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 <lia...@wikiedu.org> 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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