WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos

As we approach the end of the year, we look back on a conference that looked towards the future.

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  The conference logo
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  The conference took place at the United States National Archives Building
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  Financial sponsorship was provided by the Wiki Education Foundation
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  National Archives' Wikipedia exhibit
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  Presentation "A walk through Wikicommons and Wikisource" (PDF)
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  Presentation "An ambitious Wikidata tutorial" (PDF)
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  Presentation "Journalism and the online information community" (PDF)
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  Presentation "Women ... it takes a village" (PDF)
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  Presentation "Community health workshop" (PDF)
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  Questions in the auditorium
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  Keynote speaker Alice Backer (left) with Sherry Antoine (right). Backer is the founder of AfroCROWD, and Antoine is the AfroCROWD Project Manager
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  Keynote speaker Danielle Citron, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland
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  Keynote speaker Andrew Lih, Associate Professor of Journalism at the American University School of Communication
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  A photo at "Your rights as an American and as a Wikipedian"
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  Lightning talks signup
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  Group photo
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  Where are we today (SWOT analysis)?
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  Where do we want to be 15 years from now ...
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  ...and how do we get there?

• "Addressing the Gender Gap – Wiki Edu projects for digital humanities"
• "Are the obstacles academic?"
• "Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative"
• "Here comes (a significant fraction of) everybody"
• "How we organized a 1500-person meetup (and you could too)"
• Keynote speaker Pamela Wright, Chief Innovation Officer for the National Archives and Records Administration
• Report from the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium
• Special Remarks by Dr. John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• "Teaching research and critical thinking skills through Wikipedia"
• "The Wiki Education Foundation in a flash"
• "Vegetation wants to be free"
• "Why Wikipedia works for us – an exploration of innovation at the National Archives"
• "WikiWomen's User Group – next steps"
• "Women ... it takes a village"
• "Working with academic experts in a feminism distributed editing project"

• An Ambitious Wikidata Tutorial
• Crowd Wisdom and Problem Solving – How can Wikimedia engage
• Data in Your Wiki!
• Decreasing promotionalism to preserve the Encyclopedia
• GLAM-Wiki 2.0 – new opportunities for growing GLAM-Wiki in the United States
• How "100 Wikidays" Got me back to being a Wikipedia contributor
• Making 2016 the Wikipedia Year of Science
• Open Biomedical Knowledge – Wikipedia, Wikidata, and beyond
• Where in the World is Wikipedia – A look at the geographic distribution audited content on the English Wikipedia
• Wikipedia and DOTs
• Wikipedia in the global social studies classroom
• WikiProject X

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