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December meetup, upcoming actions, Wikipedia day
by emelinebrule 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

Hi everyone! Nice to see so many of you on Thursday, and thanks Luis for sharing your projects on diversity in photographs of professions! Next events Our next meetup is on December 12th at 6.30pm, 1736 18th street. RSVP is here https://bookwhen.com/sequoiafabrica/e/ev-s0fh-20241212183000 A supporter ticket helps our host stay open and goes towards drinks and snacks. We will then meet on [January 9](https://bookwhen.com/sequoiafabrica/#focus=ev-s4ng-20250109183000), February 13 and March 13. Save the date for a Wikipedia Day social on [January 18](https://bookwhen.com/sequoiafabrica/#focus=ev-s95z-20250118103000).http… Notes from the meeting We have decided to organize an event for Wikipedia day on January 18th: https://bookwhen.com/sequoiafabrica/#focus=ev-s95z-20250118103000. There will be pannettone and hot chocolate, and wikidata games. This is meant as a way for the broader community to meet us and get involved in Wikipedia and will be advertised by a geonotice to Wikipedia visitors. We discussed how to expand our numbers. Actions for next month and suggested actions are in the notes https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/bawug Our application to be recognized as a user group is pending. Cheers, Emeline

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Proposal for transportation to Sequoia Fabrica meetings
by Nathan Holmes-King 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

At the last meeting, I asked if anyone else rode Waymo from 16th St Mission BART, hoping to ride together and split the cost. *New proposal:* the same, but from 22nd St Caltrain; I would take train 523. Is anyone interested? -- - Nathan Holmes-King +1 510 945 7737 emperor0nathan(a)gmail.com

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background on the diversity photo editing project I mentioned
by Luis Villa 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Hey! I mentioned this at the meeting tonight and I thought I'd share it - and wondering if anyone here has thoughts on how to script this to make it a little more systematic? My project was to improve the diversity of photos of careers, since NPOV is slightly ambiguous there and we know there's impact for kids in terms of representation. The basic strategy was a wikidata query on… jobs? careers? This was then joined with pageview data, so that I could prioritize the pages by traffic. Someone on twitter helped me find the right Wikidata items and construct the query; sadly I can't find it in my notes, though. (I’ve been poking at building a new one with the help of chatgpt but haven’t had much time for it.) The output was a csv that I then jammed into Google Sheets to track it, but presumably it wouldn't be that hard to regenerate the list dynamically (and extend it beyond enwiki). I then simply did a lot of Flickr, IA, and usgov searches to find better photos - not just women, also geographic/racial diversity. Some were pretty easy (especially where the US government has many people in the named career role) but others harder. As a general matter, I didn't start with Commons; I mostly assumed I had to look off Commons first and then bring the images to Commons, though that wasn't always true. Some example edits: - adding women, an African, and an Asian to “Presidents”: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=President_(government_title)&dif… - add a woman to "Sommelier": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sommelier&diff=prev&oldid=842546… - add an African man and Mexican group to “Chef”: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chef&diff=prev&oldid=842550576 - add a gender-diverse photo and black man to “System Administrator”; if I recall correctly the black man was reverted but i didn’t fight it too hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=System_administrator&diff=prev&o… I seem to recall that the attempt to diversify “Lawyer” was reverted, but most stuck at least in the short term. Now that Wikidata has matured, and maybe more photos out there, it'd be interesting to turn this into something more structured — eg, there's obviously problems with relying on LLMs to do gender identification of photos, but as a first pass to identify the most problematic pages? Anyway, throwing that out into the void- Luis

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Meetup November 14: New Agenda
by emelinebrule 07 Nov '24

07 Nov '24

Hey everyone, In light of recent events, Elan and I would like to suggest a new agenda for the meetup. Bring what you're working on as usual, we'll have snacks and drinks, and pizza is on us. But let's also discuss how we can organize to attract and train new editors at the local level. November 14, 6.30-8.30pm, 1736 18th street, RSVP and reminder here https://bookwhen.com/sequoiafabrica/e/ev-s0fh-20241114183000 See you there, Emeline & Elan

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Bay Area Wikipedians: Next SF Meetups
by emelinebrule 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

Hi everyone! Our next meetup is on Thursday November 14, 6.30-8.30pm, at Sequoia Fabrica in Potrero Hill as usual. [Sign up here](https://bookwhen.com/sequoiafabrica/#focus=ev-s0fh-20241114183000) for reminders and for us to have a headcount. We've invited Human-Computer Interaction researchers from Berkeley to present their work and will update when we know more. We always meet on the second Thursday of the month, which will fall on [December 12](https://bookwhen.com/sequoiafabrica/#focus=ev-s0fh-20241212183000). Join us for a Winter special! (with hot chocolate and Panettone and hot cider). Best, Emeline

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Was there an August meeting?
by Travis Briggs 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Hi, Just wondering if I missed an August meeting or if maybe it didn't happen? Thanks, -Travis

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Cancelled: SF Wiknic 2024
by emelinebrule 15 Aug '24

15 Aug '24

Hi everyone, Due to organizers being sick, we are unfortunately cancelling Wiknic on Saturday. We are hoping to organize another Wiknic in September - or you can join us at the [monthly meetups!](https://bookwhen.com/sequoiafabrica/e/ev-s639-20240912183000) Emeline & Elan

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Wiknic and meetups through December
by emelinebrule 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Hi everyone! We had a great meetup last Thursday. Many thanks to our speaker Yucheng Jiang! You can find the notes here https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/bawug We've scheduled all the meetups from now until December: - We will have a [Wiknic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic) on Saturday August 17th 11-2 at Dolores Park. I expect we will meet behind the playground. More details to come. Please invite your friends! - We will then meet every second Thursday at 6.30pm. That's September 12, October 10, November 14 and December 12. You can sign up and you will receive a calendar event and reminder here https://bookwhen.com/sequoiafabrica/e/ev-s639-20240912183000 We're hoping our September speaker will be a researcher working on onboarding newcomers. Suggestions for future speakers are very welcome. Best, Emeline and Elan

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Proposal for transportation to Sequoia Fabrica meetings
by Nathan Holmes-King 14 Jul '24

14 Jul '24

When we hold meetings at Sequoia Fabrica, I take BART to 16th St Mission (Green-S @ 18:00), and then I take Waymo from there. But now that Waymo is open to everyone, it is becoming too expensive for me to ride by myself. Would anyone like to ride in a Waymo with me to the meetings, and split the cost? -- - Nathan Holmes-King emperor0nathan(a)gmail.com

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traveling to Katowice via plane + train?
by Luis Villa 07 Jul '24

07 Jul '24

Hey, all- I'm trying to plan my Wikimania travel, and wondering if anyone has had better luck than I had. Specifically: I've found recently that I prefer, instead of multiple flight connections, the closest direct flight I can from SFO and then train. For example, there is no direct SFO -> Stockholm, but you can direct SFO -> Copenhagen and then a pleasant train directly from the Copenhagen airport to Stockholm. So far I am... not having much luck on this for Katowice. Looks like the best I can do is direct flight to Frankfurt and then multiple (3+ changes) trains from Frankfurt to Katowice. I worry about connections because neither the German nor Polish train systems seem to have a great reputation for timeliness and I'd hate to miss connections. Anyone had better luck, or alternative suggestions in a similar vein? Thanks in advance, and look forward to seeing some of you there- Luis -- Me: lu.is Work: tidelift.com Social: @luis_in_brief@social.coop Open ML news: openml.fyi I process email slowly. If you need a quick response, please use messaging. If you prefer another tool, please let me know!

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