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Indianapolis — 3-6 October 2024

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Thursday, October 3

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October 3 - Thursday - Culture Crawl
ALL DAY	Editathon at the Indiana University Indianapolis University Library Ashby Browsing Room (UL 2210B), Philanthropic Studies Library
Time	Partner		Location	Register + more info
9:00am – 10:00am		Indiana State Library	315 W. Ohio St.	Register!
10:00am - 11:00am		Monument Circle Historic District Walking Tour by Indiana Landmarks	125 Monument Circle	Register!
10:00am – 12:00pm		Indiana Historical Society	450 W. Ohio St.	Register!
10:00am – 11:00am		Indiana State Library	315 W. Ohio St.	Register!
11:00am – 11:45am		Indiana Supreme Court and Law Library	200 W. Washington St.	Register!
11:00am - 11:45am		Herron Art Library	735 W. New York St.	Register!
11:00am - 12:30pm		Decoding Downtown Indy Walking Tour by Indiana Landmarks	50 S. Capitol Ave	Register!
11:00am – 11:45am		Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site	1230 N. Delaware St	Register!
11:00am – 11:45am		Ray Bradbury Museum	425 University Blvd.	Register!
11:30am – 1:30pm		Lunch at Fresco Italian Café on the Canal Meet at this cafe on the Canal Walk for lunch together —10% discount with WCNA badge!	310 W Michigan St	Open to all!
1:00pm – 2:00pm		Indiana Statehouse	200 W. Washington St.	Register!
1:00pm – 2:00pm		Indiana State Library	315 W. Ohio St.	Register!
1:00pm – 1:45pm		Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site	1230 N. Delaware St	Register!
1:00pm – 1:45pm		Ray Bradbury Museum	425 University Blvd.	Register!
1:00pm – 4:00pm		Indie Bookstore Crawl Indy Reads, Loudmouth Books, Tomorrow Books, Dream Palace Books and Coffee, and Ujamaa Community Bookstore.	414 W. Vermont St.	Register!
2:00pm – 3:00pm		Indiana Statehouse	200 W. Washington St.	Register!
2:00pm – 3:30pm		Central Library, Indianapolis Public Library Center for Black Literature and Culture Nina Mason Pulliam Indianapolis Special Collections Room	40 E. St. Clair St.	Register!
2:00pm – 3:00pm		Indiana State Library	315 W. Ohio St.	Register!
2:30pm – 3:30pm		Indiana War Memorial Museum	55 E. Michigan St.	Register!
3:00pm – 3:45pm		Ray Bradbury Museum	425 University Blvd.	Register!
3:00pm - 4:00pm		Monument Circle Historic District Walking Tour by Indiana Landmarks	125 Monument Circle	Register!
3:00pm – 4:00pm		Lucas Oil Stadium	500 S. Capitol Ave	Register!
4:00pm - 5:00pm		White River State Park Walking Tour by Indiana Landmarks	801 W. Washington St.	Register!
4:00pm – 5:00pm		Indiana State Museum	650 W. Washington St	Register!
4:00pm – 4:45pm		Indiana Supreme Court and Law Library	200 W. Washington St.	Register!
5:00pm – 5:45pm		Ray Bradbury Museum	425 University Blvd.	Register!
5:00pm – 6:00pm	Dinner on your own (drinks and heavy snacks only at reception)
6:00pm - 9:00pm		Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library reception with "Banned Books and Representation at the Crossroads" panel with Leah Johnson, Stephen Lane, Ann Matsuuchi and Jason Aukerman as moderator. Refreshments provided by Arepas	543 Indiana Ave.	Open to All!

Friday, October 4

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Gender gap (Hoosier Women at Work tie-in) No photos or recording for this session

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October 4 - Friday - Programming Hine Hall at Indiana University Indianapolis
9:00	Opening in Main Auditorium Venue, announcements, and conference overview with Dominic Byrd-McDevitt of Digital Public Library of America and Wikimedians of Indiana Welcome and Land Acknowledgement from Kristi Palmer, Herbert Simon Family Dean of University Library
9:15-10:00	Keynote in Main Auditorium by Maryana Pinchuk Keynote WMF
ROOM	IP132 (Kelley) Livestream 2	IP139 (Kelley) Livestream 3	IP232 Livestream 4	IP236 Livestream 5	Main Auditorium Livestream 1
10:00 - 10:15	Mobile editing Hannah Clover (User:Clovermoss) Editing	10 years of Toolforge (Kunal Mehta) Tech New Editors	Developing Wikimedia Impact Metrics to Encourage Academic Engagement (Matthew Vetter; Brett Buttliere, Sage Ross) Tech Education	WikiPortraits: Transforming the Wikipedia photo desert into a green oasis (Kevin Payravi, Andrew Lih, Jennifer 8. Lee, Frank Schulenburg) Community GLAM	Barnraising - from the Temperance Movement to the WikiWomen Movement (Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight) Gender Gap
10:15 - 10:30
10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15	Expanding book citations by using WorldCat and linking to archived online copies (Peaceray Leonard) Reliability New Editors	WikiProject Report: Women in Religion (Christine Meyer, Colleen Hartung, Rosalind Hinton, Win Whelan, Clifford Anderson, others) Community Gender Gap	Representation of Mexican Women in Science in Wikipedia (Maria Fernanda Veloz Castillo) Inclusion Gender Gap	Wikidata profiling of small town art (Robin Isadora Brown) Community Inclusion	Being bold in practice: Tales from faculty teaching with Wikipedia (Brianda Felix, La'Tonya Rease Miles, Debby Kurti, Laurel Smith Stvan, Siobahn Day Grady) Education
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45				Requesting free images locally (Brenton Wang) Community Public Policy
11:45 - 12:00	BREAK
12:00 - 12:15	Introduction to editing sister projects (Andrew Leung) New Editors Community	How Wiki Education pursues knowledge equity (LiAnna Davis, Brianda Felix, Ian Ramjohn, Will Kent, Colleen McCoy) Education Inclusion	Latin American Heritage Month Edit-a-thon Content Gap Community	What's new with Wikimedia Cloud Services (Bryan Davis) WMF Tech	Connecting the Movement: Exploring Diff, Wikimedia Answers, and the Foundation's new "front door" on Meta-Wiki (Chris Koerner, Rae Adimer) WMF Education
12:15 - 12:30
12:30 - 12:45					ChatGPT and Wikipedia Plugin: Did it increase quality in student writing? (Robert Cummings, Guy Krueger, Susan Nicholas, and Susan Wood) Education
12:45 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:25	LUNCH	LUNCH WikiWomen Summit Indianapolis: Turning Lunchtime into Convening Gender Gap	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:30 - 14:45	Using shortened footnote templates for book references (Peaceray Leonard) New Editors Reliability	(NA) Wikimedia Hub Discussion (Ariel Cetrone, Peter Meyer, Ben Vershbow) Community	Latin American Heritage Month Edit-a-thon (continued) Content Gap Community	Waikiki: the wiki any agent can edit (Sam Klein) Tech	An evolving model of the Wikipedia student assignment (Ian Ramjohn, Brianda Felix) Education
14:45 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:15					Universities and Wikimedia: Increasing Participation through Student-Run Efforts (William Bothe) Education Community
15:15 - 15:30
15:30 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:00	BREAK
16:00 - 16:15	Using shortened footnote templates for book references (Peaceray Leonard) New Editors Reliability	On This Day, Editors Discuss The OTD Template (A. Filipowich) Community	Latin American Heritage Month Edit-a-thon (continued) Content Gap Community	Waikiki: the wiki any agent can edit (continued) (Sam Klein) Tech Community	What Is the Future of the Wikipedian in Residence Position? (Jake Orlowitz, plus various WIRs) Community
16:15 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:45		Wikisource year in review (edward) WikiSource
16:45 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:00	Dinner on your own (drinks and appetizers only at reception)
18:00 - 21:00	Reception at Indiana State Library Creative Night with Depths of Wikipedia Refreshments provided by Nourish Indiana

Saturday, October 5

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Gender gap (Hoosier Women at Work tie-in) No photos or recording for this session

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October 5 - Saturday - Programming Hine Hall at Indiana University Indianapolis
9:00 - 9:30	Inaugural GLAM Keynote in Main Auditorium with Andrew Lih, and Sara Snyder, honoring Effie Kapsalis Keynote GLAM
ROOM	IP 206 Livestream 2	IP208 Livestream 3	IP 118 Livestream 4	IP216 Livestream 5	IP231	Main Auditorium Livestream 1
9:30 - 9:45	How We Rescued 20 MILLION Dead Wikipedia URLs: An Internet Archive Update (Mark Graham) reliability	Creating Wikipedia List articles with help of Wikidata (Jarek Tuszynski) Wikidata	English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee: What is happening, where it is going, and what does the community want to ask? (A. Filipowich) Community	Addressing content gaps at scale (Will Kent) Content Gap	Catalog-a-thon for GLAM tools in Toolhub (Tricia Burmeister) Tech GLAM WMF	At the Crossroads of Inclusion: Revitalizing US Latinx Editors on Wikipedia (Eric Borja, Oscar Costero) Content Gap Inclusion
9:45 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:15	WikiCite - proposed as Wikimedia sibling project (Lane Rasberry) WikiCite
10:15 - 10:30		Current trends in public policy that could impact Wikipedia (Stan Adams) WMF Public policy
10:30 - 10:45	Wikimedia Commons Roundtable Discussion with Wikimedia Foundation (Selena Deckelmann) WMF WikiCommons	The Roads Fork and What Lies Ahead (Bruce Englehardt, Michael Gronseth) Community Content	LOFESQ (Lots of Farmers Empty Silos Quicker): building community through a named entity Wikibase (Deborah Shapiro, Richard Naples) GLAM	Trolls, Pixsies, and Poka-Yokes: Copyleft Enforcement and the Commons (Ryan McGrady) Public policy		Comunidades indígenas marginadas: estrategias de inclusión a partir de los proyectos Wikimedia (Jonathan Jiménez Salazar) Diversity Community
10:45 - 11:00				Wikimedia outreach could do what WikiProjects can't (Claudia / User:Theleekycauldron) Community Content
11:00 - 11:15		How to be a Dashboard superuser (Ian Ramjohn, LiAnna Davis) Community Education GLAM		Sister Projects: opening? closing? merging? splitting? (Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight) Community Content		Persecución y Wikipedia (Oscar) Public policy
11:15 - 11:30	Social constructivism: reading and editing Wikipedia in an educational psychology course (Anne Drew Hu) Education		Wikimedia Does Not End When You Move: Championing Wikipedia Education Program With No Community (Pamela Ofori Boateng) Diversity Education	Wikimedia Metrics & Tools for GLAMs with the DPLA Wikimedia Working Group (Christina Fernsebner Eslao, Jamie Flood, Giovanna Fontenelle, Evan Robb) GLAM Tech
11:30 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:00	BREAK
12:00 - 12:15	Community Cross overs: Dig-it-all (digital everything how can we connect)? (Deena Larsen) Community Content	Hurricane Helene Response Editing: uploading historical photos for documentation, map editing, data input related to roadways, bridges, etc. Various editors Community	All about the U4C (or do I really need to learn a new acronym?) (Addison Bryant) Community	How to create Wikimedia Working Groups for GLAMs (Giovanna Fontenelle and Jake Orlowitz) GLAM WMF	Meeting at the Crossroads: University Edit-A-Thons (James Scholz Kiersten Cox) Education Diversity	Hacia un futuro compartido. Integrando puentes digitales para la educación abierta y el conocimiento libre (Armando Ávila Carreto) Education
12:15 - 12:30
12:30 - 12:45			Averting Ozymandias's FA: Techniques for preventing article quality decline (User:Sdkb) Governance Editing			Memories on wheels: The evolution of ancient and classic automobile in Mexico (Aguascalientes) and the creation of a historical archive in wikimedia (Victoria Fernanda Coronado de Anda) GLAM
12:45 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:10	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH Canadian Wikimedians Meetup	LUNCH Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Banner Message Workshop	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:10-14:25	Group photo in Main Auditorium
14:30 - 14:45	GLAM CSI (Contributor Study Initiative) Workshop on Documenting User Stories (Andrew Lih) GLAM Tech	Hurricane Helene Response Editing: uploading historical photos for documentation, map editing, data input related to roadways, bridges, etc. Various editors Community	Using Wikipedia films and film makers red links to seed Wikidata (Peaceray Leonard) Wikidata Content	Open time for lightning talks	Meeting at the Crossroads Edit-A-Thon (James Scholz Kiersten Cox) Education Diversity	Focused translation efforts for health promotion (Thais Morata and James Heilman) Science Partnerships
14:45 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:15						The State of COI Editing: Ten Years After the Donovan House Meeting (William Beutler) Community
15:15 - 15:30
15:30 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:00	BREAK
16:00 - 16:15	GLAM CSI (Contributor Study Initiative) Workshop on Documenting User Stories (continued) (Andrew Lih) GLAM Tech		Using Wikipedia films and film makers red links to seed Wikidata (Peaceray Leonard) Wikidata Content	Open time for lightning talks	Meeting at the Crossroads Edit-A-Thon (continued) (James Scholz and Kiersten Cox) Education Diversity	Open Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Raju Narisetti, Kathy Collins, Selena Deckelmann, Lisa Seitz-Gruwell, Elena Lappen) WMF Community
16:15 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:45
16:45 - 17:00
17:00 - 20:00	Social Gathering & North American Hub Discussion The AMP at 16 Tech Food vendors on-site (not provided)

Sunday, October 6

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October 6 - Sunday - Programming Hine Hall at Indiana University Indianapolis
9:30 - 10:00	Keynote in Main Auditorium with Wikimedian of the Year, Hannah Clover (User:Clovermoss) Keynote
ROOM	IP206 Livestream 2	IP208 Livestream 3	IP231 Livestream 4	IP118 Livestream 5	Main Auditorium Livestream 1
10:00 - 10:15	Wikimedian in Residence: Expanding Artists’ Visibility and Knowledge Access (Michaela Blanc) GLAM Diversity	Women in Religion: Expanding the Crossroads Across Continents using Rapid Grants, the Case of Kenya (Rosalind Hinton; Ruth Amwe, Colleen Hartung, Christine Meyer) Diversity Gender gap	Challenges in Citizen Science Data Platforms for Andean Potato Agrobiodiversity Conservation (Sebastian Zarate) Science Content	Challenges to policy change on Wikipedia (Samuel Henderson) Public policy	Generative AI and Wikipedia: A discussion (Lead authors: Maryana Pinchuk, LiAnna Davis; Panelists: Andrew Lih, Bob Cummings, Ximena Gallardo, Carwil Bjork-James) Tech Community WMF
10:15 - 10:30
10:30 - 10:45	Working for representation on Wiki (Sherry Antoine) Diversity Content gap		Wikimedia Indiana: A Growing Indiana Cultural Heritage Hub (Tapiwa Mzumara, Olivia MacIsaac, Jere Odell) Community	A roadmap for engagement: the Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions (Mary Mark Ockerbloom) GLAM Community
10:45 - 11:00				Beyond Wikipedia: Open Educational Practices across Wikimedia Projects (Matthew Vetter & Zachary McDowell) Education
11:00 - 11:15	Turning points in Wikipedia disputes: Research and discussion of resolution efforts (Hillel Gray) Research Community	Coral Reef Digital Twins and a Distributed Genetic Ark for Coral Conservation (Anthony J Bellantuono) Science	Wikipedia Belongs in Prisons (Jake Orlowitz) Education Diversity		Enhancing Digital Collections through Wikimedia Commons (Justin Clark; Jill Weiss Simins) GLAM WikiCommons
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:00	BREAK
12:00 - 12:15			Adding authority control properties in Wikidata for writer and artist biographies (Peaceray Leonard) Wikidata Content	Thinking Together About WMF Proposed Changes to Grantmaking: Regional Funds Committees & A Global Grants Distribution Committee (Ben Vershbow, Chris Schilling, Giovanna Fontenelle) WMF Community	Introducing the Citation Watchlist! (James Hare, Jake Orlowitz) Content Tech
12:15 - 12:30
12:30 - 12:45					A decade of WikiJournal publications (Andrew Leung) Content Community
12:45 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:30	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH Climate meetup	LUNCH
14:30 - 14:45	WikiConference North America closing and review session in Auditorium
14:45 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:15