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June 2024
WikiCon Australia Update
23 November 2024 - Ibis Hotel, Adelaide South Australia [image: image] Registrations Open
Registrations have opened for this year's WikiCon to be held on 23rd November, at the Ibis Hotel in Adelaide South Australia. In addition to the conference itself, we are planning a few social pre and post event activities that we’d love to invite you along to! To help with catering and bookings, head to Humanitix to register your WikiCon attendance.
Register for WikiCon 2024 https://events.humanitix.com/wikicon-australia-2024
[image: image] Submissions Open
Submissions will open at the end of June for WikiCon Australia 2024. We encourage submissions from anyone interested in Wikipedia and its sister projects, with special consideration given to the work of Wikimedians in Australian, South East Asia and the Pacific regions. Further information about the submission process and travel scholarships are available on meta-wiki.
Submit a proposal to present https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikicon_Australia_2024/Submissions
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Understanding the Gender Balancing Process in Wikipedia Editors’ Community
Wikipedia editors (including professional staff) are invited to join an online interview for a study by the University of Queensland, and made possible with a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. The purpose of the study is to understand how gender balance has been taken into account in the Wikipedia editorial process and decisions, as well as how a tool could be best designed to support this process.
Contact Tianwa Chen t.chen@business.uq.edu.au from the Univerrsity of Queensland to take part.
Take part in the study t.chen@business.uq.edu.au
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Learn how to edit and upload to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine
"OpenRefine is a free data wrangling tool that can be used to process, manipulate and clean tabular (spreadsheet) data and connect it with knowledge bases ("spreadsheets on steroids" / "a swiss army knife for data")." Learn how https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/06/20/learn-how-to-edit-and-upload-to-wikimedia-commons-with-openrefine/ . Open Refine & Wikimedia Commons https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/06/20/learn-how-to-edit-and-upload-to-wikimedia-commons-with-openrefine/
Upcoming events
Events happening online and around Australia in the next few weeks [image: image] Introducing Wikipedia https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Introducing_Wikipedia:_A_free_online_workshop_-_July_2024
Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors. Come & learn how in this 1hr webinar. [image: image] 2024 AGM https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meeting:2024_AGM
The Annual General Meeting of Wikimedia Australia, Inc will be held on Sunday 15 September 2024 [image: image] Community Meeting https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Online_Community_Meeting_-_June_2024
Hear from the Wikimedia Australia community and share what you've been working on [image: image] Drop In and Wiki https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Drop_in_and_Wiki_-_July_2024
Join us for a casual online drop-in session to edit Wikipedia, and ask us anything! [image: image] Franklin Women edit-a-thons https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Franklin_Women_Women_in_STEM_edit-a-thon_-_Canberra
We are pleased to be partnering with Franklin Women again in 2024 to deliver editathons on #WomeninSTEMM.
[image: image] Wikidata Lexicodays https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Lexicodays_2024
Three days of presentations, discussions and workshops about Lexicographical Data.
Other things from around the web:
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WikiFauna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiFauna - Wikipedia -
Improving millions of files on Wikimedia Commons with Flickypedia Backfillr Bot https://www.flickr.org/improving-millions-of-files-on-wikimedia-commons-with-flickypedia-backfillr-bot/ - Flickr.org -
‘We’re writing history’: Spanish women tackle Wikipedia’s gender gap https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/12/spain-women-tackle-wikipedia-gender-gap-wikiesfera - The Guardian -
Visions of AI in Popular Culture Report is out https://wikimedia.brussels/visions-of-ai-in-popular-culture-report-is-out/ - Wikimedia Brussels -
AI for the people: How machines can help humans improve Wikipedia https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/06/12/ai-for-the-people-how-machines-can-help-humans-improve-wikipedia/ - Diff -
New Policy paper on public domain heritage https://communia-association.org/2024/06/17/new-policy-paper-on-public-domain-heritage/ - Communia Association
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