WikiConference North America/2020

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.

WikiConference North America 2020
When and Where
December 11–13, 2020
Virtual
Links at a glance
Conferencehttps://wcna.wiki
Chathttps://chat.wcna.wiki
Virtual loungehttps://lounge.wcna.wiki
Programhttps://program.wcna.wiki
Registerhttps://register.wcna.wiki
Friendly Space Policyhttps://w.wiki/q8H
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SwagWCNA 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.

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Details

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  • 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

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Safe Space

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Program

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Friday

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Session A Other activities Other activities
10:00 Chicanx Art and Artists

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Smithsonian American Art Museum

11:00 Women in Climate Change

Editing training

WikiDonne and Wikimedia Foundation

Zoom or YouTube

12:00-13:00 Coolest Tool Award

Wikimedia Foundation and community

YouTube and discussion on Telegram channel wmhack

13:00-14:00 Watch via YouTube Live or Facebook Live

Welcome to WCNA WCNA organizers


Wiki Culture Crawl Introduction

Andrew Lih

GLAM Jam Session

Discussing the best tools, gadgets, and scripts for GLAM editors. Examples:

YouTube Live or Facebook Live

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

  • Possible painting collaboration – The Death of General Wolfe (1770), Benjamin West, National Gallery of Canada, New York Times article

YouTube Live or Facebook Live

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

YouTube Live or Facebook Live

16:00-17:00 Wiki Loves Fashion – modeling and improving fashion topics in Wikidata (shoes, textiles, fashion houses)

Paula Marmor and Andrew Lih

  • Experiences from this year's fashion editing drive
  • Finding and utilizing sources – Internet Archive, digital lending

YouTube Live or Facebook Live

17:00-18:00 Lightning Talks – 5 minute talks (watch recording)

List of topics and speakers

Phoebe Ayers, Rosie Stephenson

18:00-20:00 BreakLounge 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

Lounge

Saturday

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Session A Session B Other activities
11:30 Welcome and orientation (watch recording)

WikiConference North America organizers walk through the day's events and demonstrate the chat and lounge.

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)

Agenda

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.
List of organizations/communities and presenters

Rosie Stephenson, Phoebe Ayers

17:00-18:30 Lightning Talks – 5 minute talks (watch recording)

List of topics and presenters

Phoebe Ayers, Rosie Stephenson

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)
Social time, come meet other editors, edit-a-thons, and what you will WCNA committee

Lounge

Sunday

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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
11:30 Kickoff/ Introduction — Meet in main Lounge for presentation.
12:00 Wikipedia 101 training (Ariel Citrone)

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US housing edit-a-thon (M2545) Playing with Wikidata Knowledge Graphs - Try Knowledgegrapher to easily make groovy graphs (Andrew Lih)
12:30
13:00 Wikimedia Strategy

Brainstorming the Interim Global Council
and Movement Charter (Kaarel Vaidla)

The Secret Origins of NIOSH (John P. Sadowski)

Presentation: Register for Zoom link

13:30 Ask AffCom (Rosiestep)
14:00 Edit-a-thon: Wonder.me social space Lists of officeholders
on Wikidata
(Mahir256)
14:30
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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