[Wikimediauk-l] Upcoming events

[John Lubbock]

 Hi all, there's lots of events organised for May. Firstly:

   - Our next SkillShare event is on May 7, with Rich Farmbrough doing a
   workshop on how to use AutoWikiBrowser: This is for more experienced
   editors so please tell those people if you know them! Sign up on
   Eventbrite here
   
.
   The Meta page is here
   .

This is the second SkillShare we are doing, and I really would like to
engage people who are already experienced Wikipedia editors but haven't
used AWB before to automate edits. If you want to know more about AWB I've
written a blogpost here

.

   - Our next Wikidata meetup
    is on May 2
   in East London. When I created the page initially I put it as the 15th, so
   please be aware if you're coming that it's on May 2.

Other Wikimedia editathons, meetups and related events this month are:

   - The Womein in Red meetup
   

   in Edinburgh on May 3
   - Women in Scottish Archaeology editathon
   

   in Edinburgh on May 9
   - The Cambridge Meetup
    on May 12
   - Victorian blogging editathon
   

   at Conway Hall in London on May 18
   - Extraordinary women in Engineering editathon
   

   with WES in London on May 18
   - A one day conference in Dunfirmline, Remembering Scotland's Accused
   Witches
   

   on May 19
   - Asking and answering questions with Open Data
   

   in Bristol on May 20
   - A Women in Red editathon
   

   in Edinburgh on May 31

The middle of the year is certainly getting busy, and we hope to see you at
some of these events!

All the best,

John Lubbock

Communications Coordinator

Wikimedia UK

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[Wikimediauk-l] SPARQL workshop at Cambridge 41 - 12 May

[Charles Matthews]

I'll be running an introductory workshop on SPARQL queries and their 
applications at the next Cambridge meetup, on 12 May:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/41

Apologies for the clash with the London meetup: I'll not make a habit of this.

This will be a largely Wikidata-oriented edition of the Cambridge meetup, and 
I'm constrained by available spaces for the Makespace classroom, which is 
suitable for training. The main topic will be getting a grip on scientific 
literature as catalogued on Wikidata, in its many aspects, as required by the 
ScienceSource project I'm working on.

If you've not really seen the point of Wikidata, so far, this should be a point 
of entry. In the time provided we'll get to some more advanced things, too. 

The SPARQL session will be 1300 to 1530, will not assume much previous Wikidata 
knowledge, and if you come you should bring a laptop.

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