Talk:2019/Main Page

Some ways to help

Community

• Students: ideas for working w/ uni, high school, and younger students
• Wiki communities: liaising w/ major wikiprojects, chapters, and the wmf
• MIT community: engagement w/in the venue + on campus (see SJ, Sarah, Phoebe)
• Credibility + journalism communities:

Program

• Program: help w/ workshops, tracks, and hackathon;
• Speaker support: rallying + tending to speakers

Virtual conference

• Remote participation for people across N. America (and the world)
• Connecting local wikimedians in the other 22 countries; language + networking issues (see Global Voices)

Partners + sponsors

• Sponsors+partners: institutions, foundations, companies, and in-kind sponsors
• Local partners: food, drink, venues, and city partnerships
• Handling submissions + final format of talks

Quality of conf

• Food: local catering (see Antonio + J8)
• Parties: organizing opening + closing (+ other optional) parties
• Lodging: couchsurfing and room shares for visiting students (hotels: see Antonio)

Website + publicity

• Maintaining the site + imagery
• Announcements, dealing w/ press

Logistics

• Registration: online + in-person reg, total event-size management
• Other logistics: Help organizing local volunteers, manning tables

Speaker ideas

Tradition

• Ward Cunningham, Erin McKean
• JI/Z

Non-wm speakers

• Trad news publishing: AG Sulzberger, ?
• Trad social news platforms: ?
• Reliable source vetters: ?
• Collab news sources: WikiTribune, GlobalVoices (in en, es, fr)
• Someone from PRSA or similar type of organization who can discuss ethical engagement in Wikipedia for PR professionals.

Ideas for the 2019 conference

General structure

• Theme: Credibility + Incredibility (co-planned w/ CredCo)
• Dates: November 9-11 (Sat-Mon, a long weekend)

  November 8 for satellite events, in nearby spaces (a few 20-50-person gatherings)

• Venue: We currently have most of the Stata Center reserved, w/ spaces on the 1st + 4th floors. Looking for spaces for satellite events, dinners, parties.
• Lodging: We're looking for inexpensive options for visiting students. Perhaps we have enough locals to support couchsurfing for some?

Art

• A Hatnote installation w/ delicious acoustics
• A related dynamic world-map... (of people and bots, data / images / minor edits / major edits / new pages / new accounts)

Potential subthemes

• WikiCite (possible on the satellite day)
• News crediblity (hello CurrentEvents, Wikinews, Wikitribune, Civil? The Correspondent?? FB local news???) (possibly on the satellite day)
• Disinformation and AI (ORES, other mechanisms, non-wiki approaches)
• Education (WikiEdu is often a sponsor, hopefully again this year)
• Librarianship and curation
• Experimentation and unreliable drafts (importance of simplicity + all-can-edit!)
• Wikipedia and international students and/or English language learners

Potential events / fun sessions

• Sockpuppet Theatre (reprise, for all ages)
• Sessions for high-school and younger students
• Web 2.0 Elevator Pitch Contest (reprise)
• Creative childcare (for attendees w/ kids)
• Wikipedia edit-a-thon or chapter sticker or button exchange
• Wikipedia PR sharing table: with posters for events, other materials created for PR

Potential wiki moments (just dreaming here...)

• Get Ward C + some Meatballers to join
• A vigorous Federated-MediaWiki/Federated-WD/
• A vigorous WN/WTrib/CurrentEvents showdown
• A vigorous Wikiversity/Wikieducator/OCW/EdX showdown