Wikimedia-Cascadia May 2016

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New article: Evans Creek Preserve
by Pine W 30 May '16

30 May '16

Some of us hiked here today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_Creek_Preserve Lots of photos will be on Commons in the near future. Cheers, Pine

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Wiki Loves Pride in Fremont
by Dorothy Howard 29 May '16

29 May '16

Hello all, I'm planning on organizing a Wiki Loves Pride 2016 event in June in Seattle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride_2016 I've spoken with librarians at the Fremont branch and have seen their meeting room there. It's a beautiful and fully equipped room with seating for up to 55 people. http://www.spl.org/locations/fremont-branch I'm hoping to organize this on a day I can get off work so the day is yet to be determined, but will probably be "all day." Please let me know if you are interested in getting involved, and we can start a separate thread. On another note, I will be hopefully attending Seattle Pride on June 26th and hope to take pictures for commons, as I did in 2014 (see pics here) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014 Contact me if you want to join to help photograph the event. Cheers, Dorothy -- Dorothy Howard *@DorothyR_Howard <https://twitter.com/DorothyR_Howard>*

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WikiExpedition hike on Memorial Day weekend?
by Pine W 26 May '16

26 May '16

Hi folks, I'm wondering if there would be interest in a WikiExpedition hike on Memorial Day weekend. The concept is that we'd do the hike and document/photograph it and the surrounding landmarks, vegetation, wildlife, and other notable elements. We could add this information to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, Wikispecies, and Wikimedia projects. Would anyone else be interested? Pine

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Fwd: [Wikimediaus-l] May online meeting of US Wikimedians
by Pine W 21 May '16

21 May '16

Forwarding. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaus-l] May online meeting of US Wikimedians To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" < wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello US Wikimedians, Here's a reminder that our public meeting will be on Tuesday. Kirill <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin> will chair the meeting this month. The current version of the agenda is below, with Pacific times shown: - "One minute updates" from each chapter and user group. (6:00-6:15) - Wiknic 2016 (6:15-6:20) (Pharos <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pharos>) - Main page - Announcements to mailing lists - Geonotices and/or site banners - WikiCon USA/SoCal (in San Diego Oct 7-10, 2016) (6:20-6:28) (DrMel <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DrMel>) - Wiki Loves Pride 2016 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Pride_2016> (6:28-6:32) ( Bluerasberry <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry>) - WikiSalons <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSalon> (6:33-6:36) ( Checkingfax <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Checkingfax>) - OpenStreetMap SOTM USA conference in Seattle (6:37-6:40) (Peaceray <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray>) Please plan your chapter or user group's one minute update in advance of the meeting so that everyone has a chance to share and the meeting can proceed in a timely manner. Thanks! Pine On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Kirill Lokshin < kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is the dial-in information for the meeting: > > Topic: United States Wikipedians Online Meetup > Time: May 24, 2016 9:00 PM (GMT-4:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada) > > Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/431598981 > > Or iPhone one-tap: 16465588656,431598981# or 14086380968,431598981# > > Or Telephone: > Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) > Meeting ID: 431 598 981 > International numbers available: https://zoom > .us/zoomconference?m=ec_F7wkJAYy5sN9_1z-uvJJY84d8IBfK > > Thanks, > Kirill > > -- > Kirill Lokshin > President > Wikimedia District of Columbia > kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org > https://wikimediadc.org >

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WikiConference survey - Cascadia wiki comments requested...
by Lane Rasberry 18 May '16

18 May '16

Hello, I think that readers of the Cascadia mailing list heard that earlier in the year, a Wikipedia conference was considered for Seattle, and that now, conference planning is solidifying to be held in San Diego from Friday - Sunday 7-9 October. I am writing to request that people in Cascadia support conference planning by responding to the following 3-minute survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/wikieventfeedback The conference planning team needs some feedback based on previous conferences to assist in planning this next conference. Getting only a few more responses would be very helpful. I hope that any upcoming conference can be useful for people who attend in person and also produce videos, notes, and participation options for people who would join remotely. Thanks to anyone who can support. Only for those who want more information - ------------------- Hardly anything is published or certain about the San Diego conference. San Diego is being considered because of (1) support commitments from local volunteer event organizers (2) commitments from local people and organizations to attend (3) promise of cheap or maybe free conference venue. The location of conferences is mostly decided by availability of local volunteer labor and matching cost to what the Wikimedia Foundation will fund. Minimal details on the planned San Diego conference are at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_USA> This would be the page to bookmark for when more details are available, or just watch for mailing list announcements. Wikimedia Foundation support for the conference will be requested in a grant request based on this older draft request for the Seattle conference. I am sharing this as the information that I have, but this is totally outdated, and this San Diego conference would be funded in a way that is 50%+ different. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Cascadia_Wikimedians/WikiConfere… > ---------------------- -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane(a)bluerasberry.com

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Seattle monthly meetup: 5/30 on the eastside, after the hike?
by Pine W 11 May '16

11 May '16

Hi folks, After we have our hike on the 5/30 holiday (weather permitting), would it be ok if we have our regular meetup on the eastside? I know that Joe can't attend, but I'm thinking that an eastside meetup will be much closer to Evans Creek Preserve than Cafe Allegro would be, which might make logistics easier for those who plan to attend both the hike and the evening meeting. Thoughts? Pine

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Fwd: [Wikimediaus-l] May online meeting of US Wikimedians
by Pine W 11 May '16

11 May '16

Update below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaus-l] May online meeting of US Wikimedians To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" < wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi folks, The meeting is now set for Tuesday, May 24th at 6 PM Pacific / 9 PM Eastern. Further details will be published as we approach the date. Thanks! Pine

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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikidata] [ANN] Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets
by Pine W 09 May '16

09 May '16

Forwarding to the Wiki Medicine mailing list, and also to the Cascadia Wikimedians mailing list because we've had discussions about how to prioritize the development of articles related to WikiProject Seattle. Thanks, Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com> Date: Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikidata] [ANN] Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." < wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Thomas Steiner < tomac(a)google.com> Hello, I wanted to make an on-wiki place to host discussion of the tool so I set up this project page on meta. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Tools_for_Google_Spreadsheets> This is an interesting tool. I have been playing with it for some weeks trying to learn whether it could be used to generate monthly traffic reports for sets of Wikipedia articles. Among editors of Wikipedia's medical articles, there is continual discussion about monthly article traffic for certain sets of articles, and I think that somehow this tool could be used to get those reports for health articles in different languages. If anyone wants to join me in discussing the tool then write me or meet me on that wiki page. yours, On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:08 AM, Thomas Steiner <tomac(a)google.com> wrote: > Esteemed Wikipedia, Wikidata, Linked Data, and Semantic Web communities[*], > > === > tl;dr: Released a Google Spreadsheets add-on called Wikipedia Tools > [1] that makes working with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata a breeze. > === > > I am happy to release a Google Spreadsheets add-on called Wikipedia > Tools [1]. This add-on allows you to work with data from Wikipedia and > Wikidata from within a spreadsheet context using custom formulas. Let > me motivate the tools with a short example: > > You may have heard of Volkswagen's #DieselGate scandal. Is this still > a problem for Volkswagen—and if so, where? Google Trends to the > rescue? Maybe [2]. But what about global impact? How do people in > Korea, an important Volkswagen export market [citation needed😉], > refer to the scandal? Turns out they call it 폭스바겐 배기가스 조작 (among > probably other options). > > With a custom function from Wikipedia Tools, we can safely "translate" > from one English (a language that, for the sake of this example, we > assume we dominate well enough) Wikipedia article to many other > languages (that we do not necessarily dominate): > > =WIKITRANSLATE("en:Volkswagen_emissions_scandal") > bg Афера на Фолксваген > cs Dieselgate > de VW-Abgasskandal > […] > zh 福斯集團汽車舞弊事件 > > Then, using Wikipedia page views as one (among others) reasonable > popularity indicator, for each of these language results, for example > for Korean, we can get =WIKIPAGEVIEWS("ko:폭스바겐 배기가스 조작") for the last > n days, and plot the results [3] (in practice, you would probably > still normalize by size and/or total views of the particular > Wikipedia[**]). > > There are a lot more custom functions implemented than I could cover > in this short example. I have put together a slide deck [4] and paper > [5] that go into more detail if you are interested, a demo with all > functions is available at [6]. The add-on also has a built-in manual > (in Google Sheets, click Add-ons→Wikipedia Tools→Show documentation) > and its underlying code is open-source [7]. > > Please let me know in case of any open question, feature request, or > bug. Thanks! > > Cheers, > Tom > > -- > [1] http://bit.ly/wikipedia-tools-add-on > [2] > http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=volkswagen+emissions+scanda… > [3] > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PyFq59iEeLWpPQrWDUyU8mlmQrb4GDv2QEl… > [4] bit.ly/wikipedia-tools-slides > [5] bit.ly/wikipedia-tools-paper (PDF) > [6] > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sVduZul787O-bRzuy0UKpRl7bkouxwaIOsx… > [7] https://github.com/tomayac/wikipedia-tools-for-google-spreadsheets/ > [*] Cross-posted on purpose > (http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2014/01/31/apologies-for-cross-posting/), > please choose your reply options accordingly. > [**] This is a simple example for illustrative purposes, I do _not_ > claim it is an accurate popularity prediction, nor do I mean to bash > Volkswagen. > > -- > Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (http://blog.tomayac.com, > https://twitter.com/tomayac) > > Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany > Managing Directors: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle > Registration office and registration number: Hamburg, HRB 86891 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.29 (GNU/Linux) > > > iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DCharaCTersAttH3b0ttom > hTtPs://xKcd.cOm/1181/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane(a)bluerasberry.com _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

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FYI: Discovery Park Hacker Hike May 14th
by Lee Fisher 07 May '16

07 May '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 FYI, the 'Seattle Security' Meetup just got rebooted, new owner is starting with hike. It isn't Wikipedia-centric, but you could probably encourage attendees to help with Wikimedia Commons images, or OSM metadata, etc. Plus, it's a hike, not sitting indoors. http://www.meetup.com/SeaSec/events/230391950/ - -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [SeaSec] Sat May 14th HackerHike! Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 13:43:21 -0400 From: Drew Foerster <dhf2(a)uw.edu> To: SeaSec-announce(a)meetup.com We're a week out from our Hacker Hike in Discovery Park! We'll meet at the Nature Center parking lot where I'll have a sign. I'm thinking we'll do the 3 mile ring trail, but if anyone wants to do something different, let me know! Also, afterwards I'm thinking we'll go to Serendipity Lounge (not the cafe portion) in Magnolia Village where we can get some drinks and decide what our future events will be! Again, let me know if you have any suggestions for what you'd like to do as a group! - - Drew Foerster -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJXLokwXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NzNBMTNDNDk3QTdBRUZCMTE2NzBFQTMx NUQ1MkMwNUMzNUFDODc2AAoJEBXVLAXDWsh2pWsP/iftdN2OZxEfn81Xno9NeWEt JUvTT9JtlwgYpk2yhv2NlMtT04iWWfLZRiA7zJVQeZz4P9ncDOEGtn1VLVu9RoYD HkQPLrExYzCd5kt+1iA+I3mn3C7IUja4+d5V5BGTKPL3bfAj6ZUB7rV9lyFYMZmh JEcPKURANtRFmQ07jGtQRhdrJGg01eKh4EMNJypmmDdT1n4U619JWZVEgNB76NC3 7tGAjROtw5urlQNpXrXFjICfnvxQFCri/3w6Szkng6adx4nJ2QjYD+tg21qHl9Uo wA4UAOfq+iynN939d+MoMXJGStEHT7MyuEDHgolSuCgDzA/w/5oSr1kSejb9KZey /13ywhwt6D4hywLwmlPQhQouB9JCQSWKxmSZLSEcPdvZkbBIE4StCR7tD9R303L+ PBR3ucMP/t06PHtYdcbJO7AF1O36TuNZALjDSYyLgrMrW3hIYzFUL4S2VPLCq7mr O4zgVE6VhZMYDChiiQ1KbQ3iMbCy8/3op6vDsg/TUMHLMyid4N06IlLo6oIoUUcH aq3Vi2dcDkoOp1XouVC3XSZXx8U8YIO5gYFLvHuXrwPZ1+VQlJXrB7DgKb5csG4c +5sXnpcCUQbj7W70a06sxsnWmwi/HoVLrlTTcrPqQNZSMNnpF3Zd2R3+GkrG0IAf 5d22Vf99Jv1FbaJtk0xx =KE87 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fwd: May online meeting of US Wikimedians
by Pine W 03 May '16

03 May '16

Forwarding. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:10 PM Subject: May online meeting of US Wikimedians To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" < wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi folks, Please participate in this Doodle poll <http://doodle.com/poll/2nd38gbhp6n4m672> to indicate your availability for the May meeting of US Wikimedians. (Canadians are welcome to join if they wish!) An early version of the agenda is here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/May_2016>. Some of these items will be discussed in greater detail than others. You can add items to the agenda, and if you do this then please sign your name by the added item. The Zoom <http://www.zoom.us> meeting platform got a favorable reception when we tried it last month, so we'll use it again. We'll aim to keep the meeting to 40 minutes in length. Thanks! Pine

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