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 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Hartford,_Connecticut_health_care_reform_town_hall_meeting,_2009-09-02.jpg>, 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 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_M%C3%A9lange,_Wien.jpg> or this <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takamatsu-Castle-Building-Interior-M3488.jpg>. 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, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Hartford,_Connecticut_health_care_reform_town_hall_meeting,_2009-09-02.jpg>, 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 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_M%C3%A9lange,_Wien.jpg> or this <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takamatsu-Castle-Building-Interior-M3488.jpg>. 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, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

Hi, the Wikimedia Café for January will be on Wednesday the 23rd at 11 AM Pacific / 7 PM UTC. The Zoom link is below. Because of the monthly limit for emails from any one person to Wikimedia-l and my wish to conserve my remaining emails to that list for other topics, I likely will not send a reminder about this event, so please mark your calendars now if you want to attend. Thanks! Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 3:07 PM Pine W &lt;wiki.pine(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > 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 > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User: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. > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM Pine W &lt;wiki.pine(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Hartford,_Connecticut_health_care_reform_town_hall_meeting,_2009-09-02.jpg>, >> 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 >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_M%C3%A9lange,_Wien.jpg> >> or this >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takamatsu-Castle-Building-Interior-M3488.jpg>. >> 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, >> Pine >> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) >> >

Hi, For the next Wikimedia Café online meetup we will focus on the subject of communications in the Wikiverse. What about communications is working well, what is not working well, and what should be done to improve communications? This will be a casual discussion but formal proposals may emerge from it, and at the meetup people are welcome to discuss their ideas for formal proposals. Participants are also welcome to suggest topics for discussion other than communications, but the plan is to spend the majority of the time on the subject of communications. The Café meetup will be in late March, on a time to be chosen via Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/poll/t3w8nkt9vy5mm3r5. I am skipping February due to some existing commitments. When you visit the Doodle poll you should be able to change the timezone that you see for the calendar. Please be sure to select the correct timezone for you before you vote. I will host the meeting using the free version of Zoom. Zoom limits the length of meetings using the free version to 40 minutes. The Zoom online meeting link will be the same link that we have used for previous Wikimedia Café meetups; see below. If you would like to attend then please vote in the Doodle poll. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM Pine W &lt;wiki.pine(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: