Event:Bay Area Meetup November 2025
Calling all Wikimedia editors and aspiring-editors, come join us to share in the experience of editing Wikipedia! Beginners are especially welcome and encouraged to attend. We meet November 13 at 6.30PM in the Mission District, San Francisco. Please check the timezone showing on the infobox is correct! Often, it defaults to UTC and shows the wrong time. This month, we are celebrating Wikidata's birthday.
Celebrating WikiData's Birthday!
[edit | edit source]Lightning talks
[edit | edit source]If you would like to do a lightning talk (5-10 minutes) on a Wikidata-related project, or an open data project, please send an email to bayareawikipedians [at] proton [dot] me. This can be an online presentation. This can be a project you participate in, something you are interested in or something you are working on.
Confirmed talks:
[edit | edit source]- OpenHistoricalMap (OHM):
- OHM website
- Recent talk @WikiCon NA 25: OpenHistoricalMap: A Linked, Attribution- & Integration-Friendly Map Complement to Wikimedia
- Projects round-up from WikiData Con 2025
- Quick overview of Wikidata tooling
- Report on QLever
Please feel free to add a topic, or come up with a topic on the date.
Suggested talks topics:
[edit | edit source]- Lexica: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexica
- Paulina: paulina.toolforge.org/
- Wikidata and botany: https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf062/8158086
- Wikidata and galleries, museums, libraries or archives - see eg https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/18/ld42023-iii-the-examples-libraries-using-wikidata/
- Wikidata and games
- Biodiversity project https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Biodiversity
- Wikidata tooking (wikibase, integraality, open refine, etc)
Food
[edit | edit source]We'll have our usual pizza, and a Wikidata themed cake!
Meet fellow contributors
[edit | edit source]In place of our usual coworking tables, we invite everyone to socialize and discuss their current editing projects.
Where and When
[edit | edit source]This event is hybrid. Join us online or in person in the San Francisco Mission District - all details provided when you register!
Code of conduct
[edit | edit source]We expect all attendees to abide by the Universal Code of Conduct. Any issue can be reported to the events organizers, which will introduce themselves at the beginning of the meetup.
Organized by
[edit | edit source]Bay Area Wikipedians User Group
Stay in touch by joining our mailing list.
Next meetup
[edit | edit source]Event:Bay Area Meetup December 2025
News, notes and resources
[edit | edit source]Wiki Science Competition, a science photography contest, opens November 1st. Background here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wsc-us. Upload here: https://www.wikisciencecompetition.org/