I'll be running an introductory workshop on SPARQL queries and their applications at the next Cambridge meetup, on 12 May:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/41
Apologies for the clash with the London meetup: I'll not make a habit of this.
This will be a largely Wikidata-oriented edition of the Cambridge meetup, and I'm constrained by available spaces for the Makespace classroom, which is suitable for training. The main topic will be getting a grip on scientific literature as catalogued on Wikidata, in its many aspects, as required by the ScienceSource project I'm working on.
If you've not really seen the point of Wikidata, so far, this should be a point of entry. In the time provided we'll get to some more advanced things, too.
The SPARQL session will be 1300 to 1530, will not assume much previous Wikidata knowledge, and if you come you should bring a laptop.
Charles
Hi all,
We will be holding our second Skillshare event at the WMUK office on
Tusesday May 7th from 18:00 to 21:00 or thereabouts. You can find event
pages on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK/Events/AutoWikiBrowser_skillsh…>
and on Eventbrite
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uk-skillshare-using-autowikibrowse…>(please
sign up on Eventbrite to let us know if you're coming). I've also published
a short blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2019/04/autowikibrowser-find-out-how-to-autom…>
to give background on AWB for those of you who aren't sure what it is.
Prolific UK Wikimedian Rich Farmbrough, who's an AWB afficionado, will be
running the session.
One thing I'm slightly concerned about with doing this Skillshare on AWB is
that users who want to use it have to apply for permission to do so on
the Permissions
page for AWB
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/AutoWikiBr…>.
I've applied for permission 2 days ago but nobody has responded yet to my
request. If we are going to get people to come to the Skillshare who want
to learn about AWB, they obviously need to have permission to use it
granted first. I hope that we can fast track any requests for permission
for people who want to come to this event so that we don't have a situation
where people want to attend but can't use AWB because they don't have
permission. Could I request for someone to keep an eye on permissions for
this so that those people who want to come to our event can get their
requests granted before the event? Thanks!
There are lots of other events taking place in the next couple of months,
so please take a look at our Events list
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Events> to see if there's anything that
interests you.
All the best,
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
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Hi all, two things to tell you about. Firstly, this weekend, a few of us
will be going to Conway Hall at 11am before the London meetup to look at
their collection of 19th century pamphlets. They will be doing an editathon
on May 18
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victorian-blogging-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tic…>
to add content based on these newly digitised pamphlets so we are going to
assess the collection and see what can be improved on Wikipedia/Wikidata by
using these sources. If anybody wants to come with us to Conway Hall before
going to the meetup, please let me know.
Secondly, we have the second Wikidata meetup in London on May 2. The
Eventbrite signup is here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-wikidata-meetup-2-tickets-59955106337>
and the Meta page is here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London_Wikidata/02>. Events list is
up to date I think so please check it out for other events here
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Events>
I'm also just preparing the Spring newsletter, so if anybody would like to
write about something Wikimedia related for it, please get in touch.
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 203 372 0767
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1,
Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ.
Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open knowledge
movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make
knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia UK? Donate
here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk>.
The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent
non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.*
Dear all
As many of you will be aware, in 2017 the Wikimedia movement set out a new
strategic direction, which is that *By 2030, Wikimedia will become the
essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who
shares our vision will be able to join us**.*
Since July 2018, working groups made up of staff and volunteers from across
the global Wikimedia movement have been working together to identify key
guiding questions within nine thematic areas relevant to the movement.
These were published last week in the form of *Scoping Documents
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici…>.*
There are three main ways of participating in the next phase of the
movement strategy process, and responding to the questions posed by the
working groups. These are as follows:
1. Contribute to on-wiki discussions through the talk pages on each of the
nine thematic areas (by following the link to the scoping documents above)
2. Respond to the survey, which will be circulated in April (on here, and
no doubt in other places/mailing lists)
3. Participate in a UK discussion, either in person or online
As the Strategy Liaison Co-ordinator for the UK, I would like to gauge
interest in holding an in-person community conversation about this phase of
the movement strategy. Please could you let me know if you would like to
attend an event of this kind, and if so what would make it easier for you
to do so - for example in terms of the location, time of day, time of week
etc. I'd also like to hear from people who would be unlikely to attend an
in-person meeting but could join some kind of conference call or hangout.
Please feel free to email me directly rather than responding to the whole
group, just for the sake of people's inboxes.
With many thanks and best wishes
Lucy
--
Lucy Crompton-Reid
Chief Executive
Wikimedia UK
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SE1 0NZ
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Hi all, I'm organising our next skillshare, which Rich Farmbrough has
agreed to do on AWB, and have a prospective date of April 24th. I'm also
organising a Wikidata meetup which I'm pencilling in for April 25, but I am
happy to move this to the week after (say May 2nd) if the community feels
that it would be better to have these two events in different weeks.
Please feel free to give me feedback and let me know if these event dates
would work for you or not, as obviously I would like to maximise attendance
to make them as successful as possible.
All the best,
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 203 372 0767
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1,
Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ.
Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open knowledge
movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make
knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia UK? Donate
here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk>.
The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent
non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.*