Wikipedia:Meetup/Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016
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Periodically, on a last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki and open-source enthusiasts meet up to mingle, munch, collaborate or learn about new projects and ideas. At each WikiSalon we plan a brief formal presentation; some will help orient people new to the wiki/open-source world, with others geared to more experienced people. Many presentations will have broad appeal to non-wiki/non-open-source folks. We hope you will join us! Note: We are extremely inclusive – broadly construed – plus we adhere to the friendly place policies of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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| Sponsors | Wiki Strategies, Ben Creasy, and Wayne Calhoon |
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| hashtag | #bawikisalon |
| IRC channel | #bayarea-wikisalon |
We held the third Bay Area WikiSalon on June 29, 2016. After some snacks and informal conversation, we had a presentation and an activity:
Program
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- Report on Pride edit-a-thon at San Francisco Public Library, by editor Merrilee Proffitt:
- What topics might we cover in a follow up?
- Andrea Davis and Christina Moretta of the SFPL introduced a number of free online research resources you can access through SFPL (or other libraries) to help with Wikipedia editing (hint, it’s more than just books!)
- YouTube video archive of presentation (video cuts out at 18:46 for a couple of minutes)
- Wikidojo: We started a Wikipedia article on the Ghost Town Royals, a children's baseball program in Oakland.
- Are you curious how your peers approach writing a Wikipedia article? This exercise, pioneered by Wikipedians Nikola Kalchev and Vassia Atanassova in 2015 and conducted in many places around the world, helps us all—from first-time wiki users to veteran Wikipedians—share ideas, while building an article together.
- We worked on the Ghost Town Royals article here: User:Peteforsyth demo/Wikidojo
- Pete has begun taking some notes on it here: User:Peteforsyth/Wikidojo notes
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