Hi everybody!
People are organising Wikipedia Takes [Place] around America this September to encourage people to take photographs for Wiki Loves Monuments (http://wikilovesmonuments.us/). Last year [1], we followed around a bunch of photographers and took pictures of buildings on the University of Colorado campus here in Boulder. Does anybody have ideas on what we could do this year?
I'd love an editathon to improve the article on the University of Colorado and noteworthy buildings, people and organisations on campus or associated with them, which we might be able to organise with Norlin Library. On the other hand, it'd be great to have an excuse to enjoy the cooler temperatures we'll hopefully have up here as summer turns into fall!
You can find out more about Wiki Takes America here, if you're interested in organising meet ups elsewhere in Colorado: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America
cheers, Gaurav
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/Boulder/2012
There are also a pretty good number of historic buildings in Denver. A good starting place would be the federal buildings downtown, but there are quite a few others as well. Would anyone be interested in that?
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Hi everybody!
People are organising Wikipedia Takes [Place] around America this September to encourage people to take photographs for Wiki Loves Monuments ( http://wikilovesmonuments.us/). Last year [1], we followed around a bunch of photographers and took pictures of buildings on the University of Colorado campus here in Boulder. Does anybody have ideas on what we could do this year?
I'd love an editathon to improve the article on the University of Colorado and noteworthy buildings, people and organisations on campus or associated with them, which we might be able to organise with Norlin Library. On the other hand, it'd be great to have an excuse to enjoy the cooler temperatures we'll hopefully have up here as summer turns into fall!
You can find out more about Wiki Takes America here, if you're interested in organising meet ups elsewhere in Colorado: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America
cheers, Gaurav
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/Boulder/2012 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
If you want an enormous worldwide source of momuments that probably haven't even made it in to wikipedia yet (perhaps for good reason), check out what Google's Ingress game has accomplished. Monuments, public artwork, libraries, museums and parks are all valid "portals" in the game, contributed by players. I've been very active in that in Boulder.
Unfortunately they discourage sharing of their data. Though some similar info is in their Fieldtrip application.
If you have an account, this could do get portal lists for you though: https://github.com/clamburger/ingress-portal-finder
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 07:51:12PM -0600, Kimon Berlin wrote:
We already seem to have excellent coverage of Denver in [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_li stings_in_Colorado (there are separate subpages for Denver). Are any of these photos in need of improvement? This might be walkable, which is easier for logistics. A quick look around suggests lots of opportunities in JeffCo: [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_li stings_in_Jefferson_County,_Colorado but we'll need cars. I'd reserve an editathon for late fall/winter, once the weather turns bad. Kimon On 8/25/2013 5:53 PM, Todd Allen wrote:
There are also a pretty good number of historic buildings in Denver. A good starting place would be the federal buildings downtown, but there are quite a few others as well. Would anyone be interested in that?
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Gaurav Vaidya <[3]gaurav@ggvaidya.com> wrote:
Hi everybody! People are organising Wikipedia Takes [Place] around America this September to encourage people to take photographs for Wiki Loves Monuments ([4]http://wikilovesmonuments.us/). Last year [1], we followed around a bunch of photographers and took pictures of buildings on the University of Colorado campus here in Boulder. Does anybody have ideas on what we could do this year? I'd love an editathon to improve the article on the University of Colorado and noteworthy buildings, people and organisations on campus or associated with them, which we might be able to organise with Norlin Library. On the other hand, it'd be great to have an excuse to enjoy the cooler temperatures we'll hopefully have up here as summer turns into fall! You can find out more about Wiki Takes America here, if you're interested in organising meet ups elsewhere in Colorado: [5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America cheers, Gaurav [1] [6]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/Bo ulder/2012 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list [7]Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org [8]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co-- Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows.
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Hi everybody!
Thanks so much for your responses, everybody! How about date and time for this event? Does September 21 (Saturday) around 11am (so it's _just_ before the worst of the noon heat) work for everyone? Earlier? Later?
On 25 Aug, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Kimon Berlin kimon@deepskymarines.org wrote:
We already seem to have excellent coverage of Denver in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_i... (there are separate subpages for Denver). Are any of these photos in need of improvement? This might be walkable, which is easier for logistics.
A quick look around suggests lots of opportunities in JeffCo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_i... but we'll need cars.
Yes, walkability is nice, especially if you're a graduate student without a car. However, we _might_ be able to get enough cars together for everybody. Any volunteers on this mailing list? I have a friend or two I could ask.
I'd reserve an editathon for late fall/winter, once the weather turns bad.
Sounds good! Wikipedia Loves Libraries comes around in October/November, and we could definitely have more editathons in January and February, once the weather really gets icy.
On 8/25/2013 5:53 PM, Todd Allen wrote:
There are also a pretty good number of historic buildings in Denver. A good starting place would be the federal buildings downtown, but there are quite a few others as well. Would anyone be interested in that?
I really like this plan. Here's some articles which could benefit from better/more recent photos: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_G._Rogers_Federal_Building (B&W photo) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Museum_of_Denver - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitch_Gardens_Amusement_Park - More photos of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoDo? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_White_United_States_Courthouse (maybe?) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Customhouse_%28Denver%2C_Colorado... (wider photo?) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrews_Episcopal_Church_%28Denver%2C_Color... - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Theatre_%28Denver%2C_Colorado%29 (wider photo?) - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Regional_Transportation_District (oddly enough, the only photos of RTD buses on Wikipedia appear to be the MallRide -- I'll try to fix this with a few photos of Boulder buses when I'm outdoors in the daystar next)
(It's possible that some or all of these images are hiding in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Denver,_Colorado somewhere)
Looking at the WikiMiniAtlas (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas), it looks like most of the historical sites are near the Denver Botanical Gardens. So another way to plan this could be a day trip to the botanical gardens!
cheers, Gaurav
Hey there, good folks. I'm totally up for Wikipedia Loves Monuments or Takes America, or whatever it might be this month. However, I should warn you, I'm totally, like, dirt poor. And so I couldn't provide transportation or anything like that. Ideally, I hope Gaurav might convince his roommate to go so I could jump into their car or something. I do have an iPhone though, and the Wikimedia app. So I'm set in that department.
Any of the places Todd Allen suggested sound great. I don't have a particular preference, but the Children's Museum might be interesting. The Botanical Gardens would be nice too. I don't think I've been there yet. But really anywhere on that list sounds great.
So if any of y'all are planning to go, please let me know. Also, I was very interested in helping out with Wikipedia Loves Libraries next month. Was there anyone else here who wanted to get together to make something happen in that regard? I think I may be able to ask someone at BPL to get a room reserved. I don't really have a solid game plan laid out, but I definitely wanted to do something like talk about basic Wikipedia editing, and then more advanced stuff like Templates, transclusion vs. substition, customizing your theme, custom CSS and stuff like that. Nothing too heavy, though, as I suspect there will mainly be people new to the project. But just to give people a sense of how to go about contributing a variety of content.
Things have been... interesting lately... But I'm gonna get you all an actual presentation of what I have in mind really soon. Hope to hear back from you excellent individuals.
So, if we can all bring along a camera.
It depends where we want to go. If we'd like to go by car, I'd have probably 3 seats available, long as someone doesn't mind the middle in the back. If by train to downtown, however many would like to go. We can meet up at my car from there if need be, at Mineral.
I would like to stop downtown to get some photos of Biker Jim's, as I'm currently working on that article. We can do that in either case, and I can bring my camera to work if it's really opposed, but I'd really rather prefer it to be on the same day. And they really do have some good food. :) I'd prefer not to go downtown by car, since I can get there for free on the train, and would rather do that than pay for parking. But I'd be happy to drive to some farther out areas after that's done.
So, anyone opposed to meeting downtown for lunch/photos prior to lunch, and hitting the Botanic Gardens or other locations from there?
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Spencer Williams IV < enderandpeter@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hey there, good folks. I'm totally up for Wikipedia Loves Monuments or Takes America, or whatever it might be this month. However, I should warn you, I'm totally, like, dirt poor. And so I couldn't provide transportation or anything like that. Ideally, I hope Gaurav might convince his roommate to go so I could jump into their car or something. I do have an iPhone though, and the Wikimedia app. So I'm set in that department.
Any of the places Todd Allen suggested sound great. I don't have a particular preference, but the Children's Museum might be interesting. The Botanical Gardens would be nice too. I don't think I've been there yet. But really anywhere on that list sounds great.
So if any of y'all are planning to go, please let me know. Also, I was very interested in helping out with Wikipedia Loves Libraries next month. Was there anyone else here who wanted to get together to make something happen in that regard? I think I may be able to ask someone at BPL to get a room reserved. I don't really have a solid game plan laid out, but I definitely wanted to do something like talk about basic Wikipedia editing, and then more advanced stuff like Templates, transclusion vs. substition, customizing your theme, custom CSS and stuff like that. Nothing too heavy, though, as I suspect there will mainly be people new to the project. But just to give people a sense of how to go about contributing a variety of content.
Things have been... interesting lately... But I'm gonna get you all an actual presentation of what I have in mind really soon. Hope to hear back from you excellent individuals. --
-Spencer http://aninternetpresence.net
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On 8/27/2013 4:25 PM, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Hi everybody!
Thanks so much for your responses, everybody! How about date and time for this event? Does September 21 (Saturday) around 11am (so it's _just_ before the worst of the noon heat) work for everyone? Earlier? Later?
On 25 Aug, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Kimon Berlin kimon@deepskymarines.org kimon@deepskymarines.org wrote:
We already seem to have excellent coverage of Denver in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_i... (there are separate subpages for Denver). Are any of these photos in need of improvement? This might be walkable, which is easier for logistics.
A quick look around suggests lots of opportunities in JeffCo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_i... but we'll need cars.
Yes, walkability is nice, especially if you're a graduate student without a car. However, we _might_ be able to get enough cars together for everybody. Any volunteers on this mailing list? I have a friend or two I could ask.
I'd reserve an editathon for late fall/winter, once the weather turns bad.
Sounds good! Wikipedia Loves Libraries comes around in October/November, and we could definitely have more editathons in January and February, once the weather really gets icy.
On 8/25/2013 5:53 PM, Todd Allen wrote:
There are also a pretty good number of historic buildings in Denver. A good starting place would be the federal buildings downtown, but there are quite a few others as well. Would anyone be interested in that?
I really like this plan. Here's some articles which could benefit from better/more recent photos:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_G._Rogers_Federal_Building (B&W photo)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Museum_of_Denver
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitch_Gardens_Amusement_Park
- More photos of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoDo?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_White_United_States_Courthouse (maybe?)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Customhouse_%28Denver%2C_Colorado... (wider photo?)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrews_Episcopal_Church_%28Denver%2C_Color...
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Theatre_%28Denver%2C_Colorado%29 (wider photo?)
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Regional_Transportation_District (oddly enough, the only photos of RTD buses on Wikipedia appear to be the MallRide -- I'll try to fix this with a few photos of Boulder buses when I'm outdoors in the daystar next)
(It's possible that some or all of these images are hiding in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Denver,_Colorado somewhere)
Looking at the WikiMiniAtlas (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas), it looks like most of the historical sites are near the Denver Botanical Gardens. So another way to plan this could be a day trip to the botanical gardens!
cheers, Gaurav _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-CO mailing listWikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
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Hi everybody!
On 4 Sep, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
So, if we can all bring along a camera.
(Or not -- we had a surprisingly fun Wiki Takes Boulder last year with one camera between three people!)
It depends where we want to go. If we'd like to go by car, I'd have probably 3 seats available, long as someone doesn't mind the middle in the back. If by train to downtown, however many would like to go. We can meet up at my car from there if need be, at Mineral.
I'm not sure where Mineral is, but thanks for the offer!
I would like to stop downtown to get some photos of Biker Jim's, as I'm currently working on that article. We can do that in either case, and I can bring my camera to work if it's really opposed, but I'd really rather prefer it to be on the same day. And they really do have some good food. :) I'd prefer not to go downtown by car, since I can get there for free on the train, and would rather do that than pay for parking. But I'd be happy to drive to some farther out areas after that's done.
So, anyone opposed to meeting downtown for lunch/photos prior to lunch, and hitting the Botanic Gardens or other locations from there?
I like this plan, and have set up the first part of the paperwork: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver
I've proposed September 28 as the day of photography, since I'm leaving Boulder for a week from Sunday, September 29. Once we know how many people are interested, and have a time and a date finalised (hopefully by this weekend), we'll have all of next week to run geonotices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice).
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Spencer Williams IV enderandpeter@yahoo.com wrote: Hey there, good folks. I'm totally up for Wikipedia Loves Monuments or Takes America, or whatever it might be this month. However, I should warn you, I'm totally, like, dirt poor. And so I couldn't provide transportation or anything like that. Ideally, I hope Gaurav might convince his roommate to go so I could jump into their car or something. I do have an iPhone though, and the Wikimedia app. So I'm set in that department.
Sorry, Spencer -- I think my friend (not roommate!) might be out of town then. Would a bus trip to Denver be too expensive for you?
Any of the places Todd Allen suggested sound great. I don't have a particular preference, but the Children's Museum might be interesting. The Botanical Gardens would be nice too. I don't think I've been there yet. But really anywhere on that list sounds great.
There's space on the event page to start throwing up ideas. Being on 16th Street means that we can go anywhere from Union Station to the Capitol for free. There must be something interesting within walking distance of that, right?
So if any of y'all are planning to go, please let me know. Also, I was very interested in helping out with Wikipedia Loves Libraries next month. Was there anyone else here who wanted to get together to make something happen in that regard? I think I may be able to ask someone at BPL to get a room reserved. I don't really have a solid game plan laid out, but I definitely wanted to do something like talk about basic Wikipedia editing, and then more advanced stuff like Templates, transclusion vs. substition, customizing your theme, custom CSS and stuff like that. Nothing too heavy, though, as I suspect there will mainly be people new to the project. But just to give people a sense of how to go about contributing a variety of content.
Let me know how this goes! I'm trying to think of something we could do at either the CU Libraries or the CU Museum, but it's going to take a lot more organising than I'll have time for this semester.
cheers, Gaurav
I would prefer the 28th as well, since I'll be taking a friend to the airport on the 21st. Any trouble with this? On Sep 18, 2013 7:07 PM, "Gaurav Vaidya" gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Hi everybody!
On 4 Sep, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
So, if we can all bring along a camera.
(Or not -- we had a surprisingly fun Wiki Takes Boulder last year with one camera between three people!)
It depends where we want to go. If we'd like to go by car, I'd have
probably 3 seats available, long as someone doesn't mind the middle in the back. If by train to downtown, however many would like to go. We can meet up at my car from there if need be, at Mineral. I'm not sure where Mineral is, but thanks for the offer!
I would like to stop downtown to get some photos of Biker Jim's, as I'm
currently working on that article. We can do that in either case, and I can bring my camera to work if it's really opposed, but I'd really rather prefer it to be on the same day. And they really do have some good food. :) I'd prefer not to go downtown by car, since I can get there for free on the train, and would rather do that than pay for parking. But I'd be happy to drive to some farther out areas after that's done.
So, anyone opposed to meeting downtown for lunch/photos prior to lunch,
and hitting the Botanic Gardens or other locations from there? I like this plan, and have set up the first part of the paperwork: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver
I've proposed September 28 as the day of photography, since I'm leaving Boulder for a week from Sunday, September 29. Once we know how many people are interested, and have a time and a date finalised (hopefully by this weekend), we'll have all of next week to run geonotices ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice).
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Spencer Williams IV <
enderandpeter@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hey there, good folks. I'm totally up for Wikipedia Loves Monuments or
Takes America, or whatever it might be this month. However, I should warn you, I'm totally, like, dirt poor. And so I couldn't provide transportation or anything like that. Ideally, I hope Gaurav might convince his roommate to go so I could jump into their car or something. I do have an iPhone though, and the Wikimedia app. So I'm set in that department. Sorry, Spencer -- I think my friend (not roommate!) might be out of town then. Would a bus trip to Denver be too expensive for you?
Any of the places Todd Allen suggested sound great. I don't have a
particular preference, but the Children's Museum might be interesting. The Botanical Gardens would be nice too. I don't think I've been there yet. But really anywhere on that list sounds great. There's space on the event page to start throwing up ideas. Being on 16th Street means that we can go anywhere from Union Station to the Capitol for free. There must be something interesting within walking distance of that, right?
So if any of y'all are planning to go, please let me know. Also, I was
very interested in helping out with Wikipedia Loves Libraries next month. Was there anyone else here who wanted to get together to make something happen in that regard? I think I may be able to ask someone at BPL to get a room reserved. I don't really have a solid game plan laid out, but I definitely wanted to do something like talk about basic Wikipedia editing, and then more advanced stuff like Templates, transclusion vs. substition, customizing your theme, custom CSS and stuff like that. Nothing too heavy, though, as I suspect there will mainly be people new to the project. But just to give people a sense of how to go about contributing a variety of content. Let me know how this goes! I'm trying to think of something we could do at either the CU Libraries or the CU Museum, but it's going to take a lot more organising than I'll have time for this semester.
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The 28th should work well for me, as far as I know at the moment. I'm trying to find a job and so things could suddenly change, but I will do my best to keep that time open. Of course, traveling together in a car has its benefits. However, I can also make it to Denver by bus and then we could meet at Union Station or something like that.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
I would prefer the 28th as well, since I'll be taking a friend to the airport on the 21st. Any trouble with this? On Sep 18, 2013 7:07 PM, "Gaurav Vaidya" gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Hi everybody!
On 4 Sep, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
So, if we can all bring along a camera.
(Or not -- we had a surprisingly fun Wiki Takes Boulder last year with one camera between three people!)
It depends where we want to go. If we'd like to go by car, I'd have
probably 3 seats available, long as someone doesn't mind the middle in the back. If by train to downtown, however many would like to go. We can meet up at my car from there if need be, at Mineral. I'm not sure where Mineral is, but thanks for the offer!
I would like to stop downtown to get some photos of Biker Jim's, as I'm
currently working on that article. We can do that in either case, and I can bring my camera to work if it's really opposed, but I'd really rather prefer it to be on the same day. And they really do have some good food. :) I'd prefer not to go downtown by car, since I can get there for free on the train, and would rather do that than pay for parking. But I'd be happy to drive to some farther out areas after that's done.
So, anyone opposed to meeting downtown for lunch/photos prior to lunch,
and hitting the Botanic Gardens or other locations from there? I like this plan, and have set up the first part of the paperwork: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver
I've proposed September 28 as the day of photography, since I'm leaving Boulder for a week from Sunday, September 29. Once we know how many people are interested, and have a time and a date finalised (hopefully by this weekend), we'll have all of next week to run geonotices ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice).
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Spencer Williams IV <
enderandpeter@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hey there, good folks. I'm totally up for Wikipedia Loves Monuments or
Takes America, or whatever it might be this month. However, I should warn you, I'm totally, like, dirt poor. And so I couldn't provide transportation or anything like that. Ideally, I hope Gaurav might convince his roommate to go so I could jump into their car or something. I do have an iPhone though, and the Wikimedia app. So I'm set in that department. Sorry, Spencer -- I think my friend (not roommate!) might be out of town then. Would a bus trip to Denver be too expensive for you?
Any of the places Todd Allen suggested sound great. I don't have a
particular preference, but the Children's Museum might be interesting. The Botanical Gardens would be nice too. I don't think I've been there yet. But really anywhere on that list sounds great. There's space on the event page to start throwing up ideas. Being on 16th Street means that we can go anywhere from Union Station to the Capitol for free. There must be something interesting within walking distance of that, right?
So if any of y'all are planning to go, please let me know. Also, I was
very interested in helping out with Wikipedia Loves Libraries next month. Was there anyone else here who wanted to get together to make something happen in that regard? I think I may be able to ask someone at BPL to get a room reserved. I don't really have a solid game plan laid out, but I definitely wanted to do something like talk about basic Wikipedia editing, and then more advanced stuff like Templates, transclusion vs. substition, customizing your theme, custom CSS and stuff like that. Nothing too heavy, though, as I suspect there will mainly be people new to the project. But just to give people a sense of how to go about contributing a variety of content. Let me know how this goes! I'm trying to think of something we could do at either the CU Libraries or the CU Museum, but it's going to take a lot more organising than I'll have time for this semester.
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Hullo!
Sounds like the 28th works for a bunch of us! If you can make it, could you please sign up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver? I'd like to make sure I'm not the only Wikipedian there this Saturday!
cheers, Gaurav
On 18 September 2013 21:35, Spencer Williams williamcwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
The 28th should work well for me, as far as I know at the moment. I'm trying to find a job and so things could suddenly change, but I will do my best to keep that time open. Of course, traveling together in a car has its benefits. However, I can also make it to Denver by bus and then we could meet at Union Station or something like that.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
I would prefer the 28th as well, since I'll be taking a friend to the airport on the 21st. Any trouble with this?
On Sep 18, 2013 7:07 PM, "Gaurav Vaidya" gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Hi everybody!
On 4 Sep, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
So, if we can all bring along a camera.
(Or not -- we had a surprisingly fun Wiki Takes Boulder last year with one camera between three people!)
It depends where we want to go. If we'd like to go by car, I'd have probably 3 seats available, long as someone doesn't mind the middle in the back. If by train to downtown, however many would like to go. We can meet up at my car from there if need be, at Mineral.
I'm not sure where Mineral is, but thanks for the offer!
I would like to stop downtown to get some photos of Biker Jim's, as I'm currently working on that article. We can do that in either case, and I can bring my camera to work if it's really opposed, but I'd really rather prefer it to be on the same day. And they really do have some good food. :) I'd prefer not to go downtown by car, since I can get there for free on the train, and would rather do that than pay for parking. But I'd be happy to drive to some farther out areas after that's done.
So, anyone opposed to meeting downtown for lunch/photos prior to lunch, and hitting the Botanic Gardens or other locations from there?
I like this plan, and have set up the first part of the paperwork: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver
I've proposed September 28 as the day of photography, since I'm leaving Boulder for a week from Sunday, September 29. Once we know how many people are interested, and have a time and a date finalised (hopefully by this weekend), we'll have all of next week to run geonotices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice).
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Spencer Williams IV enderandpeter@yahoo.com wrote: Hey there, good folks. I'm totally up for Wikipedia Loves Monuments or Takes America, or whatever it might be this month. However, I should warn you, I'm totally, like, dirt poor. And so I couldn't provide transportation or anything like that. Ideally, I hope Gaurav might convince his roommate to go so I could jump into their car or something. I do have an iPhone though, and the Wikimedia app. So I'm set in that department.
Sorry, Spencer -- I think my friend (not roommate!) might be out of town then. Would a bus trip to Denver be too expensive for you?
Any of the places Todd Allen suggested sound great. I don't have a particular preference, but the Children's Museum might be interesting. The Botanical Gardens would be nice too. I don't think I've been there yet. But really anywhere on that list sounds great.
There's space on the event page to start throwing up ideas. Being on 16th Street means that we can go anywhere from Union Station to the Capitol for free. There must be something interesting within walking distance of that, right?
So if any of y'all are planning to go, please let me know. Also, I was very interested in helping out with Wikipedia Loves Libraries next month. Was there anyone else here who wanted to get together to make something happen in that regard? I think I may be able to ask someone at BPL to get a room reserved. I don't really have a solid game plan laid out, but I definitely wanted to do something like talk about basic Wikipedia editing, and then more advanced stuff like Templates, transclusion vs. substition, customizing your theme, custom CSS and stuff like that. Nothing too heavy, though, as I suspect there will mainly be people new to the project. But just to give people a sense of how to go about contributing a variety of content.
Let me know how this goes! I'm trying to think of something we could do at either the CU Libraries or the CU Museum, but it's going to take a lot more organising than I'll have time for this semester.
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Hi Todd!
On 18 Sep, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
I would prefer the 28th as well, since I'll be taking a friend to the airport on the 21st. Any trouble with this?
It sounds like it might just be the three of us, since Spencer and I are the only ones to sign up on the event page so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver -- we _might_ be able to get more people involved through Geonotices, but this turn out is already sounding pretty low for me after advertising on WTA and WikiProject Colorado. If it is really just the three of us, would you be interested in shifting the venue to Boulder? It'd save Spencer and me a lot of time on the buses!
cheers, Gaurav
Boulder would be fine with me. What would you have in mind for it? On Sep 24, 2013 12:41 AM, "Gaurav Vaidya" gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Hi Todd!
On 18 Sep, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
I would prefer the 28th as well, since I'll be taking a friend to the
airport on the 21st. Any trouble with this? It sounds like it might just be the three of us, since Spencer and I are the only ones to sign up on the event page so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver-... we _might_ be able to get more people involved through Geonotices, but this turn out is already sounding pretty low for me after advertising on WTA and WikiProject Colorado. If it is really just the three of us, would you be interested in shifting the venue to Boulder? It'd save Spencer and me a lot of time on the buses!
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Hi everybody,
On 24 Sep, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Boulder would be fine with me. What would you have in mind for it?
I've put up some ideas at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver and might be able to borrow a friend's car if we need wheels in the area.
Let me know what you think! I notice that Kimon just signed up for Denver, and if Todd's still in, that's four of us! So if there's enough people who are more interested in Denver, we could switch back there.
cheers, Gaurav
On 25/09/13 02:35, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Hi everybody,
On 24 Sep, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Boulder would be fine with me. What would you have in mind for it?
I've put up some ideas at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver and might be able to borrow a friend's car if we need wheels in the area.
Let me know what you think! I notice that Kimon just signed up for Denver, and if Todd's still in, that's four of us! So if there's enough people who are more interested in Denver, we could switch back there.
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If you can get a car, I'd come. Problem is I'm in the middle of nowhere and buses don't really go from here to denver.
Blargh.
I was already planning to take my car. Where would you need a ride from? On Sep 24, 2013 8:33 PM, "Isarra Yos" zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/09/13 02:35, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Hi everybody,
On 24 Sep, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Boulder would be fine with me. What would you have in mind for it?
I've put up some ideas at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/** Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_**America/2013/Denverhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denverand might be able to borrow a friend's car if we need wheels in the area.
Let me know what you think! I notice that Kimon just signed up for Denver, and if Todd's still in, that's four of us! So if there's enough people who are more interested in Denver, we could switch back there.
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If you can get a car, I'd come. Problem is I'm in the middle of nowhere and buses don't really go from here to denver.
Blargh.
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Lafayette? Would that be doable? *kitty eyes*
I'd kind of just written this entire thing as impossible, hence my complete lack of response until now. Not that I even have a camera or anything to contribute but comaraderie anyhow...
On 25/09/13 03:42, Todd Allen wrote:
I was already planning to take my car. Where would you need a ride from?
On Sep 24, 2013 8:33 PM, "Isarra Yos" <zhorishna@gmail.com mailto:zhorishna@gmail.com> wrote:
On 25/09/13 02:35, Gaurav Vaidya wrote: Hi everybody, On 24 Sep, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Todd Allen <toddmallen@gmail.com <mailto:toddmallen@gmail.com>> wrote: Boulder would be fine with me. What would you have in mind for it? I've put up some ideas at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver and might be able to borrow a friend's car if we need wheels in the area. Let me know what you think! I notice that Kimon just signed up for Denver, and if Todd's still in, that's four of us! So if there's enough people who are more interested in Denver, we could switch back there. cheers, Gaurav _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co If you can get a car, I'd come. Problem is I'm in the middle of nowhere and buses don't really go from here to denver. Blargh. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
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Shouldn't be a problem. I'll need directions though or something a GPS can recognize, not too familiar with Lafayette.
I also might have a point and shoot you can use but I'll have to see if the battery is still any good. On Sep 24, 2013 10:45 PM, "Isarra Yos" zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
Lafayette? Would that be doable? *kitty eyes*
I'd kind of just written this entire thing as impossible, hence my complete lack of response until now. Not that I even have a camera or anything to contribute but comaraderie anyhow...
On 25/09/13 03:42, Todd Allen wrote:
I was already planning to take my car. Where would you need a ride from? On Sep 24, 2013 8:33 PM, "Isarra Yos" zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/09/13 02:35, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Hi everybody,
On 24 Sep, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Boulder would be fine with me. What would you have in mind for it?
I've put up some ideas at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denvera... might be able to borrow a friend's car if we need wheels in the area.
Let me know what you think! I notice that Kimon just signed up for Denver, and if Todd's still in, that's four of us! So if there's enough people who are more interested in Denver, we could switch back there.
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If you can get a car, I'd come. Problem is I'm in the middle of nowhere and buses don't really go from here to denver.
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