2019/Schedule

WikiConference North America 2019 • Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Registration • Travel Guide • Unconference

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Friday, November 8

Friday includes two activities: our Culture Crawl during the day, followed by an evening reception.

Our Culture Crawl is a day-long event that includes tours and other activities at various cultural institutions around Boston and Cambridge. Our home base for the day will be the Museum of Fine Arts.

• Participants will visit local museums and cultural institutions for free backstage tours, edit-a-thons, and more.
• Kickoff to our conference-long hackathon, challenging participants to ideate and come up with solutions for problems around information reliability.
• Training sessions around GLAM and Wikidata, including:
  • Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics
  • Powerful spreadsheet tools for Wikidata and Wikipedia
  • Wikisource review and workshop

Friday evening will be our reception in downtown Boston. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served.

Saturday, November 9

November 9 - Saturday - Programming
Registration 8:30 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (exact location TBD).
Opening Plenary 9:30 - 10:45 AM	Stata 32-123 (Auditorium) Introduction & Keynote Addresses Details TBA Keynote All Hands
Break 10:45 - 11:00 AM	Catch a break, mingle with other Wikimedians, and head to your first session.
Session 1	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
11:00 - 11:15	To blacklist or whitelist? Three perspectives on how to classify reliable and unreliable news (Harloe from NewsQA, Credibility Coalition, & CUNY)	Combating Online Harassment with Friends (Mahar, Zhang, Karger from MIT)	Quality Armchair Research 101: Make reliably-sourced articles without owning a personal library or paying for subscriptions (HaEr48)	What We Learn from Building WikiLoop (Zhou from Google)	Wikipedia at Boston University: Creating a Community of Editors and Teachers (Dwyer, Jenemann, Shetty from Boston Univ.)	Open Hacking Space	Tools and techniques for identifying and addressing gaps (Proffitt, OCLC)	Introductory Edit-a-thon
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45		Evaluating Success for Content Translation (Zhou from McGill)	Strategies for comparing library content and Wikipedia (Soito from Univ. of New Mexico)	Cite Unseen: A Year Hence (Payravi, Lim)
11:45 - 12:00	Navigating the booming and burgeoning credibility landscape: Three perspectives (Marrelli from Credibility Coalition)				Building Broad and Diverse Wikipedia Capacity in Institutions of Higher Education: Case Study—the University of Massachusetts Lowell (Davidson from Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell)		Relying on Wikipedia in Higher Education: Addressing Stigma and Misconceptions (Mojarad, Choi from Univ. of Southern Cali.)
12:00 - 12:15		“Wikipedians are born, not made” – applying the learnings from a 10-year-old research paper after all (Schulenburg from Wiki Edu)	Lettuce Into the Meal: A SNAC Update (Herbert from NARA)	Can Software Help Address Wikipedia's COI Problem? (Beutler from Beutler Ink)
12:15 - 12:30
Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 PM
	Lunch at TBD You may eat throughout the building. Refer to the scheduled meet-ups below.
	Lunch Meetup A - ?	Lunch Meetup B - ?	Lunch Meetup C - LGBT+	Lunch Meetup D - Programs & Events	Lunch Meetup E - WikiMedicine	Lunch Meetup F - Wiki Women's	Lunch Meetup G - ?	Lunch Meetup H - ?
Session 2	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
2:00 - 2:15	From Digital Natives to Digital Citizens: How Instructors are Using Wikipedia to Teach Information Literacy (Blumenthal from Wiki Edu; Jacobson from SUNY at Albany; Kaufman from Wake Forest Univ; Griffin from Univ. of Alabama)	Public Policy Roundtable (Siy, Laporte from Wikimedia Foundation)	Putting Institutional Partners at Ease: Becoming a Reliable Guide in an Unfamiliar Landscape (Cetrone from Wikimedia DC)	Tools Lightning Talks	WikiNetBias: topic polarisation on Wikipedia graph and its effect on users (Menghini from Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Brown Univ.)	Open Hacking Space	AMA: Ask the developers (Isarra from MediaWiki Developers)	Introductory Edit-a-thon (Continued) Caribbean Translate-a-thon
2:15 - 2:30
2:30 - 2:45			What’s good for GLAM is good for STEM? Editor recruitment and retention at NIOSH (Sadowski from NIOSH)	Introduction to Structured Data on Commons (Stinson from Wikimedia Foundation)	Wikipedia editing in Introductory Psychology: Teaching students online research skills while targeting gender bias (Che from CUNY)		Quarry tutorial: Using SQL to get info about wikis (Wolff)
2:45 - 3:00	The Good, the Bot, and the Ugly: Critical Media Literacy and Problematic Information in Wikipedia (Vetter from Indiana Univ. of Penn.)	Government Bans of Wikimedia Projects
3:00 - 3:15			Engaging with Scientists: Sharing Knowledge and Encouraging Editing Through a Science Library (Jamie from USDA)	Mbabel - One Click Article Creation for Events (Gamaliel from WMDC, Pharos from WMNYC)	The 1000 Women in Religion Project: Bridging the Divide Between the Academy and Wikipedia (Hartung from Women's Caucus of the American Academy of Religion)
3:15 - 3:30
Break 3:30 - 4:00 PM	Catch a break and mingle with other conference goers.
Session 3	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
4:00 - 4:15	Fighting Fake News with Real Information: Newspapers on Wikipedia (Forsyth from Wiki Strategies)	Taking Wiki Loves Monuments in the US to the Next Level (Payravi)	Next Steps for Countering Systemic Bias: Beyond Filling the Gaps (Bjork-James from Vanderbilt and Wiki Edu)	Lightning Talks	Engaging Experts Three Ways: How Wiki Education is building a bridge between Wikipedia and Subject-Matter Experts (Blumenthal, McGrady, Kent from WikiEdu)	Open Hacking Space	Discussing AI and Machine Learning in the Wikimedia movement (Lih from Wikimedia DC)	New England meetup and project roundtable (Ayers, Suiter, Smith, Li from MIT Libraries)
4:15 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45	Opening the news: how to use civic tech to promote reliability in news media (Flores from Wikimedia México)		A Colonizer's Account: the Use and Mis-use of Historical Sources (Rust)
4:45 - 5:00		How can Africa and North America partner to promote the goals of the Foundation (Berchie from Open Foundation West Africa)			Teaching Intellectual Property Law with Wikipedia (Heintzman from Harvard Univ.)		Design Workshop on the UX of Conveying Credibility Online (Zhang from MIT, Obuobi, Skeet, Greiner, Gamage)
5:00 - 5:15	Surfacing Trust, Expertise, and Provenance for better News Sharing (Jahanbakhsh from MIT)		Developing Ethical, Responsible, and Reliable Information Producers (Jacobson from SUNY at Albany)
5:15 - 5:30

Sunday, November 10

November 10 - Sunday - Programming
Registration 9:00 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (exact location TBD).
Session 4	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
10 - 10:45		The Wikimedia Movement Strategy and You: What Are the Recommendations and What Can You Do About Them? (Keefer, Pourzaki)	Building a Wikidata Curriculum (Kent from Wiki Edu)		Wikimedia Outreach programs for technical contributors (Rodlund, Sethi, Ross, Zhou from Wikimedia Foundation)	Open Hacking Space	Open Space	Open Space
Break 10:45 - 11:00 AM	Catch a break and mingle with other conference goers.
Session 5	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
11:00 - 11:15	GLAMs embracing open access and Wikidata: Experiences from the Met Museum (Lih, Metropolitan Museum of Art)	Black Face: Strategies for missing images from art biographies and the ethics of WikiCommons (Hart, Valentine, Myrie from Black Lunch Table Wikimedians)	Building a Scholarly Knowledge Base with Wikidata: A Case Study from Vanderbilt University (Anderson, Baskauf, Shook from Vanderbilt)	Lightning Talks	State of Wikimedia Research on Knowledge Integrity (Johnson from Wikimedia Foundation)	Open Hacking Space	Mitigating risk in Wikipedia content (Risker)	Open Space
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45	Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art (Payravi, Stimler, Lih)	Understanding the technical challenges of small wikis in North America (Sethi, Rodlund from Wikimedia Foundation)	4 Million in 4 Weeks: A case study on bulk import of cultural heritage metadata on Wikidata (Byrd-McDevitt from NARA)		Supporting deliberation and resolution on Wikipedia (Zhang, Im, Schilling, Morgan, Karger)
11:45 - 12:00							Best Practices for Responsible and Reliable Content about Suicide (Poore, LaPorte, SSiy from Wikimedia Foundation)
12:00 - 12:15	Wikidata-fying Northeastern University's "Women Writers in Review" initiative (Stephenson-Goodknight from Northeastern & Wiki Women in Red)	Wiki Caribbean Panel and Discussion on Survey Findings (Antoine from Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group & AfroCROWD)	Introduction to WikiCite		A Case Study of Requests for Page Protection: Clerking Administrative Noticeboards and Consensus Building (Choo from Wikimedians of Chicago)
12:15 - 12:30
Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 PM
	Lunch at TBD You may eat throughout the building. Refer to the scheduled meet-ups below.
	Lunch Meetup A - ?	Lunch Meetup B - Art+Feminism	Lunch Meetup C - Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network	Lunch Meetup D - ?	Lunch Meetup E - ?	Lunch Meetup F - ?	Lunch Meetup G - Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network	Lunch Meetup H - Ask Wiki Education
Session 6	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
2:00 - 2:15	Hackathon Wrap-up	Adventures in American (Mostly) Folklore: Expanding the Footprint of Notability (Pruitt)	Building Scholia profiles (Mietchen from WikiCite & Univ. of Virginia)		Creating WikiCommunity at LaGuardia Community College (Coleman from LaGuardia Community College)	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space
2:15 - 2:30
2:30 - 2:45		Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative (Doyle from Wikimedia DC)			There is no needle: searching through the web’s haystack for reliable legal information (Williams from Standford Law School)
2:45 - 2:00			Wikidata Quicksheets (Mandiberg from Art+Feminism)
3:00 - 3:15		Academics in the open: How WikiJournals encourage open scholarship using Wikipedia (Koerner from WikiJournal of the Humanities)			Hearing Other Voices: Using Wikipedia in an ESL Writing Class (Shetty from Boston Univ.)
3:15 - 3:30
Break 3:30 - 3:45 PM	Catch a break and mingle with other conference goers.
Closing Plenary 3:45 - 4:45 AM	Stata 32-123 (Auditorium) Details TBA All Hands

Monday, November 11

November 11 - Monday - Programming
Registration 9:00 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at ?.
Session 7	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
10 - 10:45	How to define and elevate quality news: A discussion led by CUNY's NewsQA team (Harloe from NewsQA, Credibility Coalition, & CUNY)	Bridging the gap between facts and articles (Tisza)	Nontraditional Scholarship: Evaluation and Citation (Britton)	Limits of Wikidata (Mietchen from WikiCite & Univ. of Virginia)	Reserved	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space
Break 10:45 - 11:00 AM	Catch a break, mingle with other Wikimedians, and head to your first session.
Session 8	Stata 32-123 318 Seats	Stata 32-144 60 Seats	Stata 32-124 60 Seats	Stata 32-141 90 Seats	Stata 32-155 90 Seats	Commons A	Commons B	Commons C
11 - 12:00	Reserved	Reserved	Reserved	Making sites citation-friendly for Wikimedia - discussion and recommendations (Lih from Wikimedia DC)	Reserved	Open Space	Open Space	Open Space
Lunch 12:00 - 1:30 PM	Lunch at TBD
More to come!