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This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue V, May 2022

USA report

Hackathons and Edit-a-thons

Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 meetups

While the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 was planned to be virtual, local Wikimedians were encouraged to create their own regional meetups. Wikimedia DC and Wikimedia NYC held their respective in-person meetups for the DC Hackathon 2022 and 2022 Hacknic Prospect Park Brooklyn. This marked the first significant in-person meetup for some Wikimedians in almost two years.

In Washington, D.C. activities included:

Discussion of knowledge graphs led by User:Fuzheado, and associated notes.
User:SuperHamster and User:Fuzheado worked with Dschwen to upgrade the 360 panorama viewer to the lastest version.
There was a demonstration and training on how to use Google Sheets with Wikipedia/Wikidata functions, with more info found at m:Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools.
User:Fuzheado demonstrated extensions to Google Sheets scripts to pull in ORES ratings and other information, and how these were used for GLAM institutions to evaluate the overall quality of worklist at places such as The Met Museum and Smithsonian Institution. The page m:Wiki List Tool was started to help document this.
The ISA tool was used to provide an easy on-ramp to contributing info to Structured Data on Commons, even allowing for some of our young 11-year-old participants to add depiction information for Metropolitan Museum of Art collections. Example data set from The Met.

Hackathon in D.C., Day 1 with WMF staffers
Hackathon in D.C. Days 2 and 3 in The Cove
Some younger Hackathon participants adding Structured Data on Commons depiction info via the ISA Tool
New York City Hacknic in Brooklyn's Prospect Park

100 DC Women 2022

Wikimedia DC held an editing contest, 100 DC Women 2022. 6 participants created 72 articles.

Seattle @ Distant Worlds

Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, held a meetup, Meetup/Seattle

San Diego/May 2022

San Diego Wikimedians held a meetup, San Diego/May 2022

Smithsonian APA Heritage Month Edit-a-thon

The Smithsonian American Women's Initiative and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center held an edit-a-thon on May 19th which generated the addition of 16,000 new words on Wikipedia and Wikidata. It was the most successful Smithsonian edit-a-thon since the first one held in 2010! Articles created at edit-a-thon include: Linda Mabalot, Youngmi Mayer, Wai Chim, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, and the Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. In addition, the forthcoming book from the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, We Are Here, now has a Wikidata item that includes all who are featured in the book.