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As a long-time Wikipedian (Username:Figureskatingfan), much of the editing I’ve done on Wikipedia has been about obscure and underrepresented topics and bios (the life and work of African American poet and writer Maya Angelou, children's television programming and media, figure skating, and female saints). As an M.A. graduate student in English at the University of Idaho, I took a course in Spring 2021 about Odd Literature during the 19th century, a "genre" of literature created by my mentor, Dr. Zachary Turpin. Odd lit, loosely defined, is literature that doesn’t seem to fit in any genre, literary movement, or period, or even within literature as a category. I make the case in this presentation that Wikipedia can be considered a 21st version of odd lit, and that odd lit has direct applications to the work we editors do, especially the attempts of Wikiprojects such as Women in Red and 1000 Women in Religion, to mitigate the gender gap and systemic bias on Wikipedia. This presentation will define odd literature, explain the connection between odd lit and Wikipedia, and how the use of odd lit can help us leverage the Wikipedia policies that seem to limit content about obscure topics, female-dominated topics, and bios about women on Wikipedia. I will also report on my experience and provide tips and about how to research obscure topics using sources that can be difficult to locate due to their status as odd lit.

This presentation is on 2Rāth that seeks to educate students in digital composition and to enhance Wikipedia's content on Arab authors. 2Rāth or Turāth is Arabic for heritage, legacy, tradition, or patrimony. I chose to write it with #2 to change it to verb form. To rāth is then to preserve our heritage. With help from Dr. Matthew Vetter from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and in collaboration with Dr. Helaine Blumenthal from Wikipedia Education, I launched this project in 2019 to help digitize Lebanese and Arab literary heritage. This project started by recognizing a need to create articles about Lebanese and Arab authors, poets, and literary figures from Lebanon and the Arab region who have little to no presence on the web and are at risk of becoming forgotten in today's digital age. Students create articles in English and sometimes translate a few from Arabic or French if the articles are available in these languages.

Every Fall semester, students enrolled in composition classes at the American University of Beirut are invited to take part in a rigorous training with Wikipedia Education in how to edit and create Wikipedia content while abiding by the strict Wikipedia regulations on plagiarism and notability. In addition to improving encyclopedic content and working on preserving Arab literary heritage, this project also enables participants to practice crucial skills related to critical thinking, digital literacy, online source evaluation—determining which sources are most authoritative (considering publishers, formats, dates of publication, and author bias), and writing for a global audience. Since most AUB students are multilingual, they also translate Wikipedia articles from Arabic and French to English and edit articles in various languages.

In the fall semester of 2020, students managed to create 12 articles that were viewed 14.5 million times by Wikipedia readers around the world in under two months. These students also participated in IUP's fourth annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in collaboration with the English Department at IUP, IUP Libraries, Women's and Gender Studies, and the Center for Digital Humanities and Culture. Additionally, students worked on bridging the gap in Arab women representation on Wikipedia.

The plan for 2021-2022 academic year is to expand this project by involving more faculty from AUB and other universities to participate in creating content about Arab authors and in particular Arab women and other marginalized or underrepresented groups in the Arab world. The plan is to get at least one person from each English-speaking university involved. These universities include the Lebanese American University, Notre Dame University, Rafic Hariri University, and of course, AUB. I plan on liaising with AUB librarians and reaching out to other faculty in various departments, especially those in the social sciences, to involve them. My aim is to create a small community of knowledge production that will continue involving students in the preservation of literary heritage and representation of Arab voices in Wikipedia. Since the Emirates Literacy Foundation has expressed an interest in collaborating with AUB on this project and aims to create 15,000 articles in two years with the help of Google, I will work on nurturing this and other collaborations to create a focused community of knowledge production that engages many participants.

This session will be a hands-on workshop for adding a country to d:Wikidata:WikiProject Govdirectory or improving one already added. We will cover what kind of general information and sources that would be beneficial to document. We will also help writing queries in order to be able to review if the data in Wikidata is complete and correct.

This will be a flying start to get any country, state or province ready to be listed in the directory at https://govdirectory.org. This is also great preparatory work for other projects like WikiProject Every Politician or WikiProject Open Government Data since the basic structures of all public agencies will be reviewed.

Architects Build Wiki is a Wikipedia content improvement campaign launching in 2021 at the 50th National Organization of Minority Architects' (NOMA) annual conference in Detroit, Michigan. This is a collaboration with multiple partners: a professional society (NOMA), historian (Noir Design Parti), GLAM institution (The Wright Museum of African American History), and wiki expert (Wiki Strategies). In our pilot phase is we will focus on the Black architects of Detroit and their accomplishments; we will expand our scope to Black architects of other cities in the coming year, and publish a guide for like-minded organizations. We seek to learn from and build on the models of past successful campaigns including Wiki Women in Red, Wiki Loves Monuments, and News On Wiki. Three presenters—an architect/historian, a museum professional, and a wiki expert—will introduce the campaign as a team.

Video of the session

Black Lunch Table will discuss the importance of using different Wiki entities for equity and visibility and our unique approach to each. We will begin by looking at the most recent community survey data and additional outside research reflecting on the percentage of the Wiki editorship who identifies as Black. Our talk will then look specifically at: Wikicommons, Visualizing Black artists and cultural workers through our Photobooth Project. Wikidata, The importance of using a dedicated property, on the focus list of, to aggregate and create lists as well as for SPARQL. Wikipedia, The most visible platform as a space for creating articles/biographies and closing the knowledge gap and increasing the representation of Black artists. Taken together we present our unique strategies of addressing and closing knowledge gaps on Wiki.

One of the more central recommendations of the 2030 strategy, which will determine the next ten years of the Wikimedia movement, is the creation of regional hubs which can take over many of the roles currently held by the Wikimedia Foundation, such as allocation of resources, advocacy, legal and safety support, capacity building, organizational support, and software development, in the hopes of making these activities more equitable, more democratically governed, and better adapted to each region's local context. The natural way of creating hubs would be building them bottom-up with the participation of the wiki communities in that region. In the hopes of sparking conversations around doing that in North America, we want to present and discuss how communities in the Central and Eastern European region are working towards a regional hub.

The session consists of a presentation about the short history of the collaboration between Central and Eastern European Wikimedia communities, the hub work so far, and similarities to and differences from the North American region. After that we hope to have a roundtable discussion on what the two regions can learn from each other and how they might cooperate in the future.

Do you organize or participate in Wikimedia campaigns, such as WikiGap, Wiki Loves Monuments, or #1Lib1Ref? If yes, please join our talk! The Campaigns team is a new team at the Wikimedia Foundation, focused on building and improving tools for campaign organizers and participants. As our first project, we’ll be building an on-wiki event registration system. We invite you to learn about our first project, as well as other tools we may build for campaign organizers.

We will spend the first half sharing our thoughts on the direction of the team, but then focus on collecting feedback from the community. We are requesting 45 minutes: about 20 minutes of presentation and 25 minutes of feedback and conversation. For more information, see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team

The session will focus on enabling Caribbean civil society organizations with the tools to continue their work in advocacy through novel means, like Wikipedia. The session's aim is to, at the end, equip new or unfamiliar audiences with the means to manage the task of explaining more complex and polarizing phenomena on Wikipedia, while maintaining modalities as MoS, NPOV, etc. This session will help to support future learnings within the pool of concerned CSOs on information salience within the Caribbean and tell of the mediating effect that greater ease-of-access through Wikipedia would obtain.

The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is from 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.

Join the Movement Strategy & Governance team to hear about the enforcement draft guidelines (15 min) and discuss and share your feedback (30 min). This session discussion will be supported in English, French and Spanish.

This is a presentation of the Content translation tool tutorial that I originally developed for the Meet your elders translate-a-thon that was absorbed by the Women in Europe contest. I plan to record a video with a step-by-step walkthrough of how to use the content translation tool in conjunction with Google translate. I would also like a brief time afterwards for any questions.

Please find an example of this translation process at File:Translating the Rose Beuret article.pdf.

Information about craft is almost nonexistent in Wikipedia and Wikidata. With a view to stitching up that gap, Wikimedia New York City members have started Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft, hosting Craft+Wikipedia Roundtable sessions with the Textile Society of America. Putting together a new WikiProject involves piecing together many different contributions—much like piecing together a quilt. We hope you'll contribute and explore the world of craft!

Craft is the creation of objects using human hands. It is practiced by professional artists, tradespeople, amateurs and enthusiasts with a spectrum of skills and vision. Craft artists work with traditional craft materials and practices in fields such as glassblowing, pottery, jewelry, textile arts, woodworking and metalworking. The studio movement is part of a broader world of craft where boundaries blur between hobbyists, makers, specialists, and artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/Community_view

Bridging the academia-Wikimedia divide from both sides of the river: Current developments in Wikipedia-integrated academic journals

Despite the clear importance of Wikipedia in the contemporary knowledge ecosystem, academics, scholars and experts rarely contribute to creating, improving or curating its content. One key method of encouraging greater involvement therefore involves rewarding experts with citeable academic publications. WikiJournals couple the rigour of formal academic peer review with the massive reach and impact of Wikipedia by dual-publication of review articles in both the journal and into Wikipedia. Peer reviewer comments are also published to enhance transparency and auditability of the review process. As well as articles written from scratch, existing high-quality Wikipedia articles can be submitted for the same process as a form of quality control. The published journal article acts as a stable, indexed, cite-able version of record. The version copied into Wikipedia is a highly visible, living version and contains a prominent link to the journal publication for any readers that wish to cite the reviewed version or check reviewer comments.

Example in Wikipedia as: Radiocarbon dating

Example in Wiki.J.Sci. as: Christie, M; et al. (2018). "Radiocarbon dating". WikiJournal of Science 1 (1): 6. doi:10.15347/wjs/2018.006

The journals additionally pioneer several uncommon features. Most notably, they are able to publish open access without fees to authors, since web hosting is provided by the WikiMedia Foundation and all editorial staff are volunteers. Using the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia also enables easy transfer of content between the two sites. Any content incorporated from Wikipedia via a creative commons license is fully attributed, including contributions of anonymous or even automated authors. Authors also have no ownership over the Wikipedia version of their work, which will be freely edited and updated by others over the following years or decades.

The WikiJournal User Group now includes:

• WikiJournal of Medicine (flagship), www.WikiJMed.org
• WikiJournal of Science (STEM topics), www.WikiJSci.org
• WikiJournal of Humanities (arts, humanities and soc. sciences), www.WikiJHum.org

WikiJournals therefore benefit both academic and wikipedic communities. The encyclopedia gains high quality work from authors and reviewers who would not otherwise have contributed. Authors, are rewarded with citable, indexed publications that have a greater reach than is normally achieved through traditional scholarly publishing.

The climate crisis is the challenge of our generation, but figuring out how to help can feel daunting and complicated. We also know that in the climate crisis, the manipulation of scientific truth has been an active front in the war to protect a thriving, liveable planet for all humanity.

To date, the Wikipedia community has played a crucial role in presenting clear information on climate change – the science, the impacts, the politics, and the ambition called for by physical science. This year, the IPCC released its latest report demonstrating that the world is on an unsustainable path to accelerated warming. There is much more education to do. The time is now to double down on community commitment to clear, factual, and locally tailored information on the climate crisis.

At Teams for a Better Planet, we run workshops to educate teams about climate solutions and empower individuals with the tools they need to put these solutions into action in their personal and professional lives. We have designed an hour-long workshop geared towards Wikipedia editors about the role in which knowledge curation has played and will play in building a climate safe future.

Climate change is THE global issue. It will define our generation. Yet every solution must be implemented locally. Our presentation of knowledge must reflect this.

This workshop will include brief presentations on the “State of the Climate” and climate solutions. The majority of the time will be spent on a collaborative brainstorm of how to integrate this global issue into place-based or company encyclopedia entries through the incorporation of localized climate solutions and impacts into Wikipedia pages. By the end of the session, we aim to collectively identify best practices and recommendations for weaving climate content into a more diverse swath of pages on Wikipedia sites.

https://www.teamsforabetterplanet.com/

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Links

• My own cvillepedia user page:
• Slides

Since the deadly and traumatizing Unite the Right Rally in 2017, “Charlottesville” has become an oft-used catchword in partisan debates about racism and political violence. As a result, many people, who never had before, began seeking information about Charlottesville and its connections to larger issues. There is a vital need for broad access to diverse and inclusive stories about our complex past. Every person in the community has a story to add to their local history and the world has an interest in learning them. As a wiki, Cvillepedia offers a powerful opportunity to equitably engage the local community in telling their own story. The wiki is open to all, which means that the only information that is on there is what is deemed relevant. The editing community is small, which lowers the likelihood that articles would be thoroughly fact-checked. By growing the editing community and improving accessibility on the site, it has the potential to become a powerful, accurate, and wide-ranging source of local history.

Amid the pandemic, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society (ACHS) began exploring ways to expand and improve the information on the site, to engage local organizations and volunteers to address high-need areas, and to strategize a way forward for making Cvillepedia the go-to resource for inclusive and reliable information about the greater Charlottesville area. To see what needed expansion and improvement, they called in three students from the University of Virginia’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy to perform an audit of the site and return feedback about what we could achieve and work through.

I was brought onto the Cvillepedia and ACHS teams for the summer of 2021 to act on that feedback and make the site a more useful and equitable space for public history. Over the course of ten weeks, I wrote over fifty articles for Cvillepedia expanding the local historical narrative. I specifically focused on Black and women’s history after the Civil War. With the resources of the Historical Society, I was able to incorporate more primary sources and oral history than the average editor might have ready access to. As someone hired to be an editor, I had the unique learning experience to understand what is needed to support and sustain our little big wiki in Charlottesville.

This presentation will cover the origins of Cvillepedia, the involvement of the ACHS and the Batten School audit in expanding the user community and content of the site, the current state of the project, and our goals for the future.

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Links

• My own cvillepedia user page:
• Slides

Since the deadly and traumatizing Unite the Right Rally in 2017, “Charlottesville” has become an oft-used catchword in partisan debates about racism and political violence. As a result, many people, who never had before, began seeking information about Charlottesville and its connections to larger issues. There is a vital need for broad access to diverse and inclusive stories about our complex past. Every person in the community has a story to add to their local history and the world has an interest in learning them. As a wiki, Cvillepedia offers a powerful opportunity to equitably engage the local community in telling their own story. The wiki is open to all, which means that the only information that is on there is what is deemed relevant. The editing community is small, which lowers the likelihood that articles would be thoroughly fact-checked. By growing the editing community and improving accessibility on the site, it has the potential to become a powerful, accurate, and wide-ranging source of local history.

Amid the pandemic, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society (ACHS) began exploring ways to expand and improve the information on the site, to engage local organizations and volunteers to address high-need areas, and to strategize a way forward for making Cvillepedia the go-to resource for inclusive and reliable information about the greater Charlottesville area. To see what needed expansion and improvement, they called in three students from the University of Virginia’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy to perform an audit of the site and return feedback about what we could achieve and work through.

I was brought onto the Cvillepedia and ACHS teams for the summer of 2021 to act on that feedback and make the site a more useful and equitable space for public history. Over the course of ten weeks, I wrote over fifty articles for Cvillepedia expanding the local historical narrative. I specifically focused on Black and women’s history after the Civil War. With the resources of the Historical Society, I was able to incorporate more primary sources and oral history than the average editor might have ready access to. As someone hired to be an editor, I had the unique learning experience to understand what is needed to support and sustain our little big wiki in Charlottesville.

This presentation will cover the origins of Cvillepedia, the involvement of the ACHS and the Batten School audit in expanding the user community and content of the site, the current state of the project, and our goals for the future.

Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) students have provided additional content on Wikipedia to give voice to underrepresented people and topics from the Global South for the past two years in a class on intercultural and international communication. The students submitted and edited English-language entries on cultural, social, and political topics related to the Global South. The aim of this project is to “to decolonize Wikipedia” by contributing content on regions that have historically suffered from a lack of representation in academia, media, and the online world. Not only are issues concerning the Global South not well addressed on Wikipedia, but they are also in need of improvement,” she said, stressing that NU-Q students are uniquely positioned to lead on efforts to introduce and translate content about the region as multilingual writers and researchers from the region. In this presentation I will be talking about the lessons learned from this project, the challenges, and the opportunities.

Are you searching for materials that you can freely use in Wikipedia projects? Are you confused about copyright for printed materials in the United States? We can help!

In this Zoom Workshop , the Philadelphia WikiSalon will demonstrate a clear, easy to follow, step-by-step workflow to evaluate the copyright status of a journal or periodical published in the United States. Once the status of an issue is identified, content from a public domain or freely licensed journal can be added in whole or part to Wikimedia Commons or a project such as WikiSource. With this knowledge, you can unlock a treasure trove of public domain resources that can be mined for secondary sources, images, and more.

After the live demonstration, there will be time for questions and discussion. Supplemental PDF and video tutorials will be provided, along with practice workflow exercises and copyright resource lists. This workshop is suitable for a range of attendees: from newer through experienced Wikipedians.

The Philadelphia WikiSalon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia) is a skills-oriented online meetup for Wikipedia Projects. Our monthly sessions alternate between demonstrations of new skills and work sessions to practice skills. Demonstrations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/Demonstrations) target a specific skill related to Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons. Attendees share what they are working on, ask questions, and get feedback and support. Many of our regulars are librarians, archivists, professors or people interested in digital humanities and the sciences, but everyone is welcome!

At the start of the pandemic, the fate of in-person edit-a-thons was in question. Live, in-person edit-a-thons are often attended by inexperienced editors who tend to require on-demand support as well as staff from institutional partners or organizations looking for guidance on acceptable ways to incorporate their knowledge and collections into Wikipedia without violating the conflict of interest policy. Initially, it seemed that the same level of social interaction, editor assistance, and content creation would be impossible to achieve in a virtual environment. It is now evident that successful virtual edit-a-thons are possible. Furthermore, it is quite likely that a hybrid edit-a-thon model consisting of both in-person and virtual events may be the best way forward as it could possibly result in increased both editor and content diversity.

Since March of 2020, Wikimedia DC has helped to facilitate over 45 virtual Wikipedia edit-a-thons. Institutional partners for these events have included The White House Gender Policy Council, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Adapting the in-person edit-a-thon model to a virtual one presented a variety of challenges. These challenges included: 1) generating buy-in from institutional partners while they, too, were re-evaluating their own capacities, 2) managing online conferencing platforms across audiences with varying experience levels, and 3) training new editors while not being able to provide the traditional means of support. After nearly a year-and-a-half of online edit-a-thons, we have found that with proper planning and flexibility, the success of the in-person edit-a-thon can be replicated, and possibly even enhanced, online.

During this session, Ariel Cetrone, Wikimedia DC's Institutional Partnerships Manager, will share lessons learned as well as best practices for both maintaining effective partnerships and engaging audiences during virtual edit-a-thons as well as a vision for the future of virtual editing events.

En el marco de la conferencia de WCNA, Wikimedia México propone que el día 10 de octubre se realice una “editatona” con el tópico “mujeres en la tecnología”. “Editatona” es un esfuerzo iniciado en Wikimedia México que busca que mediante un encuentro de edición exclusivo para mujeres se pueda aprender, crear y editar la Wikipedia sobre mujeres destacadas con el fin de reducir la brecha de género.

/Within the framework of the WCNA, Wikimedia Mexico proposes that on October 10 an “Editatona” be held with the theme "women in technology". “Editatona” is an effort started in Wikimedia Mexico that seeks to make it possible to meet, create and edit Wikipedia on outstanding women through an exclusive edition meeting for women in order to reduce the gender gap.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editatona https://wikimedia.mx/editatona/

Los enlaces de registro y zoom están disponibles en el "etherpad" / The registration and zoom links are available on the "etherpad".

Slides at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_seems_too_hard;_let%27s_fix_that_-_WikiConference_North_America_2021_presentation_by_Enterprisey.pdf.

I recently tried getting some people I know into editing Wikipedia. They found the process intimidating and difficult. That's pretty bad! I thought of a way to fix that; let's talk about it in a round-table format and see if it's worth investigating.

I'm thinking we allow an edit to be split into different parts, which can then be done by different people at different times. That will lower the "minimum energy" required to contribute something. I think one way to split an edit is into four parts: get a source, select a fact from that source, find a suitable location in the article, and make the actual edit using that fact and location. They don't even have to be done in that order: perhaps someone could pick a location in the article first, and say "something needs to be done here, but I don't have the source for it". Not all edits add a fact to an article, but the same framework could also be used for edits that correct some information.

There would be some way to view a list of the current "partial edits" that have been proposed by other people. (Name: "Edit Workshop"?) You could contribute a missing part to any of them, or propose an alternative (for example, using a fact located elsewhere in the same source). You could also make comments on any of the partial edits. Perhaps this could all be integrated somehow with the existing talk page; that might be difficult. If a partial edit results in a regular talk page section, experienced editors would have an easier time giving feedback. With the Reply Tool and topic subscriptions features coming soon, new contributors would have an easier time following discussions in wikitext form.

Abuse and moderation would be a potential challenge. However, I designed the four parts to be easy to moderate: the sources can be restricted (only w:WP:RSP green sources, only sources used on GAs or FAs, etc); the facts must be copied and pasted from the sources; the location must be an actual selected position in the article; and we might only allow registered editors to synthesize those into the real edit.

We already have the edit request system and talk pages, but those are even more difficult to learn for new contributors and are only used to "compose" edits by expert editors.

I propose a round-table session where we talk about if this is a good idea or not, or what improvements we could make to it. I would really like to hear some feedback. I would like to eventually propose that we hold trials of this idea on some highly-viewed articles that have persistent problems with people not making "good" edit requests.

I've previously talked about this idea at w:User:Enterprisey/Signpost draft - On smaller ways to contribute, and this idea plus others at w:User:Enterprisey/Rambling (2021). (I'd love to talk about those, too!)

National Nanotechnology Day (Oct. 9) once again falls during WikiConference North America this year. This submission continues a series of WCNA edit-a-thons on nanotechnology and related fields previously held in San Diego and Columbus.

As a lead-in to the edit-a-thon, participants will learn about NIOSH’s research on the health effects of emerging technologies on workers from the scientists themselves, with two brief talks of 10–15 minutes each about nanosensors for monitoring hazardous substances in the workplace, and the health effects of artificial intelligence on workers. The edit-a-thon will feature a worklist of nanotechnology researchers of color for improvements on both Wikipedia and Wikidata, as well as adding health information to artificial intelligence articles.

NIOSH is the leading federal agency conducting research and providing guidance on the effects of engineered nanomaterials on worker health, and methods to control or eliminate exposures through its Nanotechnology Research Center. NIOSH also created the Center for Occupational Robotics Research in 2017 to evaluate potential benefits and risks of robots in the workplace, and develop guidance for safe interactions between humans and robots; and the Emerging Technologies Branch in 2019 to facilitate forecasting, identifying, evaluating, and developing guidance on potential hazards in new or emergent technologies.

In 2020 and early 2021, Wiki Education undertook a campaign to improve the quality of information related to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over several months, Wiki Education ran a series of courses affiliated with our Wikipedia Scholars & Scientists program. To our knowledge, this initiative was the first effort ever to engage subject-matter experts during a national emergency to systematically improve Wikipedia’s coverage of a topic crucial to the general public. In this presentation, we'll review what we learned about running multiple courses in the same topic area, how we engaged subject-matter experts to improve both local and global information about the pandemic, and how their specialized backgrounds helped improve Wikipedia's coverage of impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We propose a panel of University faculty with experience in teaching and research to discuss their experiences of engaging with Wikipedia curation. Curation of Wikipedia pages by faculty or other research experts with advanced knowledge in specific areas can greatly improve the content of pages. Graduate trainees and postdoctoral fellows have strong abilities to learn and are en route to becoming experts in their areas of interest. Therefore, university communities provide rich environments for engaging experts and advanced trainees in curating Wikipedia. Contributing to Wikipedia also brings groups together across historically siloed University departments. Workshops and seminars about the use of Wikipedia in education provide a medium for engaging members from across the breadth of the University community. Incorporating Wikipedia curating into classroom projects engages emerging professionals with the Wikipedia process and gives graduate trainees experience in writing for a public audience. The panel will discuss the variety of ways in which they have engaged with Wikipedia within their respective university communities, and reciprocally learn from the audience community.

Member; Institution; Focus

Ben Wolozin, MD, PhD; Boston University; Pharmacology

Denise Smith, MLIS; MacMaster University; Health Sciences

Amin Azzam, MD, MA; University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); Wikiproject Medicine

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, students and faculty alike are also grappling with an "infodemic." The World Health Organization defines an "infodemic" as “an overabundance of information—some accurate and some not—that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it” (World Health Organization, 2020). Social media platforms and fact-checking organizations are also struggling to keep up with vetting information about the pandemic (Frenkel et al., 2020; Izadi, 2020).

In the context of the "infodemic," it is critical to teach our students strategies for deciding whether online information can be trusted. Using Wikipedia to check the potential agenda or biases of a source can help students quickly determine if that source is trustworthy. This approach is both more efficient and effective than scrutinizing the original information for clues about its credibility. In fact, professional fact-checkers often turn to Wikipedia as a starting point to investigate sources (Wineburg & McGrew, 2019).

Our institution, the College of Staten Island, CUNY, is one of 11 institutions participating in the Digital Polarization Initiative, sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. We have partnered with instructors of the college's civics course to teach first-year college students how to read laterally when vetting online information. Lateral reading involves leaving a website to investigate the people and organizations promoting the online content, finding out what other sources have to say about it, and tracing the content back to its original source. Using Wikipedia to investigate sources may be counter to what many students were taught prior to college or in other college classes. However, students are receptive to using Wikipedia to investigate sources and improve in both their ability and confidence to read laterally (Brodsky et al., 2021a, 2021b).

In this workshop, we will share findings from the Digital Polarization Initiative and help you build activities for your own courses that teach students to use Wikipedia when fact-checking online information.

Everyone is welcome to this workshop!

Wikimedia Commons is home to the world’s largest collection of idealized diagrams of traffic signs, from highway shields for each Interstate highway to historic stop signs in China. Participants in WikiProject Signs and WikiProject Highways strive to faithfully depict standard signs pixel for pixel – or, in the case of WikiProject U.S. Roads, down to one-sixteenth of an inch. Sign diagrams are available in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format and almost always released into the public domain, facilitating reuse in a variety of contexts.

These graphics enrich transportation-related Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Readers use them to easily navigate among articles and familiarize themselves with the traffic signs on the road. Within the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project, the same graphics are a key element of training materials for mappers and documentation for software developers. Without this resource, OSM would be much less usable as a data source powering many popular map and navigation applications.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to contribute to this effort. We’ll author a sign diagram using Inkscape, the open-source vector graphics editor. The diagram will depict a U.S.-style sign based on a specification published by a state department of transportation. You’ll learn how to read this specification and translate it into path and text elements in SVG. Along the way, we’ll go over some differences in how typefaces and colors are represented on the Web versus real life.

This workshop assumes a basic familiarity with wiki editing and uploading files to Wikimedia Commons.

The presenter has contributed to Wikipedia since 2003, Wikimedia Commons since 2004, and OpenStreetMap since 2008. His Wikimedia Commons contributions include diagrams of almost 700 traffic signs and route markers, most of them found only in his home states of Ohio and California.

With the support of WikiCred, our team has been working for the last year in Glassbox, a Wordpress plugin that allows people to review the diffs in news content. This project began thanks to a presentation in WCNA 2019 :)

In this session, we would like to introduce the tool, its Wikipedia integration with a bot, and have some feedback about the tool.

You can check the project in the following sites:

- https://misinfocon.com/glassbox-betting-for-proactive-transparency-against-misinformation-52b07070c790 - https://misinfocon.com/wikicred-demo-hour-credibility-and-context-in-spanish-language-media-5eec8c40bb36 - https://github.com/GlassboxNews/wordpress-plugin/ - https://docs.glassbox.news/en/latest/

The most important technical issue with the Wikimedia wikis is the lack of capability to share the code of templates and modules across wikis. They implement some of the most notable features of our sites, such as infoboxes, formatted references, hatnotes, "citation needed", sports results tables, and thousands of others, but unlike it is with MediaWiki extensions (and to a certain extent, gadgets), using them across different wikis and localizing them is extremely difficult. Despite being very important and affecting practically all Wikimedia wikis, this problem is frequently overlooked and ignored. However, it is a problem, and many editors have repeatedly asked to address it since 2004. There is a proposal to address it, called "Global templates". It has been supported by well over a hundred editors from many wikis, but three things are needed to implement it successfully:

• Unquestionable community consensus from many wikis, both larger and smaller.
• A commitment from MediaWiki engineering leadership to invest resources in developing the infrastructure for it.
• A plan, or at least a draft thereof, for using this infrastructure once it is deployed.

This topic was briefly presented at Wikimania 2021 under the title "Global templates, component templates", but this proposed presentation will be different in two important aspects: 1. It will be more detailed. 2. It will focus on the specific role of the communities of the English, French, and Spanish wikis in this process.

This presentation will:

• Show the problem.
• Show the proposed solution.
• Discuss the current status of development.
• Show the particular challenges that English, French, and Spanish wikis will have in the process.
• Give a stage for the communities of these wikis, and possibly others, to comment.

In order, the ten most spoken languages in North America are English, Spanish, French, Chinese (all dialects), Tagalog, Vietnamese, German, Arabic, Korean, and Italian. This talk explores how these languages fare in their individual Wikipedias, as well as some of the nuances where there is more than one Wikipedia per language.
Slide deck at How Do the Top Ten Languages in North America Fare on Their Wikipedias?

More and more people want to know about Wikidata...but how do you teach Wikidata? With so much to cover, how do you ensure everyone is learning what they need to know? What are some ways to keep participants engaged? How do you tie learning outcomes into larger conversations about Wikidata and other projects? This presentation will explore some of the pedagogical approaches Wiki Education's Will Kent has taken to teaching Wikidata. These approaches specifically aim to make Wikidata more accessible, understandable, and usable for new editors.

In 2021, the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative partnered with Wiki Education to run a series of four Wiki Scholars courses with Smithsonian Affiliates. Smithsonian Affiliates are a diverse group of over 200 GLAM organizations across the US with a variety of focuses and ways of engaging with their patrons. In Wiki Scholars courses, Wiki Education staff lead participants through a six-week course on how to edit Wikipedia in a particular topic area, meeting once per week on Zoom and with outside of class work to research and write articles. These GLAM professionals learned how to improve biographies of women on Wikipedia, particularly those relevant to their local institutions' collections and contexts.

Throughout 2021, we've run three editions of this course, with a fourth happening at the time of submission. In the first three courses, 55 participants edited more than 100 articles, making this a successful opportunity to improve Wikipedia's coverage of American women's history. Participants also contributed to a list building project (similar to the Vicki Funk List) that provides us with names and metadata about notable women for inclusion in Wikidata or Wikipedia to increase the representation of American women from across the country online. In this session, Wiki Education's LiAnna Davis and the Smithsonian's Kelly Doyle will discuss how we collaborated, share more about what the outcomes are for Wikipedia, and describe additional collaborations currently underway to continue improving biographies of American women throughout history.

On Commons, the Special:Suggested tags presents images or other media that need tagging for structured data. Often these files are uncategorized. This presentation will show how to use Commons, Wikipedia, and Wikidata together to find an appropriate category. If it does not exist, then there are steps to assign the new category to the file, create this new category that will contain a ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'? and its own categories, then associate it with the appropriate Wikidata item. One can then finish adding the additional tags to the media file and publish them.

Presentation slides are at How to tie together Commons and Wikidata by using the Commons SuggestedTags tool.pdf.

On Commons, the Special:Suggested tags presents images or other media that need tagging for structured data. Often these files are uncategorized. This presentation will show how to use Commons, Wikipedia, and Wikidata together to find an appropriate category. If it does not exist, then there are steps to assign the new category to the file, create this new category that will contain a ?'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000002-QINU`"'? and its own categories, then associate it with the appropriate Wikidata item. One can then finish adding the additional tags to the media file and publish them.

Presentation slides are at How to tie together Commons and Wikidata by using the Commons SuggestedTags tool.pdf.

Although college students, like all of us, interact with and use information constantly, they don't tend to think of it as an entity unto itself. When they are introduced to the information literacy frame "Information Has Value," they become much more aware of the nuances of its value, "as a commodity, as a means of education, as a means to influence, and as a means of negotiating and understanding the world" (https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework#value). Introducing them to the notion that they have the power to contribute to information that is freely available to others intrigues them, while causing mild panic amongst some. They rarely see themselves as information producers other than as the writers of term papers. Even the thought of social media posts as information production is new to many of them.

The Wiki Education program provides excellent training for novice Wikipedia editors, but a conceptual understanding of the value of information, as well as scaffolding to recognize themselves as information producers, can provide a rich underpinning for this new set of skills, a background that will help them to see the value of their contributions, and encourage them to continue as Wikipedia editors.

This presentation will explore the metaliteracy learning model, which emphasizes active roles for learners: producer, author, communicator, and collaborator, amongst others. It also highlights four learning domains—not just the cognitive and the behavioral, but also the metacognitive and the affective. This holistic set of domains and roles helps new Wikipedia editors recognize that learning is a process that requires reflection, and involves emotions. This scaffolding, along with an exploration of the powerful Information Has Value concept, particularly as it applies in the Wikimedia environment, provides an educational experience that enhances the Wiki Education classroom program. A tangible example is a Wiki Edu blog post written by one of my students last spring, entitled “Overcoming Imposter Syndrome by Editing Wikipedia" https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/05/12/overcoming-imposter-syndrome-by-editing-wikipedia/. I believe I will be able to include a student, Jackson Gray, from my course as a co-presenter, to contribute their thoughts on the topic.

There is a whole world of MediaWiki extensions and skins intended for use by companies and organizations. These are sometimes collectively referred to as "Enterprise MediaWiki". They allow for a variety of interesting functionality, like form-based editing, and storage and querying of infobox data. Though they may never end up on Wikipedia, they are still an important part of the MediaWiki ecosystem (one, Replace Text, is even bundled with MediaWiki), and are used, in some cases, on thousands of wikis This talk will list some of the functionality available, and will show some of the real-life uses of it

This presentation will cover the latest research and tools that focus on understanding and expanding links on Wikipedia with an emphasis on how links are related to knowledge gaps. For example, this will cover:

• Research on role of links in knowledge gaps -- e.g., how well-linked are articles about women to the rest of Wikipedia: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739176
• New tools for helping newcomers to add links to Wikipedia: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tasks/Add_a_link
• Visualizations of link data:
  • What links do readers click on? https://wikinav.toolforge.org/
  • What is the gender of biographies that are linked to from an article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)/link_gender

San Diego Wikimedians User Group (US-SAN) will be having an in-person public outreach event in Balboa Park in San Diego. During that time, we will be having a 39 minute zoom call, to allow others to join us virtually beginning at Noon PDT on Sunday 10 October. This can be listed as an unconference event for purposes of WCNA2021. Here is a link to the event on English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Diego/October_2021#Online_meetup_details

This is a continuation of the Wikimania session Wikimedia and Sustainability-Selecting topics for impact. In that session, we mapped (and peer reviewed) common Wikimedia activities towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This led to the insight that some goals have few Wikimedia activities, whereas others naturally align well with what the Wikimedia movement does. However, this was in no way an exhaustive list, and we thus plan to iterate on it several times. The session ended with an ideation phase around the goals that had least identified activities. We now have a large table with activities which maps them towards the SDGs.

With this session, we aim to achieve three things: - Refine the table of mapped activities we have - Peer review the additions that were made during Wikimania - Highlight existing activities in the areas where we have the greatest gaps, and brainstorm topics on the areas that have the largest gaps.

Through the session, we want to achieve a more complete list of activities that also have been reviewed by more members of the community. This will enable a more diverse palette of activities to choose from when planning events and discussing with potential partners.

We plan to take the results of this WikiCon NA session to WikiIndaba for further refinement and have submitted a similar session proposal there.

This presentation will describe NIOSH’s ongoing efforts to create and maintain Wikidata items describing NIOSH publications, mainly through importing data from the NIOSHTIC-2 bibliographic database. These efforts will be presented as a case study accessible to Wikidata beginners who want to learn how to import bibliographic data into Wikidata, while also generating feedback from experienced contributors.

NIOSH is the U.S. federal research agency focused on the study of worker safety and health. NIOSHTIC-2 is NIOSH’s official publication database, which includes both publications authored by NIOSH staff and by individual and institutional grantees funded by NIOSH. It also includes historical publications of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, whose research programs were absorbed by NIOSH in 1996. While many of the publications are journal articles and thus overlap with other efforts to import data from, e.g., PubMed, many of the publications are self-published and do not occur in other databases that are routinely imported.

The presentation will cover topics such as matching database fields to Wikidata properties, processing field values into Wikidata formats, and the overall workflow for importing and improving data, including tools used as part of the process.

More information is available at d:Wikidata:NIOSH

The North American continent is vibrant and diverse, and so are our communities and the areas of work - from research and tech development to minority languages and addressing content gaps. The aim of this session is to work with community members to identify major communication and coordination challenges in the region - both internal to the region and with the Foundation - and discuss ways to address them, including capacity and resources needs for community groups.

Phase Two of the News On Wiki campaign, which improves wiki coverage of local newspapers, was conceived and launched at WikiConference North America in 2019. Starting early in the pandemic, we adapted to a purely online version of this campaign, and helped existing and new wiki editors build content related to Black owned newspapers, newspapers of Washington State, and newspapers of or about the Caribbean.

We had some of our most enthusiastic engagement from Arizona State University journalism professor Kristy Roschke, whose students researched and contributed to wiki content in all three areas. Going forward, we are refining our classroom approach to improve the fit between educational outcomes and on-wiki content generation.

Join campaign leaders Sherry Antoine, Pete Forsyth, and Prof. Roschke for a presentation on how this campaign has helped Wikipedia and the Internet in general provide better information about local newspapers, and our focus on content from local communities and demographics that are oat times overlooked by the public and by Wikipedia editors.

The Japanese Wikipedia is the most visited language in Wikipedia after the English Wikipedia. Yet, the accuracy of the site has been rarely discussed or studied. In the course of investigation I've learned that Japanese ultra-nationalists have been controlling the Wikipedia community for many years. Their aim is to whitewash war crimes committed by the Japanese military during WWII and spread a xenophobic and racist worldview.

A similar trend exists in other languages, such as Croatian Wikipedia. It has received attention from international media for promoting a fascist worldview and historical revisionism. Certain language versions of Wikipedia, such as Croatian and Japanese, are more vulnerable to being exploited by illiberal networks.

In this presentation I'll discuss the misinformation and disinformation problem on non-English versions of Wikipedia and offer a possible solution.

OpenHistoricalMap is an ambitious project to map the world throughout history. Unlike previous historical mapping projects, OpenHistoricalMap relies on members of the general public to contribute historical data and tell untold stories about the past using easy-to-use online tools. The data is available under open licenses, making OpenHistoricalMap a natural complement to Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. OpenHistoricalMap is a charter project of OpenStreetMap U.S., a local chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

Though the project is still in its infancy, you can already find some pre-Columbian cities, American Civil War fortifications, North American railroads at their peak, shops that closed due to the pandemic, historic transportation networks, changing shorelines, and a variety of other details. Contributors can use sources such as out-of-copyright maps, public domain aerial imagery, historical markers, and their own local knowledge to preserve historical details in the context of a much larger world.

OpenHistoricalMap has adapted the software that powers OpenStreetMap to provide much of the functionality that people expect of present-day maps but with an extra dimension. You can zoom in and out on the map while moving the interactive time slider back and forth. A custom search engine returns results from multiple eras. A specialized query tool enables researchers to extract data across time based on arbitrary attributes, such as the first 10-story buildings in New York City.

OpenHistoricalMap welcomes new mappers who are interested in learning about historical geography and sharing what they have learned. Many of the skills required are the same as those used by traditional historians. The OpenHistoricalMap community is eager to help develop a new community of historical geographers through the project.

OpenHistoricalMap needs your help: mapping the world is already a daunting task, but mapping it throughout time is even more so! Our goal is the same as it has always been - to produce the world’s most comprehensive, obsolete map.

• Español: A partir de mi investigación doctoral, se presentará un análisis de las políticas de Wikipedia en español las cuales influyen de manera profunda en la participación interna de las y los editores más activos. Se mostrará un análisis cualitativo de las votaciones y la modificación de las políticas para participar en ciertos debates, votaciones, encuestas y para poder ser bibliotecario. A partir de la noción de Participación política (Carpentier), se busca reconocer los discursos internos de los usuarios y usuarias que permiten la integración de nuevos editores, así como los que parecen querer evitar la inclusión de nuevos editores, así como de cuentas anónimas. Es importante señalar que las políticas de Wikipedia en español, así como de otras Wikipedias, no son firmes y son modificables por la comunidad; sin embargo, las reglas y normas tienden a ser más rígidas conforme pasa el tiempo, y el consenso de las y los usuarios se ha ido inclinando a no favorecer la inclusión de nuevos usuarios, y a no aceptar el regreso de usuarios y usuarias expulsadas. No se pretende realizar un análisis generalista, sino interpretar las normas en contraste con los estudios de participación política (Carpentier y Dahlgren), la participación mediática (Jenkins) y la democracia participativa (Mouffe).
• English: Based on my doctoral research, I will carry out an analysis of the policies of Spanish Wikipedia, which profoundly influence the internal participation of the most active editors. It will show a qualitative analysis of the voting and the modification of the policies to participate in certain debates, votes, polls and to become an administrator. Based on the notion of Political Participation (Carpentier), I seek to recognize the internal discourses of users that allow the integration of new editors, as well as those who seem to want to avoid the inclusion of new contributors, as well as anonymous users. It is important to note that the policies of Spanish Wikipedia, as well as other Wikipedias, are not firm and are modifiable by the community; however, the rules and regulations tend to become more rigid as time goes by, and the consensus of users has tended not to favor the inclusion of new users, and not to accept the return of users with indefinite blocking. I do not pretend to show a generalist or quantitative analysis, but to interpret the norms in contrast to studies of political participation (Carpentier and Dahlgren), media participation (Jenkins) and participatory democracy (Mouffe).

Programs & Events Dashboard is a software built by Wiki Education Foundation that thousands of program leaders globally use to manage their editing programs and events. We'll show off some tips and tricks for maximizing your use of it, with most of the time devoted to answering your questions.

Things you might learn about:

• How to get started with Programs & Events Dashboard if you're new
• How to do more with Programs & Events Dashboard if you're experienced
• Solving your current P&E Dashboard roadblocks

In late-October 2020, two unknown academics wrote an a piece about bias on English Wikipedia, which was published in the United Kingdom magazine 'The Critic'. Here is the link to the piece: https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/ Join your fellow Wikimedians and reflect upon and discuss its points. Are the critiques valid, invalid, why? What, if anything, if there is any validity to the critiques, should be done to address the raised concerns?

In an effort to continually improve our programmatic offerings, Wiki Education regularly surveys its program participants. As a result, we have a wealth of data about newcomers' experiences on Wikipedia and Wikidata. In this panel, Wiki Education staff will share and discuss some of the most critical findings we've collected from our participant surveys. We'll explore feedback we've received from participants both in our Wikipedia Student Program as well as our Scholars & Scientists program. Topics to be covered include: challenges first-time editors face, what draws participants to Wikipedia, what scares newbies away, shifting attitudes of first-time editors, community interactions, and recommendations on how to improve the experience for all new-comers based on survey feedback.

According the Wiki Education Foundation ("Foundation"), it has been supporting university instructors with Wikipedia writing assignments for over ten years. In that time, the Foundation's Wikipedia Student Program has supported over 4,000 courses and over 83,000 students who have edited almost 100,000 articles and added over 71 million words to Wikipedia.

Engineering students at the University of Southern California ("USC") have participated in the Foundation's Wikipedia Student Program through their upper-division writing courses since the spring semester of 2019. This presentation will describe the learning outcomes of course and their alignment with Wikipedia writing, assignment design and assessment, and student feedback about the Wikipedia writing experience at USC. The presentation will also include discussions about Wikipedia writing's resonance with students' understandings of digital citizenship and applied engineering ethics.

The urgency of the climate crisis is reflected in the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy recommendations, which call on the entire Wikimedia Movement to “align our practices to support the environmental sustainability of our planet”.

A group of Wikimedia afiliates have recently begun implementing this recommendation, commiting themselves to reducing their carbon footprint through a variety of measures, especially around travel, in the Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant.

This session will explore this new initiative, especially how it takes into account the principle of climate justice, meaning that the more privileged must help carry the burden otherwise disproportionately borne by those less privileged and those living in regions prone to the harshest effects of climate change.

The session will close with a call on North American Wikimedia affiliates to co-sign the Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant.

• Español:Durante cuatro años, he utilizado herramientas de Wikipedia y Wikimedia Commons para impartir clases relacionadas con música, historia del arte, iconografía, estética, entre otras. Durante esta charla presentaré algunos de los resultados cuantitativos y cualitativos, señalando las ventajas y desventajas, así como las aportaciones que las y los estudiantes pueden brindar al ecosistema de Wikimedia con sus ediciones individuales en el aula. Asimismo, se hablará de la importancia del desarrollo del conocimiento local, para unirlo con el conocimiento global, como una forma de generar relaciones significativas a partir de la información que se genera en las carreras relacionadas con el arte y la cultura. Se analizarán algunas imágenes compartidas por las y los estudiantes, así como la importancia de compartir archivos de audio y otros elementos multimedia que tienen relación con los saberes locales; es específico de Aguascalientes. Parte de los resultados se encuentran en este link: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Luisalvaz#Proyectos_educativos
• English: For four years, I have used tools from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons to teach classes related to music, art history, iconography, aesthetics, among other curricula. During this talk I will present some of the quantitative and qualitative results, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the contributions that students can bring to the Wikimedia ecosystem with their individual editions in the classroom. At the same time, I will mention the importance of using and developing local knowledge, and combining it with global knowledge, as a way of generating meaningful relationships based on the knowledge created in art and culture-related degrees. Some images shared by the students will be analyzed, as well as the importance of sharing audio files and other multimedia elements that are related to local knowledge; in particular from Aguascalientes. Part of the results can be found here: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Luisalvaz#Proyectos_educativos

During WikiConference North America, KNoW Science and Wikimedia DC would like to build on momentum from previous events to facilitate a Spanish and English Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon. We hope to update our submission with support from Wikimedia Mexico as well.

This edit-a-thon will be the culmination of an event series which is aimed at improving vaccine safety information on different language Wikipedias. Our multilingual events have brought together Wikipedians and health/science subject matter experts who are interested in creating, editing and improving articles and citations for vaccine-related content pages. This content has become increasingly important as we all continue to grapple with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and ramp up worldwide vaccination campaigns.

Edit-a-thon participants can choose from articles in curated task lists in English and Spanish that have already been created through the Vaccine Safety Project with help from Netha Hussain and members of Wikimedia Mexico. These task lists are divided by skill level, with articles that preferably require advanced science/health knowledge to beginner articles which require no health background in order to edit.

Our kick-off event in August 2020 was organized with support from the World Health Organization’s Vaccine Safety Net (VSN), the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) and Wikimedia DC. Subsequent events were organized with Wikimedia Mexico and Malayalam Wikipedia in English, Spanish and Malayalam.

Please see the following links for more information about our initiative and past events: KNoW Science: https://newsq.net/activities/know-science-vaccine-safety-edit-a-thon-series/ Vaccine Safety Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vaccine_safety Previous Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Vaccine_Safety_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_June_12,_2021

The Volunteer Response Team (VRT) serves a crucial role in answering queries and complaints from the public regarding Wikimedia projects. VRT members are able to handle the vast majority of emails received. In a small number of cases, however, issues must be escalated to Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) staff, often WMF Legal.

Likewise, WMF Legal receives queries and complaints from the public. Though WMF Legal is able to handle the majority of emails it receives, they defer to the Wikimedia community in cases of content moderation whenever possible. This often requires communication with VRT.

In this session, we hope to discuss what is working and what can be improved with regards to the relationship between VRT and WMF Legal.

Desired outcomes:

• VRT members and other interested parties understand the evolving legal challenges influencing content moderation and takedown requests the Wikimedia Foundation is receiving.
• WMF Legal and VRT members come to a better understanding of their working relationship, identifying areas of strength and areas for improvement.
• This conversation is, hopefully, one of many. As with the Foundation's 12 June 2021 office hours with the French and German communities regarding applicable law and content moderation, we hope there will be more conversations like this.

In this very short presentation, we want to introduce you to Web2Cit: a visual editor for Citoid web translators. The Citoid extension in Wikipedia's visual editor uses the Citoid API to resolve a URL, DOI, QID, etc, into a citation template. To do so, the Citoid service relies (in part) on Zotero web translators to get citation metadata from a website.

Lack of Zotero web translator coverage forces editors to fall back on manually transcribing citation metadata. For the majority of editors using visual editor, this is a cumbersome process that may deter them from adding references to their contributions, bias references toward those whose sites expose metadata appropriately, or leave broken citations.

The development of this tool (currently being funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Grant) would enable non-technical users collaboratively create and edit web translators, helping improve the quality of citations.

We want to share our progress in developing the tool and offer some ways for the community to help us by gathering sources and giving ideas about how we can further outreach to the community.

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This talk will go through the coverage of North American indigenous languages in Wikipedias. Curently there are five that have their own Wikipedias, and ten that have Wikis in the Incubator. This leaves 15 of the most commonly indigenous languages that have no representation in Wikipedia whatsoever.

In 2013, I had coffee with a librarian colleague, John Dupuis (Abstract co-author). He mentioned Ada Lovelace Day, founded in 2009 by journalist, Suw Charman-Anderson, who pledged to write a blog post about a woman in technology if one thousand other people also wrote one. The day has grown into an annual international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) held on the second Tuesday of October. Activities include lectures and Wikipedia Editathons.

John and Dawn discussed holding a #FindingAda Day at York University, Toronto. While we both had experience with science policy and EDI, neither of us were experienced Wikipedians. We decided to develop our skills through a Wikipedia editing assignment for Dawn’s upper year Plant Ecology course in Winter Term 2014.

Students responded positively to their laboratory-based assignments. They did research on notable women Biologists, especially Ecologists, without Wikipedia pages. In Fall 2015 we organized our first drop-in Ada Lovelace Day Editathon, tailored to our primarily commuter main campus. In the meantime, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia held a Wikipedia Editathon in 2014, providing us with a handy poster template and event agenda.

We have held annual Ada Lovelace Day Wikipedia Editathons, except for 2020. Dawn expanded and adapted the Wikipedia editing assignment for all of her Biology courses. We also developed associated curriculum about the Open Access ecosystem, metadata, Creative Commons, Sherpa Romeo, and Institutional Repositories.

In 2020, Dawn joined the first WikiEdu session. She has found the training modules immensely helpful and has shared them with John as he and fellow librarians prepare for a virtual 2021 Wikipedia Editathon.

Webpages: Wikipedia assignments for Biology students: • https://dawnbazely.lab.yorku.ca/2018/08/my-undergraduate-assignment-for-learning-to-edit-wikipedia-pages/

Wikipedia Editathons: • 2019: https://dawnbazely.lab.yorku.ca/2019/06/celebrating-the-international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science-2019-at-the-university-of-toronto/ • 2018: https://dawnbazely.lab.yorku.ca/2018/10/celebrating-international-ada-lovelace-day-2018/ • 2017: https://dawnbazely.lab.yorku.ca/2017/12/growing-international-ada-lovelace-day-in-canada/ • 2016 https://dawnbazely.lab.yorku.ca/2016/12/ada-lovelace-day-at-york-university-2016/ • 2015 https://dawnbazely.lab.yorku.ca/2015/10/ada-lovelace-day-2015-at-york-university-26th-29th-october-2015/

Internationalizing Wikipedia training: • https://dawnbazely.lab.yorku.ca/2018/01/wikipedia-editathon-chronicles-part-1/ • https://dawnbazely.lab.yorku.ca/2018/04/wikipedia-editathon-chronicles-part-2/ • https://dawnbazely.lab.yorku.ca/2018/04/digital-divide-chronicles-part-3/

Wikipedia NPOV editing is based upon consensus on how the policies and guidelines should be followed. Sometimes the process fails: either because the prejudice of the general community, or the local bias of a small dominant group of editors in an area. Recent examples will be presented in areas dealing with politics and science

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Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual international photographic competition that invites people to document and promote historic sites around the world by uploading photos to the Wikimedia Commons to be used on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This session will focus on the United States edition of the event, which had over 1,000 participants and almost 6,000 photo uploads in 2020 (see stats).

The session will introduce Wiki Loves Monuments as a whole as well as the U.S. competition and its evolution over the years. As the upload period for the U.S. competition coincides with the conference (October), this is an opportune time to present the event to a broad audience and encourage participation (we may even do a live demo of submitting a photo to the contest). We will then look at future opportunities for the future of the event, and then—fitting well with the theme of the conference—discuss how participants can help organize local activities and collaborations around Wiki Loves Monuments in their area.

The session will start as a presentation and then evolve into a roundtable / workshop.

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• Slidedeck
• Jury Application

Description

Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual international photographic competition that invites people to document and promote historic sites around the world by uploading photos to the Wikimedia Commons to be used on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This session will focus on the United States edition of the event, which had over 1,000 participants and almost 6,000 photo uploads in 2020 (see stats).

The session will introduce Wiki Loves Monuments as a whole as well as the U.S. competition and its evolution over the years. As the upload period for the U.S. competition coincides with the conference (October), this is an opportune time to present the event to a broad audience and encourage participation (we may even do a live demo of submitting a photo to the contest). We will then look at future opportunities for the future of the event, and then—fitting well with the theme of the conference—discuss how participants can help organize local activities and collaborations around Wiki Loves Monuments in their area.

The session will start as a presentation and then evolve into a roundtable / workshop.

A "literature review" is the common research practice of surveying and summarizing research publications on a particular topic. When researchers conduct a literature review in a way that is reproducible and quantitative, then it becomes a "systematic review". Here we share the WikiLetters Method-Tool (MT) as an asset for generating systematic reviews using Wikipedia platform content and data science technology to quickly identify and profile sets of scientific journals with great reproducibility.

To operate this MT, the researcher gives the tool between 100-1000 scholarly publications which they have identified as being possible candidates for inclusion in the systematic review required knowledge of a subject. The MT then clusters the papers into two groups: those which are the most likely to discuss the topic enough to merit inclusion in the review, and those which are most likely to diverge from scope. Furthermore, this tool provide means of transparency so that any other researcher can examine the selection algorithm which this tool creates.

This MT imagines the Wikipedia platform as a starting point for scholarly literature review in any field. It builds upon the WikiCite project, which is the Wikidata community effort to open metadata from Scholarly literature, by matching metadata from that dataset with contemporary algorithms for analysis and visualization.

While other tools for aiding systematic review exist, benefits of this one include the following: it is free and open; it is usable by people who are new to systematic review; it is reproducible and gives the author documentation of the selection method; it advances the activism and consumer rights protection of the existing WikiCite project; it develops the Wikipedia platform as a center serious scholarly research; and aside from scholarly use, it enables Wikipedia editors to use the systematic review ranking process to identify the best papers to cite for developing any Wikipedia article which is the subject of academic publication. Furthermore, Wiki-editors can use this MT to append recent research into existing systematic reviews and turning those into a living systematic review for use either in Wikipedia or beyond.

Wikipedia is acknowledge as being one of the few places where people with very different perspectives collaborate to produce a narrative that all can more or less live with.

How can we use this to reduce destructive conflict between Wikipedia editors and between different groups in the totality of humanity?

The background for this talk includes a discussion of 8 different presentations at Wikimania 2021 that discussed either (a) Managing conflicts in Wikipedia, (b) Problems with biased editing, (c) Broadening media coverage of societal conflicts, or (d) New law regarding "terrorism". We also discuss research into what seems to be driving the increase in political polarization seen in many different countries around the world since 2004, when Facebook was founded.

We then ask participants to discuss the following: (1) What groups can we work with to encourage more people to edit Wikipedia and use Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikiversity to improve the quality of information available to all, especially about major conflicts? (2) How can we approach groups to organize, e.g., Edit-a-thons and encourage them to hire Wikimedians in Residence? (3) What might participants consider doing to help connect with other organizations concerned with major conflicts and encourage them to work with Wikimedia Foundation projects to (3.1) help each side in a conflict understand their opposition while also (3.2) improving the quality of information available about all major parties to a conflict?

For example, Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Chile, and Wikimedia Columbia organized edit-a-thons that taught people how to upload photographs to Wikimedia Commons, how to edit and create Wikipedia articles and how to use Wikidata. In doing this they successfully recruited hundreds of new editors who made thousands of contributions that generated tens of thousands of views. In this way they succeeded in broadening the perspectives available to the public on major pro-democracy demonstrations that occurred in those three countries recently.

Other examples might include any organization that might share these concerns, e.g., PeaceWorks Kansas City (peaceworkskc.org) and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

REFERENCE ARTICLES ON WIKIVERSITY:

"Managing conflict on Wikipedia and internationally": This summarizes 8 presentations on conflict at Wikimania 2021 and makes suggestions to support this workshop.

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Managing_conflict_on_Wikipedia_and_internationally

"International Conflict Observatory": This reviews literature on major conflict and makes recommendations including encouraging organizations doing research or advocacy on conflict to hire Wikimedians in Residence to do things like the topic of this workshop. It was the basis for a presentation at the 895th Military Operations Research Society Symposium in June of this year.

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/International_Conflict_Observatory

NOTES:

1. Draft slides for this presentation are available at:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PqXX6HYy3LCurpJXnJ2MfgFchPcP3vHgATpgevY5KUY/edit?usp=sharing

Anyone with this link should be able to view them.

2. We would happily present on this topic in Spanish as well as English. Spanish is the primary tongue of Ferrante. Graves has an advanced knowledge of Spanish, having taught classes and published a book and articles written directly in that language.

Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality: A Panel Discussion and Response

Join authors and educators Zach McDowell and Matt Vetter for an overview and Q&A related to their recently published book Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality. This session will be responded to and introduced by Ian Ramjohn of Wiki Education. Acknowledging Wikipedia’s status as the world’s foremost knowledge repository, the book explores the disconnect between the encyclopedia's formalized policy and the often-unspoken norms that govern its knowledge-making processes. Applying theoretical concepts relevant to the encyclopedias “culture-of-use” (Thorne) and the archeology of knowledge (Foucault), McDowell and Vetter explore how epistemological practices in Wikipedia are shaped by historically-situated norms and ideologies at once past and present in the encyclopedia’s development. While the authors ultimately celebrate the community's ambitions for free and open knowledge, they balance praise with critique through an honest evaluation of Wikipedia's many problems related to diversity and inclusion. By means of this critique, the book illustrates Wikipedia's struggle to combat systemic biases and lack of representation of marginalized topics and identities as it becomes the standard bearer for equitable and accessible representation of reality in an age of digital disinformation and fake news.

Like their book, this presentation will leverage McDowell and Vetter’s combined experience researching and teaching Wikipedia over the past decade to cover topics related to how Wikipedia, as the largest repository of information in the world, shapes perceptions of reality through

• Reliability and verifiability policies and guidelines
• Notability, knowledge gaps, and exclusionary practices
• Wikipedia’s community and challenges related to participation

Following this presentations, Ian Ramjohn will respond to the presentation and lead a discussion / Q&A session on how specific findings in the book might inform Wikipedia-based education practices.

McDowell, Z.J., & Vetter, M.A. (2021). Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003094081

We are two librarians who teach an undergraduate Introduction to Information Studies course. In this presentation, we will argue that using Wikipedia in the classroom helps students develop information literacy skills. In particular we’ll focus on the concept that Authority is Constructed and Contextual, which is a foundational concept from the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework). We’ll explain how we incorporate Wikipedia in class with students working to improve one article over a series of three scaffolded projects.

We see students’ work with Wikipedia as especially rich for grappling with authority because of the variety of roles students undertake as they edit. Initially, students must integrate into the Wikipedia community, which has its own measures of authority that may differ from academia’s traditional notions. We see students grappling with preconceived ideas of Wikipedia’s acceptance in the classroom, with many of our students reporting that previous teachers had banned Wikipedia “because anyone could edit it.” As students unpack this during our course, they begin to be able to see and understand the process behind a Wikipedia article rather than just the product. For example, they evaluate the article’s degree of authoritativeness based on markers like sources, editors, and history. When editing, students must also decide what sources are authoritative and understand how source authoritativeness varies depending on context. What is appropriate for a Wikipedia article may not be appropriate for an academic essay and vice versa. As students step into the author role themselves, there’s more at stake here than a traditional research essay. As they become public scholars, their work is immediately available to anyone looking at their article, including opening their work up to evaluations from the Wikipedia community rather than just their instructor. Wikipedia as a platform offers a unique opportunity for students to step beyond academic research and into real-world application.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every pillar of society. Our daily operations have been transformed to create what we now know as our “new normal”. Globally, schools have been closed to allow for social distancing as a protective measure. Education has therefore made a transition from face-to-face teaching to online lectures. Although this adaptation has benefitted millions of students, the prerequisite of internet access for continued education has created a new subgroup of students that are vulnerable to loss of learning opportunities. If we are to globalize information through the creation of a new education system, it is important to establish measures that are equally beneficial to students from different backgrounds. Lack of internet access has been identified as a major barrier to remote learning and students in developing regions have been disproportionately affected due to higher rates of poverty. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia featuring widely accessible, free information for all. Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, two small scale pilot projects ‘Wikipedia en Fresno’ and’ Wikipedia Internet-in-a-Box’ were launched to provide Wikipedia articles via an offline database in rural communities. A combination of these approaches, tailored to the current social climate will ensure that no student is left behind. This will bridge the gap between vulnerable students that lack internet access and the resources they need to complete homework and research assignments. Promoting Wikipedia as a tool for education will reduce learning losses, thus minimizing school dropouts, child labor and early pregnancy. This presentation will therefore outline Wikipedia’s role in providing learning opportunities to students with no access to the internet, thus boosting inclusivity and contributing positively to the upcoming generations of world leaders.

WikiProject Clinical Trials

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This talk has two parts: a specific presentation of WikiProject Clinical Trials, and a general discussion of Wikipedia's future as a platform for research.

WikiProject Clinical Trials is a Wikidata project which began with the import of the United States government medical research database at ClinicalTrials.gov. We give an overview of what we took into the Wikipedia ecosystem and how we matched content there to a wiki data model.

While clinical trials and medical research are important in themselves, and even while clinical trials became much more relevant to everyone in the context of COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, we discuss how the import of clinical trials into Wikidata is just an early step toward re-imagining Wikipedia as a platform for research. Importing clinical trials data into the wiki ecosystem changed the nature of the information by adding otherwise inaccessible context, including become biographies of researchers, profiles of named organizations, referrals to related publications in WikiCite, and data visualizations including points on maps where community stakeholders volunteered to make sacrifices for research. Although in this case we profiled medical research, the same process will someday model research projects of any kind whether in humanities, sciences, or civics. Understanding this process will speed the migration of well-funded medical technology into underserved academic fields.

This is a presentation for everyone and requires no background in medicine, data science, or Wikidata.

Se presentan los resultados de dos emisiones del curso de formación docente llamado ¡Edita Wikipedia! Se trata de un curso en línea (20 horas, cuatro semanas) en plataforma Moodle que se ofrece a la comunidad de docentes Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, a través del programa de Formación docente de la Coordinación de Universidad Abierta, Innovación Educativa y Educación a Distancia (CUAIEED). En este curso cada participante conoce la variedad de proyectos Wikipedia y selecciona uno para presentar un proyecto de integración de Wikipedia al aula. El curso se ha impartido en dos ocasiones a docentes de bachillerato, licenciatura y posgrado de la UNAM. En este trabajo se presenta un análisis de los logros y áreas de oportunidad de este tipo de experiencias de formación docente. El curso se realizó en alianza con Wikimedia México, lo cual permite un seguimiento real de los proyectos propuestos al final de cada emisión, a través del Programa de Educación de Wikimedia México. Se presentan algunas de las propuestas que de manera posterior al curso han solicitado apoyo de Wikimedia México para su implementación.