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WikiConference North America 2019
November 8-11

You're invited to Cambridge, Massachusetts to join Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts for the annual continental conference.

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Boston skyline by King of Hearts (CC BY-SA 4.0)

WikiConference North America is the annual conference of Wikimedia enthusiasts and volunteers from throughout North America, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The 2019 conference will take place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 8-11. Join Wikipedia, -media, -data, and -cite enthusiasts for a long weekend of collaboration and discovery.

Our main host is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This year's theme is reliability / credibility
Participation in conference activities includes compliance with our friendly space policy.
Scholarship Applications: Closed
Programming Submissions: Closed (add ideas to our unconference)

Conference overview

View of Stata Center from Vassar street

This is a draft; details are subject to change. A full schedule is coming soon.

Friday, November 8
Culture Crawl Day - explore local museums and cultural institutions while editing Wikipedia and learning about Wikimedia projects

Location: Museum of Fine Arts and Cultural institutions in downtown Boston and Cambridge
- Participants will visit local museums and cultural institutions for free backstage tours, edit-a-thons, and more.
- Training sessions around GLAM and Wikidata.
- Kickoff to our conference-long hackathon, challenging participants to ideate and come up with solutions for problems around information reliability.
Friday night reception: Downtown Boston

Saturday + Sunday, November 9 - 10
Two full days of keynotes, community presentations, discussions, workshops and lightning talks

Location: MIT's Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus; 32 Vassar Street, link to map
- Saturday: 9:00am-5:30pm; Sunday: 10:00am-5:00pm; with a Saturday evening reception in downtown Boston.
- Participants will be able to join sessions on themes including credibility and reliability; education with Wikimedia projects; news and current events; citations and sourcing; relationship building & support; inclusion & diversity; editor recruitment and retention; tech & tools; and harassment, civility, & safety.

Monday, November 11
A reliability summit and hackathon, providing a deep-dive into issues surrounding reliability of information.

Location: MIT's Stata Center
- The summit will bring together participants from the Wikimedia Movement, the credibility space, and external organizations to discuss the biggest challenges being faced. Bring projects to work on and issues to discuss. Participants will also be able to join workshops on tools related to information reliability.

Organization

Contact
Email us at info@wikiconference.org with any questions!

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Team

Partners + Sponsors

Craig Newmark
Philanthropies

Social media

Facebook (coming soon)
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History

Our previous events had unique themes and were located in different cities: New York City (2014), Washington D.C. (2015), San Diego (2016), Montreal (2017), and Columbus, OH (2018).

WikiConference North America User Group was formed in 2016 after that year's conference. It is a recognized Affiliate by the Wikimedia Foundation. The purpose of the User Group is to assure that the experiences gained at one conference are shared with future year conference organizers. The mission of the User Group includes coordinating the planning and hosting of events under our purview. Additionally, the User Group documents best practices and shares lessons learned with other Wikimedia communities planning and hosting conferences and similar events.

WCNA 2018, Columbus, OH
WCNA 2017, Montreal
WCNA 2016, San Diego
WCUSA 2015, Washington D.C.
WCUSA 2014, New York City

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-Stata Center, MIT<br />
-Address: Building 32, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA, 02139
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 : ''This is a draft; details are subject to change. A full schedule is coming soon.''
-; Dates: November 8 - 11, 2019.
+<big>
-; Friday, November 8
+; Friday, November 8 <br/>
-* Location of Check-in Desk: TBD
-* Culture Crawl, a day-long event where we collaborate with local museums, libraries, and cultural institutions to host free backstage tours, edit-a-thons, and more.
+; Culture Crawl Day - explore local museums and cultural institutions while editing Wikipedia and learning about Wikimedia projects
+</big>
-* Training sessions around [[:en:Wikipedia:GLAM|GLAM]] and [[:d:Wikidata:Main_Page|Wikidata]].
+* Location: Museum of Fine Arts and Cultural institutions in downtown Boston and Cambridge
-* Kickoff to our conference-long hackathon, challenging participants to ideate and come up with solutions for problems around information reliability.
+** Participants will visit local museums and cultural institutions for free backstage tours, edit-a-thons, and more.
+** Training sessions around [[:en:Wikipedia:GLAM|GLAM]] and [[:d:Wikidata:Main_Page|Wikidata]].
+** Kickoff to our conference-long hackathon, challenging participants to ideate and come up with solutions for problems around information reliability.
+* Friday night reception: Downtown Boston
+<big>
+; Saturday + Sunday, November 9 - 10<br/>
+;Two full days of keynotes, community presentations, discussions, workshops and lightning talks
+</big>
+* Location: MIT's Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus; 32 Vassar Street, [http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32 link to map]
+** Saturday: 9:00am-5:30pm; Sunday: 10:00am-5:00pm; with a Saturday evening reception in downtown Boston.
+** Participants will be able to join sessions on themes including credibility and reliability; education with Wikimedia projects; news and current events; citations and sourcing; relationship building & support; inclusion & diversity; editor recruitment and retention; tech & tools; and harassment, civility, & safety.
+<big>
-; Saturday + Sunday, November 9 - 10
+; Monday, November 11 <br/>
-* Location of Check-in Desk: TBD
+;A reliability summit and hackathon, providing a deep-dive into issues surrounding reliability of information.
-* Keynotes, community presentations, round-table discussions, panels, and lightning talk sessions.
+</big>
-** Main session themes to include: credibility and reliability; flexibility, experimentation, and unreliable draft spaces; news and current events; citations and sourcing.
+* Location: MIT's Stata Center
-** Other tracks will include content related to relationship building & support; inclusion & diversity; editor recruitment and retention; tech & tools; harassment, civility, & safety; and education.
+** The summit will bring together participants from the Wikimedia Movement, the credibility space, and external organizations to discuss the biggest challenges being faced. Bring projects to work on and issues to discuss. Participants will also be able to join workshops on tools related to information reliability.
-; Monday, November 11
-* Location of Check-in Desk: TBD
-* A reliability summit, providing a deep-dive into the reliability of information.
-** Bringing together participants from the Wikimedia Movement, the credibility space, and external organizations to discuss the biggest challenges being faced.
-** Focus groups to discuss current problems and future solutions.
-** Reflecting on learnings from the weekend.
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