The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open
Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, October 13, from 4 pm UTC to 5:30 pm UTC
(see your time zone here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1634140801).
As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the Wikipedia
& Education User Group board, then leave most of the time for our guest
speakers.
Our guest speakers this month will be Amanda Rust and Amy Ruskin, who will
speak on their work with Wikidata in an educational library setting, and
Thomas Shafee, who will discuss the WikiJournals and their bridging of the
Wikipedia-academia divide.
Our speakers' biographies:
* Amanda Rust is the Associate Director for Services in the Digital
Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She’ll speak
about how Wikidata fits into an initiative to collaboratively document
neighborhood public art data in Boston. By focusing on public art outside
of more well-known downtown areas, this initiative hopes to highlight the
history of art and artists in historically marginalized neighborhoods.
* Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the
Northeastern University Library. She will discuss the process of setting up
the Boston neighborhood public art project in Wikidata, including
determining data models and creating a WikiProject page.
* Thomas Shafee is an evolutionary biochemist and data scientist based at
La Trobe Uni in Australia. He'll talk on the work he does on bridging the
Wikipedia-academia divide by forming compatible interfaces between the ways
the two communities operate. As part of this, he chairs the WikiJournal
User Group, and is Editor in Chief of the WikiJournal of Science and an
editor for PLOS Genetics. Through these, non-Wikimedian scholars can write
new high-accuracy Wikipedia pages, and existing Wikipedia pages are put
through external peer review.
We hope you can join us!
The meeting will be hosted via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81371223837?pwd=K3dQZnh3WU9TYTY3MzBOV1l4WnBiZz09
Meeting ID: 813 7122 3837
Passcode: 153195
If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send me
an email offlist.
(excuse the cross-posting; please share widely!)
We are curating the Education & Science Community track of WikidataCon
2021, which will take place on Sunday, October 31 from 11:00 to 18:00 UTC
(check the time in your time zone here:
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635678034) and you are invited to submit a
proposal to the conference!
Submissions are open until October 20, 2021 (midnight anywhere in the
world), but we encourage you to submit a proposal as soon as you can, as we
are rolling admissions and expect the Education & Science Community track
to fill up fast.
We’re seeking submissions from anyone who’s incorporated Wikidata in
education, science and research, and working with academics, universities,
educational institutions (K-12 or informal education) and research
institutions.
Since this is an all-virtual conference, WikidataCon 2021 is a great
opportunity for people who have not previously attended to join! We
particularly encourage you to submit if you’ve never presented at
WikidataCon in past years.
Some links:
Overview of the Community Tracks:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…
Information about proposing a session is further down on that same page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…
Direct link to the proposal system:
https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/submit/fJyHGM/info/
In case you’re not familiar with it, WikidataCon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021> is an event held
every 2 years coinciding with Wikidata’s birthday and is a time for the
Wikidata community to come together to learn from each other. This year it
will be held virtually and runs from October 29-October 31, 2021. It’s a
great way to share your work with the rest of the Wikidata community and
meet and learn from other Wikidatans.
Please let us know if you have any questions, or if there is any way we can
help you with the submission process.
Shani Evenstein Sigalov, LiAnna Davis, & Will Kent.