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Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

Table of Contents The Conference Team:

Conference Team 3 Wikimania 2011 Organizing Team Program Committee Conference General Manager Program chair Greetings 4 Deror Lin Harel Cain

Budget and Task Management Program Committee Members About The Venue 6 Tomer Ashur Asaf Bartov, Deror Lin, Orsolya Virág, Aude, TXiki, Beria Lima, AlexanderWaitZaranek Publicity and Logistics Wikimania 2011 Policies 7 Itzik Edri Academic Lectures Comittee Prof. Sheizaf Refaeli, Dr. Dani Ben Zvi, Dalit Ken-Dror, Registration and Visas Deror Lin Shuttle schedule 9 Harel Cain, Amir Aharoni

Volunteers (in Alphabetical Order) Picture of the Year Exhibition 10 Asaf Bartov, Liron Dorfman, Dror Kamir, Reuven Kawesch, Scholarships Program Committee Rotem Simcha, Danny Waks, Shay Yakir, Hana Yariv. Jessie Wild, Harel Cain, Cary Bass, TSB, Angela Beesley Starling, Wikimania Keynote Speakers 12 Production Company Alice Wiegand, Powerek38, Ting Chen, Delphine Menard, Benny Moran Productions Austin Hair Detailed Schedule 13

Wikimania Tours 37

Local Information 39

Photos Credit: Ralf Roletschek, Ra Boe / , Ragesoss, Nicolas Goldberg, Damián Buonamico, Gus Freedman, Beatrice Murch, Millosh, Filip Maljkovic, Cary Bass, Ariel Kanterewicz, Juan Ignacio Iglesias, Elya, Frieda, Andrew Lih, Kat Walsh, Elke Wetzig, Isabela Pacini, Gmaxwell, David Shankbone, Zvi Roger, Юкатан, ToastieIL 2 3 Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

Greetings

Welcome to Haifa, Dear Wikimania Attendees,

I still remember how we used to point at some of the children On behalf of the organizing team, I would like to welcome you in the school yard, whispering reverently: “he’s got the to Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, my hometown. A small group Dear all, Welcome to Wikimania 2011. work later this year. Wikimania 2011 is the highlight of our work Britannica at home!” of volunteers have worked diligently for the past year and a so far, having this international, beautiful, inspiring conference is This conference starting today is the climax of a long process of half to create an amazing conference for you all. We have both an honor and a true feeling of achievement; it would be Today, when driving through the city, I am sometimes saddened preparations, fundraising, negotiating, explaining, ordering and worked diligently (many times into the small hours of the the scale for the new challenges we will have. to see heavy volumes of discarded that people canceling. night), neglecting our Wikipedia articles and other Wiki duties, no longer “need” and are trying to “get rid” of, because they When we first presented our bid we had little hopes of to ensure that the conference will be enlightening, interesting, just take up so much space… also, it doesn’t really go with Until today, most of us had never been to Wikimania. Still, winning. Other bids were excellent. They came from strong educating, but most importantly, fun. the clean, crisp, ultra-modern design of interior-designing high hearing about the great Wikimanias that took place in previous cities, included detailed plans, and most importantly, presented priests. On the other hand, it is not that pleasant to throw to We have tried to reach a balance between the informative and years made us think that there is no better location to hold high added-value for the Wikimedia movement. After the the garbage bin the encyclopedias that were so useful to us the social aspects of the conference, both of which represent Wikimania than Israel. Israel is one of the leading countries selection was made we started the long road of producing this in the ice age before Google and Wikipedia. So we just leave the essence of Wikimania. While Wikipedia and Wiki projects with respect to innovation and creativity. It goes without saying huge conference. I believe that neither none of us thought that them outside, so that a passerby might adopt them. Wikipedia are aimed at bringing human knowledge within everyone's that the is known to be one of the most producing this conference will consume so much of our time. is one of the best yields of the internet age, if not THE best. reach, Wikimania is aimed at brining Wikipedians together established , having an excellent rank in almost every We had it all: Interpersonal issues, sponsors going back on their Wikipedia enables sharing knowledge and information on in order to cultivate personal friendships and cooperation. metric that is being counted. promises, suppliers raising prices over what was previously various levels, and is much more than an aid – it is our time’s Our team looks forward to joining together with you all in promised and more. Haifa was also an obvious choice, as a city with long history source of information. On behalf of the citizens of Haifa and developing new ways of gathering and spreading knowledge - starting at the bronze age, Haifa keeps one eye to the past Do not take it that all was bad. The fun, the pride of being part myself I am happy to welcome the conventioneers. Haifa is and also – to have fun. while the other is looking toward the future. Haifa presents a of something so great, the wonderful feedback from people the largest city in northern Israel and the third-largest city in I hope you will enjoy the conference, the wonderful city of model for coexistence: Mt. Carmel alone holds sacred sites for (both inside and outside the movement), seeing the registration the country. The city is a major seaport located on Israel’s Haifa, and your visit to Israel. Christians, Jews, Muslims and Bahá’í. Haifa has two universities, it rate and the number of people suggesting presentations was Mediterranean coastline and is the major regional center of was the greenhouse for two Israeli Nobel-Prize winners, it has a worth everything. northern Israel. Two respected academic institutions, the Deror Lin high-tech park which is the home of market leading enterprises University of Haifa and the Technion, are located in Haifa, and Wikimania General Manager like Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Google that sits alongside small I hope this Wikimania is better than any Wikimania before it the city plays an important role in Israel’s economy. This is what startup companies with mind-blowing ideas. Haifa is the home and only slightly less great than those to come. I hope it to be a Wikipedia says about us, and I could spend many hours telling of one of the two seaports of Israel, it has one of the most fun, insightful and inspiring event for you. I hope it will promote you about our amazing city, but don’t worry – I’m not going to. advanced public transportation systems in Israel and a beautiful free content, education and knowledge throughout the world. Instead, I invite you to get acquainted with the city yourselves: shoreline. The choice was easy. please go out, walk the streets and meet the people, sit at cafes Imagine a world in which every single human being can and restaurants, visit the shore, the German Colony and Louis Wikimedia Israel was established in 2007. Since then we had freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We have done a Promenade. I promise you a unique experience. the privilege to be involved in the process of rewriting the Israeli little to fulfill this commitment. copyright act, cooperating with the Israel Internet association So on behalf of the citizens of Haifa and myself, I wish you a Tomer Ashur in creating the Pikiwiki project, funding the “Elef-Milim” project, fruitful convention and a pleasant stay. introducing Wikipedia article-writing to the university as an Chairman Wikimedia Israel 4 academic assignment and are planning offline and “GLAM” Yona Yahav 5 Mayor Of Haifa Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

About The Venue Venue Layout Wikimania 2011 Policies Social Media & Wikimania 2011 is held at the complex of Haifa Auditorium, Cell Phone Courtesy a.k.a. Rapaport Center, 138, HaNassi Avenue (Sderot HaNassi), Please be considerate in your cellphone use. Wikimania 2011 Photography the Carmel Center (Merkaz HaCarmel), Haifa, Israel. requests that all cellular phones, pagers and other equipment with audible alarms be turned off in all sessions as a courtesy to Conference Social Media Haifa Auditorium, which is the core of the complex that the presenters and to the other attendees. Stay update! follow Wikimedia Israel on twitter includes the Rapaport Center and the Reuven and Edith (@WikimediaIL) and join our Facebook page: Hecht House, has been known for the past 26 years mostly Name Badges http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIL as the venue of the annual Haifa International Film Festival. Your Wikimania 2011 name badge serves as your admission The Auditorium, and the entire complex around it, hosted pass to conference sessions and events. Please wear your Pictures taken by the official photography team of the numerous other conventions and events. The Auditorium name badge at all times while inside the conference center. conference can be found on our Flickr stream: building has three large lecture halls, while Hecht House has Conference staff reserves the right to deny admission to any http://www.flickr.com/WikimediaIL three smaller halls and several meeting rooms. 1st floor 2nd floor 3rd floor persons not wearing a Wikimania 2011 name badge. Arbel, Gilboa Meron, Tavor lounge All the conference session are recorded and will be upload to Wikimedia Israel Youtube Channel: Hecht House (Beit Hecht), formerly known as Rothschild Smoking Policy • The Auditorium’s entrance hall is hosting the poster http://www.youtube.com/WikimediaIL House, is a renovated historical building originally built by the Wikimania is smoke-free and the Beit Hecht Auditorium is a sessions and is also used for serving lunch. Pros family of the German Templar community (members of non-smoking facility. Smoking is permitted only outside of the facility in the designated areas. All of the materials from the event can also the Tempelgesellschaft) in 1893 in order to serve as a hotel. • The Rapaport Hall is hosting opening and closing events and be found also on the conference wiki At that time, the area now known as the Carmel Center was a the main plenary sessions on. (http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org) German colony of Templers by the name Carmelheim. Martin Help Desk • Refreshments at the coffee breaks are served at the foyer of and on Wikimedia Commons. Schneider bought the house in 1904 and turned it into a hostel Throughout the conference a Help Desk will operate at the the Rapaport Hall. for missionaries. The house changed owners once again in entrance to Beith Hecht. • The Haifa Cinematheque, is located underneath the 1948 when the Rothschild family bought it. In 1959 the family Blogging and photo sharing Rapaport Hall. Lost and Found dedicated the house to the people of Haifa, and it began to Wikimania encourages conference participants to serve as a community center. Profound renovations in 1990 Please turn all lost and found items in to the Registration Desk, • It serves as a secondary location for talks and workshops as located at the first floor of Beit Hecht. blog/tweet while at the event. Please add the category funded by the Reuven and Edith Hecht Foundation brought well as the Wikipedia Academy events. or keyword “Wikimania 2011” to your blog entries so the building to its current shape, and in 2002 it was renamed in that others may easily find them. We also encourage • At evenings it returns to its original purpose and serves the honor of Reuven and Edith Hecht. photosharing by services such as Flickr. Again, please general local public of cineastes. First Aid / Emergencies add the tag “Wikimania 2011” to your photos. Add • At Hecht House, three halls are to host Wikimania talks: Your safety is our primary concern. In an case of an “#wikimania” to your tweets to participate in Rooms Arbell and Tavor on the first floor, and Room Gilboa emergency please contact the Help desk immediately Twitter conversations. on the second floor. for assistance. Please avoid using flash during session and public If you are not at the site, or the emergency occurs at areas, as the use of them can disturb the presenters Venue information times when the help desk is not in operation, contact and the people the following numbers: The Venue Attendees who wish their pictures will not be • Haifa Auditorium, 138 HaNassi Ave., Carmel Center, Haifa +972-57-2999833 (primary) uploaded will put a “Please do not picture” sticker on +972-57-7509659 (backup) their name tags. Please consider this request. • Hecht Building, 142 HaNassi Ave., Carmel Center, Haifa

Near the venue is the Carmel Center shopping and leisure district. The Carmelit has a station nearby, making access simple and easy.

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Food Wikimania Socials Event Shuttles

Coffee Breaks Regularly scheduled morning and afternoon coffee breaks are Shuttles schedule: complimentary for all registered Wikimania 2011 attendees. Technion Dorms Mount Carmel Hotel Shuttles from the Technion dorms to the venue Shuttles from Mount Carmel Hotel to the venue Participants who stay at the hotels may have breakfast there, Tuesday- Saturday, 2-6 August - 08:00 (8am) Tuesday-Saturday, 2-6 August – At 08:35 before leaving to the venue. Sunday. 7 August – 07:45 (7:45am) Sunday. 7 August – 07:45 (7:45am)

Shuttles from the venue to the Technion Dorms Shuttles from the venue to Mount Carmel Hotel Tuesday, 3 August – 20:00 (8pm), 22:00 (10pm) Saturday, 6 August – 17:15 (5:15pm) Thursday, 4 August – 21:00 (9pm), 21:30 (9:30pm) Shuttles from the Hotel to the Beach Party – 19:00 (7pm) Hotels Friday, 5 August – 19:30 (7:30pm). Saturday, 6 August – 17:15 (5:15pm) Dan Panorama Hotel and Nof Hotel Dan Gardens Shuttles from the Technion dorms to the Beach Party: 19:00 The busses will leave from the bus stop between the Dan 124 Yaffe-Nof Street, Haifa 34454 (7pm) Panorama and Nof Hotel. Tel: +972-4-8302020 Early Comers Party Shuttles from the Hotel to the Beach Party – 19:00 (7pm) Mount Carmel On Wednesday, 3 August 3, at 20:00 (8pm) a party for the Talia and Federman Dorms Shuttles from the Talia dorms to the venue: 103 Derech Hayam Street, Haifa early comers is held. Special shuttles from the venue Tel: +972-4-8381413/4/5 Tuesday- Saturday, 2-6 August - 08:00 (8am) • Location: Tiltan College of Design, on the roof, Sunday. 7 August – 07:45 (7:45am) Shuttles to the early comers’ party Nof with a panorama of the Haifa Port and Mount Carmel. Wednesday, 4 August, at 19:30 (7:30pm) – Shuttle from the 101 Hanassi Ave., Haifa, 34642 Shuttles from the venue to the Talia Dorms: party will return the attendees to the dorms and hotels directly. Tel: +972-4-8354311 • Transportation: Shuttles are leaving from the conference Tuesday, 3 August – 20:00 (8pm), 22:00 (10pm) area slightly before the beginning of the event. Shuttles back Thursday, 4 August – 21:00 (9pm), 21:30 (9:30pm) Shuttles to the beach party Dan Carmel to the dorms and to the hotels area are available at the end Friday, 5 August – 19:30 (7:30pm). On Saturday, 6 August, at 17:15 (5:15pm) and 18:45 (6:45pm), 85–87 Hanassi Avenue, Haifa 34642 of the event. Saturday, 6 August – At 17:15 (5:15pm) these shuttles are in addition to those leaving from the dorms Tel: +972-4-8303030 Sunday, 7 August – At 20:00 (8pm) and from the hotels of Mount Carmel and Dan Panorama and • Please bring your participant tags and show it at the Dan Panorama Shuttles from the Talia dorms to the Beach Party – At 18:45 Nof. entrance. 107 Hanassi Avenue, Haifa 34632 (6:45pm) Return from the Tour Tel: +972-4-8352222 Beach Party – Saturday, August 6th Shikma Dorms Busses returning from the Jerusalem Tour will stop at the Shuttles from the Talia dorms to the venue: Mount Carmel hotel, the venue and the dorms. On Saturday, 6 August, at 19:30 (7:30pm) the closing party is Tuesday- Saturday, 2-6 August - 08:15 (8:15am) held at the Nirvana Beach. Sunday. 7 August – 07:45 (7:45am) Dorms • Location: Nirvana Beach, which is part of the main Carmel Shuttles from the venue to the Talia Dorms Beach (north of Dado Beach) Talia Dorms Tuesday, 3 August – 20:00 (8pm), 22:00 (10pm) Haifa University Campus • Transportation: Shuttles are leaving the conference area and Thursday, 4 August – 21:00 (9pm), 21:30 (9:30pm) the dorms slightly before the beginning of the event. Shuttles Friday, 5 August – 19:30 (7:30pm). Shikma Dorms back to the dorms and the hotels area is available at the end Saturday, 6 August – At 17:15 (5:15pm) 14 Shikma st., Romema, Haifa of the event. Shuttles from the Talia dorms to the Beach Party – At 19:00 Technion Dorms (7pm) • Entrance to the water is allowed until 18:00 (6pm) Technion Campus • Please bring your party bracelet and show it at the entrance.

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Fifth Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year

Wikimedia Commons is an images, sound and video clips Unlike other media repositories, Wikimedia Commons is free. repository making available public domain and freely-licensed Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here educational media content to everyone. It currently contains freely as long as they follow the terms specified by the author. more than 10,500,000 images – some of which are of historical and cultural importance, and some are simply amazingly beautiful.

Wikimedia Israel has decided to print an exhibition of best pictures of Wikimedia Commons, using the pictures which were nominated as picture of the year for 2011. The exhibition will be displayed on the auditorium’s entrance hall. Stari Most, the “Old Bridge”, which connects the two Sarychev Peak Volcano erupts June 12, 2009, on banks of river Neretva, has been a symbol of Mostar Matua Island (North Kuril Islands) (POTD) for centuries. This view from north shows Helebija Original photo by NASA, uploaded on flickr by user John, tower to the left and Tara tower to the right. It was derivative work by The High Fin Sperm Whale made from the minaret of Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque. (POTD) 2 Own work by Ramirez . 3

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In mid-August 2010 ESO Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky snapped this amazing photo at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. A group of astronomers were observing the center of the Milky Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) (young) The Lichtenstein Castle, near Lichtenstein, in Baden- Way using the laser guide star facility at in South Georgia Württemberg, Germany. Yepun, one of the four Unit Telescopes Own work by Serge Ouachée (user Butterfly voyages). Own work by -donald- . of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). (POTD) Yuri Beletsky 4 5

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Detailed Conference Program Developer meetings

Developer meetings (hacking days), a mini Chapters Meeting and other pre-conferences will take place on Tuesday, August 2nd, and Wikimania 2011 Keynote Speakers on Wednesday, August 3rd, in the Hecht House.

Tuesday, August 2nd Arbel Gilboa Tavor Meron Lounge 09:00 openZIM Developers – Developer Days Global South Meeting Lounge Meeting 18:30 20:30 Waterloo – Abba song Festival at Gan Haem, Across from the Dan Panorama Hotel 21:45 Movie Screening at the garden across from the venue Wednesday, August 3rd Professor Yochai Benkler Dr. Joseph Reagle Arbel Gilboa Tavor Meron Lounge Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Dr. Joseph Reagle is presently a fellow at the Berkman Center 09:00 Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman for Internet and Society at Harvard University. His book, Good Communications – Center for Internet and Society. Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, was published by Committee Meeting The MIT Press in September 2010. 13:00 Chapters openZIM Developers Since the 1990s he has played a part in characterizing the Developer Days Lounge role of information commons and decentralized collaboration 14:00 Meeting Meeting to innovation, information production, and freedom in the A long time ago he was a Computer Science student at – networked economy and society. His books include The UMBC. then moved to Cambridge and completed the Masters 17:00 Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms program in Technology and Policy at MIT. After a brief time 20:00 markets and freedom (Yale University Press 2006), which as a consultant in New York City he returned to the MIT – Welcome Party at Tiltan College won academic awards from the American Political Science Lab for Computer Science as a policy analyst and W3C/ 00:00 Association, the American Sociological Association, and IETF Working Group chair and editor. After almost a decade the McGannon award for social and ethical relevance in in Cambridge, he left for New York again to articulate and communications. contextualize his experience with new media and collaborative His work is socially engaged, winning him the Electronic Frontier communities at NYU’s Department of Media, Communication, Foundation’s Pioneer Award for 2007, Public Knowledge’s IP3 and Culture. He concluded his graduate studies at NYU with Award in 2006, and the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award in a doctoral dissertation on the history and collaborative culture 2011. It is also anchored in the realities of markets, having been of Wikipedia. and have been able to speak about his work at cited as “perhaps the best work yet about the fast moving, the W3C and NYU with national media including Technology enthusiast-driven Internet” by the Financial Times and named Review, The Economist, , Al Jazeera best business book about the future in 2006 by Strategy and English, and American and New Zealand Public Radio. Business.

Benkler has produced reports or served in an advisory capacity for a range communications and intellectual property regulators and policy makers at the national and international levels. His work can be freely accessed at benkler.org.

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Main Event Program

Thursday, August 4th

Cinematheque Rapaport Arbel Gilboa Tavor Cinematheque Rapaport Arbel Gilboa Tavor 08:00 15:30 – On-Site Registration 09:30 – Coffee break 16:00 Opening ceremony 09:3 Wiki Academy: Uses of Wiki Copyright and Movement Roles Mobile Workshops – 10:45 Opening plenary by Prof. Yochai Benkler: Technology in Higer Education Intellectual Wikipedia From networked cooperation to human sociality: Wikipedia as the model for a new view of social relations (English, translation to Hebrew Property Presentation on Best practices will be provided) Movement Roles Wikipedia in mentoring 10:45 Panel headed by process, charter and Mobile Panel programs – Coffee break 11:15 Panel headed by Prof. Niva Elkin- recommendations. Dr. Ory Amitay – Koren GlobalMelt Wiki Academy: Wikipedia in University of Haifa Schools (Hebrew) Freedom of Using wiki to create a learning panorama and Panel headed by Plenary by Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Inc. 16:00 community: The case of Wikimedia Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan – chemistry teacher’s leaders Commons 11:15 Using wiki to create a 17:30 Teaching the Humanities in a Cultural Fair Use, – Mathematics school textbook This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with the Wikimedia 12:45 Wiki Environment Political Narrative Opinions of Teachers and Foundation WMF Board of Trustees. and Copyright Students on Wikipedia Taking Wikipedia in Higher Education to the next level Fighting The Integrating Wikis in Pre-service Intellectual Education: Teacher-educators’ Property Regime Perspective 12:45 Wikimedia and – Lunch break (foyer) the Public Domain 14:00 18:00 Wiki Academy: Wiki GLAMorous Wikipedia editorial Editor surveys Workshops – Opening cocktail and buffet dinner (Auditorium Garden) Technology: Uses in Education policy and analysis 20:30 and Business What next in MediaWiki GLAM? Flagged Revisions – Wikimedia extension (Hebrew, translation to English a step forward never Foundation development will be provided) State of the taken? Studies of Panel headed by GLAM: DC Editor Trends Collaborative Prof. Sheizaf Refaeli Categorization system Watchlist 14:00 State of GLAM in 2010–2011 – strengths and pitfalls The “Long Tail” Potential of Wiki 15:30 the Netherlands Global Technology: Uses in Education Cultural Configuration: distribution of and Business Palace of Autoreferentiality in our community Versailles and Wikipedia Data Behaviour and Data Wikimedia and readers Management of Wikipedians projects Chiara Ohoven and the Editor The Africa Project – Briniging strange tale of German Satisfaction Wikipedia to Africa Leistungsethik Survey

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Friday, August 5th

Rapaport Cinematheque Arbel Gilboa Tavor Rapaport Cinematheque Arbel Gilboa Tavor 08:30 Evaluation and Encouraging Wiki in Education II Anti vandalism; Operations Workshops – Coffee Break documentation of Participation II overview 09:00 Wikipedia Wiki as a means to A framework to 9:00 Plenary by Dr. Joseph Reagle Support the miners enhance dialog in the Anti-Vandalism Research: visualizing wiki- – Writing Wikipedia – improving quality classroom The Year in Review based transclusion 9:45 Wikipedia And/Or: Prophecy Fulfilled, Happy Accident, Informational Apocalypse? Social Histories by boosting editors 9:45 Lessons Learned from Autonomous Detection of Wikimedia Offline – Coffee Break 10:15 Hebrew Wikipedia WikiGuides and the Lessons Taught Collaborative Link Spam Chapters and co. Languages and The Campus MediaWiki development Workshops 14:30 entries in the eyes of new users – Wikipedia and Wikimedia Operations cultures Ambassadors Program 16:00 experts Wikimedia Chapters Wikimedia technical staff vs. Don’t burn the Incentivizing the the Commons in Overview Challenges in Experiences from the the World committees: set up Young Wikipedians’ engagement for instructional design and Building for Failure Changing the Wikimedia projects Campus Ambassadors your own perceptions of freely licensed learning activities (Wikimedia XML Dumps on world, one law at a for endangered Program Testing for Mediawiki Wikipedia: a case material and Lessons from Christian a Regular Schedule) time (Lobbying for languages Grey Revolution: study in Hong Kong projects Wikimedians) GLAMorous II Ask the Developers Motivating Theology Writing Cooperation across Older Persons Wikipedia content – Competition in different Wikipedia New opportunities to Participate in thematics analysis Wikipedia Indonesia 10:15 languages – the in GLAM-Wiki Wikipedia 16:00 – collaboration – Coffee Break 11:45 death anomalies bonus: How scary 16:30 case study WikiProject: Public Art is Wikipedia for Conflict resolution Global South Encouraging Statistical analysis; Workshops non-machos? activities Participation III MediaWiki development The campaign for Where Wikipedia has The Free Wiki the development of gone wrong, what we People are Barriers and How to handle data and World Map: the Greek-language can do to bring it back Knowledge opportunities for run statistical analyses in OpenStreetMap Wikipedia on track expert participation in Mediawiki WikiAfrica: Call for Wikipedia Language policies Hippies with guns: last mile operators ResourceLoader on the Tagalog how ideological Student clubs: How Wikipedia conflict shapes Going to Africa to maintain student A Qt library for MediaWiki, 11:45 16:30 Wikipedia and what contributors and what you can do with it – Break – 12:00 17:45 we can learn from it Wikiversity: Article Opening up Wikipedia’s Encouraging Intercultural issues Wiki and Education MediaWiki development Workshops How Rules and creation in the data: A lightweight approach Participation (II): Better Editing to Wikipedia as a platform Intercultural Issues Designing a Lecture The line of Resources Constrain composition classroom Encouraging Across Wikimedia Course on Wikipedia How to get what you want sufficiency Social Memory on Participation in Projects and Wiki Technologies from MediaWiki developers Wikipedia: the case of Wikimedia Projects Wikipedia 2011 Japan earthquake Missing Wikipedias Wikipedia and L2 Editing 2.0: MediaWiki’s Illustrated From on-wiki 12:00 What place for Learning (CALL) upcoming visual editor and – companies on Iberocoop: Regional the future of templates conflicts to real-life 13:30 Wikipedia ? cooperation in Wikipedia en el aula collaboration action The Site Architecture You 17:45 Newbies Incubator Spread the Word: Can Edit – Break Defocussing 18:00 Account Creation educational efforts Woogle4MediaWiki – An OpenStreetMap Improvement Project Extension to improve 18:00 mapping party – Lightning Talks Search and Guide 19:00 (in the streets of Contributions Haifa) 13:30 19:00 – Lunch Break (foyer) Wikichicks lunch – Free Time Activities 14:30 22:00 16 17 Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

Saturday, August 6th

Rapaport Cinematheque Arbel Gilboa Tavor Rapaport Cinematheque Arbel Gilboa Tavor 08:30 Events; Wikipedia as UNESCO Research projects Wikiversity and Wikinews Workshops – Coffee Break Fundraising World Heritage 09:00 Participating in Strategies for Wikinews Projects in Wikimedia events Wikipedia as UNESCO research projects languages with Wikipedia GLAMorous III Outreach Multilingual projects OTRS Wikipedia and Wikinews: reconsidered projects I World Heritage singular status Finding Hidden Value - CoSyne: Multilingual Volunteer “Get Jimmy off Reflecting differences between news 13:45 my screen!” – the Outreach projects II knowledge diversity articles and encyclopedic Everything You Panel headed by Dr. Influence of Content Synchronization Response Team – Know About Yesha Sivan of ISOC Wikipedia: How with Wikis Workshop 15:15 donations model news for the 2010– Wikimedia & Indigenous Project Internet in Wikipedia Is and discussion Wikipedia spreads Peoples: Pros, Cons and Sweden From the Wikiversity Wrong to other media Discussion and The Volunteer 2011 fundraiser GLAMDerby – Improvement Proposals Response Team: Community content to its conflicts Collaborating with a for the Current Interwiki Willing hands Stand Up, Speak Words, smaller museum Linking System on working unseen 9:00 Spread WikiPassion Quality and Wikipedia – GLAM partnerships in Engagement: 10:30 Closing ceremony: the real life Making the Interscript Transliteration 15:30 Connection A Case for Konkani – Plenary by Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia: “The State of the Wiki” 16:45 Pikiwiki, Free Image Language Collection of Israel – An open-access Wikimania 2012 Washington D.C. Presentation Convergence between and open-data Interlanguage links in 16:45 Cultural Value, Usability policy for projects Wikipedia: current – Wiki photo session (Auditorium Garden) and Copyrights of the Wikimedia problems and future 17:15 Foundation development 17:15 – Break (time to go to hotel/dorms to get ready for the beach) Let’s get local! 19:30 10:30 17:30 – Coffee Break – Beach Time (optional) 11:00 19:30 Event Wikipedia, the Law and Wikipedia and/as Semantic, better wikis Chapters and 19:30 organization the Real World the community co. II – Closing party and dinner at the beach Towards a Semantic 23:30 How to Start Collaborative Wikis Love Leaders! Wikipedia From a group a Party on Six Diplomacy of volunteers to 11:00 Continents Identity, Reputation, Collaborative Hypervideo a professional – Wikipedia is afraid of and Gratitude Authoring in Common 12:30 team Wiki Loves governments Wikis Engines Monuments Wiki Migration Growth and May it please the court Wiki-based National development Wikipedia Takes Content Development of Wikimedia Your City Deutschland 12:30 – Lunch Break (foyer) 13:45

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Integrating Wikis in Pre-service Education: Palace of Versailles and Wikimedia projects: Cultural Events in the vicinity of the Conference Teacher-educators’ Perspective feedback on the experience Venue (free for participants) Dr. Yehuda Peled, Ohalo Collage and the Western Benoît Evellin (Trizek) Galilee College and Olzan Goldstein, Kaye College Since mid-February 2011, Wikimédia France and the Château Daily: Gan Mania (in front of the venue) – 21:45 movie screening de Versailles have signed an agreement to work together to The various aspects of using wikis in teaching by faculty give information to people about the palace and offer deep and Tuesday 2nd August: Gan HaEm (Across from the Dan Panorama Hotel) – 20:30 – The Waterloo band playing Abba songs members in Israeli ‎teacher-education colleges were examined relevant sources to the volunteers. This experience is the first in through a multiple-case design approach. The ‎report focuses France, and one of the first with an international museum. on characteristics of teaching with wikis: aims; course types; teaching ‎methods; evaluation; content structure; characteristics Thursday August 4 of students collaborative learning and ‎outcomes; involvement of Cinematheque: faculty in the learning process; students’ and teachers’ workload; Wiki Academy: Wiki Technology: Uses in ‎teachers’ insights about wikis’ impact on learning. 09:30–11:00 Education and Business (Hebrew, translation to English will be provided) Opening plenary Panel headed by Prof. Sheizaf Refaeli, Haifa 14:00–15:30 University From networked cooperation to human Board Q&A sociality: Wikipedia as the model for a new Ting Chen (Chair), Jimmy Wales, Stu West, Samuel Klein, Thursday Afternoon Talks The “Long Tail” Potential of Wiki view of social relations Jan-Bart de Vreede, Kat Walsh, Arne Klempert, Rapaport: GLAMorous I Technology: Uses in Education and Business Prof. Yochai Benkler Matt Halprin, Bishakha Datta, Phoebe Ayers Dr. Ina Blau, Haifa University and the Open University Collaboration projects with “GLAMs” (the cultural heritage A panel discussion of the members of the Wikimedia In recent years academic institutions have began to use wiki A decade ago Wikipedia burst into a world not ready to sector) has become one of the most visible success stories of Board of Trustees. technology. One of the main objectives of this technology is comprehend it. Thousands of people cooperating effectively, the Wikimedia movement over the last two years. without price signals to offer “incentives” or managerial the increase of active participation, and the ideal participation hierarchy to direct efforts was an impossibility. And yet, it Cinematheque: What next in GLAM? is equal participation of all workers in creating the collaborative output. In reality, the contribution is deferent, and sometimes moves and paints a very different view of who we are, as Liam Wyatt human beings, and what we are capable of when we build and Wiki Academy – Wikipedia in Schools there is no sufficient “critical mass” to create a long term inhabit systems that rely on our better selves rather than on (Hebrew) This year the Wikimedia Foundation funded the temporary community. The lecture will present several possible models of position of “cultural partnerships fellow” – the presenter – to the cramped, pessimistic view of traditional economic modeling. A panel headed by Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar participation and explain which of those will be successful. help build the capacity of the community in this field and Today, we are ready to learn the deeper lessons. Ilan University capitalise on the momentum that had been created. This Information behaviours and management The Integrated Mathematics Wiki-book presentation will briefly report on the activities of the Cultural of Wikipedians in the context of their 11:15–12:45 project: textbook editing in a customized Partnerships Fellow. involvement with Hebrew Wikipedia environment by a group of teachers State of the GLAM: DC Yehudit Shkolnisky and Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar Ilan University Ruhama Even, Shai Olsher, & Gila Ozruso-Haggiag, the Thursday Noon Talks Aude The way people manage and seek information is very important Weizmann Institute in today’s information society, characterized by a wealth of The Wiki(media) DC group is actively working on Rapport Hall: The aim of this project is to enable teachers to edit the information. This study’s goal is to explore the ways by which collaborations and outreach with cultural institutions in the textbook they use for teaching. The rationale for the project is the editors who are the driving force behind Wikipedia, manage Sue Gardner’s talk and the WMF Board of Washington DC area. In the Fall 2010, we narrowed focus multi-faceted: to expand the connection between curriculum and seek information in order to expand its volume and update Trustees Panel to the topic of American Art, working with the Smithsonian developers and teachers from one to two-way connection, to existing entries. American Art Museum on article collaborations, and the Wikimedia Foundation: The Year in Review encourage the use of technological tools in school mathematics, Archives of American Art which is now hosting a Wikipedian in and the Year Ahead. and to support the development of a professional teacher The Africa Project - Briniging Wikipedia to Residence this summer (2011). Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia community. Africa Foundation State of GLAM in the Netherlands Maayn Bar-On And Dror Opinions of Teachers and Students on Wikimedia Foundation executive director will recap the Maarten Dammers (User:Multichill) In 2010, the Israeli student missions, headed every year from Wikipedia the Africa Center of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev to Foundation’s activities of the past year, and look ahead to the GLAM is a hot topic in the Netherlands. In this presentation Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan, Eti Yaari and Shifra Baruchson-Arbib, rural areas in African countries, in order to assist in educational opportunities and challenges facing the Wikimedia projects in I will go over the projects in the past year. Projects that will Bar Ilan University and other humanitarian projects, brought with them offline 2011–12. be discussed are partnerships with the Tropenmuseum, the versions of the French-language Wikipedia on Unix-based Wikipedia is very popular among high school and university National Archives of the Netherlands & Spaarnestad Photo, computers. This initiative was the result of a fruitful cooperation students. Teachers are much more cautious about the use of Amsterdam Museum, Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision among Wikimedia Israel, Amutat HaMakor and the Africa Wikipedia. We explored and compared the perceptions of high (Open Beelden), Wiki Loves Bieb and more. Also present a Center. The student missions installed the computers in villages 20 school students and of teachers regarding Wikipedia. sneak preview of what projects are coming up. 21 in Cameroon and Benin. Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

Arbel: Wikipedia editorial policy Global distribution of our community and Cinematheque: Wiki Academy: Wiki readers 16:00–17:30 Flagged Revisions–a step forward never Academy: Uses of Wiki Technology in Erik Zachte taken? Thursday Late Higer Education (English, translation Victoria Doronina aka Mstislavl Wikimedia’s mission to embrace the whole world is far from to Hebrew will be provided) complete, both in terms of reach and of participation. New Afternoon Talks Flagged Revisions (Pending Changes) – MediaWiki extension, Wikistats functionality aims to improve our understanding of Panel headed by Dr. Ory Amitay, which introduces two new level of edits/articles reliability: Sighted global activity patterns in a decidely visual way. A new web Rapaport: Copyright and Intellectual Haifa University (patrolled) and Quality (reviewed). The presentation focuses on tool will provide an interactive animation (using new html5 Property. A panel headed by Prof. the social history of introduction of the Flagged Reviews across Using wiki to create a learning community: technology) plus maps (bubble and heat maps) which visualize Niva Elkin-Koren, Haifa University The case of chemistry teacher’s leaders Wikimedia projects and supports its wide implementation. edits per Wikipedia language, distributed over time and place. Freedom of panorama and Wikimedia Yael Shwartz, Dvora Katchevitch, Weizman Institute Categorization system strengths and pitfalls Editor Satisfaction Survey Commons This study focuses on the use of wiki as a learning environment, SpeedyGonsales Manuel Merz Christopher Cooper in the context of a two years professional development program for chemistry leaders-teachers. Specific tasks were designed Categorization system is a strength of both MediaWiki CMS The Wikipedia Editor Satisfaction Survey 2011 gives a detailed Many people have difficulty understanding that a picture of a to suit the wiki environment. Using the wiki environment and Wikimedia projects, but this system needs to be used view of the German and editors’ satisfaction building or of a statue in a street could be copyrighted, but aimed at constructing a community of practice that builds and with measure so it would not induce unnecessary bias or and commitment. Data will be broken down according to a the Berne Convention makes this so. Following the deletion of shares knowledge. Establishing communities of practice and disinformation in Wikipedia articles. variety of aspects, including user maturity, user activities, and hundreds of potentially educational images, some contributors collaborative web learning are perceived as powerful means social role within the Wikipedia movement. This differentiated are asking if the line between meeting strict copyright standards for individual cognitive development, and for fostering norms Cultural Configuration: Autoreferentiality in view will allow Wikimedia to strategize about ways to effectively and the ambitions of Commons is well placed. of dialogue, group interactions and information sharing. The Wikipedia support active users in their different roles within Wikipedia (e.g. research investigates the complex relationship between teachers’ Marc Miquell support of new users and prevention of contributor burnout) Cultural Fair Use, Political Narrative and own experience, beliefs and the extent in which they support In every Wikipedia language edition editors have an interest on and to further professionalize its communication campaigns. Copyright their students in constructing knowledge collaboratively. certain topics shape the encyclopedia giving it a unique cultural Jonathan Klinger configuration. Autoreferentiality is a property which measures Tavor: Workshops What is the connection between copyright, cultural rights and Teaching the Humanities in a Wiki the impact and scope of local content. We measured it in fair use? In a brief lecture, we shall discuss the correlation in Environment twenty language editions and compared the results to conclude A brief introduction to MediaWiki extension regards to the relevant Israeli legislation and struggle for fair use. Dr. Ory Amita, Haifa University about the interest on this content. development In the autumn of 2010 I started an experiment, intended Andrew Garrett Fighting the Intellectual Property Regime Chiara Ohoven and the strange tale of to explore the possibilities of using Wiki for instruction and MediaWiki extensions provide an incredibly versatile and Nikolas Becker research. Wiki has turned out to be an extremely useful tool in German Leistungsethik modular framework for modifying the behaviour of MediaWiki. The idea of intellectual property is not natural. It was organizing research material, handling course syllabi and writing Dirk Franke This workshop is a practical “down the rabbit hole” introduction constructed in the 14th Century and has developed since then assignments, and in combining research and teaching. Wiki has Rules and their interpretation show values of the group that to developing a MediaWiki extension – which, itself, is an into a worldwide accepted idea. A small group of Western also increased considerably the extent and quality of student made them. notability guidelines show excellent introduction to MediaWiki development. companies managed to spread this construction over the whole participation in and contribution to both study and research. a strong tendency towards the individual working male, world and build the regime of intellectual property. How could The use of Wiki in the faculty of Humanities at Haifa has caused paramount of 19th century middle classes. Collaborative Watchlist countries of the Global South resist the much more powerful a considerable stir, drawing support and encouragement from Kurt Kulac western countries and make changes to the TRIPS agreement the dean, and attracting a number of other faculty members Gilboa: Editor surveys and analysis We want to present the MediaWiki extension “Collaborative during the Uruguay Round from 1986 to 1994? who have started using Wiki for various purposes. Watchlist” and also get additional ideas of improving it. The How the Wikimedia Foundation is Studying “Collobobrative Watchlist” is an extended implementation Wikimedia and the Public Domain Taking Wikipedia in Higher Education to the Editing Trends: 2010–2011 for the well known user watchlist MediaWiki has. The goal is Ryan Kaldari next level Howie Fung, Diederik Van Liere, Barry Newstead, Steven a distributed effort for patrolling all recent changes within a Wikimedia is one of the largest repositories (and users) of Frank Schulenburg Walling defined category (or article-list) with a number of users who public domain material in the world. Commons alone hosts Outreach to university students around the world has much have to tick off changes to this “multi user” Watchlist only once This talk is a combined version of the Editor Survey overview over 3 million public domain files. Increasingly, however, the untapped potential to bring in new contributors who are educated, because the list entrys disappear after being checked when used and the Editor Trends Study and Other WMF Research talk. public domain is coming under threat from a variety of sources: teachable, and diverse. Students are immersed in a culture of in default-mode. Together they will give an overview of the research at the governments restoring copyrights on public domain material, learning, so sharing that knowledge with the world is a logical Wikimedia Foundation oriented towards the editing community. media companies pushing for longer and longer copyright terms, next step deserving of facilitation and elicitation. Moreover, in the museums and archives acting as gatekeepers to the works developing world, the university students are the key to unlocking they house, DMCA abuse, etc. As one of the most prominent the knowledge from the most literate and engaged population. Over projects in the Free Culture movement, how do we address the last few years, we have seen a huge interest from educators these problems and work to protect the public domain for the to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education. Currently, long term? 22 professors at universities in the United States are participating in a 23 17-month pilot project (the “Public Policy Initiative”) by asking their Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

students to improve articles on the English-language Wikipedia iterate on tools developed at Global Melt Berlin, a workshop that This presentation will give an overview on two different cases: presentation will share case studies on community program as part of the curriculum. A growing number of volunteers are brought together representatives from Wikimedia staff, board and Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) and Wayuunaiki, exploring how their initiatives at two institutions, a student project at The Children’s providing professors and university students assistance in the form of chapters, Creative Commons, Mozilla, and many other Free/Open respective projects are progressing, challenges included. Museum of Indianapolis and an E-Volunteer program at the support materials and as Ambassadors, who are serving as mentors projects, and hack on ways to increase the impact of live events. Indianapolis Museum of Art. for the first-time Wikipedians. Cooperation across different Wikipedia languages – the death anomalies case study WikiProject: Public Art Arbel: Movement Roles Friday August 5 WereSpielChequers Sarah Stierch Launched in June 2010 the Death anomalies project is a WikiProject: Public Art seeks to document every work of public A presentation on Movement Roles process, semantic wiki project that now runs on eight Wikipedia art on Wikipedia. Learn about the successes, struggles and charter and recommendations 09:00–09:45 language projects and uses data from more than eighty others. importance of this project. Samuel Klein It has resulted in improvements to well over a thousand articles Plenary across dozens of languages and has prompted a number of Gilboa: MediaWiki development Gilboa: Mobile Wikipedia Wikipedia And/Or: Prophecy Fulfilled, editors to edit beyond their home wikis. Panels presented by Tomasz Finc, Mani Pande, Patrick Reilly, Parul Happy Accident, Informational Apocalypse? Wikimedia technical staff vs. the World Small Wikipedias, Great Expectations: Vora and Kul Wadhwa Dr. Joseph Reagle Guillaume Paumier Following the campaign for the development This talk will present challenges and solutions regarding Wikipedia And/Or: Prophecy Fulfilled, Happy Accident, Wikimedia Mobile Panel of the Greek-language Wikipedia communication between volunteers and the Wikimedia Informational Apocalypse? engineering staff, based on real examples. It will be followed The panel participants include all of the members at the In light of Wikipedia’s 10th year anniversary, Dr. Reagle will ask Ilektra Pavlaki by a more interactive discussion with the participants, who will Wikimedia Foundation that are currently working to better three different historical questions about Wikipedia. First, is Greece was one of the first countries in the world to embrace be invited to share their frustrations and their ideas for further the Wikipedia mobile experience and increase the reach and Wikipedia an amazing novelty or the fulfillment of a centuries- the vision of Wikipedia for the creation of a universal repository improvements. accessibility of our mobile properties. The purpose of this old pursuit? Second, despite its founding mythology, wasn’t of human knowledge, launching its local version in 2002, but the presentation is to engage with the community around the Wikipedia, in fact, just an accident? Finally, is Wikipedia a slow pace of growth in terms of contributions and participants Testing for MediaWiki different approaches we are taking to accomplish this. Including beneficent undertaking or a harbinger of doom? suggests that this first wave of enthusiasm was succeeded by a but not limited to: User experience research; Surveys, statistics, period of “numbness”. On January 17 2011 and on the occasion Mark Hershberger, Markus Glaser, Priyanka Dhanda, and other usage data; Technical Infrastructure; current and of Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary, a new initiative kicked off that Trevor Parscal future development work; partnerships with providers; etc. 10:15–11:45 aimed at encouraging new contributors to support the effort. One of the things that the MediaWiki software lacks and would benefit greatly from is a robust and reliable test infrastructure. WMF Mobile Research Friday Morning Talks Language policies on the This panel would discuss feasible ways to achieve better test The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) developed a five year Josh Lim coverage of the software and how we can encourage test strategic plan which includes the development of the Wikipedia Rapaport: Chapters and co. This panel will provide an overview of both the language driven development. mobile applications and properties as well as a geographic focus policies on the Tagalog Wikipedia and how the Tagalog on India, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, Egypt and other Arabic speaking Wikimedia Chapters Wikipedia contributes to the development of the Tagalog Ask the Developers countries. This talk will present the methodology, results, and Lodewijk Gelauff language as a whole. The discussion will include a historical Daniel Kinzler findings of our qualitative studies in India, Brazil, and the United An overview of accomplishments made by chapters. Presenting the analysis of the government policies towards Tagalog. This session provides a forum for the community to ask States, as well as an overview of the results of a quantitative best examples in several fields of activities by different chapters. questions to developers, make suggestions, and discuss long survey conducted through 10 language projects. standing issues. The hackings days allow developers to meet Changing the world, one law at a time – Arbel: The Campus Ambassadors Program / GLAMorous II and work together, but they lack an opportunity to exchange Tavor: Workshops Lobbying for Wikimedians information with the community. This session is supposed Mathias Schindler Experiences from the Campus Ambassadors to provide this opportunity. This session will hopefully help Best practices in mentoring programs This talk is about Wikimedia Germany’s ongoing efforts to Program in the US and UK to elevate the perceived lack of communication between Tim Moritz promote the core freedoms that Wikipedia stands for among Alex Stinson (User:Sadads) developers and the community, and ease the frustration caused In this workshop you will first get an introduction to the “best the political scene and to take part in the more defensive by long standing requests not being implemented. As a participant and organizer of Campus Ambassadors practices in mentoring programs”-project measures to prevent the internet from turning into a wasteland. activities in both the United States and United Kingdom, I will GlobalMelt look at the structure and approach of both programs and talk Tavor: Workshops about lessons learned about University outreach. Michelle Thorne Cinematheque: Languages and cultures Don’t burn the committees: set up your own GlobalMelt is a workshop for members and leaders of global Challenges encountered when working on New opportunities in GLAM-Wiki Jarosław Lipszyc, Kasia Sawko, Tomasz Ganicz peer-driven movements to explore how accelerate projects Wikimedia projects for endangered languages collaboration In communist Poland burning down local communist party and build community through events. Events are precious Carlos Manuel Colina Lori Byrd Phillips committee was high point of almost every mass protest. Jacek opportunities to do things together in real life (IRL), but often, Kuroń, legendary leader of Solidarity movement, used to say Wikimedia projects have expanded to many languages around Museums can more efficiently utilize Wikimedia to share these moments are squandered sitting in dark auditoriums or “Don’t burn the committees: set up your own” to make a 24 the world, posing many challenges as they expand, especially knowledge by incorporating it into public programming. This 25 squeezed between too many unstructured panels. We will those in languages considered “endangered” by the UNESCO. point: in order to win change, you need to self-organize first. Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

Copyright needs to be radically reformed. Digitalization of Account Creation Improvement Project Wikipedia and L2 Learning (CALL)‏ The Site Architecture You Can Edit archives and libraries means that public domain has to be Lennart Guldbrandsson Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff Ryan Lane protected, but it is hard to communicate all this in mainstream. A series of tests and surveys told us some fascinating things How Wikipedia can be a useful tool for the learning of L2. Nearly everything on Wikimedia sites is editable. Anonymous How do we do it? about the new users’ wishes. But would the community like the Several examples will be provided, apart from a short historical users can edit most content, logged in users can edit even results? And what account creation process works the best? survey of CALL. more, and admins can even edit the site messages, CSS and Grey Revolution: Motivating older persons In essence, how many readers can we turn into editors just by JavaScript. With a little effort, anyone edit the software by to participate in Wikipedia changing some words? Wikipedia en el aula getting commit access. Unfortunately, the site architecture isn’t Karen Torben-Nielsen, Jonathan Bennett, Stijn Bannier, Patricio Lorente editable. Originally the site architecture was created totally by Rüdiger Glott, Beat Estermann Cinematheque: Intercultural issues Teachers of all levels of the educational system are facing a huge volunteers, and I’d like to go back to a model where volunteers Although many new authors emerge, they often quit soon challenge: The internet is now part of the everyday life of their are able to work with us, as root. afterwards. A solution? It might not be who you think. While Intercultural Issues Across Wikimedia students and many of them just don’t know how to deal with Wikipedia traditionally attracts young males, maybe it should Projects this new environment. In particular, many teachers don’t know Woogle4MediaWiki – An Extension to entice older people now. We present seniors’ thresholds to Delphine Ménard how to handle the presence and use of Wikipedia. Wikimedia improve Search and Guide Contributions engage in Wikipedia, and preliminary recommendations on how This presentation will seek to give examples of failed or Argentina has collected experiences of teachers using Wikipedia Hans-Jörg Happel to get them on board. successful attempts at bridging the culture gaps in the in their classrooms, in different and creative ways, not only as a Users are often confused about what (and why) to contribute source of information but also improving the educational process. Bonus talk: How scary is Wikipedia for non-machos? development of various Wikimedia projects and try and give an to a Wiki. Woogle4MediaWiki helps by complementing “red insight into possible solutions to tackle the intercultural issues links” to non-existing pages with a JavaScript popup, providing raised by collaborative work among people from different Spread the Word: Defocusing educational efforts information about the number of links to this page, and to prior cultures, whether they be national, linguistic, political, or even Denis Barthel search queries containing the page title. 12:00–13:30 social or generational cultures. Since 2006 Wikimedia Deutschland is running programs to Friday Noon Talks present Wikipedia primers, mainly in schools for students and Tavor: Workshops Missing Wikipedias teachers alike. Two special pilot projects in 2008 (students) Rapaport: Encouraging Participation Miloš Ran i , Jon Harald Søby and 2009 (teachers), a sister-project for senior citizens The line of sufficiency Encouraging Participation in Wikimedia There are 281 Wikipedia editions, but around 7000 living and occasional events targeted on such diverse groups as Kiril Simeonovski scientists, journalists and business people helped to find some Projects languages. There are languages with more than 10 millions of The line of sufficiency describes the invisible barrier that makes results concerning outreach work in general and led to some Brandon Harris, Howie Fung, Steven Walling speakers without Wikipedia. We will mark those languages a distinction between the articles whose content is sufficient and and give guidelines to WMF, chapters and other Wikimedia conclusions, which are presented here. those whose one is not to be edited on each Wikimedia project. The recent research on trends within the Wikipedia editor participants: what should be done to increase number of community highlight a need to focus on participation. This session Wikimedia languages. Gilboa: MediaWiki development (II): Wikipedia Illustrated discusses some of the features, experiments, and ideas that Galia Offri & Mushon Zer-Aviv are aimed at encouraging participation, particularly among new Better Editing Iberocoop: Regional cooperation in action Through history images were always an essential part of editors. Some features discussed include: Article Feedback Tool, Galileo Vidoni, Ivana Lysholm, Osmar Valdebenito How to get what you want from Section Edit Link experiment, New Editor Projects, Wikilove. knowledge. But is there room for image-making within the We’ll share the experience of Ibero-American cooperation MediaWiki’s developers pages of Wikipedia? Wikipedia Illustrated tackles this question What place for companies on Wikipedia? in terms of fostering the formation of Wikimedia chapters in Sumana Harihareswara through illustrating 26 Wikipedia articles and attempts to draft a Christophe Henner our region, as well as the encouraging results of the Ibero- Want improvements in the wiki software? I’ll tell you how the new path towards visual free culture. American Wikimedia Summit, which gathered in Buenos Aires Programrs work, what information sources they pay attention For years Wikipedian have been “hunting” companies trying representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, to, and seven ways for interested community members to make to “improve” their articles. During my presentation, I’ll try to Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Venezuela and Uruguay. bigger impacts on MediaWiki development. explain why companies might be our next “GLAM” and how 14:30–16:00 they can improve our projects. I’ll also try to show we can have companies participating in Wikipedia, respecting all of our rules. Arbel: Wiki and Education Editing 2.0: MediaWiki’s upcoming visual Friday Afternoon Talks editor and the future of templates Designing a Lecture Course on Wikipedia Newbies Incubator Brion Vibber, Neil Kandalgaonkar, Trevor Parscal Rapaport: Evaluation and and Wiki Technologies Samal A rich ecosystem of templates and extensions has made documentation of Wikipedia Vassia Atanassova (bg:User:Spiritia), Maya Marinova One of the biggest problems of the and MediaWiki as used in Wikipedia and other projects incredibly War and Peace: Writing Wikipedia Social (bg:User:Maymay) probably of other language editions as well, is that people often rich and powerful, but has taken its toll on ease of use. This year Histories This fall, a full lecture course titled “Wikipedia and Wiki we’re changing that: we’re creating a solid specification of the start editing by creating a small article that is almost immediately Victoria Doronina deleted for being too short, on obscure topic and not having Technologies” will be read for the first time in a Bulgarian wiki markup and a document structure to build from it, which The editors of over 270 Wikipedia projects are often isolated any sources, copyright violation or just not looking good. After university. The presentation propose our vision of the syllabi many editing and conversion tools will be able to use directly. from the largest ones because of language and time constraints. that this editor leaves disappointed. The Newbies Incubator was and assignments, and to gather useful ideas from the audience We’ll be demoing an early version of the visual editor built on Within all of the projects, the major events, milestones, and created in the Russian Wikipedia for solving this issue. on Wikimania. top of this, as well as showing off testing tools that anyone can debates that have had a significant impact on the development 26 use to help identify problem pages and templates that need to 27 be restructured to work in the future. of the community and the encyclopedia are contained in Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

archived onwiki discussions and the memories of scattered the quality of their contributions especially in cases, when Wikipedia and the Commons in Tavor: Workshops groups of editors, with the result that most community editors have no academical background and are unable to instructional design and learning activities A framework to visualizing wiki-based members remain largely unaware not only of what occurs on access high-end literature in other ways. Salvör Kristjana Gissurardóttir other projects, but of the historical development of their own. transclusion This tutorial will explain and demonstrate by examples how A pilot study of the Russian Wikipedia, one of the largest and WikiGuides and new users Jaime Penagos, Jean Pierre Charalambos teachers and instructional designers can develop online learning most rapidly growing projects, can provide insight into possible James Alexander materials and design online learning activities for students on a We are interested in high level graphical analysis tools to assist methodological approaches and outcomes of composing How are we doing as a community obtaining, welcoming and school MediaWiki installation while connecting to Wikipedia for Wikimedians in writing and reading articles. Transclusion is Wikipedia social histories, as well as a preliminary foundation for retaining new users? How can we improve? Why should we? definitions and background material and Wikimedia Commons key to write compound articles and to keep them up-to-date, longer and more in-depth research. Did you know that 1000s of new accounts edit every day but as a learning object repository. taking full advantage of an open knowledge environment. We that most are gone immediately? We’ve been pouring over data have been working on a MediaWiki extension that provides a Hebrew Wikipedia entries in the eyes of (with a focus on the English Wikipedia) to try and answer these Wikipedia in the Academic World – Lessons graphical user interface to transclude sections between two wiki experts and other questions. learned from Christian Theology Writing articles, and a graphical metaphor to visualize the composition Judit Bar-Ilan, Eti Yaari and Shifra Baruchson-Arbib of a transcluded wiki article. Our goal is to make the Competition in Wikipedia Indonesia Wikipedia and beyond: Incentivizing the transclusion process more intuitive and to provide a graphical In this talk we present the results of an extensive study, where Stephen Suleeman 60 experts (doctoral students and/or researchers with PhD engagement for freely licensed material and tool useful to analyze its result. degrees) evaluated four Hebrew Wikipedia articles each in their projects For two consecutive years Wikimedia Indonesia has organized Wikipedia competitions. In 2011 there are three competitions specific areas of interest. Each expert received one of each of Nicole Ebber Wikimedia Offline the following types of articles: featured, regular, an article that running simultaneously. One of them is specifically aimed at Manuel Schneider Can contests, prizes and money engage people in contributing Christian theological articles. Three jurors are in charge, two needs to be rewritten and an article that needs to be extended. While Wikimedia’s goal is to share the human knowledge with to the Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects? We all are always looking with theological background, and another one is a lay Muslim They were asked to pick the “best” and “worst” article among the whole world we must find ways to bring this knowledge for new and better ways to motivate people to contribute to Wikipedia activist. This effort has helped the participants in writing the four, to rate each article on several scales and to comment in areas of the world where there is no, only part-time or Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Germany has tried articles that are balanced, written in a language understood by on the articles. very expensive connectivity. This requires a technical solution different methods and I’d like to share and discuss our diverse non-Christians, and are based on reliable bibliographical resources. experience. I’d like to talk about the pros and cons of money as on how to use Wikimedia content offline, independent from Young Wikipedians’ perceptions of an incentive. Wikimedia’s server farm. This workshop intends to gather Wikipedia: a case study in Hong Kong Gilboa: Anti vandalism; Operations several projects that are developed for solving this, for an Dr. Chitat Chan, Jeromy-Yu Chan, Deryck Chan overview exchange of minds and coordinating future collaboration. A major point of criticism of Wikipedia is its principle of being Arbel: Wiki in Education II Anti-Vandalism Research: The Year in open for editing by everyone making it unreliable. Instead of Wiki as a means to enhance dialog in the Review focusing on the ways in which Wikipedia could mislead student classroom 16:30–17:45 Andrew G. West users, this study focused on the ways in which competent Shiri Mor Hagani student users could make use of Wikipedia. The prior year has seen much anti-vandalism research, Friday Late Talks In this lecture we will demonstrate how the use of a MediaWiki both in academic and practical (on-Wikipedia) settings. This platform as an academic learning environment, that includes Wikipedia content – thematics analysis presentation will survey that progress, including the live Rapaport: Conflict resolution weekly meetings in a classroom and online work between Andrij Bondarenko demonstration of software tools, and discussion of alternative meetings, can promote a dialogical discourse among learners Where Wikipedia has gone wrong, what we uses for anti-vandalism scores (e.g., the Wikipedia 1.0 project What do wikipedias write about? What is the structure of human and between learners and teacher. As we are going to assert, can do to bring it back on track and “smarter watchlists”). knowledge, accumulated on Wikipedia? Thematics analysis this discourse is of great significance to the learning community Dror Kamir of different language versions could answer these interesting as a whole, as well as to each of the learners on her own – of Autonomous Detection of Collaborative In its 11th year, Wikipedia, particularly the English-language questions. two aspects – their involvement and actual learning in the Link Spam Wikipedia, experiences some serious problems, that, in my course itself, and the way they perceive the consequences and Andrew G. West opinion, have not been adequately addressed. The relations Cinematheque: Encouraging impact it will have on their lives thereafter. among the problems, though exist, are not direct, hence the Recent research suggests Wikipedia is vulnerable against a well- discussion I would like to develop might spread on several fields, Participation II motivated form of attack: external link spam. This presentation Lessons Learned from the Lessons Taught some of which touch the the Knowledge and Collaboration describes a machine-learning classifier for spam revisions built Support the miners – improving quality by Vassia Atanassova (bg:User:Spiritia), Maya Marinova track (rather than the People and Community track). boosting editors work (bg:User:Maymay) atop: (1) Wikipedia metadata, (2) Landing site analysis, and (3) Third-party data, including the Alexa web-crawler. Denis Barthel The presentation aims to summarize the experience of the Hippies with guns: how ideological conflict Bulgarian Wikipedian community in promoting contribution shapes Wikipedia and what we can learn In 2007 Wikimedia Deutschland started a literature grant Wikimedia Operations Overview program on request of community members from the German- to Wikipedia among university students. In particular, we will from it Rob Halsell language Wikipedia. The program has been continuously share ideas related to setting up and finely tuning an academic Oliver Keyes (Ironholds) wikiproject with respect to scale and scope, rules, schedule and Wikimedia also recently deployed into a brand new facility in running since then and supports Wikipedia editors as it provides A 15-minute presentation (with 5 minutes for questions and workload, students’ and teachers’ motivation. Ashburn, VA (designated eqiad). We will go over the general them access to high-quality reference literature, thus they can answers) covering the history and evolution of the English- use it as a reference in their Wikipedia work. This strengthens deployment plan and implementation, challenges, and facility. . 28 language Wikipedia – in particular, the hypothesis that it can be 29 Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

understood as an ideological conflict between two extremes, Going to Africa Gilboa: Statistical analysis; MediaWiki sources or simply from local knowledge. Both rendered images and what we can learn from where we’ve been in this fight. Dror Amir development and the vector graphics are available for download under a CC- BY-SA-2.0 license. The tutorial will include an introduction into How European chapters mag cooparate with academic How Rules and Resources Constrain Social How to handle data and run statistical the project (5 min), followed by a demonstration. institutions and moving Wikipadia to Africa Memory on Wikipedia: the case of 2011 analyses in MediaWiki Bonus!!! – OpenStreetMap mapping party: It’s a hands-on Japan earthquake Juha Villman Arbel: Encouraging Participation III opportunity to learn how to collect map data and contribute Emmanuel Wathelet, Dr. François Lambotte Presentation will contain brief introduction to Opasnet and the it to OpenStreetMap, while at the same time enjoy warm The negotiation of memory on Wikipedia is made possible Barriers and opportunities for expert ideas behind it. Main focus will be on data related issues: how to sunshine (we hope!) and explore Haifa! No prior knowledge of through a series of explicit and implicit rules and resources participation in Wikipedia: Results from a handle and how to use massive amounts of data in MediaWiki OSM is needed, nor is a GPS required. – policies and guidelines. We apply our analysis to the article survey and as well demonstrate how easy it is to run R on wiki. about the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami. We will Dario Taraborelli, Daniel Mietchen, Panagiota Alevizou identify the rules and resources involved in drafting the article; ResourceLoader There has been so far only anecdotal evidence on what keeps conduct a narratological reconstruction of decisions taken Roan Kattouw, Trevor Parscal Saturday August 5 experts from contributing to Wikipedia. The Wikimedia following the confrontation with the rules; outline the specifics This day of the conference is sponsored by ISOC. Research Committee ran a survey on expert participation MediaWiki 1.17 was deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in February, of an online social memory facilitated and constrained by rules between February and April 2011 with over 3K respondents with ResourceLoader as its flagship feature. ResourceLoader and resources. Prospectively, we will try to sketch answers to to try and turn anecdotes about expert participation into data. is a JavaScript and CSS delivery system that modernizes the these questions: To what extent is Wikipedia institutionalized? The aim of this talk is to present the results of the survey and development and delivery of client-side resources. 09:00–10:30 Does memory belongs to contributors able to master the rules? tackle questions such as: the different perception of participation A Qt library for MediaWiki, and what you Morning Talks From on-wiki conflicts to real-life in Wikipedia across academic fields; the effects of expertise, gender, discipline, wiki literacy on participation; the gap between can do with it collaboration Rapaport: Wikipedia reconsidered shared attitudes and individual drivers of participation; the Guillaume Paumier Miloš Ran i – Everything You Know About relation between participation in Wikipedia and attitudes This short talk will present a Qt library to interact with the Wikipedia Is Wrong This is a personal story about promoting collaboration in towards open access and open science. MediaWiki API, developed during a university project. Examples virtually impossible situations. It starts with my experience in of applications based on the library will be demoed, including Everything You Know is Wrong: Balkan communities and its conflicts and explores some issues Student clubs: How to maintain student basic editing and uploading programs, plasma desktop widgets, Unreferenced BLPs and Defamatory with which I dealt as Wikimedia steward and member of a contributors and a KIPI export plug-in to mass upload photos from desktop Statements couple of Wikimedia committees. I will present what I see as Cheryl Moy applications. Ironholds the options and limits in such circumstances, how should we One of the main goals of the Wikimedia Foundation is to increase react and how we shouldn’t, what is acceptable to do and what A presentation looking at unreferenced BLPs, the myths the number of contributors worldwide in order for entries to be Opening up Wikipedia’s data: A lightweight is not. surrounding them, and whether or not they are as much (or exhaustive and representative of expert consensus. There are approach to Wikipedia as a platform more?) of a problem as people think. many successful projects involving schools and universities that Dario Taraborelli, Diederik van Liere, Ryan Lane Cinematheque: Global South activities encourage and train students to be Wikipedia editors; however There is a final frontier where Wikipedia and its sister projects The Lesser of Two Evils: How Paid Editing is the biggest challenge is not only gaining contributors but to People are Knowledge are not as open as they could or should be: non-human like Needle Exchanges have editors continue to contribute and contribute consistently. interactions. Wikimedia’s infrastructure is designed to make it Aprabhala, Mohau, Shijualex, Mayur Fluffernutter This talk will present the success of the inaugural year of the possible for millions of humans worldwide to freely reuse its A presentation on the approach we take to paid editing, and The problem: Even if every single person in the south with Michigan Wikipedians, a student club at the University of Michigan contents, but it falls short of providing tools to allow third-party the harm mitigation involved in permitting it. Internet access wanted to become an active editor on centered on editing Wikipedia. We will discuss how the group services to easily reuse its data. The goal of this presentation Wikipedia, there is still a problem that we are going to run functions, the activities of the student group, offer suggestions is to start a discussion on what it takes to rethink Wikipedia Everything You Know is Temporal: Lost up against: the lack of published scholarly resources in these for maintaining editors and solicit ideas, present our future plans as a platform (WAAP) to facilitate the reuse of its contents in languages. and answer questions on how you can start your own club on the form of structured data. In this talk we will focus on two Functionalities and Differing Policy campuses. technologies—Wikilytics and OAuth—that, combined, could Kim Bruning WikiAfrica: Call for last mile operators spearhead the creation of an ecosystem of new services based A presentation on lost functionalities, and how widely policy Isla Haddow, Iolanda Pensa Wikiversity: Article creation in the on Wikipedia’s data. Wikilytics is an analytics platform to answer varies between projects – to the point where one language WikiAfrica specifically addresses cultural institutions which are composition classroom questions about the different Wikipedia communities. version has four pillars, not five. invited to make their documentation available with a license Lynn Marie Hamilton “Citation Needed”: “Facts” Everyone compatible with Wikipedia; the adoption of a compatible College students benefit from writing for Wikipedia as part of Tavor: Workshops license allows institutions to indirectly contribute to Wikipedia their first-year writing program. Wikipedia gives students a real Writes About Wikipedia That Aren’t True (even with an unstable internet connection) and to start to audience, rewards for, and feedback on their writing that goes The Free Wiki World Map: OpenStreetMap Mindspillage better understand how they can contribute. During Wikimania far beyond the classroom. MADe A presentation on where “reliable sources”: established we would like to present the institutions we are involving and OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a newspapers, wide-circulation magazines, academic presses – we would like to make a call for last mile operators: wikipedians free editable map of the world. The maps are created using whose words, unlike those of Wikipedia, may be taken as fact 30 31 who can contribute to link African contents with Wikipedia data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography, other free – get things wrong about the project. Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

Cinematheque: GLAMorous III the way. It also could dramatically scale our ability to assess and links of each page of a Wikipedia connect to pages about the questions, permissions and lots of other subjects. This workshop improve content. This talk will summarize findings from quality same topic on other Wikipedias. The current interwiki linking could be the first one to bring agents from all over the world Finding Hidden Value - Panel headed by assessment and engagement experiments with the Article system replicates the links to the other languages on each and together to talk about some comprehensive issues. Feedback Tool, and present conceptual workflows for a more every Wikipedia, so that it is necessary to run lots of interwiki bots Dr. Yesha Sivan of ISOC and discussion comprehensive toolset for quality assessment by readers, including to keep them updated. As an approach to solving this, my take is GLAMDerby – Collaborating with a smaller credentialed experts. that keeping interwiki links out of the pages as metadata. 11:00–12:30 museum Victuallers – Roger Bamkin, Nick Moyes An open-access and open-data policy for Interscript Transliteration A Case for Saturday Noon Talks projects of the Wikimedia Foundation Konkani Language In January 2011, Wikimedia UK decided to collaborate with Derby Museums in a move that was welcomed by Jimmy Daniel Mietchen, Dario Taraborelli Hari Prasad Nadig , Gurudath Bantwalkar Rapaport: Event organization Wales. By the time the Backstage Pass happened in April we As part of its mission to “develop educational content under A presentation on how transliteration between scripts could How to Start a Party on Six Continents had managed two policy changes in the museum; installed a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it help bridge the divide between communities speaking the Jay Walsh, Steven Walling, Moka Pantages QR codes; written Wikipedia articles, translated the Derby effectively and globally”, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is same language, but using different scripts. For such language Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary may be the single largest and and Museum page into a dozen languages. The collaboration committed to promoting initiatives such as open access and open communities where sharing of knowledge between them was most widely-celebrated event in the history of the Wikimedia continues with a multi-lingual competition that has been funded data to foster the free reuse and dissemination of research data never feasible, Wikipedia and MediaWiki together present a movement. But more important than the sheer size of the by Derby Museums. and unconstrained access to research publications pertaining unique opportunity to change all this. to WMF activities. Open access and open data are initiatives anniversary, there were also ambitious experiments by GLAM partnerships in the real life with major institutional support but their uptake amongst Interlanguage links in Wikipedia: current volunteers and the Foundation that broke new ground for what is possible in organizing globally-oriented, real world events Adrienne Alix researchers, though growing, remains low. The Wikimedia problems and future development Research Committee is currently drafting a policy to bridge the about Wikimedia. This presentation will be a retrospective on GLAM partnerships are becoming more numerous. The Innocenti V. Maresin gap between these initiatives and their current adoption in the what has occurred so far in Wikipedia’s 10th year celebrations, Wikimedians manage to make beautiful projects with In modern Wikipedia, interlanguage links is the second research community. and will try to derive some lessons for anyone running events in institutions. But how to overcome the difficulties that remain important metadata structure after categories. With several our movement. with the community and with institutions? millions of articles, this structure faces many challenges. The Let’s get local! current technical implementation is based on links, from one Wiki Loves Monuments Sylvain Boissel Pikiwiki, Free Image Collection of Israel page in one language to another page in another language. Maarten Dammers (User:Multichill), Lodewijk Gelauff The “Non-Cabale de l’Ouest” (or NCO) is a group of Entropy reducing approach is to restrict possible configurations – Convergence between Cultural Value, In September 2011 we’re organizing Wiki Loves Monuments Wikipedia/Commons/Wikisource contributors meeting on a to clusters containing no more than 1 article in any language. Usability and Copyrights 2011. The basic concept is the same as 2010: Get photos of (more than) weekly basis since 2008 (yes, that’s more than one But there are many cases where equivalence-like interwiki Hedva Sanderovitz cultural heritage, but the big difference is that the even will be and a half hundred IRLs) in Rennes to talk about the projects. In structure is not possible. In such cases another system may be Pikiwiki is a free collection of digital-format, good quality organized in multiple European countries. We will describe how this workshop, we will present some of our accomplishments, used, based on current directed link paradigm but with some photographs, documenting events relating to the , the organization is going and what effects this project already and wish to discuss how local coordination can advance the semantic extensions. or depicting places of distinction around the country. We shall Wikimedia projects and increase one’s involvement in the had on heritage projects on different Wikipedia’s. present the challenges and dilemmas in creating this collection. Wikimedia movement. Tavor: OTRS Wikipedia Takes Your City How Wikipedia spreads to other media Ryan Kaldari The Volunteer Response Team: Willing MADe Gilboa: Multilingual projects hands working unseen So far, over a dozen cities have held Wikipedia photo scavenger Wikipedia content is copied constantly. By examining how CoSyne: Multilingual Content Alice Wiegand hunts, contributing thousands of valuable images to Wikimedia errors in wiki content get copied to other sources, we can Synchronization with Wikis projects. These events present a variety of unique challenges. Most of the important work done by this team is completely determine the different ways in which these sources use A Bronner This in-depth tutorial will cover everything you need to know Wikipedia content. invisible, so it is very different from contributing to the to organize and facilitate a successful photo scavenger hunt for CoSyne is a 3-years European R&D project carried out by a Wikimedia projects themselves. And it is only natural that your city. consortium of four research institutions and three end-user curiosity about what happens behind the scenes is growing, Arbel: Influence of Wikipedia partners. The project addresses the challenge of multilingual as well as scepticism. Is OTRS a secret society? No, it is not. Outreach projects I content synchronization in wiki environments by developing and OTRS team members are usually glad to tell about their work Cinematheque: Wikipedia, the Law integrating technologies for wiki structural analysis, cross-lingual and activities. Therefore this presentation wants to shed some and the Real World Quality and Engagement: Making the content entailment and self-learning statistical machine translation. light on the people who volunteer in this department of the Connection Wikimedia universe Collaborative Diplomacy Erik Moeller, Guillaume Paumier Discussion and Improvement Proposals for Tiffany Smith Giving readers better tools to flag quality issues (with a specific the Current Interwiki Linking System on Volunteer Response Team Workshop The US Department of State uses MediaWiki behind the article or a specific edit), to praise authors, and to surface the Wikipedia OTRS is a ticket request system which is used to handle firewall to collaborate on an online foreign affairs encyclopedia highest quality content, has the potential to gradually help many Arkaitz Zubiaga most incoming e-mails regarding Wikimedia projects. Besides called “Diplopedia”, and the evolution of Diplopedia has been presented at three Wikimanias in the past five years. This more readers to become part of the Wikimedia community— Wikipedias in more than 280 languages are connected by means Foundation staff and chapter affiliated people there is a group of presentation will reference our ongoing work in developing 32 especially when combined with invitations and guidance along of external links so-called interwiki or inter-language links. Interwiki volunteers who take the responsibility of answering complaints, 33 Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

Diplopedia, but we’ll also use this opportunity to engage Gilboa: Semantic, better wikis over 700 members, 20 employees, and an annual budget of Wikimedia & Indigenous Peoples: Pros, participants in a discussion about the future of government roughly €1,8M. This presentation will provide insights into the Cons and Community Towards a Semantic Wikipedia collaboration and wiki culture in the Arab–Israeli dialogue. challenges and opportunities Wikimedia Deutschland faced as Sarah Stierch Zdenko Vrande i (User:Denny) the first Wikimedia chapter, what activities it has engaged in As partnership programs continue to grow between Wikimedia Wikipedia is afraid of governments Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free, open-source extension over the years, and what it has done to constantly reinvent itself and cultural organizations, the time has come to examine pros, Deryck Chan to MediaWiki – the wiki software that powers Wikipedia – throughout its history. An outlook into the planned future of cons and opportunities related to working with Indigenous that lets you store and query data within the wiki’s pages. It is the chapter will be presented. From Gda sk versus Danzig, Voivodeships of Poland versus cultures. How does cultural sensitivity play a role, and is the also a full-fledged framework, in conjunction with many spinoff provinces, to Côte d’Ivoire versus Ivory Coast, and Senkaku possibility to work together a possibility? Islands versus Diaoyutai Islands versus Pinnacle Islands, this extensions, which can turn a wiki into a powerful and flexible presentation should open up a discussion on what the actual “collaborative database”. We will give a quick introduction in 13:45–15:15 Stand Up, Speak Words, Spread the concepts behind Semantic MediaWiki, and provide a few common practice is regarding article names for places with WikiPassion example use cases demonstrating the power of the technology. multiple or disputed names, and whether the Chinese and Saturday Afternoon Talks Florence Devouard Serbian Wikipedias have already provided an alternative solution to the problem of article name bias. Collaborative Hypervideo Authoring in Rapaport: Events; Fundraising A participant to Wikipedia since 2002, I have regularly been a Common Wikis Engines speaker in public or private events since 2004. Public speaking Wikimedia events May it please the court Niels Seidel is part of the bigger “outreach” mission and is a neat way to Phoebe Ayers & friends recruit new Wikimedians, to build strong relationships with Kat Walsh In this presentation I introduce ViWiki, an approach for seamless Every year at Wikimania I try to facilitate a discussion about cultural and educational institutions, to inform journalists, to (try Wikipedia has been cited by lawyers and courts in several places and collaborative integration of interactive hypervideos into the future of the conference. This year, I’d like to expand that to) convince politicians, to stun companies managers, to raise for a variety of purposes: sometimes as support for information existing wiki environments. ViWiki combines the wiki metaphor discussion to focus on Wikimedia events in general. This will money etc. Still, rather few wikimedians choose this path. It is regarded as “general knowledge”, but sometimes in places where with a direct manipulation user interface for hypervideo be the seventh annual global conference of Wikimedians, and time consuming, may be costly, and IS scary! So, I would like to a more authoritative source should have been used instead. authoring and particular markup conventions. In a first use Wikimania has gained a certain maturity. This year also marked help fill this hole, reflect on my own experience, and hopefully There are literally thousands of citations to Wikipedia in court case we transferred a book about a German Concentration the highly successful Wikipedia 10 events all across the globe. have this talk be an opportunity to share the good, the bad and documents; this presentation is intended to discuss the ones which Camp into a wiki and added further hypervideo interviews with What is the future of events in our community, what role can the ugly regarding public speaking on Wikimedia topics. have made the most impact and raise the most interesting issues. survivals and contemporary witnesses. in-person events play in community-building and recruitment, Wiki-based National Content Development and what should be the model be for events going forward? Arbel: Research projects Arbel: Wikipedia and/as the community Susanna Mkrtchyan “Get Jimmy off my screen!” – The donations Participating in research projects; Reflecting Wikis Love Leaders! Localization of Wiki to be used for Armenian content model for the 2010–2011 fundraiser knowledge diversity Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom) development is not available yet. The proposed solution Philippe Beaudette, Megan Hernandez Zdenko Vrandečić (User:Denny), Mathias Schindler, Wikimedia need leadership and provide great opportunities for will create framework suite comprising of tools, utilities, Raising $16M from a global community isn’t easy – we’ll tell you Angelika Adam, Dario Taraborelli organisers, visionaries, mediators and mentors. Volunteer-based methodologies, thesaurus and linguistic models and will what we did differently this year and plan for next year. Starting September 2010, Wikimedia Deutschland has, as projects with limited hierarchies allow to make one’s ideas happen create a complete national knowledge-based environment to the first chapter ever, entered an official partnership within amazingly fast. The key requirement is a distinction of leadership continuously develop and enrich Armenian content and its a research project funded by the European Union, RENDER from dictatorship and making impact from making noise. How to dissemination. Cinematheque: Outreach projects II – a three year project with a funding of more than 4 Million develop more leader in you and help your wiki to improve faster? Wikipedia as UNESCO World Heritage – a Euro and seven partners all over Europe. RENDER will help Tavor: Chapters and co. II Identity, Reputation, and Gratitude status report with dealing with knowledge diversity all over the Web, with Wikipedia being one of its main three use cases. We will Brandon Harris From a group of volunteers to a professional team Catrin Schoneville present and discuss the rationale behind joining externally A look into how systems of identity, reputation, and gratitude will Beatriz Busaniche As part of the celebrations of Wikipedia’s tenth anniversary, Wikimedia Germany introduced the concept for a campaign funded research projects, the advantages and challenges, and help increase the health of the Wikimedia project communities. After working for 8 years as a Project Manager for a Free the required structures. Software NGO, where most of the people contributes as for recognition of Wikipedia as the first ever UNESCO Wiki Migration volunteers, I would like to share the enormous challenge of World Heritage site. The initial response from other chapters’ representatives at the Berlin chapters’ conference was Project Internet in Sweden Dr. Vadim Zaytsev being the first formal employee of Wikimedia Argentina. The Johan Jönsson (User:Julle), Jan Ainali workshop will try to analyze this experience to identify general overwhelmingly positive and Wikimedia Germany intends to Migrating a wiki site comprises moving the community, the and common aspects that might serve other chapters and keep on inviting other chapters to join the campaign. It is going Projekt Internet i Sverige (“Project Internet in Sweden”) is content and the ontology from one platform to another. groups with similar identities, problems and challenges. to be a group challenge to build up momentum and public a project on aiming to improve articles Automating various subtasks of all those three parts can give awareness for this step and we are exploring adequate channels categorized as concerning Internet in Sweden. In this noticeable productivity boosts, allow contributors to focus on Growth and development of Wikimedia for communication and a common international platform for presentation we will discuss the project and its outcome. meaningful contributing and let system operators to keep their Deutschland this enterprise. The talk is going to explain the motives behind Whether it’s a good idea to have paid contributors, and if so, eyes on reaching high-level objectives. when. What problems arise when someone is editing Wikipedia Sebastian Moleski this campaign, the official procedure on UNESCO’s side and the specific campaign items for 2011. for money, whereas the overwhelming majority of contributors A short presentation on the history and growth of Wikimedia do their work for free? 34 Deutschland from 7 members in 2004 to an organization of 35 Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

Gilboa: Wikiversity and Wikinews Tavor: Workshops Tours Strategies for Wikinews Projects in languages with singular status Tours are offered free of charge, but need be booked in advance and are based on availability Miloš Rančić Joan Ramon Gomà i Ayats and on minimum number of participants. Unlike Wikipedia and other projects, Wikinews has very specific This workshop will be the continuation of the 20 March 2011 dynamics: if there is no constant flow of news, it is not useful, kick off meeting held in Perpignan by the teamwork of projects Sunday, August 7th readers are not coming and it is not possible to transform in languages with singular status. Before the workshop there will Tour to Nazareth and Tour to Baha’i Gardens Tour to Jerusalem Tour to Acre (Acco) readers into editors/journalists. This paper discusses a couple be a short presentation of the results already obtained from the Sea of Galilee and the German Colony of approaches for transformation Wikinews into the attractive the Perpignan meeting. Come prepared for few minutes in source of information. Some of the approaches are already Esperanto. implemented into Wikinews in Serbian, some of them are not. Jerusalem Wikipedia and Wikinews: differences 15:30–16:45 Itinerary: 8:30 Departure from Haifa between news articles and encyclopedic Walk along the old city’s ramparts, hearing a brief history of the news Closing ceremony city Mount Zion: Dormition Church, King David’s tomb and Iván Martínez, Dennis Tobar The State of the Wiki Last Supper Room, Lunch in the old city, Jewish and Christian Quarter, including observation of the Temple Mount, and a visit Many users of Wikinews come from Wikipedia, where there Jimmy Wales are many problems of adaptation that are derived for a different to the Holy Sepulchre Church Ten years ago, Jimmy Wales typed Hello World! into a wiki, and way of writing and presentation of information on the page, the site of the crucifixion. The Jerusalem Archaeological Park – Wikipedia was born. Today, Wikipedia is the fifth most-popular which represents a challenge for Wikinews users to able help Davidson Center and the Western Wall site on the internet, and the Wikimedia projects are collectively new users to cooperate with the project. We want to find an one of the world’s largest and most useful repositories of 19:00 Leaving to Haifa (The bus can stop at the airport for those effective synergy between the objectives of both projects. human knowledge. In recent years though, we’ve begun to leaving on Sunday night – around 20:00) see signs that the Wikimedia community is less healthy than it From the Wikiversity content to its conflicts 21:00 Arriving in Haifa used to be. The number of active editors is slowly declining, Jan Lochman and community members report increased bureaucracy, Wikiversity is one of the Wikimedia Foundation’s project unwelcoming behaviour, and growing barriers to participation. related to direct education and research. Its goals were to In this talk, Jimmy Wales will call for a renewed commitment to Nazareth and the Galilee create and host free educational materials and activities and openness, that will revitalize the projects. Itinerary: 8:30 Departure from Haifa host learning and research communities. No guidelines how such “educational material” or “community hosting” should Wikimania 2012 Washington D.C. Nazareth – church of Annunciation and Miriam’s fountain, look like were established, nor policies for research. For the Presentation Capernaum – home to one of the earliest churches in the last five years its participants were using knowledge and world as well as an ancient synagogue, St Peter’s home town, imagination overstepping both software and communication Mount of Beatitudes – The traditional site of Jesus’ Sermon on related problems. Nowadays there are thousands of pages in 16:45–17:00 the Mount, with its beautiful view of the Sea of Galilee, Tabgha Wikiversity and some conflicts which brokenspined stones. – Place of Jesus’ miracle of the Multiplication of the Fish and Wiki photo session Loaves at the location is an ancient Byzantine church, Yardenith Auditorium garden – the baptismal site for pilgrims in Jordan River 18:30: Return to Haifa

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Local Information Acre (Acco) Itinerary: 8:30 Departure from Haifa About the City of Haifa Stella Maris Haifa is situated on the Israeli Mediterranean Coastal Plain, The monument to Napoleon’s soldiers Stella Maris is the location Old City of Acco: Crusader Halls, El Jazar Mosque Turkish the historic “via Maris” – the ancient road between Europe, of French Carmelite church, monastery and hospice. This is the Hamam, Templar’s underground escape tunnel, Khan El-Umdan, Africa, and Asia. The city is split over three tiers: The lowest is founding place of the Carmelite Order, a religious order of the and Old city Market. the center of commerce and industry including the Port. The Roman Catholic Church. Located atop Mount Carmel, there is a 15:30 Return to Haifa middle level is on the slopes of Mount Carmel and consists of hiking trail connecting it to the Cave of Elijah down mountain. older residential neighborhoods, while the upper level consists of modern neighborhoods looking over the lower tiers. From In the 12th century, during the Crusader rule of the region, here views can be across the Western Galilee region of Israel groups of religious hermits began to inhabit the caves of this towards Rosh HaNikra and even Mount Hermon. area in imitation of Elijah the Prophet. Within a few decades, these monastic hermits left the troubled Holy Land and the Carmelite order spread throughout Europe. What to See When Acre fell in 1291, they were forced to withdraw by The Baha’i Gardens and sites in Haifa Landmarks Mamluks. In 1631 the Order returned to the Holy Land, led by the Venerable Father Prosper. He had a small monastery Tours of the Baha’i Gardens and the German Colony of Haifa: constructed on the promontory at Mount Carmel, close to 9:00 Stating from the Venue Bahá’í Gardens and World Center The gardens and world center on Mount Carmel’s northern the lighthouse, and the friars lived there until 1761, when Tour of the Shrine of the Bab and Upper Gardens, Tour slope are a must-see for any visitor to Haifa. Comprising Dhaher al-Omar, the then effectively independent ruler of of the German Colony and tour of Wadi Nisnas, an Arab the golden-domed Shrine of the Báb, terraced gardens and Galilee, ordered them to vacate the site and demolished the neighborhood of Haifa administrative buildings, the World Center is the holiest site of monastery. The Order then moved to the present location. The pilgrimage for the members of the Bahá’í Faith, as well as the church was seriously damaged in Napoleon’s 1799 campaign. 16:30 Return to the venue faith’s central administrative center. The gardens are stunning Sick and wounded French soldiers were accommodated in and well worth visiting if you are in Haifa. The tours are free the monastery, and when Napoleon withdrew, the Turks however reservation is required. slaughtered them and drove out the monks. In 1821, Abdallah Pasha of Acre ordered the ruined church to Between 2005 and 2006, 86,037 visited the golden-domed be totally destroyed. Shrine of the Báb. The current church and monastery, built under the orders of The Shrine of the Báb is the location where the remains of the Brother Cassini of the Order, was opened in 1836. Báb, founder of Bábism and forerunner of Bahá’u’lláh in the Bahá’í Faith, have been laid to rest; it is considered to be the second The German Colony holiest place on Earth for Bahá’ís, after the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh in German Colony, centered around Ben Gurion Boulevard, Acre. was built on land purchased in 1868 by members of German Tel: +972-4-831-3131 Templar Society (not to be confused with the Knights of Fax: +972-4-831-3132 the Templars) where they planned to build an agricultural community in the Holy Land. Cave of Elijah Many of the original Templar houses have preserved and Elijah is considered a prophet by both Judaism and Islam. The undergone restoration in recent years. Carmelites have a tradition that they were founded by Elijah at this time. According to tradition Elijah lived in a cave on Now the main street of the former colony (Ben Gurion Boulevard) Mt. Carmel during the reign of King Ahab. The site itself may is a promenade, with many restaurants and coffee shops. disappoint many tourists. One enjoyable and scenic option for good walkers is to walk down to the cave from Stella Maris The City History Museum and the local Tourist Board are 38 39 (monastery) at the top of Mt. Carmel. located at the German Colony. Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

Museums Hecht Museum Outside the City With a single track, six stations and two trains, it is listed in the Guinness World Records as the world’s shortest metro system. The Hecht Museum features archaeological exhibits and an The Druze Villages art wing with 19th and 20th century painting and sculpture, The top terminal station, Gan HaEm, is in walking distance The Druze Villages are located on the top of Mt. Carmel, 25 including works by Corot, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Van-Gogh, from the venue and some of the hotels. As the buses and the minutes by car from the venue. The tourist-oriented bazaar has Soutine and Modigliani. trains, the Carmelit doesn’t function from Friday afternoon until inexpensive shops and excellent Mid-Eastern restaurants. Saturday evening. Address: University of Haifa campus, Daliyat el-Carmel is the largest and southernmost Druze town Tel: +972-4-8257773 Operation Hours: in Israel, located in the heart of the Carmel National Park, Fax: +972-4-8240724 southeast of Haifa. Established 400 years ago, Daliyat el-Carmel • Sunday–Thursday: 06:00–22:00 email: [email protected] has a population of 13,000 Druze residents. Large market in the • Friday and holiday eves: 06:00–15:00 Mane-Katz museum center of the town sells traditional Druze and Arab products and draws tourists from Israel and from abroad. • Saturday: Closed (for Shabbat) The Mane-Katz museum is located on Yaffe Nof Street, within walking distance of the venue. Mane-Katz left his paintings and Ein Hod artists’ colony extensive personal collection of Jewish ethnography to the city Where to Eat? The Janco-Dada MuseumEin Hod artists’ colony, is a village 30 The National Museum of Science – of Haifa, Israel. Four years before his death, the mayor of Haifa, minutes ride by car from the venue, where over 90 artists and Most restaurants in Haifa are open on Saturday, as they are not MadaTech , provided him with a building on Mt. Carmel to craftsmen have studios and exhibitions. kosher (unlike some other cities in Israel). Below are several Israel’s National Museum of Science, Technology and Space is house his work, which became the Mane-Katz Museum. The suggestions for dining (by location). housed in two historic landmark buildings in mid-town Haifa. exhibit includes Mane-Katz’s oils, showing a progressive change Ein Hod has 22 galleries, 14 art workshops, and 2 museums. Designed, at the turn of the century, by renowned German in style over the years, a signed portrait of the artist by Picasso Workshops include printing, sculpture, photography, silk The Carmel Center Area dated 1932 and a large collection of Jewish ritual objects. Jewish architect, Alexander Baerwald, these were home to the screening, music (vocal), ceramics, mosaics, design, stained glass, Restaurants within walking distance of the venue: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel’s first institution lithography and blacksmiths. of higher education. The museum has approximately 200,000 Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art Name: Agadir visitors annually. The Tikotin museum was founded in the year 1959. The Ein Hod’s main gallery has five exhibition halls Type: Burger-Bar (vegetarian, too) museum present rotating exhibitions of old and modern Location: 6 David Pinsky St. Address: 12 Balfour Street Japanese art. Transportation in Haifa Tel: (972-4)-8378666 Tel: +972-4-8614444 The restaurant is located 5 minutes walk from the venue. The museum is located within walking distance from the venue, Haifa’s bus lines are operated almost exclusively by the Egged National Maritime Museum near the Nof, Panorama and Dan Carmel Hotels. Info: 89 bus company, which operates two terminals: Name: Voil Hanassi Ave., Tel: +972-4-8383554 Type: Chef/Swiss The Museum’s collection is one of the largest archeology • HaMifratz Central Bus Station, adjacent to the Lev HaMifratz Location: 119 Sderot Hanassi collections in Israel. It is composed of various sub-collections, Railway Station which all convey man’s connection to the sea: underwater Haifa Zoo and Botanical Gardens Tel: (972-4)-8370737 archeology; maritime art; maritime mythology; ancient anchors; The Haifa Zoo and Botanical Gardens are located in Gan • Haifa Hof HaCarmel Central Bus Station, adjacent to the Hof A Clasical Swiss restaurant located at the Carmel Center. It Greco-Roman coins; scientific instruments; storage jars for Haem, within walking distance of the venue, near the Carmelit HaCarmel Railway Station is minutes walk from Dan Panorama, Nof, Dan Garden and maritime trade; cartography and prints. station and across the street from the Dan Panorama and Nof Crown Plaza hotels, and is 5 minutes walk from the venue. Lines to the North of the country use HaMifratz Central Bus hotels. Good value for money, though it is not cheap. The Collection of Ancient Ship Models includes models whose Station and their coverage includes most towns in the north of construction was based on historical and literary sources, and Israel Railway Museum Israel. Lines heading south use Haifa Hof HaCarmel Central Bus Recommended Cafés at the Carmel Center on sculptural reliefs and murals preserved in palaces and tombs. Station. The Israel Railway Museum is located at the now closed Haifa Name:Greg The Collection of Scientific Instruments features navigational East Railway Station. The museum features the railway history of Destinations directly reachable from Hof HaCarmel include Tel Location: 3 Derech Hayam Ave, The corner of Derech Hayam instruments from the 15th century onwards. Israel and its neighbouring countries back to 1892. The museum Aviv, Jerusalem, Eilat, and intermediate communities. and Hanassi Ave., minutes from the venue features a collection of rolling stock, signs, tickets and other Tel: (972-4)-8371670 The Cartography and Prints Collection contains over 3,500 items. Underground maps and engravings. Name:Mandarin The Haifa underground railway system is called Carmelit. It The museum is open Sunday to Thursday 8:30 to 14:00 Location: 129 HaNassi Ave., minutes away from the venue Address: National Maritime Museum, 198 Allenby Street, is a subterranean funicular on rails, running from downtown Tel: (972-57)-9441047 Tel: +972-4-8536622. Paris Square to Gan HaEm (Mother’s Park) on Mount Carmel. 40 41 Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

Name:Arcaffe Since 1978, the restaurant serves home made simple and Name: Ma’ayan HaBira Stores and shopping malls Location: 139 HaNassi Ave., across the street from the venue excellent Lebanese food, prepared from fresh produce every Type: Eastern European pub and restaurant Haifa MallDue to its mountainous terrain, Haifa does not have Tel: (972-4)-8360029 morning, and the diners choose the food at the counter Location: 4 Natanzon St. shopping streets. The cheap shopping areas are located in the from large trays showing the dishes of the day. The food (walking distance from the Haifa Merkaz railway station) Hadar neighborhood, however most shopping is done in the The Port Area changes daily, and when it runs out in the late noon hours, the Tel: (972-4)-8623193 local shopping malls including the Haifa Mall (Kenyon Haifa) From the venue or hotels, this area may be reached by the restaurant closes for the day. Open for lunch only. Opening hours: Sunday – Friday 9:00AM–17:00PM, and the “Grand Kenyon” – the newest and biggest mall of the Carmelit (exit on the last station – the Kikar Paris station), Great value for money. Tuesday till 24:00 city. In the vicinity of the conference are two small malls – the or by taxi. Auditorium Mall (underneath the venue) and the Panorama Name: HaSandak Mall (underneath the Panorama Hotel). Between the two are Name: Where to Drink? Type: Sailors pub HaNamal 24 various shops located on both sides of Hanassi Avenue. Type: French/Italian High end Cuisine The Carmel Center Area Location: 1 Sha’ar Palmer St. Location: 24 HaNamal St. (walking distance from the Haifa Merkaz railway station) Pubs within walking distance of the venue: Panorama Mall Tel: (972-4)-8628899 Tel: (972-4)-8671888 Address: 109 Ha Nassi Avenue. Telephone: 837 5011. A high end Italian/French chef restaurant. It is best to book in Name: The Irish House Opening hours: Sunday – Thursday 12:00PM–2:30AM, Friday Opening hours: Sundays to Thursdays: from 09.00 – 20.00 advance. surrounded by may small rooms decorated in Tuscan Type: Irish pub Noon – 19:00, Saturday: 19:00 – 2:30AM hours; Fridays: from 09.00 – 14.00 hours. style. Considered one of the best restaurants in Haifa, if not Location: 120 Yaffe Nof St. Name: HaOgen the best. A three course meal without wine would cost about (across the street from the Crown Plaza Hotel, and Type: Sailors pub Grand Kanyon 150–200 NIS per person. next to the Ganei Dan Hotel) Location: 3 Sha’ar Palmer St. Tel: (972-4)-8103776 The Grand Kanyon is a shopping center, amusement, recreation Name: Ma-Ayan HaBira (walking distance from the Haifa Merkaz railway station) 10 Minutes walk from the venue and fun center, In it are more than 150 shops, a covered Type: Eastern European pub and restaurant Tel: (972-4)-8645108 Opening hours: Sunday–Saturday 21:00–3:00AM amusement park, a SPA and 2,500 parking places. Location: 4 Natanzon St. Opening hours: Sunday – Saturday 10:00AM–2:00AM (walking distance from the Haifa Merkaz railway station) Name: Barbarosa99 Opening hours: Suns to Thursdays: from 10.00 – 22.00 hours; Fridays: from 10.00 to 15.00 hours; Saturdays: from Motzei Tel: (972-4)-8623193 Location: 99 Yafe Nof St. SHOPPING Opening hours: Sunday – Friday 9:00AM – 17:00PM, Tel: (972-4)-8375602 Shabbat (from the end of Shabbat) until 22.30 hours. Tuesday till 24:00 Opening hours Type: Pub and restaurant Address: Simcha Golan Way, Neve Shaanan This restaurant pub specializes in eastern European food. The work days are Sunday through Friday, allowing for Opening hours: Sunday–Saturday 12:00PM (noon)–2:00AM Phone: +972 4 8121111 Every Tuesday, the whole street closes, and a band plays for the observance of the Sabbath from sundown on Friday until Across the street from the Dan Panorama Hotel, 10 minutes Bus numbers: 216, 5, 15, 16, 24, 28 guests who sit in the middle of the street. sundown on Saturday. On Friday, most shops will close at about walk from the venue. 14:00–15:00. Many shops, especially in malls, will re-open on The German Colony Area Saturday evening, around 20:30 in summer. Restaurants and Where can I find... Moria Avenue Area Name: Fatush cafes remain open on Saturdays. In the Arab neighborhoods of Books and Newspapers Type: Arabic/Italian South of the venue is Moria Avenue, along which are many the city, shops are generally open 7 days a week. The closest bookstore to the venue is Steimatzky, which is Location: 38 Ben Gurion Blvd, The German Colony. restaurants, pubs and coffee shops. located within the Auditorium Mall, and also nearby along Tel: (972-4)-8524930 Shops in malls and on major shopping streets are generally Name: Frangelico 130 Hanassi Avenue. Many other bookstores are located The restaurant is located in a restored building at the heart open from 9:30 to 21:00 daily. Type: Pub and Sushi restaurant throughout the city. of the German colony. It is a symbol of coexistence – being a Opening hours: Sunday–Saturday 12:00PM (noon)–2:00AM Banks and post offices, as well as some smaller shops, stick to popular restaurant for all religions and ethnicities in Haifa. The Location: 132 Moria Ave. traditional business hours of 9:00–12:00, and several times a Food and Groceries menu has Arabic fair as well as Italian cuisine. (7 minutes ride by taxi from the venue) week reopen at around 16:00 until 18:00. Good value for money. Mega – large supermarket located within the Auditorium Mall. Tel: (972-4)-8248839 The restaurant has a view of the Bahai Gardens. This pub restaurant serves Sushi, Noodles, Dim Sum, Pasta Bargaining Several 24 hours small grocers are located along Hanassy Name: Mother Nabila dishes, meats, and many types of Alcohol. Bargaining in shops and malls is improper. Bargaining in bazaars Avenue. Type: Lebanese (such as the markets in the old city of Jerusalem or in Acre) and Location: 1 St, The German Colony. The Port Area rural markets (such as the Druze villages markets) is common Pharmaceuticals Tel: (972-4)-8521792 From the venue or hotels, this area may be reached by the yet subtle. Prices in such markets may be haggled down to as Super-Pharm – located within the Auditorium Mall. Houres: Sunday–Saturday 10:00 AM–16:00 PM Carmelit (exit on the last station – the Kikar Paris station), low as 25% of the asking price, depends on the price, and on the amounts of items purchased. 42 The restaurant is located minutes walk west of the Northern or by taxi. ATM 43 end of Ben Gurion Blvd. In the Auditorium mall. Haifa, Israel, 4-7 August 2 011International Wikimedia Conference

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