2015/Schedule

WikiConference USA 2015 • Washington, D.C.

Program

Friday, October 9

Time	McGowan Theater LIVE VIDEO: YouTube stream	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
9:30 AM	Registration
9:45 AM
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM	Opening Remarks: David Ferriero Archivist of the United States
10:45 AM
11:00 AM	Keynote: What Wikipedia Must Do (Andrew Lih) LIVE VIDEO: YouTube stream
11:15 AM
11:30 AM
11:45 AM
12:00 PM	Break
12:15 PM	Report from the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium	Journalism and the Online Information Community: How Wikimedians Cover Wikimedia	Wikipedia for Health Research and Data	Decreasing Promotionalism to Preserve the Encyclopedia	Room Closed
12:30 PM
12:45 PM	The Wiki Education Foundation in a Flash			Crowd Wisdom and Problem Solving: How Can Wikimedia Engage?
1:00 PM
1:15 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM
1:45 PM
2:00 PM
2:15 PM	Special Remarks: Dr. John Howard Director of NIOSH
2:30 PM	Plenary Session: Why Wikipedia Works for Us: an Exploration of Innovation at the National Archives LIVE VIDEO: YouTube stream
2:45 PM
3:00 PM
3:15 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative	GLAM-Wiki 2.0: New Opportunities for Growing GLAM-Wiki in the United States	College Writing with Wikipedia	How I Supercharged the Bibliography of a Featured Article – the (Mostly) Pros and (a Few) Cons of Worldcat and the OCLC	Reimagining the Article Submission Process
3:45 PM
4:00 PM	Teaching Research & Critical Thinking Skills Through Wikipedia	Making 2016 the Wikipedia Year of Science	Wikifying Science Fiction’s “Grand Dame” Octavia E. Butler: The LaGuardia Community College WikiProject	The Wikipedia Book Collector as a Tool for Educators
4:15 PM
4:30 PM	Here Comes (a Significant Fraction of) Everybody		Movements on Wikipedia: Dance, Feminism, and the Content Gap	Metadata from the Commons
4:45 PM

Saturday, October 10

Time	McGowan Theater	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
9:30 AM	Registration
9:45 AM
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM	Keynote: AfroCROWD — Bridging the Multicultural Gap (Alice Backer)
10:45 AM
11:00 AM
11:15 AM
11:30 AM	Break
11:45 AM	Women... It Takes a Village	An Ambitious Wikidata Tutorial	A First Round of WikiProject X: the Journey and Results	Found in Translation: Comparing Paid Editing Policies in the Top Wikipedia Language Editions	Room Closed
12:00 PM
12:15 PM	Working with Academic Experts in a Feminism Distributed Editing Project		Video in Wikimedia: Today and Tomorrow	Tread Lightly: Editing with a COI
12:30 PM
12:45 PM	Addressing the Gender Gap: Wiki Edu Projects for Digital Humanities	Data in Your Wiki!		Data-Based Approach to Article-Subject Participation
1:00 PM
1:15 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM
1:45 PM
2:00 PM
2:15 PM	Vegetation Wants To Be Free: Liberating the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection	Open Biomedical Knowledge: Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Beyond	Thinking (and Contributing) Outside the Editing Box: Alternative Ways to Engage Subject-Matter Experts	Learn from Competitor: Outreach Strategy of Baidu Baike	Disputed Notability - A Hands-On Workshop
2:30 PM
2:45 PM	A Case Study of Student Engagement with a GLAM Institution: Pritzker Military Museum and Library	Where in the World is Wikipedia: A Look at the Geographic Distribution Audited Content on the English Wikipedia		Censorship of Wikipedia: Why It's Important and How We Fight It
3:00 PM	Are the Obstacles Academic?	Wikipedia and DOTs
3:15 PM		How #100wikidays Got Me Back to Being a Wikipedia Contributor		Your Rights as an American and as a Wikipedian
3:30 PM	Break
3:45 PM	How we Organized a 1500 Person Meetup (and You Could Too)	Wikipedia in the Global Social Studies Classroom	Wiksource and Commons Workshop	Community Health Clinic: Researching Prescription for healthy communities	Recent Gadgets Changes and How to Fix Yours
4:00 PM
4:15 PM		Why Wikipedia is the Best Resource for High Schoolers - As Told by a High Schooler
4:30 PM	WikiWomen's User Group: Next Steps	Funding for Wikipedia Projects			Revscoring: AI Support for Wikipedians
4:45 PM

Sunday, October 11

Time	McGowan Theater	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
9:30 AM	Registration
9:45 AM
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM	Keynote: Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Danielle Citron)
10:45 AM
11:00 AM
11:15 AM
11:30 AM	Break
11:45 AM	Lightning Talks	Unconference Sessions	Unconference Sessions	Creative Program Design Workshop	Unconference Sessions
12:00 PM
12:15 PM
12:30 PM
12:45 PM
1:00 PM	Lunch
1:15 PM
1:30 PM
1:45 PM
2:00 PM
2:15 PM
2:30 PM	Lightning Talks	Unconference Sessions	Unconference Sessions	Art+Feminism 2016 Planning Meetup	OTRS Workshop for Agents Who Handle Permssions
2:45 PM
3:00 PM
3:15 PM
3:30 PM	Break
3:45 PM	Lightning Talks	Unconference Sessions	Unconference Sessions	Unconference Sessions	Unconference Sessions
4:00 PM
4:15 PM
4:30 PM
4:45 PM

Registration

On-site registration and badge pick-up for pre-registered attendees will be open daily:

Friday, October 9	9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Saturday, October 10	9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Sunday, October 11	9:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Open space

The National Archives Innovation Hub will be available as an open space for hacking, editing, and other activities. The Innovation Hub will be open daily:

Friday, October 9	10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday, October 10	10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday, October 11	10:00 AM – 5:00 PM