2016/Schedule

WikiConference North America 2016 • San Diego, California

Conference outline

• Friday, October 7: 9:00am-4:30pm: Balboa Park Wiki Culture Crawl GLAM day and edit-a-thon
• Saturday, October 8: 9:30am-6:00pm: San Diego Central Public Library
• Sunday, October 9: 12:00pm-8:00pm: San Diego Central Public Library
• Monday, October 10: Indigenous Peoples' Day: 9:30am-5:00pm: San Diego Central Public Library

• Thursday - Monday: Evenings and excursions

Schedule

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October 7 - Friday - Pre-Conference at Balboa Park, San Diego, California (See Wiki Culture Crawl)
October 8 - Saturday
	Auditorium Floor 1	Shiley Suite Floor 9	Jaffe Mtn View Floor 5	Clark Room Floor 1	Wells Fargo Floor 4	Commission Room Floor 9	Reading Room Floor 8
Description	Sessions	Sessions	Sessions	Sessions	Training	Meetings/ sessions	Hacking/ hangout
SAT 9:30 am	Registration - Library Lobby
SAT Opening 10:00 - 11:45 am	Introduction Keynote address - Katherine Maher, executive director, Wikimedia Foundation Keynote WMF All Hands
SAT 12:00 - 1:30 pm		LUNCH			12:30 pm - Introduction to Wikipedia for the Public Introductory	Ask Wikimedia Foundation's product leaders: Editing, Discovery, Reading (Forrester, Garry, Katz) (or Shilley lunch tables) (90 minutes) WMF
SAT Session 1 1:30 - 3:00 pm	ReHumanizingHaiti or The Role of Technology and Social Media in Language Activism/Advocacy for Historically Undervalued Languages (Lamour) Caribbean Languages Grades and the Gender Gap: How Student Editors are Writing Women into Wikipedia (Mathewson) WikiEdu Gender Gap Education The Transgender Gap: Trans and non-binary representation on Wikipedia (Gethen) Gender Gap Sat-Aud-1	New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons (Tuszynski) Wikidata Commons Tutorial on basic SQL (Quarry) for Wikimedians (Wolff) WMF Tech Introductory A New Approach to Behavioural Rules on a Wikimedia Project: The Technical Spaces Code of Conduct (Koerner) WMF Community Tech Sat-Shi-1	Textbooks and the New Information Economy (Warner, Malley, Heinze) Academic Education College Students and Perceptions of Authority in Wikipedia (Todorinova) Academic Education Contribution as Coursework: What role do students play on Wikipedia? (Schiroo, Halfaker) Academic Education Research Sat-Jaffe-1	Health Literacy of Wikipedia (Kaur) Academic Health-Med Linked data in the hands of biological researchers: A model organism database powered by Wikidata (Putman) Academic Wikidata Science Why medical schools should embrace Wikipedia (Rasberry et al) Academic Health-Med Sat-Clark-1	1:30-2:15 pm Beyond the basics of citation templates (Leonard) Tutorial Quality 2:15-3:00 pm Wikisource Update / Workshop (Hayes) Tutorial Sat-Wells-1	Much Ado About Budgets, Or How to Estimate and Exhaust Grant Funds (Bittaker) (45 mins) WMF Wiki Loves Posting About Monuments: Using media to support community projects (Johnson, Lien) (45 mins) WMF Sat-Com-1	Women Philosopher's Edit-a-thon: Kevin Gorman Memorial Tutorial Gender Gap Edit-a-thon (1:30 pm - 4:00 pm)
SAT BREAK 1 3:00 - 3:30 pm
SAT Session 2 3:30 - 5:00 pm	Wikipedia Organizations on Campus: Case Study and Guide (Payravi, Rimmel) Education The Sad, Sad Story of Social Wikipedia (Schoonover) Community What's New in GLAM-Wiki? (Stinson) GLAM WMF Sat-Aud-2	Video and Multimedia in Wikipedia: Today and Tomorrow (Vibber) Tech Commons Multimedia WikiDataScape: A Cytoscape Browser for WikiData (Stupp) Wikidata Multimedia Commons License templates: analyzing use frequency and future development(Tuszynski) Commons Tech Sat-Shi-2	Wikipedia Cuba: Challenges and Opportunities (Nelson) Academic Caribbean “Making Your Own Worlds”: The Changing Educational Goals of The LaGuardia WikiProject Octavia E. Butler (Gallardo) Academic Education Building a Public History of HIV/AIDS in New York City: The Pedagogical Relationship of Wikipedia and the Archives (Matsuuchi, Gallardo, Abreu, Ortiz, Rasberry) Academic Health-Med Sat-Jaffe-2	Wikipedia for Health and Safety at Work:NIOSH Wikipedian in Residence (Hare) Health-Med Drug and chemical compound items in Wikidata as a data source for Wikipedia infoboxes (Burgstaller-Muehlbacher) Wikidata Science Health-Med Wiki Ed's Year of Science: What's worked so far, and where we go from here (L. Davis, Mathewson) Wikiedu Science Sat-Clark-2	3:30 pm - Introduction to Wikipedia for the Public Introductory 4:30 pm - Citation manager needed - Mastering your reliable sources online and offline with Zotero (Wilson) Quality Sat-Wells-2	Developing community norms for critical bots and tools (B. Davis) Tech Community WMF Welcoming and Helping New Editors: A Month at the Teahouse (Heaphy) Inclusion Community Sat-Com-2
SAT Closing session 5:15 - 6:00 pm	Closing Panel Public Policy Advocacy Across Both Coasts (Sadowski, Meyer, Hayes, Roslof) WMF Panel Sat-Aud-Closing	Lightning talks (5:15 - 5:45 pm) Lightning Sat-Aud-Closing
Evening events	Sign up for dine-arounds, a pub crawl, or organize your own event!
October 9 - Sunday
	Auditorium Floor 1	Shiley Suite Floor 9	Jaffe Mountain View Floor 5	Clark Room Floor 1	Wells Fargo Floor 4	Commission Room Floor 9	Reading Room Floor 8
Outings 9:00 am - 12:00 noon	Outings and Meetups • Please eat brunch/lunch on your own before arriving to SDCPL; organize a group brunch here
SUN Opening 12:00 - 1:15 pm		Introduction Keynote address - Merrilee Proffitt, senior program officer , OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) keynote Libraries All Hands			12:30 pm - Introduction to Wikipedia for the Public Introductory
SUN BREAK 1 1:15 - 1:30 pm
SUN Session 1 1:30 - 3:00 pm		A Review of the First Year: Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity (Doyle) Academic Gender Gap Education Libraries Beginning of Cultural Change: Wikipedia's Future Collaboration with Academic Libraries  (Cawthorne) Academic Libraries Linking a controlled subject vocabulary to Wikipedia (Vizine-Goetz, OCLC) Libraries Tech Sun-Shi-1	The Online Writing Classroom and Wikipedia (Carleton) Academic Education College Writing and Wikipedia: Purposes, Audiences, and Genres (Cummings) Academic Education Wikipage Creation: An Exercise in Critical Thinking and Group Collaboration (Paul and Hamm) Academic Education Sun-Jaffe-1	Tracking the Triple Crown: Creating quality content (Wahler) Quality FailFest (Solo Version) - Rocket Cats & Knowledge Engines (Seddon, Koerner, Peterzell) WMF {tag|Tech}} Sun-Clark-1	1:30-2:15 pm - What's Wikidata? How does it work? (Stinson, Malyshev) WMF Wikidata Introductory 2:15-3:00 pm - Wikidata and Query Service - understanding and presenting the data (Malyshev) WMF Wikidata Sun-Wells-1	Citations needed? Brainstorming how to get academic resources to more Wikipedians through the Visiting Scholars program (Mathewson, McGrady) (45 mins) Wikiedu Quality Education The five and a half biggest mistakes WikiEdu made when thinking about program impact (L. Davis) (45 mins) Wikiedu Education Sun-Com-1	Edit-a-thon: American Chemical Society Introductory Science Edit-a-thon 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
SUN BREAK 2 3:00 - 3:30 pm
SUN Session 2 3:30 - 5:00 pm		Internet Archive and Wikipedia collaboration: Link rot, multimedia and more (Internet Archive) Libraries Tech Wikipedia in Libraries: Case Studies in Wikipedia Outreach and Training in Academic Libraries (Anderson, Caton, Warga) Libraries Education Ends at 4:30pm, standing break, continues into next session Sun-Shi-2	How Wikimedia Communities Can Thrive by Fostering Co-Creative Networks (Byrd-McDevitt) Academic GLAM Wiki Loves Heritage: The Case for a WMF Genealogical and Local History Wiki (Fernandez) Academic Enhancing Collaboration in Academia through GLAM Edit-a-thons (Thorndike-Breeze) Academic GLAM Education Sun-Jaffe-2	Writing the American Sign Language Wikipedia on Incubator (Frost, Nesmith, Sharer) Languages Tech How Wikipedia can collaborate with the translator community (Wang) Languages Reader study results: what reader qualities impacts reading behavior? (Katz) WMF Research Sun-Clark-2	3:30 pm - Introduction to Wikipedia for the Public Introductory 4:30 pm - The Wiki Ed and P&E Dashboards (Ross, Bittaker) Wikiedu WMF Tech Education Sun-Wells-2	Why Plagiarism Matters (Beasley-Murray) (45 mins) Education The Other Side of COI: Volunteer Response to Professional Contributors (Beutler) (45 mins) Community Sun-Com-2	Edit-a-thon: American Chemical Society Introductory Science Edit-a-thon 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
SUN Closing Session 5:00 - 6:00 pm		Closing Panel 4:45pm - Libraries & Wikipedia: Better Together (Ayers, et al) Libraries Panel Sun-Shi-Closing	Discussion 5:00 - 6:15pm Wikimedia Communities and Movement Strategy, with Katherine Maher WMF Community Discussion Sun-Jaffe-Closing
SUN Reception 6:00 - 8:00 pm	Shiley / Woods Family Terrace
October 10 - Monday
	Auditorium Floor 1	Shiley Suite Floor 9	Jaffe Mountain View Floor 5	Clark Room Floor 1	Wells Fargo Floor 4	Commission Room Floor 9	Reading Room Floor 8
MON Registration 8:30 am
MON Opening 10:00 - 11:45 am	Introduction Keynote address - Dr. Lourdes Epstein, library director, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico City campus Keynote Libraries
MON LUNCH 12:00 -1:30 pm		LUNCH			12:30 pm - Basics of Wikipedia for the Public Introductory
MON Session 1 1:30 - 2:30 pm	GLAM program in Mexico: the benefits and challenges of collaboration with the public cultural sector (Martínez,  Flores) Mexico GLAM Wikimania's Yellow Army: Behind the scenes (Cruz y Corro) Mexico Mon-Aud-1	How Wikipedia Can Reverse the Historical Erasure of LGBT Communities (Fustich) Academic Inclusion Wikipedia-in-a-box - Kiwix (Coillet-Matillon, Vargas, Holt, Moody) Tech Mon-Shi-1	Dial "T" for Training - Creating Effective Training Modules to Address Harassment, both Online and at Events ( Brown, Earley, Schilling) (60 mins) Inclusion Community Mon-Jaffe-1	Be bold and edit the map: OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia (Nguyen) Tech Journalism and Wikipedia (Walsh) Quality Mon-Clark-1	The gender pronoun gap in Wikipedia (Yazdani) Academic Gender Gap Editatona: Helping close the gender gap in Wikipedia (Sánchez) Gender Gap Mon-Wells-1	Creating flashcards in Native American languages using images from Wikimedia Commons (Hayes, guest) Inclusion Beyond copyright release - model release and other media rights (Rasberry) Commons Mon-Com-1
MON BREAK 1 2:30 - 2:45 pm
MON Session 2 2:45 - 4:15 pm	Understanding Wikipedia readership: Our results for our phone survey in Mexico (Foy, Vargas) (30 mins) WMF Research Increasing reach of Wikimedia projects via partnerships (Vrana, Vargas) (30 mins) WMF Inclusion Mon-Aud-2	Open for Unconference session scheduling Mon-Shi-2	WikiProject X: The development of the future of on-wiki project coordination (Schoonover) Tech Community Research Mon-Jaffe-2	Mon-Clark-2	3:30 pm - Basics of Wikipedia for the Public Introductory Mon-Wells-2	Open for Unconference session scheduling Mon-Com-2
MON BREAK 2 4:15 - 4:30 pm
MON Closing session 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm		Sharing session Mon-Shi-Closing
See you at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal! (August 11-13, 2017)

Registration times

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

• Friday, October 7 at Balboa Park during the Culture Crawl: 9:00am-4:00pm
• Saturday: 9:30am-1:30pm
• Sunday: 12:00pm-1:30pm
• Monday: 9:30am-1:30pm