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WikiConference North America 2019
November 8–11
You're invited to Cambridge, Massachusetts to join Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts for the annual continental conference.
Boston skyline by King of Hearts (CC BY-SA 4.0)
WikiConference North America is the annual conference of Wikimedia enthusiasts and volunteers from throughout North America, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The 2019 conference will take place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 8–11. Join Wikipedia, -media, -data, and -cite enthusiasts for a long weekend of collaboration and discovery.
- Our main host is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- This year's theme is reliability / credibility
- Participation in conference activities includes compliance with our friendly space policy.
- Conference activities and fun facts -- events, awards, sockpuppet-making workshops
- Participate remotely with our live streams of the three main rooms, and associated chat channel.
- View our photos.
Contents
Conference overview
- View the full schedule for more details and sessions. Details subject to change.
Friday (November 8)
- Culture Crawl Day – explore local museums and cultural institutions while editing Wikipedia and learning about Wikimedia projects
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, as well as cultural institutions in downtown Boston and Cambridge
- Time: 9:00am-5:00pm
- Events:
- Participants will visit local museums and cultural institutions for free backstage tours, edit-a-thons, and more.
- Training sessions around GLAM and Wikidata.
- Kickoff to our conference-long hackathon, challenging participants to ideate and come up with solutions for problems around information reliability.
- Friday night reception: Waterworks Museum, Downtown Boston
Saturday, Sunday, & Monday (November 9–11)
- Three full days of presentations, panels, discussions, workshops, poster sessions, and lightning talks
- Location: MIT's Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus; 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139, link to map
- Time:
- Saturday: 9:00am–5:30pm
- Sunday: 10:00am–5:00pm
- Monday times to be announced.
- Events:
- Saturday and Sunday: Participants will be able to join sessions on themes including credibility and reliability; education with Wikimedia projects; news and current events; citations and sourcing; relationship building & support; inclusion & diversity; editor recruitment and retention; tech & tools; and harassment, civility, & safety.
- Monday will feature a reliability summit and continuation of the hackathon, providing a deep-dive into issues surrounding reliability of information.
- Saturday night reception: MIT Museum, Cambridge
Organization
Contact
Email us at info@wikiconference.org with any questions!
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The conference is organized by a team of volunteer Wikimedians from all over North America. THANK YOU to our volunteers, reviewers and team. To help out, fill out our volunteer form and add your name to the wiki.
2019 steering committee:
- Andrew Lih
- Kevin Payravi
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodnight
2019 core planning team:
- Wikimedia community
- Andrew Lih
- Jackie Koerner
- Josh Lim
- Kevin Payravi
- Maria Rimmel
- Phoebe Ayers
- Richard Knipel
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodnight
- Sam Klein
- Sarah Schwettmann
- Credibility Coalition
- Connie Moon Sehat
- Jennifer 8. Lee
Partners + Sponsors
History
Our previous events had unique themes and were located in different cities: New York City (2014), Washington D.C. (2015), San Diego (2016), Montreal (2017), and Columbus, OH (2018).
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 2018, Columbus, OH
WCNA 2017, Montreal
WCNA 2016, San Diego
WCUSA 2015, Washington D.C.
WCUSA 2014, New York City