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WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

WikiConference report

WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

By User:Bluerasberry

group photo of WikiConference North America

WikiConference North America 2023 Toronto was held 9-12 November 2023. Here we share outcomes of this event including newly published videos and photos, the archived conference website and program, and share some attendee reflections on its significance.

Background

WikiConference North America 2023 featured three days of programming

The Signpost briefly covered the conference in the month it happened to report a bomb threat targeting the conference and unnamed Wikipedia community members who were accused of bullying.

In their own words

User:Bluerasberry invited attendees to the conference to come to the video room and share whatever brief message about Wikimedia projects anyone would like to record. See them and hear their own words.

• Victoria Alcántara discusses Wikipedia articles on women
• Tim Moody shares medical info through Wikipedia
• Helaine and Brianda support student editing at Wiki Education
• Cameron Woods supports minority representation in Wikipedia
• Peter Meyer argues that Gordo the dinosaur should have a Wikipedia article
• Ximena Gallardo invites English literature students to edit Wikipedia
• Andrew Leung presents WikiJournal and Wikipedia-connected peer review
• Brian Wolff likes repeated community feedback in MediaWiki development
  Brian Wolff likes repeated community feedback in MediaWiki development
• Martin Ferrera warns how lies in media oppress the people
• Daniel Mietchen uses Wikidata to open scholarly communication
• Mark Graham at Internet Archive protects Wikipedia references
• Kunal Mehta invites beginning coders to develop MediaWiki
• Linda Fletcher with AfroCROWD supports African diaspora Wikipedia editing
• Lorenzo Losa loves Wikipedia collaboration
• Clovermoss attends her first Wikipedia meetup!
• Elli brings news journalism into Wikipedia articles
• Andy discusses translation of Wikipedia between Spanish and English
• Rhonda Yearwood on Wikidata for open museum data sharing
• Rosie Stevenson Goodnight on coming to Wikipedia after retirement
• Will Kent on Wikidata's usefulness for university knowledge sharing

Presentations

Commons:Category:WikiConference North America 2023 presentations

Images

group photo

main presentation area

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  User:CaptainEek
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  User:SuperHamster
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  Sue Gardner
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  User:Peaceray
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  User:Newyorkbrad
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  User:Enterprisey
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  User:Econterms, User:Mary Mark Ockerbloom, and User:Ocassi
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  User:Risker
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  User:WWB
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  Mehrdad Pourzaki, and User:Another Believer
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  Lane Rasberry user:Bluerasberry and Fabian Garcia User:Fabebk
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  Nevin Thompson
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  User:The Earwig
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  User:Laurentius
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  User:Daniel Case
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  User:Buidhe
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  User:Phoebe and User:SJ
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  User:Slowking4
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  User:Pharos
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  User:Mahir256
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  Helaine (Wiki Ed)
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  User:Rhododendrites
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  User:Jmabel

The image collection is at Commons:Category:People at WikiConference North America 2023

Thanks to photographers Commons:User:Mitchazenia, Commons:User:Jim.henderson, and Commons:User:Jaydixit

Credits

Thanks to speakers, and thanks also to the other participants listed below.

• Toronto Public Library for hosting the event