Hi everyone!

The monthly meetup is happening this Thursday, 6.30 pm at Double Union and online!

Registering and events organization misc As there is now an Event namespace on English Wikipedia, and to simplify our organizing work, we're moving registration there. If you haven't yet registered on the Eventbrite, you can register here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Bay_Area_Meetup_May_2025 If you have registered on the Eventbrite, you're all set.

Please register so we can plan pizza and drinks accordingly :)

Next month we will only have on wiki event registration. We're gradually updating all pages to reflect this change.

Also: permalink for joining the meetup online: https://meet.jit.si/moderated/547c4640ed032d61f2b30f998d76cd91da5009910751db...

Agenda Highlight: We should be getting a visit from the Bay Area Open Street Mappers! Bring all your questions about open maps.

- Introductions: your Wiki-biography, current projects or questions - Open Source Friends: what do you want to know about Open Street Maps? - Housekeeping - Pizza! - Join a co-working table or socialize with other Wikipedians and open knowledge contributors

This month's co-working tables include:

- Technical Contributions: how to get started and co-working (Travis) - Writers on Wikipedia (Emeline) - Bay Area Politics on Wikimedia projects (S) - Mentorship for new or beginner editors (Peter) - Open Street Maps x Wikimedia projects / Art map (Elena/Elan/OSM contributors)

As usual, wiki curious and new editors are more than welcome.

Highlights from last month!

- Thank you Guy and Jonathan for developing the BAWUG logo. Looking forward to seeing the final result! - Thank you Elan for teaching Elena and I how to use QuickStatements and OpenRefine for the public art map project (more on this soon) - Thanks Guy and Elena for helping out with improving our meta.wiki page - We added a signal chat for the questions coming up between meetups. We do kindly request that you join a meetup (online or in person) to be added.

Cheers, EET