WikiConference India 2011/Programs

2011 November 18, Friday

  Convocation Hall Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2 Discussion space

07:00 – 08:30 On-Site Registration

08:30 – 10:00

Opening ceremony

• Opening note by an Organizer
• Jimmy Wales Keynote

Community Building the Wiki Way in India
(Convocation Hall)

10:00 – 10:10 Break

10:10 – 12:10 Wikipedia Impact

• Wikipedia-Great possibilities for the visually impaired
• Invited Speaker
  

Prof. Krishna Kumar

Technology Track.

• Geoki-An integrated approach to geocoding wikipedia articles
• Integrating OpenStreetMap to Wikipedia
• Language support in Wikipedia
• Tools in Indic Wikipedia

Wiki Academy/Workshops

• How to Contribute to Wikipedia (English)

Birds of Feather

12:10 – 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00 Mediawiki Developers - Wiki Editors Interaction Indic Language wiki track

• Marathi wikipedia Improving Content & Growth & Challenges
• Telugu Wikipedia & 1 liner articles - A review

Academy

• How to Contribute to Wikipedia in Indic languages

Birds of Feather

14:00 – 15:00 Technology Track.

• Usage of Ajax and Jquery in Wiki
• Semantic MediaWiki and its implications for your wiki
• DBpedia
• Wiki Data Project - Erik Möller

MediaWiki Translation Sprint

15:00 – 15:30 Enabling volunteers for Indic / Localization -- User:GerardM Lightning Talks

15:30 – 16:00 High Tea

16:00 – 17:10 State of Indic Wikiprojects (2 to 3 minutes for each community)

Convocation Hall

17:15 – 18:00 Editathon and other programs Birds of Feather

20:00 – 01:30 Dinner and Party

2011 November 19, Saturday

  Convocation Hall Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2 Classroom

08:00 – 09:00 Registration and socializing

09:00 – 10:30 Institutions and Wikipedia

• Wikipedia India Education Program
• Campus Program Pilot - Pune

Invited Speaker
Arnab Goswami

Indic track

• A new scientific India
• Kerala Sarvavijnanakosham and Malayalam Wikipedia
• Indic Initiatives
• Issues affecting knowledge availability for editing Wikipedia

Academy

• How to Contribute to Wikipedia (English)

Birds of Feather

10:30 – 10:40 Break

10:40 – 12:10 English Wikipedia case studies

• Native language transliterations in articles
• Indian biodiversity

Invited Speaker
Anand Kumar

Gender Gap

• WikiWomenWeb
• Bridging the Gender Gap
• Where Are The Women? - Gender Gap Panel

Wikipedia Usage

• Role of Wiki in Research
• Wikuizzing
• Wikipedia as a reference tool for Postgraduate study
• How wiki changed learning experience of students

Birds of Feather

12:10 – 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00

Invited Speaker

• Crowd sourcing model,Indic Wikipedia -- Badri Seshadri

Fair use Workshop

• Fair Use Initiative (Workshop)

Academy

• How to Contribute to Wikipedia in Indic languages

Poster Display Theme 1

14:00 – 15:00

• WikiBhasha:OurExperiences with Multilingual Content Creation Tool for Wikipedia
• Embracing Wikipedia as a Learning-Teaching resource

Indic Track

• Bengali wikipedia & Expanding the Bengali Wikipedia
• Growth of Gujarati Wikipedia

15:00 – 16:15 Beyond Wikipedia - The Other wiki projects

• WikiMedia - The New Secondary Legal Source
• Kerala School students collaboration for wikisource
• The Tamil Wiktionary Story
• Accelerating WikiBooks
• Digitizing a Book using DjVu

Outreach

• Offline Wikipedia on Low-Cost Devices
• People's Science Movements and Wikipedia
• Wiki in Enterprise

Unconventional knowledge

• Documenting Indian LGBT space
• Cite Changes: Exploring new means of citation on Wikipedia

Poster Display Theme 2

16:15 – 16:45 High Tea

16:45 – 18:00

"Openness in Policy, Governance and Knowledge" Panel

GLAM

• Starting GLAM in India
• GLAM Experiences from WMUK
• Wikimedia and student societies

The Wiki Quiz

• Indian Education and Transport community

Poster Display Theme 3

2011 November 20, Sunday

  Convocation Hall Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2 Classroom

08:00 – 08:45 Registration and socializing

08:45 – 09:30

Keynote address
Keynote note by Barry Newstead
Every single human being: Our quest to realize Wikimedia's vision.
(Convocation Hall)

09:30 – 11:30 Chapter Track

• Wikimedia India Chapter Introduction
• Chapter Projects 2011-12
• Noteworthy Wikimedian Contributor: Recognition
• Wikipedian speak and User speak
• Open Forum: Chapter/Foundation Panel

Editing Wikipedia

• Productive editing
• Wikipedia and School Students
• Legal Aspects of Wiki Culture

Wikipedia using Social Media

Marathi Track

• Journey of Marathi Wikipedia
• Issues and Projects
• Future Roadmap
• Group Discussion

Birds of Feather

11:30 – 13:00

Closing ceremony

• Free and Open thoughts - Bishakha Dutta and Ting Chen
• Feedback session - Moksh Juneja and Tinu
• Closing speech - Pradeep
• Vote of Thanks - Pranav
• Photo session

(Convocation Hall)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 Heritage Ride / Bid adieu