2016/Schedule

WikiConference North America 2016 • San Diego, California

Conference outline

WikiConference North America 2016 group photo

• 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

The program may change before and during the conference. Please check the "View history" tab for changes.
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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
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
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
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) WikiEd 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	1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Women Philosopher's Edit-a-thon: Kevin Gorman Memorial Tutorial Gender Gap Edit-a-thon (Note: The Reading Room will be shared with the general public on Saturday.)
SAT BREAK 1 3:00 - 3:30 pm
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 “Making Your Own Worlds”: The Changing Educational Goals of The LaGuardia WikiProject Octavia E. Butler (Gallardo) 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) WikiEd 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	1:30 pm - 4:00 pm (continues) Women Philosopher's Edit-a-thon: Kevin Gorman Memorial Tutorial Gender Gap Edit-a-thon
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
Evening events	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
SUN BREAK 1 1:15 - 1:30 pm
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 Impromptu San Diego / California local usergroup meeting (2:30pm)	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) WikiEd Quality Education The five and a half biggest mistakes Wiki Ed made when thinking about program impact (L. Davis) (45 mins) WikiEd Education Sun-Com-1	1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Edit-a-thon: Notable Chemists and Chemistry with the American Chemical Society Introductory Science Edit-a-thon
SUN BREAK 2 3:00 - 3:30 pm
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) 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 Characterizing Wikipedia 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) WikiEd 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	1:30 pm - 5:00 pm (continues) Edit-a-thon: Notable Chemists and Chemistry with the American Chemical Society Introductory Science Edit-a-thon 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Learning Rotations for Program Design, Support & Evaluation - (Anstee) WMF Community Affiliates Training
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 - 6:00pm Wikimedia Communities and Movement Strategy with Katherine Maher WMF Community Discussion Sun-Jaffe-Closing
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
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
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	Planned session 1:30 pm - 4 pm: Indigenous People's Day editathon facilitated by Siko Bouterse Inclusion Edit-a-thon Introductory 1:30pm Content Gender Gap - Women in Red & Women in Green (Stephenson-Goodknight) Gender Gap 2:00pm Beyond copyright release - model release and other media rights (Rasberry) Commons Open for Unconference sessions Unconference 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	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 Mon-Com-1
MON BREAK 1 2:30 - 2:45 pm
MON Session 2 2:45 - 4:15 pm	Increasing reach of Wikimedia projects via partnerships (Vrana, Vargas) (30 mins) WMF Inclusion Understanding Wikipedia readership: Our results for our phone survey in Mexico (Foy, Vargas) (30 mins) WMF Research Mon-Aud-2	Planned session 1:30 pm - 4 pm: Indigenous People's Day editathon facilitated by Siko Bouterse Inclusion Edit-a-thon Introductory Lightning talks part II 3:30pm Mon-Shi-2	WikiProject X: The development of the future of on-wiki project coordination (Schoonover) Tech Community Research Mon-Jaffe-2	Open for Unconference sessions Unconference Mon-Clark-2 A (2:45-3:15) Filipino American / Asian American history B (3:15-3:45) C (3:45-4:15)	3:30 pm - Basics of Wikipedia for the Public Introductory Mon-Wells-2	Open for Unconference sessions Unconference Mon-Com-2 A (2:45-3:15) SignWriting and vertical writing B (3:15-3:45) C (3:45-4:15)
MON BREAK 2 4:15 - 4:30 pm
MON Closing session 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm		Sharing session Discussion All Hands Mon-Shi-Closing
See you at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal! (August 11-13, 2017)

Registration times

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