Hi all,

We, myself plus cc-ed, are looking forward to seeing and meeting many of you in Wikimania starting in some hours. While many meetings and conversations will organically happen during the coming days, I'd like to bring your attention to two more formal opportunities for us to interact with you. We do ask you [1] to join us if you're interested.

* Hackathon days: Research has a focus area. You can read more about it at https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Research. The focus area is NOT going to be focused on technical research and development only. We are especially hoping to hear from you, as volunteers and staff of chapters and Wikimedia affiliates, about the challenges you're facing and work with you to see if we can turn them to research questions. You do not need, at all, to know about research to talk with us about the challenges you see ahead of you and/or us as a Movement.

* The State of Research in Knowledge Gaps [2] on Saturday, July 21, 10:30-11:30. This will be a workshop where we give you an overview of the problems related to Knowledge Gaps that we can solve today, and those that are ahead of us. We will specifically talk about content gaps, readership needs and gaps, and editor diversity.

If you want to talk with us on a more 1:1 basis and these time-slots won't work for you: no worries, just send me an email and we will do our best to find a common time with you.

Looking forward to learning with you and from you.

Best, Leila

[1] https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Research#Who_should_drop_... [2] https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program/The_State_of_Research_in_Kn...

Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist, Lead Wikimedia Foundation