Unconference

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WikiConference North America 2023 • Toronto
Unconference-style scheduling

WikiConference North America 2023 will include unconference sessions on Friday and Saturday, November 10 and 11, where anyone can propose or spontaneously organize a mini-presentation, discussion, or workshop on a wiki-related topic.

See 20-second intro video to unconferencing.

You are welcome to add yourself to the list below with topics you'd like to present on. Adding your name and a timeslot below serves as a "noticeboard announcement" for your activity and does not guarantee you the space at that time. The room is available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Unconference

We will have workshop session space available in Executive Board Room on first floor. Please note that this room only has a capacity of 30 people. In addition, there is no AV, translation or web streaming ability offered during Unconference sessions.

Meetup/workshop topics

Please propose topics and time frames. Organizers will put them on the wiki schedule here.

Friday, GLAM roundtable

  • PROPOSED: Executive Board Room, Friday, 10:15 am to 11:00 am. or lunch time. GLAM roundtable discussing critical issues around GLAM needs and technology. Led by Andrew Lih, with guest Selena Deckelmann, and those interested in GLAM wiki. Interested parties:
    • Andrew Lih
    • Jim Hayes
    • Caroline Speirs
    • Add name here
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Editathons

  • Women Do News: Friday, 10 Nov., 10:15-11:30, executive board room
    • Emily J Gertz and Molly Stark Dean

Ideas (unsorted)

  • Wikisource
    • Jim Hayes
  • interactive multimedia (graphs, video, 3d, etc)
  • On Saturday talk with Charlie Danoff contact@mr.danoff.org to learn how you can come join us in editing the Peeragogy Handbook on Wikibooks! https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Peeragogy
  • Saturday: Collaborations with / outreach to smaller/topic-specific non-Wikimedia wikis --AbyxDev (talk) 16:08, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Lightning talks

Lightning talks are short back-to-back presentations of 5 minutes each. You can propose them here with your own topics!

  • Underrepresented topics in Wikimedia activities: the case of mathematics. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 05:53, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
  • Why and how to talk to WMF employees. Barkeep49 (talk) 18:12, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
  • People yell out user script ideas and I write them live (this will go as poorly as it sounds) Enterprisey (talk!) 20:19, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
  • 10 years of MassMessage. Legoktm (talk) 20:37, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
  • Disrupting Wikipedia for Fun and Profit. Tamzin (talk) 21:33, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
  • REQUEST FOR LIGHTING TALK: someone explain what affiliates are and what they do