2023/Program

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WikiConference North America

Toronto — 9-12 November 2023

Program

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WikiConference North America
Toronto — 9-12 November 2023

Program

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Thursday, November 9

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November 9 - Thursday morning - Culture Crawl
9:00	Required morning sign-up for cultural tours starting at 9 a.m at Holiday Inn Toronto Downtown Centre				9:00
Morning Sessions	Royal Ontario Museum 40 people total		Art Gallery of Ontario 20 people total	Bata Shoe Museum 20 people total	Morning Sessions
10:00	Galleries		Edit-a-thon	Tour + Edit-a-thon	10:00
11:00	Edit-a-thon A (20 people)	Galleries			11:00
12:00					12:00
13:00	Lunch (on your own)				13:00

November 9 - Thursday afternoon - Culture Crawl
Afternoon Sessions	Royal Ontario Museum 40 people total		Textile Museum of Canada 25 people total	Lunch Walking Tour Unlimited people	Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library 40 people total	Afternoon Sessions
11:00	Edit-a-thon A (20 people)	Galleries	Tour + Edit-a-thon			11:00
12:00						12:00
13:00	Lunch (on your own)			Lunch walking tour: Kensington Market Mehrdad Pourzaki (MPourzaki (WMF))		13:00
14:00	Edit-a-thon B (20 people)	Galleries				14:00
15:00					Tour + Edit-a-thon A (20 people)	15:00
16:00	Galleries				Tour + Edit-a-thon B (20 people)	16:00
17:00	Break					17:00
18:00	Open Reception + Game Night starting at 6 p.m at Snakes & Lattes Annex Due to capacity limits, RSVP is required. Those who RSVPed (either during registration or form) will receive an email prior to the conference start.					18:00

Friday, November 10

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November 10 - Friday - Programming Toronto Reference Library
8:00–9:00	Check-in and Badge pickup second floor in front of Epic Hall			8:00–9:00
9:00–10:15	Epic Hall: Keynote by Selena Deckelmann, Chief Product and Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation second floor			9:00–10:15
Morning Sessions	Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats	Novella Room second floor, 118 seats	Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats + Beeton Hall Events Centre first floor, 130 seats	Morning Sessions
10:15–10:30	Lecture: Updates from AffCom Jeffrey Keefer (FULBERT)		Women Do News Edit-a-thon in the Executive Board Room Emily Gertz Also: GLAM Wiki Tools Roundtable in Beeton Hall Andrew Lih and Selena Deckelmann	10:15–10:30
10:30–10:45		Lecture: Every Book Its Reader Alejandra Quiroz Hernández (Alequihdez)		10:30–10:45
10:45–11:00	Panel: Board Session with the Trustees Lorenzo Losa, Raju Narisetti, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight. Moderator: Kelsi Stine-Rowe (KStineRowe (WMF)			10:45–11:00
11:00–11:15		Lecture: How the Digital Public Library of America is putting American history at Wikipedians' fingertips Dominic Byrd-McDevitt (Dominic) and Joe Mabel (Jmabel)		11:00–11:15
11:15–11:30				11:15–11:30
11:30–11:45	Break			11:30–11:45
11:45–12:00	Lecture: Reflections on Eight Years at ArbCom: Policy, Structure, and Reform Kevin Li (L235)	Lecture: Metadata and Decolonization Amanda Figueroa (Amafig)	Workshop: Content Integrity with Wikimedia Enterprise API in the Executive Board Room Francisco Navas (FNavas-WMF)	11:45–12:00
12:00–12:15				12:00–12:15
12:15–12:30	Panel: Governance committees in the Wikimedia movement Jack "Xeno" Glover (Xeno (WMF))	Lecture: Wikipedia Initiatives at Local Canadian Public Libraries Emily Carrasco-Acosta (Emily CA (MPL))		12:15–12:30
12:30–12:45				12:30–12:45
12:45–13:00		Lightning talk: Parallel Play: What Do Librarians Learn from Editing Wikipedia? Scott Libson (Scott.libson)		12:45–13:00
13:00–14:15	Lunch			13:00–14:15
Afternoon Sessions	Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats	Novella Room second floor, 118 seats	Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats	Afternoon Sessions
14:15–14:30	Panel: Ensuring Resilient Governance CaptainEek	Panel: L’union fait la force : Coopérer pour valoriser le cinéma régional québécois Kim Fontaine, Julia Minne, Émélie Rivard-Boudreau et AM Trépanier	Editathon: WP:WELW Women Electronic Literature Writers Project Deena Larsen (LovesElectronicLiterature)	14:15–14:30
14:30–14:45				14:30–14:45
14:45–15:00				14:45–15:00
15:00–15:15	Roundtable: Movement Charter Conversations Anne Clin, Richard Knipel (Pharos), Risker	Lecture: View it! Tool: Utilizing Structured Data on Commons for Image Discovery Dominic Byrd-McDevitt (Dominic), Kevin Payravi (SuperHamster), Jamie Flood (JamieF)		15:00–15:15
15:15–15:30				15:15–15:30
15:30–15:45		Lightning talk: Des chantiers Wiki dans un musée d'art canadien Nathalie Thibault (natharchives)		15:30–15:45
15:45–16:00	Break			15:45–16:00
16:00–16:15	Panel: Potential Governance or Arbitration Panel Ira Brad Matetsky (Newyorkbrad)	Lecture: One Year In: Growing Capacity to Support GLAM Wiki in Indiana Olivia MacIsaac (Olgrmac), Jamie Flood (JamieF), Dominic Byrd-McDevitt (Dominic), Jere Odell (Jaireeodell)	Editathon: WP:WELW Women Electronic Literature Writers Project Deena Larsen (LovesElectronicLiterature)	16:00–16:15
16:15–16:30				16:15–16:30
16:30–16:45	Lecture: The Block Log: Content Moderation on the English Wikipedia Ryan McGrady (Rhododendrites)	Lecture: Activating Archives: How the Archives of Ontario is Building Community through GLAM-Wiki Danielle Manning (Ellie1984)		16:30–16:45
16:45–17:00				16:45–17:00
17:00–19:00	Optional: Distributed dinner meetups at restaurants near the library			17:00–19:00
19:00–20:30	Optional: Plenary brainstorming session for Global + Tech Strategy Night			19:00–20:30

Saturday, November 11

We had a delayed start today due to a security incident at the library. Please keep an eye on this page for changes.

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November 11 - Saturday - Programming Toronto Reference Library
8:00–11:00	Check-in and Badge pickup second floor in front of Epic Hall				8:00–11:00
Morning Sessions	Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats	Novella Room second floor, 118 seats	Beeton Hall Events Centre first floor, 130 seats	Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats	Morning Sessions
11:00–11:01	Remembrance Day: 1 Minute of Silence				11:00–11:01
11:01–11:15			Lecture: Building Wikimedia support at the University of Toronto: A five-year retrospective Alex Jiyun Jung (Utl_jung) | This presenter would prefer if the audience members wore masks	Workshop: Organizing Template:Misinformation Mary Mark Ockerbloom (MaryMO (AR))	11:01–11:15
11:15–11:30	Roundtable: Artificial intelligence in Wikipedia and wiki projects Andrew Leung (OhanaUnited)				11:15–11:30
11:30–11:45			Lecture: Image credits on Wikipedia Dominic Byrd-McDevitt (Dominic)		11:30–11:45
11:45–12:00					11:45–12:00
12:00–12:15	Roundtable: Surpassing RfCs: how to improve the governance of large software changes Gergő Tisza (Tgr)	Lecture: Indigenous Artists and Wikidata Brit Johnston, Frédéric Julien (Fjjulien), and Anju Singh	Roundtable: No Rights Reserved: What CC0 Means for Contributor Motivations, Data Provenance, and the Wikipedia Detour Matt Vetter (Matthewvetter); Zach McDowell (ZachMcDowell)	Lightning talk: Introduction to Credibility Bot + Workshop: Credibility Bot Feedback and Brainstorming Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)	12:00–12:15
12:15–12:30					12:15–12:30
12:30–12:45		Panel: Wikipedia as a site of archival activism: potentials and limits from the experience of equity-seeking community advocates Anabelle Ragsag, Jessica Vinluan, and Julia Espinosa			12:30–12:45
12:45–13:00	Panel: WikiProject Women in Religion Jere Odell & Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight		Lightning talk: An Alternative to the Pushpin Map in the Neighbourhood Infobox R.D. (Bob) Reichert (Robert Neustadter) and E. St. Amour		12:45–13:00
13:00–14:15	Lunch + Epic Hall: Keynote: Sue Gardner - Former Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation + Immediately after Sue's keynote: Epic Hall: Group Photo				13:00–14:15
Afternoon Sessions	Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats	Novella Room second floor, 118 seats	Beeton Hall Events Centre first floor, 130 seats	Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats	Afternoon Sessions
14:15–14:30	Lecture: IP Masking - Protecting privacy for unregistered editors Niharika Kohli (NKohli (WMF))	Lecture: Report on research for North American hub Peter B Meyer (econterms); Ariel Cetrone	Lecture: Citations in Wikipedia for Understanding Research Reach Denise Smith (Mcbrarian), Jack Young, Jennifer McKinnell	Workshop: Sister projects: the past, present and glorious future Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight & Lorenzo Losa	14:15–14:30
14:30–14:45		Panel: WikiOASIS: Wiki Island Nations Alliance Ian Ramjohn (Guettarda); Sherry Antoine (Shanluan); Brandon Sullivan (JamaicanEditor); Richard Knipel (Pharos)			14:30–14:45
14:45–15:00	Lightning talk: Building and Disseminating Print Bibliographic Data Online Sara Palmer		Lecture: Building English Wikipedia's best work: how to research and write featured articles Buidhe		14:45–15:00
15:00–15:15	Lightning talk: A positive feedback loop between Wikidata and text mining Daniel Mietchen	Roundtable: Open Education Training Needs in an Evolving Society Shanna Hollich			15:00–15:15
15:15–15:30	Lightning talk: Agents, Name Authorities, and Linked Open Data: Leveraging Wikidata for Access and Discovery of Archival Materials Jeremy Floyd (Jjfloyd)		Lightning talk: URFA/2020 and Wikipedia's Featured Article Review Process A. Filipowich (Z1720)	Workshop: Discuss prospects for North American hub	15:15–15:30
15:30–15:45	Panel: LaGuardia & Wagner Archives Wikipedia Project Year 5: LGBTQ Archives and Student Research Ann Matsuuchi (Mozucat), Ximena Gallardo C. (Doctorxgc), Michael Martinez (Inspirewithus)		Lecture: Equity, Community Engagement, and Ag: Advancing equity and increasing agricultural coverage on Wikipedia Jamie Flood (JamieF)		15:30–15:45
15:45–16:00		Lightning talk: Improving Equity on Wikipedia Will Kent (Will (Wiki Ed))			15:45–16:00
16:00–16:15	Break				16:00–16:15
16:15–16:30	Panel: Building an advanced Wikidata Curriculum Will Kent (Will (Wiki Ed)), Jackie Rubashkin, William Blueher, Thamilini Jothilingam	Lecture: Continued Relevancy in the Classroom: Using Wikipedia to Teach Information Literacy to University Students Helen Choi (1namesake1) and Cari Kaurloto	Workshop: What is the future of free knowledge? Collaboratively charting the course of our movement Maryana Pinchuk (MPinchuk (WMF))	Unconference	16:15–16:30
16:30–16:45		Lecture: From British Newspaper Archives to Sage Journals: Learn how to access more than 90 paywalled resources for free through The Wikipedia Library Ben Vershbow			16:30–16:45
16:45–17:00	Lecture: What's the use (case) of starting your biography creation in Wikidata? Ray Leonard (Peaceray)				16:45–17:00
17:00–19:00	Optional: Distributed dinner meetups at restaurants near the library				17:00–19:00
19:00–20:30	Optional: Plenary brainstorming session for North America + Hub Strategy Night				19:00–20:30

Sunday, November 12

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November 12 - Sunday - Programming Toronto Reference Library
8:00–9:00	Check-in and Badge pickup second floor in front of Epic Hall			8:00–9:00
9:00–10:15	Epic Hall: Keynote: 100 ans de données météorologiques d’Environnement et Changement climatique Canada dans Commons / 100 Years of Environment and Climate Change Canada Weather Data in Commons Ha-Loan Phan, Wikimedia Canada Chair and Pierre Choffet, consultant for Wikimedia Canada Second floor			9:00–10:15
Morning Sessions	Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats	Novella Room second floor, 118 seats	Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats	Morning Sessions
10:15–10:30	Lightning talk: 365 climate edits Daniel Mietchen	Enterprise for all communities— a discussion of API features for the future Chris Petrillo, Francisco Navas (FNavas-WMF)		10:15–10:30
10:30–10:45	Lecture: Defense against the Dark Arts: Disinformation on Wikipedia Mary Mark Ockerbloom (MaryMO (AR))		Workshop: Wikidata Lexemes: Introduction to the possibilities Mahir Morshed (Mahir256))	10:30–10:45
10:45–11:00		Lecture: Lessons learned - The on-wiki editing campaigns of Women in Red Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Rosiestep)		10:45–11:00
11:00–11:15	Lightning talk: Mid-semester rookie report: Starting a wikiversity project & teaching a class with wikiedu assignments Steven M. Schneider (Stevesuny)	Lecture: Hacktivismo y medios libres en México Ehécatl Cabrera (Ehecatl-c)		11:00–11:15
11:15–11:30	Lecture: Internet Archive: The Annual WikiConference Update Mark Graham			11:15–11:30
11:30–11:45	Break			11:30–11:45
11:45–12:00	Panel: Faculty perspectives on the Wikipedia assignment Helaine Blumenthal (Helaine (Wiki Ed)), Naniette Coleman, Sarah Turner	Lecture: Editorial protocols and cultural pluralization of knowledge on Wikipedia: introducing a research project Claudie Saulnier, Nathalie Casemajor (Seeris), Stéphane Couture	Workshop: Tips & Tricks for the Programs & Events Dashboard LiAnna Davis (LiAnna (Wiki Ed))	11:45–12:00
12:00–12:15				12:00–12:15
12:15–12:30		Break		12:15–12:30
12:30–12:45	Panel: Perspectives on Wiki-based student placements programs Alanna Brown (abrown824), Katrina Cohen-Palacios (kcohenp), Alexandra Wong (alixwongo)	Lecture: Wiki edit-a-thon: des retombées importantes pour la représentation de l'histoire de la communauté LGBTQIA2+ francophone du Canada Pascale Dangoisse, Constance Crompton, Michelle Schwartz, Candice Lipski, Farinaz Basmechi		12:30–12:45
12:45–13:00				12:45–13:00
13:00–14:15	Lunch	WikiWomen's Lunch	Canadian Wikimedians Lunch	13:00–14:15
Afternoon Sessions	Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats	Novella Room second floor, 118 seats	Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats	Afternoon Sessions
14:15–14:30	Lecture: Project Korikath: an attempt to engage youth in bridging local visual knowledge gaps Fabian Roudra Baroi	Lecture: Wikipédia: un outil pédagogique pour le développement culturel numérique francophone Émélie Rivard-Boudreau (Erbvdat)	Workshop: Scholia workshop Daniel Mietchen	14:15–14:30
14:30–14:45	Lecture: The BLP Situation on Wikipedia Today Ira Brad Matetsky (Newyorkbrad)			14:30–14:45
14:45–15:00		Panel: Wikipedia and academia: An examination of a critical, but complex relationship Helaine Blumenthal (Helaine (Wiki Ed)), Brianda Felix (Brianda (Wiki Ed))		14:45–15:00
15:00–15:15	Lecture: WikiJournal 2023 update Andrew Leung (OhanaUnited)			15:00–15:15
15:15–15:30				15:15–15:30
15:30–15:45	Post-conference Reflection & Lessons Learned session			15:30–15:45
15:45–16:00				15:45–16:00

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