2015/Schedule

WikiConference USA 2015 • Washington, D.C.

For this year's schedule, see Schedule.

Video

Scheduled sessions in the McGowan Theater will have live streamed video via YouTube:

Friday, October 9	Watch Live Video	1:57:20 GLAM-Wiki US 2:28:37 Wiki Education Foundation 3:55 NIOSH ...
Saturday, October 10	Watch Live Video
Sunday, October 11	Watch Live Video

Recorded video of selected additional sessions will be available after the conference.

Registration

On-site registration and badge pick-up for pre-registered attendees will be open daily:

Friday, October 9	9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Saturday, October 10	9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Sunday, October 11	9:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Program

Friday, October 9

Time	McGowan Theater Watch Live Video	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
9:30 AM	Registration
9:45 AM
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
10:45 AM	Opening Remarks: Pamela Wright Chief Innovation Officer, NARA
11:00 AM	Keynote: What Wikipedia Must Do (Andrew Lih) Watch Live Video
11:15 AM
11:30 AM
11:45 AM
12:00 PM	Break
Time	McGowan Theater Watch Live Video	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
12:15 PM	Report from the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium	Journalism and the Online Information Community: How Wikimedians Cover Wikimedia	Wikipedia for Health Research and Data	Decreasing Promotionalism to Preserve the Encyclopedia	Room Closed
12:30 PM
12:45 PM	The Wiki Education Foundation in a Flash			Crowd Wisdom and Problem Solving: How Can Wikimedia Engage?
1:00 PM
1:15 PM	Lunch (served in Madison Room)
1:30 PM
1:45 PM
2:00 PM
Time	McGowan Theater Watch Live Video	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
2:15 PM	Special Remarks: Dr. John Howard Director of NIOSH
2:30 PM	Plenary Session: Why Wikipedia Works for Us: an Exploration of Innovation at the National Archives Watch Live Video
2:45 PM
3:00 PM
3:15 PM	Break
Time	McGowan Theater Watch Live Video	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
3:30 PM	Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative	GLAM-Wiki 2.0: New Opportunities for Growing GLAM-Wiki in the United States	College Writing with Wikipedia	How I Supercharged the Bibliography of a Featured Article – the (Mostly) Pros and (a Few) Cons of Worldcat and the OCLC	Reimagining the Article Submission Process
3:45 PM
4:00 PM	Teaching Research & Critical Thinking Skills Through Wikipedia	Making 2016 the Wikipedia Year of Science	Wikifying Science Fiction’s “Grand Dame” Octavia E. Butler: The LaGuardia Community College WikiProject	Metadata from the Commons
4:15 PM
4:30 PM	Here Comes (a Significant Fraction of) Everybody		Movements on Wikipedia: Dance, Feminism, and the Content Gap
4:45 PM

Saturday, October 10

Time	McGowan Theater Watch Live Video	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
9:30 AM	Registration
9:45 AM
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM	Keynote: AfroCROWD — Bridging the Multicultural Gap (Alice Backer) Watch Live Video
10:45 AM
11:00 AM
11:15 AM
11:30 AM	Break
Time	McGowan Theater Watch Live Video	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
11:45 AM	Women... It Takes a Village	An Ambitious Wikidata Tutorial	A First Round of WikiProject X: the Journey and Results Video of talk at Internet Archive	Found in Translation: Comparing Paid Editing Policies in the Top Wikipedia Language Editions	Room Closed
12:00 PM
12:15 PM	Working with Academic Experts in a Feminism Distributed Editing Project		Video in Wikimedia: Today and Tomorrow Video of talk at Internet Archive	Tread Lightly: Editing with a COI
12:30 PM
12:45 PM	Addressing the Gender Gap: Wiki Edu Projects for Digital Humanities	Data in Your Wiki!		Data-Based Approach to Article-Subject Participation
1:00 PM
1:15 PM	Lunch (served in Madison Room)
1:30 PM
1:45 PM
2:00 PM
Time	McGowan Theater Watch Live Video	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
2:15 PM	Vegetation Wants To Be Free: Liberating the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection	Open Biomedical Knowledge: Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Beyond	Thinking (and Contributing) Outside the Editing Box: Alternative Ways to Engage Subject-Matter Experts	Learn from Competitor: Outreach Strategy of Baidu Baike	Disputed Notability - A Hands-On Workshop
2:30 PM
2:45 PM	A Case Study of Student Engagement with a GLAM Institution: Pritzker Military Museum and Library	Where in the World is Wikipedia: A Look at the Geographic Distribution Audited Content on the English Wikipedia		Censorship of Wikipedia: Why It's Important and How We Fight It
3:00 PM	Are the Obstacles Academic?	Wikipedia and DOTs
3:15 PM		How #100wikidays Got Me Back to Being a Wikipedia Contributor		Your Rights as an American and as a Wikipedian
3:30 PM	Break
Time	McGowan Theater Watch Live Video	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
3:45 PM	How we Organized a 1500 Person Meetup (and You Could Too)	Wikipedia in the Global Social Studies Classroom	Wiksource and Commons Workshop	Recent Gadgets Changes and How to Fix Yours	Community Health Clinic: Researching Prescription for healthy communities
4:00 PM
4:15 PM		Why Wikipedia is the Best Resource for High Schoolers - As Told by a High Schooler
4:30 PM	WikiWomen's User Group: Next Steps	Funding for Wikipedia Projects		Revscoring: AI Support for Wikipedians
4:45 PM

Sunday, October 11

Please see the whiteboard in the McGowan Theater lobby for unconference session room assignments.

Time	McGowan Theater Watch Live Video	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
9:30 AM	Registration
9:45 AM
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM	Keynote: Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Danielle Citron) Watch Live Video
10:45 AM
11:00 AM
11:15 AM
11:30 AM	Break
11:45 AM	Lightning Talks	Unconference Sessions	Unconference Sessions Beyond Editathons Etherpad Fixing 404 Dead Links Etherpad	Creative Program Design Workshop	Unconference Sessions
12:00 PM
12:15 PM
12:30 PM
12:45 PM
1:00 PM	Lunch
1:15 PM
1:30 PM
1:45 PM
2:00 PM
2:15 PM
Time	McGowan Theater Watch Live Video	Jefferson Room	Washington Room	Adams Room	Madison Room
2:30 PM	Lightning Talks	Unconference Sessions	Unconference Sessions	Art+Feminism 2016 Planning Meetup	OTRS Workshop for Agents Who Handle Permssions
2:45 PM
3:00 PM
3:15 PM
3:30 PM	Break
3:45 PM	Lightning Talks	Unconference Sessions	Unconference Sessions	Unconference Sessions	Unconference Sessions
4:00 PM
4:15 PM
4:30 PM
4:45 PM

Lunch

Catered lunches will be provided on some days of the conference for paid, pre-registered attendees (and volunteers):

Friday, October 9	Box lunch provided at the conference venue; served in the Madison Room
Saturday, October 10	Box lunch provided at the conference venue; served in the Madison Room
Sunday, October 11	No lunch provided; attendees should plan lunch outside the venue

Open space

The National Archives Innovation Hub will be available as an open space for hacking, editing, and other activities. The Innovation Hub will be open daily:

Friday, October 9	10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday, October 10	10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday, October 11	10:00 AM – 5:00 PM