• Our main host is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• This year's theme is reliability / credibility
• Participation in conference activities includes compliance with our friendly space policy.

Conference overview

View the full schedule for more details and sessions. Details subject to change.

Friday, November 8

Culture Crawl Day - explore local museums and cultural institutions while editing Wikipedia and learning about Wikimedia projects

• Location: Museum of Fine Arts and Cultural institutions in downtown Boston and Cambridge
  • Participants will visit local museums and cultural institutions for free backstage tours, edit-a-thons, and more.
  • Training sessions around GLAM and Wikidata.
  • Kickoff to our conference-long hackathon, challenging participants to ideate and come up with solutions for problems around information reliability.
• Friday night reception: Downtown Boston

Saturday, Sunday, & Monday, November 9 - 10

Three full days of presentations, panels, discussions, workshops and lightning talks

• Location: MIT's Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus; 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139, link to map
  • Participants will be able to join sessions on themes including credibility and reliability; education with Wikimedia projects; news and current events; citations and sourcing; relationship building & support; inclusion & diversity; editor recruitment and retention; tech & tools; and harassment, civility, & safety.
  • Monday will feature a reliability summit and continuation of the hackathon, providing a deep-dive into issues surrounding reliability of information.
  • Saturday: 9:00am-5:30pm; Sunday: 10:00am-5:00pm; Monday times to be announced.
• Saturday night reception: Cambridge