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WikiConference North America 2019 • Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Registration • Travel Guide • Unconference

Our schedule is under active development.

We're still adding content and things may change; keep checking back!

Friday, November 8

Friday includes two activities: our Culture Crawl during the day, followed by an evening reception.

Our Culture Crawl is a day-long event that includes tours and other activities at various cultural institutions around Boston and Cambridge. Our home base for the day will be the Museum of Fine Arts.

• Participants will visit local museums and cultural institutions for free backstage tours, edit-a-thons, and more.
• Kickoff to our conference-long hackathon, challenging participants to ideate and come up with solutions for problems around information reliability.
• Training sessions around GLAM and Wikidata, including:
  • Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics
  • Powerful spreadsheet tools for Wikidata and Wikipedia
  • Wikisource review and workshop

Friday evening will be our reception in Boston at the Waterworks Museum. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served.

Saturday, November 9

Presentation   Discussion   Panel Workshop   Lightning Talk November 9 - Saturday - Programming
Registration 8:30 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (exact location TBD).
Opening Plenary 9:30 - 10:45 AM	Stata 32-123 (Auditorium) Introduction & Keynote Addresses Details TBA Keynote All Hands
Break 10:45 - 11:00 AM	Catch a break, mingle with other Wikimedians, and head to your first session.
Session 1	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
11:00 - 11:15	To blacklist or whitelist? Three perspectives on how to classify reliable and unreliable news (Harloe from NewsQA, Credibility Coalition, & CUNY) Reliability	Combating Online Harassment with Friends (Mahar, Zhang, Karger from MIT)	Quality Armchair Research 101: Make reliably-sourced articles without owning a personal library or paying for subscriptions (HaEr48) Quality	What We Learn from Building WikiLoop (Zhou from Google) Tech Reliability	Wikipedia at Boston University: Creating a Community of Editors and Teachers (Dwyer, Jenemann, Shetty from Boston Univ.) Community Education	Open Hacking Space	Tools and techniques for identifying and addressing gaps (Proffitt, OCLC) Inclusion Tools	Introductory Edit-a-thon
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45		Evaluating Success for Content Translation (Zhou from McGill) Tech	Strategies for comparing library content and Wikipedia (Soito from Univ. of New Mexico) Libraries	Cite Unseen: A Year Hence (Payravi, Lim) Tools Reliability
11:45 - 12:00	Navigating the booming and burgeoning credibility landscape: Three perspectives (Marrelli from Credibility Coalition) Reliability				Building Broad and Diverse Wikipedia Capacity in Institutions of Higher Education: Case Study—the University of Massachusetts Lowell (Davidson from Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell)		Relying on Wikipedia in Higher Education: Addressing Stigma and Misconceptions (Mojarad, Choi from Univ. of Southern Cali.)
12:00 - 12:15		“Wikipedians are born, not made” – applying the learnings from a 10-year-old research paper after all (Schulenburg from Wiki Edu) Community Research	Lettuce Into the Meal: A SNAC Update (Herbert from NARA) Tech GLAM	Can Software Help Address Wikipedia's COI Problem? (Beutler from Beutler Ink) Tools Quality
12:15 - 12:30
Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 PM
	Lunch at TBD You may eat throughout the building. Refer to the scheduled meet-ups below.
	Lunch Meetup A - ?	Lunch Meetup B - ?	Lunch Meetup C - LGBT+	Lunch Meetup D - Programs & Events	Lunch Meetup E - WikiMedicine	Lunch Meetup F - Wiki Women's	Lunch Meetup G - ?	Lunch Meetup H - ?
Session 2	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
2:00 - 2:15	From Digital Natives to Digital Citizens: How Instructors are Using Wikipedia to Teach Information Literacy (Blumenthal from Wiki Edu; Jacobson from SUNY at Albany; Kaufman from Wake Forest Univ; Griffin from Univ. of Alabama) Education	Public Policy Roundtable (Siy, Laporte from Wikimedia Foundation) Public Policy	Putting Institutional Partners at Ease: Becoming a Reliable Guide in an Unfamiliar Landscape (Cetrone from Wikimedia DC) GLAM Partnerships	Tech Lightning Talks	WikiNetBias: topic polarisation on Wikipedia graph and its effect on users (Menghini from Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Brown Univ.) Bias Quality	Open Hacking Space	AMA: Ask the developers (Isarra from MediaWiki Developers) Tech	Introductory Edit-a-thon (Continued) Caribbean Translate-a-thon
2:15 - 2:30
2:30 - 2:45			What’s good for GLAM is good for STEM? Editor recruitment and retention at NIOSH (Sadowski from NIOSH) Partnerships	Introduction to Structured Data on Commons (Stinson from Wikimedia Foundation) WikiCommons Tech	Wikipedia editing in Introductory Psychology: Teaching students online research skills while targeting gender bias (Che from CUNY) Education Gender Gap		Quarry tutorial: Using SQL to get info about wikis (Wolff) Tech
2:45 - 3:00	The 1000 Women in Religion Project: Bridging the Divide Between the Academy and Wikipedia (Hartung from Women's Caucus of the American Academy of Religion) Content Gap	Government Bans of Wikimedia Projects Oublic Policy
3:00 - 3:15			Engaging with Scientists: Sharing Knowledge and Encouraging Editing Through a Science Library (Jamie from USDA) Libraries Partnerships	Mbabel - One Click Article Creation for Events (Gamaliel from WMDC, Pharos from WMNYC) Tech Editing
3:15 - 3:30
Break 3:30 - 4:00 PM	Catch a break and mingle with other conference goers, opportunity for mini-meetups.
Session 3	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
4:00 - 4:15	Fighting Fake News with Real Information: Newspapers on Wikipedia (Forsyth from Wiki Strategies) Reliability	Taking Wiki Loves Monuments in the US to the Next Level (Payravi) WikiCommons Wikidata	Discussing AI and Machine Learning in the Wikimedia movement (Lih from Wikimedia DC) Tech	Lightning Talks	Engaging Experts Three Ways: How Wiki Education is building a bridge between Wikipedia and Subject-Matter Experts (Blumenthal, McGrady, Kent from WikiEdu) WikiEdu	Open Hacking Space	New England meetup and project roundtable (Ayers, Suiter, Smith, Li from MIT Libraries)	hold for New England meetup
4:15 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45	Opening the news: how to use civic tech to promote reliability in news media (Flores from Wikimedia México) Reliability Mexico
4:45 - 5:00		How can Africa and North America partner to promote the goals of the Foundation (Berchie from Open Foundation West Africa) Partnerships	Design Workshop on the UX of Conveying Credibility Online (Zhang from MIT, Obuobi, Skeet, Greiner, Gamage) Reliability		Teaching Intellectual Property Law with Wikipedia (Heintzman from Harvard Univ.) Education {tag|Public Policy}}
5:00 - 5:15	Surfacing Trust, Expertise, and Provenance for better News Sharing (Jahanbakhsh from MIT)
5:15 - 5:30
Evening Reception ? PM	Details to come!

Sunday, November 10

Presentation   Discussion   Panel Workshop   Lightning Talk November 10 - Sunday - Programming
Registration 9:00 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (exact location TBD).
Session 4	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
10 - 10:45	Reserved	The Wikimedia Movement Strategy and You: What Are the Recommendations and What Can You Do About Them? (Keefer, Pourzaki)	Building a Wikidata Curriculum (Kent from Wiki Edu)	Reserved	Wikimedia Outreach programs for technical contributors (Rodlund, Sethi, Ross, Zhou from Wikimedia Foundation)	Open Hacking Space	Open Space	Open Space
Break 10:45 - 11:00 AM	Catch a break and mingle with other conference goers.
Session 5	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
11:00 - 11:15	GLAMs embracing open access and Wikidata: Experiences from the Met Museum (Lih, Metropolitan Museum of Art)	Black Face: Strategies for missing images from art biographies and the ethics of WikiCommons (Hart, Valentine, Myrie from Black Lunch Table Wikimedians)	Building a Scholarly Knowledge Base with Wikidata: A Case Study from Vanderbilt University (Anderson, Baskauf, Shook from Vanderbilt)	Lightning Talks	State of Wikimedia Research on Knowledge Integrity (Johnson from Wikimedia Foundation)	Open Hacking Space	Mitigating risk in Wikipedia content (Risker)	Open Space
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45	Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art (Payravi, Stimler, Lih)	Understanding the technical challenges of small wikis in North America (Sethi, Rodlund from Wikimedia Foundation)	4 Million in 4 Weeks: A case study on bulk import of cultural heritage metadata on Wikidata (Byrd-McDevitt from NARA)		Supporting deliberation and resolution on Wikipedia (Zhang, Im, Schilling, Morgan, Karger)
11:45 - 12:00							Best Practices for Responsible and Reliable Content about Suicide (Poore, LaPorte, SSiy from Wikimedia Foundation)
12:00 - 12:15	Wikidata-fying Northeastern University's "Women Writers in Review" initiative (Stephenson-Goodknight from Northeastern & Wiki Women in Red)	Wiki Caribbean Panel and Discussion on Survey Findings (Antoine from Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group & AfroCROWD)	Introduction to WikiCite
12:15 - 12:30
Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 PM
	Lunch at TBD You may eat throughout the building. Refer to the scheduled meet-ups below.
	Lunch Meetup A - ?	Lunch Meetup B - Art+Feminism	Lunch Meetup C - WikiCite	Lunch Meetup D - ?	Lunch Meetup E - ?	Lunch Meetup F - ?	Lunch Meetup G - Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network	Lunch Meetup H - Ask Wiki Education
Session 6	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
2:00 - 2:15	Hackathon Wrap-up	Adventures in American (Mostly) Folklore: Expanding the Footprint of Notability (Pruitt)	Building Scholia profiles (Mietchen from WikiCite & Univ. of Virginia)	Next Steps for Countering Systemic Bias: Beyond Filling the Gaps (Bjork-James from Vanderbilt and Wiki Edu) Bias	Creating WikiCommunity at LaGuardia Community College (Coleman from LaGuardia Community College)	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space
2:15 - 2:30
2:30 - 2:45		Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative (Doyle from Wikimedia DC)		A Colonizer's Account: the Use and Mis-use of Historical Sources (Rust)	There is no needle: searching through the web’s haystack for reliable legal information (Williams from Standford Law School)
2:45 - 3:00			Wikidata Quicksheets (Mandiberg from Art+Feminism)
3:00 - 3:15		Academics in the open: How WikiJournals encourage open scholarship using Wikipedia (Koerner from WikiJournal of the Humanities)		Developing Ethical, Responsible, and Reliable Information Producers (Jacobson from SUNY at Albany)	Hearing Other Voices: Using Wikipedia in an ESL Writing Class (Shetty from Boston Univ.)
3:15 - 3:30
Break 3:30 - 3:45 PM	Catch a break and mingle with other conference goers.
End-of-day Plenary 3:45 - 4:45 PM	Stata 32-123 (Auditorium) Details TBA All Hands

Monday, November 11

Presentation   Discussion   Panel Workshop   Lightning Talk November 11 - Monday - Programming
Registration 9:00 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (exact location TBD).
Session 7	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
10 - 10:45	How to define and elevate quality news: A discussion led by CUNY's NewsQA team (Harloe from NewsQA, Credibility Coalition, & CUNY)	Bridging the gap between facts and articles (Tisza)	Nontraditional Scholarship: Evaluation and Citation (Britton)	Limits of Wikidata (Mietchen from WikiCite & Univ. of Virginia)	Reserved	Open Hacking Space	Discussion Forum	Open Space
Break 10:45 - 11:00 AM	Catch a break, mingle with other Wikimedians, and head to your first session.
Session 8	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
11 - 12:00	Reserved	Reserved	Reserved	Making sites citation-friendly for Wikimedia - discussion and recommendations (Lih from Wikimedia DC)	Reserved	Open Hacking Space	Discussion Forum	Open Space
Lunch 12:00 - 1:30 PM	Lunch at TBD
More to come!