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The 1st Wiki-Conference New York will be held over the weekend of July 25-26 2009 (confirmed!) at New York University, and hosted by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City.

Plans are still gestating, and more schedule details should appear soon; participants are encouraged to give your own ideas for topic sessions. Misplaced Pages founder Jimmy Wales will be giving a keynote, and we will also have a second keynote speaker TBA.

You can register for the Wiki-Conference here—which can also be linked as bit.ly/wikiny

Event format

There will be 2 days of events, held over a weekend in meeting rooms in Vanderbilt Hall at the New York University School of Law.

Participation will be free, with room for ~150 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 the 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.

Event coordinators: Pharos (general), Reagle (panels), Johndbritton (open space and lightning talks).

Provisional schedule of sessions

Panels

Add your suggested panels topics and participants here. Generally, we're looking for a coherent topic with about four committed presenters. For open panel slots, propose a topic and see if you can get presenters. If we have a surplus of panel suggestions, some might be merged or shifted to Open Space. Generally, a person should not sign up for more than one panel.

Panel A-1

• Proposal: Technical / MediaWiki
  • Aude - OpenStreetMap integration with Misplaced Pages

Panel B-1

• Proposal: Quality and Governance
  • DGG (talk) 03:42, 12 June 2009 (UTC) Informal and formal quality control in Misplaced Pages: control by general participation, and control by administration
  • Stu _{I'm Researching Misplaced Pages} Algorithmic Governance: The Social Roles of Bots and Assisted Editing Tools
  • Abd (talk) 13:08, 25 June 2009 (UTC) Scalable fractal cooperative advisory structure, informal (exists) or formal (proposed).

Panel A-2: Chapters / Outreach activities

• Pharos - chapters, photo contests, museums, libraries
• Mitchazenia - photo contests & events, future events
  • +sj+ - universities, research institutes
• Whiteknight (books) (page) - Chapters committee and international activities

Panel B-2

• Proposal: Communication
  • Bastique OTRS Workshop*

• Proposal: Free knowledge in practice
  • Nina Paley (attending), Cory D, other free culture creators and artists.

Panel A-3: Neutrality and Activism

We now have four people, which sounds good. I'd encourage people to fill in more detail, or maybe link to an abstract or blog entry or something, so we have a better idea of what we are saying and are prepared to substantively engage each other. Also, should we have a moderator, someone to keep folks on time? (I think we should each do no more than 10 minutes, then with time for discussion/questions.) --Reagle (talk) 13:45, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

• David Shankbone, What is neutrality? The difficulty with conceptions of truth and neutrality.
• Ed Poor, The Limits of Neutrality. (Two sentences from Ed on his gist.)
• Joseph Reagle, The Merits of Neutrality. NPOV is one of the most important principles of Misplaced Pages collaboration in that it permits those of disparate opinions to work together.
• Ragesoss, Passion and Neutrality. How Misplaced Pages editing can be both activism for a cause you believe in and mesh with the community norms and institutional goals of the project; NPOV as a rhetorical strategy for achieving social change ; WMF institutional activism and what it means for the community

Panel B-3

• Proposal: Barnraisings and cross-wiki collaborations
  • (someone from Intellipedia, on the many faces of Wiki nature)
  • (Ed Poor or someone who founded significant WP forks, on the power of Right to Fork)

    I can report on Rev. Moon's New World Encyclopedia, for which I provided much technical help (e.g., MediaWiki user training). It's probably the most expensive fork to date.

  • (someone from a non-MW wikicity, pbwiki or jot)
  • GreenReaper - Starting a WikiProject or a separate wiki, finding/supporting project leaders

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).

* Wiki Off Wiki - The Pros and Cons of Off-Site discussion of Misplaced Pages - Meetare Shappy 19:56, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

• Wikimedia United States Chapters Council meeting session--Pharos (talk) 23:46, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
• Creative Commons, GFDL, and the license migration. Kaldari (talk) 23:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
• Steering Communities of Practice - Johndbritton (talk) 02:21, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• Wiki Workshops specialized for interested people in cultural, educational and/or academic fields.--Pharos (talk) 17:24, 22 June 2009 (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).

• Ragesoss - "The Misplaced Pages Gender Gap: Why We Have It and How It Hurts Us"
• +sj+ - "Systemic Bias, Year 6. Middle Earth v. Middle Africa in the age of Twitter"
• GreenReaper - "Making MediaWiki Fly; or, How to Run Ten Wikis on a Shoestring"
• Whiteknight (books) (page) - "Wikibooks in the classroom"
• Dank - "Mining free content on government websites"

• • Please sign up here!

Regional initiative

Wikimedia New York City is the 1st Wikimedia chapter in North America, and has adopted a sub-national model more suited to the region's population distribution, different from most of the international chapters. Though based in the city, Wikimedia New York City's region also covers neighboring parts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, with subgroups currently organizing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Hartford, Connecticut. There has also been some discussion of extending this effort to the other Northeastern urban centers of Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, DC.

It is hoped that meetings here can also spur efforts to further new sub-national Wikimedia chapters throughout the United States (see Wikimedia United States Chapters Council), and possibly in Canada as well. So, it is hoped that we can attract a good representation from aspirant chapters from all over North America.

Picnic, extra-curricular and accommodations

Not only will this be our 1st 'Wiki-Conference New York', but it will be our 3rd annual 'WikNYC Picnic'; after 2007 in Central Park and 2008 in Prospect Park. This year will feature a return to tradition as we take the WikNYC back to the southwest corner of the Great Lawn of Central Park.

We're also going to have informal lunches and dinners at NYU and outside activities planned with the participants.

For accommodations, we are looking into the possibility of reserving NYU dorms for participants. If this doesn't work out, for those on a limited budget there is a nearby hostel and we will look at a couchsurfing system — if you can offer a place to stay, please leave a note.

Leading up to the wiki-conference there are a pair of short Misplaced Pages at the Library classes at the NYPL to teach normal library-goers about using Misplaced Pages. Help promote those events as well -- the more popular they are, the more space there will be for them in the future.

Keep me notified! and registration

You can sign up for the Wiki-Conference at the off-wiki registration here.

The following Wikipedians/Wikimedians have expressed a possible interest in attending:

• Pharos (talk) 17:33, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
• Reagle (talk) 11:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC) (beyond attending, is there a list/wiki for organizing?)
  • We're going to use the Free Culture @ NYU Discuss list, so folks interested in organizing should join that.--Pharos (talk) 17:37, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
• Robert Greer (talk) 18:17, 4 May 2009 (UTC) cannot attend
• +sj + 20:05, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
• (Salmon1 (talk) 23:22, 4 May 2009 (UTC))
• Cbrown1023 talk 21:31, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
• Ed Poor (talk) I'd like to give a talk on "The limits of neutrality". 18:27, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Ed, would you be interested doing a panel on the topic if we rope in a few more people? We've had interested discussions about this topic in the past :) --Reagle (talk) 11:38, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

    Yes - see talk. --Uncle Ed (talk) 04:11, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

• Rex Manning (talk) 04:09, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
• 3 1/2 years of Mitch32 23:49, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
• phoebe / (talk to me) 17:09, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
• Invertzoo (talk) 00:19, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
• JoshuaZ (talk) 01:40, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
• seattlenate (talk)
• Meetare Shappy
• BounceAlign (talk) 20:08, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
• Mozucat (talk) 17:12, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
• Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 19:01, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
• --Aude (talk) 22:52, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
• Kirill  03:12, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
• - Dank (push to talk) 22:26, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
• --chaser (talk) 23:54, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
• Steven Walling (talk) 07:30, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
• ike9898 (talk) 13:54, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
• —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 15:19, 2 June 2009 (UTC) – I feel bad that my whole talk page is filled with invitations to NYC meetups.
• Daniel Case (talk) 04:46, 3 June 2009 (UTC) Ex officio.
• Enigma 05:47, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
• Newyorkbrad (talk) 13:55, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
• User:LamaLoLeshLa
• depends on the final dates as I'll be traveling a good portion of July StarM 22:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
• BusterD (talk) 23:19, 3 June 2009 (UTC) Likely will attend this meeting.
• ragesoss (talk) 00:23, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
• I totally thought I'd already put my name here. Austin Hair ✍ ✉ 02:15, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
• Izno (talk) 06:31, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
• DGG (talk) 16:07, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
• --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 18:39, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
• -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:30, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
• Jim.henderson (talk) 00:27, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
• Andre (talk) 18:09, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
• -- Y not? 19:00, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
• KenWalker Interested, not sure if I can make it. Accommodation suggestions? --KenWalker | Talk 03:30, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
• Ktsquare (talk) 04:53, 11 June 2009 (UTC), interested, not sure if I can make it.
• >David Shankbone 20:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
• EdJohnston (talk) 20:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
• DCDuring (talk) 00:47, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
• –Juliancolton |  04:25, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
• I might actually be able to make it to NY for this. Would love to come if I can. ^demon 14:41, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
• Nakon 16:28, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
• dm (talk) 09:44, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
• Bearian (talk) 14:50, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
• —harej (talk) 18:49, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
• GreenReaper (talk) 05:15, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
• johndbritton (talk) 02:08, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• Jd2718 (talk) 02:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• Becksguy (talk) 18:04, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• MBisanz 18:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• Irunongames • play 20:29, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• Whiteknight (books) (page) 01:05, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
• PbakerODU (talk) 17:54, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
• Gary King (talk) 14:34, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
• tglaisyer - Hope to participate.
• Agradman /_{makes occasional mistakes} 21:13, 19 June 2009 (UTC) btw, at my law school I am creating a club & an external wiki to encourage my classmates to assimilate their notes & readings into Misplaced Pages; I'm looking for folks who can help me get this project off the ground, and/or seed it at other schools
• Nightscream (talk) 22:58, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
• Stu _{I'm Researching Misplaced Pages} 18:25, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
• Sswonk (talk) 00:42, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
• i will defintly try and be there. Bud0011 (talk) 01:38, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
• Vegavairbob (talk) 04:56, 25 June 2009 (UTC) I can attend on Sunday.
• Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 06:43, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
• Kafka Liz (talk) 12:02, 25 June 2009 (UTC) Possibly. We'll see.No longer possible. :/ Kafka Liz (talk) 11:04, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
• Abd (talk) 13:04, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
• umrguy42 17:51, 27 June 2009 (UTC) It's an outside chance, as I'm not closer, but maybe.
• Modernist (talk) 01:24, 28 June 2009 (UTC) Thinking about it.
• girl2k (talk) 01:31, 28 June 2009 (UCT)
• I'll be around for stuff on Sunday or late Saturday night for the usual reason. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 02:13, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
• --Bastique 20:44, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
• GChriss <always listening><c> 23:40, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
• Kfogel <talk><contribs> 22:40, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
• GlassCobra 06:46, 3 July 2009 (UTC) I'd love to come if my schedule allows!
• ClockworkSoul 19:10, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
• Interested, but still not sure if I can make it. EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:48, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
• ShamWow Don't know if I'm "wikipedia savvy"" enough to fully understand what's going on but I do edit a fair bit and would like to know more. Somebody please inform me if this event would be of use to me.
  • Come along! This event is for everyone, from total novice to expert, and everything in between.--Pharos (talk) 00:37, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

See also

This has been proposed as one of a series of monthly rotating Free Culture community events over the course of the next few months. See Misplaced Pages:Meetup/Boston/FC+ for another instance.

For a summary of previous NYC events, see Misplaced Pages:Meetup/NYC/Main.