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Time	Hall (300 seats)	Room 325 (70 seats)	Room 328 (80 seats)	Room 332 (70 seats)	Room 334 (70 seats)	Wikimania Lounge at 319
9:00~10:15	Welcome Speeches: Florence Nibart-Devouard (Anthere)/Jimmy Wales (Jimbo)
10:15~10:30	Break, open space introduction
10:30~noon Session 1	session 101 Benjamin Mako Hill: Freedom's Standard Advanced Kat Walsh: The Conscientious Copyfighter	session 102 Panel Jakob Voss: The Semantic Web and why Wikipedia should bother Denny Vrandecic: Wikipedia 3.0: MediaWiki meets the Semantic Web	session 103 Erin McKean: What Does Reference Look Like? (And Why Looks Don't Matter Much) Seth Anthony: Where Have All The Writers Gone: The Diversion, Distraction and Departure of Wiki "Content Creators""	session 104 Samuel Klein: OLPC and addressing systemic bias Lawrence Liang - Debate on the Authority of Knowledge vsi a vis Wikipedia	session 105 Workshop Dominick Chen Remix with wikipedia, remix on wikipedia	session 106
12:00~1:30pm	Lunch
1:30~2:30pm Session 2	session 201 Erik Moeller: Wiki2Wiki: Wikimedia and the new ecosystem of knowledge	session 202 Sabahat Ashraf: National and Community Information Databases—WikiPakista, WikiIndia and HumanRights.ProgressiveIslam.org David Beall: SFHOMELESS.NET and Wikia: Wiki technology expanding into government and social service resources	session 203 Revo Soekatno: Malay, Malaysian and Indonesian languages on Wikipedia Ravi Kant The history and the current status of Hindi wikipedia and it's communities.	session 204 Panel Lawrence Liang - open content licensing Teresa Malango : Licensing Strategy and Business model for Open Content Ching-Yi Liu : Opportunities and possible model for digital archive released from public sector.	session 205 Mike Godwin, Kat Walsh, Andrew Lih: shifting nature of the community	session 206
2:30~2:45pm	Break
2:45~3:45pm Session 3	session 301 Guillaume Paumier, Elisabeth Bauer: Strengthening and unifying the visual identity of Wikimedia projects: a step towards maturity Presentation and proceeding should be online before the conference begins. guillom	session 302 Sylvain Zimmer: Building a sustainable economy around free music, the Jamendo way Jack Herrick: Challenges in a growing wiki : The wikiHow case study	session 303 Harel Cain: Hebrew language Wikipedia: what makes it special and what other projects can learn from it Chia-Wei Chiu: The Study of Wiki Editing Behavior of China Wikipedian - A Case Study of Wikipedia	session 304 Panel Anthony Mao, Thomas Tsai, Yu, Long-Shan: Library with Free Information and Free Software	session 305 David Pendery: Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: The Mind of Wikipedia KaKan Lo: Another role of Wikipedians: Guiding machines to do intelligent tasks	session 306 BoF Masayuki Hatta: The Issues on Wiki Licensing user:michele, Why is Media Wiki not (yet) the ideal Wiki-engine for (formal) educational settings? Naoko Kizu: Translation for Community Building
3:45~4:00pm	Afternoon break
4:00~5:00pm Session 4	session 401 Workshop Cormac Lawler: Understanding, defining, and developing Wikiversity	session 402 Workshop Gerard Meijssen: languages, small projects, the language committee, fund raising, signwriting	session 403 Panel David Pendery: Wikipedia and Taiwanese Students--A Good Mix	session 404 LIN, Yu-Shyen: Evaluating the Effectiveness of TaiwanBaseballWiki Kwang-Tsao Shao: how to apply Wiki system on Taiwanese Encyclopedia of Life	session 405 Panel Digital Art, Open source and open content.	session 406 Lightning talks #1
5:00~5:30pm	Wrap-up (summary of day's sessions); Poster Session

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Time	Auditorium (800 seats)	Room 325 (70 seats)	Room 328 (80 seats)	Room 332 (70 seats)	Room 334 (70 seats)	Lounge & Open Space at 319
9:00~9:15	Welcome, daily announcements and overview
9:15~9:30	Break
9:30~10:30 Session 5	session 501 Achal Prabhala: Wikimedia in the offline world Joris Komen: Are FLOSS, Open Content and Open Access solutions practicable and scaleable in remote, underserved African schools?	session 502 Workshop Alexis Rondeau, Hector Rinaldi, Stan Wiechers: Distribute knowledge using cell-phone readable physical hyperlinks	session 503 Teemu Leinonen: Vision for Wikiversity: academy, popular education/folk high school and free school Chao-Kuei Hung: Free Culture Advocacy: A General Strategy and Examples Involving Social Movement Groups and Community Universities	session 504 Workshop Brian Mingus: Using Natural Language Processing to determine the quality of Wikipedia articles Luca De Alfaro: A Content-Driven Reputation System for the Wikipedia	session 505 Panel Craig Spurrier: Grass Root media and CJU revire	session 506
10:30~10:45	Break
10:45~11:45 Session 6	session 601 Panel Ward Cunningham, Valentin Jijkoun, James Forrester, Tian-Jian Jiang: The future of wikis	session 602 Renaud Gaudin: moulin - offline wikipedia for the developing world Kim Tucker: Libre Knowledge and Another World is Possible	session 603 Ida Suandi: Wikipedia: A Powerful Tool of Knowledge or an Internet Phenomena? A Survey Study of Singapore Language Teachers' Perspectives on the Use of Wikipedia in Teaching. Jan-bart De Vreede : Wiki's in Dutch Education	session 604 Michael Dale: Metavid Wiki - Real Time Collaborative Semantic Audio/Video Metadata in MediaWiki. Ping Yeh: Embeddable Wiki Engine: proof of concept and application ideas	session 605	session 606 BOF BOF Craig Spurrier: Wikinews: How it is unique, and what the future holds Li-Hua Wu: The Accumulation of Local Knowledge and Public Participation:A case study of Chu-Tien, Liu-Dui Jun-Fa Wong: How to gathering local knowledge?─Public Participation mechanism of 2007　localogy GIS project.
11:45~1:15pm	Lunch
1:15~2:15pm Session 7	Plenary -Raoul Weiler: Compilation of Ethnographic Objects from Museums Reserves					session 706
2:15~2:30	Break
2:30~3:30pm Session 8	session 801 Melissa Hagemann: Open Access movement Oscar Van Dillen: Wikimedia: somewhere between Art and Science	session 802 Kate (Aude): Free, open source geospatial mapping tools and use in Wikimedia projects Evan Prodromou: Extending wikis with social networking tools	session 803 Cormac Lawler: Learning and learning about learning in Wikiversity Gerard Meijssen:OmegaWiki, Wiki for Professional, the launch of semantic support for Wikipedia and the use of OmegaWiki in education and publications	session 804 Haidong Pan Democracy and business model: wikipedia and wiki ecosystem in China Mathias Schindler:The economics of writing and publishing an encyclopedia	session 805 Panel Election Panal (briefing and accept questions from the audience) Jon Harald Søby Tim Starling Kizu Naoko Cary Bass Jan-Bart de Vreede	session 806
3:30~3:45pm	Break
3:45~4:45pm Session 9	session 901 Workshop Elizabeth Stark & Samuel Klein: Free Culture Spaces - Building a Network of Community Centers to Promote Free Content Development	session 902 'Workshop Yuri Astrakhan: Direct data access with MediaWiki API	session 903 'Workshop Kim Tucker: WikiMedia and Education: extending Wikimedia tools for Collaborative Learning	session 904 Workshop Dirk Riehle: Bringing Wikipedia to Work: Open Collaboration within Corporations	session 905	session 906 Lightning talks #2
4:45~5:00pm	Afternoon break
5:00~5:30pm	Daily wrapup, session summary and Awards session

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Time	Hall (300 seats)	Auditorium (800 seats)	Room 325 (70 seats) tech 2	Room 328 (80 seats) admins	Room 332 (70 seats)	Room 334 (70 seats)	Lounge & Open Space at 319
9:00~9:15	Welcome, daily announcements and overview
9:15~9:30	Break
9:30~10:30 Session 10	session 1001 Wayne Mackintosh: Sustainable innovation in mega-projects Delphine: Virtual and national cultures: Wikimedia, projects and organisation	session 1002 Rebecca MacKinnon: Citizen media: Why Global Voices isn't trying to be a news agency. Isaac Mao: Knowledge Forming, Heredity, and Variation	session 1003 Brian Behlendorf:open source & wiki Adam Hyde: Free Manuals for free software	session 1004 Brianna Laugher: Special:Contributions/newbies: a study of newly-registered user behaviour James Hare: How to Effectively Deal with Disputes	session 1005 Enric Senabre Hidalgo: Meritocracy and vandalism Su-Chu Hsu: Authorship and Liquidity in Wikiart	session 1006	session 1007 BOF Lodewijk Gelauff: Wikimedia conferences - Local opportunities Guillaume Paumier : Wikimedia Meta-Wiki as a thematic coordination platform for WikiProjects
10:30~10:45	Break
10:45~11:45 Session 11	Plenary - Joi ito						session 1107
11:45~1:15pm	Lunch
1:15~2:15pm Session 12	session 1201 Greg Stein: Google and wiki	session 1202 Heather Ford: Why Wikimania and the iCommons Summit should shack up	session 1203 Christoph Sauer, Chuck Smith: WikiCreole and its practical applications - the future of wiki interaction Jon Phillips: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - Wikibiblio: A Community-based Bibliographic System	session 1204 Benjamin Mako Hill: Supporting Collaboration in Branched Articles Alain Desilets: Making WikiMedia resources more useful for translators	session 1205 Brion Vibber: Hacking Days Review	session 1206 SJ, Summer of Content 2007 & Curriculum Jam	session 1207 Lightning talks #3
2:15~2:30	Break
2:30~3:50pm Session 13	Plenary: Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel						session 1307
3:50~4:00pm	Break
4:00~5:00pm Session 14	Closing Speech-Jimmy Wales						session 1407
5:00~5:10pm	Afternoon break
5:10~5:50pm	Wrap-up, closing gala & ceremony

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