Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025/Programme
Information for Presenters
[edit]- Sessions will be assigned a chairperson in the programme. Please expect an email from your chairperson and let them know if you have any questions or concerns. Please be ready to share your presentation files or links with your chair.
- Presenters should upload their presentations to WikiCommons before the Convention.
- Please bring a laptop to your session and any needed dongle adapter. If you are unable to bring a laptop, please let us know before Dec. 2024.
- More information to come.
Programme Schedule
[edit]This is the final draft of the programme schedule, though it may undergo slight changes leading up to the conference to better support sessions and presenters.
All the sessions have a corresponding EtherPad, you can find the links on the programme. We encourage attendees to actively take collaborative notes.
Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention takes place over three days, 15-17 January, 2025
| 📝 Registration | 🤗 Welcome Session | ☕ Break | 🍽️ Lunch |
| 🗪 Panel | 💡 Presentation | 🛠️ Workshop | 👩🏻💻 Demonstration |
| 🚌 Travel | 🎉 Social Event | 📢 Keynote | 📷 Group Photo |
| 🤖 Artificial Intelligence
(AI) |
🔍Disinformation (Disinfo) | 📖 GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives Museums) |
| 🧩 Wikimedia (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons) | ⚖️ Knowledge equity | 🔓Open Access |
Online presentations
[edit]Wednesday, January 15
[edit]| Program | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00-09:00 | 📝 Registration
University's entrance |
08:00-09:00 | |||
| 09:00-09:30 | 🤗 Welcome Session
📍 Auditorio Alfonso Reyes (120) |
09:00-09:30 | |||
| Parallel sessions | |||||
| 🧩 Wikidata [EN] 📍 Room 2266 |
🧩 Wikipedia [ES] 📍Library Lobby |
🧩 Wikidata [ES] 📍Computer Lab |
🧩 Wikibase [EN]
📍Room 2247 | ||
| 09:30-11:00 | 🛠️ Wikidata Workshop in English With Alan Ang |
🛠️ Taller de Wikipedia en Español Con Carmen Alcázar |
🛠️ Taller de Wikidata en Español Con Carla Toro Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiLibCon2025_taller-de-wikidata-en-espanol |
🛠️ Wikisource Workshop in English With Farouk Azim |
09:30-11:00 |
| 11:00-11:30 | ☕Break | 11:00-11:30 | |||
| Parallel sessions | |||||
|
🔍 Disinfo Panel 📍Alfonso Reyes Auditorium |
🤖 AI Demo 📍Computer Lab |
🧩 Wikimedia Demo 📍Room 2246 |
Unconference Room
📍Room 2247 | ||
| 11:30-13:00 | 🗪 A positive agenda for a healthy information environment: Wiki-Library Synergies (panel) |
👩🏻💻 El rol de Wikipedia en el ecosistema de la Inteligencia Artificial y la lucha contra la desinformación (demo en Español) |
👩🏻💻 Why do librarians become Wikibrarians? A decade of insights from the Wikimedia movement’s blog and newsletter (demo in English) |
11:30-13:00 | |
| 13:00-14:15 | 🍽️ Long lunch with coffee | 13:00-14:15 | |||
| 14:15-15:00 | 📢Keynote: Disinformation Costanza Sciubba Caniglia 📍Alfonso Reyes Auditorium Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiLibCon2025_keynote-disinformation
|
14:15-15:00 | |||
| 15:00-15:15 | ☕Wikipedia Day Surprise Break | 15:00-15:15 | |||
| Parallel sessions | |||||
|
🔍 Disinfo track 📍Alfonso Reyes Auditorium |
🔍 Disinfo workshop 📍Library Lobby |
Unconference Room
📍Room 2247 | |||
| 15:15-15:30 | 💡 Libraries as Pillars of Truth: Wikimedia Ukraine’s Role in Combating Disinformation and Preserving Culture During the Russo-Ukrainian War |
🛠️ The Wikiverse as a Tool for Information Diplomacy: Strategies for Citizen Diplomats in the Fight Against Disinformation |
15:15-15:30 | ||
| 15:30-15:45 | 💡 Natural Language Processing (NLP) for empowering information literacy of library users with regard to disinformation |
15:30-15:45 | |||
| 15:45-16:00 | 💡 Whose voices are (not) online? Unpacking disinformation from a knowledge justice perspective |
15:45-16:00 | |||
| 16:00-16:30 | Q&A | 16:00-16:30 | |||
| 16:30-17:30 | 🚌 Travel to Xochimilco | 16:30-17:30 | |||
| 17:30-18:30 | 🎉 Trajineras tour | 17:30-18:30 | |||
| 18:30-19:30 | 🚌 Travel back to hotel | 18:30-19:30 | |||
Thursday, January 16
[edit]Friday, January 17
[edit]| Program | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00-09:00 | 📝Registration
📍Library entrance |
08:00-09:00 | |||
| 09:00-09:15 | 🤗Good morning & expectations for the day
📍Alfonso Reyes
|
09:00-09:15 | |||
| 09:15-11:00 | 🙋🏻♀️ Plenary and Interactive session : Engagement & WLUG Business meeting Wikimedia & Libraries User Group 📍Alfonso Reyes
|
09:30-11:00 | |||
| 11:00-11:30 | ☕ Break | 11:00-11:30 | |||
| Parallel sessions | |||||
| ⚖ Knowledge equity panel
📍Room 2247 |
🔍 Disinfo panel 1
📍 Room 2246 |
Unconference Room
📍 Computer Lab | |||
| 11:30-13:00 | 🗪 Bridging the Gender Gap: The Vital Role of Librarians in Shaping Knowledge Systems on Wikipedia and Wikidata |
🗪 Strengthening the Information Ecosystem: Wikimedia and Multi-Sector Efforts to Counter Disinformation |
11:30-13:00 | ||
| 13:00-14:00 | 🍽️Lunch | 13:00-14:00 | |||
| Parallel sessions | |||||
| ⚖ Knowledge equity track
📍Alfonso Reyes A
|
🔓Open Access track
📍Alfonso Reyes B
|
Unconference Room
📍Room 2247 | |||
| 14:00-14:20 | 💡 Biografías de mujeres paraguayas para mitigar el negacionismo histórico |
💡 Presencia de revistas de acceso abierto en Wikidata a partir del Directorio de Revistas de Acceso Abierto (DOAJ) |
14:00-14:15 | ||
| 14:20-14:40 | 💡 Combatting disinformation and historical negationism in health: experience from Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz |
💡 El dominio público mexicano en Wikidata |
14:15-14:30 | ||
| 14:40-15:00 | Q&A | Q&A | 14:40-15:00 | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | ☕ Break | 15:00-15:30 | |||
| 15:30-16:30 | Farewell session: giveaways + survey
Alfonso Reyes Auditorium
|
15:30-16:30 | |||
| 16:30-18:30 | Farewell cocktail at COLMEX | 16:30-18:30 | |||
| After-party! | |||||
Possible Themes
[edit]- Fact-checking and countering disinformation through Wikimedia projects
- It takes a village: collaborations for fighting disinformation on Wikipedia and sister projects
- Reimagining digital literacy training within the Wikiverse
- Strategies for identifying and addressing biased information
- The role of libraries in promoting media literacy and critical thinking
- Case studies on successful interventions against disinformation in Wikimedia
- Leveraging technology and AI to detect and prevent disinformation
- Community engagement and education in combating disinformation
- Ethical considerations in managing and curating content on Wikimedia platforms
Expected Tracks: Wikiverse & Disinformation
[edit]- Wikipedia as a tool
- Wikidata
- Library content contribution to Wikicommons
- Wiki-Library Advocacy:
- Wikimedian-in-Residence Work
- Libraries & Wikimedia campaigns
- Wikilibrarian training
- Mexico/South America WikiProjects
- WikiProjecs: The Wikipedia Library, 1Lib1ref etc.
- Wikibase
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Workshops: Beginners & Advanced
- Unconference Spaces
Call for Papers
[edit]With support from the Wikimedia Foundation, we are excited to announce the second Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention, to be held in Mexico City, Mexico, 15-17 January, 2025, following the first-ever WikiLibCon held in Ireland on 2022. While a limited number of scholarships are available, individuals do not need to be awarded a scholarship to participate. As the inaugural conference for professionals working at the intersection of Wikimedia and libraries, we seek proposals that engage all aspects of libraries and information literacy work happening in and alongside the Wikimedia movement. Wikimedia's core-knowledge projects (especially Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons) provide the community, resources, and technical infrastructure that enable free educational content on a global scale.
Submit your proposal here.
Submissions from the Call for Papers
[edit]TBC