WikiClubWest/events

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WikiClubWest is the Western Australian branch of Wikimedia Australia.

Wiki Club West Events

Wiki-salons: Join Wikimedians at their regular monthly meetups focusing on contributing material to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Bring a laptop and learn how to upload and categorise photos, collaborate on transcribing historical documents, or get hands-on practice scanning archival material. From 10AM to 3PM, second weekend of the month (alternating between Saturday and Sunday). On each day, we'll break for lunch at the library café from 12–1. For details, see the Perth meetup page on English Wikipedia.

Past events

2018 July 15 (this was also the 50th advertised meetup of the Perth project)
2018 May 12, 12:00 – 17:30: 2018 Digitization workshop
2018 April 21, 10:00 – 13:00: 2018 Digitization discussion
2018 February 10, 10:00 – 15:00: WikiSalon (casual Wikimedia edit-a-thon and general workshop). Focusing on maintenance of the English Wikipedia Western Australian wikiproject. Break for lunch in the café downstairs from 12–1PM.
2018 January 20, 10:00 – 16:00: WikiSalon (casual Wikimedia edit-a-thon and general workshop). Break for lunch in the café downstairs from 12–1PM.
2017 December 9, 10:00 – 17:00: Casual Wikimedia edit-a-thon and general workshop. See also wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth/43.

On Saturdays in July 2017, between 1 and 3 p.m. in the BiblioTECH space, State Library of Western Australia, we ran the following open editing sessions:

July 1^st – Referencing and citations in Wikipedia. Useful links: WikiProject WA; cleanup listing.
July 8^th – General Wikimedia editing session
July 15^th – Perth on Wikipedia
July 22^nd – Genealogy in Wikimedia (including Wikidata)
July 29^th – Creating maps with QGIS (in collaboration with Geogeeks)

We also ran the following round-table discussions with Wikipedians on Wednesdays from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the BiblioTECH space:

July 12^th – Digitize and destroy, or digitize and preserve? — Is digitization destructive or valuable in the preservation of items?
July 19^th – Success and transgressions — Should a notable person's transgressions impact on the recognition of their place in history?
July 26^th – Wikipedia, friend or foe? — Is Wikipedia a competitor for the sharing of knowledge, or a complementary partner to traditional methods?
August 2^nd — Wikipedia and Western Australia - What fits? does Western Australia fit in an online encyclopedia, or does Wikipedia fit into Western Australia?

The BiblioTECH space was also used to host events related to Noongarpedia, the first Australian indigenous language wiki:

August 6^th — Noongarpedia wikibomb and historical image uploading session Postponed
August 20^th — Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth/39