Hi all,
The "Intro to Wikipedia" event at Harvard has been scheduled with Harvard's Lamont Library. It will be held from approximately 4pm to 7pm on Thursday November 17th. I hope local Wikipedians can come hang out and help run things. I've put up a wikipedia page with more info:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:WLL_at_Harvard
Hope to see some of you there! christian
PS. Pharos, thanks so much for all the WLL stuff that you've done, it's really inspiring.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
Sounds awesome, Christian!
Please add preliminary Harvard details here, and maybe create a starter wiki page ( or just borrow Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston ):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries#Northeast
I've been involved in helping plan the WLL events nationally, and the NYPL event in particular, so let me know if you have questions.
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Christian Anderson canderson@college.harvard.edu wrote:
I'm a Harvard undergrad and Wikipedian who decided about a week ago that
I
wanted to do something at Harvard for "Wikipedia Loves Libraries". I
didn't
know of this list at the time, and I reached out to the Harvard library community over internal lists. My proposal was a two-part "Intro to Wikipedia" event to be held at one of Harvard's libraries. There would
be a
brief presentation on the internal workings of Wikipedia followed by an editing workshop. There's enormous interest in Wikipedia among the
Harvard
community (students, professors, library staff, etc.) but very little understanding of how it works behind-the-scenes and how an individual or group can contribute to the project. I wanted to tap into this interest.
The Harvard library community has responded very positively to my
proposal.
Since broadcasting the idea, I've received excited emails from 16
different
librarians, many of whom view this event as a stepping stone towards
future
collaborations with Wikipedia. I'm very excited by this interest. I want
to
make the event go ahead as planned, and I want to help every interested librarian find a way to contribute to the project.
I would love to get local Wikipedians on-board with this. The first
order of
business is running the event. The date is up in the air, but it will be happening either late afternoon on a weekday (4:30pm +, pizza will be served) or in the afternoon on a Saturday (the former is better for
library
staff, the latter is probably better for undergrads). In my mind, it
will be
happening sometime in early November. The more boots on the ground, the better. Any Wikipedian who wants to be involved can get guest access to
the
host library. The event is being planned on a public mailing list that I have created for the purpose of furthering collaboration between the Wikipedia and Harvard communities:
https://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia
On the topic of this mailing list: I created this list yesterday and
there
are now ~30 Harvard librarians subscribed to it. Subscription is open to
the
public. Please subscribe! This list will be an ideal place for
Wikipedians
to reach out to the Harvard community and vice-versa. I think the first step, for Wikipedia, is to host this intro event and talk face-to-face
with
the Harvard community. But the list is there for anyone who wants to use
it.
christian
Wikimedia-boston mailing list Wikimedia-boston@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston