Wikipedia:Meetup/Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

Bay Area WikiSalon series
Bay Area WikiSalon
June 2016
SponsorsWiki Strategies, Ben Creasy, and Wayne Calhoon
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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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Christina Moretta and Andrea Davis of the SFPL
  • 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)
Ben Creasy and Eugene Eric Kim kicked off the Wikidojo
  • 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

Video

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Library presentation (36 minutes; also on YouTube)
Wikidojo session (55 minutes; also on YouTube)
downtown San Francisco skyline at night
Looking for other ways to connect with wiki folk in the Bay Area? See: WP:Meetup/San Francisco