Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/archive/2019 Seattle meetups
Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting
[edit]- Monday, December 23, 5:30pm PST
If you are in the Seattle area, please join us for our annual meeting. If you cannot attend in person, you may join us virtually from your PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android at this link: (forthcoming). The address of the physical meeting is: Capitol Hill Meeting Room at Capitol Hill Library (425 Harvard Ave. E., Seattle, WA 98102) 47°37′23″N 122°19′20″W / 47.622944°N 122.322314°W
- Zoom conference call : https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt
- Agenda
- Etherpad at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Cascadia_Wikimedians_2019_meeeting
- 2019 annual report
- Election of Board members
- Plans for coming year
- Edit-a-thons
- Meetups
- TBD
- Probably attending
- Peaceray (talk) 03:48, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
- SounderBruce 06:21, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
- —mako๛!
- On my way ☆ Bri (talk)
- Attending remotely
- —Moxfyre (ǝɹʎℲxoɯ | contrib) 19:40, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
- Here.it.comes.again (talk) 04:17, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
- Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:48, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
- Maybe attending
- Regrets
- Shameran81 (talk) 22:18, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
- User:ConradKilroy (talk) 22:18, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
- Castabile (talk) 22:07, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
- 凰兰时罗 (talk) 19:51, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry I couldn't make it, as I was travelling with crappy wifi. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 22:09, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
Editing as Activism: Edit-A-Thon to Correct Systemic Bias in Wikipedia
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When: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 9am–1pm
Where: UW Libraries Research Commons, 4000 15th Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98195
Who: Editors of all levels of experience welcome! This event is geared towards University of Washington student, faculty, and community members.
What to bring: Bring your laptops and power cords. A limited number of laptops will be available for loan.
- Help address the systematic biases relating to gender, race, and social class that lead to under-representation of topics, people, and organizations on Wikipedia!
- Edit and create pages that improve Wikipedia's coverage of historically marginalized communities with an emphasis on labor history found in the Labor Archives of Washington.
- Novice editors encouraged to attend an advance online tutorial that will be available to registrants. Support for beginners will be available onsite!
- For experts, we will also have specialized help around linked data.
- We will share a list of books, articles, and archival finding aids to edit with or editors can bring their own. A list of suggested entries and archival collections to add will be provided. We will help teach new editors how to edit at this workshop!
- All are welcome; this event is geared towards University of Washington student, faculty, and community members.
Light refreshments will be served.
Hosted by Labor Archives of Washington, UW Special Collections, and Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
- →Please register here!
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Seattle Japanese garden -
Washington Park Arboretum trail -
Seattle Wiknic 2018
Seattle Wiknic 2019
[edit]This year's Wiknic will be on Saturday, August 24, 2019, at 12pm to 3pm, in the Washington Park Arboretum. We'll meet at the picnic tables in the meadow area, approximately at 47°38′15″N 122°17′38″W / 47.637435°N 122.293986°W, to the south of the Graham Visitors Center.
Check out meta:Cascadia Wikimedians for activities in the broader region.
Wiknic planning and monthly meetup, Tuesday 11 June 2019, 6pm to 8pm
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Cancelled Due to lack of interest.
New proposal
I will set up a Doodle poll for determining the dates for this years Seattle Wiknic.
- Agenda
- Planning for July or August Wiknic
- More details to follow ...
- Probably attending
- Maybe attending
- Regrets
Peaceray (talk) 15:12, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Affiliate-selected Board seats discussion and monthly meetup, Tuesday 14 May 2019, 6pm to 8pm
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At Café Allegro (see Directions above
We are downstairs!
- Agenda
- As a user group, we will have a voice in selecting a WMF board member. As a user group, how do go about participating as one of the approximately 100 user groups? Please see:
Voting is open from May 8th through May 31st. The primary representative for each of the ≈150 affiliates will vote on Qualtrics through a link received by email.
- Candidates
- meta:Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019/Nominations
- Questions for the candidates & their answers: meta:Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019/Questions
- Attending
- ConradKilroy, here I am!--Conrad Kilroy (talk) 01:18, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
- Probably attending
- Maybe attending
- Regrets
Art+Feminism, Saturday, April 6th, 1-5pm
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Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors were women. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of representation from women.
Let’s change that.
To help change this, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is continuing a series of Edit-a-thons to improve Wikipedia's coverage of womxn and gender non-binary artists of color.
Childcare, snacks from local businesses, and editing tutorials will be provided.
All you need to bring is your laptop, power cord, and ideas. No previous Wikipedia experience required!
Everyone is welcome. Access to UW wifi will be provided for non-UW affiliated participants.
Please create a Wikipedia account before the event.
RSVP through this Facebook event link.
Here is the Jacob Lawrence Gallery event page.
When
Saturday, Apr. 6, 2019, 1 – 5 p.m.
Campus location Art Building (ART)
Campus room Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Event types Special Events, Student Activities, Workshops
Event sponsors Jacob Lawrence Gallery, School of Art + Art History + Design with support from Wikipedia and Art+Feminism
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/615621532236261/
Description
Free parking is normally available on campus after 12pm on Saturdays.
Check the Gallery's website for information about getting there.
Monthly meetup, Tuesday 12 March 2019, 6pm to 8pm
[edit]At Café Allegro (see Directions above)
- Agenda
- Discussion of upcoming Wikimedia Summit 2019. Peaceray will attend as Cascadia Wikimedians' representative, & would like to know other members' inputs & concerns.
- Please see Wikimedia Summit 2019/Program Design Process on Meta.
- As a user group, we will have a voice in selecting a WMF board member. As a user group, how do go about participating as one of the approximately 100 user groups? Please see:
- Discussion of proposal to rebrand the Wikimedia Foundation to Wikipedia.
- Probably attending
- Peaceray (talk) 04:05, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
- Shameran81 (talk) 21:18, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- Paul Beppler (talk) 06:12, 12 March 2019 (UTC) / Not attending, maybe next monthe. Paul Beppler (talk) 01:10, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- Maybe attending
- Regrets
Women’s History Wikithon
[edit]- Saturday, March 9, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
- Washington State History Museum
- 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402
- 47°14′42″N 122°26′10″W / 47.24500°N 122.43611°W
FREE. Please register in advance. Includes museum admission and snacks; bring a sack lunch.
Scholars and interested citizens are invited to come together for an afternoon of collaboration to create or improve Wikipedia pages related to Washington State’s suffrage history. Learn from seasoned “Wikipedians” how to edit wiki pages, and work in small groups with women’s history experts. Honor Women’s History Month by updating our reference materials to reflect the dedicated work of Washington’s women suffragists. Bring a brown bag lunch, we’ll provide snacks. Hosted by Washington State Historical Society.
Women's Suffrage Centennial Program, "Washington State Historical Society > Events & Programs". Washington State Historical Society > Home. 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- Registration is free but space is limited. Please register here.
Please bring a laptop if you have one!
If you are at the Wikithon, please navigate to Wikipedia:GLAM/Washington State Historical Society/Events and Workshops/Women's Suffrage Centennial Program!
Monthly meetup, Tuesday 19 February 2019, 6pm to 8pm
[edit]At Café Allegro (see Directions above)
- Currently set up at tables near end of register. Peaceray (talk) 01:48, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
- Agenda
- Preparation for Women’s History Wikithon
- Probably attending
- Maybe attending
- Will try to make it out! Will likely be ~20 minutes late. NativeForeigner Talk 04:02, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- Regrets
Monthly meetup, Tuesday 12 February 2019, 6pm to 8pm
[edit]- Postponed to the following week: --Peaceray (talk) 02:15, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia Day 2019 — curating images from Asahel Curtis and older Seattle photos
[edit]- Tuesday evening, January 15, 2019, 6-9pm
- Wayward Coffeehouse, 6417 Roosevelt Way NE #104, Seattle WA 98115
- 47°40′33″N 122°19′04″W / 47.67576°N 122.3177°W
Wikipedia Day celebrates the anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia. This year in Seattle, Cascadia Wikimedians' celebration of Wikipedia Day will focus on a different closely related project: Wikimedia Commons, which (among other things) functions as the media repository for Wikipedia. When you see a photo or map in Wikipedia, or hear an audio clip, etc., it usually is hosted on Wikimedia Commons and "transcluded" into Wikipedia.
 | Register now for Wikipedia Day in Seattle using this RSVP link or on Facebook. |
Wikimedia Commons is a mix of users' own works and curated third-party content, either public domain or free-licensed. Our event is a hands-on workshop in curating third-party content, mostly early 20th-century photos of Seattle and other West Coast locations.
Currently, Wikimedia Commons has two intersecting sets of older photos, one from the Asahel Curtis Photo Company and the other a more general set of Seattle images. At this meetup, we will celebrate the 18th anniversary of Wikipedia by further curating these images by the creation and addition of categories, adding ImageNotes where useful, linking other versions of the same photo, enhancing the descriptions, and identifying and correcting errors. User:Jmabel has already categorized over 1000 images and corrected several hundred wrong dates, misidentified buildings, etc., but there is much more to be done.
For instance,
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File:E F Blaine residence, 40th Ave E and E John St, Seattle (CURTIS 961).jpeg: a 1910 photo of the house now best known as where Kurt Cobain lived at the end of his life, and where he killed himself. Unsurprisingly, the curator at the UW Libraries Special Collections either was unaware of that connection or didn't choose to note it. -
File:1st_Ave_from_Columbia_St_looking_south,_Seattle,_ca_1903_(CURTIS_2060).jpeg: a good example of a file to which we were able to add a ton of useful categories, ImageNotes, etc. (click through to see those). -
File:Asahel Curtis panorama of First Hill, Seattle, c. 1903, showing intersection of Columbia St and Summit Ave, Seattle.jpeg: a panorama built from three Asahel Curtis photographs.
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Many of the photos that still need work are in commons:Category:Seattle or commons:Category:Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and properly belong in subcategories. Others are in maintenance categories such as commons:Category:Images from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Collection to check or commons:Category:Images from the Asahel Curtis Photo Company Photographs Collection to check. There are probably many other images that need similar work, but these are a few obvious places to look. Also, in a few cases, Curtis or someone else in that era may have shot images that constitute a panorama, but no one has ever "stitched" them together into a unified image and uploaded it.
If you have been editing Wikipedia and are curious about what you could do within Wikimedia Commons besides just take photos and upload them, this would be an excellent place to start!
- Probably attending
Besides a long list who have responded via Eventbrite…
- Maybe attending
- Regrets