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New York Law School

30 May - 1 June 2014

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About WikiConference USA

WikiConference USA is the first national Wikimedia conference of its kind in the United States. The conference will be held on May 30 – June 1, 2014 at New York Law School, located in the Tribeca district of Manhattan, New York City. WikiConference USA’s program will be devoted to topics concerning the Wikimedia movement in the United States, as well as related topics of free culture and digital rights.

WikiConference USA will feature a diverse array of conference offerings such as keynotes, presentations, panels, and workshop sessions; provide a lounge space and break areas for conference attendees to gather and mingle; and host an unconference day for attendees to design their own schedule and engage with each other around common interests.

For the full announcement, see our press release: File:WikiCon USA 2014 Press Release v1.pdf.

Conference Details

Dates & Times: Friday, May 30, 2014, 8:30AM – 6:00PM; Saturday, May 31, 2014, 8:30AM – 6:00PM; Sunday, June 1, 2014, 8:30AM – 6:00PM

Location: New York Law School; 185 West Broadway (between Worth Street and Leonard Street), New York, NY 10013

Expected Attendance: 300 attendees over the three-day conference

Target Demographics: Our primary demographic targets United States-based Wikipedians. The secondary demographic targets non-Wikipedian academics, students, librarians, activists, and professionals.

Costs: The conference will be free to attend.

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Schedule of sessions

WikiConference USA 2014 will take place over three days of keynotes, panels, workshops, seminars, lightning talks, and unconference sessions. A general outline of the conference schedule is provided below. The sessions will mainly be filled through the proposal submission process. The conference organizers will be curating select panels and keynotes. Subscribe and stay tuned for updates!

Friday, May 30, 2014

10:30am-11:45am
8:30am-9:30am	Registration and Breakfast
9:30am-10:15am	Keynote: Sumana Harihareswara 2nd Floor Event Center
10:15am-10:30am	Break
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	Wikipedia’s Role in Four Different Types of Librarianship (75 mins)	Ask the Wiki Education Foundation (75 mins)	Measuring Editor Collaborativeness With Economic Modelling (30 mins)	Video in Wikimedia (45 mins)	Global Economic Map: Wikidata project (10 mins)	Open Space
			Editing Trends (15 mins)	Wiki Photo Trips (15 mins)	State of Wikidata (15 mins)
			The Wikipedia Adventure: Play with Learning (30 mins)	Wiki Loves Capitol Hill (15 mins)	Answering Big Questions with Wikidata (50 mins)
11:45am-12:00pm	Break
12:00pm-1:00pm	W300	W301	W302	W303	W320	W220
	You're invited! Developing innovative models for participation (45 min)	Wikipedia and the Law (30 min)	The 7 biggest mistakes the Wikipedia Education Program has made — and what we’ve learned from them (15 min)	The Free Culture Trust (15 min)	Using the MediaWiki web API to get (only) the data you need (15 min)	Open Space
	Wikimedia LGBT: Past, Present and Future? (15 min)	Wikipedia for Lawyers: Researching, Citing, and Contributing To Wikipedia (30 min)	How Student Editors Impact Wikipedia (30 min)	The Free Culture Trust (15 min)	Using web API client libraries to play with and learn from our (meta)data (45 min)	Open Space
1:00pm-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm-3:00pm	Keynote: DC Vito 2nd Floor Event Center
3:00pm-3:15pm	Break
3:15pm-4:15pm	W300	W301	W302	W303	W320	W220
	How the PR Industry Views Wikipedia (60 min)	Wikipedia in the Era of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) (60 min)	Where would I find time for it? Scalable Wikipedia editing for GLAMs (15 min)	-	Open Access Panel (60 min)	Open Space
	How the PR Industry Views Wikipedia (60 min)		If we build it, will they come?: Bringing library collections to the people through Wikipedia (15 min)	-	Open Access Panel (60 min)	Open Space
4:15pm-4:30pm	Break
4:30pm-5:30pm	W300	W301	W302	W303	W320	W220
	Paid Editing Moderated Discussion (60 min)	The Gender Gap (15 min)	Remixing metadata from libraries and archives with the RAMP editor (60 min)	-	Signaling Open Access References (60 min)	Open Space
		Bringing More Women to Free Software: What's Working for Us (30 min)
		Women's Work: Female Bonding and Empowerment during Wikipedia Parties (15 min)
5:30pm-5:45pm	Break
5:45pm-6:00pm	Closing Remarks 2nd Floor Event Center
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Saturday, May 31, 2014

10:30am-11:45am
8:30am-9:30am	Registration and Breakfast
9:30am-10:15am	Keynote: Phoebe Ayers 2nd Floor Event Center
10:15am-10:30am	Break
	W300	W301	W302	W303	W320	W220
	State of Digital Rights (75 min)	Art + Feminism Edit-a-thons (75 min)	Community Management 101: Building a Successful Wiki Community (45 min)
				Creating "Wikipedia Scholars" by Engaging Students to Participate (20 min)	The Future of Libraries and Wikipedia (25 min)	Open Space
			Reconstructing the Past with Mediawiki (15 min)		Pedagogy and New User Socialization (15 min)
			Using the Memento Mediawiki Extension to Avoid Spoilers (15 min)	Forward to Libraries: Tools and data for connecting Wikipedia and local library resources (15 mins)	Routes to Wikipedia for new editors (35 min)
11:45am-12:00pm	Break
12:00pm-1:00pm	W300	W301	W302	W303	W320		W220
	Current State of the "Biographies of Living Persons" (BLP) problem (60 min)	Bridging Conversations with the Humanities (40 min)	Vector Graphics (30 min)	Using Wikibooks and Wikiotics to Build Community-Centered Language Courses (45 min)	Health Science panel (60 min)	Open Space
		Social Dramas of Wikipedia (20 min)	Language Issues and Commons (30 min)	7th Grade Wikipedia Project (15 min)	Health Science panel (60 min)	Open Space
1:00pm-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm-3:00pm	Keynote: Christie Koehler 2nd Floor Event Center
3:00pm-3:15pm	Break
3:15pm-4:15pm	W300	W301	W302	W303	W320	W220
	A year in residence at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (25 mins)	Growing the Awesome in Your Programs, Part 1: Program tracking and reporting (60 min)	Rethinking Censorship via a Comparison of Chinese Wikipedia with Hudong and Baidu Baike (15 min) + Cybersecurity	-	Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Program in NYC (60 min)	Open Space

	Wikipedian-in-Residence at UC Berkeley (35 mins)
4:15pm-4:30pm	Break
4:30pm-5:30pm	W300	W301	W302	W303	W320	W220
4:30pm-5:30pm	Image by Wikipedia (60 min)	Growing the Awesome in Your Programs, Part 2: Wikimetrics (60 min)	Wikipedia, Medicine and Language (60 min)	-	Wikipedia, GLAM and Edit-athons in the Classroom: How We Did It (60 min)	Open Space
5:30pm-5:45pm	Break
5:45pm-6:00pm	Closing Remarks 2nd Floor Event Center

Sunday, June 1, 2014

9:30-10:15am	Introduction to Unconference and Lightning Talks
8:30am-9:30am	Registration and Breakfast
10:15am-10:30pm	Break
10:30am-1:30pm	Event Center		W300	W301	W302	W303	W320	W220
10:30am-1:30pm	Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Editathon Feminism Focus	Hackathon	Diversity Training	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space	IdeaLab Workshop with Wikimedia Foundation	Open Space
1:30pm-2:30pm	Lunch
2:30pm-5:30pm	Event Center		W300	W301	W302	W303	W320	W220
2:30pm-5:30pm	Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Editathon (Continued)	Hackathon (Continued)	Diversity Training (Continued)	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space
5:30pm-5:45pm	Break
5:45pm-6:00pm	Closing Remarks 2nd Floor Event Center

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+| rowspan="3"| [[Submissions:Fit for Public Display: Rethinking Censorship via a Comparison of Chinese Wikipedia with Hudong and Baidu Baike|Rethinking Censorship via a Comparison of Chinese Wikipedia with Hudong and Baidu Baike]]<br>(15 min) + Cybersecurity
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 | rowspan="3"| [[Submissions:Panel: Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Program NYC|Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Program in NYC]]<br>(60 min)
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-| rowspan="1"|[[Submissions:Forward to Libraries: Tools and data for connecting Wikipedia and local library resources|Forward to Libraries: Tools and data for connecting Wikipedia and local library resources]] (15 mins)
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-| rowspan="1"| Cybersecurity Discussion - Continued (up to 60 min)
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 | rowspan="1"| [[Submissions:Growing the Awesome in your Programs|Growing the Awesome in Your Programs, Part 2: Wikimetrics]]<br>(60 min)
 | rowspan="1"| [[Submissions:Wikipedia, Medicine and Language|Wikipedia, Medicine and Language]]<br>(60 min)