Unconference
WikiConference North America 2024 will include unconference sessions in room IP216 from 2:30pm to 5:30pm on Saturday, October 5, where anyone can propose or spontaneously organize a mini-presentation, discussion, or workshop on a wiki-related topic.
See 20-second intro video to unconferencing.
You are welcome to add yourself to the list below with topics you'd like to present on. Adding your name and a timeslot below serves as a "noticeboard announcement" for your activity and does not guarantee you the space at that time. The room is available on a first-come-first-served basis.
Unconference
Meetup/workshop topics
Please propose topics and time frames. Organizers will put them on the wiki schedule here.
Editathons
Ideas (unsorted)
Lightning talks
Lightning talks are short back-to-back presentations of 5 minutes each. You can propose them here with your own topics!
- Re-proposing Submissions:2024/Untangling Wikipedia: Organizing Content for Clarity and Growth as apparently this is where most lighting talks will go. Mathnerd314159 (talk)
- Why editing matters to me as a staff member? Seddon (talk) 14:12, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- How machine translation is wreaking havoc on small Wikipedias. (Time: anytime before the break) Nataev (talk) 18:56, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- Practice and potential of m:CentralNotice for North America, and all of its regions and subregions. Pharos (talk) 00:03, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Coverage of Central Asia (the five -stans) on English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata. (Time: anytime after the break). Nataev (talk) 01:35, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Announcing winners of the Wiki Science Competition 2023 in the United States. Antony-22 (talk) 01:39, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- Native topic concerns on Wikipedia that all editors need to be aware of, presented by chairman of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas Bernard Barcena on behalf of 32 Native tribes and organizations. 14:30–15:45 (2:30–3:45 PM). Followup at Submissions:2024/Open Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Pingnova (talk) 03:31, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- Introducing Wiki Term Base, an in-progress project to standardize vocabulary on multilingual Wikiprojects --Abbad (talk) 15:28, 4 October 2024 (UTC).
- The Wikipedia Library; Updates from 2023-2024 Financial Year Vipin (talk) 16:18, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- SportsArchive: Preserving the history that teams and leagues are losing –IagoQnsi (talk) 18:21, 4 October 2024 (UTC)