Thank you to our guest speakers! If you were unable to join us live, the video recording is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LknSeFoxtHQ
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 8:52 AM LiAnna Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a reminder, this meeting will be in just over 24 hours! Hope to see > you there. > > -The Wikipedia & Education User Group > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 3:05 PM LiAnna Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open >> Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, October 13, from 4 pm UTC to 5:30 pm UTC >> (see your time zone here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1634140801). >> >> As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the >> Wikipedia & Education User Group board, then leave most of the time for our >> guest speakers. >> >> Our guest speakers this month will be Amanda Rust and Amy Ruskin, who >> will speak on their work with Wikidata in an educational library setting, >> and Thomas Shafee, who will discuss the WikiJournals and their bridging of >> the Wikipedia-academia divide. >> >> Our speakers' biographies: >> * Amanda Rust is the Associate Director for Services in the Digital >> Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She’ll speak >> about how Wikidata fits into an initiative to collaboratively document >> neighborhood public art data in Boston. By focusing on public art outside >> of more well-known downtown areas, this initiative hopes to highlight the >> history of art and artists in historically marginalized neighborhoods. >> * Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the >> Northeastern University Library. She will discuss the process of setting up >> the Boston neighborhood public art project in Wikidata, including >> determining data models and creating a WikiProject page. >> * Thomas Shafee is an evolutionary biochemist and data scientist based at >> La Trobe Uni in Australia. He'll talk on the work he does on bridging the >> Wikipedia-academia divide by forming compatible interfaces between the ways >> the two communities operate. As part of this, he chairs the WikiJournal >> User Group, and is Editor in Chief of the WikiJournal of Science and an >> editor for PLOS Genetics. Through these, non-Wikimedian scholars can write >> new high-accuracy Wikipedia pages, and existing Wikipedia pages are put >> through external peer review. >> >> We hope you can join us! >> >> The meeting will be hosted via this link: >> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81371223837?pwd=K3dQZnh3WU9TYTY3MzBOV1l4WnBiZz09 >> >> Meeting ID: 813 7122 3837 >> Passcode: 153195 >> >> If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send >> me an email offlist. >> >
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