Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/archive/2018 Seattle meetups

Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting

Saturday, December 29, 1pm 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: https://zoom.us/j/2207426850. 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 / 47.622944; -122.322314

Agenda

Election of Board members

TBD

Probably attending

Peaceray (talk) 07:52, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sounder Bruce 16:28, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Jmabel | Talk 17:01, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:ConradKilroy - 11:11, 25 December 2018 (UTC) - Wow I have not attended Wikipedia Seattle meetup since 11 Aug 2015! It will be good to come back. Look forward to seeing you.[reply]

Attending remotely

Maybe attending

Hard to predict holiday schedule but I will try! Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:22, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
??? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:37, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Will try to teleconference ☆ Bri (talk) 15:13, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Regrets

Monthly meetup Tuesday 4 December 2018, 6pm to 8pm

At Café Allegro (see Directions above)

Agenda

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day is January 15 - event in Seattle? Public Domain Day is big this year
Wikimedia Cascadia reporting
- meta:Cascadia_Wikimedians/2017_report is due, possibly December 2018, at meta:Reports
  Accepted January 2018? It needs to be polished and remove the "in progress" tag.
  
  probably should ping Dumi for confirmation when done -DNdubane (WMF)
- meta:Cascadia_Wikimedians/2018_report
meta:Wikimedia Summit 2019/Registration Information - will someone from Cascadia go? Reporting required!
Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers
news from Seattle area foundations

Probably attending

Maybe attending

Regrets

Minutes

etherpad
etherpad failur - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FSeKxWKXZs6BGRC2BXDNEkmWV6TfJvZopjOHasQops8/edit

Seattle Wiknic 2018

The Great American Wiknic is an annual wiki-picnic held in cities across the United States on or around a common day every summer. The 2018 Seattle Wiknic will be on Saturday, August 25, 2018, 12pm to 3pm, at the Washington Park Arboretum.

Monthly meetup (reviving) Tuesday September 11, 2018, 6pm to 8pm

At Café Allegro (see Directions above)

Agenda

WikiConference North America 2018, October 18-21, 2018 (Thu, Oct /18: WikidataCon/Hackathon, Fri, Oct /19: Culture Crawl, Sat/Sun, Oct 20-21: Main Program with Tracks), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US
Spokane Futures: A Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Saturday, October 6, 2018 10:15am-12:30pm, Spokane Public Library
Possible reflection on how 9/11 changed Wikipedia. See Keegan, Brian C. (2014-09-01). "A History of Newswork on Wikipedia" (PDF)., which "examines how the outpouring of editorial effort on the English Wikipedia in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (hereafter, “9/11”) influenced subsequent responses to current events on Wikipedia."

Probably attending

Peaceray (talk) 06:17, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sounder Bruce 08:32, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Auldhouse (talk) 17:54, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe attending

Regrets

Art+Feminism, Saturday, May 12th, 1-5pm

Participants at the May 2017 Art+Feminism event

Wikipedia is one of the most wide-reaching repositories of shared knowledge yet a 2011 survey found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female, suggesting an alarming absence of voices. What and how information is shared is skewed by this gender disparity. To help change this, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is organizing a quarterly series of Edit-a-thons to improve Wikipedia's coverage of womxn artists of color.

This Saturday afternoon's gathering will focus on creating, editing, updating, and expanding pages for womxn artists from Latin America and the Caribbean. The Edit-a-thon will feature a talk by Dan Paz, Lecturer in the UW School of Art + Art History + Design.

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.

Dan Paz is an artist and educator who explores the labor of digital imaging production as a collaborative site where the intersections of the image-idea and lived experience are produced and contested. Through videos, photography, and sculptural projects that query the ability of documentary processes to be manipulated—to be multiplied and replicated, stopped and started, rewound and advanced—Dan works within the impossibilities of absolute replication to question the very ability of the image to truly represent.

Check the Facebook event page for updates.

When: Saturday, May 12th, 1-5pm
Where: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building #132, 1915 NE Chelan Ln, Seattle, Washington 98105
Who: Everyone is welcome.
What to bring: A laptop and power cord. Access to UW wifi will be provided for non-UW affliated participants.

May 12th RSVP:

Attending

Peaceray (talk) 16:23, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe

Not attending

Art+Feminism, Saturday, February 24th, 1-5pm

Participants at the 2017 Art+Feminism event

Despite its wide reach, content on Wikipedia suffers from the bias of its editors: white, technically inclined, English-speaking men that live in developed, majority-Christian countries. This represents an Wikipedia is one of the most wide-reaching repositories of shared knowledge, yet a 2011 survey found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female, suggesting an alarming absence of voices. What and how information is shared is skewed by this gender disparity. To help change this, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is organizing a quarterly series of Edit-a-Thons to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of womxn artists.

This Edit-a-thon will focus on creating, editing, updating, and expanding pages for queer and womxn artists of color.

Snacks from POC owned local businesses, childcare, reference materials, and editing tutorials and assistance will be provided.

All you need to bring is your laptop, powercord and ideas for entries that need editing, updating, and/or creating. No previous Wikipedia experience required!

Check the Facebook event page for updates.

When: Saturday, February 24th, 1-5pm
Where: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building #132, 1915 NE Chelan Ln, Seattle, Washington 98105
Who: Everyone is welcome.
What to bring: A laptop and power cord. Access to UW wifi will be provided for non-UW affliated participants.

February 24th RSVP:

Attending

Peaceray (talk) 01:58, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Monikasj (talk) 19:02, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Woody29r (talk) 20:14, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
--Mssemantics (talk) 20:20, 24 February 2018 (UTC) - Arriving around 2:30-3pm[reply]

Maybe

☆ Bri (talk) – I might be traveling that day