Wikimedia-boston March 2009

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BLP at the BPL tomorrow
by Nicole Willson 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

We will be meeting tomorrow at Chilli Duck at 11:30 am for Thai food and pre-research wiki talk. Chilli Duck 829 Boylston Street (between Fairfield St & Gloucester St) Boston, MA 02116 http://www.yelp.com/biz/chilli-duck-boston (click on the map for a larger view and driving directions) Orange line: Back Bay Green line: Copley For those who can't make it to lunch, we'll be meeting in the Elliott Room at 1 pm (located in between Bates hall and the Hub computer area). From there, we'll get reference materials and find a place to work. BPL floor plan: http://www.bpl.org/central/plan.htm -Nicole

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by noreply＠google.com 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Here is a map to the Boston Public Library for Saturday (sorry for those offended by my use of a proprietary maps site): Link: <http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&safe=active&msa=0&msid=1140727…> Directions: http://www.bpl.org/general/directions.htm http://mbta.com - MBTA trip planner (mapquest style public transit directions) Library floor plan map: http://www.bpl.org/central/plan.htm The exact meeting location is still TBA Note: The library closes promptly at 5 pm, so we will need to get ready ahead of time. Alarms usually start going off and security will keep reminding you to leave, starting at 4:45-ish. This email was sent to you by a user on Google Maps (maps.google.com)

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Re: [Wikimedia-boston] Wikipedia Loves Art
by Samuel Klein 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Nicole, I don't think there has been a crossover. the Boston Photog group would be a great one to engage. And we could start with university libraries and museums, which tend to be especially open to such things. Getting permission to take / relicense good photos of major library works would likely be possible as well. --SJ On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Nicole Willson <artisticaltruist(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Don't know if you're aware of Dave Menninger or Wikipedia Loves Art, but I > follow them on Facebook. Description from the page: > > "Wikipedia Loves Art is a scavenger hunt and free content photography > contest among museums and cultural institutions worldwide, and aimed at > illustrating Wikipedia articles." > > More info can be found here: > http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=128326730243&h=oXcAL&u=vVoJp . > Looks like a lot of NYC museums are involved. > > Do you know if any effort has been made to work with Boston museums? I know > there's a big Boston Photography meetup. Also Boston MediaMakers has a lot > of photographers and videographers willing to volunteer for the right > projects. Maybe they'd be interested? Also, I have a library school friend > who used to work at the MFA. She may be able to tell me who to contact about > getting permission to take pictures for Wikipedia. >

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Moderating mail that comes into the wikiboston-l list
by Samuel Klein 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Dear wikiboston, Two things: 1) don't forget about BLPs at the BPL this Saturday! It's going to be awesome. But remember : you can't comment on library books in the margins (despite confusing crossover efforts such as the attached) -- it's against the rules. so leave the highlighters at home. 2) We could use 1 or 2 people to moderate the mail that comes into this list - most of the task is just moderating spam. Please write back if you're interested; thanks! SJ

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BLP at the BPL : an off-schedule meetup to light up your March
by Samuel Klein 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Dear wikiboston, Phoebe is coming to visit at the end of the month, and Nicole and I have been talking about getting together for a reference day at the BPL, focused on BLPs and [other] disputed topics. In particular, I would like to see [[List of people from Boston]] improved and expanded to include modern people, so that it look more like lists from other major cities (e.g., [[List of people from Chicago]] and [[List of Austinites]]). Modern writers, musicians, and educators might be a place to start. A Reference Challenge with a list of 100 peeps to begin with would be interesting. (does someone want to start putting this together?) I would start with * [[Category:People_from_Boston,_Massachusetts]] * Older unref'ed BLPs from [[Category:Unreferenced_BLPs]] * Topic searches of the BLP noticeboard's archives: http://tinyurl.com/blpsearch And at the end of the day we could have a new and improved list of Bostonians (with a special marker for BLPs? for those who have been through BLP review?) and wrap up with comments on the en:wp policies... [[Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons]] SJ, who can bring a 12-plug power strip. On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Nicole Willson <artisticaltruist(a)gmail.com> wrote: < So, do we want to do BLP at BPL? Also is there a > specific area of BLP that could use help, like people in a certain area of > the humanities (authors, artists etc.)? Another idea would be researching > disputed articles. > > What time should this be? I just remembered that the BPL opens at 9 on > Saturdays, but I think it'd be better that this start around 1 or 2. > > I know Hasty and Janet were interested, so that's two people right there. I > can also email Evan to see if he can make it. > > SJ: Could you post this to the meetup group and the mailing list? I can do > some sort of write-up, but can't post things to the meetup group. Thanks! > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:18 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Sounds like the humanities area is the way to go, and someone should >> bring a power strip. >> >> Can you guys publicize it to wpians? I can put together a quick how to >> reference page. Doing boston history articles would also be sweet, but >> maybe too hard. >> >> If we even get one or two people it will be a fun way to spend an >> afternoon. >> >> P.

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