WikiConference North America/2020
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WikiConference North America is the annual conference of Wikimedia enthusiasts and volunteers from throughout North America, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The 2020 conference will take place online. Join Wikimedia enthusiasts for a weekend of collaboration and discovery.
When and Where | |
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December 11–13, 2020 Virtual | |
Links at a glance | |
Conference | https://wcna.wiki |
Chat | https://chat.wcna.wiki |
Virtual lounge | https://lounge.wcna.wiki |
Program | https://program.wcna.wiki |
Register | https://register.wcna.wiki |
Friendly Space Policy | https://w.wiki/q8H |
@wikiconNA #WikiConferenceNA | |
WikiConference North America | |
Commons category | WikiConference North America 2020 |
Swag | WCNA shirts, stickers, mugs, and caps for sale at-cost https://merch.wcna.wiki |
Wikiconference North America is a free, virtual conference, and is open to anyone in the world, regardless of how much or little experience you have with Wikimedia projects.
Details
edit- Location: Virtual. See Program schedule
- At a glance:
- Friday, December 11: Culture Crawl and evening social
- Saturday, December 12: Main conference program and evening social
- Sunday, December 13: Open sessions (movement strategy, edit-a-thons, meetups, training, unconference)
Communication
edit- Join the conversation:
- Chat via Telegram: https://chat.wcna.wiki
- Download Telegram or use it in your web browser; use the Telegram for announcements and discussion
- Lounge using Wonder: https://lounge.wcna.wiki
- Document using Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WCNA_2020
- IRC channel, as an alternative to Telegram: #wikimedia-wikiconference on Freenode IRC. Warning: your IP address may be disclosed to other users when you join, and IRC operates under a different moderation policy. Join through an online client – further information on IRC available at w:en:WP:IRC.
Safe Space
editConference attendees agree to abide by these Friendly Space Policies.
Program
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Friday
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Session A | Other activities | Other activities |
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10:00 | Chicanx Art and Artists
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Smithsonian American Art Museum
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11:00 | Women in Climate Change
WikiDonne and Wikimedia Foundation | ||
12:00-13:00 | Coolest Tool Award
Wikimedia Foundation and community | ||
13:00-14:00 | Watch via YouTube Live or Facebook Live
Welcome to WCNA WCNA organizers
Andrew Lih GLAM Jam Session Discussing the best tools, gadgets, and scripts for GLAM editors. Examples:
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14:00-15:00 | Sum of all Paintings – Enriching metadata and visualizing Wikidata's most active GLAM project. Best practices and tools, from list-making to maintenance queries to bots.
Jane Darnell, Andrew Lih, et al
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15:00-16:00 | Wikidata and GLAM – Tools to connect data collections to Wikimedia content using OpenRefine, Listeria, TABernacle, Google Sheets scripts, Pattypan and more.
Rob Fernandez, Silvia Gutiérrez |
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16:00-17:00 | Wiki Loves Fashion – modeling and improving fashion topics in Wikidata (shoes, textiles, fashion houses)
Paula Marmor and Andrew Lih
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17:00-18:00 | Lightning Talks – 5 minute talks (watch recording) Phoebe Ayers, Rosie Stephenson |
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18:00-20:00 | Break – Lounge remains open for hacking and chatting | ||
20:00-22:00 | Opening Reception
Social time, come meet other editors, edit-a-thons, what you will WCNA committee |
Saturday
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Session A | Session B | Other activities |
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11:30 | Welcome and orientation (watch recording)
WikiConference North America organizers walk through the day's events and demonstrate the chat and lounge. |
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12:00-14:00 | Philadelphia WikiSalon at WCNA (2 hours)
Learn how to add photos of your favorite holiday food to Commons, or try one of the Smörgåsbord of Wikipedia and Wikidata-related tasks in our breakout rooms. (Most tasks have recorded demonstrations and can be viewed or worked on at any time.) Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Doreva Belfiore |
Commons Photographers User Group Virtual Meeting
Open to anyone who takes pictures for Commons (or is interested in doing so) Zoom (Code: "wmcommons") | |
14:00-15:00 | Indigenous Languages and Knowledge in Wikimedia Projects
Benoit Rochon, Thérèse Ottawa |
State of Wikimedia 2030 strategy and next steps: Hubs, Interim Global Council/Movement Charter
MPourzaki (WMF), Rosie Stephenson |
News On Wiki Edit-a-thon (2 hours)
With AfroCROWD, Focusing on Black-Owned Newspapers |
15:00-16:00 | North American Sports in Wikipedia
HickoryOughtShirt?4, et al. | ||
16:00-17:00 | Affiliates Roundup Presentations (watch recording)
User groups present for two minutes each on their community, activities or plans. Rosie Stephenson, Phoebe Ayers |
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17:00-18:30 | Lightning Talks – 5 minute talks (watch recording) Phoebe Ayers, Rosie Stephenson |
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18:30-20:00 | Break - Lounge remains open for hacking and chatting | ||
20:00-22:00 | Social Reception
Talk Page Theater (Sign up and learn more here) |
Sunday
edit- Be bold and edit the grid to add/edit sessions. Please be respectful of translations tags, existing sessions, and other content! See other training, editathon, hackathon and panel session topics.
- By default, all sessions will take place in the Lounge unless you have provided another link (e.g. Zoom).
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Room A (in lounge) | Room B | Room C (in lounge) | Room D (in lounge) | Room E (ES) | Room F (FR) | Room G | Room H |
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11:30 | Kickoff/ Introduction — Meet in main Lounge for presentation. | |||||||
12:00 | Wikipedia 101 training (Ariel Citrone)
Register for Zoom link |
US housing edit-a-thon (M2545) | Playing with Wikidata Knowledge Graphs - Try Knowledgegrapher to easily make groovy graphs (Andrew Lih) | |||||
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13:00 | Wikimedia Strategy Brainstorming the Interim Global Council |
The Secret Origins of NIOSH (John P. Sadowski)
Presentation: Register for Zoom link |
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13:30 | Ask AffCom (Rosiestep) | |||||||
14:00 | Edit-a-thon: Wonder.me social space | Lists of officeholders on Wikidata (Mahir256) |
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15:00 | Reference training: convert Harvard references to shortened footnotes (Peaceray; click through for session info) | Language and Translation Issues (Frenezulo) | ||||||
15:30 | Tech workshop/tutorial (scripts/tools/more!) (Enterprisey) | |||||||
16:00 | Community Communications Discussion (Fuzheado & Quim Gil) |
Wikisource training (Slowking4) | ||||||
16:30 | ||||||||
17:00 | Closing session — Conference recap and post-mortem. Presentation of winners of Wiki Loves Monuments U.S. and Canada, and Wiki Loves México Register for Zoom link (watch recording) |
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