2024/Schedule
Indianapolis — 3-6 October 2024
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Thursday, October 3
October 3 - Thursday - Culture Crawl | ||||||
| ALL DAY | Editathon at the Indiana University Indianapolis University Library Ashby Browsing Room (UL 2210B), Philanthropic Studies Library |
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| Time | Partner | Location | Register + more info | |||
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| 9:00am – 10:00am | 
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Indiana State Library | 315 W. Ohio St. | Register! | ||
| 10:00am - 11:00am | 
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Monument Circle Historic District Walking Tour by Indiana Landmarks | 125 Monument Circle | Register! | ||
| 10:00am – 12:00pm | 
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Indiana Historical Society | 450 W. Ohio St. | Register! | ||
| 10:00am – 11:00am |
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Indiana State Library | 315 W. Ohio St. | Register! | ||
| 11:00am – 11:45am | 
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Indiana Supreme Court and Law Library | 200 W. Washington St. | Register! | ||
| 11:00am - 11:45am | 
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Herron Art Library | 735 W. New York St. | Register! | ||
| 11:00am - 12:30pm | 
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Decoding Downtown Indy Walking Tour by Indiana Landmarks | 50 S. Capitol Ave | Register! | ||
| 11:00am – 11:45am | 
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Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site | 1230 N. Delaware St | Register! | ||
| 11:00am – 11:45am | 
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Ray Bradbury Museum | 425 University Blvd. | Register! | ||
| 11:30am – 1:30pm | 
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Lunch at Fresco Italian Café on the Canal Meet at this cafe on the Canal Walk for lunch together —10% discount with WCNA badge! |
310 W Michigan St | Open to all! | ||
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm | 
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Indiana Statehouse | 200 W. Washington St. | Register! | ||
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm |
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Indiana State Library | 315 W. Ohio St. | Register! | ||
| 1:00pm – 1:45pm |
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Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site | 1230 N. Delaware St | Register! | ||
| 1:00pm – 1:45pm |
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Ray Bradbury Museum | 425 University Blvd. | Register! | ||
| 1:00pm – 4:00pm | 
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414 W. Vermont St. | Register! | ||
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm |
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Indiana Statehouse | 200 W. Washington St. | Register! | ||
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm | .jpg)
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Central Library, Indianapolis Public Library Center for Black Literature and Culture |
40 E. St. Clair St. | Register! | ||
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm |
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Indiana State Library | 315 W. Ohio St. | Register! | ||
| 2:30pm – 3:30pm | 
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Indiana War Memorial Museum | 55 E. Michigan St. | Register! | ||
| 3:00pm – 3:45pm |
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Ray Bradbury Museum | 425 University Blvd. | Register! | ||
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
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Monument Circle Historic District Walking Tour by Indiana Landmarks | 125 Monument Circle | Register! | ||
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm | 
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Lucas Oil Stadium | 500 S. Capitol Ave | Register! | ||
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm | 
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White River State Park Walking Tour by Indiana Landmarks | 801 W. Washington St. | Register! | ||
| 4:00pm – 5:00pm | 
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Indiana State Museum | 650 W. Washington St | Register! | ||
| 4:00pm – 4:45pm |
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Indiana Supreme Court and Law Library | 200 W. Washington St. | Register! | ||
| 5:00pm – 5:45pm |
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Ray Bradbury Museum | 425 University Blvd. | Register! | ||
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm | Dinner on your own (drinks and heavy snacks only at reception) | |||||
| 6:00pm - 9:00pm | 
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Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library reception with "Banned Books and Representation at the Crossroads" panel with Leah Johnson, Stephen Lane, Ann Matsuuchi and Jason Aukerman as moderator. Refreshments provided by Arepas |
543 Indiana Ave. | Open to All! | ||
Friday, October 4
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Edit-a-thon
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Gender gap (Hoosier Women at Work tie-in) 
No photos or recording for this session
October 4 - Friday - Programming Hine Hall at Indiana University Indianapolis | ||||||
| 9:00 | Opening in Main Auditorium Venue, announcements, and conference overview with Dominic Byrd-McDevitt of Digital Public Library of America and Wikimedians of Indiana Welcome and Land Acknowledgement from Kristi Palmer, Herbert Simon Family Dean of University Library | |||||
| 9:15-10:00 | Keynote in Main Auditorium by Maryana Pinchuk Keynote WMF
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| ROOM | IP132 (Kelley)  Livestream 2
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IP139 (Kelley) Livestream 3
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IP232 Livestream 4
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IP236 Livestream 5
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Main Auditorium Livestream 1
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| 10:00 - 10:15 | Mobile editing Hannah Clover (User:Clovermoss) |
10 years of Toolforge (Kunal Mehta) |
Developing Wikimedia Impact Metrics to Encourage Academic Engagement (Matthew Vetter; Brett Buttliere, Sage Ross) |
WikiPortraits: Transforming the Wikipedia photo desert into a green oasis (Kevin Payravi, Andrew Lih, Jennifer 8. Lee, Frank Schulenburg)  Community GLAM
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Barnraising - from the Temperance Movement to the WikiWomen Movement (Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight) | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | ||||||
| 10:30 - 10:45 | ||||||
| 10:45 - 11:00 | ||||||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Expanding book citations by using WorldCat and linking to archived online copies (Peaceray Leonard) |
WikiProject Report: Women in Religion (Christine Meyer, Colleen Hartung, Rosalind Hinton, Win Whelan, Clifford Anderson, others) |
Representation of Mexican Women in Science in Wikipedia (Maria Fernanda Veloz Castillo) |
Wikidata profiling of small town art (Robin Isadora Brown) |
Being bold in practice: Tales from faculty teaching with Wikipedia (Brianda Felix, La'Tonya Rease Miles, Debby Kurti, Laurel Smith Stvan, Siobahn Day Grady) | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | ||||||
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Requesting free images locally (Brenton Wang) | |||||
| 11:45 - 12:00 | BREAK | |||||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Introduction to editing sister projects (Andrew Leung) |
How Wiki Education pursues knowledge equity (LiAnna Davis, Brianda Felix, Ian Ramjohn, Will Kent, Colleen McCoy) |
Latin American Heritage Month Edit-a-thon Content Gap Community
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What's new with Wikimedia Cloud Services (Bryan Davis) |
Connecting the Movement: Exploring Diff, Wikimedia Answers, and the Foundation's new "front door" on Meta-Wiki (Chris Koerner, Rae Adimer) | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | ||||||
| 12:30 - 12:45 | ChatGPT and Wikipedia Plugin: Did it increase quality in student writing? (Robert Cummings, Guy Krueger, Susan Nicholas, and Susan Wood) | |||||
| 12:45 - 13:00 | ||||||
| 13:00 - 14:25 | LUNCH | LUNCH WikiWomen Summit Indianapolis: Turning Lunchtime into Convening Gender Gap
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LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Using shortened footnote templates for book references (Peaceray Leonard) |
(NA) Wikimedia Hub Discussion (Ariel Cetrone, Peter Meyer, Ben Vershbow) |
Latin American Heritage Month Edit-a-thon (continued) Content Gap Community
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Waikiki: the wiki any agent can edit (Sam Klein) |
An evolving model of the Wikipedia student assignment (Ian Ramjohn, Brianda Felix) | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | ||||||
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Universities and Wikimedia: Increasing Participation through Student-Run Efforts (William Bothe) | |||||
| 15:15 - 15:30 | ||||||
| 15:30 - 15:45 | ||||||
| 15:45 - 16:00 | BREAK | |||||
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Using shortened footnote templates for book references (Peaceray Leonard) |
On This Day, Editors Discuss The OTD Template (A. Filipowich) |
Latin American Heritage Month Edit-a-thon (continued) Content Gap Community
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Waikiki: the wiki any agent can edit (continued) (Sam Klein) |
What Is the Future of the Wikipedian in Residence Position? (Jake Orlowitz, plus various WIRs) | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | ||||||
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Wikisource year in review (edward) | |||||
| 16:45 - 17:00 | ||||||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Dinner on your own (drinks and appetizers only at reception) | |||||
| 18:00 - 21:00 | Reception at Indiana State Library Creative Night with Depths of Wikipedia Refreshments provided by Nourish Indiana | |||||
Saturday, October 5
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- Presentation Discussion Panel Workshop Edit-a-thon
English Spanish French Human-translated Machine-translated
Gender gap (Hoosier Women at Work tie-in) No photos or recording for this session
October 5 - Saturday - Programming Hine Hall at Indiana University Indianapolis | ||||||
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Inaugural GLAM Keynote in Main Auditorium with Andrew Lih, and Sara Snyder, honoring Effie Kapsalis | |||||
| ROOM | IP 206 Livestream 2
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IP208 Livestream 3
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IP 118 Livestream 4
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IP216 Livestream 5
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IP231 | Main Auditorium Livestream 1
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| 9:30 - 9:45 | How We Rescued 20 MILLION Dead Wikipedia URLs: An Internet Archive Update (Mark Graham) |
Creating Wikipedia List articles with help of Wikidata (Jarek Tuszynski) |
English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee: What is happening, where it is going, and what does the community want to ask? (A. Filipowich) |
Addressing content gaps at scale (Will Kent) |
Catalog-a-thon for GLAM tools in Toolhub (Tricia Burmeister) |
At the Crossroads of Inclusion: Revitalizing US Latinx Editors on Wikipedia (Eric Borja, Oscar Costero) |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | ||||||
| 10:00 - 10:15 | WikiCite - proposed as Wikimedia sibling project (Lane Rasberry) | |||||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Current trends in public policy that could impact Wikipedia (Stan Adams) | |||||
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Wikimedia Commons Roundtable Discussion with Wikimedia Foundation (Selena Deckelmann) |
The Roads Fork and What Lies Ahead (Bruce Englehardt, Michael Gronseth) Community Content
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LOFESQ (Lots of Farmers Empty Silos Quicker): building community through a named entity Wikibase (Deborah Shapiro, Richard Naples) |
Trolls, Pixsies, and Poka-Yokes: Copyleft Enforcement and the Commons (Ryan McGrady) |
Comunidades indígenas marginadas: estrategias de inclusión a partir de los proyectos Wikimedia (Jonathan Jiménez Salazar) | |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Wikimedia outreach could do what WikiProjects can't (Claudia / User:Theleekycauldron) | |||||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | How to be a Dashboard superuser (Ian Ramjohn, LiAnna Davis) |
Sister Projects: opening? closing? merging? splitting? (Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight) |
Persecución y Wikipedia (Oscar)  Public policy
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| 11:15 - 11:30 | Social constructivism: reading and editing Wikipedia in an educational psychology course (Anne Drew Hu) |
Wikimedia Does Not End When You Move: Championing Wikipedia Education Program With No Community (Pamela Ofori Boateng) |
Wikimedia Metrics & Tools for GLAMs with the DPLA Wikimedia Working Group (Christina Fernsebner Eslao, Jamie Flood, Giovanna Fontenelle, Evan Robb) GLAM Tech
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| 11:30 - 11:45 | ||||||
| 11:45 - 12:00 | BREAK | |||||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Community Cross overs: Dig-it-all (digital everything how can we connect)? (Deena Larsen) Community Content
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Hurricane Helene Response Editing: uploading historical photos for documentation, map editing, data input related to roadways, bridges, etc. Various editors Community
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All about the U4C (or do I really need to learn a new acronym?) (Addison Bryant) Community
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How to create Wikimedia Working Groups for GLAMs (Giovanna Fontenelle and Jake Orlowitz) |
Meeting at the Crossroads: University Edit-A-Thons (James Scholz Kiersten Cox) Education Diversity
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Hacia un futuro compartido. Integrando puentes digitales para la educación abierta y el conocimiento libre (Armando Ávila Carreto) Education
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| 12:15 - 12:30 | ||||||
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Averting Ozymandias's FA: Techniques for preventing article quality decline (User:Sdkb) |
Memories on wheels: The evolution of ancient and classic automobile in Mexico (Aguascalientes) and the creation of a historical archive in wikimedia (Victoria Fernanda Coronado de Anda) GLAM
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| 12:45 - 13:00 | ||||||
| 13:00 - 14:10 | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH |
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| 14:10-14:25 | Group photo in Main Auditorium | |||||
| 14:30 - 14:45 | GLAM CSI (Contributor Study Initiative) Workshop on Documenting User Stories (Andrew Lih) GLAM Tech
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Hurricane Helene Response Editing: uploading historical photos for documentation, map editing, data input related to roadways, bridges, etc. Various editors Community
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Using Wikipedia films and film makers red links to seed Wikidata (Peaceray Leonard) Wikidata Content
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Open time for lightning talks 
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Meeting at the Crossroads Edit-A-Thon (James Scholz Kiersten Cox) Education Diversity
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Focused translation efforts for health promotion (Thais Morata and James Heilman) Science Partnerships
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| 14:45 - 15:00 | ||||||
| 15:00 - 15:15 | The State of COI Editing: Ten Years After the Donovan House Meeting (William Beutler) | |||||
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| 15:45 - 16:00 | BREAK | |||||
| 16:00 - 16:15 | GLAM CSI (Contributor Study Initiative) Workshop on Documenting User Stories (continued) (Andrew Lih) GLAM Tech
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Using Wikipedia films and film makers red links to seed Wikidata (Peaceray Leonard) Wikidata Content
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Open time for lightning talks
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Meeting at the Crossroads Edit-A-Thon (continued) (James Scholz and Kiersten Cox) Education Diversity
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Open Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Raju Narisetti, Kathy Collins, Selena Deckelmann, Lisa Seitz-Gruwell, Elena Lappen) | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | ||||||
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| 16:45 - 17:00 | ||||||
| 17:00 - 20:00 | Social Gathering & North American Hub Discussion The AMP at 16 Tech Food vendors on-site (not provided) | |||||
Sunday, October 6
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- Presentation Discussion Panel Workshop Edit-a-thon
English Spanish French Human-translated Machine-translated
Gender gap (Hoosier Women at Work tie-in) No photos or recording for this session
October 6 - Sunday - Programming Hine Hall at Indiana University Indianapolis | ||||||
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Keynote in Main Auditorium with Wikimedian of the Year, Hannah Clover (User:Clovermoss) Keynote
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| ROOM | IP206 Livestream 2
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IP208 Livestream 3
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IP231 Livestream 4
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IP118 Livestream 5
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Main Auditorium Livestream 1
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| 10:00 - 10:15 | Wikimedian in Residence: Expanding Artists’ Visibility and Knowledge Access (Michaela Blanc) |
Women in Religion: Expanding the Crossroads Across Continents using Rapid Grants, the Case of Kenya (Rosalind Hinton; Ruth Amwe, Colleen Hartung, Christine Meyer) |
Challenges in Citizen Science Data Platforms for Andean Potato Agrobiodiversity Conservation (Sebastian Zarate) |
Challenges to policy change on Wikipedia (Samuel Henderson) |
Generative AI and Wikipedia: A discussion (Lead authors: Maryana Pinchuk, LiAnna Davis; Panelists: Andrew Lih, Bob Cummings, Ximena Gallardo, Carwil Bjork-James) | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | ||||||
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Working for representation on Wiki (Sherry Antoine) |
Wikimedia Indiana: A Growing Indiana Cultural Heritage Hub (Tapiwa Mzumara, Olivia MacIsaac, Jere Odell) |
A roadmap for engagement: the Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions (Mary Mark Ockerbloom) | |||
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Beyond Wikipedia: Open Educational Practices across Wikimedia Projects (Matthew Vetter & Zachary McDowell) | |||||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Turning points in Wikipedia disputes: Research and discussion of resolution efforts (Hillel Gray) |
Coral Reef Digital Twins and a Distributed Genetic Ark for Coral Conservation (Anthony J Bellantuono) |
Wikipedia Belongs in Prisons (Jake Orlowitz) |
Enhancing Digital Collections through Wikimedia Commons (Justin Clark; Jill Weiss Simins) | ||
| 11:15 - 11:30 | ||||||
| 11:30 - 11:45 | ||||||
| 11:45 - 12:00 | BREAK | |||||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Adding authority control properties in Wikidata for writer and artist biographies (Peaceray Leonard) |
Thinking Together About WMF Proposed Changes to Grantmaking: Regional Funds Committees & A Global Grants Distribution Committee (Ben Vershbow, Chris Schilling, Giovanna Fontenelle) |
Introducing the Citation Watchlist! (James Hare, Jake Orlowitz) | |||
| 12:15 - 12:30 | ||||||
| 12:30 - 12:45 | A decade of WikiJournal publications (Andrew Leung) | |||||
| 12:45 - 13:00 | ||||||
| 13:00 - 14:30 | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | WikiConference North America closing and review session in Auditorium | |||||
| 14:45 - 15:00 | ||||||
| 15:00 - 15:15 | ||||||