2024/Unconference

WikiConference North America 2024 • Indianapolis

Unconference-style scheduling

WikiConference North America 2024 will include unconference sessions in room IP216 from 2:30pm to 5:30pm on Saturday, October 5, where anyone can propose or spontaneously organize a mini-presentation, discussion, or workshop on a wiki-related topic.

See 20-second intro video to unconferencing.

You are welcome to add yourself to the list below with topics you'd like to present on. Adding your name and a timeslot below serves as a "noticeboard announcement" for your activity and does not guarantee you the space at that time. The room is available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Unconference

Meetup/workshop topics

Please propose topics and time frames. Organizers will put them on the wiki schedule here.

Ideas (unsorted)

• Create a tool that can take as input any article and return the most similar GA or FA. This tool could be linked from talk pages to help editors identify model articles to use as inspiration to guide development. Sdkb ^talk 14:29, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Lightning talks

Lightning talks are short back-to-back presentations of 5 minutes each. You can propose them here with your own topics!

• Re-proposing Submissions:2024/Untangling Wikipedia: Organizing Content for Clarity and Growth as apparently this is where most lighting talks will go. Mathnerd314159 (talk)
• How machine translation is wreaking havoc on small Wikipedias (Slides). (Time: anytime before the break) Nataev (talk) 18:56, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
• Practice and potential of m:CentralNotice for North America, and all of its regions and subregions. Pharos (talk) 00:03, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
• Coverage of Central Asia (the five -stans) on English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata (Slides). (Time: anytime after the break). Nataev (talk) 01:35, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
• Announcing winners of the Wiki Science Competition 2023 in the United States. Antony-22 (talk) 01:39, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
• Native topic concerns on Wikipedia that all editors need to be aware of, presented by chairman of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas Bernard Barcena on behalf of 32 Native tribes and organizations. 14:30–15:45 (2:30–3:45 PM). Followup at Submissions:2024/Open Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Pingnova (talk) 03:31, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
• Introducing Wiki Term Base, an in-progress project to standardize vocabulary on multilingual Wikiprojects (slides) --Abbad (talk) 15:28, 4 October 2024 (UTC).
• The Wikipedia Library; Updates from 2023-2024 Financial Year Vipin (talk) 16:18, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
• SportsArchive: Preserving the history that teams and leagues are losing (slides, pdf) –IagoQnsi (talk) 18:21, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
• Charts extension - Successor to the Graph extension [1] KFilbert-WMF (talk) 21:55, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
• Designing a Wikidata Edit-a-thon for the Black Teacher Archive Fernsebner & Teyilee
• Why English Wikipedia needs to be friendlier to active niche communities like roads and anime. Barkeep49 (talk) 15:01, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
• Second-pass recent and related changes patrol. (I prefer before the break.) ComplexRational (talk) 16:20, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
• Improvements to the copyvios tool. The Earwig (talk) 18:30, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
• Mastodon and collaborative social media Legoktm (talk) 19:08, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
• Calculator widgets on pages Bawolff (talk) 20:07, 5 October 2024 (UTC)