Heya,
Wikipedia Loves Libraries will be at Norlin Library, CU Boulder, this Thursday! The focus is going to be mainly on primary resources, but come on down to meet with other local Wikipedians! It'll be on Thursday, November 1, at 4pm.
I'm going to be doing a presentation on "your first edit" on Wikipedia, covering the absolute basics of using the Sandbox, the edit page, previewing your changes before committing and taking part in conversations on Wikipedia. Lisa suggested that this might be more interesting if multiple editors presented this -- giving multiple perspectives and giving us a chance to show off our diversity. Any volunteers? Let me know!
All details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boulder/November_2012
cheers, Gaurav
Heya,
On 26 October 2012 10:39, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Wikipedia Loves Libraries will be at Norlin Library, CU Boulder, this Thursday! The focus is going to be mainly on primary resources, but come on down to meet with other local Wikipedians! It'll be on Thursday, November 1, at 4pm.
I'm going to be doing a presentation on "your first edit" on Wikipedia, covering the absolute basics of using the Sandbox, the edit page, previewing your changes before committing and taking part in conversations on Wikipedia. Lisa suggested that this might be more interesting if multiple editors presented this -- giving multiple perspectives and giving us a chance to show off our diversity. Any volunteers? Let me know!
All details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boulder/November_2012
Also: I've put in a request for a Geonotice, but I've never done that before, so I'd really appreciate feedback on what works and what doesn't! You can edit the request here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice#Requests
In particular, I've asked for a geonotice for the entire front range (North/South from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs). Is that a good idea? Or would something more rectangular around Boulder be better? Please let me know, or update the request yourself!
cheers, Gaurav
Wow - thanks for organizing! How did it go?
Unfortunately, I missed this entirely. I didn't notice the email (I've now fixed my mail filters, so I'll probably see future posts).
Next time, I suggest a bit more notice, coordinating with the library folks, having something cool, like a special viewing of the Rosetta Disk at the CU Library Special Collections department, and having them help get the word out.
You can't open the rosetta disk up without special permission, thus the idea for a special event. Learn more about it e.g. here:
http://amateurearthling.org/2011/03/04/human-language-in-the-palm-of-my-hand...
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:05:25AM -0400, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Heya,
On 26 October 2012 10:39, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Wikipedia Loves Libraries will be at Norlin Library, CU Boulder, this Thursday! The focus is going to be mainly on primary resources, but come on down to meet with other local Wikipedians! It'll be on Thursday, November 1, at 4pm.
I'm going to be doing a presentation on "your first edit" on Wikipedia, covering the absolute basics of using the Sandbox, the edit page, previewing your changes before committing and taking part in conversations on Wikipedia. Lisa suggested that this might be more interesting if multiple editors presented this -- giving multiple perspectives and giving us a chance to show off our diversity. Any volunteers? Let me know!
Oh, man, that would be neat. Would you know how to set something for that up, or who would? (Nevermind that we already had a WLL - we can have another! Or something.)
And yeah, we definitely need to work on organising things better and getting word out ahead of time. For this thing we just had a small group mostly with librarians and folks and discussed sourcey things, which was cool, but by no means the extent of what we might hope for.
-Kim
On 04/11/2012 16:15, Neal McBurnett wrote:
Wow - thanks for organizing! How did it go?
Unfortunately, I missed this entirely. I didn't notice the email (I've now fixed my mail filters, so I'll probably see future posts).
Next time, I suggest a bit more notice, coordinating with the library folks, having something cool, like a special viewing of the Rosetta Disk at the CU Library Special Collections department, and having them help get the word out.
You can't open the rosetta disk up without special permission, thus the idea for a special event. Learn more about it e.g. here:
http://amateurearthling.org/2011/03/04/human-language-in-the-palm-of-my-hand...
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:05:25AM -0400, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Heya,
On 26 October 2012 10:39, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Wikipedia Loves Libraries will be at Norlin Library, CU Boulder, this Thursday! The focus is going to be mainly on primary resources, but come on down to meet with other local Wikipedians! It'll be on Thursday, November 1, at 4pm.
I'm going to be doing a presentation on "your first edit" on Wikipedia, covering the absolute basics of using the Sandbox, the edit page, previewing your changes before committing and taking part in conversations on Wikipedia. Lisa suggested that this might be more interesting if multiple editors presented this -- giving multiple perspectives and giving us a chance to show off our diversity. Any volunteers? Let me know!
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
I'd suggest starting with the outreach person at Norlin, Deborah Fink deborah.fink@Colorado.EDU (are you on this list?) and the folks at Special Collections and just say we'd like to know if they'd let us open up the rosetta disk for a special event. I know the person that donated it, and could ask her for support if that turns out to be useful.
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 09:10:09AM -0700, Isarra Yos wrote:
Oh, man, that would be neat. Would you know how to set something for that up, or who would? (Nevermind that we already had a WLL - we can have another! Or something.)
And yeah, we definitely need to work on organising things better and getting word out ahead of time. For this thing we just had a small group mostly with librarians and folks and discussed sourcey things, which was cool, but by no means the extent of what we might hope for.
-Kim
On 04/11/2012 16:15, Neal McBurnett wrote:
Wow - thanks for organizing! How did it go?
Unfortunately, I missed this entirely. I didn't notice the email (I've now fixed my mail filters, so I'll probably see future posts).
Next time, I suggest a bit more notice, coordinating with the library folks, having something cool, like a special viewing of the Rosetta Disk at the CU Library Special Collections department, and having them help get the word out.
You can't open the rosetta disk up without special permission, thus the idea for a special event. Learn more about it e.g. here:
http://amateurearthling.org/2011/03/04/human-language-in-the-palm-of-my-hand...
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:05:25AM -0400, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Heya,
On 26 October 2012 10:39, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Wikipedia Loves Libraries will be at Norlin Library, CU Boulder, this Thursday! The focus is going to be mainly on primary resources, but come on down to meet with other local Wikipedians! It'll be on Thursday, November 1, at 4pm.
I'm going to be doing a presentation on "your first edit" on Wikipedia, covering the absolute basics of using the Sandbox, the edit page, previewing your changes before committing and taking part in conversations on Wikipedia. Lisa suggested that this might be more interesting if multiple editors presented this -- giving multiple perspectives and giving us a chance to show off our diversity. Any volunteers? Let me know!
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
-- --- Isarra
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