UW's School of Nursing was ranked #4 and has 374 students. The University of Washington School of Medicine was ranked by US News and World Report as the #1 school for primary care and the #10 school for research, with 938 students enrolled.The school enrolled 45,213 graduate and undergraduate students as of Fall 2014. The University of Washington is ranked by US News and World Report as #11 on its list of Best Global Universities in 2016.The likely location of the conference is the en:University of Washington's Seattle Campus.Scale, format, and focus will be similar to previous years.Schedule will be similar to the 2014 schedule or 2015 schedule for WikiConference USA, with one or more dedicated tracks for topics of interest to WikiProject Medicine.North entrance to the University of Washington's Seattle campusĬascadia Wikimedians will host a regional Wikimedia conference for about 300 attendees in Seattle in August 2016. In addition to building and extending the relationships between online contributors through sustained social interactions, WikiConference USA will introduce new contributors to more experienced editors, highlight innovative new projects, and offer focused community attention toward solving enduring problems for the editing community. (2015), Wikimedia 2016 seeks to facilitate a partnership between Cascadia Wikimedians and the University of Washington to host the third WikiConference USA. Building on momentum established through two consecutive annual meetings in New York (2014) and Washington D.C.
WikiConference USA 2016 serves as the premier conference space for building and extending collaborations in the US and Canada between Wikipedia editors, Wikimedia chapters, Wikimedia contributors, free knowledge practitioners, higher education students and their faculty.