What is Knowledge? Art Exhibition and Wiki Loves Africa photo exhibition in the 1st floor foyer.
Strategy Space in room 3203 ( schedule).
Community Village in the foyer outside Montreal & Mexico City.
The welcome reception for all conference attendees is on the evening of Thursday 19 July: The happy hour welcome event for preconference attendees is the evening prior to the preconference, Tuesday 17 July: These include the Hackathon, Water sustainability Edit-a-thon, Learning Days, Decolonizing the Internet conference (invite only), Globalizing Copyright User Rights meetup, Wikipedia 101 for Librarians, Social Media One-Night Stand, etc. There will be various miniconferences and meetings happening on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th of July. Preconferenceįor the complete schedule see Preconference. Subscribe to unofficial Google Calendar of all sessions and public events to receive alerts.
Finally, Washington DC is “Villa”, maximum capacity of 100 and will be the dedicated Hackathon space.
Hong Kong is “Stellenbosch”, also with a maximum capacity of 180 people.
London is “Constantia”, maximum capacity of 180.
Esino Lario is “Paarl”, maximum capacity of 60.
Combined Montreal and Mexico City form the main plenary hall “VOC Center” with a maximum capacity of 650.
Mexico City is “VOC South” maximum capacity 325.
Montreal is “VOC North”, maximum capacity 325.
During the conference we are renaming the conference rooms after the host cities of previous Wikimanias: The venue website meeting rooms floorplan diagram and room capacity information. All presentations have one or two coloured “beads” shown in the program indicating their relationship to the theme. You can learn about this theme, why and how it was selected for Wikimania, at this blogpost. This Wikimania, the theme of the conference is Bridging knowledge gaps, the ubuntu way forward.Īll submissions must address the theme and explain how they relate to it. Participation & representation ( see all)
Legend Theme Relationship to the theme: Bridging knowledge gaps