Hey folks, I just added details for meetups in Piladelphia, PA[1] and London, UK[2] and I confirmed that we'll have a presentation by Abbey Ripstra about user experience research at the Wikimedia Foundation.
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014/Meetups#Philadelphia.2C_PA.2C_US 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014/Meetups/London,_UK -Aaron On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> wrote: > *TL;DR:* Come do wiki research with us! Newbie, seasoned vet or > Wikipedian -- all are welcome. *August. 6th & 7th.* Overlaps with the > Wikimania'14 > Hackathon <http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon>. Global > event that includes virtual and local meetup groups in major cities. [ sign > up > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014/Meetups> > ] > > Wikis work in practice, but not in Theory. Let's change that. > > *The Wiki Research Hackathon* is an opportunity for anyone interested in > research on wikis, Wikipedia, and other open collaborations to meet, share > ideas, and work together. It's being organized by researchers in academia > and the Wikimedia Foundation, but we want anyone interested in research to > participate. Whether or not you consider yourself a researcher, or would > ever want to be one, come with questions, answers, data, code, crazy > ideas... or just your insatiable curiosity. > > We will meet both virtually via google hangout and locally for those who > are able to attend local meetup groups. You can take part through a > persistent google hangout and IRC channel (#wikimedia-research > <http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-research>) throughout > the day, even if there is no local meetup in your neck of the world. > > > Who can participate? > > Everyone who is interested is welcome to participate. You don't have to be > a researcher or a programmer to get involved. We need your ideas, your > questions, and your insights into how wikis work, where wiki-work breaks > down and how things can be helped. Just find a meetup group > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014/Meetups> > (local > or virtual) that works for you and add your name to the list of attendees. > *[ sign up > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014/Meetups> > ]* > > > How will we meet? > > In order to be inclusive as possible, we'll be organizing both local and > virtual meetups. Local meetups are organized by Wikipedians all over the > world. Anyone is welcome to become a local host > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Local_host>. We currently > have local meetups confirmed for London UK & San Francisco, CA. > > Hosts will be responsible for determining how they'll organize their own > events and how they'll synchronize with others. It's generally recommended > that hosts organize their events around the global synchronization > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014#Global_synchronization> > periods > described below, but that may be impractical in certain circumstances. > Check with your host about how he/she plans to hand synchronization. > > > When will it happen? > > It turns out that "*When will it happen?*" is a complicated question. > Since this hackathon is a global event, participants will be joining all > over the world, and due to the way that global time (and thus timezones) > works, many of us will be awake while others are sleeping. > > In order to deal with pain due to timezones, local and virtual meetups > will be synchronized in sync groups based on similar timezones within the > Americas, Europe/Africa and Asia/Oceania. These groups share at least an > hour of overlap with nearby group(s). Meetup hosts can take advantage of > these overlapping periods to share ideas and results with neighboring sync > groups. If you are participating virtually, you are welcome to join > whichever local meetup(s) and synchronization groups fit your > location/schedule best. > *[ time table > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014/Timetable_(Actual)> > ]* > > > What will we do? > > The Wiki Research Hackathon is an opportunity for anyone interested in > research on wikis, Wikipedia, and open collaboration to meet, share ideas, > and work together. It is targeted at Wikimedians, students, researchers, > coders and anyone interested in crunching and visualizing data, designing > new tools, and producing new knowledge about Wikimedia projects and their > communities. > > > The goal of this event is to: > > - share knowledge about *research tools and datasets* (and how to use > them) > - ask burning *research questions* (and learn how to answer them) > - get involved in *ongoing research projects* (or start new ones) > - design new data-driven *apps and tools* (or hack existing ones) > > > Why are we doing this? > > The scholarly research community studying Wikimedia projects, the > Wikimedia Foundation, and the Wikimedia community all have a shared > interest in answering research questions about Wikimedia projects using > public datasets, developing new tools and sharing their work with others. > Let's get together and support each other's work! > > -Aaron > [[en:User:EpochFail <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail>]] >
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