WikiIndaba conference 2019/Program

WIKI INDABA
2019
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Session Identifiers
– Lecture – Workshop
– Roundtable – Panel
– Lightning Talks Plenary session – Plenary

Conference videos

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Thursday 7 November

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All day - Arrival of Conference Participants
18:00 - 20:00 - Community Mixer & Dinner
20:00 - 22:00 - Meetups

Friday 8 November

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Room Main Hall Room
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
08:30 – 09:00
09:00 – 09:30
Welcome Session  
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00 09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:30
Room Main Hall Room 1 Room
10:30 – 11:00 African Studies in Wikimedia projects

Ursula Oberst
  

Strategising The Next 1-3 Years of Wikimedia Interventions In Africa

Janeen Uzzell, Dumisani Ndubane, Felix Nartey
  

10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 Retention model (VSDR-d3 v1.0 model) for Volunteer Software Developer

Derick N. Alangi
  

11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00 Ideas to strengthen local African content

Anass Sedrati
  

11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30 Affiliates Ecosystem and Africa

Dumisani Ndubane
  

Public Policy for Wikimedia in Africa: Who, what, where, and how?

Tony Sebro
  

12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00
Lunch
12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:30 13:00 – 13:30
Room Main Hall Room 1 Room
13:30 – 14:00 The AfroCine Project: Bridging the African Content Gap Through Pop Culture

Sam Oyeyele
  

Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners

Asaf Bartov
  

13:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:30 Closing the Gender Gap across Africa

Erina Mukuta
  

14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00 What is ART+FEMINISM?

Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Walaa Abdel Manaem
  

14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30 Lightning Talks

Dumisani Ndubane (moderator)
  

15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
Break and Group Photo
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 20:00
Abuja City Tour by NTDC
17:00 – 20:00
20:00 – 21:00
Dinner
20:00 – 21:00
21:00 - 22:00
Meetups
21:00 - 22:00

Saturday 9 November

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Room Main Hall Room Room
09:00 – 09:30 Working together with UNESCO - preserving African heritage

Gereon Kalkuhl
  

MediaWiki 101: Getting indoctrinated into MediaWiki development (plus fettle a real MW bug)

Derick N. Alangi
  

09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00 Promote local languages with Lingua Libre and Wiktionary

Georges Fodouop, Nadia Ongbakak, Christian Mbou
  

09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:30
Room Main Hall Room 1 Room
10:30 – 11:00 WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique

Florence Devouard
  

Beyond the basics: Intermediate Wikidata tools

Asaf Bartov
  

10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 Promoting Commons Images with a Twitter Bot (WM-Emoji-Twitter-Bot)

Rosalie Perside
  

11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00 Introducing Wikipedia to New Readers

Angie Muigai
  

11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30 Anti-harassment: latest news from the Trust & Safety team

Samuel Guebo, Christel Steigenberger
  

12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00
Lunch
12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:30 13:00 – 13:30
Room Main Hall Room 1 Room
13:30 – 14:00 Growing Our Movement Through Brand
Janeen Uzzell
 
Digital Security for Wikimedians

Samuel Guebo, Christel Steigenberger, Derick Alangi
  

13:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:30 Movement Strategy: Building Strategy Collaboratively

Tanveer Hasan, Douglas SSebaggala
  

14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00 Wikimedia Space, a new platform for support and collaboration

Quim Gil
  

14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30 Lightning Talks

Bobby Shabangu (moderator)
  

15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
Break
15:30 – 16:00
Room Main Hall Room 1 Room
16:00 – 16:30 Fostering a Wikimedia Community in Guinea-Bissau

Paulo Santos Perneta
  

Grants and Resources Offered By the Wikimedia Foundation

Chen Almog
  

16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00 Creative Commons Licenses: an asset for the work, the author and the user

Sami Mlouhi
  

16:30 – 17:00
Room Main Hall Room
17:00 – 17:30
State of African Wikis: What Are The Challenges Facing African Language Wikipedias? Any Potential Solutions?
Sam Oyeyele, Dumisani Ndubane
 
17:00 – 17:30
17:30 – 18:00 17:30 – 18:00
18:00 – 21:00
Dinner and WikiParty at Jabi Boat Club
18:00 – 21:00
21:00 - 22:00
Meetups
21:00 - 22:00

Sunday 10 November

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Room Main Hall Room
09:00 – 09:30
Closing Session  
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00 09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:30
Room Main Hall Room 1 Room
10:30 – 11:00
Meetups
Showcasing How Far We Have Come as a Community in Nigeria (Closed Meetup)

Wikimedia Nigeria Community
  

10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00
Meetups
11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30 12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00
Lunch
12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:30 13:00 – 13:30
All day - All day
Departure of Conference Participants
Allday - All day