| Thursday, March 14 | 2:30–5:30 | Intro to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon |
| Thursday, March 14 | 5:30–6:30 | Sunshine Week reception & networking event |
| Friday, March 15 | 9:30–4:00 | All day planning meeting |
Saturday, June 8, 2013, we're having a Legislative Data Meetup, following up on the Cato Institute's Legislative Data Workshop in March. On the agenda: progress we have made so far and what work we will have ahead of us. 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Interested in the bills making their way through Congress?
Think they should be covered well in Wikipedia?
Well, let’s do something about it!
On Thursday and Friday, March 14th and 15th, the Cato Institute will host a conference to explore ways of using legislative data to enhance Wikipedia.
Cato is working on a system to produce enhanced XML markup of federal legislation, and hopes to use this data to make more information available to the public about how bills affect existing law, federal agencies, and spending, for example.
What better way to spread knowledge about federal public policy than by supporting the growth of Wikipedia content?
Thursday’s session is for all comers. Starting at 2:30 p.m., we will familiarize ourselves with Wikipedia editing and policy, and at 5:30 p.m. we’ll have a Sunshine Week reception. (You don’t need to attend in the afternoon to come to the reception. Register now!)
On Friday, we’ll convene experts in government transparency, in Wikipedia editorial processes and decisions, and in MediaWiki technology to think things through and plot a course.
We hope to foster productive interaction between Washington, D.C.’s transparency community and Wikipedians–and to properly celebrate Sunshine Week!