Hi everyone,

Thanks to everyone who joined yesterday for the meetup and the elections! See summary below.

Call for lighting talks, Wikidata birthday, November 13th We will celebrate Wikidata birthday at our next meetup: November 13th, 6.30-8.30pm. Please RSVP even if you are a regular! This is how we keep track of attendance for our Rapid grant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Bay_Area_Meetup_November_2025

If you would like to do a lightning talk (5-10 minutes) on a Wikidata-related project, or an open data project, please send an email to bayareawikipedians@proton.me. This can be an online presentation. This can be a project you participate in, something you are interested in or something you are working on.

Suggested talks topics:

- Lexica: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexica - Paulina: paulina.toolforge.org/ - Wikidata and botany: https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf062/8158086 - Wikidata and galleries, museums, libraries or archives - see eg https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/18/ld42023-iii-the-examples-libraries-usi... - Wikidata and games - Biodiversity project https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Biodiversity - Wikidata tooking (wikibase, integraality, open refine, etc)

Let's learn together! And have cake.

October meetup summary We have elected our first formal organizing committee (OC), and amended the governance document to add "Keeping track of members eligible for voting" to the OC's duties. All details here: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Wikipedians_User_Group/Membership...

We also:

- heard the report on the very successful SFPL panel; - discussed learnings from the [GLAM camp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikimedia_DC_GLAM_Camp_202...); - discussed outreach initiatives proposed by members; - reminded those eligible about the Board of Trustees election: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025 - helped each other with editing And of course enjoyed pizza, company and got some editing done.

Next events Lace editathon, October 19th, 1-3pm, online. Background here: https://www.lacecouvige.com/threadsblog/enhancing-lace-content-in-wikipedia.

Trip to visit the Fremont lace museum archives: 26th October afternoon, reach out if interested

More calls for volunteers to follow.

Cheers, BAWUG's organizing committee