Hi,

The next "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on Wednesday the 23rd of January, on a time to be chosen via Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/poll/5mf5cfkuxpprk727. The plan is that for January's meetup we will focus on Wikidata. Bluerasberry, who works extensively with Wikidata at the University of Virginia's Data Science Institute, plans to participate. 

The Zoom online meeting link will be the same link that we have used for previous Wikimedia Café meetups; see below.

The Café meetups are usually small, so they are a good place to ask questions or to discuss ideas, regarding Wikidata or other Wikimedia topics.



On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks,

Based on comments that I received on Wikimedia-l, I would like to invite people to a casual online meetup one hour before the monthly WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting.

There will be no set agenda. You can come with questions or ideas that you would like to discuss. Please be willing to listen to questions and ideas from other Wikimedians.

I will host the meeting with the Zoom software. You can join with software or by using your phone. If you join by phone then your phone number will be visible to other participants.

The primary language of the meeting will be English, but if people would like to communicate in diverse languages then that is okay too. We can facilitate translation by text chat. Many Wikimedians, myself included, are multilingual in varying degrees, so we might try to have live interpretation also.

Here is information about how to connect:

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/136978210

Or iPhone one-tap :
    Argentina: +543415122188,,136978210#
Or Telephone:
    Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
        Argentina: +54 341 512 2188
        Australia: +61 (0) 2 8015 2088  or +61 (0) 8 7150 1149
        Canada: +1 647 558 0588
        Hong Kong, China: +852 5808 6088
        France: +33 (0) 1 8288 0188  or +33 (0) 7 5678 4048
        Germany: +49 (0) 30 3080 6188  or +49 (0) 30 5679 5800
        Israel: +972 (0) 3 978 6688
        Italy: +39 069 480 6488
        Japan: +81 (0) 3 4578 1488  or +81 524 564 439
        Mexico: +52 229 910 0061  or +52 554 161 4288
        Spain: +34 84 368 5025  or +34 91 198 0188
        Sweden: +46 (0) 7 6692 0434  or +46 (0) 8 4468 2488
        Russia: +7 495 283 9788
        United Kingdom: +44 (0) 20 3051 2874  or +44 (0) 20 3695 0088
        US: +1 408 638 0986  or +1 646 558 8665
    Meeting ID: 136 978 210
    International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ekaPibJIy

The first "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on 30 August 2018, at 17:00 UTC / 10:00 Pacific.

Let me emphasize that the environment won't be like this, so please don't feel intimated if you are nervous about public speaking. (If a conversation feels to me like it is becoming uncivil or intimidating, then I will ask the debaters to quiet themselves or to move to somewhere else.) The meeting will generally have an environment that is more like this or this. I anticipate that few people will come, which is okay. I hope that if you come then you will enjoy the environment and conversation.

Until next time,