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

Evening of Friday February 14: Activities to meet each other, explore, and kick off the conference!

Saturday, February 15: Programming

Sunday, February 16: Programming

Call for submissions

Thank you for considering to submit a session at WikiCredCon 2025! Our formal submission process will open soon, but you can visit our program ideas page to help brainstorm and suggest ideas for sessions.

We are particularly looking for sessions that centre around the following themes:

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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Friendly space policy

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.