Wikimedia Technology Summit 2021

Welcome to Wikimedia Technology Summit 2021

19- 20 November 2021

PITAC Report 2001: Universal Access to Human Knowledge

Aim of Wikimedia Technology Summit 2021
  • Share and discuss the state-of-the-art tools, technologies, knowledge, and ongoing research
  • Provide a platform to discuss topics related to technology areas like the Indic language computing tools, text processing, text generation, document archival, rich media processing, and user interfaces
  • Help enhance and enrich the Wikimedia ecosystem in the medium and long term.

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Role of Technology in Community Encyclopedias – Challenges and Vision
2.00 – 2.10
10 minutes		 Welcome Vasudeva Varma, IIIT Hyderabad
2.10 – 2.30
20 minutes		 Chief Guest’s Opening Keynote Raj Reddy, CMU/IIIT Hyderabad
2.30 – 2.40
10 minutes		 Remarks by the Guest of Honor Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY
2.40 – 2.45
5 minutes		 Remarks by the DST Guest Sujit Banerjee, Director, NCSTC, DST
2.45 – 2.50
5 minutes		 Partner’s remarks – TS Government Dileep Konatham, IT&C, Telangana Govt
2.50  – 2.55
5 minutes		 Partner’s remarks – Wikimedia Foundation Praveen Das, Wikimedia Foundation
2.55 – 3.00
5 minutes		 Partner’s remarks – FICCI Sarika Gulyani, FICCI
3.25 – 3.30
5 minutes		 Break
3.30 – 3.55
25 minutes		 Re-imagining knowledge repositories T.V.Prabhakar, IIT, Kanpur
3.55 – 4.20
25 minutes		 Building crowd sourced encyclopedia for India: a roadmap Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad
4.20 – 4.45
25 minutes		 The Ethics of Building Language Technology for Social Impact Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research India
4:45 – 5.10
25 minutes		 Human Bot collaboration in generating Wiki pages Vasudeva Varma & Praveen Garimella, IIIT Hyderabad
5.10 – 5.15
5 minutes		 Break
5.15 – 6.15
60 minutes		 Panel Discussion: Role of Wikipedia in preserving Language and Culture Moderator: Praveen Das
Panelists: Kalika Bali, Swarn Lata, Vijay Kumar, Tanveer Hasan, Suresh K
6.15 – 6.35
20 minutes		 Language Strategy?? Amir Aharoni, Wikimedia Foundation
6.35 – 6.55
20 minutes		 Introducing Wikisource: The Free Digital Library Satdeep Gill, Wikimedia Foundation
6.55 – 7.25
30 minutes		 Closing Keynote: Abstract Wikipedia – Sharing more knowledge in more languages Denny Vrandečić, Wikimedia Foundation
https://youtu.be/tsVHuXnu90A
Session I – TeWiki – Development and Enhancement of Telugu Wikipedia
2.00 – 2.30
30 minutes		 Media Wiki Localisation Arjun Rao, Wikipedian
2.30 – 3.00
30 minutes		 User Scripts – Gadgets Veeven, Wikipedian
3.00 – 3:30
30 minutes		 Telugu Encyclopaedias, efforts and challenges Reddy Shyamala,
Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University
3.30 – 4.00
30 minutes		 Domain specific Bot articles Radhika Mamidi and  Krupal Kasyap, IIIT Hyderabad
4.00 – 4.10
10 minutes		 Break
Session II – IndicWiki – Indian language Computing in the Context of Wikipedia
4.10 – 4.30
20 minutes		 MediaWiki: A software behind wikis Jay Prakash, Wikipedian
4:30 – 5.00
30 minutes		 Low Resource Natural Language Processing Pushpak Bhattacharya – IIT Bombay
5.00 – 5.30
30 minutes		 Scaling Natural Language Processing for the Next Billion Users Partha Talukdar, Google India/IISc
5.30 – 6.00
30 minutes		 Wikipedia – Language Technologies – Language Resources Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad
6.00 – 6.45
45 minutes		 Panel Discussion: To MT (Machine Translate) or not to MT Moderator: Radhika Mamidi,
Panelists: T.V.Prabhkar, Pushpak Bhattacharya, Prabha Chatterji
6:45 – 6:55
10 minutes 		Closing remarks PJ Narayanan, IIIT Hyderabad
6.55 – 7.00
5 minutes 		Vote of Thanks Vibha and Vasudeva Varma
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