WikiConference North America/2020/Sessions
Main page for WikiConference North America 2020
Welcome to the planning page for WCNA 2020 sessions!
Friday edit
11 December 2020
Friday lightning talks edit
- (5 pm Eastern, 2 pm Pacific)
| Session | Presenter |
|---|---|
| Using VB.NET to design wikis and bots. | JJPMaster (talk) |
| WikiCite project: WikiCite for Librarians: Interactive Learning Pathways for Information Professionals at Vanderbilt University. Presentation slide available here. | (Awesolek2 talk) |
| Student Success and Wikipedia's Culture of Communication: More Lessons Learned from using Wiki Education. (14:19) | Gcampbel (talk) |
| State of the InternetArchiveBot. 21:24 | harej (talk) |
| Improving Domain Specific Articles on Wikipedia - Areas include Labor, Water, and Slavery (historical and contemporary) 25:00 Slides here // Application Here | Will (Wiki Ed) (talk) |
| Overview of 2020 projects from the WikiCred initiaitve. WikiCred is a partnership between organizations that seek to build trust in the media ecosystem and Wikimedians working together to strengthen credibility and reliability of news and knowledge in the online information ecosystem. 28:19 | Medmed14 |
| Bridging the academia-Wikipedia divide with WikiJournals (adapted from longer talk). 34:34 | T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk |
| Semantic Lab and Wikibase: Collaborative Modeling and Graphing Women in Jazz | Rolery02 (talk) |
| Wiki of historical aeronautics and aviation | econterms (talk) |
| News On Wiki - Why it matters for Wikipedia to cover local newspapers. (Video of talk) | Pete Forsyth (talk) |
Friday night reception sessions in the Lounge edit
- (8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific)
Saturday edit
12 December 2020
North American community round-up edit
- (4 pm Eastern, 1 pm Pacific)
Two-minute talks about the activities of various Wikimedia communities in 2020. (video)
| Chapters | |
|---|---|
| Wikimedia Canada | Michael David Miller |
| Wikimedia District of Columbia | Kirill Lokshin (talk) |
| Wikimedia Mexico | |
| Wikimedia New York City | |
| Thematic organizations | |
| Wikimedia Medicine | |
| User Groups | |
| Wikimedia New England | phoebe | talk |
| MediaWiki Stakeholders Group | econterms (talk) |
| Wikimedians of Los Angeles | JSFarman (talk) |
| Ohio Wikimedians User Group | SuperHamster' Talk Contribs |
| Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group | Benoit Rochon (talk) |
| Unaffiliated communities | |
| WALRUS | Pharos (talk) |
| SWAN | |
| Wiki Education Foundation (YouTube link here) | LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) |
| Women in Red | Rosiestep (talk) |
| US Federal Enterprise Wiki Community of Practice | Tom O'Neill or econterms (talk) |
| 1000 Women in Religion WikiProject | PMCH2 (talk) |
Saturday lightning talks edit
- (5 pm Eastern, 2 pm Pacific)
Five-minute talks on wiki topics.
| Session | Presenter |
|---|---|
| Cite Unseen: Latest updates to this script that provides icon indicators for the nature and reliability of sources | ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs |
| Student perceptions of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons: Considering race and gender | maxxbeckmann |
| All My Relations: Using Wikidata to find and correct errors on a collaborative global family tree (and on Wikidata) - Genealogy | KarenJoyce (talk) |
| Grand unveiling of the Wikimedia DC "2021 U.S. Wiki Science Calendar"! | Antony-22 (talk) |
| Demo of the latest stuff I'm working on, particularly section-watchlist and its new integration with reply-link. | Enterprisey (talk) |
| An update from the Sustainability Initiative | Gnom (talk) |
| Overview of the Cochrane-Wikipedia Project | JenOttawa (talk) |
| Overview of some outstanding user scripts that everyone should install. (Rejected title: "The best scripts I didn't make".) (Put this talk after some other talks, so I don't give two in a row; feel free to cut this one if time is an issue, I can just speak real fast for one slot.) | Enterprisey (talk) |
| Wikimedia Canada : Environment and Climate Change Canada Project | Benoit Rochon (talk) |
| Overview of the Namespace Database project | carlinmack (talk) |
| Overview of OpenStreetMap's Mapping Racism project and how it uses Wikidata. | Minh Nguyễn 💬 |
| Status report of Wikimedia in Outer Atmosphere | Geraldshields11 (talk) |
Saturday night reception sessions in the Lounge edit
- (8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific)
Sunday edit
Open Space sessions, 13 December 2020
- (Sunday, 1 pm Eastern)
This section is for further information on the open space events. Accepted sessions have been added to the main page.
Community Communications Discussion edit
Facilitated by Andrew Lih.
Housing edit
- US housing edit-a-thon focused on housing in the United States, including states and territories, 12:00-14:00 ET
- Facilitated by M2545. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Language edit
- Discussion of language, translation and related issues on WMF projects, 15:00 - 16:00 ET
- Facilitated by Frenezulo. Frenezulo (talk) 15:07, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
NIOSH edit
- "The Secret Origins of NIOSH"—Next year NIOSH celebrates the 50th anniversary of its organizational standup in May 1971. However, NIOSH's direct predecessor has a little-known history that stretches all the way back to 1914, zig-zagging its way through the growth and maturation of the U.S. Public Health Service. This edit-a-thon will include a presentation on this history, and have suggested articles on biographies and historic buildings related to public health and industrial hygiene in the early and mid-20th century. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 19:11, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
- Facilitated by John P. Sadowski (NIOSH). --Rosiestep (talk) 18:27, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Officeholders edit
- Finishing lists of officeholders of state/provincial/local provenance on Wikidata (links to some lists here), 2-3p ET. Mahir256 (talk) 18:36, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
- Facilitated by Mahir256. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:12, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
References edit
- Peaceray, converting articles using deprecated inline Harvard/parenthetical referencing to shortened footnotes, 3-4, 4-5, or 3-5 PM ET.
- Facilitated by Peaceray. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:27, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Please download documentation at File:Converting Havard citations to shortened footnotes (sfn).pdf.
Wikisource edit
- english wikisource demonstration, discussion, with editing help. Slowking4 (talk) 04:24, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
- Faciliated by Slowking4. Okay to move it into a different time spot if you wish. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:41, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Tech workshop edit
- User scripts (and tech in general) workshop/discussion. Learn how to make your very own user script/bot/tool! (on demand). Discussing some of the more useful user scripts, advanced tips for making them, and ideas for future user scripts. Enterprisey (talk) 10:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)