WikiConference North America/Schedule
Please see the current version of the schedule on the WikiConference website.
Conference outline edit
- Friday, October 7: 9:00am-4:30pm: Balboa Park Wiki Culture Crawl GLAM day and edit-a-thon
- Saturday, October 8: 9:30am-6:00pm: San Diego Central Public Library
- Sunday, October 9: 12:00pm-8:00pm: San Diego Central Public Library
- Monday, October 10: Indigenous Peoples' Day: 9:30am-5:00pm: San Diego Central Public Library
- Thursday - Monday: Evenings and excursions
Schedule edit
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| October 7 - Friday - Pre-Conference at Balboa Park, San Diego, California (See Wiki Culture Crawl) | |||||||
| October 8 - Saturday | |||||||
| Auditorium
Floor 1 |
Shiley Suite
Floor 9 |
Jaffe Mtn View
Floor 5 |
Clark Room
Floor 1 |
Wells Fargo
Floor 4 |
Commission Room
Floor 9 |
Reading Room
Floor 8 | |
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| Description | Sessions | Sessions | Sessions | Sessions | Training | Meetings/
sessions |
Hacking/
hangout |
| SAT
9:30 am |
Registration - Library Lobby | ||||||
| SAT Opening
10:00 - 11:45 am |
Introduction
Keynote addresses - Katherine Maher, executive director, Wikimedia Foundation Stan Rodriguez, Native linguist and language advocate for Kumeyaay culture, Santa Ysabel Band of the Iipay Nation Keynote WMF All Hands |
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| SAT
12:00 - 1:30 pm |
LUNCH
Served in Shiley Suite on 9th floor to those with paid registration. |
12:30 pm - Introduction to Wikipedia for the Public
Introductory |
Ask Wikimedia Foundation's product leaders: Editing, Discovery, Reading (Forrester, Garry, Katz) (or Shiley lunch tables) (90 minutes)
WMF |
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| SAT
Session 1 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
ReHumanizingHaiti or The Role of Technology and Social Media in Language Activism/Advocacy for Historically Undervalued Languages (Lamour)
Caribbean Languages Grades and the Gender Gap: How Student Editors are Writing Women into Wikipedia (Mathewson) WikiEdu Gender Gap Education The Transgender Gap: Trans and non-binary representation on Wikipedia (Gethen) Gender Gap Sat-Aud-1 |
New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons (Tuszynski)
Wikidata Commons Tutorial on basic SQL (Quarry) for Wikimedians (Wolff) WMF Tech Introductory A New Approach to Behavioural Rules on a Wikimedia Project: The Technical Spaces Code of Conduct (Koerner) WMF Community Tech Sat-Shi-1 |
Textbooks and the New Information Economy
(Warner, Heinze) Academic Education College Students and Perceptions of Authority in Wikipedia (Todorinova) Academic Education Contribution as Coursework: What role do students play on Wikipedia? (Schiroo, Halfaker) Academic Education Research Sat-Jaffe-1 |
Health Literacy of Wikipedia (Kaur)
Academic Health-Med Linked data in the hands of biological researchers: A model organism database powered by Wikidata (Putman) Academic Wikidata Science Why medical schools should embrace Wikipedia (Rasberry et al) Academic Health-Med Sat-Clark-1 |
1:30-2:15 pm
Beyond the basics of citation templates (Leonard) Tutorial Quality 2:15-3:00 pm Wikisource Update / Workshop (Hayes) Tutorial Sat-Wells-1 |
Much Ado About Budgets, Or How to Estimate and Exhaust Grant Funds (Bittaker) (45 mins)
WMF Wiki Loves Posting About Monuments: Using media to support community projects (Johnson, Lien) (45 mins) WMF Sat-Com-1 |
Women Philosopher's Edit-a-thon: Kevin Gorman Memorial
Tutorial Gender Gap Edit-a-thon (1:30 pm - 4:00 pm) |
| SAT BREAK 1
3:00 - 3:30 pm |
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| SAT
Session 2 3:30 - 5:00 pm |
Wikipedia Organizations on Campus: Case Study and Guide (Payravi, Rimmel)
Education The Sad, Sad Story of Social Wikipedia (Schoonover) Community What's New in GLAM-Wiki? (Stinson) GLAM WMF Sat-Aud-2 |
Video and Multimedia in Wikipedia: Today and Tomorrow (Vibber)
Tech Commons Multimedia WikiDataScape: A Cytoscape Browser for WikiData (Stupp) Wikidata Multimedia Commons License templates: analyzing use frequency and future development(Tuszynski) Commons Tech Sat-Shi-2 |
Wikipedia Cuba: Challenges and Opportunities (Nelson)
Academic Caribbean Academic Education Building a Public History of HIV/AIDS in New York City: The Pedagogical Relationship of Wikipedia and the Archives (Matsuuchi, Gallardo, Abreu, Ortiz, Rasberry) Academic Health-Med Sat-Jaffe-2 |
Wikipedia for Health and Safety at Work:NIOSH Wikipedian in Residence (Hare)
Health-Med Drug and chemical compound items in Wikidata as a data source for Wikipedia infoboxes (Burgstaller-Muehlbacher) Wikidata Science Health-Med Wiki Ed's Year of Science: What's worked so far, and where we go from here (L. Davis, Mathewson) WikiEdu Science Sat-Clark-2 |
3:30 pm - Introduction to Wikipedia for the Public
Introductory 4:30 pm - Citation manager needed - Mastering your reliable sources online and offline with Zotero (Wilson) Quality Sat-Wells-2 |
Developing community norms for critical bots and tools (B. Davis)
Tech Community WMF Welcoming and Helping New Editors: A Month at the Teahouse (Heaphy) Inclusion Community Sat-Com-2 |
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| SAT
Closing session 5:15 - 6:00 pm |
Closing Panel
Public Policy Advocacy Across Both Coasts (Sadowski, Meyer, Hayes, Roslof) WMF Panel Sat-Aud-Closing |
Lightning Talks
(5:15 - 5:45 pm) Lightning Talks Sat-Aud-Closing |
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| SAT
Evening events 6:00 pm - onwards |
Sign up for dine-arounds, a pub crawl, or organize your own event | ||||||
| October 9 - Sunday | |||||||
| Auditorium
Floor 1 |
Shiley Suite
Floor 9 |
Jaffe
Mountain View Floor 5 |
Clark Room
Floor 1 |
Wells Fargo
Floor 4 |
Commission Room
Floor 9 |
Reading Room
Floor 8 | |
| Outings
9:00 am - 12:00 noon |
Outings and Meetups • Please eat brunch/lunch on your own before arriving to SDCPL; organize a group brunch here | ||||||
| SUN
Noon |
Registration - Library Lobby | ||||||
| SUN
Opening 12:00 - 1:15 pm |
Introduction
Keynote address - Merrilee Proffitt, senior program officer , OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) "Wikipedia and Libraries: Putting the L in GLAM." Keynote Libraries All Hands |
12:30 pm - Introduction to Wikipedia for the Public
Introductory |
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| SUN BREAK 1
1:15 - 1:30 pm |
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| SUN
Session 1 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
A Review of the First Year: Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity (Doyle)
Academic Gender Gap Education Libraries Beginning of Cultural Change: Wikipedia's Future Collaboration with Academic Libraries (Cawthorne) Academic Libraries Linking a controlled subject vocabulary to Wikipedia (Vizine-Goetz, OCLC) Libraries Tech Sun-Shi-1 |
The Online Writing Classroom and Wikipedia (Carleton)
Academic Education College Writing and Wikipedia: Purposes, Audiences, and Genres (Cummings) Academic Education Wikipage Creation: An Exercise in Critical Thinking and Group Collaboration (Paul and Hamm) Academic Education Sun-Jaffe-1 |
Tracking the Triple Crown: Creating quality content (Wahler)
Quality Rocket Cats & Knowledge Engines (Seddon, Koerner, Peterzell) WMF Tech Sun-Clark-1 |
1:30-2:15 pm -
What's Wikidata? How does it work? (Stinson, Malyshev) WMF Wikidata Introductory 2:15-3:00 pm - Wikidata and Query Service - understanding and presenting the data (Malyshev) WMF Wikidata Sun-Wells-1 |
Citations needed? Brainstorming how to get academic resources to more Wikipedians through the Visiting Scholars program (Mathewson, McGrady) (45 mins)
WikiEdu Quality Education The five and a half biggest mistakes WikiEdu made when thinking about program impact (L. Davis) (45 mins) WikiEdu Education Sun-Com-1 |
Edit-a-thon: Notable Chemists and Chemistry with the American Chemical Society
Introductory Science Edit-a-thon 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | |
| SUN BREAK 2
3:00 - 3:30 pm |
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| SUN
Session 2 3:30 - 5:00 pm |
Internet Archive and Wikipedia collaboration: Link rot, multimedia and more (Internet Archive)
Libraries Tech Wikipedia in Libraries: Case Studies in Wikipedia Outreach and Training in Academic Libraries (Anderson, Caton, Warga) Libraries Education Ends at 4:30pm, standing break, continues into next session Sun-Shi-2 |
How Wikimedia Communities Can Thrive by Fostering Co-Creative Networks (Byrd-McDevitt)
Academic GLAM Wiki Loves Heritage: The Case for a WMF Genealogical and Local History Wiki (Fernandez) Academic Enhancing Collaboration in Academia through GLAM Edit-a-thons (Thorndike-Breeze) Academic GLAM Education Sun-Jaffe-2 |
Writing the American Sign Language Wikipedia on Incubator (Frost, Nesmith, Sharer)
Languages Tech How Wikipedia can collaborate with the translator community (Wang) Languages Reader study results: what reader qualities impacts reading behavior? (Katz) WMF Research Sun-Clark-2 |
3:30 pm - Introduction to Wikipedia for the Public
Introductory 4:30 pm - The Wiki Ed and P&E Dashboards (Ross, Bittaker) WikiEdu WMF Tech Education Sun-Wells-2 |
Why Plagiarism Matters (Beasley-Murray) (45 mins)
Education The Other Side of COI: Volunteer Response to Professional Contributors (Beutler) (45 mins) Community Sun-Com-2 |
Edit-a-thon: Notable Chemists and Chemistry with the American Chemical Society
Introductory Science Edit-a-thon 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | |
| SUN
Closing Session 5:00 - 6:00 pm |
Closing Panel
4:45pm - Libraries & Wikipedia: Better Together (Ayers, et al) Libraries Panel Sun-Shi-Closing |
Discussion 5:00 - 6:15pm Wikimedia Communities and Movement Strategy, with Katherine Maher WMF Community Discussion Sun-Jaffe-Closing |
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| SUN Reception
6:00 - 8:00 pm |
Reception - Shiley Suite / Woods Family Terrace - 9th Floor
Watch the sun set over the Pacific Ocean with light appetizers (cash bar -- please bring cash to purchase drinks). All Hands | ||||||
| October 10 - Monday | |||||||
| Auditorium
Floor 1 |
Shiley Suite
Floor 9 |
Jaffe
Mountain View Floor 5 |
Clark Room
Floor 1 |
Wells Fargo
Floor 4 |
Commission Room
Floor 9 |
Reading Room
Floor 8 | |
| MON
9:30 am |
Registration - Library Lobby | ||||||
| MON
Opening 10:00 - 11:45 am |
Introduction
Keynote address - Dr. Lourdes Epstein, library director, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico City campus Keynote Libraries |
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| MON LUNCH
12:00 -1:30 pm |
LUNCH
Speaker Michael Connolly Miskwish - scholar and author of "Kumeyaay: A History Textbook"; Campo Kumeyaay Nation; adjunct faculty, American Indian Studies at San Diego State University All Hands |
12:30 pm - Basics of Wikipedia for the Public
Introductory |
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| MON
Session 1 1:30 - 2:30 pm |
GLAM program in Mexico: the benefits and challenges of collaboration with the public cultural sector (Martínez, Flores)
Mexico GLAM Wikimania's Yellow Army: Behind the scenes (Cruz y Corro) Mexico Mon-Aud-1 |
Open for Unconference sessions
Unconference Planned session 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm: Dial "T" for Training - Creating Effective Training Modules to Address Harassment, both Online and at Events ( Brown, Earley, Schilling) (60 mins) Inclusion Community Planned session 1:30 pm - 4 pm: Indigenous People's Day editathonInclusion Edit-a-thon Introductory Mon-Shi-1 |
Wikipedia-in-a-box - Kiwix (Coillet-Matillon, Vargas, Holt, Moody)
Tech How Wikipedia Can Reverse the Historical Erasure of LGBT Communities (Fustich) Academic Inclusion Mon-Jaffe-1 |
Be bold and edit the map: OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia (Nguyen)
Tech Journalism and Wikipedia (Walsh) Quality Mon-Clark-1 |
The gender pronoun gap in Wikipedia (Yazdani)
Academic Gender Gap Editatona: Helping close the gender gap in Wikipedia (Sánchez) Gender Gap Mon-Wells-1 |
Creating flashcards in Native American languages using images from Wikimedia Commons (Hayes, guest)
Inclusion Beyond copyright release - model release and other media rights (Rasberry) Commons Mon-Com-1 |
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| MON BREAK 1
2:30 - 2:45 pm |
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| MON
Session 2 2:45 - 4:15 pm |
Understanding Wikipedia readership: Our results for our phone survey in Mexico (Foy, Vargas) (30 mins)
WMF Research Increasing reach of Wikimedia projects via partnerships (Vrana, Vargas) (30 mins) WMF Inclusion Mon-Aud-2 |
Open for Unconference sessions
Unconference Planned session 1:30 pm - 4 pm: Indigenous People's Day editathonInclusion Edit-a-thon Introductory Mon-Shi-2 |
WikiProject X: The development of the future of on-wiki project coordination (Schoonover)
Tech Community Research Mon-Jaffe-2 |
Mon-Clark-2 | 3:30 pm - Basics of Wikipedia for the Public
Introductory Mon-Wells-2 |
Open for Unconference session scheduling
Mon-Com-2 |
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| MON BREAK 2
4:15 - 4:30 pm |
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| MON
Closing session 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm |
Sharing session
Discussion All Hands Mon-Shi-Closing |
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| See you at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal! (August 11-13, 2017) | |||||||
Registration times edit
On-site registration and badge pick-up for pre-registered attendees will be open:
- Friday, October 7 at Balboa Park during the Culture Crawl: 9:00am-4:00pm
- Saturday: 9:30am-1:30pm
- Sunday: 12:00pm-1:30pm
- Monday: 9:30am-1:30pm