Hi all!
So glad to see so many of you at our March meetup. I'll get more chairs before next time. We've also worked out a better presentation system, and unpacked the hybrid meeting setup, to hopefully allows anyone who wants to join us in April to do so.
Whether you are a new or an experienced editor, please join us to celebrate Women History month for an editathon on Women in UX design. March 27, 6-8PM at Double Union and online. [Register here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-interaction-design-tickets-1280….
Our next meetup is Thursday April 10 at 6.30pm. Registration (in person and online) is available on eventbrite: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-wikipedians-workshop-tickets-12554190…
The agenda:
- Introductions
- Housekeeping
- Progress on partnership with SF Historical Society
- Should we have a group chat to keep in touch between meetup?
- Working groups: come share what you've been working on and socialize, or get advice and find new collaborators. We will have, at minimum: [1] Technical contributors working group (Travis); [2] Humanities and Wikimedia working group (Emeline); [3] more working groups depending on interest, or just socializing around pizza and drinks.
Do bring friends potentially interested in contributing, and I've printed some physical posters to advertise the meetup if you have more places to post them. I'm hoping to bring to the meetup organizers from the Bay Area Writers community who want to better understand how to contribute to Wikimedia projects on related topics. I know some of you are interested in history-related topics and improving local politicians pages, so if you want to officially host a working group around that, let me know!
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March meetup recap
Lots of interest around AI and Wikipedia. We hosted a presentation on project STORM in July 2024, and the researchers came back to present project SPINACH.
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12N43Z9F5bpVUq7jJCXDXBqAiJ_oqIVKDk8v… on WM research with invite link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Inconsistency_Detection
Last month's presentation was on AI-assisted updates; the researchers are still searching for participants: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:AI-Assisted_Wikipedia_Updating
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See you next month,
Emeline, Elan and Travis
Hi everyone,
I can now confirm our March meetup will happen at Double Union (650 Florida St suite m), and the [event registration page is up](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-wikipedians-workshop-tickets-1255…. We have also secured a video conference system! If you would like to join us online, please send me an email. We have not tried setting it up yet, so expect we might bump into a few issues, but we will do our best.
On the agenda:
- introductions: who does not love a good Wikiography?
- take aways from WikiCredCon (also: free teeshirts)
- pizza
- upcoming events (SF historical society, photowalks, updates about SFPL)
- general discussion/anything you'd like to add
We will then break into smaller groups. Travis will be introducing tools for developers interested in supporting wikimedia projects, so if you have a friend who qualifies, please bring them! I'll be happy to help any new or recent editor, and as usual Elan can help with wikidata projects.
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A message and an invitation from the researchers who presented their work last month:
Hi Everyone,
Thank you for listening to our presentation on AI-Assisted Wikipedia Editing on 02/13 and providing some great feedback! Here's the Wikimedia Research project [link](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:AI-Assisted_Wikipedia_Updati… for those interested.
We're looking for Wikipedia Editors to try out our system. We're able to generate suggested edits, on certain articles or entity types you're interested in to try out our system!
If you're interested, please fill out the following signup [link](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepSQ6ubI-aVMhZFtllDhTGdfugg….
Please let us know if you have any questions at revanth3(a)illinois.edu / danieljsklee(a)gmail.com and we look forward to hearing back from you!
Best regards,
Daniel Lee and Revanth Reddy from UIUC
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Finally, a follow-up from last month's presentation about threats to editor: this comes recommended by one of our member as a list of resources on privacy and security for editors. We can discuss this further in personhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory#Privacy_and_s… everyone is enjoying the great weather!
Emeline, Elan and Travis