Вікіконференція 2024/Програма/en

This is the schedule of the Ukrainian Wikiconference 2024, which will take place on 19-20 October online in Zoom and on 26-27 October offline in Kyiv. For the foreign audience, an English-language part with foreign speakers may be of interest. You can see this schedule in Ukrainian here.

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All sessions of the conference will be in Ukrainian, except sessions by foreign speakers. They will be in English, but with consecutive interpreting to Ukrainian, and they are marked as such (marked in pink color for better visibility).

Also, remember that the Ukrainian time (UTC+3, EEST) is given in the timetable, which can differ from your local time.

Online days

October, 19th

Livestream of the first online day of the conference

Time		Session
11:00	11:15	Opening and welcome speech Anton Obozhyn, Antanana, Anton Protsiuk
11:15	11:50	Getting to know the participants facilitated by: Olena Vinsent
11:50	12:00	Break
Ukrainian wikicommunity during the war
12:00	12:15	How to improve the quality of articles about the war VoidWanderer
12:15	12:30	How to safely write about the military in wikiprojects Serhii Petrov
12:30	12:45	How to protect yourself while contributing to wikiprojects: a set of practical advice Renvoy
12:45	13:00	Group photo, break
International perspective (part 1)
13:00	13:20	CEE Youth Group and the development of the international wikiyouth movement Rina.sl
13:20	13:40	Wikimania 2024: the results of the biggest Wikimedia event of the year Maciej Nadzikiewicz [in English, with consecutive interpreting to Ukrainian]
13:40	14:00	Break
International perspective (part 2)
14:00	14:20	I am a (Wiki) woman in love Laliv Gal [in English, with consecutive interpreting to Ukrainian]
14:20	14:45	«Wikimedia Italia»: news from Italy Ferdinando Traversa [in English, with consecutive interpreting to Ukrainian]
14:45	15:00	Break
Wikiprojects and the generative AI
15:00	15:40	How do we protect wikiprojects from the dark side of the generative AI Asaf Bartov [in English, with consecutive interpreting to Ukrainian]
15:40	16:00	Practical application of the AI in Wikimedia work: Wikimedia Polska experience Natalia Ćwik [in English, with consecutive interpreting to Ukrainian]

October, 20th

Livestream of the second online day of the conference

Time		Session
11:00	11:10	Opening of the second day Anton Protsiuk
11:10	11:50	Getting to know the participants facilitated by: Olena Vinsent
11:50	12:00	Break
12:00	12:45	Wikimedia Ukraine in 2024: work and plans Anton Protsiuk
12:45	13:00	Group photo, break
Wikipedia educational program and community training
13:00	13:10	Wikipedia for kids Iryna Buchneva
13:10	13:20	What educators talked about during the CEE Meeting 2024 Mariana Senkiv
13:20	13:30	Training of patrollers and administrators: experience and prospects Serhii Petrov
13:30	13:40	Short videoinstructions about Wikipedia — what is it and why Anton Protsiuk
13:40	14:00	Break
Photo contests and contributing content to the wikiprojects
14:00	14:10	Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 in Ukraine Rina.sl
14:10	14:20	Wiki Loves Folklore: two year recaps and a search for new ideas Olena Vinsent
14:20	14:30	Development of the GLAM: experience and prospects Serhii Petrov
14:30	14:40	Missions and reality in Wikisource: what else can be done Arxivist
14:40	15:00	Break
Wikipedia interface — what is already available, what awaits us and what needs to be changed
15:00	15:20	Digest of new old tools Renvoy
15:20	15:40	The future of the desktop interface in Ukrainian wikiprojects Szymon Grabarczuk, Olga Vasileva [in English, with slides in Ukrainian]
15:40	16:00	Lack of attribution on Wikipedia — a serious problem Antanana

Kyiv

October, 26th

Livestream of the first offline day of the conference in Kyiv ("Green hall")

Livestream of the first offline day of the conference in Kyiv ("Purple hall")

Time		Session in the "Green hall"	Session in the "Purple hall"
10:00	11:00	Registration
11:00	11:15	Opening and welcome speech Anton Obozhyn, Serhii Petrov, Olena Vinsent
11:15	12:00	Getting to know the participants facilitated by: Olena Vinsent
12:00	12:15	Break
12:15	13:00	News and trends of the international wikimovement in 2024 Anton Protsiuk
13:00	13:15	Break
13:15	14:00	Lightning talks (part 1): 5 reasons to join Wikimedia Ukraine Anton Protsiuk Cultural heritage and other campaigns for libraries and museums Olena Vinsent Marathon in the Crimean Tatar Wikipedia in 2024: a view from the inside Mariana Senkiv, Mykyta Kravtsov	How do I explain Wikipedia to newbies Vira Motorko
14:00	15:15	Group photo, lunch
15:15	16:00	Lightning talks (part 2): Bringing photographers into Wikimedia Commons: how to do it Serhii Petrov First results of the Ukrainian photo contest Wiki Loves Earth Olesia Lukaniuk Photographing in times of the martial law: notes of a Wikipedian journalist Serhii Petrov	Results of the Educational Program: recaps for the year Olena Vinsent
16:00	16:15	Break
16:15	17:00	Lightning talks (part 3): Heritage Guard Network: a pilot initiative to preserve the cultural and natural heritage Olesia Lukaniuk Wikidata and automatic categorization Vyacheslav Mamon Wikidia Iryna Buchneva	Informal meet-up of educators from the wikicommunity moderated by: Mariana Senkiv
17:00	17:15	Break
17:15	18:00	Wiki Science Competition: what is it and where are me moving to Serhii Petrov Neural networks for finding and verifying sources for wikiprojects: practical advice Maryna Liutynska	How to create visual materials about Wikipedia for social media: Wikimedia Ukraine experience Iryna Boiko
18:00		Supper

October, 27th

Livestream of the second offline day of the conference in Kyiv ("Green hall")

Livestream of the second offline day of the conference in Kyiv ("Purple hall")

Time		Session in the "Green hall"	Session in the "Purple hall"
10:00	11:00	Registration
11:00	12:00	"Wikipedia 20": award ceremony hosted by: Mariana Senkiv
12:00	12:15	Break
12:15	13:00	Conclusions and impressions from international events: Wikimedia Hackathon + AI Sauna Anton Obozhyn, Letherian3 Wikimania Anton Obozhyn WikiOutdoor Training 2024 Yuri Perohanych CEE Meeting Mariana Senkiv, Vyacheslav Mamon	Educational and research network projects Maryna Chala
13:00	13:15	Break
13:15	14:00	Libraries and Wikipedia: how to work together Vyacheslav Mamon	Using interactive forms to popularize Wikipedia among teenagers Maryna Lebid
14:00	15:15	Group photo, lunch
15:15	16:00	Developing GLAM: experience and perspectives moderated by: Serhii Petrov	55+ and Wikipedia: experience of the global community and plans for the future Iryna Buchneva
16:00	16:15	Break
16:15	17:00	Strategy of Wikimedia Ukraine for years 2025-2026 — several open questions up for discussion moderated by: Anton Protsiuk	Q&A session about Wikipedia and wikiprojects Anton Obozhyn, Serhii Petrov
17:00	17:15	Break
17:15	18:00	Wikiconfession: sharing your stories about failures and mistakes in wikiprojects moderated by: Anton Protsiuk
18:00		Supper

Kharkiv

November, 3rd

Time		Session
10:15	11:00	Registration
11:00	11:15	Opening and welcome speech Serhii Petrov, Vyacheslav Mamon
11:15	12:00	Getting to know the participants facilitated by: Serhii Petrov
12:00	12:15	Break
Development of wikicommunity and wikispace
12:15	12:30	5 useful ideas from the experience of the international wikimovement Vyacheslav Mamon
12:30	12:45	August wikischool in the Bohodukhiv lyceum Svitlana Tereshchenko
12:45	13:00	Wikiyouth: how to bring pupils and students into wikiprojects Mykyta Kravtsov
13:00	13:15	Break
Overview of the technical capacities
13:15	13:35	The dark and the light theme in Wikipedia, their pros and cons Vyacheslav Mamon
13:35	13:55	Analysis of "diffedit" and "Link-interwiki" instruments: a practical session Dmytro Vlasenko
13:55	15:10	Group photo, break
Strategy of development of the wikiprojects
15:10	15:25	Overview of activities of the Kharkiv wikicommunity for the year Serhii Petrov
15:25	15:45	Strategy of Wikimedia Ukraine for years 2025-2026: overview of strategy and plans Serhii Petrov, Vyacheslav Mamon
15:45	16:00	Break
16:00	17:00	Life during the war: how to develop the community in Kharkiv and what we can do moderated by: Serhii Petrov, Dmytro Vlasenko