HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER 2022 GUIDES — Part Thirteen: Wiki World’s Fair
Welcome to the DCG 201 guide to Hacker Double Summer! This is part of a series where we are going to cover all the various hacker conventions and shenanigans at the start of July to the end of August both In Person & Digital! 2022 is a GIGANTIC year for hacker hysteria with so many events this will break the most guides we have ever written with the lucky number 13 as the goal. As more blog posts are uploaded, you will be able to jump through the guide via these links:
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part One: Surviving Las Vegas, New York & Virtually Anywhere
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Two: Capture The Flags & MLH INIT Hackathon
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Three: SummerC0n
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Four: ToorCamp
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Five: A New HOPE (HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH)
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Six: SCaLE 19X
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Seven: Back2Vegas by RingZero
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Eight: BSides Las Vegas
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Nine: Black Hat USA
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Ten: The Diana Initiative
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Eleven: USENIX + SOUPS
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Twelve: DEFCON 30
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Thirteen: Wiki World’s Fair
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Fourteen: Blue Team Con
HACKER DOUBLE SUMMER — Part Fifteen: SIGS, EVENTS & PARTIES IN LAS VEGAS
Wiki World’s Fair NYC
Date: Friday August 12th (6:00 PM EST) — Sunday, August 14th (3:00 PM EST)
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_World%27s_Fair
Location: Queens Museum (Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Building, Queens, NY 11368)
Platform(s): Wikipeda Event Page Talk Section & IRC
Schedule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_World%27s_Fair#Agenda
Live Streams:
Chat:
IRC: irc://irc.libera.chat/wikimedia-northeast
Talk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wiki_World%27s_Fair
Accessibility: To attend In-Person is FREE. 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.
Tickets (In Person, FREE): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wiki_World%27s_Fair&action=edit
Code Of Conduct: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City/Code_of_Conduct
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.
Agenda (EST)
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 early-comers who are arriving then, before the evening welcome reception.
Friday: August 12th
6:00 PM — 10:00 PM
Evening welcome reception @ Beer Garden
Bohemian Citizens’ Benevolent Society
Astoria, Queens
Saturday: August 13th
10:00 AM
Brunch picnic (homemade quiches)lunch from “Mama’s Empanadas”
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
11:00 AM
Welcome at Museum
12:00 NOON
Walking Tours Panorama with Xavier Robles-Armas
1:00 PM — 3:00 PM
Edit-a-thon/Translat-a-thon
3:00 PM
Lightning Talks I (+Edit-a-thon)
4:00 PM
Lightning Talks II (+Edit-a-thon)
5:00 PM — 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 14th
10:00 AM
Morning global breakfast banquet @ Industry City
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
11:00 AM — 3:00 PM
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).
Neighborhoods To Translate
List of Wikipedia articles on NYC neighborhoods not written yet, for top Queens idioms (other languages available on request):
Museum Exhibitions
- Panorama of the City of New York (Q113336096)
- On Love & Data (Stephanie Dinkins)
- Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System
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 will be given live in-person, and broadcast online via Wikimedia NYC on Youtube and later on Commons.
Because of the open-unconference Wiki World’s Fair is it is impossible to create a permanent list of Talks. Please refer to the constantly updating page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_World%27s_Fair#Lightning_talks
