Hi Bay Area community!
The Wiki Education Foundation is having a holiday open house on Thursday,
December 18. We'll provide hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and tours of our new
office in the Presidio. In the spirit of Wikilove, we'd like to extend the
invitation to the Bay Area editing community too. If you're interested in
joining us, please let me know offlist so I can add you to the invitation
and you can get the full details.
Hope to see you on the 18th!
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Director of Programs
Wiki Education Foundation
+1-415-770-1061
www.wikiedu.org
Greetings,
Volunteers from EFF and Creative Commons are organizing an edit-a-thon on
Internet Censorship this Sunday at the EFF offices in SF. We will be
improving articles on Internet Censorship as a broad topic, and also
updating/creating key articles about internet censorship for individual
countries.
We hope you can join us, in person or online!
Date: Sunday December 14, 2014
Time: 1-5pm
Location: Electronic Frontier Foundation office: 815 Eddy Street, San
Francisco, CA 94109
Here is the meet up page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Internet_Censo…
Cheers,
niki
Hi all,
I was wondering whether anyone here would be interested in helping me to improve Wikipedia's coverage on cheese.
Cheese? Yes. Background is that the French chapter recently started a project called "WikiCheese".[1] Wikipedia's coverage of food-related topics is patchy and articles about cheese are not an exception. So, French community members started WikiCheese, which aims at systematically filling content gaps.[2]
Now, Northern California has an incredibly rich and interesting artisan cheesemaker scene.[3] Cowgirl Creamery (Point Reyes Station), Epicurean Connection (Sonoma), Vella Cheese Company (Sonoma)… just to name a few.
Last weekend, I went on a tour and started photographing a couple of cheeses as well as cheese production at Cowgirl Creamery:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiCheese_California <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiCheese_California>
I'm wondering whether any of you on this list would like to join me on my next excursion (date and time tbd.) You
* don't need to be a cheese expert (I'm not)
* don't need a fancy camera (actually, text contributions would be highly welcome as well)
* don't necessarily need to own a car (I do)
All you need is some time and enthusiasm :-)
I haven't yet started a project page on Wikipedia – so in case you're interested, please send a reply to this list. Once a few people show their interest, we'll plan the next steps.
Thanks,
Frank
[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11254146/Wikipedia-… <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11254146/Wikipedia-…>
[2] Some image results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikicheeses/0 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikicheeses/0>
[3] http://cheesetrail.org <http://cheesetrail.org/>