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)	Edit-a-thons	Unconference (add your own!)
12:00 - 12:25 25 minutes	Welcome to WikiConference North America 2021! Introduction
12:30 - 13:10 40 minutes	Global templates, and their special challenges for English, French, and Spanish languages		Expert fact-checkers rely on Wikipedia. You and your students should too!
13:15 - 13:40 25 minutes	OpenHistoricalMap: Historical Geography Wiki style	How the Smithsonian and Wiki Education are adding biographies of American women
13:45 - 14:15 30 minutes	Plenary (Carmen Alcázar)
14:15-14:30 15 minutes	Break
14:30 - 14:55 25 minutes	Links, Wikipedia, and Knowledge Gaps	WikiLetters Systematic Review	From sign shop to desktop
15:00 - 15:25 25 minutes	Introduction to Enterprise MediaWiki	Current developments in Wikipedia-integrated academic journals	How to tie together Commons, Wikidata, and possibly Wikipedia by using SuggestedTags	Emerging technologies edit-a-thon: nano and AI, oh my!
15:30 - 15:55 25 minutes	WikiProject Clinical Trials, Wikipedia for Research	Programs & Events Dashboard - Tips & Tricks for Event Organizers
16:00 - 16:25 25 minutes	Survey Says: What Wiki Education's program participants say about joining the Wikipedia and Wikidata communities	News On Wiki, Phase 2 complete; Future steps with ASU journalism school
16:30 - 16:55 25 minutes	State of Education Panel (Information Has Value: Engaging Students as Wikipedia Editors, Wikipedia as Information Literacy Vector: Authority and Undergraduate Students)	2Rāth: To Digitally Preserve Arab Literary Heritage
17:00 - 17:25 25 minutes
17:25 - 19:30	Break!
19:30+	Lounge / Happy Hour

Saturday, October 9

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red (Stage)	Track Blue (Stage)	Track Green (Session)	Edit-a-thons	Unconference (add your own!)
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		VRT & WMF Legal: Workflow Discussion	Demystifying Copyright: Unlocking a Treasure of Content in Journals and Periodicals (On Zoom)
13:00 - 13:55 55 minutes	Classroom Project Showcase (When Students contribute to Wikipedia: A Local Initiative with Global Reach, Teaching Engineering Writing and Ethics with the Wikipedia Writing Assignment, Wikipedia, The Future of Inclusivity in Education)		Add your country to WikiProject Govdirectory
14:00 - 14:40 40 minutes	Building Organizing Tools for Campaigns and Editing Events	How do you even teach Wikidata?		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	Invited talk -- Connie Sehat Moon
15:55 - 16:10 15 minutes	Break
16:10 - 16:25 15 minutes	Non-English Editions of Wikipedia Have a Misinformation Problem	"So Many Books, So Little Time": Wikipedia as Odd Literature		Caribbean Digital Human Rights Community Workspace & Edit-A-Thon
16:25 - 16:40 15 minutes		How Do the Top Ten Languages in North America Fare on Their Wikipedias?
16:40 - 16:55 15 minutes	Why Consensus Fails	Black Lunch Table Strategies for Knowledge gaps
16:55 - 17:10 15 minutes		Decolonizing Wikipedia
17:15 - 18:00 45 minutes	Lightning talks	Engaging subject-matter experts during a national emergency: Wiki Education and COVID-19
18:00 - 19:30	Break!
19:30+	Lounge / Happy Hour

Sunday, October 10

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red (Stage)	Track Blue (Stage)	Track Green (Session)	Editatona Track	Unconference (add your own!)
11:00 - 12:00 60 minutes				Editatona
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	Maryana’s Listening Tour
13:15 - 13:55 40 minutes		Glassbox: betting for proactive transparency against misinformation
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
14:30 - 14:55 25 minutes	Edit-a-thons in the time of COVID: Lessons learned during 18 months of online editing events
15:00 - 15:25 25 minutes	Plenary (Carwil Bjork-James)
15:25 - 15:40 15 minutes	Break
15:40 - 16:05 25 minutes	Wikimedia reducing major conflicts	Participación y conocimiento libre en Wikipedia en español	Community feedback wanted: Universal Code of Conduct draft enforcement guidelines
16:10 - 16:25 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
16:25 - 16:40 15 minutes	Cvillepedia: a case study in making a local wiki a more equitable, inclusive, and accessible archive of information	What is the coverage of the 30 most spoken North American indigenous languages in Wikipedia?
16:45 - 17:10 25 minutes	Wiki Loves Monuments in the US: Updates and Discussion	¡Edita Wikipedia! Un curso de formación docente elaborado en alianza entre UNAM + WMMX
17:15 - 17:45 30 minutes	Lightning talks
17:45 - 18:00	Closing Session