On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Alex <g1ggyman(a)gmail.com> wrote: Wow. I took a look at the linked page and was a little bit disheartened by all of the negativity there. It's a big job to organize a huge event like this with many people who may not be familiar with Wikimedia, and I would be completely shocked if every single aspect came out perfect. So first of all I think that it's important to congratulate Richard and the NYC Wikimedians for putting together this event and getting so many new photos of local landmarks, and I hope that other local groups put together similar events in the future! I'm not too worried that all of the details are not right immediately -- this isn't a situation where a user no one knows and no one will ever hear from again just came to dump a load of untagged images of unknown source and then leave forever; I expect everything will be tidied up and settled soon enough by the people organizing the event. And if not, there is someone to remind politely about it. So there are some lessons here for people doing similar events in the future about things that this group wasn't prepared for; the next time can go more smoothly as people think about how to handle these issues. But I think this sort of event is very much the sort of thing we should want local groups and local chapters to do, and that the Commons community should be figuring out how to help them work even better, rather than discouraging them by being overly critical of the mistakes without acknowledging the larger effort. Cheers, Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en Wikimedia, Press: kat(a)wikimedia.org * Personal: kat(a)mindspillage.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:Mindspillage mindspillage or mind|wandering on irc.freenode.net * email for phone

2008/10/18 Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com>om>: *applause* - d.