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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 Wikipedia: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

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Tisch School of the Arts, 4th Floor
Rooms: Lounge, 447, 445, 442
         _                   
lounge->| |____442       
        |  _______|
     447| |445______
        |_________  |
                  |_|
                elevator

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

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Room A: Lounge, Room B: 447, Room C: 445, Room D 442

Saturday, August 28
Morning
10:00-10:15 Intro Remarks
10:15-10:30 Intro to Open Space
10:30-11:00 Open Space Open Space Open Space Open Space
11:10-11:40 Open Space Open Space Open Space Open Space
11:50-12:20 1st Day Keynote:
Clay Shirky
Lunch & Belgrade Wikiwormhole
1:00-2:30 Lightning Talks I
2:30-4:00 Panel A-1
Wikiversity
4:00-5:30 Panel A-2
Pending Changes		 Panel B-1
MediaWiki at Work
Dinner
6:10-6:40 Open Space Open Space Open Space Open Space
6:50-7:20 Open Space Open Space Open Space Open Space
7:30-8:00 Open Space Open Space
 Open Space Open Space
Party
(After-hours discussion
and bonus sessions
into the evening)
Sunday, August 29
Morning
10:00-10:15 Intro Remarks
10:15-10:45 2nd Day Keynote:
Sue Gardner
10:45-11:00 Intro to Open Space
11:10-11:40 Open Space Open Space Open Space Open Space
11:50-12:20 Open Space Open Space Open Space Open Space
Lunch & OpenStreetMap Outing
(OSM also during morning open space)
1:00-1:30 Lightning Talks II
1:30-3:00 Panel A-3
Wikimedia Strategic Plan
3:00-4:00 Panel A-4
University Outreach		 Panel B-2
Biographies of Living Persons
4:00-5:30 Panel A-5
Open Video		 Panel B-3
Off Wiki Help
Dinner & Ice Cream
6:50-7:20 Open Space Open Space Open Space Open Space
7:30-8:00 Open Space Open Space
 Open Space Open Space
Party
(After-hours discussion
and bonus sessions
into the evening)

Keynotes

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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, Saturday's keynote speaker
Sue Gardner, Sunday's keynote speaker
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:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-09-06/Book review.
Sue spoke on the Role of the Wikimedia Foundation in Supporting and Building the Movement.

Panels

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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
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Panel A-2: Pending changes and flagged revisions
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- How we got here, what we're doing, and where we can go from here.

Panel B-1: MediaWiki at work
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(Corporate and organizational uses of MediaWiki)

SUNDAY PANELS

Panel A-3: Wikimedia Strategic Plan
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Wikimedia Strategy forum with Wikimedia Foundation folks and general participants

Panel A-4: University outreach
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Panel B-2: Biographies of Living Persons
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(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 Wikipedia: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.[reply]
  • RoyGoldsmith (talk) is willing to volunteer as a presenter on this panel.
Panel A-5: Open Video
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Panel B-3: Off Wiki Help
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(IRC/OTRS/Mailing lists etc).

Open Space

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Check out WikiWormhole Belgrade - NYC during lunchtime Saturday!
Open Space...
...the Agenda Anyone Can Edit.
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!

Lightning Talks

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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.
"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.

Video/Audio

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Social networking tags and outlets

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Twitter / Identica tag
#nywikiconference, #wikiconfnyc
Flickr tag
nywikiconference
IRC channel
#wikimedia-northeast
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wiki-Conference New York 2010.

Keep me notified! and registration

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The following Wikipedians/Wikimedians have expressed an interest in attending:

  1. Pharos (talk) 18:34, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  2. RegentsPark (talk) 18:55, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Newyorkbrad (talk) 19:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Blurpeace 08:12, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Becksguy (talk) 09:37, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  6. More pizza ordering :) Mitch32(Growing up with Wikipedia: 1 edit at a time.) 10:31, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  7. James (T C) 16:00, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Though I'm leaving NYC on August 8 :( Tim Song (talk) 22:33, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  9. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 21:57, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  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)[reply]
  11. : It changed :) 18.85.46.235 (talk)
  12. Noroi (talk) 22:28, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  13. 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)[reply]
  14. The WordsmithCommunicate 18:26, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    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)[reply]
  15. Had a good time last year. --Izno (talk) 03:21, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:21, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Looking forward to it! daviddoria (talk) 15:37, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Rob Chriss (talk) 22:19, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  19. NYCRuss ☎ 17:23, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  20. 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)[reply]
  21. --Rruane (talk) 19:45, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Sross (Public Policy) (talk) 13:33, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    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)[reply]
  23. GChriss <always listening><c> 03:07, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Econterms (talk) 15:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Should be able to make the trip to NYC that weekend. –MuZemike 23:55, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Mozucat (talk) 16:42, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 18:49, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 13:30, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Gmaxwell (talk) 13:32, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  30. 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)[reply]
    After reading Sross above...I think at least someone else is interested :) Bastique ☎ call me! 03:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  31. --Aude (talk) 22:38, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  32. M.tsangaroulis (talk) 23:24, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  33. DGG ( talk ) 18:38, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  34. Salmon1 (talk) 02:39, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  35. Kaveri (talk) 19:40, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  36. Moni3 (talk) 23:15, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  37. Wwwhatsup (talk) 04:44, 1 August 2010 (UTC), although that is UK Bank Holiday weekend![reply]
  38. Tomlzz1 (talk) 18:55, 3 August 2010 (UTC) Although I too am concerned about that UK Bank Holiday.[reply]
  39. Although I may leave early to go to Cape May. Bearian (talk) 15:12, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  40. If I can afford to go, I'll be there. Nightscream (talk) 16:06, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  41. Probable. Wlmg (talk) 17:06, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  42. Count me in. :) QuasyBoy 17:20, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  43. RoyGoldsmith (talk) 09:55, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  44. JohnManuel (talk)"-Todos Llegan de Noche, todos se van de día" (talk) 14:39, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  45. Bloody Viking (talk) 18:04, 4 August 2010 (UTC) Dunno whether I can make it, but I'm craving contact![reply]
  46. Might not be there Sunday but is a sure fire for Saturday! -- *Sidepocket (Sidepocket {talk}) 01:25, 05 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  47. Quarl (talk) 14:32, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  48. Rob T Firefly (talk) 15:50, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  49. 18.85.46.235 (talk)
  50. Theornamentalist (talk) 23:43, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  51. 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.[reply]
  52. James Owen (talk) 00:56, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  53. Sue Gardner (Executive Director- Wikimedia Foundation)
  54. - Dank (push to talk) 02:02, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  55. Might be able to come Sunday! Fbv65edel — t — c // 02:20, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    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)[reply]
  56. --Marozols (talk) 02:25, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  57. --DOOMSDAYER520 (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?[reply]
  58. 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)[reply]
    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)[reply]
  59. Dr. Stephen Press... can speak on WikiChiro.org and/or join with Greg Miller to speak about Ourmed.org - Д-рСДжП,ДС 22:04, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  60. Jiuguang Wang - is anyone going to this thing from Pittsburgh and is willing to carpool? --Jiuguang (talk) 13:32, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  61. I should be able to make it after all! -Reagle (talk) 12:45, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  62. Tuco_Bad registered. cgersten tuco_bad 17:14, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    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)[reply]
  63. Yaron Koren - Yaron K. (talk) 11:35, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  64. Emufarmers(T/C) 02:20, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  65. EdJohnston (talk) 00:32, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  66. 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)[reply]
  67. Dmadeo dm (talk) 04:13, 28 August 2010 (UTC) probably only able to stop by on Saturday[reply]
  68. At the venue! Unified registration/signin/talk-proposals needed :) –SJ+ 06:26, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  69. I'm here --Jeremyb (talk) 23:36, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  70. Peter.C • talk 23:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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