Hi, Asaf,
Just checking -- I am a Wikipedia editor for the last few years, with 50,000 edits.
However, I do not have a laptop that I can bring to the Wikimedia office.
(I was just there on Feb. 4 for the meeting they had of local Wikimedians.)
Let me know if any chance you might take someone without a laptop, since this is on such
short notice.
Thanks,
Tom Mayer
(415) 609-0153
--- On Tue, 4/10/12, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimedia-SF] This Saturday: Editing Workshop at WMF for Fulbright scholars
To: "San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians"
<wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 12:43 PM
Hello again, Bay Area Wikimedians!
I have been talking to the west coast Institute of International Education, known for
running the Fulbright scholars programs, and we have agreed to hold an editing workshop
for visiting Fulbright scholars (i.e. Fulbright scholarship recipients from around the
world studying in Bay Area universities).
The editing workshop will be held at the Wikimedia Foundation office (149 New Montgomery
St., 3rd floor, San Francisco, a two-minute walk from the Montgomery BART), on Saturday
April 14th, 12pm-5pm, and approximately 12 scholars, a few IIE staff members, and a few
new WMF employees will participate. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Bring your
own laptop, please!
We'll need volunteer veteran Wikipedians to tutor the visiting scholars in basic
editing, introduce them to Wikipedia norms (possibly not just in English Wikipedia), and
help them navigate to useful places such as [[Wikipedia:Backlog]], or WikiProjects
matching their academic (or other) interests.
If you're interested in attending and providing tutoring, please let me know in the
coming 48 hours (I apologize for the very short notice!) so we can plan the food.
I look forward to seeing some of you on Saturday!
Cheers,
Asaf--
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation
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