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Reminder! Women's History Month edit-a-thon
Just a friendly reminder about the Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Women's History Month :)

Date: Saturday, March 17, 2012 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (PT)

Location: Wikimedia Foundation Offices 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105

Bring: Your laptop and charger (we'll have some extra computers available), your questions, and your friends!

What to expect: A fun, laid-back environment with food, drink, a great mix of people, and a wealth of knowledge and resources.

Public transport: BART to Montgomery station and walk 1 block down New Montgomery St.

Reminder: The St. Patricks Day parade will be starting at 11:30 on Market Street. Market street will most likely be closed to cars so please plan your journey accordingly ;-)

When you arrive: A volunteer will be at the front of the building to greet everyone arriving 12:40 - 1:20. You will take the elevator up to the 6th floor.

If you are early: If you expect to come earlier than 12:40 to help set-up, please let us know, so we can give you a contact number.

If you arrive later: No problem. There will be a phone number posted to the front door of the office building. A volunteer will run down and let you in.

We can't wait to see you on Saturday! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 23:29, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the barnstar, it means a lot :)--Thakaran 21:01, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2012

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Village Pump discussion on English Wikipedia
Please see this Village Pump proposal currently under discussion:
 * en:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

One of its purposes is to help stabilize the number of active editors.

Please see also:
 * User talk:Philippe (WMF) --Timeshifter (talk) 09:55, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2012

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I mentioned one of your Wikimania talks ...
here. You may want to check it to make sure I'm not taking your name in vain :) - Dank (push to talk) 18:44, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Phillipe mentioned you're not with the Foundation now ... just wanted to say, you did great work, and I wish you well in future endeavors! - Dank (push to talk) 17:50, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 September 2012

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Wikimedia Highlights from July 2012
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for July 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement About · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 18:50, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia Foundation highlights
 * Foundation staff report on their work at Wikimania
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * Wikimania
 * Wikipedian in Residence for a whole town
 * Russian Wikipedia blackout

You're invited! - Wiki Loves Monuments - San Francisco Events
Hi! As part of Wiki Loves Monuments, we're organizing two photo events in the San Francisco Bay Area and one in Yosemite National Park. We hope you can come out and participate! Feel free to contact User:Almonroth with questions or concerns.

There are three events planned:


 * September 15, Saturday - A bike ride along San Francisco's waterfront
 * September 22-23rd, Saturday-Sunday - Wiki Takes Yosemite
 * September 29, Saturday - A sunset and harvest moon bridges, palace, boats and tower tour

We look forward to seeing you there!

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The Signpost: 10 September 2012

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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2012
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for August 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 19:35, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia Foundation highlights
 * Wiki Loves Monuments app enables the first mobile contributions to Wikimedia projects
 * Language support tools released in "Project Milkshake"
 * Request for Comment on legal fees assistance program
 * Pilot project on Arabic Wikipedia increases contributions by new editors
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * Donation of African art images
 * Catalan librarians receive Wikipedia training
 * Annual German-language conference

Wikimedia Highlights from September 2012
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for September 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 08:01, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia Foundation highlights
 * "Page Curation" tools make it easier to review new Wikipedia articles
 * New volunteer-based model for distributing donation money launched
 * New travel project site, and legal activities
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * Worldwide Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest with record participation
 * Conflict of interest discussions
 * First EduWiki Conference

Wikimedia Highlights from October 2012
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for October 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 08:01, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia Foundation Highlights
 * Mobile Wikipedia redesigned
 * First in-person meeting of the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
 * Wikipedia Zero now available to 230 million people after Saudi Arabia launch; has already grown Wikipedia readership in Africa and Asia
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * Audio and video from open access scientific publications imported to Commons
 * 200 GLAM professionals at German conference
 * Ada Lovelace Day
 * Wikidata.org goes online

Edit-a-thon tomorrow (Saturday) in Oakland
Hi, I hope you will be joining us tomorrow afternoon at the Edit-a-thon at Tech Liminal, in Oakland. We'll be working on articles relating to women and democracy (and anything else that interests you). It's sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, Tech Liminal, and me.

If this is the first you are hearing of this event, my apologies for the last-minute notice! I announced it on the San Francisco email list and by a banner on your watchlist, but I neglected to look at the San Francisco invitation list until this evening. If you can't make it this time, I hope to see you at a similar event soon! -Pete (talk) 04:46, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from December 2012
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for December 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 08:21, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia Foundation highlights
 * Visual Editor opt-in launch on English Wikipedia
 * Record donations in shortest ever fundraiser
 * First round of the new funds dissemination process ends
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * Israeli and Czech chapters convince governments to make images freely available
 * More than half a million free photos of Dutch monuments for Wikimedia Commons
 * Workshop of the German Volunteer response team

Wikimedia Highlights from January 2013
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for January 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement


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 * Wikimedia Foundation highlights
 * New program offers financial support for projects by individual Wikimedians
 * Successful migration to new data center
 * New partnership grows the reach of Wikipedia Zero to 330 million mobile users
 * Wikivoyage becomes newest Wikimedia project
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * Asteroid named after Wikipedia
 * EU-funded RENDER project releases editor support tools
 * Wiki Loves Monuments exhibition in Polish railway station
 * Review of management and conflict of interest issues at Wikimedia UK

Wikimedia Highlights from February 2013
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for February 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 21:21, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia Foundation highlights
 * Legal victory for Wikivoyage and free knowledge
 * Mobile watchlist available
 * Language Engineering team attends open source conferences in India
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * Commons Picture of the Year 2012 contest results announced
 * New ombudsman commission
 * Open database of public art in Sweden

Wikimedia Highlights from March 2013
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for March 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 00:01, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia Foundation highlights
 * Lua speeds up pages and empowers Wikimedia's technical contributors
 * Mobile uploads launch for apps and the mobile web
 * First Individual Engagement Grants awarded to innovative community projects
 * Wikipedia Zero wins award, reaches new users
 * Ombudsmen meet, might expand mandate
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * Phase 2 of Wikidata is becoming available on Wikipedia
 * Evaluating the success of the "Mediagrant" project to document nature reserves
 * WikiAfrica offers physical space for Wikimedia contributions in Cameroon

Wiknic 2013
"Wiknic 2013 Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland Theme: Hyperlocal list-making" This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

Location and Directions

 * Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
 * Nearest BART: 19th Street
 * Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
 * Street parking abounds

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Wikimedia Highlights from April 2013
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for April 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 17:31, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia Foundation highlights
 * New notifications system launches on the English Wikipedia
 * Wikidata's content can now be used on all Wikipedias
 * Wikimedia Commons app announced for iOS and Android
 * Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) publishes its recommendations about $1.2 million
 * New conflict of interest guidelines
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * Chapters conference and GLAM-Wiki events
 * Students create the first online Arabic-Serbian dictionary
 * "Wiki Loves Sound" enriches Wikipedia with audio recordings

Wikimedia Highlights from May 2013
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for May 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 16:31, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia Foundation highlights
 * Community invited to discuss trademark practices
 * Wikipedia Zero launches in Pakistan
 * Search for new Executive Director begins
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * More than 11,000 nature photos in Ukrainian "Wiki loves Earth" contest
 * Hackathons in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv
 * Railway photo expedition in Poland
 * Online course about editing Wikipedia articles

Bay Area WikiSalon series kickoff, April 27
Please join us in San Francisco!



The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area will gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. We have two brief presentations lined up for our kickoff event in downtown San Francisco:


 * The Nueva Upper School recently hosted the first ever high school Wikipedia edit-a-thon. We will hear what interests them about Wikipedia, what they have learned so far, and what they hope to achieve.
 * Photojournalist Kris Schreier Lyseggen, author of The Women of San Quentin: The Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons, will tell us about her work and how she researched the topic.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see here: Bay Area WikiSalon, April 2016

We hope to see you -- and until then, happy editing! - Pete, Ben & Wayne

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series on May 25
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2016

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have:


 * A brief report on Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Publice Library, coordinated by Merrilee:
 * What topics might we cover in a follow up?
 * Find out more about resources your public library provides to help with editing (hint, it's more than just books!)
 * Special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
 * Join in on an in person Wikidojo!
 * Are you curious how your peers approach writing a Wikipedia article? This exercise, pioneered by Wikipedians Nikola Kalchev and Vassia Atanassova in 2015 and conducted in many places around the world, will help us all - from first-time wiki users to veteran Wikipedians - share ideas, while building an article together. If you have ideas (relating to Bay Area history, ideally) about a new article we could build (stubs and short existing articles are fine), please submit them ahead of time to coordinator Pete Forsyth. (User talk page or email is fine.)
 * Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

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REMINDER/invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m.
Please join us in downtown San Francisco tonight!



If you cannot join in person or want to view portions later:
 * To join via Hangout on Air
 * Via YouTube Stream

We will have:


 * Light snacks, and time to mingle
 * A brief report on the Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Public Library, that was coordinated by Wiki editor Merrilee
 * A special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
 * Join in on a brief in person Wikidojo!
 * Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!

Please register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjLRrSTlEkGOPTQ-h6A0WvSFI4ZmIUl6jEHp_RYas-E/viewform and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

For further details, see: Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

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