WikiCredCon 2025
WikiCredCon 2025 will bring together a global community to focus on credibility in the Wikimedia ecosystem! We'll be gathering at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco, February 14-16 2025.
This convening is a follow-up to the 2019 WikiCredCon held at MIT in conjunction with WikiConference North America.
Registration is currently open at register.wikicred.org.
Schedule
[edit]Friday, February 14
[edit]| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 12 PM - 1 PM | Internet Archive Friday Lunch |
| 1 PM - 2 PM | Internet Archive Tour with Mark Graham |
| 2 PM - 4 PM | Explore San Francisco (suggestions): |
| 6 PM - 7 PM | Group Dinner at Internet Archive |
| 7 PM - 9 PM | WMF Panel |
Saturday, February 15
[edit]Each session will be 50 minutes long followed by a 10 minute break.
| Time | Activity | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 9 AM - 10 AM | Breakfast and Intros | Organizers |
| 10 AM - 11 AM | Disinformation, democracy, and human rights: WMAR's work with journalists | Vic Sfriso, Wikimedia Argentina |
| 11 AM - 12 PM | Meet the 8 Trust Indicators®; Design New and Expanded Applications | Sally Lehrman |
| 12 PM - 1 PM | We have credibility tools. Wikimedia isn't able to use them. | Barrett Golding (Iffy.news) & Chris Rusnak (Veri.FYI) |
| 1 PM - 2 PM | Lunch : Fireside Chat with Craig Newmark | |
| 2 PM - 3 PM | AI fact-checking | Gaute Kokkvoll |
| 3 PM - 4 PM | Coordinated harassment | Yael Eisenstat & Renee DiResta |
| 4 - 5 PM | How Do We Monitor 100 Million Citations? | Jake Orlowitz, James Hare & Kevin Payravi |
| 5 PM - 6 PM | Robust Links and Link Rot | Sawood Alam and Michael Nelson |
| 6 PM - 9 PM | Dinner + Lighting talks (Suggest ideas) |
Sunday, February 16
[edit]| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9 AM - 10 AM | Breakfast |
| 10 AM - 11 AM | Plenary for Topic Introductions |
| 11 AM - 1 PM | Breakouts (Suggest ideas) |
| 1 PM - 2 PM | Lunch |
| 2 PM - 4 PM | Breakouts (Suggest ideas) |
| 4 PM - 5 PM | Closing |
What We're Focused On
[edit]- Improving Media Literacy: Develop educational resources and training materials that help both editors and readers critically evaluate sources and content.
- Enhancing Citation Transparency: Explore ways to make Wikipedia’s references clearer and more transparent—whether through better citation notices or tools to independently verify sources.
- Tackling Disinformation: Create and refine algorithms, bots, and dashboards that will help flag unreliable sources, correct misinformation, and automatically verify citation quality.
- Empowering Editors: Build tools to help editors access and use high-quality sources, integrate databases, and streamline citation processes, including more accurate metadata and citation bot improvements.
- Long-Term Collaboration: Work with experts in disinformation to update Wikipedia’s guidelines and best practices, particularly for contentious or highly edited topics that are vulnerable to manipulation.
Partners and Supports
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Funder -
Host, sponsor -
Organzing, support
Friendly space policy
[edit]The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) and the Friendly Space Policy established by the Wikimedia Foundation applies to all participants, organizers, and contributors to this conference. The UCoC sets a baseline of acceptable behavior to ensure a welcoming, inclusive, and harassment-free environment for everyone involved. All attendees are expected to interact respectfully, avoid discriminatory or disruptive behavior, and contribute to the collaborative spirit of the event in accordance with the Friendly Space Policy.