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What is WikiConference North America?
WikiConference North America (formerly WikiConference USA) is the annual conference of Wikimedia enthusiasts and volunteers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The weekend features both academic and casual presentations on Wikimedia-related outreach activities, workshops to improve the skills of grassroots organizers, and discussions on the past, present, and future of the Wikimedia projects. The conference features tracks on community outreach, online activity, partnerships with institutions of knowledge, and technology.

The third annual WikiConference North America will be held at the San Diego Central Public Library in San Diego, California on October 7–10, 2016.


 * This year's theme is inclusivity.
 * Keynote speakers include Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer of OCLC Research, and Dr. Lourdes Epstein, Library Director at the Mexico City campus of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.
 * Wiki Culture Crawl is a pre-conference event at Balboa Park with more than 15 of its museums and institutions. It will be the the largest one-day GLAM-Wikipedia collaboration ever held. Sign up now for the October 7 free event!
 * Submissions for conference workshops, seminars, tutorials, panels, and presentations are now closed, but please submit ideas for lightning talks and the unconference.

Interested in attending WikiConference? Registration is open now!

You can sign up if you're attending to let others know if you're coming.

Also, please sign up on the volunteers page to help!

Good practices

 * Common understanding
 * We are a community with a foundation, not a foundation with a community.
 * All documentation in mediawiki.org - including value proposition and user documentation.
 * Easier to maintain, promote and watch.
 * OSS development context clear. Links to/from Bugzilla etc are natural.
 * Simplified, adapted intros can be created in Wikimedia projects when deployment comes.
 * Calls for feedback point to a central point in mediawiki.org.
 * Criticism happens next to the core docs and it's easier to integrate.
 * Less risk of Wikipedia-centrism. Neutral field for all Wikimedia projects and 3rd parties.
 * Less risk of duplicated discussions in different places.

Document how the organization of content and schedule works in Wikimedia hackathons
Moved to Hackathons.