Hi Dominic, Unfortunately I am home sick today and see we will be moving our article from sandbox to the main page..I was wondering if you could email the steps..or maybe we could meet on campus? I can also email my mentor..thanks Dabenson ( talk) 15:25, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dominic,
I'm not sure if you regularly check the email address you used for the AUSC mailing list, but I emailed you on Jan 23 and don't seem have received a reply.
Can you check and reply? Thanks, – xeno talk 23:08, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Just in case you aren't watching - i've un-prod-ed it, please AFD it instead. I personally have no particular plan to object there. -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 19:53, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dominic, I am starting to work on my public policy project and was thinking of doing a piece on airport screening and pat downs. There is already information on this subject on Wikipedia. Can I still do a research paper on that topic or maybe you could suggest a subtopic for me. Thanks. Denise Dabenson ( talk) 19:45, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dominic, thanks you have been very helpful. I'll look into the information you sent me and hopefully can narrow down a topic for our next meeting. Dabenson ( talk) 21:41, 9 February 2011 (UTC)denise
Can you delete this page as it includes WP:OUTING info? — Timneu22 · talk 19:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
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I've transformed it from the shoddy stub you prodded for "BLP1E". Do have a quick Google before you prod articles! Fences& Windows 00:38, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
thanks for your welcome message Dominic & the links. I found an issue with one of the edits I'd made before reading the tutorial so have fixed it now. thanks again! Kathodonnell ( talk) 12:14, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
You have two unsourced paragraphs in the NAACP section. You will have to fix them before I can approve the article. Gatoclass ( talk) 08:51, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
On 2 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lincoln Ragsdale, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ...that Phoenix civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale helped coordinate and fund a lawsuit that produced the first court decision in the U.S. declaring school segregation illegal? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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I removed the prod tag you placed on Very Important Person, as per policy an article that has been discussed at AfD is permanently ineligible for deletion via prod. Compliance with policy is the only reason I did this, I have no comment one way or the other on the merits of deletion, and you are welcome to open another AfD. — KuyaBriBri Talk 16:41, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
I just posted a note at WP:AN about a rangeblock from back in 2006. Mangojuice changed the block setting shortly after ypou applied the block so I mistakenly thoght Mangojuice was the original Admin. Would you mind commenting on it? Thanks in advance. 64.40.62.149 ( talk) 22:31, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
thanks again Dominic for checking in on me and the tip about 'minor change'. I'll keep that in mind for future work. I wasn't sure what was classed as a minor change so thanks for clarifying. atm I'm just trying to add more references and tidy the sections to make them look more like the GA ones. hopefully I'm doing the references correctly! I see different versions on different pages. just found out about ref name="" if I want to reuse the same reference for different parts of the article. thanks again Kathodonnell ( talk) 10:45, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
hi Dominic, I've been checking some of the other Australian music articles to see what they need to get rated higher. & I noticed Downsyde is C class. I notice it has more text/explanations. & it has a few references that are gig lineups for festivals. I've mostly been checking more academic references / edited publications. is it ok to include the gig lineups? (I'll still keep looking for the other ones) it seems a bit promotional, but perhaps they're there to reference that the band played at the festivals. I'm looking at the hilltop hoods a class article also for examples on how it's done (both Aus hip hop) Kathodonnell ( talk) 05:02, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Obviously, it is less clear-cut when you are looking at a band that is notable for putting out an album or two, but whose gigs might not receive news coverage. In these edge cases, we have to do the best we can. I'm not sure how important playing at these gigs is considered in the career of a musician, or even if it should generally merit inclusion; you probably have a better idea of that. I wouldn't be afraid to remove anything with such poor sourcing if you are also skeptical of its importance (but ask at the WikiProject before you start removing them on a large scale or very rapidly, probably). If they are important enough to keep, news sources are preferable, but failing that, a reputable music blog might suffice. I would only include gig lineups or (worst case) an artist's own website if there is no alternative and you absolutely want to keep the information about the festival (but, again, consider what the fact that there is no news coverage of the gig might be telling you). Hope that's not too unhelpful! ;-) Dominic· t 14:17, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
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I haven't written you in a very very long time. How are you doing? I have completely divorced myself from anything approaching controversy. I'm just doing disamming nowadays. Anyway. I sent you an email. :) -- User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 05:49, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Dominic, thanks for your comment. I tried to address your concerns there. Regards, Cinosaur ( talk) 15:22, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
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There was a previous SPI for Tentontunic and also for mark nutley (although it was deleted). Why did checkuser not find that the two accounts were related? Is that because no request had been made to compare the two accounts or because there was no evidence at the time? I wanted to know because it would be helpful in future SPI/checkuser requests. TFD ( talk) 15:20, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dominic, Please see here: [1] with regards to a user whom you blocked in an article some years ago. In Russian Wikipedia, a coordinated ethnic-activity group was discovered and its users severely sanctioned. However, in English Wikipedia, the number of posts is much smaller. I would like to just note that your name was mentioned by a user who also coordinated off-wiki activity for voting. Here is the comments about you: "Guys I am totally blocked by Dmcdevit. He claimed that he blocked warring parties, but in fact he only blocked me, both Nareklm and Mardavich are freely editing Safavid Dynasty page. Please, watch it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_Dynasty How can you post request for arbitration. I think Dmcdevit is Armenian, if so we are screwed." And response: "He is not Armenian, he is just a totally mad man. He can block people for nothing. Also, he’s a member of arbitration committee, so he is a very influential person. Last time he blocked both me and Tigran for 72hrs (3 days), and I did not even break 3RR. So be careful next time."
I can prove the mentioned user also seeking votes in the article from this wikipedia grouplist. Also note the comments I posted here which are racist: [2] and from that list (as well in general wikipedia). Given these racist comments as well as the off-wikipedia coordination list (confirmed in the Russian arbcomm case), I would like to ask for a permanent ban on the user (who was already involved in two arbcomms and also permanently banned from editing some articles). I will forward you the evidence privately. -- Khodabandeh14 ( talk) 19:10, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi thanks for helping with this. I've now added info to the SPI of an IP that's just started editing with the same behavior.-- Shakehandsman ( talk) 17:53, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
When I first read the results this morning at
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alam567, what my eyes saw were "no other accounts" leading me to think that I had gotten things wrong. I glossed over the "confirmed" part. That is what happens when you edit without having had your morning coffee. :) I thought I was going to have to apologize to the user. Humorously, I notice that the sockmaster has now made a request for adminship.
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Dear Dominic. Since you came to a conclusion that Marknutley and Tentontunic are the different names of the same person, could you please examine more carefully the IP 88.108.224.95 also? I have serious reasons to suspect that this IP is a Marknutley's sockpuppet, which is being used to circumvent the block. My rationale is as follows:
Hey. Just a quick question. In this edit, you said that "JamiawalaJamiawala" is unrelated to Dr.Mukesh. The user's account, though, is Jamiawala. Was that a typo and you really did check Jamiawala? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 14:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
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Phoenix Wiknic is ready to go (pending a few minor tweaks)-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 23:16, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello there, I responded to you at WT:MILHIST. Regards, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:54, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hey there, I have not gotten such good feedback for the Arizona Wiknic despite putting notices on several people's wall and posting a GeoNotice. Do people usually sign up for these things at the last minute?-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 17:01, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hey Dominic! You've been quite a buzz around the office, even for those not working directly with the social media/NWE. Welcome aboard! If you make your way over to Archives II, come stop by 5360 and say hello to Stills. Anything I could help with, let me know. I certainly don't have a fraction of the experience with Wiki that you do, but I find it indispensable to my own work (and as a "brain extension" :-) ) and I think it's great that NARA is trying to join the 21st century. Good luck! BcNARApix ( talk) 13:13, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Dominic, Congrats on getting the internship at the National Archives! I know you already had an interview with the Washington Post (is that the only interview you've had?), but would you mind answering a few questions for a Wikinews article I'm planning to write? Thanks for your consideration. Ragettho ( talk) 14:11, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Dominic. Thanks again for agreeing to answer my questions. I've prepared my questions on wikinews:User:Ragettho/Interview proposal for National Archives Wikipedian in Residence, where you can see a preliminary sketch of how the article is going to look when we're done.
All the best, Ragettho ( talk) 01:30, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that you added notices of Nara activities to some projects but not others. There are a lot of US related projects that don't get much activity but some that are very active are:
He Dominic, Not that it bothers me much, but I woas just wondering: why would the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty be in te scope of a country-specific archive of a non-ratifying state party? Rgds! L.tak ( talk) 21:49, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I am long-time contributor at Wikisource and saw your post over there. Wikisoure is a great platform for what you are suggesting, but it lacks large numbers of people who want to proofread. What people are attracted to Wikisource are mostly those who want to study X category of works in depth and are focused on their pet categories. I am certain you can find tons of help and advice on how to use Wikisource and a lot of support for the sort of hurdles that will crop up during proofreading. I don't know that you will find people already active on Wikisource who willing to step away from what they had been working on and spend a great deal of time proofreading NAR documents. I don't know if you have already began the NAR residency or not, but I will be traveling around the East Coast the week of the 20th If you would like to try meet up with me in person, send me an email. I would really like to see something useful happen with NAR and Wikisource. It would be great to show off what a great platform we have for this sort of work to people that are interested in doing such work!-- BirgitteSB 01:17, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dominic. Could you do a checkuser on User:Ankimai with User:Konstock? This is a case of WP:SCRUTINY, as both accounts are mainly used to hound other editors (the same editors in some cases), and make reverts in controversial topics (sometimes the same articles - [11]). Thanks. Khoi khoi 10:31, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Two accounts, two different watchlists. No collaboration, no hounding. Ankimai handed over the ancient Iran topics to Konstock because knowledge of German was needed. Ankimai - inadvertently, as in the above case - made a few more edits on articles related to ancient Iran, but never in a tag-teaming way. And that's about it. Since Khoikhoi doesn't come up with evidence - three editors, a couple of difflinks, can't be that laborious -, I would be grateful if you, Dominic, would now delete this whole section. Regards, Ankimai ( talk) 16:56, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
One month has gone by. Khoikhoi, who said he would post detailed evidence here soon, has remained silent since then. Looks rather like a case of WP:AOHA now, doesn't it? May I once more ask you, Dominic, to delete this section? Regards, Ankimai ( talk) 14:14, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dominic, the above user has been blocked on enwiktionary for making legal threads and so on. (According to some admin he's now using sockpuppets) He sent an email to OTRS but the ticket has been moved into Stewards queue . There is nothing for stewards to do here though. Are you able to handle this ticket/talk to the user, or simply close it? So that I can move it back to wiktionary queue. Thank you and have a nice day-- Ben.MQ ( talk) 04:18, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey! My campus's admin is starting to get serious about collaborating with Wikipedia. We have an International Baccalaureate program here which requires students to do community service projects and they want to offer working with WP as an option. I know the NARA photo project needs a lot of work, but I have to admit I know nothing about photo restoration or researching the metadata. However, we could start by working on categorization and putting descriptions into Spanish. Interested? Thelmadatter ( talk) 02:35, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey. I don't know if you were following (and I RTVed, so burn this message after reading...would have sent you an email, but can't find your NARA address and not sure if you get it still), but Declaration of Independence went GA in August...quite easily. So much for Malleus's impossible. No credit to me. Article was in great shape already. You had said this was one of your setpoints. Just want you to take credit for it. (I don't want t-shirts...should go to the real article author.) 96.238.184.111 ( talk) 19:51, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dominic,
I saw that you once deleted an article for Clinton Street: [12]
I'm looking for a street mentioned in a Leonard Cohen's song Famous Blue Raincoat:
Did the deleted article talk about a street renowned for music? I put "Clinton Street, New York" into OpenStreetMap but I got 192 results! :-/ ...a bit too helpful.
If this is the street mentioned by Leonard Cohen, then it might indeed be noteable - but that's for someone else to assert. Gronky ( talk) 04:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Was wondering if you could help out with these, say as a long term thing (3 per month?). I recently emailed the still pictures division and hope to get relevant images mailed to me on three generals. I was thinking that maybe we could get scans based off the info in the mail or something? I don't think the NARA private vendors will work (not really up to paying hundreds for scans of these images and retrieval) and none are really digitized online. Unfortunate that user:BcNARApix can't help out anymore, but I was hoping we could work something out and make progress on this (if it is possible however). Looking forward to hearing back, you can also shoot me an email at cmahh[at]shaw.ca. Thanks, – Connormah ( talk) 16:33, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
I just uploaded the rest of the scans I had. I have some more photos (including a couple of documents that were not scannable) but those are the only actual scans I had left. I may come to the scanning event today, and probably tomorrow. Carl Lindberg ( talk) 17:41, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Question, is this this category for all the scans? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:13, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dominic! Color correcting the NARA DOCUMERICA images was recently suggested as a fellowship project. I expect this idea isn't a perfect fit for the WMF fellowship program for a few reasons, one being that it falls under the umbrella of amazing GLAM volunteer work you've already got in progress with NARA. I pointed them towards the NARA restoration page on Commons with a suggestion that they propose these images for color correction there, and this is just a heads up :-) Let me know if you think otherwise? Sbouterse (WMF) ( talk) 00:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dominic, if you're not too busy, is there a possibility that you could check that File:GEN Clay Lucius DuBignon Jr.jpg is an official USAF portrait of Lucius D. Clay, Jr. (and possibly get a new scan sans the autograph and update the citation details)? I'm pretty sure it is, but in the past I've had images nommed for deletion on Commons based on the fact that I'm not sure. My guess would be that it would be in:
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Id be glad to help but not sure what exactly it entails in taking the leadership.( Lihaas ( talk) 13:20, 21 June 2012 (UTC)).
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Hi Dominic. I was finally giving the NARA dashboard a detailed look. I am really excited about it as a proof of concept. But I was wondering about how it is maintained, or what the plan is for updating it. How are we going to signal to the NARA that something has been validated and can be removed from the dashboard? Or to know what texts are on deck to ne added so we can watchlist them? It does seem to have brought novices to Wikisource, and we have largely failed to support them. Although to be fair, I am not sure many people have been very aware of exactly what pages the NARA was directing people towards. Are you the appropriate contact to work with on the dashboard or else can you direct me to who is maintaining it?-- BirgitteSB 02:32, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
The dashboard itself is actually maintained by Meredith Stewart, who works in the same office as me, but I work together with her on anything that involves Wikisource or Wikipedia, so I can be Wikisource's contact on any dashboard-related issues. Right now, things are being updated a little haphazardly, but mostly just based on a random set of images that were picked out for having been uploaded in JPG already and being easy enough for beginners (and maybe visually striking, too). From NARA's perspective, I think what we'd really love to see happen is for the Wikisource community to really take ownership of its part in the dashboard, since the better Wikisource can utilize the dashboard to its own ends, the more NARA will benefit as well. Wikisource largely has the freedom to pick whatever documents it would like displayed, too (limited by what has been uploaded so far or can be obtained, of course), and make other changes as it sees fit. NARA might occasionally want to use the dashboard (or send people directly to Wikisource) to promote transcription of a specific collection, but that would only work if there is support on Wikisource's end. Dominic· t 20:03, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:1980 plebiscite ballot.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Bulwersator ( talk) 10:30, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dominic,
Really interesting idea! I have been wondering about this myself recently with illuminated MS images; it's helpful to include a note of what MS, region, approximate date, etc, but this can really clutter a caption.
One use case you haven't mentioned here is fair use images; it'd be useful to have a clear indiciation, which this footnote makes possible, that the image is not free, is copyrighted by X, and so forth.
The way it's currently displayed is a bit confusing, though - perhaps if you moved it to the end of the caption, and rendered it as, say, [details]? This might conflict with footnotes, but on the other hand it would make it clearer that it is a footnote-like link - further information about the subject of the article.
I would also make sure that the local source (ie Commons) is linked from the footnote. Omitting this is likely to divert reusers from our local copy, which has full metadata and free licensing information, to an external repository; in many cases, particularly outside the US, the repository will have greater restrictions than Commons. Andrew Gray ( talk) 22:10, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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Would you be OK with collapsing our discussion on my RfA? I do want people to read it, but it has become somewhat long. Gigs ( talk) 14:22, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
In relation to claim made here :- https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Belfort_Instrument_Company&oldid=519462447
Would it be possible for you to check with the National Air and Space Museum's collections as to what equipment was actually used by the Wright Brothers?
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Your spoken article of dinosaur is excelent. Thanks.-- 78.160.2.135 ( talk) 22:02, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Don't you wish we had an extra day in between Saturday and Sunday? 216.239.55.122 ( talk) 03:20, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
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In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays ( talk) 23:09, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
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Hello Dominic, You have written before for the newsletter This Month in GLAM. I see the USA is missing regarding the edition about March 2013, do you perhaps have any idea what GLAM activities were done in the USA in March? Can you perhaps write about those? Or do you know who I can ask to write about it? Thanks! (Deadline of the March edition is Monday 8 April.) You can start writing via the page outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom. If you wish to be informed by e-mail next time, please write me at this page. You can reach me the best at nl-wiki talk page. Greetings - Romaine ( talk) 02:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey Dominic, just checking up with you again on the generals photos. Honestly I'm not overly optimistic but I'd appreciate it if you could let me know when (and if) there's any chance that we can get the scans uploaded of the images with accession numbers I provided you a while back. I'll probably come in myself sometime over the next few years (hopefully) but it would be nice if we could some done here to levy my prospective workload. I've exhausted all e-mail routes in trying to get these portraits so it seems that coming to NARA is my only option. – Connormah ( talk) 03:54, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, not sure where you got your invite list for the All Things GW Editathon, but I've been living in California for over a year now and have updated Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List and other places I can find to not invite me to DC events. Hope this helps. Kingdon ( talk) 07:50, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:
On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.
On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.
We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:03, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, May 11 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 23:03, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of May 24 at our K Street office.
The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 18:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!
On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.
Please go to the event page to get more information, including a detailed program schedule.
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I'm sorry for the last-minute notice, but on Saturday, June 8, from 3 to 6 PM, Wikimedia DC and the Cato Institute are hosting a Legislative Data Meetup. We will discuss the work done so far by WikiProject U.S. Federal Government Legislative Data to put data from Congress onto Wikipedia, as well as what more needs to be done. If you have ideas you'd like to contribute, or if you're just curious and feel like meeting up with other Wikipedians, you are welcome to come! Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.
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Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, June 15 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 19:37, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Added already... (for future reference, if it's short notice, feel free to ping me as soon as you list it - I'm not around as much as usual at the moment) Andrew Gray ( talk) 17:18, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 00:11, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
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FYI. Wish you could be here, Dominic! Feel free to forward to any Portland people who might be interested. -- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:46, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Dominic, Unfortunately I am home sick today and see we will be moving our article from sandbox to the main page..I was wondering if you could email the steps..or maybe we could meet on campus? I can also email my mentor..thanks Dabenson ( talk) 15:25, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dominic,
I'm not sure if you regularly check the email address you used for the AUSC mailing list, but I emailed you on Jan 23 and don't seem have received a reply.
Can you check and reply? Thanks, – xeno talk 23:08, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Just in case you aren't watching - i've un-prod-ed it, please AFD it instead. I personally have no particular plan to object there. -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 19:53, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dominic, I am starting to work on my public policy project and was thinking of doing a piece on airport screening and pat downs. There is already information on this subject on Wikipedia. Can I still do a research paper on that topic or maybe you could suggest a subtopic for me. Thanks. Denise Dabenson ( talk) 19:45, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dominic, thanks you have been very helpful. I'll look into the information you sent me and hopefully can narrow down a topic for our next meeting. Dabenson ( talk) 21:41, 9 February 2011 (UTC)denise
Can you delete this page as it includes WP:OUTING info? — Timneu22 · talk 19:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
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I've transformed it from the shoddy stub you prodded for "BLP1E". Do have a quick Google before you prod articles! Fences& Windows 00:38, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
thanks for your welcome message Dominic & the links. I found an issue with one of the edits I'd made before reading the tutorial so have fixed it now. thanks again! Kathodonnell ( talk) 12:14, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
You have two unsourced paragraphs in the NAACP section. You will have to fix them before I can approve the article. Gatoclass ( talk) 08:51, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
On 2 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lincoln Ragsdale, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ...that Phoenix civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale helped coordinate and fund a lawsuit that produced the first court decision in the U.S. declaring school segregation illegal? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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I removed the prod tag you placed on Very Important Person, as per policy an article that has been discussed at AfD is permanently ineligible for deletion via prod. Compliance with policy is the only reason I did this, I have no comment one way or the other on the merits of deletion, and you are welcome to open another AfD. — KuyaBriBri Talk 16:41, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
I just posted a note at WP:AN about a rangeblock from back in 2006. Mangojuice changed the block setting shortly after ypou applied the block so I mistakenly thoght Mangojuice was the original Admin. Would you mind commenting on it? Thanks in advance. 64.40.62.149 ( talk) 22:31, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
thanks again Dominic for checking in on me and the tip about 'minor change'. I'll keep that in mind for future work. I wasn't sure what was classed as a minor change so thanks for clarifying. atm I'm just trying to add more references and tidy the sections to make them look more like the GA ones. hopefully I'm doing the references correctly! I see different versions on different pages. just found out about ref name="" if I want to reuse the same reference for different parts of the article. thanks again Kathodonnell ( talk) 10:45, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
hi Dominic, I've been checking some of the other Australian music articles to see what they need to get rated higher. & I noticed Downsyde is C class. I notice it has more text/explanations. & it has a few references that are gig lineups for festivals. I've mostly been checking more academic references / edited publications. is it ok to include the gig lineups? (I'll still keep looking for the other ones) it seems a bit promotional, but perhaps they're there to reference that the band played at the festivals. I'm looking at the hilltop hoods a class article also for examples on how it's done (both Aus hip hop) Kathodonnell ( talk) 05:02, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Obviously, it is less clear-cut when you are looking at a band that is notable for putting out an album or two, but whose gigs might not receive news coverage. In these edge cases, we have to do the best we can. I'm not sure how important playing at these gigs is considered in the career of a musician, or even if it should generally merit inclusion; you probably have a better idea of that. I wouldn't be afraid to remove anything with such poor sourcing if you are also skeptical of its importance (but ask at the WikiProject before you start removing them on a large scale or very rapidly, probably). If they are important enough to keep, news sources are preferable, but failing that, a reputable music blog might suffice. I would only include gig lineups or (worst case) an artist's own website if there is no alternative and you absolutely want to keep the information about the festival (but, again, consider what the fact that there is no news coverage of the gig might be telling you). Hope that's not too unhelpful! ;-) Dominic· t 14:17, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
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I haven't written you in a very very long time. How are you doing? I have completely divorced myself from anything approaching controversy. I'm just doing disamming nowadays. Anyway. I sent you an email. :) -- User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 05:49, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Dominic, thanks for your comment. I tried to address your concerns there. Regards, Cinosaur ( talk) 15:22, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, can you please re-check Template_talk:Did_you_know#The_Motherfucker_With_the_Hat, because I believe the problems have been addressed. Thanks, Chzz ► 12:41, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
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There was a previous SPI for Tentontunic and also for mark nutley (although it was deleted). Why did checkuser not find that the two accounts were related? Is that because no request had been made to compare the two accounts or because there was no evidence at the time? I wanted to know because it would be helpful in future SPI/checkuser requests. TFD ( talk) 15:20, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dominic, Please see here: [1] with regards to a user whom you blocked in an article some years ago. In Russian Wikipedia, a coordinated ethnic-activity group was discovered and its users severely sanctioned. However, in English Wikipedia, the number of posts is much smaller. I would like to just note that your name was mentioned by a user who also coordinated off-wiki activity for voting. Here is the comments about you: "Guys I am totally blocked by Dmcdevit. He claimed that he blocked warring parties, but in fact he only blocked me, both Nareklm and Mardavich are freely editing Safavid Dynasty page. Please, watch it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_Dynasty How can you post request for arbitration. I think Dmcdevit is Armenian, if so we are screwed." And response: "He is not Armenian, he is just a totally mad man. He can block people for nothing. Also, he’s a member of arbitration committee, so he is a very influential person. Last time he blocked both me and Tigran for 72hrs (3 days), and I did not even break 3RR. So be careful next time."
I can prove the mentioned user also seeking votes in the article from this wikipedia grouplist. Also note the comments I posted here which are racist: [2] and from that list (as well in general wikipedia). Given these racist comments as well as the off-wikipedia coordination list (confirmed in the Russian arbcomm case), I would like to ask for a permanent ban on the user (who was already involved in two arbcomms and also permanently banned from editing some articles). I will forward you the evidence privately. -- Khodabandeh14 ( talk) 19:10, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi thanks for helping with this. I've now added info to the SPI of an IP that's just started editing with the same behavior.-- Shakehandsman ( talk) 17:53, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
When I first read the results this morning at
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alam567, what my eyes saw were "no other accounts" leading me to think that I had gotten things wrong. I glossed over the "confirmed" part. That is what happens when you edit without having had your morning coffee. :) I thought I was going to have to apologize to the user. Humorously, I notice that the sockmaster has now made a request for adminship.
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Dear Dominic. Since you came to a conclusion that Marknutley and Tentontunic are the different names of the same person, could you please examine more carefully the IP 88.108.224.95 also? I have serious reasons to suspect that this IP is a Marknutley's sockpuppet, which is being used to circumvent the block. My rationale is as follows:
Hey. Just a quick question. In this edit, you said that "JamiawalaJamiawala" is unrelated to Dr.Mukesh. The user's account, though, is Jamiawala. Was that a typo and you really did check Jamiawala? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 14:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
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Phoenix Wiknic is ready to go (pending a few minor tweaks)-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 23:16, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello there, I responded to you at WT:MILHIST. Regards, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:54, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for breaking new ground for the project at NARA and in general. Keep up the awesomeness throughout the summer and beyond. :-) Steven Walling 00:05, 3 June 2011 (UTC) |
Hey there, I have not gotten such good feedback for the Arizona Wiknic despite putting notices on several people's wall and posting a GeoNotice. Do people usually sign up for these things at the last minute?-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 17:01, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I saw your post. Are you sure that you should be signing Brandon up for a picnic?-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 16:14, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Dominic! You've been quite a buzz around the office, even for those not working directly with the social media/NWE. Welcome aboard! If you make your way over to Archives II, come stop by 5360 and say hello to Stills. Anything I could help with, let me know. I certainly don't have a fraction of the experience with Wiki that you do, but I find it indispensable to my own work (and as a "brain extension" :-) ) and I think it's great that NARA is trying to join the 21st century. Good luck! BcNARApix ( talk) 13:13, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Dominic, Congrats on getting the internship at the National Archives! I know you already had an interview with the Washington Post (is that the only interview you've had?), but would you mind answering a few questions for a Wikinews article I'm planning to write? Thanks for your consideration. Ragettho ( talk) 14:11, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Dominic. Thanks again for agreeing to answer my questions. I've prepared my questions on wikinews:User:Ragettho/Interview proposal for National Archives Wikipedian in Residence, where you can see a preliminary sketch of how the article is going to look when we're done.
All the best, Ragettho ( talk) 01:30, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that you added notices of Nara activities to some projects but not others. There are a lot of US related projects that don't get much activity but some that are very active are:
He Dominic, Not that it bothers me much, but I woas just wondering: why would the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty be in te scope of a country-specific archive of a non-ratifying state party? Rgds! L.tak ( talk) 21:49, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I am long-time contributor at Wikisource and saw your post over there. Wikisoure is a great platform for what you are suggesting, but it lacks large numbers of people who want to proofread. What people are attracted to Wikisource are mostly those who want to study X category of works in depth and are focused on their pet categories. I am certain you can find tons of help and advice on how to use Wikisource and a lot of support for the sort of hurdles that will crop up during proofreading. I don't know that you will find people already active on Wikisource who willing to step away from what they had been working on and spend a great deal of time proofreading NAR documents. I don't know if you have already began the NAR residency or not, but I will be traveling around the East Coast the week of the 20th If you would like to try meet up with me in person, send me an email. I would really like to see something useful happen with NAR and Wikisource. It would be great to show off what a great platform we have for this sort of work to people that are interested in doing such work!-- BirgitteSB 01:17, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dominic. Could you do a checkuser on User:Ankimai with User:Konstock? This is a case of WP:SCRUTINY, as both accounts are mainly used to hound other editors (the same editors in some cases), and make reverts in controversial topics (sometimes the same articles - [11]). Thanks. Khoi khoi 10:31, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Two accounts, two different watchlists. No collaboration, no hounding. Ankimai handed over the ancient Iran topics to Konstock because knowledge of German was needed. Ankimai - inadvertently, as in the above case - made a few more edits on articles related to ancient Iran, but never in a tag-teaming way. And that's about it. Since Khoikhoi doesn't come up with evidence - three editors, a couple of difflinks, can't be that laborious -, I would be grateful if you, Dominic, would now delete this whole section. Regards, Ankimai ( talk) 16:56, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
One month has gone by. Khoikhoi, who said he would post detailed evidence here soon, has remained silent since then. Looks rather like a case of WP:AOHA now, doesn't it? May I once more ask you, Dominic, to delete this section? Regards, Ankimai ( talk) 14:14, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dominic, the above user has been blocked on enwiktionary for making legal threads and so on. (According to some admin he's now using sockpuppets) He sent an email to OTRS but the ticket has been moved into Stewards queue . There is nothing for stewards to do here though. Are you able to handle this ticket/talk to the user, or simply close it? So that I can move it back to wiktionary queue. Thank you and have a nice day-- Ben.MQ ( talk) 04:18, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey! My campus's admin is starting to get serious about collaborating with Wikipedia. We have an International Baccalaureate program here which requires students to do community service projects and they want to offer working with WP as an option. I know the NARA photo project needs a lot of work, but I have to admit I know nothing about photo restoration or researching the metadata. However, we could start by working on categorization and putting descriptions into Spanish. Interested? Thelmadatter ( talk) 02:35, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey. I don't know if you were following (and I RTVed, so burn this message after reading...would have sent you an email, but can't find your NARA address and not sure if you get it still), but Declaration of Independence went GA in August...quite easily. So much for Malleus's impossible. No credit to me. Article was in great shape already. You had said this was one of your setpoints. Just want you to take credit for it. (I don't want t-shirts...should go to the real article author.) 96.238.184.111 ( talk) 19:51, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dominic,
I saw that you once deleted an article for Clinton Street: [12]
I'm looking for a street mentioned in a Leonard Cohen's song Famous Blue Raincoat:
Did the deleted article talk about a street renowned for music? I put "Clinton Street, New York" into OpenStreetMap but I got 192 results! :-/ ...a bit too helpful.
If this is the street mentioned by Leonard Cohen, then it might indeed be noteable - but that's for someone else to assert. Gronky ( talk) 04:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Was wondering if you could help out with these, say as a long term thing (3 per month?). I recently emailed the still pictures division and hope to get relevant images mailed to me on three generals. I was thinking that maybe we could get scans based off the info in the mail or something? I don't think the NARA private vendors will work (not really up to paying hundreds for scans of these images and retrieval) and none are really digitized online. Unfortunate that user:BcNARApix can't help out anymore, but I was hoping we could work something out and make progress on this (if it is possible however). Looking forward to hearing back, you can also shoot me an email at cmahh[at]shaw.ca. Thanks, – Connormah ( talk) 16:33, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
I just uploaded the rest of the scans I had. I have some more photos (including a couple of documents that were not scannable) but those are the only actual scans I had left. I may come to the scanning event today, and probably tomorrow. Carl Lindberg ( talk) 17:41, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Question, is this this category for all the scans? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:13, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dominic! Color correcting the NARA DOCUMERICA images was recently suggested as a fellowship project. I expect this idea isn't a perfect fit for the WMF fellowship program for a few reasons, one being that it falls under the umbrella of amazing GLAM volunteer work you've already got in progress with NARA. I pointed them towards the NARA restoration page on Commons with a suggestion that they propose these images for color correction there, and this is just a heads up :-) Let me know if you think otherwise? Sbouterse (WMF) ( talk) 00:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dominic, if you're not too busy, is there a possibility that you could check that File:GEN Clay Lucius DuBignon Jr.jpg is an official USAF portrait of Lucius D. Clay, Jr. (and possibly get a new scan sans the autograph and update the citation details)? I'm pretty sure it is, but in the past I've had images nommed for deletion on Commons based on the fact that I'm not sure. My guess would be that it would be in:
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You are invited to the first Wikipedia Baltimore meetup on Saturday, July 23, 10:00am-12:30pm at the Walters Art Museum. Come meet Wikimedians, learn about GLAM-Wiki partnerships, get involved, and discuss future wiki outreach and activities in the Baltimore area!
There also is a Wikipedia & Cultural Heritage at the Young Preservationist Happy Hour on Friday, July 22, 6:30pm at the Midtown Yacht Club, an unpretentious neighborhood pub.
Note: You can remove your name from the Baltimore meetup invite list here. -- Message delivered by AudeBot, on behalf of User:Aude 18:17, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I've been researching the intersection of Wikipedia and Authority Control, and have just recently made a Village Pump Proposal to create a bot to expand the usage of a template. I've identified you as someone in the sphere of interest to this project and would appreciate your input at the Village Pump. Thanks, Maximiliankleinoclc ( talk) 18:34, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Id be glad to help but not sure what exactly it entails in taking the leadership.( Lihaas ( talk) 13:20, 21 June 2012 (UTC)).
Join us at Jefferson Market Library on Saturday starting at 1pm for our annual meeting and elections, details at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC!-- Pharos ( talk) 17:31, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dominic. I was finally giving the NARA dashboard a detailed look. I am really excited about it as a proof of concept. But I was wondering about how it is maintained, or what the plan is for updating it. How are we going to signal to the NARA that something has been validated and can be removed from the dashboard? Or to know what texts are on deck to ne added so we can watchlist them? It does seem to have brought novices to Wikisource, and we have largely failed to support them. Although to be fair, I am not sure many people have been very aware of exactly what pages the NARA was directing people towards. Are you the appropriate contact to work with on the dashboard or else can you direct me to who is maintaining it?-- BirgitteSB 02:32, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
The dashboard itself is actually maintained by Meredith Stewart, who works in the same office as me, but I work together with her on anything that involves Wikisource or Wikipedia, so I can be Wikisource's contact on any dashboard-related issues. Right now, things are being updated a little haphazardly, but mostly just based on a random set of images that were picked out for having been uploaded in JPG already and being easy enough for beginners (and maybe visually striking, too). From NARA's perspective, I think what we'd really love to see happen is for the Wikisource community to really take ownership of its part in the dashboard, since the better Wikisource can utilize the dashboard to its own ends, the more NARA will benefit as well. Wikisource largely has the freedom to pick whatever documents it would like displayed, too (limited by what has been uploaded so far or can be obtained, of course), and make other changes as it sees fit. NARA might occasionally want to use the dashboard (or send people directly to Wikisource) to promote transcription of a specific collection, but that would only work if there is support on Wikisource's end. Dominic· t 20:03, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:1980 plebiscite ballot.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Bulwersator ( talk) 10:30, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dominic,
Really interesting idea! I have been wondering about this myself recently with illuminated MS images; it's helpful to include a note of what MS, region, approximate date, etc, but this can really clutter a caption.
One use case you haven't mentioned here is fair use images; it'd be useful to have a clear indiciation, which this footnote makes possible, that the image is not free, is copyrighted by X, and so forth.
The way it's currently displayed is a bit confusing, though - perhaps if you moved it to the end of the caption, and rendered it as, say, [details]? This might conflict with footnotes, but on the other hand it would make it clearer that it is a footnote-like link - further information about the subject of the article.
I would also make sure that the local source (ie Commons) is linked from the footnote. Omitting this is likely to divert reusers from our local copy, which has full metadata and free licensing information, to an external repository; in many cases, particularly outside the US, the repository will have greater restrictions than Commons. Andrew Gray ( talk) 22:10, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
U.S. Ada Lovelace Day 2012 edit-a-thon, Harvard University - You are invited! | |
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Now in its fourth year,
Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (
STEM), and related fields. Participants from around New England are invited to gather together at
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Would you be OK with collapsing our discussion on my RfA? I do want people to read it, but it has become somewhat long. Gigs ( talk) 14:22, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
In relation to claim made here :- https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Belfort_Instrument_Company&oldid=519462447
Would it be possible for you to check with the National Air and Space Museum's collections as to what equipment was actually used by the Wright Brothers?
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:46, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC, an editathon, Wikipedia meet-up and workshops focused on film and the performing arts that will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center), as part of the Wikipedia Loves Libraries events being held across the USA.
All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and at meetup.com!-- Pharos ( talk) 07:04, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
December 10 is Ada Lovelace's birthday! Not only was she the world's first computer programmer, but also the world's first female open source developer! Come celebrate with Wikimedia District of Columbia at Busboys & Poets for an informal get together!
The Washington, DC event will be held on Monday, December 10, 2012 at Busboys & Poets on 5th St NW & K St NW near Mt Vernon Square. The area is easily accessible by the Red Line Chinatown stop and the Yellow Line and Green Line Mt Vernon Square stop, as well as by WMATA buses.
Kirill [talk] 14:08, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Invite to Topeka Wikipedia Day Event Jan 15 2013 Because you are editing wikipedia about Topeka, I would like to invite you to Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka/Wikipedia_Day at the Library at 6:30 PM please can you also print the poster and distribute it?
thanks, mike
James Michael DuPont ( talk) 19:12, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Happy Holidays! | |
Hope you and your family are enjoying the holiday season, Dominic! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:13, 25 December 2012 (UTC) |
Your spoken article of dinosaur is excelent. Thanks.-- 78.160.2.135 ( talk) 22:02, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Don't you wish we had an extra day in between Saturday and Sunday? 216.239.55.122 ( talk) 03:20, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Saturday, March 9 -
Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon at the University of Oregon - You are invited! | |
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Come celebrate
Women's History Month at the
University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, on March 9! This event, facilitated by WikiWoman
Sarah Stierch, is hosted by the
Fembot, in collaboration with
ASOU Women's Center, the
Center for the Study of Women in Society, the
School of Journalism and Communication, and the
UO Libraries.
Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history! The event is March 9, from 1-4 PM, at the University of Oregon Library. You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch ( talk) 20:17, 16 February 2013 (UTC) |
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Guapo's at Tenleytown-AU on Saturday, March 9 at 5 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 13:54, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays ( talk) 23:09, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Archives of American Art Barnstar | ||
It was great to have your participation on Friday--so glad you could come! For your contribution in making the Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon 2013 such a success, I award you the Archives of American Art Barnstar. - Sarasays ( talk) 20:09, 1 April 2013 (UTC) |
Hello Dominic, You have written before for the newsletter This Month in GLAM. I see the USA is missing regarding the edition about March 2013, do you perhaps have any idea what GLAM activities were done in the USA in March? Can you perhaps write about those? Or do you know who I can ask to write about it? Thanks! (Deadline of the March edition is Monday 8 April.) You can start writing via the page outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom. If you wish to be informed by e-mail next time, please write me at this page. You can reach me the best at nl-wiki talk page. Greetings - Romaine ( talk) 02:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey Dominic, just checking up with you again on the generals photos. Honestly I'm not overly optimistic but I'd appreciate it if you could let me know when (and if) there's any chance that we can get the scans uploaded of the images with accession numbers I provided you a while back. I'll probably come in myself sometime over the next few years (hopefully) but it would be nice if we could some done here to levy my prospective workload. I've exhausted all e-mail routes in trying to get these portraits so it seems that coming to NARA is my only option. – Connormah ( talk) 03:54, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, not sure where you got your invite list for the All Things GW Editathon, but I've been living in California for over a year now and have updated Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List and other places I can find to not invite me to DC events. Hope this helps. Kingdon ( talk) 07:50, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:
On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.
On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.
We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:03, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, May 11 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 23:03, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of May 24 at our K Street office.
The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 18:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!
On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.
Please go to the event page to get more information, including a detailed program schedule.
If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com. Please indicate if you are coming in person or if you will be joining us via the webinar. After registering, you will receive additional information about how to get to our campus (if coming in-person) and details about how to join the webinar. Klortho ( talk) 00:43, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm sorry for the last-minute notice, but on Saturday, June 8, from 3 to 6 PM, Wikimedia DC and the Cato Institute are hosting a Legislative Data Meetup. We will discuss the work done so far by WikiProject U.S. Federal Government Legislative Data to put data from Congress onto Wikipedia, as well as what more needs to be done. If you have ideas you'd like to contribute, or if you're just curious and feel like meeting up with other Wikipedians, you are welcome to come! Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.
I hope to see you there!
(You can unsubscribe from future notifications for D.C.-area events by removing your name from this list.)
Harej ( talk) 04:06, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, June 15 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 19:37, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Added already... (for future reference, if it's short notice, feel free to ping me as soon as you list it - I'm not around as much as usual at the moment) Andrew Gray ( talk) 17:18, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 00:11, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to the 2nd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting, on 20 July 2013 in Boston! We will be talking about the future of the chapter, including GLAM, Wiki Loves Monuments, and where we want to take our chapter in the future! EdwardsBot ( talk) 10:05, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
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WIKI LOVES LIBRARIES 2013! You're invited to attend the upcoming "Wiki Loves Libraries" edit-athon. The event will be held from 1–4pm on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at the Portland Art Museum's Crumpacker Family Library, located on the second floor of the Museum's Mark Building (formerly the Masonic Temple). The edit-athon will focus on the local arts community (but you can work on other topics as well!). It will also kick off the Oregon Arts Project, an on-wiki initiative to improve coverage of the arts in Oregon. Details and signup here! |
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FYI. Wish you could be here, Dominic! Feel free to forward to any Portland people who might be interested. -- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:46, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Please join the
Wikimedia NYC Meetup on October 5, 2013! Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for education, museums, libraries and planning WikiConference USA. -- Pharos ( talk) 22:02, 1 October 2013 (UTC) |