Today the 2020 WikiCite ‘virtual conference’ begins. We have 14 sessions, over 3 days, in 5 languages.

All sessions are listed and described at the event homepage here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/2020_Virtual_conference
(short URL for easy sharing https://w.wiki/gwo )

All sessions will be live-streamed on the WikipediaWeekly YouTube channel (playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL05-NbVFLBbr5vfeTN-LZReRRarH-zAh ) and also via the WikiCite Twitter account (

https://twitter.com/wikicite ). There are sessions being hosted at appropriate times all timezones. Certain hosts will also be live-streaming into their community’s Facebook page (including sessions hosted by the Brazilian, Swedish, Australian and Indonesian communities). Conversation will be hosted on the WikiCite Telegram group https://t.me/joinchat/FeOscRxFj17BRhwX-Mg7Sg All sessions will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons afterwards.

The program for today (Monday 26), is below with the Youtube link. For details of each session visit and alternative viewing options, the program page:

In one hour from this message (at 10:00 UTC) is the opening session: “State of WikiCite in 2020” [in English] presented by Daniel Mietchen, and hosted by Jakob Voß & Eva Seidlmayer:

https://youtu.be/TmGpJnukbYU

Then,

- "Author items" [English] 13:00 - 16:45 UTC, hosted by Simon Cobb & Jason Evans. Speakers: Simon Cobb; Arthur P Smith; Maria Gould; Tom Demeranville; Finn Årup Nielsen; Jack Nunn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZUB62hp5dU

- "Hands-on: Wikidata-Einführung (Library Carpentry style)" [Deutsch] 14:00 - 17:00 UTC, hosted by Rabea Müller & Konrad Förstner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3gIZemmRnI

- "Citations in Swedish Parliamentary documents" [English] 17.00 - 20.00 UTC, hosted by Jan Ainali & Daniel Eriksson Speakers: Daniel Mietchen; Robin Linderborg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMtP64yFKn0

- "Research output items" [English] 22:00 - 24:00 UTC, hosted by Thomas Shafee & Alex Lum. Speakers: Daniel Mietchen, Margaret Donald, Federico Leva, Antonin Delpeuch, Amanda Lawrence, Thomas Shafee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUNw878Xonw

Sincerely,

Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]

WikiCite Program Manager

Wikimedia Foundation