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WikiConference North America 2019 – November, Cambridge, MA

You're invited! Join Wikipedia, Media, Data, and Cite enthusiasts in November in Cambridge, MA for our annual continental conference.

WikiConference North America is the annual conference of Wikimedia enthusiasts and volunteers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The 2019 conference will take place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tentatively November 8-11.

• Our main host is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• This year's theme is reliability/incredibility
• Participation in conference activities includes compliance with our friendly space policy.
• Resources: [todo: a travel and lodging guide] If you find additional resources during your own research, feel free to contribute as well.
• [Todo: Scholarship recipients]
• [Todo: Travel & accommodation]
• Social media: #WikiConferenceNA
• Want to get involved? Reach out to us:

Location

Addresses

Stata Center, MIT

• Address: Building 32, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA, 02139

File:MIT venue for WikiConference NA 2019.pdf

Registration will open soon and will be required for attendees.

Programs & activities

This is a draft: scheduling of the main conf + satellite events TBD.

Main conference

• Keynotes, community presentations, round-table discussions, panels, and lightning talk sessions.

Main session themes to include: credibility and reliability; Flexibility, experimentation, and unreliable draft spaces; news and current events; citations and sourcing

Satellite activities

• A hackathon, tech demos
• Our annual Culture Crawl, a day-long event where we collaborate with local museums, libraries, cultural, and metropolitan institutions to host free backstage tours, edit-a-thons, and more. These crawls are a fantastic opportunity for conference attendees to experience the local culture, as well as collaborate with local institutions to improve Wikipedia's coverage of local topics, and to upload new images to Commons.

Keynotes

To be announced

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.

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  WCNA 2018, Columbus, OH

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  WCNA 2017, Montreal

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  WCNA 2016, San Diego

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  WCUSA 2015, Washington D.C.

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  WCUSA 2014, New York City

Partners

Craig Newmark, CredCo, Hacks/Hackers, MIT Open Learning, MIT Knowledge Futures Group, New England Wikimedians User Group

MIT Libraries? Wikicite? WikiEd? WMF? Wikinews User Group? WM NYC? The Abbey? Lamplighter? The Athenaeum?

(News specific: Corp + Found'n news projects?)