2019/Schedule

WikiConference North America 2019 • Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Registration • Travel Guide • Unconference

Welcome to the WikiConference North America 2019 Schedule

Thanks for coming out, everyone! Recordings of the events will be online in the coming weeks; we have the 2 flat rooms (recorded by Ruben) and need to cut them into segments; and the MIT AV recordings will be post-produced for us and arrive in a week+.

Friday, November 8

Sign up for tours	Edit-a-thon dashboard
Photo drive	ISA Campaign (Structured Data)

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, our home base for the day. But don't go in this entrance! If you end up here, walk around the museum to the other side.

Enter the Museum through this entrance, off of the Fenway.

Friday is the conference's Culture Crawl, a day-long event that includes tours and other activities at various cultural institutions around Boston and Cambridge.

• Our home base for the day will be the Museum of Fine Arts.
• Check-in & name-badge pick-up at the MfA: Friday 9am-5pm - at the MFA’s Fenway entrance (200 Fenway, b/t the two giant baby heads). This is the north entrance, on the opposite side of the museum from the Huntington Ave. entrance. A volunteer will meet you with a complimentary ticket to the Museum (only at this entrance). You will then be directed to the Trustees room, upstairs, where our programming will occur to complete registration.
• Participants will visit local museums and cultural institutions for free backstage tours, edit-a-thons, and more. Participating institutions include:
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • State Library of Massachusetts
  • MassArt (Massachusetts College of Art and Design)
  • Boston University
• Sessions around GLAM and Wikidata
• Kickoff to our conference-long hackathon, challenging participants to ideate and come up with solutions for problems around information reliability.
• The day's Editathon coordination page on English Wikipedia

Friday evening will be our reception in Boston at the Waterworks Museum. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served.

Friday

Registration will take place throughout the day in the Trustees Room in the Museum of Fine Arts. Come to the Museum's Fenway entrance to receive entrance to the Museum.
Training Sessions @ MFA All sessions take place in the Museum of Fine Arts' Trustees Room.	Tours & Other Activities Various Locations
10 AM Welcome and introduction to Wikimedia, Wikidata, GLAM. See the Editathon coordination page. *(Slides) 10:30 - 11:00 AM Cyrus Dallin’s Appeal to the Great Spirit (Layla Bermeo and Dennis Carr) 11:00 - 12:15 PM Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (Robert Fernandez) 12:15 - 1 PM Lunch break (Quick tools Training) 1 - 2 PM Strategies and models for GLAM Wiki partnerships and OpenGLAM (Andrew Lih, Alex Stinson, Evelin Heidel,et al.) 2 - 3:15 PM Introduction to Structured Data on Commons (Stinson) 3:30 - 4:30 PM Editing GLAM collections on Wikidata ⁠— tools, spreadsheets, knowledge graphs, art depiction tool 4:45 - 5:15 PM Showcase of edit-a-thon results You are welcome to stay at the museum until 10pm on Fridays!	10:30 - 11:15 AM @ MFA, Swan Gallery 245 James Swan and the Swan furniture (Tour by Tom Michie & Courtney Harris) 11 AM - 12 PM @ MFA, 3rd Floor American Wing Women Take the Floor and Art & Feminism (Tour by Nonie Gadsden) 11 AM - 12 PM @ MIT, MakerWorkshop 2 30-minute tours of the MakerWorkshop makerspace; see map 12 - 12:30 PM @ MFA, two galleries MFA History tour (Tour by Maureen Melton) 1:30 - 2:30 PM @ State Library of Massachusetts Tour of Library and Special Collections (Room 341) From 1 PM @ MassArt Open edit-a-thon and spillover hackathon space - MassArt Library classroom (13th floor of Tower building, 621 Huntington Ave; You must enter the library on 12 to access 13). Come here for a quiet place to work with great views! 2 - 3 PM @ MassArt Evolution of Artists’ book and a Class on Color 3 - 3:45 PM @ MFA, Room 280 Japanese Buddhist sculpture, Conservation in Action (Tour by Eve Mayberger & Linsly Boyer) 3:30 - 4 PM @ Boston University Tour of African Studies Library within Mugar Memorial Library 4 PM - 5 PM @ MIT, MakerWorkshop 2 30-minute tours of the MakerWorkshop makerspace; see map
5:00 - 5:30 PM — Board buses at the Fenway side of the MFA. 5:30PM - Buses depart for the Reception at the Waterworks Museum.
6:00 - 10:00 PM — Reception at the Waterworks Museum 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02467 We will be hosting an open bar and hors d'oeuvres will be served. We will also have tours of the Museum!

Addresses

Map of our MFA entrance.

Map of Culture Crawl locations; view interactive map here.

• Boston University (Mugar Memorial Library): 771 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
• MassArt: 621 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
• Museum of Fine Arts: 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
• MIT MakerWorkshop: 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA (Building 35, 1st Floor)
• State Library of Massachusetts: 24 Beacon Street, State House Room 341, Boston, MA

Saturday, November 9

Presentation   Discussion   Panel Workshop   Lightning Talk November 9 - Saturday - Programming
Registration 8:30 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (In front of Room 123, first floor).
	Talk strategy with members of Wikimedia 2030 at MIT Stata Center 32-124.
Opening Plenary 9:30 - 10:45 AM	View from above Stata 32-123 (Auditorium) Welcome to WikiConference North America Wikipedia @ 20 author panel - join us for reflections from editors and contributors to the Wikipedia @ 20 book project, forthcoming from MIT Press, on the past twenty years and future of Wikipedia. Keynote All Hands
Break 10:45 - 11:00 AM	Catch a break, mingle with other Wikimedians, and head to your first session.
Session 1	Stata 32-123 318 Seats Tiered Auditorium	Stata 32-144 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables	Stata 32-124 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables	Stata 32-141 90 Seats Tiered Lecture Hall	Stata 32-155 90 Seats Tiered Lecture Hall	Commons A	Commons B	Kiva Seminar Room
11:00 - 11:15	To blacklist or whitelist? Three perspectives on how to classify reliable and unreliable news (Harloe from CUNY's NewsQ) Reliability	Combating Online Harassment with Friends (Mahar, Zhang, Karger from MIT) Safety Community	Quality Armchair Research 101: Make reliably-sourced articles without owning a personal library or paying for subscriptions (HaEr48) Quality	What We Learn from Building WikiLoop (Zhou from Google) Tech Reliability	Building Broad and Diverse Wikipedia Capacity in Institutions of Higher Education: Case Study—the University of Massachusetts Lowell (Davidson from Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell) Education Gender Gap	Open Hacking Space	Tools and techniques for identifying and addressing gaps (Proffitt, OCLC) Inclusion Tech	Introductory Edit-a-thon Training - an introduction to editing Wikipedia for beginners. Come learn how to create a user account, edit a page, and basic rules around Wikipedia editing. In the Kiva room, off of the 4th floor commons area.
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45		Evaluating Success for Content Translation (Zhou from McGill) Tech	Strategies for comparing library content and Wikipedia (Soito from Univ. of New Mexico) Libraries	Cite Unseen: A Year Hence (Payravi, Lim) Tech Reliability
11:45 - 12:00	Navigating the booming and burgeoning credibility landscape: Three perspectives (Marrelli from Credibility Coalition) Reliability				Wikipedia at Boston University: Creating a Community of Editors and Teachers (Dwyer, Jenemann, Shetty from Boston Univ.) Community Education		Relying on Wikipedia in Higher Education: Addressing Stigma and Misconceptions (Mojarad, Choi from Univ. of Southern Cali.) Education Reliability	Introductory Edit-a-thon
12:00 - 12:15		Internet Archive (Graham)	Lettuce Into the Meal: A SNAC Update (Herbert from NARA) Tech GLAM	Can Software Help Address Wikipedia's COI Problem? (Beutler from Beutler Ink) Tech Quality
12:15 - 12:30
Group Photo 12:30 - 12:45 PM	Group photo! Head to the Dertouzos Amphitheater Located right outside Stata. Result
Lunch 12:45 - 2:00 PM	Lunch in Stata You may eat throughout the building. Refer to the scheduled meet-ups below.
	MIT MakerWorkshop Tour from 1:15 - 1:45, a short walk from Stata 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA (Building 35, 1st Floor)
	Lunch Meetup A - ?	Lunch Meetup B - Citizen TALES*	Lunch Meetup C - LGBT+	Lunch Meetup D - Programs & Events	Lunch Meetup E - WikiMedicine	Lunch Meetup F - Wiki Women's	Lunch Meetup G - Q&A with Wikipedia @ 20 Contributors	Lunch Meetup H -
Session 2	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Kiva Seminar Room
2:00 - 2:15	From Digital Natives to Digital Citizens: How Instructors are Using Wikipedia to Teach Information Literacy (Blumenthal from Wiki Edu; Jacobson from SUNY at Albany; Kaufman from Wake Forest Univ; Griffin from Univ. of Alabama) Education	Public Policy Roundtable (Siy, Laporte from Wikimedia Foundation) Public Policy	Putting Institutional Partners at Ease: Becoming a Reliable Guide in an Unfamiliar Landscape (Cetrone from Wikimedia DC) GLAM Partnerships	Black Face: Strategies for missing images from art biographies and the ethics of WikiCommons (Hart, Valentine, Myrie from Black Lunch Table Wikimedians) Content Gap	Next Steps for Countering Systemic Bias: Beyond Filling the Gaps (Bjork-James from Vanderbilt and Wiki Edu) Bias	Open Hacking Space	AMA: Ask the developers (Isarra from MediaWiki Developers) Tech	Introductory Edit-a-thon (Continued) Caribbean Translate-a-thon (Wikimedians of the Caribbean, AfroCROWD, CUNY LaGuardia)
2:15 - 2:30
2:30 - 2:45			What’s good for GLAM is good for STEM? Editor recruitment and retention at NIOSH (Sadowski from NIOSH) Partnerships	Mbabel - One Click Article Creation for Events (Fernandez from WMDC, Knipel from WMNYC) Tech Editing	Wikipedia editing in Introductory Psychology: Teaching students online research skills while targeting gender bias (Che from CUNY) Education Gender Gap		Quarry tutorial: Using SQL to get info about wikis (Wolff) Tech
2:45 - 3:00	The 1000 Women in Religion Project: Bridging the Divide Between the Academy and Wikipedia (Hartung from Women's Caucus of the American Academy of Religion) Content Gap	Government Bans of Wikimedia Projects Public Policy
3:00 - 3:15			Engaging with Scientists: Sharing Knowledge and Encouraging Editing Through a Science Library (Flood from USDA) Libraries Partnerships	Tech Lightning Talks (Enterprisey, Stephen LaPorte, Mahmoud Hashemi, Isarra) Tech	WikiNetBias: topic polarisation on Wikipedia graph and its effect on users (Menghini from Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Brown Univ.) Bias Quality
3:15 - 3:30
Break 3:30 - 4:00 PM	Catch a break and mingle with other conference goers, opportunity for mini-meetups.
	Mini-Meetup A - ?	Mini-Meetup B - checking New Articles - DGG	Mini-Meetup C - Climate change	Mini-Meetup D - Wikispore / New Wikis	Mini-Meetup E - ?	Mini-Meetup F - ?	Mini-Meetup G - ?	Mini-Meetup H - WikiCari
Session 3	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Kiva Seminar Room
4:00 - 4:15	Fighting Fake News with Real Information: Newspapers on Wikipedia (Forsyth from Wiki Strategies) Reliability	Taking Wiki Loves Monuments in the US to the Next Level (Payravi, Soito) WikiCommons Wikidata	Discussing AI and Machine Learning in the Wikimedia movement (Lih from Wikimedia DC) Tech	Lightning Talks	Engaging Experts Three Ways: How Wiki Education is building a bridge between Wikipedia and Subject-Matter Experts (Blumenthal, McGrady, Kent from WikiEdu) WikiEdu	Open Hacking Space	New England meetup and project roundtable (Ayers, Suiter, Smith, Li from MIT Libraries)	open for editing
4:15 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45	Opening the news: how to use civic tech to promote reliability in news media (Flores from Wikimedia México) Reliability Mexico	Limits of Wikidata (Mietchen from WikiCite & Univ. of Virginia) Wikidata WikiCite
4:45 - 5:00			Design Workshop on the UX of Conveying Credibility Online (Zhang from MIT, Obuobi, Skeet, Greiner, Gamage) Reliability		Teaching Intellectual Property Law with Wikipedia (Heintzman from Harvard Univ.) Education Public Policy
5:00 - 5:15	Surfacing Trust, Expertise, and Provenance for better News Sharing (Jahanbakhsh from MIT)
5:15 - 5:30
Pizza & Cake 5:30-7:00 PM	Celebrate Wikidata's birthday with pizza and cake in the 4th floor commons. Then head to the MIT museum party!
Evening Reception 7:00 - 11:00 PM	7:00 - 11:00 pm: Reception at the MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 02139 A cash bar and light snacks will be provided. Attendees are encouraged to explore the museum's exhibits!

Sunday, November 10

November 10 each year, the United Nations are observing the World Science Day for Peace and Development.

Presentation   Discussion   Panel Workshop   Lightning Talk November 10 - Sunday - Programming
Registration 9:00 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (In front of Room 123, first floor).
Session 4	Stata 32-123 318 Seats Tiered Auditorium	Stata 32-144 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables	Stata 32-124 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables	Stata 32-141 90 Seats Tiered Lecture Hall	Stata 32-155 90 Seats Tiered Lecture Hall	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C (Kiva)
10 - 10:45	Indigenous knowledge in Wikipedia : the Atikamekw Nation experience (Rochon from WMCA)	Reserved	Wikimedia Outreach programs for technical contributors (Rodlund, Sethi, Ross, Zhou from Wikimedia Foundation) Tech Community	The Wikimedia Movement Strategy & You (Keefer, Pourzaki) Community	Building a Wikidata Curriculum (Kent from Wiki Edu) Education Wikidata	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space Editathon Access
Break 10:45 - 11:00	Catch a mingle with other conference goers.
Session 5	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C (Kiva)
11:00 - 11:15	GLAMs embracing open access and Wikidata: Experiences from the Met Museum (Lih, Metropolitan Museum of Art) GLAM Wikidata	Wiki Caribbean Panel and Discussion on Survey Findings (Antoine from Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group & AfroCROWD) Caribbean	Building a Scholarly Knowledge Base with Wikidata: A Case Study from Vanderbilt University (Anderson, Baskauf, Shook from Vanderbilt) Wikidata WikiCite Education	Lightning Talks	State of Wikimedia Research on Knowledge Integrity (Johnson from Wikimedia Foundation) Reliability Research	Open Space	Best Practices for Responsible and Reliable Content about Suicide (Poore, LaPorte, SSiy from Wikimedia Foundation) Reliability Safety	Aaron Swartz Hackathon - moved to the projectors downstairs! Editathon Access
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45	Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art (Payravi, Stimler, Lih) GLAM WikiCommons		4 Million in 4 Weeks: A case study on bulk import of cultural heritage metadata on Wikidata (Byrd-McDevitt from NARA) Wikidata GLAM WikiCite		Supporting deliberation and resolution on Wikipedia (Zhang, Im, Schilling, Morgan, Karger) Community
11:45 - 12:00		Understanding the technical challenges of small wikis in North America (Sethi, Rodlund from Wikimedia Foundation) Tech					Mitigating risk in Wikipedia content (Risker) Content Reliability
12:00 - 12:15	Wikidata-fying Northeastern University's "Women Writers in Review" initiative (Stephenson-Goodknight from Northeastern & Wiki Women in Red) Wikidata WikiCite Gender Gap		Muckrock: Building a database of US government agencies (Morisy)		Introduction to WikiCite (Mietchen and Ayers) WikiCite
12:15 - 12:30
Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 PM	Lunch in Stata You may eat throughout the building. Refer to the scheduled meet-ups below.
	Lunch Meetup I - Wikipedia Day rapid grants session (probably tables outside)	Lunch Meetup J - Art+Feminism	Lunch Meetup K - WikiCite	Lunch Meetup L - Climate Change / Sustainability	Lunch Meetup M - ?	Lunch Meetup N - FOIA.Science -- by projectors near reg.	Lunch Meetup O - Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network	Lunch Meetup P - Ask Wiki Education
Session 6	Stata 32-12 3 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C (Kiva)
2:00 - 2:15	Open Space	Adventures in American (Mostly) Folklore: Expanding the Footprint of Notability (Pruitt) Content	Building Scholia profiles (Mietchen from WikiCite & Univ. of Virginia) Wikidata WikiCite	A Colonizer's Account: the Use and Mis-use of Historical Sources (Rust) Reliability Content	Creating WikiCommunity at LaGuardia Community College (Coleman from LaGuardia Community College) Community Education	Open Space	Open Space	Aaron Swartz Hackathon Moving downstairs to the 1F, by the projectors (near reg desk). Editathon Access
2:15 - 2:30
2:30 - 2:45		Academics in the open: How WikiJournals encourage open scholarship using Wikipedia (Koerner from WikiJournal of the Humanities) Research WikiCite		Developing Ethical, Responsible, and Reliable Information Producers (Jacobson from SUNY at Albany) Reliability Education	Recognizing Sovereignty: Wikidata & Indigenous Nations in North America (Allison-Cassin) Wikidata
2:45 - 3:00			Wikidata Quicksheets (Mandiberg from Art+Feminism) Wikidata
3:00 - 3:15	Hackathon status report + project pitching Open hacking and collaboration Etherpad				Hearing Other Voices: Using Wikipedia in an ESL Writing Class (Shetty from Boston Univ.) Content Gap Education
3:15 - 3:30
Break 3:30 - 3:45	Break it off with other conference goers.
End-of-day Plenary 3:45 - 4:30 PM	Stata 32-123 (Auditorium) Wiki Awards Wiki Loves Monuments showcase Q&A about Wikicred grant program All-hands recap; looking forward All Hands
Break 4:30+	Enjoy our fair city!
Relaxed night 5:00 - 8:00 PM	R&D Commons (4F) Games night (including maybe an emoji 🔤 🐝)— Commons A+B Editathon + hackathon wrapups over pizza: plans for the future, next steps — Kiva Wikicred grants: Brainstorming, matchmaking, Q&A. Some ideas below — Commons A+B What can the larger information world learn from Wikipedia's best practices on transparency and version control? Can Wikipedia's assessments at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources feed into signals for the larger world to ingest? How can we give Wikipedia a role in combatting science and health misinformation? What can Wikipedia do in information about the climate crisis? What technical tools could we build to help with misinformation. How can Wikipedia be used to combat viral conspiracy theories and myths? What role can Wikidata play in assessing credibility of news outlets or journalists? (From Microsoft)? Should we provide travel stipends to work on credibility projects, such as Wikimedia hackathon 2020 in Albania? Add more here:

Monday, November 11

Presentation   Discussion   Panel Workshop   Lightning Talk November 11 - Monday - Programming
Registration 9:00 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (In front of Room 123, first floor).
9:30 - 10:15	Stata 32-123 (Auditorium) Introduction to the State of Reliability All Hands Background from Wikimedia: Related Wikimedia tools + projects (ORES, WikiCite) Related Wikipedia policies, Perennial sources Future gameplan and concerns State of reliability on the Web; tools to share: Connie Moon Sehat, NewsQ Mark Graham, Internet Archive Shared frameworks (public wikiloops, ML-to-ML model exchanges)
Break 10:15 - 10:30	Coffee + choose a roundtable
Session 7	Stata 32-123 318 Seats Tiered Auditorium	Stata 32-144 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables	Stata 32-124 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
10:30 - 11:30	Roundtable: Future of Reliability in the Wikimedia Movement Reliability Etherpad	Roundtable: Engagement with External Platforms (Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc.) Reliability Etherpad	Roundtable: Reliability in News Reliability Etherpad	Reserved	Open Hacking Space: Counter Misogyny Editathon Unconference Reliability	Open Space
Break 11:30 - 11:45	Hallway conference reprise
Session 8	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
Inspiration 11:45 - 12:15	Nontraditional Scholarship: Evaluation and Citation (Britton) Reliability Research WikiCite	Cure My FEVER : Building, Breaking and Fixing Models for Fact-Checking(Alhindi) Reliability Tech	How to define and elevate quality news: A discussion led by CUNY's NewsQ team (Harloe from CUNY's NewsQ) Reliability	Open Hacking Space: Counter Misogyny Editathon Unconference Reliability	Bridging the gap between facts and articles (Tisza) Reliability Content	Open Space
Lunch 12:15 - 1:30	Lunch in Stata Draft + post unconference ideas Vote on unconference ideas
Session 9	Commons A		Commons B		Commons C
	Unconference in the R&D Commons: Brainstorming and Hacking
1:30 - 3:00	Write down project ideas to solve reliability issues Vote on the top projects Create an action plan (Transcript of project ideas and Google doc of the fuller project descriptions)
Wrapup 3:15 - 3:45	Wrapup in the main 4F Commons area

Video and copyright

Video of many of the sessions is available here. Presenters agreed to release video of their presentations "under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License or a similar license." Core planning team member Sam Klein advises that "Wikiconf NA videography team" be added to attribution.