2018/Schedule

WikiConference North America 2018 • Columbus, Ohio, U.S.

Schedule • Unconference • Travel Guide

Thursday, October 18

Thursday is our Tech Day, which includes our hackathon, tech demos, training sessions, and more. We plan to have a focus on Wikidata, and are currently planning activities that may interest non-technical folks as well.

Schedule is still under development.

Poster for the Emerging Technologies Edit-a-thon

8 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at Thompson Library, Ground Floor
	Track 1 (Thompson 165)	Track 2 (Thompson 150A)	Track 3 (Thompson 150B)
9 AM	Hackathon	Introduction to Wikidata
10 AM
11 AM
12 PM	Lunch
1 PM	Hackathon	Tool Demos (present what you use!)	TBA
2 PM		Unavailable	TBA
3 PM			Emerging Technologies Edit-a-thon with NIOSH
4 PM	Hackathon Presentations	TBA

Friday, October 19

Friday includes two activities: our Culture Crawl during the day, followed by an evening reception.

Our Culture Crawl includes tours and other activities at various cultural institutions in Columbus. We'll be headquartered at the Columbus Metropolitan Library - Main Branch, located downtown at 96 S Grant Ave. Here we will have an ongoing edit-a-thon, scan-a-thon, training sessions, and tour groups leaving to visit the various cultural institutions.

Friday evening will be our reception at the Thompson Library (Room 260, the Buckeye Reading Room) on the Ohio State University campus. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served. Entry to the reception requires a main conference ticket.

Registration

Throughout the day, our registration desk will be at the Columbus Metropolitan Library - Main Branch, right outside the Auditorium. We'll have signs and volunteers to guide you.

For the evening reception, registration will be located in Thompson Library right outside Room 260, the Buckeye Reading Room.

Event Schedule

	Columbus Metropolitan Library (Main Branch) Auditorium	Columbus Metropolitan Library (Main Branch) Room 1A	Columbus Metropolitan Library (Main Branch) Room 3B
8 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup outside Auditorium
9 AM	Opening session
9:30 AM	Columbus Edit-a-thon	Intro to Wikipedia for Librarians	Scan-a-thon
10 AM
11 AM
12 PM
1 PM
2 PM
3 PM
4 PM
5 PM
6 PM - 8:30 PM	Evening Reception Join as at Thompson Library at the Ohio State University Campus for an evening reception One free drink and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

Tour Schedule

Ohio Statehouse 10:00am (10 people)* 11:00am (10 people)* 12:00pm (10 people)* 1:00pm (10 people)* 2:00pm (40 people) 2:15pm (40 people) 3:00pm (10 people)* *Tour open to the public and will occur whether or not we are present.

State Library of Ohio 10:00am (40 people) 1:00pm (40 people)

Thurber House 10:30am (25 people) 12:30pm (25 people) 1:30pm (25 people)

Orton Geological Museum 2:30pm (15 people) 3:30pm (15 people)

Tour Details

Ohio Statehouse

Explore Capitol Square which includes the Ohio Statehouse, the Ohio Senate building and the Atrium. This National Historic Landmark houses working government offices and insight into Ohio's history.

Ohio Statehouse

Please allow 10-15 minutes before the tour start time to go through security and see the code of conduct.

Thurber House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Thurber House is a literary center, museum, and bookstore located in the restored 19th century home of famed author, humorist, and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber ("The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," My Life and Hard Times, and other works).

Thurber House hosts events with bestselling authors, writing classes, literary picnics on the lawn, and education camps and classes for children in preschool through high school. Other programs include two month-long author residencies and the Thurber Prize for American Humor—the highest recognition of humor writing in the country.

The 1873 home has been restored to the way it looked when the Thurber family lived here in the early 1900's. Our tour guides will give you an overview of the Thurber family, point out Thurber artifacts and memorabilia in the house, and even go into the haunted history of the building—if you dare. While you're here, be sure to visit our historical marker, the dog garden, and the unicorn in the garden!

Orton Geological Museum

The Orton Geological Museum contains over 500,000 rocks, minerals, fossils, and specimens including a 2 billion year old stromatolite. The Museum is located on Ohio State's Oval and is one of the oldest buildings on campus.

Saturday, October 20

Saturday is the first day of our main conference consisting of presentations, workshops, panels, unconference sessions, lightning talks, and more from our community. Tracks will cover a wide array of topics, including but not limited to editing, education, academia, inclusion and diversity, harassment and safety, event organization, community building, technology and tools, and more.

The program is still in development and subject to change.

October 20 - Saturday - Programming
Registration 8:00 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at Sullivant Hall prior to keynote. After the opening session, registration will resume at Thompson Library.
Opening Session 9:00 - 10:00 AM	Sullivant Hall at the Ohio State University Campus Introduction & Keynote Addresses TBD Keynote All Hands
Registration 10:00 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at Thompson Library, Ground Floor for rest of the day.
Break 10:00 - 10:30 AM	Catch a break, mingle with other Wikimedians, and head to your first session.
	Track 1 (Thompson 1120) 120 Seats	Track 2 (Thompson 165) 80 Seats	Track 3 (Thompson 150A) 28 Seats	Track 4 (Thompson 150B) 28 Seats	Track 5 (18th Avenue 070) 24 Seats	Track 6 (18th Avenue 090) 24 Seats
Session 1 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together (Proffitt from OCLC) Bringing feminist pedagogy to Wikipedia training for US public library staff: Reflections from the OCLC Wikipedia-in-Residence (Sengul-Jones from former OCLC) To Use Wikipedia or Not: How the Wikipedia assignment can build a bridge between Academia and Wikipedia (Blumenthal from WikiEdu)	Fighting Government Mass Surveillance: Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA (Buatti, Palmer, & Hershenov from WMF) Introduction to Wikitongues (Jones-White) Life beyond TEXT: maps, graphs, data, and the future of interactivity (Astrakhan)	Students Who Care: Documenting Police Brutality in New York City in the La Guardia & Wagner Archives Wikipedia Project (Matsuuchi, Gallardo C., Singleton, & Chan from LaGuardia Community College, CUNY) AfroCROWD Wiki Oral History Project (AfroCROWD) Organizing and Researching Art+Feminism Edit-a-thons: Towards More Equitable Models of Engagement (Lockett & Vetter from Spelman College and Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania)	A dozen ideas for newcomer-friendly user experiences (Ross from WikiEdu) Working with new editors: observations from a Wikipedia Content Expert (Ramjohn from WikiEdu) Wikimedia Infrastructure for being nice (Rasberry & Wacha, from Univ. of Virginia and WMNYC)	AMA: Ask the developers (Mehta) JADE: complementing artificial intelligence with human judgment (Hare from WMF) Supporting editathon and other event organizers with new tools (Matazzoni from WMF)	It started with a picnic (Richard from WMNYC) Wikipedia Space 2.0 (Fernandez, WMDC) Changing ways of GLAM and artwork file uploads (Tuszynski)
Lunch 12 - 1:30 PM		Lunch Pick-up	Lunch Meetup A - West Coast meetup (RightCowLeftCoast from San Diego Wikimedians UG)	Lunch Meetup B - How to podcast (Wallroth from German Wikipedia)
Session 2 1:30 - 3:00 PM	5 ways Wiki Education has championed equity in 2018 - and tips for building inclusivity into your work (Weald, WikiEdu) Wikipedia for College Information Literacy and Science Identity (McDowell from UIC) Wikipedia’s Gender Gap and Disciplinary Praxis: Representing Women Scholars in Digital Rhetoric and Writing Fields (Vetter from Indiana University of Penn.)	The Non-US Panel: Americans in the global Wikimedia movement (Lim from Wiki Society of the Philippines) Offline Internet Resources for Latin America (Nelson from Columbia University) Strategies to Counter Systemic Bias: Writing Campaigns, New Maps, and Informed Review (Bjork-James from Vanderbilt)	Have a SNAC Break (Herbert from NARA, Hott from UVA) Wiki Art Depiction Explorer (Fernandez & Lih from WMDC, Kapsalis from Smithsonian) The State of Art+Feminism (Mack from Art+Feminism)	Advancing Gender Equity: Conversations with Movement Leaders (Stephenson-Goodknight from WikiWomen's User Group) 2:00-3:00 Input/Output: A Simple Plan for Successful Outreach (Rosa from Indiana Historical Society)	Tool Developer (and User) Meetup (Hare from WMF) Tools and scripts - Enterprisey's 2018 update (Glus) CollaborationKit: the future of user groups and community coordination (Yos)	Medical wiki content for all clinicians and students (Zidovetzki from Mount Sinai Hospital) Highway 66 Revisited, or An Update on Wikipedia and the DOTs (Imzadi1979) How to write a Featured Article (Long)
Break 3:00 - 3:30 PM	Catch a break and mingle with other Wikimedians.
Session 3 3:30 - 4:55 PM	3:30 - 4:55 Lightning Talks	3:30 - 3:55 Comparative Course Experiences Through Wiki Educational Foundation (Osterbur from New England College) 3:55 - 4:55 Wikimedia 2030: Movement Strategy Process update and participation (McMurray from WMF)	3:30 - 3:55 Wiki Loves Your Community (Koerner and Pruitt) 3:55 - 4:20 Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States: Review and Discussion (Payravi from Ohio Wikimedians UG) 4:20 - 4:55 Wiki Bootcamp: Four generations of Wikimedia volunteers (Fernandez from WMDC)	3:30 - 4:00 The Wikimedia Foundation's blog and social team: Who we are, and what we can do for you (Erhart from WMF) TBA 4:30 - 4:55 Wikipedia Collaboration of Dental Schools (Geres from University of Dundee)	3:30 - 4:00 Found in Translation: AfroCROWD+Wikitongues+LaGuardia Community College Translatathon Projects (Antoine, Backer, Gallardo C., Matsuuchi, Goodman, & Coleman from AfroCROWD & WMNYC) 4:00 - 4:55 Filipino American History Month Edit-a-thon (RightCowLeftCoast from San Diego Wikimedians UG)	OpenStreetMap mapping party! (Filbert from WMNYC)

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• Gathering at Chop Shop, 5-8:30 PM - We have a room reservation (featuring a full bar with 16 drafts) at the Chop Shop, a burger restaurant located just north of campus (walkable from Thompson Library). We invite all conference attendees to join!

Sunday, October 21

The Columbus Marathon starts at 7:30 on this day, and will run through campus. Please allow yourself plenty of extra time to get to campus due to road blocks and traffic. A more detailed map will be provided soon so you can plan your ruote.

October 21 - Sunday - Programming
Registration Opens 9:00 AM	TBD
Day 2 Introduction + Retrospection 9:30 - 10:00 AM	TBD All Hands
Break 10:00 - 10:30 AM	Catch a break and mingle with other Wikimedians.
	Track 1 (Thompson 1120) 120 Seats	Track 2 (Thompson 165) 80 Seats	Track 3 (Thompson 150A) 28 Seats	Track 4 (Thompson 150B) 28 Seats	Track 5 (18th Avenue 070) 24 Seats	Track 6 (18th Avenue 090) 24 Seats
Session 4 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	WikiData, Mix'n'Match, and Libraries (Helps from Brigham Young Univ.) 11:00 - 12:00 Wikidata in research libraries: community-owned scholarly infrastructure to advance mission (Ruttenberg, Proffitt, Allison-Cassin, & Lemus-Rojas from ARL)	Wikipedia, Higher Education, and Public Review (Cummings from Univ. of Mississippi) Growing the free library: Discovering, documenting, and digitizing public domain periodical literature from most of the 20th century (Ockerbloom from Univ. of Pennsylvania) Wikisource update (slowking4 from WMDC)	Event safety workshop (Earley from WMF) 11:00 - 12:00 Aligning technical solutions and policy to combat harassment on Wikimedia projects (Poore from WMF)	Wikipedia Organizations on Campus: A Review (Payravi from Ohio Wikimedians UG) Making HerStory OurStory-Building a Wikipedia Presence on Campus (Dodd from UT Arlington) Cultivating New Student Editors in the Linguistics Classroom (Stvan from UT Arlington)	10:30 - 12:00 Wiki Mapping Freedom (Cuba from AfroCROWD)	Best Practices for Collaborative Transcription of Multilanguage Texts using ProofreadPage in Wikisource (Varady from the Open Siddur Project) Inclusion, Wikipedia, and right-of-center topics (RightCowLeftCoast & Lionelt) Calling All Subject Experts: Training the Next Wikipedians (Kent & McGrady from WikiEdu)
Lunch 12 - 1:30 PM		Lunch Pick-up	Lunch Meetup C - Ohio Wikimedians Meetup and Planning (Payravi)	Lunch Meetup D (Open)
Session 5 1:30 - 2:55 PM	1:30 - 2:00 Teaching with Wikidata: A Case Study (Anderson from Vanderbilt) 2:00 - 2:30 Beginner's Guide to Events for Wikipedians (Byrd-McDevitt from NARA & WMDC) 2:30 - 2:55 Update: Structured Data on Commons (Keegan from WMF)	TBA 2:00 - 2:35 Implicit Bias on Wikipedia: The damage report (Koerner) 2:35 - 2:55 "ReImaginingTheShift": The Role of Technology as a Tool for Language Advocacy for Historically Undervalued Languages like Haitian Creole (Lamour from Haitian Creole Language Institute of NY)	1:30 - 2:00 Introduction to Wikidata-driven infoboxes (Fernandez from WMDE) 2:00 - 2:30 Creating a Linked Data Library Partnership Using Wikibase (Newell from OCLC) 2:30 - 2:55 Tools to track views of Commons images (Helps from Brigham Young University)	1:30 - 2:55 Developing GLAM Partnerships, a Workshop (Stinson from WMF)	1:30 - 2:50 WikiHBCU (Cuba from AfroCROWD, WMNY, & Columbia Univ. OHMA)	1:30 - 2:00 OpenStreetMap’s worldview: handling disputes on a map that anyone can edit (Nguyễn from Mapbox) 2:00 - 2:55 Anti-Harassment and YOU (Mack from Art+Feminism)
Closing 3:00 - 3:30 PM	Join us for our closing session on the 11th floor of Thompson.

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