2021/Schedule

This is a draft. Nothing on this page is finalized.

There are five unscheduled minutes between most sessions to allow for session wrap-ups, switching rooms, and taking quick breaks.

Friday, October 8

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red	Track Blue	Track Green (Workshops / Roundtables)	Unconference
12:00 - 13:00 30 minutes	Welcome to WikiConference North America 2021! Introduction
13:00 - 13:25 25 minutes
13:30 - 13:55 25 minutes
14:00 - 14:25 25 minutes
14:30 - 14:55 25 minutes		How the Smithsonian and Wiki Education are adding biographies of American women
15:00 - 15:25 25 minutes	Links, Wikipedia, and Knowledge Gaps		From sign shop to desktop
15:30 - 15:55 25 minutes	OpenHistoricalMap: Historical Geography Wiki style		Emerging technologies edit-a-thon: nano and AI, oh my!
16:00 - 16:25 25 minutes	Introduction to Enterprise MediaWiki
16:30 - 16:55 25 minutes
17:00 - 17:25 25 minutes
17:30 - 17:55 25 minutes
17:00 - 19:30	Break!
19:30+	Lounge / Happy Hour

Saturday, October 9

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red	Track Blue	Track Green (Workshops / Roundtables)	Unconference
11:45 - 12:00 15 minutesv	Welcome to Day 2 of WikiConference North America 2021!
12:00 - 12:55 55 minutes		Demystifying Copyright: Unlocking a Treasure of Content in Journals and Periodicals	VRT & WMF Legal: Workflow Discussion
13:00 - 13:55 55 minutes			Movement Pulse North America
14:00 - 14:40 40 minutes			Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon
14:45 - 15:25 40 minutes
15:30 - 15:55 25 minutes	Plenary
16:00 - 16:15 15 minutes	Non-English Editions of Wikipedia Have a Misinformation Problem	"So Many Books, So Little Time": Wikipedia as Odd Literature
16:15 - 16:30 15 minutes		How Do the Top Ten Languages in North America Fare on Their Wikipedias?
16:30 - 16:45 15 minutes	Why Consensus Fails	Black Lunch Table Strategies for Knowledge gaps
16:45 - 17:00 15 minutes		Decolonizing Wikipedia
17:00 - 17:25 25 minutes	News On Wiki, Phase 2 complete; Future steps with ASU journalism school	How to tie together Commons, Wikidata, and possibly Wikipedia by using :commons:Special:SuggestedTags
17:30 - 17:55 25 minutes		How do you even teach Wikidata?
17:00 - 19:30	Break!
19:30+	Lounge / Happy Hour

Sunday, October 10

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red	Track Blue	Track Green (Workshops / Roundtables)	Unconference
12:00 - 12:30 30 minutes	Welcome to Day 3 of WikiConference North America 2021!
12:30 - 13:10 40 minutes	Content translation tool tutorial	Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality	Community feedback wanted: Universal Code of Conduct draft enforcement guidelines
13:15 - 13:55 40 minutes	Editing seems too hard; let's fix that	Glassbox: betting for proactive transparency against misinformation	Add your country to WikiProject Govdirectory
14:00 - 14:25 25 minutes	Architects Build Wiki: A Pilot Campaign Featuring Black Architects of Detroit	Modeling NIOSH publications on Wikidata: a case study for beginners	Wikimedia reducing major conflicts
14:30 - 14:55 25 minutes	Edit-a-thons in the time of COVID: Lessons learned during 18 months of online editing events
15:00 - 15:25 25 minutes	Plenary
15:30 - 15:55 25 minutes
16:00 - 16:15 15 minutes	Towards a more environmentally sustainable Wikimedia Movement: The Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant
16:15 - 16:30 15 minutes	What is the coverage of the 30 most spoken North American indigenous languages in Wikipedia?
16:30 - 16:55 25 minutes
17:00 - 17:25 25 minutes	Lightning talks
17:30 - 17:55 25 minutes
17:00 - 19:30	Break!
19:30+	Lounge / Happy Hour