Hi all, there's lots of events organised for May. Firstly:
- Our next SkillShare event is on May 7, with Rich Farmbrough doing a
workshop on how to use AutoWikiBrowser: This is for more experienced
editors so please tell those people if you know them! Sign up on
Eventbrite here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uk-skillshare-using-autowikibrowser-tickets-60477470743>.
The Meta page is here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London_Skillshare/2>.
This is the second SkillShare we are doing, and I really would like to
engage people who are already experienced Wikipedia editors but haven't
used AWB before to automate edits. If you want to know more about AWB I've
written a blogpost here
<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2019/04/autowikibrowser-find-out-how-to-automate-mass-edits-on-wikipedia/>
.
- Our next Wikidata meetup
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London_Wikidata/02> is on May 2
in East London. When I created the page initially I put it as the 15th, so
please be aware if you're coming that it's on May 2.
Other Wikimedia editathons, meetups and related events this month are:
- The Womein in Red meetup
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-a-project-to-add-biographies-of-women-to-wikipedia-tickets-58988220355>
in Edinburgh on May 3
- Women in Scottish Archaeology editathon
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-scottish-archaeology-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-60123362596>
in Edinburgh on May 9
- The Cambridge Meetup
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/41> on May 12
- Victorian blogging editathon
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victorian-blogging-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-59887399825>
at Conway Hall in London on May 18
- Extraordinary women in Engineering editathon
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/events/general/extraordinary-women-in-engineering-a-wes-wikithon>
with WES in London on May 18
- A one day conference in Dunfirmline, Remembering Scotland's Accused
Witches
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembering-scotlands-accused-witches-tickets-58574751659>
on May 19
- Asking and answering questions with Open Data
<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/golding/events/2019/asking-and-answering-questions-with-open-data.html>
in Bristol on May 20
- A Women in Red editathon
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-a-project-to-add-biographies-of-women-to-wikipedia-tickets-58988221358>
in Edinburgh on May 31
The middle of the year is certainly getting busy, and we hope to see you at
some of these events!
All the best,
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
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