2023/Program
< 2023
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
These pages pages refer to a prior conference, and are kept for historical reasons.
If you are interested in the upcoming WikiConference North America, please ensure you are looking at the current conference site.
Toronto — 9-12 November 2023
| Home | Program | Attendance | More |
|---|---|---|---|
Thursday, November 9
November 9 - Thursday morning - Culture Crawl | |||||
| 9:00 | Required morning sign-up for cultural tours starting at 9 a.m at Holiday Inn Toronto Downtown Centre | 9:00 | |||
| Morning Sessions |
Royal Ontario Museum 40 people total |
Art Gallery of Ontario
20 people total |
Bata Shoe Museum 20 people total |
Morning Sessions | |
| 10:00 | Galleries | Edit-a-thon | Tour + Edit-a-thon | 10:00 | |
| 11:00 | Edit-a-thon A (20 people) | Galleries | 11:00 | ||
| 12:00 | 12:00 | ||||
| 13:00 | Lunch (on your own) | 13:00 | |||
November 9 - Thursday afternoon - Culture Crawl | ||||||
| Afternoon Sessions |
Royal Ontario Museum 40 people total |
Textile Museum of Canada
25 people total |
Lunch Walking Tour
Unlimited people |
Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library
40 people total |
Afternoon Sessions | |
| 11:00 | Edit-a-thon A (20 people) | Galleries | Tour + Edit-a-thon | 11:00 | ||
| 12:00 | 12:00 | |||||
| 13:00 | Lunch (on your own) | Lunch walking tour: Kensington Market Mehrdad Pourzaki (MPourzaki (WMF)) |
13:00 | |||
| 14:00 | Edit-a-thon B (20 people) | Galleries | 14:00 | |||
| 15:00 | Tour + Edit-a-thon A (20 people) | 15:00 | ||||
| 16:00 | Galleries | Tour + Edit-a-thon B (20 people) | 16:00 | |||
| 17:00 | Break | 17:00 | ||||
| 18:00 | Open Reception + Game Night starting at 6 p.m at Snakes & Lattes Annex
Due to capacity limits, RSVP is required. Those who RSVPed (either during registration or form) will receive an email prior to the conference start. |
18:00 | ||||
Friday, November 10
Key:
: this talk has English interpretation
: this talk is supported by WikiCred
November 10 - Friday - Programming Toronto Reference Library | ||||
| 8:00–9:00 | Check-in and Badge pickup second floor in front of Epic Hall |
8:00–9:00 | ||
| 9:00–10:15 | Epic Hall: Keynote by Selena Deckelmann, Chief Product and Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation second floor |
9:00–10:15 | ||
| Morning Sessions |
Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats |
Novella Room second floor, 118 seats |
Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats + Beeton Hall Events Centre |
Morning Sessions |
| 10:15–10:30 | Lecture: Updates from AffCom Jeffrey Keefer (FULBERT) |
Women Do News Edit-a-thon in the Executive Board Room Emily Gertz
|
10:15–10:30 | |
| 10:30–10:45 | Lecture: Every Book Its Reader Alejandra Quiroz Hernández (Alequihdez)
|
10:30–10:45 | ||
| 10:45–11:00 | Panel: Board Session with the Trustees Lorenzo Losa, Raju Narisetti, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight. Moderator: Kelsi Stine-Rowe (KStineRowe (WMF) |
10:45–11:00 | ||
| 11:00–11:15 | Lecture: How the Digital Public Library of America is putting American history at Wikipedians' fingertips Dominic Byrd-McDevitt (Dominic) and Joe Mabel (Jmabel) |
11:00–11:15 | ||
| 11:15–11:30 | 11:15–11:30 | |||
| 11:30–11:45 | Break | 11:30–11:45 | ||
| 11:45–12:00 | Lecture: Reflections on Eight Years at ArbCom: Policy, Structure, and Reform Kevin Li (L235) |
Lecture: Metadata and Decolonization Amanda Figueroa (Amafig)
|
Workshop: Content Integrity with Wikimedia Enterprise API in the Executive Board Room Francisco Navas (FNavas-WMF)
|
11:45–12:00 |
| 12:00–12:15 | 12:00–12:15 | |||
| 12:15–12:30 | Panel: Governance committees in the Wikimedia movement Jack "Xeno" Glover (Xeno (WMF))
|
Lecture: Wikipedia Initiatives at Local Canadian Public Libraries Emily Carrasco-Acosta (Emily CA (MPL)) |
12:15–12:30 | |
| 12:30–12:45 | 12:30–12:45 | |||
| 12:45–13:00 | Lightning talk: Parallel Play: What Do Librarians Learn from Editing Wikipedia? Scott Libson (Scott.libson) |
12:45–13:00 | ||
| 13:00–14:15 | Lunch |
13:00–14:15 | ||
| Afternoon Sessions |
Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats |
Novella Room second floor, 118 seats |
Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats |
Afternoon Sessions |
| 14:15–14:30 | Panel: Ensuring Resilient Governance CaptainEek |
Panel: L’union fait la force : Coopérer pour valoriser le cinéma régional québécois Kim Fontaine, Julia Minne, Émélie Rivard-Boudreau et AM Trépanier
|
Editathon: WP:WELW Women Electronic Literature Writers Project Deena Larsen (LovesElectronicLiterature) |
14:15–14:30 |
| 14:30–14:45 | 14:30–14:45 | |||
| 14:45–15:00 | 14:45–15:00 | |||
| 15:00–15:15 | Roundtable: Movement Charter Conversations Anne Clin, Richard Knipel (Pharos), Risker |
Lecture: View it! Tool: Utilizing Structured Data on Commons for Image Discovery Dominic Byrd-McDevitt (Dominic), Kevin Payravi (SuperHamster), Jamie Flood (JamieF) |
15:00–15:15 | |
| 15:15–15:30 | 15:15–15:30 | |||
| 15:30–15:45 | Lightning talk: Des chantiers Wiki dans un musée d'art canadien Nathalie Thibault (natharchives)
|
15:30–15:45 | ||
| 15:45–16:00 | Break | 15:45–16:00 | ||
| 16:00–16:15 | Panel: Potential Governance or Arbitration Panel Ira Brad Matetsky (Newyorkbrad) |
Lecture: One Year In: Growing Capacity to Support GLAM Wiki in Indiana Olivia MacIsaac (Olgrmac), Jamie Flood (JamieF), Dominic Byrd-McDevitt (Dominic), Jere Odell (Jaireeodell) |
Editathon: WP:WELW Women Electronic Literature Writers Project Deena Larsen (LovesElectronicLiterature) |
16:00–16:15 |
| 16:15–16:30 | 16:15–16:30 | |||
| 16:30–16:45 | Lecture: The Block Log: Content Moderation on the English Wikipedia Ryan McGrady (Rhododendrites) |
Lecture: Activating Archives: How the Archives of Ontario is Building Community through GLAM-Wiki Danielle Manning (Ellie1984) |
16:30–16:45 | |
| 16:45–17:00 | 16:45–17:00 | |||
| 17:00–19:00 | Optional: Distributed dinner meetups at restaurants near the library | 17:00–19:00 | ||
| 19:00–20:30 | Optional: Plenary brainstorming session for Global + Tech Strategy Night | 19:00–20:30 | ||
Saturday, November 11
We had a delayed start today due to a security incident at the library. Please keep an eye on this page for changes.
Key:
: this talk has English interpretation
: this talk is supported by WikiCred
November 11 - Saturday - Programming Toronto Reference Library | |||||
| 8:00–11:00 | Check-in and Badge pickup second floor in front of Epic Hall |
8:00–11:00 | |||
| Morning Sessions |
Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats |
Novella Room second floor, 118 seats |
Beeton Hall Events Centre first floor, 130 seats |
Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats |
Morning Sessions |
| 11:00–11:01 | Remembrance Day: 1 Minute of Silence | 11:00–11:01 | |||
| 11:01–11:15 | Lecture: Building Wikimedia support at the University of Toronto: A five-year retrospective Alex Jiyun Jung (Utl_jung) | This presenter would prefer if the audience members wore masks |
Workshop: Organizing Template:Misinformation
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (MaryMO (AR))
|
11:01–11:15 | ||
| 11:15–11:30 | Roundtable: Artificial intelligence in Wikipedia and wiki projects Andrew Leung (OhanaUnited) |
11:15–11:30 | |||
| 11:30–11:45 | Lecture: Image credits on Wikipedia Dominic Byrd-McDevitt (Dominic)
|
11:30–11:45 | |||
| 11:45–12:00 | 11:45–12:00 | ||||
| 12:00–12:15 | Roundtable: Surpassing RfCs: how to improve the governance of large software changes Gergő Tisza (Tgr) |
Lecture: Indigenous Artists and Wikidata Brit Johnston, Frédéric Julien (Fjjulien), and Anju Singh |
Roundtable: No Rights Reserved: What CC0 Means for Contributor Motivations, Data Provenance, and the Wikipedia Detour Matt Vetter (Matthewvetter); Zach McDowell (ZachMcDowell)
|
Lightning talk: Introduction to Credibility Bot
+ Workshop: Credibility Bot Feedback and BrainstormingJake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
|
12:00–12:15 |
| 12:15–12:30 | 12:15–12:30 | ||||
| 12:30–12:45 | Panel: Wikipedia as a site of archival activism: potentials and limits from the experience of equity-seeking community advocates Anabelle Ragsag, Jessica Vinluan, and Julia Espinosa |
12:30–12:45 | |||
| 12:45–13:00 | Panel: WikiProject Women in Religion Jere Odell & Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight |
Lightning talk: An Alternative to the Pushpin Map in the Neighbourhood Infobox R.D. (Bob) Reichert (Robert Neustadter) and E. St. Amour
|
12:45–13:00 | ||
| 13:00–14:15 | Lunch + Epic Hall: Keynote: Sue Gardner - Former Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation + Immediately after Sue's keynote: Epic Hall: Group Photo |
13:00–14:15 | |||
| Afternoon Sessions |
Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats |
Novella Room second floor, 118 seats |
Beeton Hall Events Centre first floor, 130 seats |
Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats |
Afternoon Sessions |
| 14:15–14:30 | Lecture: IP Masking - Protecting privacy for unregistered editors Niharika Kohli (NKohli (WMF)) |
Lecture: Report on research for North American hub Peter B Meyer (econterms); Ariel Cetrone |
Lecture: Citations in Wikipedia for Understanding Research Reach Denise Smith (Mcbrarian), Jack Young, Jennifer McKinnell
|
Workshop: Sister projects: the past, present and glorious future Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight & Lorenzo Losa |
14:15–14:30 |
| 14:30–14:45 | Panel: WikiOASIS: Wiki Island Nations Alliance Ian Ramjohn (Guettarda); Sherry Antoine (Shanluan); Brandon Sullivan (JamaicanEditor); Richard Knipel (Pharos) |
14:30–14:45 | |||
| 14:45–15:00 | Lightning talk: Building and Disseminating Print Bibliographic Data Online Sara Palmer |
Lecture: Building English Wikipedia's best work: how to research and write featured articles Buidhe
|
14:45–15:00 | ||
| 15:00–15:15 | Lightning talk: A positive feedback loop between Wikidata and text mining Daniel Mietchen |
Roundtable: Open Education Training Needs in an Evolving Society Shanna Hollich |
15:00–15:15 | ||
| 15:15–15:30 | Lightning talk: Agents, Name Authorities, and Linked Open Data: Leveraging Wikidata for Access and Discovery of Archival Materials Jeremy Floyd (Jjfloyd) |
Lightning talk: URFA/2020 and Wikipedia's Featured Article Review Process A. Filipowich (Z1720)
|
Workshop: Discuss prospects for North American hub |
15:15–15:30 | |
| 15:30–15:45 | Panel: LaGuardia & Wagner Archives Wikipedia Project Year 5: LGBTQ Archives and Student Research Ann Matsuuchi (Mozucat), Ximena Gallardo C. (Doctorxgc), Michael Martinez (Inspirewithus) |
Lecture: Equity, Community Engagement, and Ag: Advancing equity and increasing agricultural coverage on Wikipedia Jamie Flood (JamieF) |
15:30–15:45 | ||
| 15:45–16:00 | Lightning talk: Improving Equity on Wikipedia Will Kent (Will (Wiki Ed)) |
15:45–16:00 | |||
| 16:00–16:15 | Break | 16:00–16:15 | |||
| 16:15–16:30 | Panel: Building an advanced Wikidata Curriculum Will Kent (Will (Wiki Ed)), Jackie Rubashkin, William Blueher, Thamilini Jothilingam |
Lecture: Continued Relevancy in the Classroom: Using Wikipedia to Teach Information Literacy to University Students Helen Choi (1namesake1) and Cari Kaurloto |
Workshop: What is the future of free knowledge? Collaboratively charting the course of our movement Maryana Pinchuk (MPinchuk (WMF)) |
Unconference | 16:15–16:30 |
| 16:30–16:45 | Lecture: From British Newspaper Archives to Sage Journals: Learn how to access more than 90 paywalled resources for free through The Wikipedia Library Ben Vershbow
|
16:30–16:45 | |||
| 16:45–17:00 | Lecture: What's the use (case) of starting your biography creation in Wikidata? Ray Leonard (Peaceray)
|
16:45–17:00 | |||
| 17:00–19:00 | Optional: Distributed dinner meetups at restaurants near the library | 17:00–19:00 | |||
| 19:00–20:30 | Optional: Plenary brainstorming session for North America + Hub Strategy Night | 19:00–20:30 | |||
Sunday, November 12
Key:
: this talk has English interpretation
: this talk is supported by WikiCred
November 12 - Sunday - Programming Toronto Reference Library | ||||
| 8:00–9:00 | Check-in and Badge pickup second floor in front of Epic Hall |
8:00–9:00 | ||
| 9:00–10:15 | Epic Hall: Keynote: 100 ans de données météorologiques d’Environnement et Changement climatique Canada dans Commons / 100 Years of Environment and Climate Change Canada Weather Data in Commons
|
9:00–10:15 | ||
| Morning Sessions |
Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats |
Novella Room second floor, 118 seats |
Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats |
Morning Sessions |
| 10:15–10:30 | Lightning talk: 365 climate edits Daniel Mietchen |
Enterprise for all communities—
a discussion of API features for the future Chris Petrillo, Francisco Navas (FNavas-WMF)
|
10:15–10:30 | |
| 10:30–10:45 | Lecture: Defense against the Dark Arts: Disinformation on Wikipedia Mary Mark Ockerbloom (MaryMO (AR))
|
Workshop: Wikidata Lexemes: Introduction to the possibilities Mahir Morshed (Mahir256)) |
10:30–10:45 | |
| 10:45–11:00 | Lecture: Lessons learned - The on-wiki editing campaigns of Women in Red
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Rosiestep) |
10:45–11:00 | ||
| 11:00–11:15 | Lightning talk: Mid-semester rookie report: Starting a wikiversity project & teaching a class with wikiedu assignments Steven M. Schneider (Stevesuny) |
Lecture: Hacktivismo y medios libres en México Ehécatl Cabrera (Ehecatl-c)
|
11:00–11:15 | |
| 11:15–11:30 | Lecture: Internet Archive: The Annual WikiConference Update Mark Graham |
11:15–11:30 | ||
| 11:30–11:45 | Break | 11:30–11:45 | ||
| 11:45–12:00 | Panel: Faculty perspectives on the Wikipedia assignment Helaine Blumenthal (Helaine (Wiki Ed)), Naniette Coleman, Sarah Turner |
Lecture: Editorial protocols and cultural pluralization of knowledge on
Wikipedia: introducing a research project Claudie Saulnier, Nathalie Casemajor (Seeris), Stéphane Couture |
Workshop: Tips & Tricks for the Programs & Events Dashboard LiAnna Davis (LiAnna (Wiki Ed)) |
11:45–12:00 |
| 12:00–12:15 | 12:00–12:15 | |||
| 12:15–12:30 | Break | 12:15–12:30 | ||
| 12:30–12:45 | Panel: Perspectives on Wiki-based student placements programs Alanna Brown (abrown824), Katrina Cohen-Palacios (kcohenp), Alexandra Wong (alixwongo) |
Lecture: Wiki edit-a-thon: des retombées importantes pour la représentation de l'histoire de la communauté LGBTQIA2+ francophone du Canada Pascale Dangoisse, Constance Crompton, Michelle Schwartz, Candice Lipski, Farinaz Basmechi
|
12:30–12:45 | |
| 12:45–13:00 | 12:45–13:00 | |||
| 13:00–14:15 | Lunch | WikiWomen's Lunch | Canadian Wikimedians Lunch | 13:00–14:15 |
| Afternoon Sessions |
Epic Hall second floor, 300 seats |
Novella Room second floor, 118 seats |
Executive Board Room first floor, 30 seats |
Afternoon Sessions |
| 14:15–14:30 | Lecture: Project Korikath: an attempt to engage youth in bridging local visual knowledge gaps Fabian Roudra Baroi
|
Lecture: Wikipédia: un outil pédagogique pour le développement culturel numérique francophone Émélie Rivard-Boudreau (Erbvdat)
|
Workshop: Scholia workshop Daniel Mietchen
|
14:15–14:30 |
| 14:30–14:45 | Lecture: The BLP Situation on Wikipedia Today Ira Brad Matetsky (Newyorkbrad) |
14:30–14:45 | ||
| 14:45–15:00 | Panel: Wikipedia and academia: An examination of a critical, but complex relationship Helaine Blumenthal (Helaine (Wiki Ed)), Brianda Felix (Brianda (Wiki Ed)) |
14:45–15:00 | ||
| 15:00–15:15 | Lecture: WikiJournal 2023 update Andrew Leung (OhanaUnited) |
15:00–15:15 | ||
| 15:15–15:30 | 15:15–15:30 | |||
| 15:30–15:45 | Post-conference Reflection & Lessons Learned session | 15:30–15:45 | ||
| 15:45–16:00 | 15:45–16:00 | |||
Organizers and main supporters
