2019/Schedule/Saturday

Saturday, November 9

Presentation   Discussion   Panel Workshop   Lightning Talk November 9 - Saturday - Programming
Registration 8:30 AM	Registration/Check-in/Badge pickup at MIT Stata Center (In front of Room 123, first floor).
	Talk strategy with members of Wikimedia 2030 at MIT Stata Center 32-124.
Opening Plenary 9:30 - 10:45 AM	View from above Stata 32-123 (Auditorium) Welcome to WikiConference North America Wikipedia @ 20 author panel - join us for reflections from editors and contributors to the Wikipedia @ 20 book project, forthcoming from MIT Press, on the past twenty years and future of Wikipedia. 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 Tiered Auditorium	Stata 32-144 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables	Stata 32-124 60 Seats Flat, Movable Tables	Stata 32-141 90 Seats Tiered Lecture Hall	Stata 32-155 90 Seats Tiered Lecture Hall	Commons A	Commons B	Kiva Seminar Room
11:00 - 11:15	To blacklist or whitelist? Three perspectives on how to classify reliable and unreliable news (Harloe from CUNY's NewsQ) Reliability	Combating Online Harassment with Friends (Mahar, Zhang, Karger from MIT) Safety Community	Quality Armchair Research 101: Make reliably-sourced articles without owning a personal library or paying for subscriptions (HaEr48) Quality	What We Learn from Building WikiLoop (Zhou from Google) Tech Reliability	Building Broad and Diverse Wikipedia Capacity in Institutions of Higher Education: Case Study—the University of Massachusetts Lowell (Davidson from Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell) Education Gender Gap	Open Hacking Space	Tools and techniques for identifying and addressing gaps (Proffitt, OCLC) Inclusion Tech	Introductory Edit-a-thon Training - an introduction to editing Wikipedia for beginners. Come learn how to create a user account, edit a page, and basic rules around Wikipedia editing. In the Kiva room, off of the 4th floor commons area.
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45		Evaluating Success for Content Translation (Zhou from McGill) Tech	Strategies for comparing library content and Wikipedia (Soito from Univ. of New Mexico) Libraries	Cite Unseen: A Year Hence (Payravi, Lim) Tech Reliability
11:45 - 12:00	Navigating the booming and burgeoning credibility landscape: Three perspectives (Marrelli from Credibility Coalition) Reliability				Wikipedia at Boston University: Creating a Community of Editors and Teachers (Dwyer, Jenemann, Shetty from Boston Univ.) Community Education		Relying on Wikipedia in Higher Education: Addressing Stigma and Misconceptions (Mojarad, Choi from Univ. of Southern Cali.) Education Reliability	Introductory Edit-a-thon
12:00 - 12:15		Internet Archive (Graham)	Lettuce Into the Meal: A SNAC Update (Herbert from NARA) Tech GLAM	Can Software Help Address Wikipedia's COI Problem? (Beutler from Beutler Ink) Tech Quality
12:15 - 12:30
Group Photo 12:30 - 12:45 PM	Group photo! Head to the Dertouzos Amphitheater Located right outside Stata. Result
Lunch 12:45 - 2:00 PM	Lunch in Stata You may eat throughout the building. Refer to the scheduled meet-ups below.
	MIT MakerWorkshop Tour from 1:15 - 1:45, a short walk from Stata 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA (Building 35, 1st Floor)
	Lunch Meetup A - ?	Lunch Meetup B - Citizen TALES*	[Lunch Meetup C - LGBT+]	Lunch Meetup D - Programs & Events	Lunch Meetup E - WikiMedicine	Lunch Meetup F - Wiki Women's	Lunch Meetup G - Q&A with Wikipedia @ 20 Contributors	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	Kiva Seminar Room
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) Education	Public Policy Roundtable (Siy, Laporte from Wikimedia Foundation) Public Policy	Putting Institutional Partners at Ease: Becoming a Reliable Guide in an Unfamiliar Landscape (Cetrone from Wikimedia DC) GLAM Partnerships	Black Face: Strategies for missing images from art biographies and the ethics of WikiCommons (Hart, Valentine, Myrie from Black Lunch Table Wikimedians) Content Gap	Next Steps for Countering Systemic Bias: Beyond Filling the Gaps (Bjork-James from Vanderbilt and Wiki Edu) Bias	Open Hacking Space	AMA: Ask the developers (Isarra from MediaWiki Developers) Tech	Introductory Edit-a-thon (Continued) Caribbean Translate-a-thon (Wikimedians of the Caribbean, AfroCROWD, CUNY LaGuardia)
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) Partnerships	Mbabel - One Click Article Creation for Events (Fernandez from WMDC, Knipel from WMNYC) Tech Editing	Wikipedia editing in Introductory Psychology: Teaching students online research skills while targeting gender bias (Che from CUNY) Education Gender Gap		Quarry tutorial: Using SQL to get info about wikis (Wolff) Tech
2:45 - 3:00	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) Content Gap	Government Bans of Wikimedia Projects Public Policy
3:00 - 3:15			Engaging with Scientists: Sharing Knowledge and Encouraging Editing Through a Science Library (Flood from USDA) Libraries Partnerships	Tech Lightning Talks (Enterprisey, Stephen LaPorte, Mahmoud Hashemi, Isarra) Tech	WikiNetBias: topic polarisation on Wikipedia graph and its effect on users (Menghini from Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Brown Univ.) Bias Quality
3:15 - 3:30
Break 3:30 - 4:00 PM	Catch a break and mingle with other conference goers, opportunity for mini-meetups.
	Mini-Meetup A - ?	Mini-Meetup B - checking New Articles - DGG	Mini-Meetup C - Climate change	Mini-Meetup D - Wikispore / New Wikis	Mini-Meetup E - ?	Mini-Meetup F - ?	Mini-Meetup G - ?	Mini-Meetup H - WikiCari
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	Kiva Seminar Room
4:00 - 4:15	Fighting Fake News with Real Information: Newspapers on Wikipedia (Forsyth from Wiki Strategies) Reliability	Taking Wiki Loves Monuments in the US to the Next Level (Payravi, Soito) WikiCommons Wikidata	Discussing AI and Machine Learning in the Wikimedia movement (Lih from Wikimedia DC) Tech	Lightning Talks	Engaging Experts Three Ways: How Wiki Education is building a bridge between Wikipedia and Subject-Matter Experts (Blumenthal, McGrady, Kent from WikiEdu) WikiEdu	Open Hacking Space	New England meetup and project roundtable (Ayers, Suiter, Smith, Li from MIT Libraries)	open for editing
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) Reliability Mexico	Limits of Wikidata (Mietchen from WikiCite & Univ. of Virginia) Wikidata WikiCite
4:45 - 5:00			Design Workshop on the UX of Conveying Credibility Online (Zhang from MIT, Obuobi, Skeet, Greiner, Gamage) Reliability		Teaching Intellectual Property Law with Wikipedia (Heintzman from Harvard Univ.) Education Public Policy
5:00 - 5:15	Surfacing Trust, Expertise, and Provenance for better News Sharing (Jahanbakhsh from MIT)
5:15 - 5:30
Pizza & Cake 5:30-7:00 PM	Celebrate Wikidata's birthday with pizza and cake in the 4th floor commons. Then head to the MIT museum party!
Evening Reception 7:00 - 11:00 PM	7:00 - 11:00 pm: Reception at the MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 02139 A cash bar and light snacks will be provided. Attendees are encouraged to explore the museum's exhibits!