WikiConference North America/2020/Sessions

Welcome to the planning page for WCNA 2020 sessions!

Friday

11 December 2020

(5 pm Eastern, 2 pm Pacific)

Session	Presenter
Using VB.NET to design wikis and bots.	JJPMaster (talk)
WikiCite project: WikiCite for Librarians: Interactive Learning Pathways for Information Professionals at Vanderbilt University. Presentation slide available here.	(Awesolek2 talk)
Student Success and Wikipedia's Culture of Communication: More Lessons Learned from using Wiki Education. (14:19)	Gcampbel (talk)
State of the InternetArchiveBot. 21:24	harej (talk)
Improving Domain Specific Articles on Wikipedia - Areas include Labor, Water, and Slavery (historical and contemporary) 25:00 Slides here // Application Here	Will (Wiki Ed) (talk)
Overview of 2020 projects from the WikiCred initiaitve. WikiCred is a partnership between organizations that seek to build trust in the media ecosystem and Wikimedians working together to strengthen credibility and reliability of news and knowledge in the online information ecosystem. 28:19	Medmed14
Bridging the academia-Wikipedia divide with WikiJournals (adapted from longer talk). 34:34	T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk
Semantic Lab and Wikibase: Collaborative Modeling and Graphing Women in Jazz	Rolery02 (talk)
Wiki of historical aeronautics and aviation	econterms (talk)
News On Wiki - Why it matters for Wikipedia to cover local newspapers. (Video of talk)	Pete Forsyth (talk)

(8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific)

12 December 2020

(4 pm Eastern, 1 pm Pacific)

Two-minute talks about the activities of various Wikimedia communities in 2020. (video)

Chapters
Wikimedia Canada	Michael David Miller
Wikimedia District of Columbia	Kirill Lokshin (talk)
Wikimedia Mexico
Wikimedia New York City
Thematic organizations
Wikimedia Medicine
User Groups
Wikimedia New England	phoebe \| talk
MediaWiki Stakeholders Group	econterms (talk)
Wikimedians of Los Angeles	JSFarman (talk)
Ohio Wikimedians User Group	SuperHamster' Talk Contribs
Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group	Benoit Rochon (talk)
Unaffiliated communities
WALRUS	Pharos (talk)
SWAN
Wiki Education Foundation (YouTube link here)	LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk)
Women in Red	Rosiestep (talk)
US Federal Enterprise Wiki Community of Practice	Tom O'Neill or econterms (talk)
1000 Women in Religion WikiProject	PMCH2 (talk)

(5 pm Eastern, 2 pm Pacific)

Five-minute talks on wiki topics.

Session	Presenter
Cite Unseen: Latest updates to this script that provides icon indicators for the nature and reliability of sources	*~SuperHamster* Talk Contribs
Student perceptions of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons: Considering race and gender	maxxbeckmann
All My Relations: Using Wikidata to find and correct errors on a collaborative global family tree (and on Wikidata) - Genealogy	KarenJoyce (talk)
Grand unveiling of the Wikimedia DC "2021 U.S. Wiki Science Calendar"!	Antony-22 (talk)
Demo of the latest stuff I'm working on, particularly section-watchlist and its new integration with reply-link.	Enterprisey (talk)
An update from the Sustainability Initiative	Gnom (talk)
Overview of the Cochrane-Wikipedia Project	JenOttawa (talk)
Overview of some outstanding user scripts that everyone should install. (Rejected title: "The best scripts I didn't make".) (Put this talk after some other talks, so I don't give two in a row; feel free to cut this one if time is an issue, I can just speak real fast for one slot.)	Enterprisey (talk)
Wikimedia Canada : Environment and Climate Change Canada Project	Benoit Rochon (talk)
Overview of the Namespace Database project	carlinmack (talk)
Overview of OpenStreetMap's Mapping Racism project and how it uses Wikidata.	Minh Nguyễn ^💬
Status report of Wikimedia in Outer Atmosphere	Geraldshields11 (talk)

(8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific)

Open Space sessions, 13 December 2020

(Sunday, 1 pm Eastern)

This section is for further information on the open space events. Accepted sessions have been added to the main page.

Facilitated by Andrew Lih.

US housing edit-a-thon focused on housing in the United States, including states and territories, 12:00-14:00 ET

Discussion of language, translation and related issues on WMF projects, 15:00 - 16:00 ET

"The Secret Origins of NIOSH"—Next year NIOSH celebrates the 50th anniversary of its organizational standup in May 1971. However, NIOSH's direct predecessor has a little-known history that stretches all the way back to 1914, zig-zagging its way through the growth and maturation of the U.S. Public Health Service. This edit-a-thon will include a presentation on this history, and have suggested articles on biographies and historic buildings related to public health and industrial hygiene in the early and mid-20th century. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 19:11, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Finishing lists of officeholders of state/provincial/local provenance on Wikidata (links to some lists here), 2-3p ET. Mahir256 (talk) 18:36, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Peaceray, converting articles using deprecated inline Harvard/parenthetical referencing to shortened footnotes, 3-4, 4-5, or 3-5 PM ET.

english wikisource demonstration, discussion, with editing help. Slowking4 (talk) 04:24, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Faciliated by Slowking4. Okay to move it into a different time spot if you wish. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:41, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User scripts (and tech in general) workshop/discussion. Learn how to make your very own user script/bot/tool! (on demand). Discussing some of the more useful user scripts, advanced tips for making them, and ideas for future user scripts. Enterprisey (talk) 10:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]