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Harej,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
NorthAmerica
1000
13:44, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your invitation to rate Wiki Loves Monuments submissions on WT:NRHP. However, I can't seem to register; every attempt is returned with "the captcha is invalid" even though it clearly isn't. Any solutions, or an alternative means of registration perhaps? Knight of Truth ( talk) 04:18, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Harej: Don't forget to Join the project. I recommend that you place your user name atop, because you are one of the founders the project! NORTH AMERICA 1000 18:01, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
In the main page of Wikiprojec ask, create a link to a subpage where people can post their ideas to improve the projects. I'd be the first to leave my ideas. (ping me) Tetra quark ( don't be shy) 21:43, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
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Sunshine! | |
Hello Harej! Bananasoldier ( talk) has given you a bit of sunshine to brighten your day! Sunshine promotes WikiLove and hopefully it has made your day better. Spread the sunshine by adding {{subst: User:Meaghan/Sunshine}} to someone else's talk page, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. In addition, you can spread the sunshine to anyone who visits your userpage and/or talk page by adding {{ User:Meaghan/Sunshine icon}}. Happy editing! Bananasoldier ( talk) 23:00, 17 January 2015 (UTC) |
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wiping the NYC mayoral slate clean! Valleyforge1991 ( talk) 03:53, 20 January 2015 (UTC) |
I'm really hoping your efforts to revitalize this component of the project are successful, particularly because I hope it will improve with editor retention. I'm not seeing many signs others are perceiving the same thing in general, but I've sometimes of late been feeling like a can hear the slighest creaking from this place in terms of stability -- not just in small (but more common) technical hiccups, but even on content-side, and in procedural areas, everything feels "undermanned" at present; seems like everywhere has a backlog or just generally not enough hands to go around. If your efforts can do something to reverse that trend, the effort will worth that alone, even putting aside the other kinds of value your grant statement speaks to. But the challenge as I see it is that by the time an editor comes to a WikiProject, they've already passed a certain threshold of interest in (and knowledge of) the project and thus are amongst those who are (at least marginally) more likely to be retained anyway, at least for a time.
What we really need is a way to keep the countless people who decide to make just a few test edits, who have just discovered talk space but aren't sure how welcome their thoughts are going to be. How you recruit new editors with knowledge of a key area into a WikiProject even as they are just learning the basics of policy and process, I'm not sure. And great pains would need to be taken so that newer editors in WikiProject understood the limits to what a WikiProject can do and don't get too WP:OWN about things (ArbCom will not thank any project for bringing that kind of mess to their workload again, I daresay). But the truth is, we don't have that many community spaces where large numbers of editors can coordinate, and many of those we do have are for administrative purposes more connected with behavioural problems and grievances than anything. WikiProjects could really fill that void, if more tightly (and and maybe uniformly) coordinated. I know there's always some concern of making the project too familiar, or personal, or social, or what-have-you and some of those concerns I completely endorse, while others are clearly farcical, histrionic or just reflect impractical thinking. But one thing that's for certain is that this project has accomplished as much as it has in good part because of a sense of community and if we fail to maintain that sentiment, we're going to see real consequences to our manpower and the way things get done here. WikiProjects can straddle the divide of making people feel engaged and connected to their fellow editors while keeping us all focused on the task of building the encyclopedia, I think, but very few have come even close to realizing that potential.
But I'm droning on and should probably save this for the project. I did have one practical notion along the lines touched upon by the second talk thread. It would require a certain non-trivial amount of effort to galvanize the community to support and implement this, mind you, but why not a new class of editor privileges (let's call them "coordinator privileges") that would allow certain editors to do things like a) send out mass messages to those who have already joined a WikiProject announcing events, projects and important discussions (through an interface, template, bot or such, rather than requiring them to manually message each person, or b) allow them to see a list of all new editors who have contributed a certain number of edits to articles which have that have a given projects template on their talk page, so they can invite them to participate in the relevant project? And though it's arguably silly, just the mere fact that coordinators have been invested with specific tools (which they would have to be vetted for, of course, same as admins, bureaus, and other with special privileges) might give projects more of a feeling of legitimacy. Though again, I can't stress enough how important it will be to educate members that they are there to advise and help one-another, not generate their independent rules for content to apply on top of policy; the more prestige WikiProjects get, the more explicit we will have to make that line. It's already in policy itself, but needs to somehow be codified into the way the projects themselves operate, in order to avoid run-ins with the larger community of editors as they go about forming local consensus.
Anyway, that's enough dumping upon your talk page. It's all rather long-winded way of saying best of luck and that whatever little support I can give, I will! Snow talk 06:43, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
massmessage
rights were given out as individual privileges; that does simplify things quite a bit. Still, with apparently only 32 such (non-admin) users having these privileges at present, this would be a significant upscale and the process for requesting these rights seems to fall on one person at present (User:Cenarium), if I am reading the page history correctly, so you might want to give them an early head's up once you've begun to flesh things out. I suppose one could also use the system that's in place for RfC's; contributors to a given project could sign up to receive bot notices on a certain number of randomly selected discussions per month. But then you need someone to develop and maintain the bots.Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon | |
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![]() ![]() You are invited to join us at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for our upcoming editathon, a part of the Black WikiHistory Month campaign (which also includes events in Brooklyn and Westchester!).
The Wikipedia training and editathon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, with a reception following in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building at 5:00pm. We hope to see you there!-- Pharos ( talk) 06:03, 27 January 2015 (UTC) |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
Hi. Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/January 2015 looks pretty sad currently... could you ping the mailing list and maybe send out another talk page message? My suspicion is that people have forgotten that this meetup is happening. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 03:36, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
L&E Newsletter / Volume 1 / Issue 3 / January 2015
Learning Quarterly
Frontpage: #EducationCollaborative #CrossingBorders
Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!
Leave your mark on Meta!
Get #Inspired on IdeaLab and Learning Pattern Library.
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:57, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello there!
Upcoming events:
I am also pleased to announce events for Wikimedia DC Black History Month with Howard University and NPR. Details on those events soon.
If you have any questions or have any requests, please email me at james.harewikimediadc.org.
See you there! – James Hare
(To unsubscribe, remove your username here.) 03:11, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Harej,
We’d like to invite you to participate in a study that aims to explore how WikiProject members coordinate activities of distributed group members to complete project goals. We are specifically seeking to talk to people who have been active in at least one WikiProject in their time in Wikipedia. Compensation will be provided to each participant in the form of a $10 Amazon gift card.
The purpose of this study is to better understanding the coordination practices of Wikipedians active within WikiProjects, and to explore the potential for tool-mediated coordination to improve those practices. Interviews will be semi-structured, and should last between 45-60 minutes. If you decide to participate, we will schedule an appointment for the online chat session. During the appointment you will be asked some basic questions about your experience interacting in WikiProjects, how that process has worked for you in the past and what ideas you might have to improve the future.
You must be over 18 years old, speak English, and you must currently be or have been at one time an active member of a WikiProject. The interview can be conducted over an audio chatting channel such as Skype or Google Hangouts, or via an instant messaging client. If you have questions about the research or are interested in participating, please contact Michael Gilbert at (206) 354-3741 or by email at mdg@uw.edu.
We cannot guarantee the confidentiality of information sent by email.
The link to the relevant research page is m:Research:Means_and_methods_of_coordination_in_WikiProjects
Ryzhou ( talk) 23:18, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello again!
Not even a week ago I sent out a message talking about upcoming events in DC. Guess what? There are more events coming up in February.
First, as a reminder, there is a WikiSalon on February 11 (RSVP here or just show up) and Wiki Loves Small Museums at the Small Museum Association Conference on February 15 (more information here).
Now, I am very pleased to announce:
There is going to be a lot going on, and I hope you can come to some of the events!
If you have any questions or need any special accommodations, please let me know.
Regards,
(To unsubscribe, remove your username
here.) 18:20, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you for subscribing to the WikiProject X Newsletter. For our first issue...
Has WikiProject X changed the world yet? No.
We opened up shop last month and announced our existence to the world. Our first phase is the "research" phase, consisting mostly of reading and listening. We set up our landing page and started collecting stories. So far, 28 stories have been shared about WikiProjects, describing a variety of experiences across numerous WikiProjects. A recurring story involves a WikiProject that starts off strong but has trouble continuing to stay active. Most people describe using WikiProjects as a way to get feedback from other editors. Some quotes:
Of course, these are just anecdotes. While they demonstrate what is possible, they do not necessarily explain what is typical. We will be using this information in conjunction with a quantitative analysis of WikiProjects, as documented on Meta. Particularly, we are interested in the measurement of WikiProject activity as it relates to overall editing in that WikiProject's subject area.
We also have 50 people and projects signed up for pilot testing, which is an excellent start! (An important caveat: one person volunteering a WikiProject does not mean the WikiProject as a whole is interested; just that there is at least one person, which is a start.)
While carrying out our research, we are documenting the problems with WikiProjects and our ideas for making WikiProjects better. Some ideas include better integration of existing tools into WikiProjects, recommendations of WikiProjects for people to join, and improved coordination with Articles for Creation. These are just ideas that may or may not make it to the design phase; we will see. We are also working with WikiProject Council to improve the directory of WikiProjects, with the goal of a reliable, self-updating WikiProject directory. Stay tuned! If you have any ideas, you are welcome to leave a note on our talk page.
That's all for now. Thank you for subscribing!
– Harej 17:21, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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The WikiProject Barnstar | |
Hi Harej – Thanks for your great work at WikiProject X, an interesting new WikiProject that will hopefully help to maintain and advance other WikiProjects! NORTH AMERICA 1000 12:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC) |
|
Hey Harej, it's been a while. The Co-op team has been hard at work during over the winter, so let's get right into what's been happening:
Thanks to all of the new mentors who have joined over the past few months. Big thanks to Missvain to posting about our little project here to the gendergap-l mailing list. I, JethroBT drop me a line 00:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC) on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.
( Opt-out Instructions) This message was send by Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:36, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Harej -
I'm an academic who researches and writes about Native American and First Nations literatures. I'm also an occasional Wikipedian and would like to work to improve the project's coverage of Native American authors and books.
With this in mind, I've proposed that the next Native American Literature Symposium (NALS) in March run a wikithon session to get academics and writers, of whom there should be around 150 in attendance, contributing to Wikipedia. I have a list of authors who don't currently have articles, and I will also get participants working on improving existing stub articles. The NALS programme can be found here [1].
I'd love to get your input on how best to get the maximum out of this session. Please feel free to email me directly at j dot mackay @ euc dot ac dot cy.
Best, James Mackay, aka Vizjim ( talk) 12:28, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey Harej. I've put in a submission for a presentation at Wikimania 2015 called Is Two the Magic Number?: The Co-op and New Editor Engagement through Mentorship. I'll be talking about the state of finding help spaces on en.wiki and how our new mentorship space, The Co-op, factors into that picture. Reviewing will begin soon and I'll need your help to be able to present our work. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. If you would be interested in seeing this presentation, whether you are attending or not, please add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal (you do not need to attend Wikimania to express interest in presentations). I, JethroBT drop me a line on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.
( Opt-out Instructions) This message was send by Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:19, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hell in a Bucket ( talk) 15:19, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
I have also proposed a proposal to make Wikipedia free of data charges for users from developing countries, I will be glad if you can sign up here (just to ensure that you are also interested in making Wikipedia free of data charges), signing up doesn't mean that you have to attend so don't worry. Thank you, friend. Jim Carter 11:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey mentors, two announcements:
( Opt-out Instructions) This message was send by Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:41, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I am very excited to announce this month’s events, focused on Women’s History Month:
Hope you can make it to an event! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.
Thanks,
To unsubscribe from this newsletter, remove your name from this list. 02:24, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
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Here's a cookie for your awesome edits on Wikipedia. :) Kamran Mackey ( talk) 08:21, 6 March 2015 (UTC) |
Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 | |
---|---|
![]() ![]() You are invited to join us at Barnard College for Wikipedia Day NYC 2015, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 21:58, 9 March 2015 (UTC) |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
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Harej,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
NorthAmerica
1000
13:44, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your invitation to rate Wiki Loves Monuments submissions on WT:NRHP. However, I can't seem to register; every attempt is returned with "the captcha is invalid" even though it clearly isn't. Any solutions, or an alternative means of registration perhaps? Knight of Truth ( talk) 04:18, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
|
Hi Harej: Don't forget to Join the project. I recommend that you place your user name atop, because you are one of the founders the project! NORTH AMERICA 1000 18:01, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
In the main page of Wikiprojec ask, create a link to a subpage where people can post their ideas to improve the projects. I'd be the first to leave my ideas. (ping me) Tetra quark ( don't be shy) 21:43, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
![]() |
Sunshine! | |
Hello Harej! Bananasoldier ( talk) has given you a bit of sunshine to brighten your day! Sunshine promotes WikiLove and hopefully it has made your day better. Spread the sunshine by adding {{subst: User:Meaghan/Sunshine}} to someone else's talk page, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. In addition, you can spread the sunshine to anyone who visits your userpage and/or talk page by adding {{ User:Meaghan/Sunshine icon}}. Happy editing! Bananasoldier ( talk) 23:00, 17 January 2015 (UTC) |
![]() |
wiping the NYC mayoral slate clean! Valleyforge1991 ( talk) 03:53, 20 January 2015 (UTC) |
I'm really hoping your efforts to revitalize this component of the project are successful, particularly because I hope it will improve with editor retention. I'm not seeing many signs others are perceiving the same thing in general, but I've sometimes of late been feeling like a can hear the slighest creaking from this place in terms of stability -- not just in small (but more common) technical hiccups, but even on content-side, and in procedural areas, everything feels "undermanned" at present; seems like everywhere has a backlog or just generally not enough hands to go around. If your efforts can do something to reverse that trend, the effort will worth that alone, even putting aside the other kinds of value your grant statement speaks to. But the challenge as I see it is that by the time an editor comes to a WikiProject, they've already passed a certain threshold of interest in (and knowledge of) the project and thus are amongst those who are (at least marginally) more likely to be retained anyway, at least for a time.
What we really need is a way to keep the countless people who decide to make just a few test edits, who have just discovered talk space but aren't sure how welcome their thoughts are going to be. How you recruit new editors with knowledge of a key area into a WikiProject even as they are just learning the basics of policy and process, I'm not sure. And great pains would need to be taken so that newer editors in WikiProject understood the limits to what a WikiProject can do and don't get too WP:OWN about things (ArbCom will not thank any project for bringing that kind of mess to their workload again, I daresay). But the truth is, we don't have that many community spaces where large numbers of editors can coordinate, and many of those we do have are for administrative purposes more connected with behavioural problems and grievances than anything. WikiProjects could really fill that void, if more tightly (and and maybe uniformly) coordinated. I know there's always some concern of making the project too familiar, or personal, or social, or what-have-you and some of those concerns I completely endorse, while others are clearly farcical, histrionic or just reflect impractical thinking. But one thing that's for certain is that this project has accomplished as much as it has in good part because of a sense of community and if we fail to maintain that sentiment, we're going to see real consequences to our manpower and the way things get done here. WikiProjects can straddle the divide of making people feel engaged and connected to their fellow editors while keeping us all focused on the task of building the encyclopedia, I think, but very few have come even close to realizing that potential.
But I'm droning on and should probably save this for the project. I did have one practical notion along the lines touched upon by the second talk thread. It would require a certain non-trivial amount of effort to galvanize the community to support and implement this, mind you, but why not a new class of editor privileges (let's call them "coordinator privileges") that would allow certain editors to do things like a) send out mass messages to those who have already joined a WikiProject announcing events, projects and important discussions (through an interface, template, bot or such, rather than requiring them to manually message each person, or b) allow them to see a list of all new editors who have contributed a certain number of edits to articles which have that have a given projects template on their talk page, so they can invite them to participate in the relevant project? And though it's arguably silly, just the mere fact that coordinators have been invested with specific tools (which they would have to be vetted for, of course, same as admins, bureaus, and other with special privileges) might give projects more of a feeling of legitimacy. Though again, I can't stress enough how important it will be to educate members that they are there to advise and help one-another, not generate their independent rules for content to apply on top of policy; the more prestige WikiProjects get, the more explicit we will have to make that line. It's already in policy itself, but needs to somehow be codified into the way the projects themselves operate, in order to avoid run-ins with the larger community of editors as they go about forming local consensus.
Anyway, that's enough dumping upon your talk page. It's all rather long-winded way of saying best of luck and that whatever little support I can give, I will! Snow talk 06:43, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
massmessage
rights were given out as individual privileges; that does simplify things quite a bit. Still, with apparently only 32 such (non-admin) users having these privileges at present, this would be a significant upscale and the process for requesting these rights seems to fall on one person at present (User:Cenarium), if I am reading the page history correctly, so you might want to give them an early head's up once you've begun to flesh things out. I suppose one could also use the system that's in place for RfC's; contributors to a given project could sign up to receive bot notices on a certain number of randomly selected discussions per month. But then you need someone to develop and maintain the bots.Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon | |
---|---|
![]() ![]() You are invited to join us at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for our upcoming editathon, a part of the Black WikiHistory Month campaign (which also includes events in Brooklyn and Westchester!).
The Wikipedia training and editathon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, with a reception following in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building at 5:00pm. We hope to see you there!-- Pharos ( talk) 06:03, 27 January 2015 (UTC) |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
Hi. Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/January 2015 looks pretty sad currently... could you ping the mailing list and maybe send out another talk page message? My suspicion is that people have forgotten that this meetup is happening. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 03:36, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
L&E Newsletter / Volume 1 / Issue 3 / January 2015
Learning Quarterly
Frontpage: #EducationCollaborative #CrossingBorders
Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!
Leave your mark on Meta!
Get #Inspired on IdeaLab and Learning Pattern Library.
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:57, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello there!
Upcoming events:
I am also pleased to announce events for Wikimedia DC Black History Month with Howard University and NPR. Details on those events soon.
If you have any questions or have any requests, please email me at james.harewikimediadc.org.
See you there! – James Hare
(To unsubscribe, remove your username here.) 03:11, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Harej,
We’d like to invite you to participate in a study that aims to explore how WikiProject members coordinate activities of distributed group members to complete project goals. We are specifically seeking to talk to people who have been active in at least one WikiProject in their time in Wikipedia. Compensation will be provided to each participant in the form of a $10 Amazon gift card.
The purpose of this study is to better understanding the coordination practices of Wikipedians active within WikiProjects, and to explore the potential for tool-mediated coordination to improve those practices. Interviews will be semi-structured, and should last between 45-60 minutes. If you decide to participate, we will schedule an appointment for the online chat session. During the appointment you will be asked some basic questions about your experience interacting in WikiProjects, how that process has worked for you in the past and what ideas you might have to improve the future.
You must be over 18 years old, speak English, and you must currently be or have been at one time an active member of a WikiProject. The interview can be conducted over an audio chatting channel such as Skype or Google Hangouts, or via an instant messaging client. If you have questions about the research or are interested in participating, please contact Michael Gilbert at (206) 354-3741 or by email at mdg@uw.edu.
We cannot guarantee the confidentiality of information sent by email.
The link to the relevant research page is m:Research:Means_and_methods_of_coordination_in_WikiProjects
Ryzhou ( talk) 23:18, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello again!
Not even a week ago I sent out a message talking about upcoming events in DC. Guess what? There are more events coming up in February.
First, as a reminder, there is a WikiSalon on February 11 (RSVP here or just show up) and Wiki Loves Small Museums at the Small Museum Association Conference on February 15 (more information here).
Now, I am very pleased to announce:
There is going to be a lot going on, and I hope you can come to some of the events!
If you have any questions or need any special accommodations, please let me know.
Regards,
(To unsubscribe, remove your username
here.) 18:20, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you for subscribing to the WikiProject X Newsletter. For our first issue...
Has WikiProject X changed the world yet? No.
We opened up shop last month and announced our existence to the world. Our first phase is the "research" phase, consisting mostly of reading and listening. We set up our landing page and started collecting stories. So far, 28 stories have been shared about WikiProjects, describing a variety of experiences across numerous WikiProjects. A recurring story involves a WikiProject that starts off strong but has trouble continuing to stay active. Most people describe using WikiProjects as a way to get feedback from other editors. Some quotes:
Of course, these are just anecdotes. While they demonstrate what is possible, they do not necessarily explain what is typical. We will be using this information in conjunction with a quantitative analysis of WikiProjects, as documented on Meta. Particularly, we are interested in the measurement of WikiProject activity as it relates to overall editing in that WikiProject's subject area.
We also have 50 people and projects signed up for pilot testing, which is an excellent start! (An important caveat: one person volunteering a WikiProject does not mean the WikiProject as a whole is interested; just that there is at least one person, which is a start.)
While carrying out our research, we are documenting the problems with WikiProjects and our ideas for making WikiProjects better. Some ideas include better integration of existing tools into WikiProjects, recommendations of WikiProjects for people to join, and improved coordination with Articles for Creation. These are just ideas that may or may not make it to the design phase; we will see. We are also working with WikiProject Council to improve the directory of WikiProjects, with the goal of a reliable, self-updating WikiProject directory. Stay tuned! If you have any ideas, you are welcome to leave a note on our talk page.
That's all for now. Thank you for subscribing!
– Harej 17:21, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
![]() |
The WikiProject Barnstar | |
Hi Harej – Thanks for your great work at WikiProject X, an interesting new WikiProject that will hopefully help to maintain and advance other WikiProjects! NORTH AMERICA 1000 12:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC) |
|
Hey Harej, it's been a while. The Co-op team has been hard at work during over the winter, so let's get right into what's been happening:
Thanks to all of the new mentors who have joined over the past few months. Big thanks to Missvain to posting about our little project here to the gendergap-l mailing list. I, JethroBT drop me a line 00:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC) on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.
( Opt-out Instructions) This message was send by Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:36, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Harej -
I'm an academic who researches and writes about Native American and First Nations literatures. I'm also an occasional Wikipedian and would like to work to improve the project's coverage of Native American authors and books.
With this in mind, I've proposed that the next Native American Literature Symposium (NALS) in March run a wikithon session to get academics and writers, of whom there should be around 150 in attendance, contributing to Wikipedia. I have a list of authors who don't currently have articles, and I will also get participants working on improving existing stub articles. The NALS programme can be found here [1].
I'd love to get your input on how best to get the maximum out of this session. Please feel free to email me directly at j dot mackay @ euc dot ac dot cy.
Best, James Mackay, aka Vizjim ( talk) 12:28, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey Harej. I've put in a submission for a presentation at Wikimania 2015 called Is Two the Magic Number?: The Co-op and New Editor Engagement through Mentorship. I'll be talking about the state of finding help spaces on en.wiki and how our new mentorship space, The Co-op, factors into that picture. Reviewing will begin soon and I'll need your help to be able to present our work. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. If you would be interested in seeing this presentation, whether you are attending or not, please add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal (you do not need to attend Wikimania to express interest in presentations). I, JethroBT drop me a line on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.
( Opt-out Instructions) This message was send by Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:19, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hell in a Bucket ( talk) 15:19, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
I have also proposed a proposal to make Wikipedia free of data charges for users from developing countries, I will be glad if you can sign up here (just to ensure that you are also interested in making Wikipedia free of data charges), signing up doesn't mean that you have to attend so don't worry. Thank you, friend. Jim Carter 11:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey mentors, two announcements:
( Opt-out Instructions) This message was send by Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:41, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I am very excited to announce this month’s events, focused on Women’s History Month:
Hope you can make it to an event! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.
Thanks,
To unsubscribe from this newsletter, remove your name from this list. 02:24, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
![]() |
Here's a cookie for your awesome edits on Wikipedia. :) Kamran Mackey ( talk) 08:21, 6 March 2015 (UTC) |
Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 | |
---|---|
![]() ![]() You are invited to join us at Barnard College for Wikipedia Day NYC 2015, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 21:58, 9 March 2015 (UTC) |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)