Talk:2019/Main Page

Some ways to help

Community

• Students: ideas for working w/ uni, high school, and younger students
• Wiki communities: liaising w/ major wikiprojects, chapters, and the wmf
• MIT community: engagement w/in the venue + on campus (see SJ, Sarah, Phoebe)
• Credibility + journalism communities:

Program

• Program: help w/ workshops, tracks, and hackathon;
• Speaker support: rallying + tending to speakers
• Hackathon parallel to the crawl
• Culture crawl(s)

Virtual conference

• Remote participation for people across N. America (and the world)
• Connecting local wikimedians in the other 22 countries; language + networking issues (see Global Voices)

Partners + sponsors

• Sponsors+partners: institutions, foundations, companies, and in-kind sponsors
• Local partners: food, drink, venues, and city partnerships
• Handling submissions + final format of talks

Quality of conf

• Food: local catering (see Antonio + J8)
• Parties: organizing opening + closing (+ other optional) parties
• Lodging: couchsurfing and room shares for visiting students (hotels: see Antonio)

Website + publicity

• Maintaining the site + imagery
• Announcements, dealing w/ press

Logistics

• Registration: online + in-person reg, total event-size management
• Other logistics: Help organizing local volunteers, manning tables

Speaker ideas

Tradition

• Ward Cunningham, Erin McKean
• JI/Z

Non-wm speakers

• Trad news publishing: AG Sulzberger, ?
• Trad social news platforms: ?
• Reliable source vetters: ?
• Collab news sources: WikiTribune, GlobalVoices (in en, es, fr)
• Someone from PRSA or similar type of organization who can discuss ethical engagement in Wikipedia for PR professionals.
• Experts in the field of public health communication, science communication, climate change psychology, etc. - what ideas do they have on how to make Wikipedia communicate more effectively?

Ideas for the 2019 conference

General structure

• Theme: Credibility + Incredibility (co-planned w/ CredCo)
• Dates: November 9-11 (Sat-Mon, a long weekend)

  November 8 for satellite events, in nearby spaces (a few 20-50-person gatherings)

• Venue: We currently have most of the Stata Center reserved, w/ spaces on the 1st + 4th floors. Looking for spaces for satellite events, dinners, parties.
• Lodging: We're looking for inexpensive options for visiting students. Perhaps we have enough locals to support couchsurfing for some?

Art

• A Hatnote installation w/ delicious acoustics
• A related dynamic world-map... (of people and bots, data / images / minor edits / major edits / new pages / new accounts)

Potential subthemes

• WikiCite (possible on the satellite day)
• News crediblity (hello CurrentEvents, Wikinews, Wikitribune, Civil? The Correspondent?? FB local news???) (possibly on the satellite day)
• Disinformation and AI (ORES, other mechanisms, non-wiki approaches)
• Education (WikiEdu is often a sponsor, hopefully again this year)
• Librarianship and curation
• Experimentation and unreliable drafts (importance of simplicity + all-can-edit!)
• Wikipedia and international students and/or English language learners
• Advocacy & public policy

Potential events / fun sessions

• Sockpuppet Theatre (reprise, for all ages)
• Sessions for high-school and younger students
• Web 2.0 Elevator Pitch Contest (reprise)
• Creative childcare (for attendees w/ kids)
• Wikipedia edit-a-thon or chapter sticker or button exchange
• Wikipedia PR sharing table: with posters for events, other materials created for PR

Potential wiki moments (just dreaming here...)

• Get Ward C + some Meatballers to join
• A vigorous Federated-MediaWiki/Federated-WD/
• A vigorous WN/WTrib/CurrentEvents showdown
• A vigorous Wikiversity/Wikieducator/OCW/EdX showdown

Call for Proposals

When do you anticipate sending out a call for proposals? I am interested in presenting some research I've done this year. Additionally, I'll add my name to the list of volunteers. I have lots of experience with planning programs, but I wonder if this is a COI if I also want to submit a proposal to speak?

Thanks! We would welcome help with this. There's not much COI there, though the proposal would be reviewed by others. Sj (talk) 19:38, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Great! You can hit me up by email or through my talk page when the time comes. --Mcbrarian (talk) 15:28, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

• Submissions: Currently we have a wiki form. Is it enough?

Have there been any concerns about the wiki form in previous years?--Mcbrarian (talk) 15:32, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

With our collaboration with CredCon and general potential for more non-wiki folks to join the conference each year, we had concerns that asking people to fill out a wikimarkup form wouldn't be the best experience for them. We've remedied that by using an extension that lets us use a nice form UI. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 07:18, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Coordination

Calls

Weekly on tuesday, 7pm

Slack

WCNA messaging

Wiki

This wiki for longer-form documents and updates

Dreams [dream outcomes] for the conf

1. Newbies: A track for newcomers! cf SF's newbie effort
   • Journalistic theme for newbies too?
   • 'under the hood' literacy course via Merrilee? Take you to the point/purpose of editing ... (MP could co-teach w a journalist / educator)
2. Newbies: track for youth?
   • Active programming for hs and college students
   • not just WP: WSource (Jim), Commons, Data, ++
   • cf WordCamp's kids' camps. cf permissions, childcare
   • work w/ educators at MIT and elsewhere

3. Great experience for people from small communities/outside the US/Can
   • Make an event w/ cool people who run their own rural/local events
4. Result: Make a new WikiNews -- destroy the old and create anew
5. Program: Have an all-library conference (aww)
6. Meta: Inspire new recurring headlines about the movement [in the news]
7. Result: Cite Unseen takes over all wikipedias

8. Culture: American music! Sokha, calypso ... [Sherri]
   • WMSummit: everyone sent in music; danced for hours.

9. Sites: consider all of Boston! [Af Am cultural museum + schoolhouse], full Freedom Trail.
   • Gardner museum: potential site, wants to partner! Next steps? Sat/Sun social? Part of the crawl? Wants to augment their collections.
10. How we cani collaborate on facts and fact-checking w/ deep provenance [WD+]

11. Reader consideration?

Current needs

• Volunteer organizing x
• Sponsorship one-sheeter (review, sharing)
• Speaker ideas
• Recording sessions! Give feedback to OL
• Remote participation: decide where to have such interactions [get OpenCon feedback -- Nick Sh instance]
• Reach out to parallel folk (Naomi, Jess, Nick Sh)