2014/Schedule

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

8:30am-9:30am	Registration and Breakfast
9:30am-10:15am	Keynote: Sumana Harihareswara 2nd Floor Event Center
10:15am-10:30am	Break
10:30am-11:45am
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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)	-	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)		Using web API client libraries to play with and learn from our (meta)data (45 min)
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)	Image by Wikipedia (60 min)	Open Access Panel (60 min)	Open Space
			If we build it, will they come?: Bringing library collections to the people through Wikipedia (15 min)
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
on your own	Local Attractions

Saturday, May 31, 2014

8:30am-9:30am	Registration and Breakfast
9:30am-10:15am	Keynote: Phoebe Ayers 2nd Floor Event Center
10:15am-10:30am	Break
10:30am-11:45am
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	Digital Rights, Wikipedia, and Online Advocacy (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)
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, The Free Culture Trust (30 min)	-	Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Program in NYC (60 min)	Open Space
4:15pm-4:30pm	Break
4:30pm-5:30pm	W300	W301	W302	W303	W320	W220
	Wikipedia, Medicine and Language (60 min)	Growing the Awesome in Your Programs, Part 2: Wikimetrics (60 min)	-	-	Wikipedia, GLAM and Edit-athons in the Classroom: How We Did It (30 min)	Open Space
					Wikipedian-in-Residence at UC Berkeley (30 mins)
5:30pm-5:45pm	Break
5:45pm-6:00pm	Closing Remarks 2nd Floor Event Center
6:00pm-9:00pm	WikiConference USA Reception, with drinks and hors d'oeuvres 5th Floor Cafe

Sunday, June 1, 2014

8:30am-9:30am	Registration and Breakfast
9:30-10:15am	Introduction to Unconference and Lightning Talks / Open Space
10:15am-10:30am	Break
10:30am-1:30pm	Event Center		W300	W301	W302	W303	W320	W220
	Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Editathon Feminism Focus	Hackathon	Open Space	Novel Media Digitization Techniques	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
	Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Editathon (Continued)	Hackathon (Continued)	LGBT Meetup (2:30–4:00) Cascadia Meetup (4:00–5:30)	Discussion about Diversity and standardizing the Friendly Space Policy	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space
5:30pm-5:45pm	Break
5:45pm-6:00pm	Closing Remarks 2nd Floor Event Center