On Sunday, January 14, 2024 from 10am – 5pm EST (15:00-22:00 UTC) Wikimedia NYC and Columbia Journalism School’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation will host Wikipedia Day NYC 2024 at Columbia University in NYC. The day-long event will focus on artificial intelligence, journalism and the future of the Wikimedia movement.
Simulcast provided by Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY)
01 Welcome
Molly Stark Dean, Wikimedia NYC
Mark Hansen, Director, Brown Institute for Media Innovation
02 Roundtable: Wiki + News + AI
Julia Angwin, Founder, The Markup
Aimee Rinehart, Associated Press
Sree Sreenivasan, Digimentors
MOD: Andrew Lih
03 Depths of Wikipedia – Wikipedia’s Big Bang
Annie Rauwerda, @depthsofwikipedia
04 Bias, AI & Wikipedia: Problems, Progress and Projects Panel
Sherry Antoine, Executive Director, AfroCrowd
Jordan McRae, Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
James Forrester, Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
Eleonore Fournier-Tombs
MOD: Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
05 AI Art + Archives
Eryk Salvaggio
06 Lightning Talks
Wikipedia trivia – User: Enterprisey
Using LLMs to write Wikipedia content – User: Nowa
Using AI to fight misinformation about the climate crisis – Jon
Using primary sources and archival research – User: InspireWithUs
My meta-Wiki experience and the limitations of planning Wikipedia Day using AI – Molly Stark Dean
Free the sources! – John Mark Ockerbloom
An artist’s take on the Wikipedia:Sandbox – User:Public Park
Portal:Current events – User: Pharos
Featured article! – User: RoySmith
Overview of Picture of the Year- User: Legoktm
Reverse engineering Japanese feature phones – User: Sidepocket
What Would Hari Seldon Do? – User: Rosiestep
What’s the deal with Gender on Commons? – User: CmdrDan
Using humor in Wiki – Case study of Korean wiki alternative Namu Wiki – JB
07 Wikimedia AI Futures Conversation
Amir Aharoni, Senior Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
Dr. X, LaGuardia Community College
Isaac Johnson, Senior Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation
Lane Rasberry, Wikimedian in Residence, University of Virginia
MOD: Richard Knipel
08 Abstract Wikipedia: Language vs Knowledge
James Forrester, Wikimedia Foundation
09 Reliable Sources Conversation
Jenny 8. Lee, Hacks/Hackers, Credibility Coalition
Kevin Payravi
10 Closing Plenary Session – Reflections on the Future of Wikipedia
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
Richard Knipel, Wikimedia NYC
Sherry Antoine, Executive Director, AfroCrowd
Annie Rauwerda, @depthsofwikipedia
Noam Cohen
MOD: Andrew Lih
LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/wikipediaday2024 (Lecture Room only)
ZOOM (view only)
Lecture Hall https://bit.ly/3S1F4IO
World Room https://bit.ly/3tOPgfZ
REAL TIME TEXT
Morning https://bit.ly/3RQlC1O
Afternoon https://bit.ly/3RQlC1O
TWITTER #Wikipedia23 #wikipedia #wikipediaday #AI #journalism @WikimediaNYC @BrownInstitute
MASTODON #wikipediaday
SIMULCASTS
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ (AI Captions)
ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/wikipediaday2024
IMAGE: CC BY-SA Vassia Atanassova – Spiritia / User:Megs
