vibrance | Panel Discussion (Room: Istana) |
Modeling our languages with Lexemes | Extended Workshop (Room: Deori) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | Wiki Loves Photographs - How to photograph monuments and food | Showcase (Room: Istana) | ||
| 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage | |||
| 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm | Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons | |||
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Closing, Next Steps and Information on Special Dinner/Day 3 | |||
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Tea Break | |||
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Unconference (Istana and Deori) | |||
| 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Special Dinner | |||
Sunday, 30 April 2023
[edit]| Day 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Sessions | Type |
| 9:00 am - 9:50 am | Group Photo | |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Day Overview and Excursion Update | |
| Engagement & Growth | ||
| 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Engagement & Growth | Panel Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Break | |
| Future | ||
| 11:20 am - 12:20 pm | Feedback session | Activity |
| 12:20 pm - 1:00 pm | Celebrating Bonds and WikiCelebrate | Workshop |
| 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm | Closing Notes/Speech | |
| 1:20 pm onwards | Late Lunch and departure for excursion | |
| 7:30 pm - 10 pm | ||