WikiSeder - A Wikipedia Weekly Network Passover Special
Channel: Wikipedia Weekly
Date: 2020-04-14

I would like to invite everyone to join me in drinking four cups of wine to free knowledge, next Monday!

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSeder

The WikiSeder is a secular celebration of wiki wisdom and free culture in the age of the quarantini. As we pass through our current plague, let us come together from our lockdowns to retell stories of liberation and crisis overcome through fellowship and information-sharing.

All are very welcome, this is not meant as a religious or exclusive thing. There is an American tradition since the 1960s of interfaith and secular seders highlighting social causes, and I hope WikiSeder can be in this tradition.

For content, it would be a sort of playful strategy session, mixed with some edit-a-thon arguments over holiday-related Wikidata items. We will probably also read aloud some Wikipedia article intros and talk pages for relevant topics, this is very much meant as the seder you can edit.

It is planned for Monday April 13, the sixth night of Passover, and also the day after Easter.

We'd do it as a livestream episode on the Wikipedia Weekly Network podcast, so it would be public and go on Youtube, etc:

Let me know if you are interested, and comment if you'd like to join at the virtual table! We have 10 seats, with up to 6 appearing on screen at any one time (and we can rotate too), and an unlimited number can watch and participate by chat.

Thanks,
Richard Knipel
(User:Pharos)