WikiConference North America is the annual conference of Wikimedia enthusiasts and volunteers from throughout North America, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The 2022 conference will be an online event. This year we will hold the conference in conjunction with Mapping USA, November 11–12, 2002 in collaboration with OpenStreetMap US. Join OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, -media, -data, -voyage, & -cite enthusiasts for collaboration and discovery.
Conference overview
We plan to have the following schedule
- Thursday, November 10 — VirtualMappy Hour, OSM US
- Friday, November 11 — Lightning Talk Day, split between OSM & Wiki related topics, or topics that cover interconnections and collaboration.
- Hours: 2-6pm EDT — We aim to fit in 30 talks.
- Saturday, November 12 - Workshop/Long Session Day
- 11am–4pm EDT / 8am–1pm — up 90 min each
- Aiming for a mix of half OSM related and half Wiki related, or interconnections
- These can be workshops, editathons/mapthons, birds of a feathers, or presentations
- We can promote any local events/happy hours
- Sunday, November 13 — Wiki events
- Time TBD
- Wikimedia subjects
- Lightning Talk, Presentation, Workshop, Birds of a Feather/Panel, or Editathon
Organization
Partners + Sponsors
History
Our previous events had unique themes and were located in different cities: New York (2014), Washington (2015), San Diego (2016), Montréal (2017), Columbus (2018) and Boston (2019).
WikiConference North America User Group was formed in 2016 after that year's conference. It is a recognized Affiliate by the Wikimedia Foundation. The purpose of the User Group is to assure that the experiences gained at one conference are shared with future year conference organizers. The mission of the User Group includes coordinating the planning and hosting of events under our purview. Additionally, the User Group documents best practices and shares lessons learned with other Wikimedia communities planning and hosting conferences and similar events.
WCNA 2019, Boston, MA
WCNA 2018, Columbus, OH
WCNA 2017, Montreal
WCNA 2016, San Diego
WCUSA 2015, Washington D.C.
WCUSA 2014, New York City
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