Hi Reuben,
Thanks for bringing this up. I would also really like to see another WikiData event to celebrate its 8th birthday this year. For everyone on this mailing list: please let me or Reuben know if you are interested in hosting the 8th birthday event for Wikidata this year on or around the 29 October. We will also discuss it at the next chapter board meeting next week. Even though we will discuss it then I would like to encourage anyone interested in helping to make it happen (or leading the initiative to host the event) to contact us. Volunteerism is always encouraged.
The event will have to be a digitally based one over Jitsi, Zoom, Meets or something like that. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we are unable to host face-to-face gatherings until it is over. This means the event can be organised, hosted and attended from the comfort of your own home.
Best regards,
Douglas.
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 11:39, Reuben Honigwachs < reuben+wikipedia@honigwachs.de> wrote:
I most likely won't be able to organise this year's WIkidata Birthday Party ('18 < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday/Cape_Town_Meetup#/medi...
,
'19 < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Seventh_Birthday/Cape_Town#/media/Fil...
)
since things have become very busy for me.
I'd love to see this tradition established within our chapter and there's plenty of support and resources if someone wants to take the lead on this. See Léa's email below.
Thanks, Reuben
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 11:54 Subject: [Wikidata] Wikidata's 8th birthday - October 29th To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. < wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
As every year, the end of October is the moment where we celebrate Wikidata's anniversary https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday, the work of the contributors and get together as a community :)
Some people are already planning *birthday events* (most of them taking place online). If you're interested in organizing a meetup, live-stream, etc. feel free to have a look at the details here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise, and to add the event into the calendar https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday. We will run a meetup for organizers < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise#Connect_with...
,
we provide a digital communication kit < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise#Communicatio...
(including a cool CC0 logo generator https://wikidata8.bleeptrack.de/) and you can also find information about funding https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise#Funding. We are also running an experiment with a 24-hours call https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/24-hours_meetup where people can join at any time that is convenient for them in their own time zone.
The Wikidata birthday is also the occasion to prepare *presents*, for example new tools, scripts, improvements on an existing project, but also non-code gifts. These will be added there https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Presents, and you can get inspired by the previous years: 2019 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Seventh_Birthday/Presents, 2018 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday/Presents, 2017 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fifth_Birthday/Presents, 2016 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Presents...
If you have any questions regarding the Wikidata birthday and especially distributed events, feel free to contact me.
Cheers,
Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
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