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Session Info
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| 14:00–14:20
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Welcome to Mapping USA + WikiConference NorthAmerica
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| Opening Keynote: The Case for Sister Projects
Minh Nguyễn
Sister projects are the unsung heroes of Wikipedia’s success. Disputes between inclusionists and deletionists led to the creation of Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and more, fueling new contributions to the sum of human knowledge while reinforcing Wikipedia’s culture. OpenStreetMap is no stranger to deletion debates. Nascent sister projects like OpenHistoricalMap offer an outlet for more mapping, creating a more vibrant community than a fork ever could. As always, the hard part is starting from scratch. How can we learn from Wikimedia’s experience with sister projects to build a similar ecosystem?
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| 14:20–14:25
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Break
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| 14:25–15:25
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At 18 years old, is OSM entering adulthood?
Jennings Anderson & Martijn van Exel
OpenStreetMap started 18 years ago with a blank canvas and the ambition to become the best map of the world. All we could do in the beginning was create: draw all the roads, houses, businesses, lakes and forests. Now, 18 years in, OSM looks “done” in a lot of places. Our responsibility now shifts from creating to maintaining—but not everywhere at once, or at the same pace. Jennings and Martijn uncover the fascinating and perhaps unexpected dynamics of a map in its teenage years by first looking at global trends and then diving deeper into the vast community maintaining the map in North America
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| Linking Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap/OpenHistoricalMap
Richard Welty
This session will cover the mechanisms that exist for specifying cross connections between various wiki media projecrts (commons, data, wikipedia) and OpenStreetMap and OpenHistoricalMap. There are connectivity mechanisms in existence that can significantly enhance both projects.
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| Collaborative Corridors to Address OSM Underrepresentation
Bill Wetherholt
US Highway corridors provide a collaborative springboard to connect vested OSM interests across underrepresented regions. US-40 offered a link between Fall 2022 mapping courses in the Department of Geography at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland and the Department of Computer Science, Information Systems and Engineering Technology at PennWest California in California, Pennsylvania. This talk explores filling in the map along the seventy miles of US-40 separating the two Appalachian universities and provides a blueprint for others interested in similar endeavors.
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| Mapping the Virtual Border Wall with Public Records, Satellite Imagery, and Virtual Reality
Dave Maass
EFF Director of Investigations demonstrates how his team is combining public records, satellite imagery, and virtual reality to reveal the locations of Customs & Border Protections surveillance towers.
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| 15:05–15:15
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Break
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| 15:15–17:20
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Come Here or Go Away?: Identifying Challenges to Scholarly Wikipedia Editing
Savannah Cragin, Dr. Jennifer Johnson
This talk investigates the challenges of establishing pathways for academic contributors to edit Wikipedia. While there is powerful alignment in the educational missions of the Wikimedia Foundation with those of the academic humanities, tensions still exist between the Wikipedia and scholarly community, fostering distrust and burnout from scholars. This talk will investigate the contextual background of these tensions as understood by the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative and provide useful pathways for fostering understanding between Wikipedia and scholarly values.
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| Parks, Spawns, Nests and Pikachu: OpenStreetMap and Pokemon GO players
Christopher Greene-Szmadzinski
In October 2022, Niantic publicly announced using OpenStreetMap to update its popular mobile game, Pokemon GO! The use of OSM data for PoGO has long been known by players and OSM contributors alike. In the past, this has meant accidental (or intentional) vandalism by well-meaning (and sometimes not so well-meaning) players. Let's look at how PoGO is using OSM data and ways to turn this pain point into a positive experience to encourage new contributors while preserving the integrity of our data.
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| Print an OSM Extract: Trailheads maps from OpenStreetMap
Rob Chohan
"Non-Profit land trusts have map needs. Docents want to lead a hike and describe where to meet for the monthly wildlife talk. Land trusts want to raise awareness via social media or for public presentations. Local educators want to get more students in the outdoors. A decent map stack & architecture for web, print & mobile can help solve all of these needs.We will discuss how we used FOSS4G tools to make a kiosk trailhead for the “Build Lebanon Trails” group in Lebanon, Oregon. The tools we used are OSM extracts, QGIS, and Cloud Optimized GeoTiff. A decent map stack & architecture for web, print & mobile can help solve all of these needs.
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| Find your 'emergency eyes' - what to map near you
Nicole Martinelli
Wildfires, floods and heatwaves are just some of the “new” emergencies that have become more frequent in the United States. While we’re used to preparing for major disasters - earthquakes, hurricanes, cyclones - it’s time to start thinking about how good maps can save lives in these common emergencies. We’ll take a look at features worth mapping (parking lots, vacant businesses, gas stations that you might overlook.
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| 17:20–17:30
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Break
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| 17:30–1800
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Wikimedia New York City, Sure We Can
Wil540 art
I propose giving an informal 5 minute lightening talk about editing Wikipedia and how a Pear Tree inspired the Cartography of New York City article. I will go over the history of this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography_of_New_York_City which I started relatively recently in May 2021 and ask for comments.
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| Magic Wand: A Plugin for JOSM
Junior Flores
Plugin created for the JOSM tool, allows you to create geometries from selected areas. the areas are selected according to the uniformity of the colors, it is also possible, also, it is possible to add and subtract selected areas.
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| Swiping into a love of OSM
Dan Joseph
Learn how the open source MapSwipe app fits into the toolkit of ways that the American Red Cross engages volunteers and partners in learning to love OSM.
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| WikiCred 2022 Grant Cycle Overview
Ariel Cetrone (WMDC)
The WikiCredibility Grants Initiative (WikiCred), a project of Hacks/Hackers, is pleased to announce the launch of its 2022-2023 grant cycle. Applicants are invited to submit proposals seeking funding for tools, projects, initiatives, or events that explore ways to improve the credibility of Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia DC is assisting with the administration of this grant program.
Applications are welcome via WikiCred’s Meta page through November 28, 2022. All are welcome to apply regardless of geographical location. Grant awards will range from $1,000 to $10,000. This year, WikiCred is particularly interested in supporting the development of Wikimedia tools, projects or initiatives that will benefit underserved communities or improve content related to timely topics such as, but not limited to, reproductive health care and election misinformation. WikiCred also welcomes applications seeking funds needed to facilitate Wiki meetups or gatherings. Sample attendees may include journalists, librarians, editors, teachers, media literacy groups or NGO’s.
Applicants should expand on the ideas, themes, and work of past WikiCred projects. In short, applicants should think about how their tools, initiatives or events can generate momentum for themes and ideas behind 2020’s slate of successfully funded WikiCred projects.
Once applications are submitted using WikiCred’s dedicated Meta page, applicants will be invited to present their ideas virtually to the grant review panel and fellow applicants. The panel, which consists of experienced and active Wikimedians, will review and score applications. Awards will be announced in December of 2022 and funds will be disbursed by May 31, 2022. During this lightning talk, Ariel Cetrone of Wikimedia DC will discuss the application process and review how new applicants can align projects with the themes of previous ones. The session will also include a Q&A for potential applicants.
WikiCred's full CFP is available on Meta. Funding for WikiCred is provided by the Wikimedia Foundation and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
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| Future of North American Wikimedia affiliates
Peter B Meyer
I'll describe briefly some of the administrative aspects of running a Wikimedia affiliate, based on my experience as an officer of Wikimedia DC and consultation with others. I can list several of the North American affiliates -- chapters especially. These groups are doing a lot substantively on the projects and in partnerships with other organizations who contribute to them or benefit from them. However our affiliates per se are weak. They have far fewer employees than affiliates on other continents. Sometimes they struggle with some basic responsibilities or they wink in and out of active existence. To me this problem comes about because they are too small. Note by contrast that OpenStreetMap USA has a basic national organization that handles administration, and more staff than all US Wikimedia affiliates together.
The WMF has invited affiliates to propose larger organizations, called Hubs. A Hub might help support many small affiliates, and it might take on a larger multi-year visionary roles such as developing and supporting software, supporting Wikimedians in Residence, holding conferences, and systematically conducting training on a larger scale. A key element would be simply to apply for enough grant funding to sustain our existing user groups, chapters, and partnerships, and keep them out of financial or legal danger. Affiliates around the world have begun Hub pilot projects, generally funded by WMF grants. We can probably adopt their models to get started experimentally. To do this requires some consensus on what to try, and perhaps a grant application. Likely member/partners would include at least WMNY, WMDC, WCNA, and quite possibly many other
Among many open questions: What geographical scope do we want to try -- US-only? English North America? All North America plus Caribbean? A Hub need not be geographically exclusive, so it is not necessarily in conflict with existing affiliate partnerships organized by language or other interest (Ibericoop, Francophone alliance, Wikisource, user group, Black Lunch Table, LGBT editors, etc.) What kind of visionary elements should we include? GLAM partnerships? Software development, e.g. related to WikiCite or Commons? The lightning talk will highlight the issue and some basic facts.
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| 18:00–18:20
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Closing Remarks
Announcements from OpenStreetMap US & WikConference North America
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| 18:20–19:00
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Open socializing
Use this time to socialize virtually, ask questions of speakers. The event platform will be moderated until 19:00 ET.
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Gender gap (Hoosier Women at Work tie-in) 
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