Wikipedia:Wiki World's Fair

To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

The Wiki World's Fair is a New York City wiki-celebration with its flagship event to be held all-day on Saturday August 13, 2022 at the Queens Museum, in the context of the 1939/1964 fairgrounds at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. There will also be smaller sessions for much of August 12-14 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) as hybrid local gatherings for the global online conference Wikimania 2022. The series is a sequel to the Wiki World's Fair Governors Island of a decade ago.

Befitting the globally-minded theme, the event is to include a Translat-a-thon (in the proud Queens wiki tradition), and an exploration of topics at the intersection of culture and technology.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. The Queens Museum encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

Note: Museum tickets are not required. When you arrive at the Queens Museum, just say you are coming for the Wiki event, and register at the front desk.

Agenda

Livestream times relevant to NYC (tentative). The flagship in-person session will be on Saturday at and around the Queens Museum, some others may have more informal events, e.g, at Bohemian Citizens' Benevolent Society beer garden in Astoria.

For completists and those comfortable with early mornings, we will possibly also have micro-gatherings 8-10am on Thursday (only chance to synch with the Asia-Pacific day), Saturday and Sunday.

There will also be a lazy lunch on Friday afternoon for out-of-town earlycomers who are arriving then, before the evening welcome reception.


Day	Time	Agenda	Location
Friday: August 12 Americas	6pm-10pm	Evening welcome reception	Beer garden Bohemian Citizens' Benevolent Society Astoria, Queens
Saturday: August 13 Africa-ME-Europe	10am	Brunch picnic (homemade quiches) Outside museum on Unisphere side	Queens Museum (official listing) lunch from "Mama's Empanadas" Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
	11am	Welcome at museum trainings/workshops
	12pm	Walking tours Panorama with Xavier Robles-Armas
	1pm	Edit-a-thon/Translat-a-thon
	2pm	Broadcast intro and Panel I (2:15 broadcast start)
	2:30pm	Panel II and Panel III
	3pm	Lightning Talks I (+Edit-a-thon)
	4pm	Lightning Talks II (+Edit-a-thon)
	5pm-late	Queens Night Market (performances + food/art vendors) (Our picnic blankets on shaded grass inside perimeter closest to Rocket Park and Forms in Transit)
Sunday: August 14 Global	10am	Morning global breakfast banquet	Industry City Bandshell or adjoining tent Courtyard 1/2 between 36th and 37th St Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sunday: August 14 Global	11am-3pm	Afternoon closing ceremony

Edit-a-thon/Translat-a-thon

Especially at the Queens Museum on Saturday, we'll focus on content improvement on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other projects. Given the World's Fair theme, we will put a particular emphasis on building maps and on translations.

We will build on the history of the fairgrounds, and on the Queens Museum permanent collection and current museum exhibitions, including the Panorama of the City of New York and related map stuff, combined with the topics of the Stephanie Dinkins exhibition (which extends into the Panorama).

Please sign up on the Dashboard

Neighborhoods to translate

List of Wikipedia articles on NYC neighborhoods not written yet, for top Queens idioms (other languages available on request):

Museum exhibitions

Secret Garden (Q113535713)

Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System (Q113535546)

Wet Networks (Q113665614)

World's Fair

Create Wikidata item on a historic Fair site

Forms in Transit (Q113535453)

Research questions from Queens Museum

Lightning talks

Add your 3-5 minute lightning talk here! Lightning talks may cover a wide range of topics related to Wikipedia, Wikimedia, and the larger free culture movement. They don't even have to mention Wikipedia/Wikimedia, but they should reflect it in some way. However, we ask that lightning talks aren't commercialized or used to promote or sell products and services.

Lightning talks were given live in-person, recordings are available on Commons.

3pm: Lightning Talks I

Welcome to the Wiki World's Fair and Wikimania.--Pharos (talk) 18:35, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
WikiJournal. (Can give a longer presentation if there's time) OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 01:44, 4 August 2022 (UTC) and Mikael Häggström (talk) 01:41, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
War stories from the Mailman3 migration/upgrade. Legoktm (talk) 16:55, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Political Hypercorrection – Useless changes to English, such as “Latinx” for “Latin,” which serve only to confuse and make recorded history less accessible. – Thomas Eccardt, Adj. Prof. Linguistics, CUNY City Tech
Wikipedia Translat-a-thons.--Mozucat & Doctorxgc
-

4pm: Lightning Talks II

- Victor Varnado - Future Leader of the Wikipedia: Department of Fun does a Live Reading of a Wikipedia Page with Rachel Teichman, LMSW
The Environment of New York City Task Force report.--Wil540 art (talk) 22:42, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
-Who pays for open access? DGG ( talk ) 15:06, 13 August 2022 (UTC) (David Goodman, WM-NYC)[reply]
-

Sign up

To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

Pharos (talk) 17:46, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 19:55, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Wil540 art (talk) 15:09, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Jim.henderson (talk) 03:14, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Windblown29 (talk) 14:27, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Legoktm (talk) 23:28, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 02:29, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Njk (talk) 20:36, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delirium (talk) 20:35, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
— The Most Comfortable Chair 00:36, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Joycewikiwiki (talk) 03:07, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
2022-08-11 or 12 —Wei4Earth (talk, contribs) 08:05, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Patachonica (talk) 18:58, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
– SJ + 20:54, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Alansohn (talk) 21:48, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
ComplexRational (talk) 23:38, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Quarl ^(talk) 02:43, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sm8900 (talk) 14:24, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Luncher456 (talk) 16:06, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
RBrounley (WMF) (talk) 21:46, 27 July 2022 (UTC) -- following up here, I woke up this morning with some residual sickness from earlier this week and not feeling great / probably unwise to join large groups at this time, even masked. I will join in spirit and very sad to be missing it. :([reply]
ATDT (talk) 21:08, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Aude (talk) 21:17, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
DGG ( talk ) 17:42, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Rosiestep (talk) 15:56, 30 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Milimetric (talk) 18:08, 30 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Mikael Häggström (talk) 02:55, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sarah Haggstrom (talk) 02:55, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Kaexer (talk) 18:38, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
CmdrDan (talk) 17:10, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, I am no longer able to attend due to a recent covid-19 exposure. I am staying put and avoiding contact so as not to infect anyone. I am with you in spirit, however.

I send my sincere and best wishes for a resourceful & robust Wiki World's Fair,

I am certain the New York City Pavilion "at" Wikimania will uphold the proud legacy of the building!

--CmdrDan (talk) 03:16, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]