2017/Schedule

WikiConference North America 2017 • Montréal, Canada

Conference outline

WikiConference North America 2017 is taking place over the course of two days, and we have many exciting activities planned to welcome you to Montreal!

August 9 - Wednesday - Culture Crawl, Scan-a-thon, and Reception

The BAnQ Vieux-Montréal, where WCNA is hosting an edit-a-thon, trainings, programming, and more.

Our second-annual Culture Crawl connects Wikimedians with Montreal's cultural institutions. The day's activities are a great chance to explore and connect with the city you'll be spending the rest of Wikimania in.

• At McGill University:
  • Three unique tours, including backstage tours with their collections and archive.
  • Free access to the Redpath Museum
  • McGill editathon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Montreal/WCNA2017/McGill_University
• At the BAnQ Vieux-Montréal:
  • Canadian Women Edit-a-thon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Montreal/WCNA2017/Canadian_women
  • Wikidata training sessions
  • Scan-a-thon / Source-a-thon with BAnQ's rare materials dating back over a century.
  • Tour of the BAnQ and its backroom archives.
• A Photo Drive - take photos for the Commons throughout the day.

August 10 - Thursday - Programming
On Thursday we invite you to attend our three-track programming sessions, which includes:

• Presentations from community members on their activities, projects, and more.
• Technical workshops on Wikidata, the Outreach Dashboard, and more.
• Roundtable discussion on innovating edit-a-thons and meetups
• Lightning Talks (5 minutes) for anyone to get up and give.
• Unconference - make it your own!

Schedule

August 9 - Wednesday - Culture Crawl, Scan-a-thon, and Reception
Registration in Sheraton Lobby starting at 8:00 AM
Welcome Session, 9:00 - 9:30 AM in Sheraton Lobby Meet in the lobby of Le Centre Sheraton for a welcome, housekeeping, and handouts. Groups can meet here to depart to tours, the BAnQ, and photo sessions.
McGill University	BAnQ Vieux-Montreal	Other
All Day: Free admission at the Redpath Museum 10:00 - 10:45 AM: Tour Visit with materials from McGill University Archives Rare Books and Special Collections (4th floor of the McLennan Library Building) 11:00 - 11:45 AM: Tour Tour of the exhibition "Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge" and the Canadian Architecture Collection (meet in the Lobby of McLennan Library Building) 12:00 - 1:00 PM: Tour Tour of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine with Chris Lyons (meet in the lobby of McLennan Library Building and walk up together. Tour at 12:15pm) 12:00 - 1:30 PM: Photo walk from McGill's Mclennan Library to the BAnQ-Vieux. 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM: Edit-a-thon Contribute to articles using McGill's collections in their Data Visualization Room. This includes access to their electronic subscription resources; see event page for more details. The Visualization Room will remain open through 5 if you would like to continue working after the edit-a-thon.	10:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Scan-a-thon with the BAnQ-Vieux Archives 12:00 - 5:00 PM: Open rooms and Unconference (Room 2.28 & Auditorium) 12:00 - 5:00 PM: Edit-a-thon Canadian Women; see event page for more details. (Jodoin East & West) 5:00 - 6:00 PM: Tour of the BAnQ-Vieux	All Day: Photo Drive - Take photos of your experiences, buildings, artifacts, and more throughout the day for the Commons. 5:00 PM & Later: McCord Museum has free access to its permanent exhibition.
Social and Networking Night, starting at 6:00 PM in Old Montreal After a long day of activities, enjoy the night out in Old Montreal with your fellow Wikimedians. We have the top floor of Les 3 Brasseurs (105 Rue Saint Paul Est) reserved for drinks and socializing; there are plenty of other drink and food places in the area, as well as the Cité Mémoire digital display to see.

August 10 - Thursday - Programming
Registration in Sheraton Lobby 8:00 AM	Meet in the lobby of Le Centre Sheraton to sign in if you did not already on Wednesday.
Opening Session 9:00 - 10:30 AM	Meet us in Salon Jarry, Level A Introduction & Keynote Addresses Benoit Rochon, Wikimedia Canada Benoit shares Wikimedia Canada's activities and First Nations project. Sherry and Alice, AfroCROWD Ivan and Salvador, Wikimedia México Ivan and Salvador share Wikimedia México's activities. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Women in Red Rosie shares the Gender Diversity Mapping project. Keynote All Hands
Break 10:30 - 11:00 AM	Catch a break and mingle with other Wikimedians.
	Track 1 (Jarry, Level A) Panels & Discussion	Track 2 (Hermon, Level A) Tutorials	Track 3 (Salon 5, Level 2) Unconference
Session 1 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Education Community AIDS Archive: The La Guardia & Wagner Archives Wikipedia Project (Matsuuchi) (30 minutes) (etherpad) Taking advantage of the WikiMOOC to teach Wikipedia in academic context (Hocquet) (30 minutes) (etherpad) Birth of Bias: implicit bias’ permanence on Wikipedia (Koerner) (30 minutes) (etherpad)	Wikidata Wikidata Hands-on Tutorial - SPARQL, VizQuery, Games & Tools (1.5 hours) - For beginners and experienced users alike. Slides: On Google Slides Handout: Wikidata One Pager All Wikidata sessions at Wikimania etherpad Wikidata in use Guest: SOAP- Sum of all paintings (Maarten Dammers) Wikidata in use Guest: Wikidata team (Léa Lacroix)	Unconference intro + Roundtable/facilitated discussion - Innovating edit-a-thons and meetups
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM	Lunch provided by Wikimania at the Sheraton for registered attendees.
Session 2 1:30 - 3:30 PM	Tech Community Community Wishlist: What We've Done, What's Coming Up (Horn, WMF) (30 minutes) (etherpad) Article Alerts: A review of the English Wikipedia's article-monitoring system (Landry) (30 minutes) (etherpad) Wikimedia and Education: Linking these two with technology (Ullrich & Rupprecht, WMDE) (30 minutes) (etherpad) Facing Defacement: Combating harassment with user page protection (Gethen) (30 minutes) (etherpad)	Tech Tools Wikidata Cool Tools for Mass Contributions (1 hour) Wikidata - Quickstatements, Google Spreadsheets Wikipedia Tools, Open Refine, Wikidata Game Wikidata in use Guest: Structured Data on Commons (Sandra Fauconnier and/or Amanda Bittaker) Wikidata in use Guest: Quickstatements and Libraries (Robert Fernandez, User: Gamaliel) (slides) Commons in use Guest: Pattypan (Paweł Marynowski, User:Yarl) ORES, revision scorting & Outreach Dashboard Wikidata+Wikipedia integration (Infoboxes!) (30 minutes) A Macro-Micro Biological Tour of Wikidata (Smith) (30 minutes) (etherpad)	Unconference session - make it your own! Three parallel tracks of 30-minute sessions.
Break 3:30 - 4:00 PM	Catch a break and mingle with other Wikimedians.
Session 3 4:00 - 4:50 PM	Education Better together: Building bridges between U.S. public libraries and English-language Wikipedia (Sengul-Jones) (20 minutes) (etherpad) Wikipedia Organizations on Campus: Case Study and Guide (Payravi & Dalesio, US-OH) (15 minutes) (etherpad) Service, Sororities, and the Gender Gap (Doyle, West Virginia University) (15 minutes) (etherpad)	Building MediaWiki software to enforce Page & Topic bans (Bolliger & Poore, WMF) (50 minutes) (etherpad)	Lightning Talks Share a story, project, idea - present on whatever you want! Max 5 minutes each
Conclusion & Group Photo 5:15 - 6:00 PM	Join us for a sharing session and conclusion, followed by a group photo. This is a chance to share final thoughts and share what was accomplished during the unconference.
Evening Reception 7:00 - 9:00 PM	Welcome reception/dinner at Sheraton Hotel for all registered Wikimedia attendees, 7-9 PM