2014/Sunday lightning talks and open space discussions

WikiConference USA 2014 • New York City

This could be you giving a "Lightning Talk" ; from Wikipedia Day NYC.

Lightning talks and open space discussions as part of the Sunday Unconference at WikiConference USA (which also includes the Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Editathon and other events).

Lightning talks

Add your 5-minute lightning talk topic you can personally present during the Sunday June 1 Unconference, about wiki topics or anything Free Culture-related. (actual schedule for lightning talks will be determined the day of). Last-minute entries always accepted!

Sign up for 5-minute lightning talks

Please sign up here, and include your lightning talk topic.

• Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States.--Pharos (talk) 16:38, 21 May 2014 (EDT)
• What Makes A Feminist Hackerspace? --Fhocutt (talk) 20:25, 21 May 2014 (EDT)
  • +1
• Edit-o-thons and Recentism as recruitment.-- Geraldshields11 (talk) 09:48, 22 May 2014 (EDT)
• Towards a Wiki Response: how editing Wikipedia can be the fastest way to spread updates about a humanitarian crisis. -- luiscape
• Wikipedia & Quality -- Slowking (talk) 16:45, 22 May 2014 (EDT)
• Introduction to 'Novel Media Digitization Techniques' unconference session. GChriss (talk) 17:29, 29 May 2014 (EDT)
• Wikipedia and "Knowledge Production": the Problem of Quality --Blurpeace (talk) 10:26, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• How Religious Studies and the Humanities Calls into Question our Tenets --Blurpeace (talk) 11:07, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• Measuring Editor Collaborativeness With Economic Modelling --Maximilianklein (talk) 12:09, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• Tracking relations between scientific works, such as disputes. (Examples: bottom of this page, this page, and in this report.) -- Econterms (talk) 12:53, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• WikiMaps Aude (talk) 13:11, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• The Old New Thing: Crowdsourcing the Digitization of Ben-Yehuda's Dictionary -- Ijon (talk) 14:57, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• How modern-day Israel has less access to its own laws than late 7th century Athens, and what the Hebrew Wikisource is doing about it -- Ijon (talk) 14:57, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• Creating video in Five Minutes - Fast ways to contribute content to Commons -- Fuzheado (talk) 08:12, 1 June 2014 (EDT)
• Maintaining the Gateway: Mozilla Wiki Internship through the GNOME Outreach Program for Women Queeniebee (talk)
• meta:Grants:IdeaLab/Meetup Creation Tool / meta:User:Another Believer/Meetups. --Another Believer (talk) 12:31, 1 June 2014 (EDT)
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Open space discussions

Add your 30-minute Open Space discussion group topic you can join in during the Sunday June 1 Unconference, about wiki topics or anything Free Culture-related (actual schedule for open space will be determined the day of). Last-minute entries always accepted!

Sign up for 30-minute Open Space discussion groups (may be longer in some cases)

Please sign up here, and include your Open Space discussion group topic.

• Novel Media Digitization Techniques by GChriss (talk) 21:27, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• OpenStreetMap mapping party - depends on level of interest, requires ~1 1/2 or 2 hours. Aude (talk) 10:57, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• Hacking on wikidata (in the hackathon room) Aude (talk) 10:57, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
  • +1
• LGBT Meetup - User:Another Believer
• Cascadia Meetup and regional USA organizing - User:Another Believer
• -Screening new articles and AfCs: a practical demonstration. DGG (talk) 17:39, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• introduction to using the sql access on tool labs (how to generate interesting ad hoc statistics about wiki projects you care about). Bawolff (talk) 07:57, 1 June 2014 (EDT)
• Creating more video content for Wikipedia - What you can do to lead the way -- Fuzheado (talk) 08:14, 1 June 2014 (EDT)

Hanging out

• Will be hanging out to speak with and edit medical content with whomever is interested. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 14:28, 31 May 2014 (EDT)
• Article Clinic: notability and sourcing (in the Event Center) DGG (talk) 17:33, 31 May 2014 (EDT)