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WikiConference North America 2019 • Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Welcome to the WikiConference North America 2019 Schedule
Check back here for the latest; things can change day to day. Today's agenda is at the top; agendas for past days are at the bottom of the page.
Monday, November 11
 Presentation  Discussion  Panel Workshop  Lightning TalkNovember 11 - Monday - Programming | ||||||
| Registration
9:00 AM |
Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (In front of Room 123, first floor). | |||||
| 9:30 - 10:15 | Stata 32-123 (Auditorium)
Introduction to the State of Reliability All Hands
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| Break
10:15 - 10:30 |
Coffee + choose a roundtable | |||||
| Session 7 | Stata 32-123 318 Seats Tiered Auditorium |
Stata 32-144 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables |
Stata 32-124 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables |
Commons A |
Commons B |
Commons C |
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| 10:30 - 11:30 | Roundtable: Future of Reliability in the Wikimedia Movement  Reliability Etherpad |
Roundtable: Engagement with External Platforms (Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc.) Reliability Etherpad |
Roundtable: Reliability in News Reliability Etherpad |
Reserved | Open Hacking Space: Counter Misogyny Editathon  Unconference Reliability
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Open Space |
| Break
11:30 - 11:45 |
Hallway conference reprise | |||||
| Session 8 | Stata 32-123 318 Seats |
Stata 32-144 60 Seats |
Stata 32-124 60 Seats |
Commons A |
Commons B |
Commons C |
| Inspiration
11:45 - 12:15 |
Bridging the gap between facts and articles (Tisza)  Reliability Content
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Cure My FEVER : Building, Breaking and Fixing Models for Fact-Checking(Alhindi) Reliability Tech
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How to define and elevate quality news: A discussion led by CUNY's NewsQ team (Harloe from CUNY's NewsQ) Reliability
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Nontraditional Scholarship: Evaluation and Citation (Britton)  Reliability Research WikiCite
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Open Hacking Space | Open Space |
| Lunch
12:15 - 1:30 |
Lunch in Stata Draft + post unconference ideas Vote on unconference ideas | |||||
| Session 9 | Commons A |
Commons B |
Commons C | |||
| Unconference in the R&D Commons: Brainstorming and Hacking | ||||||
| 1:30 - 2:10 | Ideas for Wikimedia Movement reliability | Ideas for platform engagement | Ideas for reliability in News | |||
| 2:15 - 3:00 | " " | " " | " " | |||
| Wrapup
3:15 - 3:45 |
Wrapup in the main 4F Commons area | |||||
Past sessions
Friday, November 8
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, our home base for the day. But don't go in this entrance! If you end up here, walk around the museum to the other side.
Friday is the conference's Culture Crawl, a day-long event that includes tours and other activities at various cultural institutions around Boston and Cambridge.
- Our home base for the day will be the Museum of Fine Arts.
- Check-in & name-badge pick-up at the MfA: Friday 9am-5pm - at the MFA’s Fenway entrance (200 Fenway, b/t the two giant baby heads). This is the north entrance, on the opposite side of the museum from the Huntington Ave. entrance. A volunteer will meet you with a complimentary ticket to the Museum (only at this entrance). You will then be directed to the Trustees room, upstairs, where our programming will occur to complete registration.
- Participants will visit local museums and cultural institutions for free backstage tours, edit-a-thons, and more. Participating institutions include:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- State Library of Massachusetts
- MassArt (Massachusetts College of Art and Design)
- Boston University
- Sessions around GLAM and Wikidata
- Kickoff to our conference-long hackathon, challenging participants to ideate and come up with solutions for problems around information reliability.
- The day's Editathon coordination page on English Wikipedia
Friday evening will be our reception in Boston at the Waterworks Museum. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served.
Friday
| Registration will take place throughout the day in the Trustees Room in the Museum of Fine Arts. Come to the Museum's Fenway entrance to receive entrance to the Museum. | |
| Training Sessions @ MFA All sessions take place in the Museum of Fine Arts' Trustees Room. |
Tours & Other Activities Various Locations |
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10 AM
10:30 - 11:00 AM
11:00 - 12:15 PM
12:15 - 1 PM
1 - 2 PM
2 - 3:15 PM 3:30 - 4:30 PM
4:45 - 5:15 PM
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10:30 - 11:15 AM @ MFA, Swan Gallery 245
11 AM - 12 PM @ MFA, 3rd Floor American Wing
11 AM - 12 PM @ MIT, MakerWorkshop
12 - 12:30 PM @ MFA, two galleries
1:30 - 2:30 PM @ State Library of Massachusetts
From 1 PM @ MassArt
2 - 3 PM @ MassArt
3 - 3:45 PM @ MFA, Room 280
3:30 - 4 PM @ Boston University
4 PM - 5 PM @ MIT, MakerWorkshop
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5:00 - 5:30 PM — Board buses at the Fenway side of the MFA. 5:30PM - Buses depart for the Reception at the Waterworks Museum. | |
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6:00 - 10:00 PM — Reception at the Waterworks Museum 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02467 We will be hosting an open bar and hors d'oeuvres will be served. We will also have tours of the Museum! | |
Addresses
Map of Culture Crawl locations; view interactive map here.
- Boston University (Mugar Memorial Library): 771 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
- MassArt: 621 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
- Museum of Fine Arts: 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
- MIT MakerWorkshop: 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA (Building 35, 1st Floor)
- State Library of Massachusetts: 24 Beacon Street, State House Room 341, Boston, MA
Saturday, November 9
| Presentation Discussion Panel Workshop Lightning Talk November 9 - Saturday - Programming | ||||||||
| Registration
8:30 AM |
Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (In front of Room 123, first floor). | |||||||
| Talk strategy with members of Wikimedia 2030 at MIT Stata Center 32-124. | ||||||||
| Opening Plenary
9:30 - 10:45 AM |
Stata 32-123 (Auditorium) 
Keynote All Hands | |||||||
| Break
10:45 - 11:00 AM |
Catch a break, mingle with other Wikimedians, and head to your first session. | |||||||
| Session 1 | Stata 32-123 318 Seats Tiered Auditorium |
Stata 32-144 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables |
Stata 32-124 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables |
Stata 32-141 90 Seats Tiered Lecture Hall |
Stata 32-155 90 Seats Tiered Lecture Hall |
Commons A |
Commons B |
Kiva Seminar Room |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | To blacklist or whitelist? Three perspectives on how to classify reliable and unreliable news (Harloe from CUNY's NewsQ) Reliability
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Combating Online Harassment with Friends (Mahar, Zhang, Karger from MIT) Safety Community
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Quality Armchair Research 101: Make reliably-sourced articles without owning a personal library or paying for subscriptions (HaEr48) Quality
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What We Learn from Building WikiLoop (Zhou from Google) Tech Reliability
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Building Broad and Diverse Wikipedia Capacity in Institutions of Higher Education: Case Study—the University of Massachusetts Lowell (Davidson from Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell) Education Gender Gap
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Open Hacking Space | Tools and techniques for identifying and addressing gaps (Proffitt, OCLC) Inclusion Tech
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Introductory Edit-a-thon Training - an introduction to editing Wikipedia for beginners. Come learn how to create a user account, edit a page, and basic rules around Wikipedia editing. In the Kiva room, off of the 4th floor commons area. |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | ||||||||
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Evaluating Success for Content Translation (Zhou from McGill) Tech
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Strategies for comparing library content and Wikipedia (Soito from Univ. of New Mexico) Libraries
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Cite Unseen: A Year Hence (Payravi, Lim) Tech Reliability
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| 11:45 - 12:00 | Navigating the booming and burgeoning credibility landscape: Three perspectives (Marrelli from Credibility Coalition) Reliability
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Wikipedia at Boston University: Creating a Community of Editors and Teachers (Dwyer, Jenemann, Shetty from Boston Univ.)  Community Education
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Relying on Wikipedia in Higher Education: Addressing Stigma and Misconceptions (Mojarad, Choi from Univ. of Southern Cali.) Education Reliability
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Introductory Edit-a-thon | ||||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Internet Archive (Graham)
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Lettuce Into the Meal: A SNAC Update (Herbert from NARA) Tech GLAM
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Can Software Help Address Wikipedia's COI Problem? (Beutler from Beutler Ink) Tech Quality
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| 12:15 - 12:30 | ||||||||
| Group Photo
12:30 - 12:45 PM |
Group photo! Head to the Dertouzos Amphitheater Located right outside Stata. | |||||||
| Lunch
12:45 - 2:00 PM |
Lunch in Stata You may eat throughout the building. Refer to the scheduled meet-ups below. | |||||||
| MIT MakerWorkshop Tour from 1:15 - 1:45, a short walk from Stata 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA (Building 35, 1st Floor) | ||||||||
| Lunch Meetup A - ? | Lunch Meetup B - Citizen TALES* | Lunch Meetup C - LGBT+ | Lunch Meetup D - Programs & Events | Lunch Meetup E - WikiMedicine | Lunch Meetup F - Wiki Women's | Lunch Meetup G - Q&A with Wikipedia @ 20 Contributors | Lunch Meetup H - | |
| Session 2 | Stata 32-123 318 Seats |
Stata 32-144 60 Seats |
Stata 32-124 60 Seats |
Stata 32-141 90 Seats |
Stata 32-155 90 Seats |
Commons A |
Commons B |
Kiva Seminar Room |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | From Digital Natives to Digital Citizens: How Instructors are Using Wikipedia to Teach Information Literacy (Blumenthal from Wiki Edu; Jacobson from SUNY at Albany; Kaufman from Wake Forest Univ; Griffin from Univ. of Alabama) Education
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Public Policy Roundtable (Siy, Laporte from Wikimedia Foundation) Public Policy
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Putting Institutional Partners at Ease: Becoming a Reliable Guide in an Unfamiliar Landscape (Cetrone from Wikimedia DC) GLAM Partnerships
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Black Face: Strategies for missing images from art biographies and the ethics of WikiCommons (Hart, Valentine, Myrie from Black Lunch Table Wikimedians) Content Gap
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Next Steps for Countering Systemic Bias: Beyond Filling the Gaps (Bjork-James from Vanderbilt and Wiki Edu) Bias
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Open Hacking Space | AMA: Ask the developers (Isarra from MediaWiki Developers) Tech
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Introductory Edit-a-thon (Continued) Caribbean Translate-a-thon (Wikimedians of the Caribbean, AfroCROWD, CUNY LaGuardia) |
| 2:15 - 2:30 | ||||||||
| 2:30 - 2:45 | What’s good for GLAM is good for STEM? Editor recruitment and retention at NIOSH (Sadowski from NIOSH) Partnerships
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Mbabel - One Click Article Creation for Events (Fernandez from WMDC, Knipel from WMNYC) Tech Editing
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Wikipedia editing in Introductory Psychology: Teaching students online research skills while targeting gender bias (Che from CUNY) Education Gender Gap
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Quarry tutorial: Using SQL to get info about wikis (Wolff) Tech
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| 2:45 - 3:00 | The 1000 Women in Religion Project: Bridging the Divide Between the Academy and Wikipedia (Hartung from Women's Caucus of the American Academy of Religion) Content Gap
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Government Bans of Wikimedia Projects Public Policy
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| 3:00 - 3:15 | Engaging with Scientists: Sharing Knowledge and Encouraging Editing Through a Science Library (Flood from USDA) Libraries Partnerships
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Tech Lightning Talks (Enterprisey, Stephen LaPorte, Mahmoud Hashemi, Isarra)  Tech
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WikiNetBias: topic polarisation on Wikipedia graph and its effect on users (Menghini from Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Brown Univ.) Bias Quality
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| 3:15 - 3:30 | ||||||||
| Break
3:30 - 4:00 PM |
Catch a break and mingle with other conference goers, opportunity for mini-meetups. | |||||||
| Mini-Meetup A - ? | Mini-Meetup B -
checking New Articles - DGG |
Mini-Meetup C - Climate change | Mini-Meetup D - Wikispore / New Wikis | Mini-Meetup E - ? | Mini-Meetup F - ? | Mini-Meetup G - ? | Mini-Meetup H - WikiCari | |
| Session 3 | Stata 32-123 318 Seats |
Stata 32-144 60 Seats |
Stata 32-124 60 Seats |
Stata 32-141 90 Seats |
Stata 32-155 90 Seats |
Commons A |
Commons B |
Kiva Seminar Room |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Fighting Fake News with Real Information: Newspapers on Wikipedia (Forsyth from Wiki Strategies) Reliability
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Taking Wiki Loves Monuments in the US to the Next Level (Payravi, Soito) WikiCommons Wikidata
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Discussing AI and Machine Learning in the Wikimedia movement (Lih from Wikimedia DC) Tech
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Lightning Talks
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Engaging Experts Three Ways: How Wiki Education is building a bridge between Wikipedia and Subject-Matter Experts (Blumenthal, McGrady, Kent from WikiEdu) WikiEdu
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Open Hacking Space | New England meetup and project roundtable (Ayers, Suiter, Smith, Li from MIT Libraries) | open for editing |
| 4:15 - 4:30 | ||||||||
| 4:30 - 4:45 | Opening the news: how to use civic tech to promote reliability in news media (Flores from Wikimedia México) Reliability Mexico
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Limits of Wikidata (Mietchen from WikiCite & Univ. of Virginia) Wikidata WikiCite
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| 4:45 - 5:00 | Design Workshop on the UX of Conveying Credibility Online (Zhang from MIT, Obuobi, Skeet, Greiner, Gamage) Reliability
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Teaching Intellectual Property Law with Wikipedia (Heintzman from Harvard Univ.) Education Public Policy
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| 5:00 - 5:15 | Surfacing Trust, Expertise, and Provenance for better News Sharing (Jahanbakhsh from MIT)
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| 5:15 - 5:30 | ||||||||
| Pizza & Cake
5:30-7:00 PM |
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| Evening Reception
7:00 - 11:00 PM |
7:00 - 11:00 pm: Reception at the MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 02139
A cash bar and light snacks will be provided. Attendees are encouraged to explore the museum's exhibits! | |||||||
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Sunday, November 10
November 10 each year, the United Nations are observing the World Science Day for Peace and Development.
| Presentation Discussion Panel Workshop Lightning Talk November 10 - Sunday - Programming | ||||||||
| Registration
9:00 AM |
Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (In front of Room 123, first floor). | |||||||
| Session 4 | Stata 32-123 318 Seats Tiered Auditorium |
Stata 32-144 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables |
Stata 32-124 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables |
Stata 32-141 90 Seats Tiered Lecture Hall |
Stata 32-155 90 Seats Tiered Lecture Hall |
Commons A |
Commons B |
Commons C (Kiva) |
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| 10 - 10:45 | Indigenous knowledge in Wikipedia : the Atikamekw Nation experience (Rochon from WMCA)
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Reserved | Wikimedia Outreach programs for technical contributors (Rodlund, Sethi, Ross, Zhou from Wikimedia Foundation) Tech Community
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The Wikimedia Movement Strategy & You
(Keefer, Pourzaki) |
Building a Wikidata Curriculum (Kent from Wiki Edu) Education Wikidata
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Open Space | Open Space | Open Space
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| Break
10:45 - 11:00 |
Catch a mingle with other conference goers. | |||||||
| Session 5 | Stata 32-123 318 Seats |
Stata 32-144 60 Seats |
Stata 32-124 60 Seats |
Stata 32-141 90 Seats |
Stata 32-155 90 Seats |
Commons A |
Commons B |
Commons C (Kiva) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | GLAMs embracing open access and Wikidata: Experiences from the Met Museum (Lih, Metropolitan Museum of Art) GLAM Wikidata
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Wiki Caribbean Panel and Discussion on Survey Findings (Antoine from Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group & AfroCROWD) Caribbean
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Building a Scholarly Knowledge Base with Wikidata: A Case Study from Vanderbilt University (Anderson, Baskauf, Shook from Vanderbilt) Wikidata WikiCite Education
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Lightning Talks
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State of Wikimedia Research on Knowledge Integrity (Johnson from Wikimedia Foundation) Reliability Research
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Open Space | Best Practices for Responsible and Reliable Content about Suicide (Poore, LaPorte, SSiy from Wikimedia Foundation) Reliability Safety
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Aaron Swartz Hackathon - moved to the projectors downstairs! Editathon Access
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| 11:15 - 11:30 | ||||||||
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art (Payravi, Stimler, Lih) GLAM WikiCommons
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4 Million in 4 Weeks: A case study on bulk import of cultural heritage metadata on Wikidata (Byrd-McDevitt from NARA) Wikidata GLAM WikiCite
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Supporting deliberation and resolution on Wikipedia (Zhang, Im, Schilling, Morgan, Karger) Community
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| 11:45 - 12:00 | Understanding the technical challenges of small wikis in North America (Sethi, Rodlund from Wikimedia Foundation) Tech
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Mitigating risk in Wikipedia content (Risker) Content Reliability
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| 12:00 - 12:15 | Wikidata-fying Northeastern University's "Women Writers in Review" initiative (Stephenson-Goodknight from Northeastern & Wiki Women in Red) Wikidata WikiCite Gender Gap
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Muckrock: Building a database of US government agencies (Morisy)
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Introduction to WikiCite (Mietchen and Ayers) WikiCite
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| 12:15 - 12:30 | ||||||||
| Lunch
12:30 - 2:00 PM |
Lunch in Stata You may eat throughout the building. Refer to the scheduled meet-ups below. | |||||||
| Lunch Meetup I - Wikipedia Day rapid grants session (probably tables outside) |
Lunch Meetup J - Art+Feminism | Lunch Meetup K - WikiCite | Lunch Meetup L - Climate Change / Sustainability | Lunch Meetup M - ? | Lunch Meetup N - FOIA.Science -- by projectors near reg. | Lunch Meetup O - Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network | Lunch Meetup P - Ask Wiki Education | |
| Session 6 | Stata 32-12 3 318 Seats |
Stata 32-144 60 Seats |
Stata 32-124 60 Seats |
Stata 32-141 90 Seats |
Stata 32-155 90 Seats |
Commons A |
Commons B |
Commons C (Kiva) |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | Open Space | Adventures in American (Mostly) Folklore: Expanding the Footprint of Notability (Pruitt) Content
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Building Scholia profiles (Mietchen from WikiCite & Univ. of Virginia) Wikidata WikiCite
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A Colonizer's Account: the Use and Mis-use of Historical Sources (Rust) Reliability Content | Creating WikiCommunity at LaGuardia Community College (Coleman from LaGuardia Community College) Community Education
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Open Space | Open Space | Aaron Swartz Hackathon
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| 2:15 - 2:30 | ||||||||
| 2:30 - 2:45 | Academics in the open: How WikiJournals encourage open scholarship using Wikipedia (Koerner from WikiJournal of the Humanities) Research WikiCite
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Developing Ethical, Responsible, and Reliable Information Producers (Jacobson from SUNY at Albany) Reliability Education
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Recognizing Sovereignty: Wikidata & Indigenous Nations in North America (Allison-Cassin) Wikidata
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| 2:45 - 3:00 | Wikidata Quicksheets (Mandiberg from Art+Feminism) Wikidata
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| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Hackathon status report + project pitching |
Hearing Other Voices: Using Wikipedia in an ESL Writing Class (Shetty from Boston Univ.) Content Gap Education
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| 3:15 - 3:30 | ||||||||
| Break
3:30 - 3:45 |
Break it off with other conference goers. | |||||||
| End-of-day Plenary
3:45 - 4:30 PM |
Stata 32-123 (Auditorium)
All Hands
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| Break
4:30+ |
Enjoy our fair city! | |||||||
| Relaxed night
5:00 - 8:00 PM |
R&D Commons (4F)
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