WikiIndaba conference 2019/Program

WIKI INDABA 2019	Program	Attend	Location	Fringe Events	Logistics	Contact	Documentation
	Submissions Program Questions & Needs	Registration Information Scholarships Participants' List Friendly Space Policy	Conference Venue and Hotel	Social Events Meetups	Travel Information and Visa Assistance Conference Guide	WikiIndaba 2019 team	Documentation Report

Session Identifiers
– Lecture	– Workshop
– Roundtable	– Panel
– Lightning Talks	– Plenary

Conference videos

• Commons category: Category:Videos from Wiki Indaba 2019

Thursday 7 November

All day - Arrival of Conference Participants

18:00 - 20:00 - Community Mixer & Dinner

20:00 - 22:00 - Meetups

Friday 8 November

Room	Main Hall		Room
08:30 – 09:00	Registration		08:30 – 09:00
09:00 – 09:30	Welcome Session		09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00			09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break		10:00 – 10:30
Room	Main Hall	Room 1	Room
10:30 – 11:00	African Studies in Wikimedia projects Ursula Oberst	Strategising The Next 1-3 Years of Wikimedia Interventions In Africa Janeen Uzzell, Dumisani Ndubane, Felix Nartey	10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30	Retention model (VSDR-d3 v1.0 model) for Volunteer Software Developer Derick N. Alangi		11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00	Ideas to strengthen local African content Anass Sedrati		11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30	Affiliates Ecosystem and Africa Dumisani Ndubane	Public Policy for Wikimedia in Africa: Who, what, where, and how? Tony Sebro	12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00	Lunch		12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:30			13:00 – 13:30
Room	Main Hall	Room 1	Room
13:30 – 14:00	The AfroCine Project: Bridging the African Content Gap Through Pop Culture Sam Oyeyele	Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners Asaf Bartov	13:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:30	Closing the Gender Gap across Africa Erina Mukuta		14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00	What is ART+FEMINISM? Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Walaa Abdel Manaem		14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30	Lightning Talks Dumisani Ndubane (moderator)		15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00	Break and Group Photo		15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 20:00	Abuja City Tour by NTDC		17:00 – 20:00
20:00 – 21:00	Dinner		20:00 – 21:00
21:00 - 22:00	Meetups		21:00 - 22:00

Saturday 9 November

Room	Main Hall	Room	Room
09:00 – 09:30	Working together with UNESCO - preserving African heritage Gereon Kalkuhl	MediaWiki 101: Getting indoctrinated into MediaWiki development (plus fettle a real MW bug) Derick N. Alangi	09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00	Promote local languages with Lingua Libre and Wiktionary Georges Fodouop, Nadia Ongbakak, Christian Mbou		09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break		10:00 – 10:30
Room	Main Hall	Room 1	Room
10:30 – 11:00	WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique Florence Devouard	Beyond the basics: Intermediate Wikidata tools Asaf Bartov	10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30	Promoting Commons Images with a Twitter Bot (WM-Emoji-Twitter-Bot) Rosalie Perside		11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00	Introducing Wikipedia to New Readers Angie Muigai		11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30	Anti-harassment: latest news from the Trust & Safety team Samuel Guebo, Christel Steigenberger		12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00	Lunch		12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:30			13:00 – 13:30
Room	Main Hall	Room 1	Room
13:30 – 14:00	Growing Our Movement Through Brand Janeen Uzzell	Digital Security for Wikimedians Samuel Guebo, Christel Steigenberger, Derick Alangi	13:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:30	Movement Strategy: Building Strategy Collaboratively Tanveer Hasan, Douglas SSebaggala		14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00		Wikimedia Space, a new platform for support and collaboration Quim Gil	14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30	Lightning Talks Bobby Shabangu (moderator)		15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00	Break		15:30 – 16:00
Room	Main Hall	Room 1	Room
16:00 – 16:30	Fostering a Wikimedia Community in Guinea-Bissau Paulo Santos Perneta	Grants and Resources Offered By the Wikimedia Foundation Chen Almog	16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00	Creative Commons Licenses: an asset for the work, the author and the user Sami Mlouhi		16:30 – 17:00
Room	Main Hall		Room
17:00 – 17:30	State of African Wikis: What Are The Challenges Facing African Language Wikipedias? Any Potential Solutions? Sam Oyeyele, Dumisani Ndubane		17:00 – 17:30
17:30 – 18:00			17:30 – 18:00
18:00 – 21:00	Dinner and WikiParty at Jabi Boat Club		18:00 – 21:00
21:00 - 22:00	Meetups		21:00 - 22:00

Sunday 10 November

Room	Main Hall		Room
09:00 – 09:30	Closing Session		09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00			09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break		10:00 – 10:30
Room	Main Hall	Room 1	Room
10:30 – 11:00	Meetups	Showcasing How Far We Have Come as a Community in Nigeria (Closed Meetup) Wikimedia Nigeria Community	10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30			11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00	Meetups		11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30			12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:00	Lunch		12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:30			13:00 – 13:30
All day - All day	Departure of Conference Participants		Allday - All day