Moderation instructions
Thank you very much for volunteering to be a moderator for Wikimania 2007. We hope that session times and instructions have finally reache a stable status but this is Wikimania so changes are likely. May the edit button be with you. The current version of this page (including links) is available at http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Moderation_instructions
Details of the sessions are linked from the schedule. If you have questions you may ask TzuChiang Liou and Jakob Voss.
Types of moderators
- Keynote moderators (K)
- Moderators of keynote sessions should acquire some volunteers to handle the audience microphones during the question and answer session.
- Session moderators (S)
- This is the main sort of moderation, and applies to all presentations and panels, and also to workshops and discussions where the speaker does not wish to self-moderate.
- Room-only moderators (R)
- For some workshops and discussion groups, speakers are happy to self-moderate. In these cases, you need only check the room and ensure the speakers know how to get there. There is no need for an introduction or for you to remain in the session for these.
- Lightning moderators (L)
- Timekeeping will be difficult but important for the lightning talk sessions. Please make extra sure your speakers understand the time limits and be prepared to enforce these.
Responsibilities
- Find your speaker(s) as soon as possible and introduce yourself to them.
- Find out some information that your speakers would like you to say about them and their topic in your introduction (unless the speaker is self-moderating and requires no introduction)
- Make sure your speakers know which room they will be speaking in.
- Make sure your speakers know how long they must speak for.
- Ask the speakers to be at the room at least 10 minutes in advance of their session.
- Make sure you have a watch or clock so you can end the session on time.
- You may want to remind the audience to switch off their phones.
- Briefly introduce the speakers and their topic unless they are intending to self-moderate (see speakers abstract in the Proceedings).
- Ensure the speaker finishes on time. You should pick up printed time cards so that you can hold these up to show the speaker when they have a given amount of minutes remaining.
- Field questions from the audience if the speaker does not want to handle that themselves (you should check in advance which they prefer).
- At the end of the session, thank the speakers for speaking and the audience for attending. Tell the audience what is next on the schedule and where to go for that.
- Make sure that the files with the slides are collected of all speakers. Session assistants have an USB-stick where all slides must be collected.
Session Assistants
This year we have local volunteers as session assistants, they'll work with moderators to facilitate the process of all sessions.
- Find your speaker(s) and moderators as soon as possible and introduce yourself to them.
- Make sure your speakers know which room they will be speaking in.
- Ask the speakers to be at the room at least 10 minutes in advance of their session.
- Check the room is ready at least 15 minutes before the session.
- Make sure water and cups are available for the speakers.
- Make sure the microphones work if any are present and call someone to help if you can't get them working.
- Make sure the notebook in the room is working and internet is working on it
- Collect the files of the slides of the speakers at the USB-stick for the room
- Take notes for the Daily Wrap-up at http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Daily_Wrap-up (1-3 sentences with number of participants, interesting incidents etc.)
Moderation schedule - Day 1
See the schedule for details "(LV)" stands for Local Volunteer.
| Session No. | Room | Presenters | Moderator | Session Assistant |
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| Opening | Restaurant | Florence, Jimmy Wales (welcome speech) | Angela | |
| 101 | Hall | Benjamin Mako Hill, Kat Walsh | Erik Moeller | Christine(LV) Sherry(LV) Alex(LV) |
| 102 | 325 | Jakob Voss, Denny Vrandecic | Jakob Voss (Self-Moderate) | Mel Chua(LV) Peggy(LV) |
| 103 | 328 | Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Su-Chu Hsu, Ju-Chun Ko. Sylvain Zimmer | Kizu Naoko | Gladys(LV) Jessie(LV) |
| 104 | 332 | Anthony Mao, Thomas Tsai, Yu, Long-Shan | Sung, Chien-chen, Deputy Director-General of National Central Library | Allen(LV) jia-hwei(LV) |
| 105 | 334 | Seth Anthony, Lawrence Liang | Kim | Elaine(LV) |
| 106 | 319 | (Spare session) | Tingja(LV) El(LV) Gabriel(LV) 劉怡利(LV) | |
| 201 | Hall | Erik Moeller | Angela | Adam Hyde Christine(LV) Alex(LV) |
| 202 | 325 | Jack Herrick | Ta-Yi Lin, Deputy project leader of Taiwan encyclopedia | Julie(LV) jia-hwei(LV) |
| 203 | 328 | Revo Soekatno, Ravi Kant | Jakob Voss | Jessie(LV) Gladys(LV) |
| 204 | 332 | Lawrence Liang, Teresa Malango | Evan Prodromou | Allen(LV) |
| 205 | 334 | michele, Kizu Naoko | Self moderate (Kizu) | Elaine(LV) |
| 206 | 319 | (Spare session) | Tingja(LV) El(LV) Gabriel(LV) 劉怡利(LV) | |
| 301 | Hall | Samuel Klein | Benjamin Mako Hill | Christine(LV) Alex(LV) |
| 302 | 325 | Gerard Meijssen | Julie(LV) jia-hwei(LV) | |
| 303 | 328 | Sabahat Ashraf, David Beall | Angela | Jessie(LV) Gladys(LV) |
| 304 | 332 | Harel Cain, Chia-Wei Chiu | Jakob Voss | Allen(LV) |
| 305 | 334 | Guillaume Paumier | Enric Senabre | Elaine(LV) |
| 306 | 319 | Masayuki Hatta: | adam hyde | Tingja(LV) El(LV) Gabriel(LV) 劉怡利(LV) |
| 401 | Hall | Jimmy Wales | Angela | Christine(LV) Alex(LV) |
| 402 | 325 | Gerard Meijssen | Workshop, Self Moderate | Julie(LV) jia-hwei(LV) |
| 403 | 328 | David Pendery | Self Moderate with Charles Chen | Jessie(LV) Glays(LV) |
| 404 | 332 | Dominick Chen | Adam_Hyde | Allen(LV) |
| 405 | 334 | Elizabeth Stark & Samuel Klein | Workshop, Self Moderate | Elaine(LV) |
| 406 | 319 | Lightning talks #1 | Mel Chua, Phoebe Ayers | Tingja(LV) EL(LV) Gabriel(LV) 劉怡利(LV) |
| Wrap-Up | Hall | Phoebe Ayers, Jakob Voss, TzuChiang Liou | ||
| Poster-Session | Hall | Jakob Voss | ||
Moderation schedule - Day 2
- See schedule for details. Empty means no one moderate that session for now, please do help moderate if you're interested and available.
| Session No. | Room | Presenters | Moderator | Session Assistant | Remark |
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| Opening | Lecture | ||||
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| 501 | Lecture | Achal Prabhala, Joris Komen | Shunling Chen | Sherry(LV) 林竑萲(LV) 李欣穎(LV) |
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| 502 | 325 | Haidong Pan, Mathias Schindler | Christophe Henner | Vikki(LV) |
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| 503 | 328 | Teemu Leinonen, Cormac Lawler | Mel Chua | El |
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| 504 | 332 | Brian Mingus, Luca De Alfaro | Markus Krötzsch | Tingja(LV) |
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| 505 | 334 | Craig Spurrier | self-moderate | Aurelia(LV) jia-hwei(LV) |
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| 506 | 319 | Allen(LV) Elaine(LV) Elelyn(LV) Gabriel(LV) |
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| 601 | Lecture | Ward Cunningham, Valentin Jijkoun (TBC), James Forrester, Dirk Riehle | self | Sherry(LV) 林竑萲(LV) 李欣穎(LV) |
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| 602 | 325 | Chao-Kuei Hung | Mel Chua | Vikki(LV) |
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| 603 | 328 | Isaac Mao | Christophe Henner | EL(LV) |
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| 604 | 332 | David Pendery, KaKan Lo | ...?... | Tingja(LV) |
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| 605 | 334 | Li-Hua Wu, Jun-Fa Wong | ...?... | Aurelia(LV) jia-hwei(LV) |
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| 606 | 319 | Allen(LV) Elaine(LV) Elelyn(LV) Gabriel(LV) |
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| 701 | Lecture | Raoul Weiler | Heather Ford | Sherry(LV) 林竑萲(LV) 李欣穎(LV) |
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| 702 | 325 | Renaud Gaudin, Kim Tucker | Enric Senabre | Peggy(LV) |
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| 703 | 328 | Ida Suandi, Jan-bart De Vreede | Christophe Henner | jia-hwei(LV) |
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| 704 | 332 | Michael Dale, Ping Yeh | Mike Tian-Jian "b6s" Jiang | EL(LV) Tingja(LV) |
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| 705 | 334 | SJ | Mel Chua, self | Evelyn(LV) |
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| 706 | 319 | Elaine(LV) Aurelia(LV) Gabriel(LV) |
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| Session 8 | |||||
| 801 | Lecture | Melissa Hagemann, Erin McKean | Phoebe Ayers | Sherry(LV) 林竑萲(LV) 李欣穎(LV) |
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| 802 | 325 | Kate (Aude), Evan Prodromou | Dongpo Deng | Peggy(LV) |
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| 803 | 328 | Cormac Lawler | self | jia-hwei(LV) |
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| 804 | 332 | Alexis Rondeau, Hector Rinaldi, Stan Wiechers | Workshop, Self Moderate | EL(LV) Tingja(LV) |
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| 805 | 334 | (Election Panel) | Jan-Bart de Vreede | Evelyn(LV) |
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| 806 | 319 | Elaine(LV) Aurelia(LV) Gabriel(LV) |
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| Session 9 | |||||
| 901 | Lecture | Mike Godwin, Kat Walsh, Andrew Lih | Workshop, Self Moderate | Sherry(LV) 林竑萲(LV) 李欣穎(LV) |
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| 902 | 325 | Yuri Astrakhan | Workshop, Self Moderate | Peggy(LV) |
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| 903 | 328 | Kim Tucker | Workshop, Self Moderate / isaac mao could help as well / Teemu Leinonen could help as well | El(LV) |
Need a scribe and someone to drive Freemind. Co-facilitation notes |
| 904 | 332 | Dirk Riehle | Workshop, Self Moderate | EL(LV) Tingja(LV) |
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| 905 | 334 | Adam Hyde | Workshop, Self Moderate | Evelyn(LV) |
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| 906 | 319 | Lightning talks #2 | Mel Chua | Elaine(LV) Aurelia(LV) Gabriel(LV) |
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Moderation schedule - Day 3
- See schedule for details. Empty means no one moderate that session for now, please do help moderate if you're interested and available.
| Session No. | Room | Presenters | Moderator | Session Assistant | Remark |
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| welcome | Hall | ||||
| Session 10 | |||||
| 1001 | Hall | Wayne Mackintosh, Delphine Ménard | Austin, Mel Chua (Kim is also willing to help out here if needed) | Tingja(LV) 劉怡利(LV) |
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| 1002 | Auditorium | Spare room | |||
| 1003 | 325 | Brion Vibber, Brian Behlendorf | Masayuki Hatta | peggy(LV) 林虹萲(LV) |
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| 1004 | 328 | Brianna Laugher, James Hare | Jakob Voss (but I don't insist to) | Gladys(LV) Jessie(LV) |
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| 1005 | 332 | LIN, Yu-Shyen, Kwang-Tsao Shao | Ching-Yi Liu | Dana(LV) |
workshop |
| 1006 | 334 | Rebecca MacKinnon, Craig Spurrier | Ching Chiao | Christine(LV) 李欣穎(LV) |
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| Session 11 | |||||
| 1102 | Auditorium | Plenary - Joi ito | Ilya | Phoebe Ayers | |
| Session 12 | |||||
| 1201 | Hall | Benjamin Mako Hill, Alain Desilets | Jakob Voss | Tingja(LV) 劉怡利(LV) |
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| 1202 | Auditorium | Spare room | |||
| 1203 | 325 | Christoph Sauer, Chuck Smith, Jon Phillips | Mike Tian-Jian "b6s" Jiang | 林虹萲(LV) |
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| 1204 | 328 | Heather Ford, Elizabeth Stark, Sylvain Zimmer | Workshop, Self Moderate | Gladys(LV) Jessie(LV) |
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| 1205 | 332 | Digital Art, Open source | Isaac Mao | Dana(LV) |
panel |
| 1206 | 334 | Greg Stein | Angela | Evelyn(LV) jia-hwei(LV) |
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| 1007 | lounge | Lightning talks #3 | Cormac, Mel | EL(LV) |
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| Session 13 | |||||
| 1102 | Auditorium | Plenary: Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel | Florence | Andrew Lih, Mel Chua, James F., Phoebe Ayers, Austin Hair | |
| Session 14 | |||||
| 1102 | Auditorium | Closing Speech-Jimmy Wales | Andrew Lih | Phoebe Ayers | |
| Awards | |||||
| 1102 | Auditorium | Awards session | |||
| closing session | |||||
| 1102 | Auditorium | Wrap-up, closing gala & ceremony |
Free Culture Space
- See Free Culture Space for detail.
Ligthning Talks
- Andrew Lih will be our moderator of Ligthning Talks