Programme

Wikipedia as a driver for change

Wikimania is a tribal meeting, open to all editors and participants interested in Wikipedia, Wikimedia and open knowledge. Please contribute to the programme by submitting your proposals and ideas.

Before and after Wikimania, you can join the Around Wikimania Esino Lario programme, a series of events in Italy and Switzerland about Wikipedia and open knowledge organized by Wikimedia Italia, Wikimedia CH and Wikimania working group.

Please consider that in Northern Italy or Switzerland you might also be interested in attending:

• The Open Cultural Data Hackathon, 1–2 July 2016 in Basel, Switzerland (registration is now open).
• The conference ICOM International Council of Museums, 3–9 July 2016 in Milan.
• The International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", from 27 June 2016 in Varenna.

Overview

The Programme of the 2016 edition of Wikimania will include various kinds of talks, discussions and activities. Beside the usual two-day pre-conference Hackathon, we will have three parallel presentation tracks throughout the three days of the conference itself: the first features User Digests, which provide an overview of a topic and a report of what's hot about it; the second two feature Critical Issues, i.e. talks meant to present a topic, related problems and possible solutions more in-depth. Two more tracks will be dedicated to Trainings and one more to Discussions, while informal Meetups will be held before and after the working sessions in the working spaces and of course in the welcoming bars of Esino Lario.

The topics of the User Digest presentations include, but are not limited to, the State of Research, Imbalance, the Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikidata and OSM Projects, the Verifiability of Wikipedia, GLAM Projects, Education and Contests, Licenses and Open Policies, WMF talks, Chapters and Affiliates, the Community, Tools and Extensions, Adaptability and Visibility. The Critical Issues presentations will revolve around themes like Technical, Policy, Outreach, Projects, Research and Governance. We will have Jimbo's classic opening speech and thrilling evening activities in the beautiful surroundings of the charming Lake Como.

Location / Venue

See the Venue page for that information.

• MAPS: Open Street Map, Google Maps

Saturday 11 June 2016

Training for the volunteers.

Monday 20 June 2016

• Starting today and until June, 30th, Wikimaniacs with badge have free entrance in some museums in Province of Lecco: see here.
• In Milan Wikimania Takes Lake Como with Dario Crespi and visit with aperitif to Wikimedia Italia office.
• The Kiwix-dedicated Hackathon is taking place in the school.
• The School is open 9.30 - 17.30 (at least). And the room 10 is open 24/24.

Tuesday 21 June 2016

• From 11.00 at Malpensa airport Milano Malpensa Martedì Madness, excursion to Milan.
• Small regular market with food and cloths in the Main Square Piazza Pietro Pensa from 9.00am until 12.00pm.
• The School is open 9.30 - 17.30 (at least). And the room 10 is open 24/24.
• The Kiwix-dedicated Hackathon is taking place in the school.
• After dinner with cocktails with liquid nitrogen and snacks at the tensile structure from 21.00.
• In Milan Wikimania Takes Lake Como

Pre-conference Wednesday 22 June 2016

	Esino Lario						Varenna
	Gym palace	Theatre	Hall	Museum	Collaborative space	School	Varenna Villa Monastero
Daytime	Meetups, book swapping and exhibitions around the city. Wikimania Takes Lake Como and Green Week for kids 6-10. 9.00-14.00 Wikiexcursion: Valley of Valsassina and its cheeses with departure from Esino Lario. 9.00 - 19.00 Animagus. Permanent sound/objects site-specific installation by Roberto Paci Dalò. Villa Clotilde, First Floor. 14.00-19.30 Itinerary of the mountain San Defendente with CAI.							Daytime
10.30 - 12.00	Hackathon				9.00 - 12.00: Learning Day	Hackathon
							Press conference	11.00 - 12.00
12.00 - 14.00	Lunch						Lunch	12.00 - 14.30
14.00 - 15.30		Hackathon		Board meeting Wikimedia Foundation	Learning Day	Hackathon
							GLAM and Cultural Heritage in Italy	14.00 - 17.30
15.30 - 16.00	Break				Break
16.00 - 17.30		Hackathon			Learning Day	Hackathon
Evening	Meetups, book swapping and exhibitions around the city. IdeaLab Mixer 17.30-19.00. Charity aperitif "Passo dalla Quercia”, La Quercia, via Cainallo 23, from 17.00. Delizie in Cantina Discovering Esino Inferiore with rock music live from 17.00. Participative game Città Infinita at the Gym Palace 17.00-23.00. Show cooking with Tommaso Fara next to the little tensile structure from 18.30 Dinner - Please reach the restaurant between 19.00 and 21.00.							Evening
open 24/24	Room #10 of the School (dedicated to the participants of the hackathon only)							open 24/24

Pre-conference Thursday 23 June 2016

	Esino Lario									Varenna
	Gym palace		Theatre	Hall	Museum	Meeting	School	Collaborative space		Villa Monastero
Daytime	Wikimania Takes Lake Como and Green Week for kids 6-10. 8.30-12.30 Itinerary of the mountain Monte Croce with CAI. 9.00 - 19.00 Animagus. Permanent sound/objects site-specific installation by Roberto Paci Dalò. Villa Clotilde, First Floor. Meetups (9.00-10.00), book swapping and exhibitions around the city.										Daytime
9.30 - 10.00										Wiki Project Med	9.30 - 12.00
10.00 - 10.30						Workshop: Engaging local Wikipedians		Communications Hackathon (lower floor)
10.30 - 12.00	WMCON follow-up Future of the Wikimedia Conference, facilitated by Nicole Ebber	WMCON follow-up EU Advocacy, facilitated by Dimitar Dimitrov					Hackathon		Training IdeaLab Workshop by Chris Schilling and Marti Johnson Creative Program Design by Amanda Bittaker
12.00 - 14.00	Lunch										12.00 - 14.00
14.00 - 15.30	WMCON follow-up Affiliates Strategy, facilitated by Nicole Ebber	WMCON follow-up Comparison of large international article writing and photographic contests facilitated by Nikola Kalchev	13.00 - 15.00: Hackathon	Training School of Rock(ing) EU Copyright by Dimitar Dimitrov	Explainer Video Workshop by Claudia Garád, Ilya Kompasov	Workshop: German Wikipedia	Hackathon	Communications Hackathon (lower floor)	Training Capturing Social Change Through Outcome Mapping by Jaime Anstee	Wiki Project Med	14.00 - 15.30
15.30 - 16.00	Break										15.30 - 16.00
16.00 - 17.30	WMCON follow-up Movement Impact, facilitated by Nikki Zeuner, Christof Pins et. al	WMCON follow-up Volunteer Support, facilitated by Veronika Krämer, Raimund Liebert	16.00 - 17.00 Hackathon	Training School of Rock(ing) EU Copyright by Dimitar Dimitrov	Explainer Video Workshop by Claudia Garád Ilya Kompasov	Workshop: German Wikipedia	Hackathon	Communications Hackathon (lower floor)		Wiki Project Med	16.00 - 17.30
17.30 - 18.00											17.30 - 18.00
Evening	Meetups (18.00-19.00), book swapping and exhibitions around the city. Delizie in Cantina Tasting of local products in the old houses and caves of Esino Superiore and choir Delphum from 17.00 (concert of the choir at 20.30). Charity aperitif "Passo dalla Quercia”, La Quercia, via Cainallo 23, from 17.00. Key-signing party from 17.30 to 19.00 in the ground floor of the Collaborative space. Dinner - Please reach the restaurant between 19.00 and 21.00. Itinerary to the Belvedere of Agueglio by bus with CAI, from 21.00										Evening
open 24/24	Room #10 of the School (dedicated to the participants of the hackathon only).										open 24/24

Friday 24 June 2016

	Esino Lario
	Gym palace User digest	Theatre Critical issues	Hall Critical issues	Museum Training	Collaborative space Community village	School Discussions and Wikimedia Movement Culture workshop
Daytime	Green Week for kids 6-10. Meetups (9.00-10.00), book swapping and exhibitions around the city. 9.00 - 19.00 Animagus. Permanent sound/objects site-specific installation by Roberto Paci Dalò. Villa Clotilde, First Floor. Stamp cancellation of Esino Lario, Main square Piazza Pietro Pensa, 14.00-19.00.										Daytime
10.30 - 11.00	Opening by Jimmy Wales		Live streaming of events held in the Gym Palace							Affiliations Committee (room 50)	10.30 - 11.00
11.00 - 11.30	Impact on Esino Lario by Catherine de Senarclens										11.00 - 11.30
11.30 - 12.00	Overview: programme by Ginevra Sanvitale										11.30 - 12.00
12.00 - 14.00	Jimmy Wales meet the press (video)	Lunch									12.00 - 14.00
14.00 - 14.30	State of Wikimedia Research by Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw and Tilman Bayer	Technical Detecting Copyright Concerns in Near Real Time by James Heilman Lessons learned building machine learning models for Wikidata by Amir Sarabadani Circular Content Open Content Manual & Tool by Sebastiaan Ter Burg	Legal Wikipedia and International Law by Tobias Lutzi Privacy – a limit to “the sum of all knowledge”? by Lukas Mezger Legal War Stories: a review of key legal issues facing the Wikimedia movement by Jacob Rogers, Michelle Paulson	Training Improving the photographic skills of wikimedians by Diego Delso	Training Listening to Community Voices by Edward Galvez	GLAM and Education What are the movement-wide opportunities for supporting GLAM-Wiki? (room 11)		Wikimedia Movement Culture workshop (room 40)		Affiliations Committee (room 50)	14.00 - 14.45
14.30 - 15.00	Imbalance by Saskia Ehlers
						Collaborations in education projects: discussing Pros and Cons, Challenges and Opportunities (room 20)					14.45-15.30
15.00 - 15.30	Medical topics by James Heilman
15.30 - 16.00	Break										15.30 - 16.00
16.00 - 16.30	Verifiability of Wikipedia by Alex Stinson	Policy and process management Found in Translation: Comparing paid editing policies in the top Wikipedia language editions by William Beutler, Andrew Lih That Was the Year That Was: What happened in Brussels, what comes next and what you should do by Dimitar Dimitrov “Program and Engagement Coordination” – A reflective process management to take movement conferences to the next level by Cornelius Kibelka, Nicole Ebber	Outreach The coolest projects of Wikimedia Chapters - be inspired by Darya Kantor, Deror Lin The Archives Challenge by Spasimir Pilev How to train future Wikimedians in Residence by Gereon Kalkuhl	Training How to make a short documentary with a smartphone by Matthias Süẞen, Daniel Schwen	Training Learn to use Pywikibot for Wikidata and other projects by Tobias1984	WMF board discussions Board discussions I: Transparency & Communication (room 20)	WMF board discussions Board discussions II: Finance (room 40)		WMF board discussions Board discussions III: Human Resources (room 30)	Affiliations Committee (room 50)	16.00 - 16.45
16.30 - 17.00	Wikimedia Commons by Adam Cuerden
						Board discussions IV: Strategy / WMF identity (room 20)	Board discussions V: Movement Affiliations (room 40)		Board discussions VI: Board composition (room 30)		16-45 - 17.30
17.00 - 17.30	Projects: Wikisource, Wikivoyage, OSM by Andrea Zanni, Andrea Fratini and Simone Cortesi
Evening	Meetups (18.00-19.00), book swapping and exhibitions around the city. Stamp cancellation of Esino Lario, Main square Piazza Pietro Pensa, 14.00-19.00. From 16.00 to 24.00 Mechanical bull and snack for the kids at the main square Piazza Pietro Pensa (loud). Charity aperitif "Passo dalla Quercia”, La Quercia, via Cainallo 23, from 17.00. 17.15 and 18.45 Silent action walk from Piazza Italia. 17.45 Guided tours to Wikimania from Piazza Italia. 17.30-19.00 Aperitif Mauri cheeses at the tensile structure. Dinner - Please reach the restaurant between 19.00 and 21.00. 20.30-24.00 Country music and dance with 700 metri sopra il cielo and Riccardo Cagni at the main square Piazza Pietro Pensa or Tensile structure (loud). 21.00 Concert of I Solisti Lombardi with the silent film Frate Sole of 1919, offered by the Bellagio Festival.										Evening
open 24/24	Room #10 of the School (dedicated to the participants of the hackathon only)										open 24/24

Saturday 25 June 2016

	Esino Lario
	Gym palace User digest	Theatre Critical issues	Hall Critical issues	Museum Training	Collaborative space Community village	School Discussions
Daytime	Green Week for kids 6-10. Meetups (9.00-10.00), book swapping and exhibitions around the city. Four guided tours of 30 minutes each of the cultural heritage of Esino Lario at 9.30, 12:15, 13.15. 9.00 - 19.00 Animagus. Permanent sound/objects site-specific installation by Roberto Paci Dalò. Villa Clotilde, First Floor. Stamp cancellation of Esino Lario, Main square Piazza Pietro Pensa, 10.30-19.00.							Daytime
10.30 - 11.00	Edit button by Andy Mabbett	Outreach Wikipedia depicting Mohammed: Different approaches in different environments by Man77 In Morocco We Don't Know We Have Wikipedia Zero by Zakaria Oudrhiri Wiki-wisdom for cultural institutions. Tried and tested formats for GLAMs by Barbara Fischer, Marcus Cyron, Raimond Spekking	Gender gap Identity-based motivation in Wikipedia as a key to collaboration and content spreading between language editions by Marc Miquel-Ribé and David Laniado Gender gap in the global south: Lessons from policy and outreach by Rohini Lakshané Content Gender Gap, an International Movement by Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight	Training IdeaLab Workshop: Making Ideas Into Action by Chris Schilling and Marti Johnson	Training SVG illustration workshop by Shyamal, Cmglee	Projects Designing the future I: A roadmap for Wikidata (room 11) Designing the future II: Rethinking the layout of Wikipedia articles (room 30 and 12, happening in parallel)	Affiliations Committee (room 50)	10.30 - 11.15
11.00 - 11.30	Translations by Farah Mustaklem, May Hachem
						Going mobile and keeping editing: needs and challenges to edit Wikipedia from mobile devices (room 11) Wikisource – how can we better support a small Wikimedia project? (room 30)		11.15-12.00
11.30 - 12.00	Wikipedia to the Moon by Michael Jahn
12.00 - 14.00	Lunch							12.00 - 14.00
14.00 - 14.30	University education by Filip Maljkovic Secondary education by Esther Solé	Projects Starting from scratch by Isla Haddow How the French Wiktionary became a grown-up project by Noe Gasparini, Lucas Lévêque, Benoît Prieur Wikidata in Wikipedia by Michael Peel	Governance Analyzing conflict and possible solutions around WMF software development by Quim Gil Finding a good balance between protecting net neutrality and bringing free knowledge to the people by Sebastian Wallroth and Jens Best Moving out of Home? MediaWiki Governance Revisited by Markus Glaser	Training Basic Wikipedia by Andy Mabbett	Training Historical Maps workshop by Susanna Ånäs, Albin Larsson	Projects Going beyond the edit button, innovative ways of engaging people in our projects (room 11) Content translation across Wikipedias (room 30)	Affiliations Committee (room 50)	14.00 - 14.45
14.30 - 15.00	GLAM by Liam Wyatt, Jane Darnell
						Misconceptions about the Wikimedia movement, and what can we do about them (room 11) Developing leadership in the Wikimedia movement (room 30)		14.45 - 15.30
15.00 - 15.30	Contests by Anna Torres
15.30 - 16.00	Break							15.30 - 16.00
16.00 - 16.30	Wikimedia and net neutrality by Ivan Martinez	Projects In-kind Donations and Chapter's Activity by Chen Davidi, Michal Lester Imagine a world in which every university has a wiki-advisor and every student takes a wiki course by Shani Evenstein How we organized a 1500 person meetup (and you could too) by Daria Cybulska	Technical Dynamic SVG for Wikimedia projects: Exploring applications, techniques and best practice for interactive and animated vector graphics by Gordon Lee (Dis)information-graphics – Problems, challenges and prospects of visual information in Wikipedia by Martin Kraft Can Wikimedia go to the movies? by Brian Abramson	Training Content Translation by Amir E. Aharoni Women in Red edit-a-thon by Rosiestep, Sydney Poore/FloNight	Training Wikidata and GLAM intermediate workshop by Sandra Fauconnier	Community health Community health I: Principles for collaboration (room 11)	Affiliations Committee (room 50)	16.00 - 16.45
16.30 - 17.00	Public policies by Alek Tarkowski and Ryan Merkeley
						Community health II: Tackling harassment (room 11)		16.45 - 17.30
17.00 - 17.30	Licenses, open policies by Federico Morando
Evening	17.30-19.30 Wikidojo in the school (room 12), see also Wikidojo on Meta Meetups (18.00-19.00), book swapping and exhibitions around the city. Stamp cancellation of Esino Lario, Main square Piazza Pietro Pensa, 10.30-19.00. 18.00-19.00 Hackathon Showcase in the school (room 11). Charity aperitif "Passo dalla Quercia”, La Quercia, via Cainallo 23, from 17.00. 17.30-late at night Itinerary to the mountain pasture Ca' dell'Alpe at night with dinner organized by CAI. 17.30 Key-signing party in the ground floor of the Collaborative space. 17.45 Guided tours to Wikimania from Piazza Italia. Dinner - Please reach the restaurant between 19.00 and 21.00. Concert by Custodie Cautelari, Matt Backer and Giuseppe Scarpato and Sleity at the main square Piazza Pietro Pensa or Tensile structure (loud). After dinner with cocktails with liquid nitrogen and snacks at the tensile structure from 21.00. 22.00 Wikipedia Burning Globe in front of the tensile structure							Evening
open 24/24	Room #10 of the School (dedicated to the participants of the hackathon only).							open 24/24

Sunday 26 June 2016

	Esino Lario
	Gym palace User digest (etherpad)	Theatre Critical issues	Hall Critical issues	Museum Training	Collaborative space Community village	School Discussions
Daytime	Meetups (9.00-10.00), book swapping and exhibitions around the city. 10.00 Messa e processione di San Giovanni. Patron Saint's celebrations: Catholic mass in San Giovanni church and procession with an aperitif in San Giovanni square. Four guided tours of 30 minutes each of the cultural heritage of Esino Lario at 9.30, 12:15, 13.15. 9.00 - 19.00 Animagus. Permanent sound/objects site-specific installation by Roberto Paci Dalò. Villa Clotilde, First Floor. Artisanal market, from 14.00.								Daytime
10.00 - 10.30	Q&A with the executive director of Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher (video)								10.00 - 10.30
10.30 - 11.00	WMF by Tilman Bayer	Projects Understanding Editor Behavior on Wikipedia by Jeph Alapat The system of interdependent Wikimedia projects by Susanna Mkrtchyan The one true international language is translation: addressing the language barrier by Johan Jönsson, Benoît Evellin	Projects (images) Images and NPOV: A Shaky Relationship by Johan Jönsson Global images initiative; adding images to 50.000 articles by Mike Nicolaije Working with the Media to Promote Wikimedia Projects: The Case of the Uzbek Wikipedia by Nodir Ataev	Training Understanding copyright by Federico Morando, Subhashish Panigrahi	Training Growing a Wikipedia Library Branch by Alex Stinson	The way forward Wikimedia projects and Wikimedia movement in the Global South: the way forward (room 11)	The way forward Edit review & curation tools: Creating a supportive process for new users (room 30)	Affiliations Committee (room 50)	10.30 - 11.15
11.00 - 11.30	Wikimedia Affiliates - The What, Why and How by AffCom
						Women and Gender Gap: the way forward (room 11)	The balance of references and footnotes: How far to go for optimal quality (room 30)		11.15 - 12.00
11.30 - 12.00	Community by Nataliia Tymkiv
12.00 - 14.00	Lunch, WikiWomen's Lunch								12.00 - 14.00
14.00 - 14.30	Tools and extensions by Maarten Dammers	Contests Present and Future of Wiki Loves Monuments by Philip Kopetzky, Jean-Fred Berthelot followed by How You and the Rest of the Wikimedia Movement Can Help Preserve the World’s Cultural Heritage – or How to Beat the Deadline by John Andersson, Axel Pettersson, André Costa The Wikipedia Asian Month panel: how we did it, and how you can do it too by Josh Lim, Addis Wang	Projects Wikiversity Journal of Medicine by Mikael Häggström The interest of the world's most influential health organizations in Wikipedia's coverage of medical topics by Lane Rasberry, Fred Trotter Wikipedia Addiction and its Comorbidities - what role does mental health play in a community that wants to create an encyclopedia? by Kritzolina	Training OpenStreetMap by Simone Cortesi	Training Esino Refugee Community Editathon	Governance Rethinking community representation and its role in Wikimedia governance (room 11)		Affiliations Committee (room 50)	14.00 - 14.45
14.30 - 15.00	Adapting for mobile consumption by Jon Katz
						The future of Wikimania (room 11)			14.45 - 15.30
15.00 - 15.30	Wikidata, API by Lydia Pintscher
15.30 - 16.00	Break - go and say goodbye and thank you to Marta								15.30 - 16.00
16.00 - 17.30	Closing with the opening ceremony of the collaborative space of Esino Lario dedicated to Wikimania (main square Piazza Pietro Pensa). The Esino Lario marching band will accompany the event (video). Group photo at around 17.00.								16.00 - 17.30
Evening	Exhibitions around the city and artisanal market. Charity aperitif "Passo dalla Quercia”, La Quercia, via Cainallo 23, from 17.00. From 17.30 Music around Esino Lario with the folk group l'Allegra Brigata di Mandello del Lario. 18.30 I bagni di Gong, sound experience at the Museum. Dinner - Please reach the restaurant between 19.00 and 21.00. Chocolate corner by ICAM at the (small) Tensile structure from 19.30. After dinner with cocktails with liquid nitrogen and snacks at the tensile structure from 21.00. 21.00 Theremin performance Culiarsi, the performance at 21.00 with the theremin by Invernomuto at the Gym Palace. 22.00 Concert and music by Roberto Paci Dalò at the Gym Palace.								Evening

Post-conference Monday 27 June 2016

• At 11.00 Meetups/Wikipedia Primary School

Saturday 1st October 2016

• At 20.30 Volunteers' party at the Gym palace

Unscheduled

• Evening programme/Street food
• Programme/Stamp cancellation of Esino Lario
• Evening programme/Show cooking with the Cooking School of Casargo, giovedi o sabato
• Evening programme/Show cooking with Tommaso Fara, mercoledi
• Programme/Wikimania opening ceremony
• Evening programme/Yoga
• Evening programme/Chocolat corner by Icam, domenica alle 20:30
• Programme/Made in Esino Lario
• Programme/Artisanal market, domenica
• Programme/Art interventions
• Wikimania per chi non parla l'inglese
• Programme/Education
• Programme/GLAM
• Programme/Governance

Legend

Anyone   Journalists   Contributors   Researchers   Technicians

Involved in outreach   Involved in governance and policies   Wikimedia   Wikimania Volunteers   Infopoint

Further details about the programme

Wikimania also includes a programme of evening events, excursions and activities for children.

Evening

Excursions

Children