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WikiConference report

WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

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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

Toronto Public Library interior

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

Mary Mark Ockerbloom on Defense Against the Dark Arts - Disinformation on Wikipedia
Thamilini Jothilingam presents the South Asian Canadian Digital Archive
Jackie Rubashkin on podcasts in Wikidata