Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiki-Conference 2010

The 2nd annual Wiki-Conference New York was held over the weekend of August 28-29 2010, hosted by ITP at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City.

For information on the previous year's conference, please see Meetup/NYC/Wiki-Conference/2009, and this great blog post by R. Stuart Geiger.

All participants were encouraged to give their own ideas for topic sessions. Here Comes Everybody author Clay Shirky gave Saturday's keynote, and Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner gave Sunday's keynote.

Event format
There will be 2 days of events, held over a weekend in meeting rooms on the 4th floor of Tisch School of the Arts (@ 721 Broadway, between Waverly Place and Washington Place, just south of Eighth Street), New York University.

Check-in and a casual chat at the venue will be open at 9AM each morning, with the official schedule starting at 10 AM.

Participation will be free, with room for ~120 participants, who should bring a photo ID for the door. All are welcome, but active Wikipedians/Wikimedians are especially invited to join us. We also hope for the participation of our friends from Free Culture Alliance NYC and the wider Free Culture movement, and from cultural institutions interested in developing Open Education projects.

The event will be a modified unconference, with several dedicated panel discussions organized as on-wiki (Panels), opportunities for short Lightning Talks to the whole assembly, and some totally open space (Open Space Technology), as well as a few more conventional presentations (Keynotes).

The Panels should be organized on-wiki and scheduled beforehand (if you have a great topic, try to find a couple of partners for your panel); the Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so it will be good to bring your ideas with you. Generally, Panels will be somewhat more formalized in the continuum, with a little more pre-planning, than the more free-form Open Space.

There is wifi access, and we will give you the log in details on-site. Projectors will also be available for use by the various presenters.

Schedule of sessions
Room A: Lounge, Room B: 447, Room C: 445, Room D 442

Keynotes
Two keynotes will be presented. Clay Shirky will present a keynote on Saturday morning, while Sue Gardner will provide the keynote for Sunday morning.


 * Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody author and academic
 * Clay spoke on some of the ideas relevant to Wikipedia in his new book Cognitive Surplus, and some of his thoughts in both the book and the talk are reviewed in Wikipedia Signpost/2010-09-06/Book review.


 * Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
 * Sue spoke on the Role of the Wikimedia Foundation in Supporting and Building the Movement.

Panels
''Add your suggested panels topics and participants here. For open panel slots, propose a topic and see if you can get fellow presenters.''

''In the end, we're generally looking for a coherent topic with about four committed presenters. If we have a surplus of panel suggestions, some might be merged or shifted to Open Space. In most cases, a person should not sign up for more than one panel.''

Panel A-1: Improving Technical Topics At Wikiversity

 * daviddoria (talk) 15:39, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * User:Sj
 * User:johndbritton

Panel A-2: Pending changes and flagged revisions
- How we got here, what we're doing, and where we can go from here.
 * Risker (talk) 17:19, 31 July 2010 (UTC), specifically looking for a non-admin/newer user who's been involved in the pending changes trial to participate as well; I've got a request out to someone who's worked on it from the technical end too.
 * DGG has agreed to paticipate as well
 * Becksguy (talk) 20:10, 22 August 2010 (UTC) as a non-admin and with some experience with pending changes (not very new editor, however)
 * Jamesofur

Panel B-1: MediaWiki at work
(Corporate and organizational uses of MediaWiki)
 * Yaron Koren - supporting MediaWiki as an "enterprise solution"
 * Greg Miller - OurMed, an unbiased source of verified healthcare information
 * Pharos/Wwwhatsup/others - on NYCwiki.org
 * Д-р - WikiChiro, a Professional use for a Wiki structure

SUNDAY PANELS

Panel A-3: Wikimedia Strategic Plan
Wikimedia Strategy forum with Wikimedia Foundation folks and general participants
 * Sue Gardner - WMF Executive Director
 * Kat Walsh (User:Mindspillage) - WMF Board
 * SJ Klein (User:Sj) - WMF Board

Panel A-4: University outreach

 * Classroom assignments: coordinating them, making them scale, working with professors who aren't Wikipedians, etc. --Sage Ross - Online Faciliator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:29, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * User:Sj
 * User:DGG
 * User:Amire80

Panel B-2: Biographies of Living Persons
(Not sure and not particularly concerned about which time slot I'm slotted in.)
 * Newyorkbrad (talk) 20:55, 30 July 2010 (UTC) I'd like to do some sort of panel focusing on BLP issues including the effect of Wikipedia and the Internet in general on privacy and related issues, using the hypotheticals I've posted at BLP examples for discussion as discussion topics. Separately but relatedly, I'd be glad to reprise the high points of my speech last year before the panel, if there are enough people attending this year who didn't attend Sunday of last year.
 * RoyGoldsmith (talk) is willing to volunteer as a presenter on this panel.

Panel A-5: Open Video

 * GChriss &lt;always listening&gt; &lt;c&gt; 23:46, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sj

Panel B-3: Off Wiki Help
(IRC/OTRS/Mailing lists etc).
 *  James  ( T   C )  04:40, 20 July 2010 (UTC) Looking for more if people are interested!
 * Willing to co-present Bastique ☎ call me! 17:56, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Also willing to co-present... this will be a good opportunity to talk about the Wikipedia Ambassadors program and how it can fit in with other off-wiki help.--Sage Ross - Online Faciliator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 16:51, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Open Space

 * Add ideas you will bring for open space and sign up below (actual schedule for open space will be determined the day of). Last-minute entries always accepted!


 * I would like to teach people how to contribute to OpenStreetMap. We could do it during the Sunday morning open space sessions and over lunch (e.g. 11am - 1pm).  We would do a brief introduction (~15 minutes), then get groups to go out and collect info in the neighborhood or NYU campus (~45min-1hour), come back & eat lunch + enter the data (~1 hour).  If the weather is not good, it's still possible to show people how to edit and enter data, based on aerial imagery and other data sources. --Aude (talk) 17:03, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * "Wiki 101 for Academics Workshop" - User:DGG, User:Mozucat
 * Still up for doing this at dinner - but Daniel Case and I have come up with Wikipedia Jeopardy!. Mitch 32(Growing up with Wikipedia: 1 edit at a time.) 17:37, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * NYCwiki.org Workshop - User:Pharos, User:Tomlzz1, User:Wwwhatsup
 * "Belgrade-NYC Wikiwormhole" - Skype videoconference with our friends at Wikimedia Serbia, to be held over lunch on Sunday or Saturday
 * The clerkship thing (see lightning talks) is looking like a go; anyone else want to do a panel in one of the Open Space slots? - Dank (push to talk) 17:55, 11 August 2010 (UTC) 5 minutes is enough for my bit. - Dank (push to talk) 20:16, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * "Harness your inner nutjob and create content. Wikipedia really is therapy, just not the lazy kind where you get to rant and only present one side." This is the definition of tentative. If I'm there and I'm drunk enough, I'll present. --Moni3 (talk) 13:15, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Discussion and collaborative editing of the Wikiversity research portal, to be held over lunch on Sunday. I think we're only a few revamped pages away from a significant breakthrough.  -- La comadreja  formerly AFriedman  RESEARCH   (talk)  03:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Discussion of the future of the NYC Wikimedia chapter, Northeast US chapter, or US regional chapters? --Aude (talk) 17:07, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Smithsonian collaboration in DC, and general GLAM partnership discussions. --Aude (talk) 17:07, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Possibly a Wikimedia Commons Workshop for newbies.--Pharos (talk) 22:49, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Is Wikipedia becoming too stodgy and set in its ways? When was the last time someone changed the Five Pillars? --RoyGoldsmith (talk) 09:57, 26 August 2010 (UTC) -OR-
 * Recent Events articles at Wikipedia: Is news-gathering part of our mission? Should editors of these articles operate under different guidelines? --RoyGoldsmith (talk) 09:57, 26 August 2010 (UTC) -OR-
 * Do we need a separate policy on Biographies of Living Persons? --RoyGoldsmith (talk) 09:57, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Brainstorming session on possible improvements to Wikipedia procedures, and related topics.  DGG ( talk ) and Risker
 * Bridges over the Schuylkill River are what I have been doing recently, and I would talk about where to get the data, and also coordinates and mapping. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:17, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Please sign up here!

Lightning Talks

 * Add your a 5-minute lightning talk topic you can personally present on Saturday afternoon (actual schedule for lightning talks will be determined the day of). Last-minute entries always accepted!  We'll also have a vote and a small prize for the "awesomest" lightning talk.


 * User:MuZemike - Statipedia
 * User:Pharos, User:Tomlzz1, User:Wwwhatsup - NYCwiki.org on using wikis to create digital resources for New York City's 350 neighborhoods.
 * On Building WikiCommunities and Spaces in Real Life - The Importance of The Permanence and Sedentarism factors for our WikiLives ► WikiOffices, WikiStores, WikiParks and WikiStudios... Although the only thing that doesn't change is "CHANGE" there are many things that should remain the same, one is: Our Wiki Way of life. User:JohnManuel&quot;-Todos Llegan de Noche, todos se van de día&quot; (talk) 14:55, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sidepocket (Sidepocket {talk}) "Watching the Watchers: Wikipedia Disinformation via Corporate Influence"
 * Uncle Ed - I'd like to give a talk on Neutrality and Diversity, sharing how presenting ideas without prejudice fights against the sort of tyranny which Allen Bloom warned against:
 * "The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside." Allan Bloom - The Closing of the American Mind
 * I would argue that by fairly describing all points of view, we open our readers to new possibilities when the mainstream has gone astray; but that we do no harm to Truth and Reality by exposing readers to crackpot ideas. We can rest confident that our audience is wise enough to tell the difference, especially when we give them sufficient information to understand a theory along with all the evidence which supports or contradicts it.


 * Status report on "clerkship" at WT:UAA and elsewhere as a response to the declining admin pool. (See WT:RFA for a scary chart: we're down to 30 in 2008 and 11 in 2009.  Don't try to read the whole page though, if you value your eyesight and your sanity.) - Dank (push to talk) 17:27, 11 August 2010 (UTC) Gave the talk - Dank (push to talk) 19:48, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The Hebrew Wikipedia and the Israeli Wikimedia community - The good-to-know differences between them and the English Wikipedia community. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:23, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * User:Aude/FedFlix (lightning talk summary) - Fedflix is a project of the International Amateur Scanning League, established by Carl Malamud and involving volunteers in the DC area. We go the National Archives facility and are duplicating video, which then are posted online at the Internet Archives and YouTube.  We are also scanning photographs, and I can talk about other materials available at the Archives that potentially can be made available online and for use in projects, including Wikipedia. --Aude (talk) 17:11, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikilawyering or I may go off on tangents on copyright laws and wikipedia, who knows I might just rantWlmg (talk) 18:45, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Statipedia -- A proposed joint work site for U.S. govt employees in the statistical agencies, eventually tied in with blogging tools, source code control, and other tools. Other different community of government specialists have such sites: Intellipedia, Diplopedia, Bureaupedia, DoD's Techipedia, Canada's GCPedia, etc. The U.S. statistical agencies have been even slower to move ... so we have a chance to learn from the experience of others. Here's the basic proposition and my past slides and a longer, more grimly detailed paper.  Will describe the plan and invite advice and collaborators. I have no objection to MuZemike presenting on the same topic.-- Econterms (talk) 02:30, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * On Saturday, Article Rescue Squadron was my topic, on Sunday, Wikipedia Release Version Tools - Article Lists and Assessments was my topic. --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:12, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Video/Audio

 * Video Clay Shirky keynote
 * Audio Lightning Talks (Day 1 of 2)
 * Audio Open Space: NYCwiki
 * Video Open Space: NYCwiki
 * Audio Panel B-1: MediaWiki at Work

Social networking tags and outlets

 * Twitter / Identica tag: #nywikiconference, #wikiconfnyc
 * Flickr tag: nywikiconference
 * IRC channel :#wikimedia-northeast
 * Wikimedia Commons

Keep me notified! and registration
The following Wikipedians/Wikimedians have expressed an interest in attending:


 * 1) Pharos (talk) 18:34, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) RegentsPark (talk) 18:55, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Newyorkbrad (talk) 19:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 4)  Blurpeace  08:12, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Becksguy (talk) 09:37, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 6) More pizza ordering :) Mitch 32(Growing up with Wikipedia: 1 edit at a time.) 10:31, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 7)   James  ( T   C )  16:00, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 8) Though I'm leaving NYC on August 8 :( Tim Song (talk) 22:33, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 9) ~  Amory ( u  •  t  •  c ) 21:57, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 10)  The 14th is a no-go for me. I'll keep my fingers crossed that the date ends up changing. keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 14:40, 16 June 2010 (UTC) The new dates work for me; now it's just a matter of arranging my schedule and not sleeping through my alarm those days. keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 13:45, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * : It changed :) 18.85.46.235 (talk)
 * 1) Noroi (talk) 22:28, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Interested, but the 14-15 weekend is not possible for me. I'll keep an eye for any possible date changes, though. Risker (talk) 18:03, 17 June 2010 (UTC) Can make it to the officially scheduled date. :-)  Risker (talk) 17:20, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) The Wordsmith Communicate 18:26, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't make the 14th or 15th, but if it's pushed back a week I would really like to come.Bud0011 (talk) 03:07, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Had a good time last year. --Izno (talk) 03:21, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Jim.henderson (talk) 13:21, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Looking forward to it! daviddoria (talk) 15:37, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Rob Chriss (talk) 22:19, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 5)  NYCRuss   ☎  17:23, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 6) Sadads (talk) 01:37, 29 June 2010 (UTC) Unfortunately I am moving in at College in Virginia, I really am disappointed. :( Hopefully next time, Sadads (talk) 17:42, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) --Rruane (talk) 19:45, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 8) Sross (Public Policy) (talk) 13:33, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Invertzoo (talk) 20:36, 3 July 2010 (UTC) Had a really great time last year, but this year I will be away in California. Invertzoo (talk) 16:28, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 1)  GChriss &lt;always listening&gt;  &lt;c&gt; 03:07, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2)  Econterms (talk) 15:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 3)  Should be able to make the trip to NYC that weekend. –MuZemike 23:55, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Mozucat (talk) 16:42, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 18:49, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 6)  Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 13:30, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 7)  Gmaxwell (talk) 13:32, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 8)  Keep me notified so I can see if some one(s) on staff (maybe me, even!) can come. Bastique ☎ call me! 03:49, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * After reading Sross above...I think at least someone else is interested :) Bastique ☎ call me! 03:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) --Aude (talk) 22:38, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) M.tsangaroulis (talk) 23:24, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 3)   DGG ( talk ) 18:38, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Salmon1 (talk) 02:39, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Kaveri (talk) 19:40, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 6) Moni3 (talk) 23:15, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) Wwwhatsup (talk) 04:44, 1 August 2010 (UTC), although that is UK Bank Holiday weekend!
 * 8) Tomlzz1 (talk) 18:55, 3 August 2010 (UTC) Although I too am concerned about that UK Bank Holiday.
 * 9) Although I may leave early to go to Cape May. Bearian (talk) 15:12, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 10) If I can afford to go, I'll be there. Nightscream (talk) 16:06, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 11) Probable. Wlmg (talk) 17:06, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 12) Count me in. :)  Quasy  Boy  17:20, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 13) RoyGoldsmith (talk) 09:55, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 14) JohnManuel (talk)&quot;-Todos Llegan de Noche, todos se van de día&quot; (talk) 14:39, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 15) Bloody Viking (talk) 18:04, 4 August 2010 (UTC) Dunno whether I can make it, but I'm craving contact!
 * 16) Might not be there Sunday but is a sure fire for Saturday! -- * Sidepocket (Sidepocket {talk}) 01:25, 05 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 17) Quarl (talk) 14:32, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 18) Rob T Firefly (talk) 15:50, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 19) 18.85.46.235 (talk)
 * 20) Theornamentalist (talk) 23:43, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 21)  La comadreja  formerly AFriedman  RESEARCH   (talk)  02:29, 8 August 2010 (UTC) Still need to finalize my schedule for the weekend, but likely to sign up to lead a workshop about improving Portal:Research on Wikiversity.
 * 22) James Owen (talk) 00:56, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 23) Sue Gardner (Executive Director- Wikimedia Foundation)
 * 24) - Dank (push to talk) 02:02, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 25) Might be able to come Sunday! Fbv65 e del — t — c // 02:20, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Strongly doubt I could attend, because I'd need to fly cross-country on short notice & a lack of funds. (I'm unemployed.) However, if I hear about this earlier next year, & I'm still a Wikipedian in good standing, I'll make a serious attempt to attend the next one. -- llywrch (talk) 17:29, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) --Marozols (talk) 02:25, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) --  D OOMSDAYER 520  (Talk|Contribs) 16:49, 14 August 2010 (UTC) It's a slight possibility depending on the rest of my schedule. Especially interested in the University Outreach topic. Is there a deadline for registration?
 * 3) I live in Israel, but i happen to be in NYC that week and i love meeting Wikimedians, so i may come. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:02, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sadly, I have a dental appointment on August 26, 2010. Even if I could go, by the time I get up to New York, the conference will be over. DanTD (talk) 19:36, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Dr. Stephen Press... can speak on WikiChiro.org and/or join with Greg Miller to speak about Ourmed.org - Д-р СДжП,ДС  22:04, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Jiuguang Wang - is anyone going to this thing from Pittsburgh and is willing to carpool? --Jiuguang (talk) 13:32, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) I should be able to make it after all! -Reagle (talk) 12:45, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Tuco_Bad registered. cgersten tuco_bad 17:14, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If I had heard about this earlier I would have been able to put something together I am sure. But alas, lack of notice.  I can't just raise funds to fly to New York that fast. Zell Faze (talk) 20:48, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Yaron Koren - Yaron K. (talk) 11:35, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Emufarmers(T/C) 02:20, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) EdJohnston (talk) 00:32, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) DThomsen8 (talk) 15:05, 27 August 2010 (UTC) Philadelphia, Philadelphia history, Pennsylvania, Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge I will be back on Sunday, but late. --DThomsen8 (talk) 11:48, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Dmadeo dm (talk) 04:13, 28 August 2010 (UTC) probably only able to stop by on Saturday
 * 6) At the venue! Unified registration/signin/talk-proposals needed :)  –SJ +  06:26, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) I'm here --Jeremyb (talk) 23:36, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 8)  Peter.C  •  talk  23:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)