Hi all,

Yes indeed, 2015 looks very promising, not least for Wikidata.

In London we are getting of the mark quickly with London Wikidata Meetup 2 on Wednesay 7th Jan. (If any of you are around in in London, it would be great to see you).

These meetups run alongside more generic meetups and grew out of a training session Magnus kindly gave us last October. This will be our second meet up and we have also discussed having a training event/meet up in Manchester later on in 2015.

We also have a list for our Wikidata working group, which having looked at the archive, does not have much overlap with this or the tech list. The purpose of the list is to bring together people around events and community building in and around the UK (which actually means we want to have a good relationship with Wikimedians in Ireland in particular).

So having read Lydia's blog, it seemed useful to share on this list our activities. For myself, I get lost quite early on with much of the technical discussion, but I am keen to see ways developed which will help newcomers to projects like Wikidata get their heads around everything which is going on.

So I hope this has helper everyone understand what we are setting out to do with these meetups in London.

all the best

Fabian Tompsett,

Volunteer Support Organiser,

Wikimedia UK,

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