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Saturday February 6 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon | |
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You are invited to join us and the AfroCROWD initiative 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.
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) 19:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC) (Bonus upcoming event: WikiWednesday Salon @ Babycastles - Wednesday, February 17) |
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L&E Newsletter / Volume 3 / Issue 7 / January 2016
Learning Quarterly
Frontpage:
#ProgramCapacity
#1Lib1Ref
Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!
Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspiring ideas and learning patterns you can contribute to.
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:20, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Greetings from Wikimedia DC!
February is shaping up to be a record-breaking month for us, with nine scheduled edit-a-thons and several other events:
We hope to see you at one—or all—of these events!
Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at info@wikimediadc.org!
Kirill Lokshin ( talk) 16:41, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Tuesday February 16, 5:30pm: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim | |
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You are invited to join us for an evening of social Wikipedia training and editing at the Guggenheim, with a workshop given by the Art+Feminism project to prepare for next month's major campaign, and a tour and edit-a-thon of Photo-Poetics: An Anthology.
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Wednesday February 17, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project! We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, and welcome input from community members on the sorts of projects the chapter should support through both volunteer and budgetary efforts. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One talk this month will be on use of Wikipedia press passes for photographers.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 00:27, 11 February 2016 (UTC) |
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You are invited... | |
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Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon
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(To subscribe,
Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe,
Women in Red/Opt-out list)
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Rosiestep (
talk) 20:59, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
The 3 pages currently suggested by Reports bot as Not tagged by WikiProject Women's Health are Rose Chan, a Malaysian stripper, Erik Rhodes (pornographic actor), and Naomi Sims, an American supermodel. I have no idea how Reports bot decided these were related to WikiProject Women's Health, but they seem pretty far from the mark. Kaldari ( talk) 04:19, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Harej. Something has gone seriously wrong with the list of WiR members. If you go into Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red and press "View Full List" under "Meet our members!", you only get the first four names with a lot of strange details below. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Members. This needs to be corrected urgently as we are trying to attract new members. And it is impossible to see who has registered (or tried to register).-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:34, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #186
Thanks for taking the reins of DC! Hope y'all had a fun time. We had a nice huddle here in STL, including two first-time organizers of an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon, happening this coming Saturday. — Verbistheword ( talk) 16:29, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Saturday March 5, 10am-5pm: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA | |
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You are invited to join us for the MoMA Art+Feminism edit-a-thon on Saturday, to support the expansion of Wikipedia's coverage of women in the arts. We encourage both people new to Wikipedia, and people who have experience editing online, or have joined us for past edit-a-thon events. This is by far our biggest event of the year (over 200 participants in the last edition), and every extra hand counts, so please join and volunteer to help us engage new communities!
And bring your interested friends and colleagues! For those outside of the city, or unable to join on Saturday, check out Art+Feminism regional and global events as well. -- Pharos ( talk) 21:48, 2 March 2016 (UTC) |
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Greetings from Wikimedia DC!
Looking for something to do in DC in March? We have a series of great events planned for the month:
Can't make it to an event? Most of our edit-a-thons allow virtual participation; see the guide for more details.
Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at info@wikimediadc.org!
Kirill Lokshin ( talk) 16:30, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,
Harej ( talk) 01:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
I'd sent you an email a week or two ago on this. Anything yu can do to help?
Smallbones( smalltalk) 15:24, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hi James, Can you please check on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red and see if you can sort out why it's not auto-archiving? I'm wondering if it has something to do with the move away from WikiProject Women. Thank you. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 14:52, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Wednesday March 16, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
---|---|
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent ( Art+Feminism!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also vote on nominations for the global Wikimedia Foundation board. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One likely talk this month will be on the Wikidata project.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 18:10, 10 March 2016 (UTC) |
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This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Saturday February 6 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon | |
---|---|
You are invited to join us and the AfroCROWD initiative 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.
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) 19:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC) (Bonus upcoming event: WikiWednesday Salon @ Babycastles - Wednesday, February 17) |
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If you are receiving this message for the second time, our apologies! On the first attempt, there was an error with the targets list and only a few users got the newsletter in their Talk Page.
L&E Newsletter / Volume 3 / Issue 7 / January 2016
Learning Quarterly
Frontpage:
#ProgramCapacity
#1Lib1Ref
Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!
Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspiring ideas and learning patterns you can contribute to.
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:20, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Greetings from Wikimedia DC!
February is shaping up to be a record-breaking month for us, with nine scheduled edit-a-thons and several other events:
We hope to see you at one—or all—of these events!
Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at info@wikimediadc.org!
Kirill Lokshin ( talk) 16:41, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Tuesday February 16, 5:30pm: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim | |
---|---|
You are invited to join us for an evening of social Wikipedia training and editing at the Guggenheim, with a workshop given by the Art+Feminism project to prepare for next month's major campaign, and a tour and edit-a-thon of Photo-Poetics: An Anthology.
| |
Wednesday February 17, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project! We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, and welcome input from community members on the sorts of projects the chapter should support through both volunteer and budgetary efforts. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One talk this month will be on use of Wikipedia press passes for photographers.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 00:27, 11 February 2016 (UTC) |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
|
You are invited... | |
---|---|
Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon
|
(To subscribe,
Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe,
Women in Red/Opt-out list)
--
Rosiestep (
talk) 20:59, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
The 3 pages currently suggested by Reports bot as Not tagged by WikiProject Women's Health are Rose Chan, a Malaysian stripper, Erik Rhodes (pornographic actor), and Naomi Sims, an American supermodel. I have no idea how Reports bot decided these were related to WikiProject Women's Health, but they seem pretty far from the mark. Kaldari ( talk) 04:19, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Harej. Something has gone seriously wrong with the list of WiR members. If you go into Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red and press "View Full List" under "Meet our members!", you only get the first four names with a lot of strange details below. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Members. This needs to be corrected urgently as we are trying to attract new members. And it is impossible to see who has registered (or tried to register).-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:34, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #186
Thanks for taking the reins of DC! Hope y'all had a fun time. We had a nice huddle here in STL, including two first-time organizers of an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon, happening this coming Saturday. — Verbistheword ( talk) 16:29, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Saturday March 5, 10am-5pm: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA | |
---|---|
You are invited to join us for the MoMA Art+Feminism edit-a-thon on Saturday, to support the expansion of Wikipedia's coverage of women in the arts. We encourage both people new to Wikipedia, and people who have experience editing online, or have joined us for past edit-a-thon events. This is by far our biggest event of the year (over 200 participants in the last edition), and every extra hand counts, so please join and volunteer to help us engage new communities!
And bring your interested friends and colleagues! For those outside of the city, or unable to join on Saturday, check out Art+Feminism regional and global events as well. -- Pharos ( talk) 21:48, 2 March 2016 (UTC) |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
Greetings from Wikimedia DC!
Looking for something to do in DC in March? We have a series of great events planned for the month:
Can't make it to an event? Most of our edit-a-thons allow virtual participation; see the guide for more details.
Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at info@wikimediadc.org!
Kirill Lokshin ( talk) 16:30, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,
Harej ( talk) 01:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
I'd sent you an email a week or two ago on this. Anything yu can do to help?
Smallbones( smalltalk) 15:24, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
|
Hi James, Can you please check on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red and see if you can sort out why it's not auto-archiving? I'm wondering if it has something to do with the move away from WikiProject Women. Thank you. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 14:52, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Wednesday March 16, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
---|---|
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent ( Art+Feminism!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also vote on nominations for the global Wikimedia Foundation board. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One likely talk this month will be on the Wikidata project.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 18:10, 10 March 2016 (UTC) |
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