Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Stanford Wikipedia Day 2019

Stanford University and the Wikipedia community celebrate Wikipedia Day: Wikipedia's turning 18 years old! Join us on January 15, 2019, at the Stanford University campus, in a celebration of 18 years of free and open knowledge. No editing experience is needed!

Register here!

Event details

 * Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2019
 * Time: 5:00–8:30pm (doors open 4:45pm)
 * Participation: Participation (food, pizza, snacks, cake!) will be free!
 * Welcome: All are welcome. We are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. (You do not need to be a Stanford University student to attend.)
 * Livestream: Zoom conference
 * If you live in the Bay Area and transportation to the event presents a financial burden, contact Kevin – we may be able to offer you reimbursement for local travel.

Lightning talks
Add your 3 minute lightning talk here!
 * Kevin Li – connecting with Wikidata Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 00:28, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Introducing "Thank you Tuesdays" on wikitech-l Legoktm (talk) 02:05, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Visualisations of Wikipedia activity and history. http://blog.hatnote.com/, http://listen.hatnote.com/, https://top.hatnote.com/, https://seealso.org/
 * Toolforge - Create and host your own web app that utilised data from Wikipedia. See more at https://tools.wmflabs.org/.
 * Query the MySQL databases behind Wikipedia. See DB and https://quarry.wmflabs.org/. --Krinkle (talk) 03:41, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Real-time activity of the Wikimedia projects. EventStreams/Powered_By, https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/BwEKgW. --Krinkle (talk) 03:41, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Visual comparison (diffs). https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Diffs. --Krinkle (talk) 03:41, 16 January 2019 (UTC)



Requested Talks
 * How to navigate Wikipedia across languages?
 * How to identify bad links in Wiki projects?
 * How to identify bad edges in Wikipedia Category graph? (ex: how to identify pages that do not belong under a category)?

Sign up
IMPORTANT: If you are not a Stanford affiliate, you must REGISTER by 11am on January 14 to be able to enter the secured library! Please register if you're not 100% sure you'll be attending, or even if you're pretty sure you won't be. (You can make a note to that effect when registering.)

Going

 * Very excited!! Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 00:28, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Stephen (talk) 15:04, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Wugapodes [thɑk] [ˈkan.ˌʧɹɪbz] 05:36, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Legoktm (talk) 05:46, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Barring something exceptional coming up at work, should be able to make it at least partially! -- FastLizard4 (talk•contribs) 09:21, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Margarita
 * I'm looking forward to it!! And happy to help if there's any need. yololobia2 Kevin, what should the lightening talks be about?
 * Yes! Rogerhc (talk) 21:53, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Minh Nguyễn &#x1f4ac; 09:34, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Martin This seems worth skipping finals for! Can't wait!
 * Emerson Yay! Wikipedia is now 18, and can go bar-hopping [legally].
 * Haybales I'LL BE THERE
 * L Faraone  06:07, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * seems fun -- dllu (t,c) 23:35, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Writejustified SEE you there!

Possible

 * Expect I'll attend at least partially. effeietsanders 18:49, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Should be able to make it.. but may depend on my school schedule, as it falls on the first day of classes for me. --Az1568 (talk) 08:18, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Not sure yet on my schedule, but I hope to attend! Jooojay (talk) 00:55, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Pretty good chances! Might even have a +1 :) --MahmoudHashemi (talk) 04:18, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * It's kind of a long haul for me from San Francisco since I can't drive anymore but I may make it anyway. Waiting for more detail on what is going to be covered or on online options. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 22:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Possibly, depending on what else comes up. miles
 * Will attempt to come! Pi.1415926535 (talk)
 * wctaiwan (talk) 07:33, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Hope I can make it! Eliyili00 (talk) 07:15, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Regrets

 * :/ Stussll (talk) 20:53, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Attend remotely

 * Cameron11598 (Talk) 06:22, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm saddened that I won't be in town that day, but I would be willing to try attending remotely. Mz7 (talk) 08:05, 12 January 2019 (UTC)