2017/Schedule

Schedule

August 9 - Wednesday - Culture Crawl, Scan-a-thon, and Reception
Registration in Sheraton Lobby starting at 8:00 AM
Welcome Session, 9:00 - 9:30 AM in Sheraton Lobby Meet in the lobby of Le Centre Sheraton for a welcome, housekeeping, and handouts. Groups can meet here to depart to tours, the BAnQ, and photo sessions.
McGill University	BAnQ Vieux-Montreal	Other
All Day: Free admission at the Redpath Museum 10:00 - 10:45 AM: Tour Visit with materials from McGill University Archives Rare Books and Special Collections (4th floor of the McLennan Library Building) 11:00 - 11:45 AM: Tour Tour of the exhibition "Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge" and the Canadian Architecture Collection (meet in the Lobby of McLennan Library Building) 12:00 - 1:00 PM: Tour Tour of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine with Chris Lyons (meet in the lobby of McLennan Library Building and walk up together. Tour at 12:15pm) 12:00 - 1:30 PM: Photo walk from McGill's Mclennan Library to the BAnQ-Vieux. 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM: Edit-a-thon Contribute to articles using McGill's collections in their Data Visualization Room. This includes access to their electronic subscription resources; see event page for more details. The Visualization Room will remain open through 5 if you would like to continue working after the edit-a-thon.	10:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Scan-a-thon with the BAnQ-Vieux Archives 12:00 - 5:00 PM: Open rooms and Unconference (Room 2.28 & Auditorium) 12:00 - 5:00 PM: Edit-a-thon Canadian Women; see event page for more details. (Jodoin East & West) 5:00 - 6:00 PM: Tour of the BAnQ-Vieux	All Day: Photo Drive - Take photos of your experiences, buildings, artifacts, and more throughout the day for the Commons. 5:00 PM & Later: McCord Museum has free access to its permanent exhibition.
Social and Networking Night, starting at 6:00 PM in Old Montreal After a long day of activities, enjoy the night out in Old Montreal with your fellow Wikimedians. We have the top floor of Les 3 Brasseurs (105 Rue Saint Paul Est) reserved for drinks and socializing; there are plenty of other drink and food places in the area, as well as the Cité Mémoire digital display to see.

August 10 - Thursday - Programming
Registration in Sheraton Lobby 8:00 AM	Meet in the lobby of Le Centre Sheraton to sign in if you did not already on Wednesday.
Opening Session 9:00 - 10:30 AM	Meet us in Salon Jarry, Level A Introduction & Keynote Addresses Sherry and Alice, AfroCROWD Ivan and Salvador, Wikimedia México Ivan and Salvador share Wikimedia México's activities. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Women in Red Rosie shares the Gender Diversity Mapping project. Benoit Rochon, Wikimedia Canada Benoit shares Wikimedia Canada's activities and First Nations project. Keynote All Hands
Break 10:30 - 11:00 AM	Catch a break and mingle with other Wikimedians.
	Track 1 (Jarry, Level A) Panels & Discussion	Track 2 (Hermon, Level A) Tutorials	Track 3 (Salon 5, Level 2) Unconference
Session 1 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Education Community AIDS Archive: The La Guardia & Wagner Archives Wikipedia Project (Matsuuchi) (30 minutes) (etherpad) Taking advantage of the WikiMOOC to teach Wikipedia in academic context (Hocquet) (30 minutes) (etherpad) Birth of Bias: implicit bias’ permanence on Wikipedia (Koerner) (30 minutes) (etherpad)	Wikidata Wikidata Hands-on Tutorial - SPARQL, VizQuery, Games & Tools (1.5 hours) - For beginners and experienced users alike. Slides: On Google Slides Handout: Wikidata One Pager Wikidata in use Guest: SOAP- Sum of all paintings (Maarten Dammers) Wikidata in use Guest: Wikidata team (Léa Lacroix)	Roundtable/facilitated discussion - Innovating edit-a-thons and meetups
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM	Lunch provided by Wikimania at the Sheraton for registered attendees.
Session 2 1:30 - 3:30 PM	Tech Community Community Wishlist: What We've Done, What's Coming Up (Horn, WMF) (30 minutes) (etherpad) Article Alerts: A review of the English Wikipedia's article-monitoring system (Landry) (30 minutes) (etherpad) Wikimedia and Education: Linking these two with technology (Ullrich & Rupprecht, WMDE) (30 minutes) (etherpad) Facing Defacement: Combating harassment with user page protection (Gethen) (30 minutes) (etherpad)	Tech Tools Wikidata Cool Tools for Mass Contributions (1 hour) Wikidata - Quickstatements, Google Spreadsheets Wikipedia Tools, Open Refine, Wikidata Game Wikidata in use Guest: Structured Data on Commons (Sandra Fauconnier and/or Amanda Bittaker) Wikidata in use Guest: Quickstatements and Libraries (Rob Fernandez, User: Gamaliel) Commons in use Guest: Pattypan (Paweł Marynowski, User:Yarl) ORES, revision scorting & Outreach Dashboard Wikidata+Wikipedia integration (Infoboxes!) (30 minutes) A Macro-Micro Biological Tour of Wikidata (Smith) (30 minutes) (etherpad)	Unconference session - make it your own! Three parallel tracks of 30-minute sessions.
Break 3:30 - 4:00 PM	Catch a break and mingle with other Wikimedians.
Session 3 4:00 - 4:50 PM	Education Better together: Building bridges between U.S. public libraries and English-language Wikipedia (Sengul-Jones) (20 minutes) (etherpad) Wikipedia Organizations on Campus: Case Study and Guide (Payravi & Dalesio, US-OH) (15 minutes) (etherpad) Service, Sororities, and the Gender Gap (Doyle, West Virginia University) (15 minutes) (etherpad)	Building MediaWiki software to enforce Page & Topic bans (Bolliger & Poore, WMF) (50 minutes) (etherpad)	Lightning Talks Share a story, project, idea - present on whatever you want! Max 5 minutes each
Conclusion & Group Photo 5:15 - 6:00 PM	Join us for a sharing session and conclusion, followed by a group photo. This is a chance to share final thoughts and share what was accomplished during the unconference.
Evening Reception 7:00 - 9:00 PM	Welcome reception/dinner at Sheraton Hotel for all registered Wikimedia attendees, 7-9 PM