2021/Schedule

This is a draft. Anything on this page is subject to change.

There are five unscheduled minutes between most sessions to allow for session wrap-ups, switching rooms, and taking quick breaks.

Friday, October 8

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red (Stage)	Track Blue (Stage)	Track Green (Session)	Unconference
12:00 - 13:00 30 minutes	Welcome to WikiConference North America 2021! Introduction
13:00 - 13:40 40 minutes			Expert fact-checkers rely on Wikipedia. You and your students should too!
13:45 - 14:25 40 minutes	Global templates, and their special challenges for English, French, and Spanish languages
14:30 - 14:55 25 minutes		How the Smithsonian and Wiki Education are adding biographies of American women
15:00 - 15:25 25 minutes	Links, Wikipedia, and Knowledge Gaps	2Rāth: To Digitally Preserve Arab Literary Heritage	From sign shop to desktop
15:30 - 15:55 25 minutes	OpenHistoricalMap: Historical Geography Wiki style	WikiLetters Systematic Review	Emerging technologies edit-a-thon: nano and AI, oh my!
16:00 - 16:25 25 minutes	Introduction to Enterprise MediaWiki	Programs & Events Dashboard - Tips & Tricks for Event Organizers
16:30 - 16:55 25 minutes	WikiProject Clinical Trials, Wikipedia for Research	Current developments in Wikipedia-integrated academic journals
17:00 - 17:25 25 minutes	Lightning talks
17:30 - 18:20 50 minutes	Small Education Panel
18:20 - 19:30	Break!
19:30+	Lounge / Happy Hour

Saturday, October 9

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red (Stage)	Track Blue (Stage)	Track Green (Session)	Unconference
11:45 - 12:00 15 minutes	Welcome to Day 2 of WikiConference North America 2021!
12:00 - 12:55 55 minutes	Engaging the University Community with Wikipedia Curating and Creation	Demystifying Copyright: Unlocking a Treasure of Content in Journals and Periodicals	VRT & WMF Legal: Workflow Discussion
13:00 - 13:55 55 minutes	Classroom Project Showcase
14:00 - 14:40 40 minutes	Building Organizing Tools for Campaigns and Editing Events		Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon
14:45 - 15:25 40 minutes	Editing seems too hard; let's fix that
15:30 - 15:55 25 minutes	Plenary
16:00 - 16:15 15 minutes	Non-English Editions of Wikipedia Have a Misinformation Problem	"So Many Books, So Little Time": Wikipedia as Odd Literature
16:15 - 16:30 15 minutes		How Do the Top Ten Languages in North America Fare on Their Wikipedias?
16:30 - 16:45 15 minutes	Why Consensus Fails	Black Lunch Table Strategies for Knowledge gaps
16:45 - 17:00 15 minutes		Decolonizing Wikipedia
17:00 - 17:25 25 minutes	News On Wiki, Phase 2 complete; Future steps with ASU journalism school	Survey Says: What Wiki Education's program participants say about joining the Wikipedia and Wikidata communities	How to tie together Commons, Wikidata, and possibly Wikipedia by using :commons:Special:SuggestedTags
17:30 - 17:55 25 minutes	Engaging subject-matter experts during a national emergency: Wiki Education and COVID-19	How do you even teach Wikidata?
17:55 - 19:30	Break!
19:30+	Lounge / Happy Hour

Sunday, October 10

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red (Stage)	Track Blue (Stage)	Track Green (Session)	Unconference
12:00 - 12:30 30 minutes	Welcome to Day 3 of WikiConference North America 2021!
12:30 - 13:10 40 minutes	Content translation tool tutorial	Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality	Community feedback wanted: Universal Code of Conduct draft enforcement guidelines
13:15 - 13:55 40 minutes		Glassbox: betting for proactive transparency against misinformation	Add your country to WikiProject Govdirectory
14:00 - 14:25 25 minutes	Architects Build Wiki: A Pilot Campaign Featuring Black Architects of Detroit	Modeling NIOSH publications on Wikidata: a case study for beginners	Wikimedia reducing major conflicts
14:30 - 14:55 25 minutes	Edit-a-thons in the time of COVID: Lessons learned during 18 months of online editing events	¡Edita Wikipedia! Un curso de formación docente elaborado en alianza entre UNAM + WMMX
15:00 - 15:25 25 minutes	Plenary
15:30 - 15:55 25 minutes		Participación y conocimiento libre en Wikipedia en español
16:00 - 16:15 15 minutes	Towards a more environmentally sustainable Wikimedia Movement: The Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant	Usando Wikipedia y Wikimedia Commons para la enseñanza del arte y la cultura
16:15 - 16:30 15 minutes	What is the coverage of the 30 most spoken North American indigenous languages in Wikipedia?	Cvillepedia: a case study in making a local wiki a more equitable, inclusive, and accessible archive of information
16:30 - 16:55 25 minutes		Wiki Loves Monuments in the US: Updates and Discussion
17:00 - 17:25 25 minutes	Lightning talks
17:30 - 17:55 25 minutes
17:55 - 19:30	Break!
19:30+	Lounge / Happy Hour