WikiConference North America/2020

WikiConference North America 2020 is going virtual! Join us December 11 to 13, 2020

Theme:      online | en ligne | en línea

• Chat Our home base throughout the conference. Use Telegram to chat with participants and for general questions/support. (Or IRC.)chat.wcna.wiki
• Lounge A social space with video and audio (optional) using the experimental Wonder platform. Active throughout the conference for spontaneous meetups and conversations.lounge.wcna.wiki Chrome or Firefox on a desktop computer recommended
  More info about Wonder
• Sessions Attend scheduled sessions and edit-a-thons via Zoom, Youtube and other platforms.Jump to program schedule

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WikiConference North America 2020

When and Where
December 11–13, 2020 Virtual
Links at a glance
Conference	https://wcna.wiki
Chat	https://chat.wcna.wiki
Virtual lounge	https://lounge.wcna.wiki
Program	https://program.wcna.wiki
Register	https://register.wcna.wiki
Friendly Space Policy	https://w.wiki/q8H
Twitter	@wikiconNA #WikiConferenceNA
Facebook	WikiConference North America
Commons category	WikiConference North America 2020
Swag	WCNA shirts, stickers, mugs, and caps for sale at-cost https://merch.wcna.wiki

WikiConference North America is the annual conference of Wikimedia enthusiasts and volunteers from throughout North America, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The 2020 conference will take place online. Join Wikimedia enthusiasts for a weekend of collaboration and discovery.

Wikiconference North America is a free, virtual conference, and is open to anyone in the world, regardless of how much or little experience you have with Wikimedia projects.

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Details

• Location: Virtual. See Program schedule
• At a glance:
  • Friday, December 11: Culture Crawl and evening social
  • Saturday, December 12: Main conference program and evening social
  • Sunday, December 13: Open sessions (movement strategy, edit-a-thons, meetups, training, unconference)

Communication

• Join the conversation:

• Chat via Telegram: https://chat.wcna.wiki

• Download Telegram or use it in your web browser; use the Telegram for announcements and discussion

• Lounge using Wonder: https://lounge.wcna.wiki
• Document using Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WCNA_2020
• IRC channel, as an alternative to Telegram: #wikimedia-wikiconference on Freenode IRC. Warning: your IP address may be disclosed to other users when you join, and IRC operates under a different moderation policy. Join through an online client – further information on IRC available at w:en:WP:IRC.

Safe Space

Conference attendees agree to abide by these Friendly Space Policies.

Program

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Friday

Time (US Eastern Time) convert time	Session A	Other activities	Other activities
10:00			Chicanx Art and Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Smithsonian American Art Museum Wiki meetup page Zoom 10am – 3pm
11:00		Women in Climate Change Editing training WikiDonne and Wikimedia Foundation Zoom or YouTube
12:00-13:00		Coolest Tool Award Wikimedia Foundation and community YouTube and discussion on Telegram channel wmhack
13:00-14:00	Watch via YouTube Live or Facebook Live Welcome to WCNA WCNA organizers Wiki Culture Crawl Introduction Andrew Lih GLAM Jam Session Discussing the best tools, gadgets, and scripts for GLAM editors. Examples: Adding custom CSS, top gadgets, and preferences Tools for depictions for Commons and Wikidata: using Wiki Art Depiction Explorer and Wikidata Image Positions tool YouTube Live or Facebook Live
14:00-15:00	Sum of all Paintings – Enriching metadata and visualizing Wikidata's most active GLAM project. Best practices and tools, from list-making to maintenance queries to bots. Jane Darnell, Andrew Lih, et al Possible painting collaboration – The Death of General Wolfe (1770), Benjamin West, National Gallery of Canada, New York Times article YouTube Live or Facebook Live
15:00-16:00	Wikidata and GLAM – Tools to connect data collections to Wikimedia content using OpenRefine, Listeria, TABernacle, Google Sheets scripts, Pattypan and more. Rob Fernandez, Silvia Gutiérrez YouTube Live or Facebook Live
16:00-17:00	Wiki Loves Fashion – modeling and improving fashion topics in Wikidata (shoes, textiles, fashion houses) Paula Marmor and Andrew Lih Experiences from this year's fashion editing drive Finding and utilizing sources – Internet Archive, digital lending YouTube Live or Facebook Live
17:00-18:00	Lightning Talks – 5 minute talks (watch recording) List of topics and speakers Phoebe Ayers, Rosie Stephenson
18:00-20:00	Break – Lounge remains open for hacking and chatting
20:00-22:00	Opening Reception Social time, come meet other editors, edit-a-thons, what you will WCNA committee Lounge

Saturday

Time (US Eastern Time)	Session A	Session B	Other activities
11:30	Welcome and orientation (watch recording) WikiConference North America organizers walk through the day's events and demonstrate the chat and lounge.
12:00-14:00	Philadelphia WikiSalon at WCNA (2 hours) Learn how to add photos of your favorite holiday food to Commons, or try one of the Smörgåsbord of Wikipedia and Wikidata-related tasks in our breakout rooms. (Most tasks have recorded demonstrations and can be viewed or worked on at any time.) Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Doreva Belfiore		Commons Photographers User Group Virtual Meeting Open to anyone who takes pictures for Commons (or is interested in doing so) Agenda Zoom (Code: "wmcommons")
14:00-15:00	Indigenous Languages and Knowledge in Wikimedia Projects Benoit Rochon, Thérèse Ottawa	State of Wikimedia 2030 strategy and next steps: Hubs, Interim Global Council/Movement Charter MPourzaki (WMF), Rosie Stephenson	News On Wiki Edit-a-thon (2 hours) With AfroCROWD, Focusing on Black-Owned Newspapers Announcement Registration;
15:00-16:00	North American Sports in Wikipedia HickoryOughtShirt?4, et al.
16:00-17:00	Affiliates Roundup Presentations (watch recording) User groups present for two minutes each on their community, activities or plans. List of organizations/communities and presenters Rosie Stephenson, Phoebe Ayers
17:00-18:30	Lightning Talks – 5 minute talks (watch recording) List of topics and presenters Phoebe Ayers, Rosie Stephenson
18:30-20:00	Break - Lounge remains open for hacking and chatting
20:00-22:00	Social Reception Talk Page Theater (Sign up and learn more here) Social time, come meet other editors, edit-a-thons, and what you will WCNA committee Lounge

Sunday

• Be bold and edit the grid to add/edit sessions. Please be respectful of translations tags, existing sessions, and other content! See other training, editathon, hackathon and panel session topics.
• By default, all sessions will take place in the Lounge unless you have provided another link (e.g. Zoom).

Time (US Eastern Time)	Room A (in lounge)	Room B	Room C (in lounge)	Room D (in lounge)	Room E (ES)	Room F (FR)	Room G	Room H
11:30	Kickoff/ Introduction — Meet in main Lounge for presentation.
12:00		Wikipedia 101 training (Ariel Citrone) Register for Zoom link	US housing edit-a-thon (M2545)	Playing with Wikidata Knowledge Graphs - Try Knowledgegrapher to easily make groovy graphs (Andrew Lih)
12:30
13:00	Wikimedia Strategy Brainstorming the Interim Global Council and Movement Charter (Kaarel Vaidla)	The Secret Origins of NIOSH (John P. Sadowski) Presentation: Register for Zoom link
13:30				Ask AffCom (Rosiestep)
14:00		Edit-a-thon: Wonder.me social space	Lists of officeholders on Wikidata (Mahir256)
14:30
15:00			Reference training: convert Harvard references to shortened footnotes (Peaceray; click through for session info)	Language and Translation Issues (Frenezulo)
15:30	Tech workshop/tutorial (scripts/tools/more!) (Enterprisey)
16:00			Community Communications Discussion (Fuzheado & Quim Gil)	Wikisource training (Slowking4)
16:30
17:00	Closing session — Conference recap and post-mortem. Presentation of winners of Wiki Loves Monuments U.S. and Canada, and Wiki Loves México Register for Zoom link (watch recording)

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