Wikimania Sessions
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This is the place for people who couldn't make it to the Wikimania event to catch up and watch the sessions they missed. The session descriptions have been copied from Wikimania 2008 site.
Feel free to add your own footage from the event as well!
The bold listings are the ones who do contain video. Please edit this page to make them bold when you have inserted video.
Day 1 - July 17, 2008
1. Opening Ceremony - H.E Ahmed Darwish ,Florence Devouard, Jakob Voss, Mohamed Ibrahim
2. New paradigms for new tomorrows - Ismail Serageldin
3. Education and the Wiki paradigm; a tug of war? - Hoda Baraka
4. The Global Survey of Wikipedia Contributers and Readers - Philipp Schmidt, Rishab Ghosh, Ruediger Glott
5. The future of the commons - Heather Ford
6. Cross-cultural dialogue through Wikipedia - Dror Kamir
7. Open Scholarship - Melissa Hagemann
8. Content creation strategies for emerging countries - Jürgen Galler
9. Wikipedia Offline - a technical framework - User:80686
10. Community Collaboration - Elizabeth Stark & Hani Morsi
11. Federating Wikipedia as Open Educational Resource - Murugan Pal
12. Hey, I think perhaps we should... - Muhammad Abdul Mageed
13. Freedom of speech, human rights, and free culture - Jimbo Wales
14. Inkscape SVG workshop - Brianna Laugher & Adam Hyde
15. Keeping the Media accountable - Rhonda Shearer
16. Wikimedia: 2008-2009 - Sue Gardner & Erik Möller
17. Collaborative Higher Education Platform: EduWiki 2.0 - Boris Mamlyuk & Golnoosh Hakimdavar
18. Objects of Ethnographic Museums in Wikipedia - Raoul Weiler
19. Zotero for Wikimaniacs - Benjamin Mako Hill
20. Wiki Writing - Adrianne Wadewitz
21. Board Panel - Jimbo Wales, Jan-Bart de Vreede, Kat Walsh, Michael Snow, Domas Mituzas, Stuart West, Ting Chen
Day 2 - July 18, 2008
1. Open culture and the Internet in the Middle East - Ahmed Tantawy
2. OpenStreetMap: Mapping for the Masses - Mikel Maron
3. Wikipedia Lectures - James F.
4. CheckUser and editing patterns - HaeB
5. Linguistic issues and the Arabic Wikipedia - Aude
6. Building Arabic Engineering Knowledge - Hussein Ghaly
7. Recent Developments in Search Technology - Usama Fayyad
8. Flagged Revisions: Development and experiences - Philipp Birken
9. Lightning Talks Session 2 - LT Speakers
10. Open Access: How to Create Change - Iryna Kuchma
11. LibraryThing and Social Cataloging - Tim Spalding
12. Free Knowledge & Wikimedia projects: is the Law an ally? -Olivier Hugot
13. Wikipedia as "Real Utopia" - Edo Navot
14. OTRS -Jay Walsh & Cary Bass
15. Collaborative research in Wikiversity - Cormac Lawler
16. State of the MediaWiki - Brion Vibber
17. Mapping the geographic information in Wikipedia - Aude
18. Wikiposters project by Wikimedia Israel - comulos
19. eIFL Open Access: Use, Share and Remix - Iryna Kuchma
20. World events according to Wikipedia statistics - Mathias Schindler
21. Wikimedia Serbia - Nikola
22. Integrating Wikipedia into a global network of Semantic Web for advanced information access - Ka Kan Lo
23. Poster Session
24. Open educational resources and globalization - Teemu Leinonen
25. Wikimedia and libraries - Chuck Henry,Tim Spalding, Ismail Serageldin, Jakob Voss, Phoebe Ayers
26. Volunteer Council - Lodewijk Gelauff
27. Wikinews for Wikipedians (and other Wikimedians) - Brian McNeil & Craig Spurrier
28. Beyond encyclopedias - Angela Beesley
29. Wikipedia Mining - Kotaro Nakayama
30. Wikisation of images - Nikola
31. Keep the Community Open while Wikipedia matures - Ting Chen
32. MetaVidWiki: Video Searching, Tagging & Sequencing for your Wiki - Michael Dale
Day 3 - July 19, 2008
1. The Global Educators’ Open Course - Eliane Metni
2. Diplopedia: Wiki Culture in the U.S. Department of State - Eric Johnson
3. Use of wikis for political participation - Enric Senabre Hidalgo
4. The Javanese language Wikipedia – A neglected Wikipedia? - Revi
5. Should librarians cross the Wikipedian border to reach young users? - Einar Spetz
6. Localisation, not just for the software - Gerard Meijssen
7. Digital sovereignty: a wikimedian approach - Mariano Araujo
8. Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia - sgeiger
9. Offline Wikipedia and OLPC - Samuel Klein
10. Free Network Services - Benjamin Mako Hill
11. Translation in Wikimedia Projects - KIZU Naoko & Maria Fanucchi
12. Lightning Talks Session 3 - LT Speakers
13. Open-sourcing Online Video - Shay David & Elizabeth Stark
14. Making MediaWiki Usable for Youth in Africa - Merrick
15. Creative Commons Panel - William Ward, Jimbo Wales, Benjamin Mako Hill, Dannatella Dell eratte
16. The state of Semantic MediaWiki - Denny Vrandečić, Markus Krötzsch, Yaron Koren
17. Sock puppets: not just for checkuser anymore - Phoebe Ayers
18. Election committee panel - Jon Harald Søby & Maria Fanucchi
19. Communication issues: musings of a dinosaur - Florence Devouard
20. Clustering of scientific citations in Wikipedia - Finn Årup Nielsen
21. Creating the structured semantic wiki - Yaron Koren
22. Social attitudes for Wikipedia in Latin America - Damian Finol
23. Wikimedia Commons for Fun and Profit - Brianna Laugher
24. The quality of scientific articles on the English Wikipedia - Bill Wedemeyer
25. Wikitravel Press - Jani Patokallio
26. Telling our global wiki story - Jay Walsh
27. Copernicus – Adding the Third Dimension to Wikipedia - Jacek Jankowski
28. Wikitag - Tomaž Šolc
29. Closing Ceremony - Jay Walsh, Patricio Lorente,Florence Devouard, Mohamed Ibrahim, Sue Gardner, Jimbo Wales, Ismail Serageldin
