Hi everyone,
Thanks to everyone who joined yesterday for the meetup and the elections! See
summary below.
Call for lighting talks, Wikidata birthday, November 13th
We will celebrate Wikidata birthday at our next meetup: November 13th,
6.30-8.30pm. Please RSVP even if you are a regular! This is how we keep track
of attendance for our Rapid grant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Bay_Area_Meetup_November_2025
If you would like to do a lightning talk (5-10 minutes) on a Wikidata-related
project, or an open data project, please send an email to
[email protected]. This can be an online presentation. This can be a
project you participate in, something you are interested in or something you
are working on.
Suggested talks topics:
- Lexica: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexica
- Paulina: paulina.toolforge.org/
- Wikidata and botany:
https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf062/8158086
- Wikidata and galleries, museums, libraries or archives - see eg
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/18/ld42023-iii-the-examples-libraries-using-wikidata/
- Wikidata and games
- Biodiversity project
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Biodiversity
- Wikidata tooking (wikibase, integraality, open refine, etc)
Let's learn together! And have cake.
October meetup summary
We have elected our first formal organizing committee (OC), and amended the
governance document to add "Keeping track of members eligible for voting" to
the OC's duties. All details here:
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Wikipedians_User_Group/Membership_and_governance
We also:
- heard the report on the very successful SFPL panel;
- discussed learnings from the [GLAM
camp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikimedia_DC_GLAM_Camp_2025);
- discussed outreach initiatives proposed by members;
- reminded those eligible about the Board of Trustees election:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025
- helped each other with editing
And of course enjoyed pizza, company and got some editing done.
Next events
Lace editathon, October 19th, 1-3pm, online. Background here:
https://www.lacecouvige.com/threadsblog/enhancing-lace-content-in-wikipedia.
Trip to visit the Fremont lace museum archives: 26th October afternoon, reach
out if interested
More calls for volunteers to follow.
Cheers,
BAWUG's organizing committee
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