Wikimedia-US-NC October 2024

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Next meeting, a virtual edit-a-thon, etc
by E.S. Jack 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Hey NC Wikipedian friends! Mark your calendars: *Our next meeting will be November 12, at 7pm, via Zoom *(link to come). It will be just an informal, virtual gathering where we'll talk about Wikipedia. No editing experience required; it's a great first meeting to come to if you've been curious but have never attended. Or if you have Wikipedia editing questions; this will be a great chance to get them answered! We're also planning a *virtual edit-a-thon on Sunday, Dec. 15, from 10:30am to noon*. At that edit-a-thon, we'll work on metadata for photos of Western North Carolina. More details for that will be forthcoming; stay tuned! Cheers, Emily

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Virtual hackathon planning for December 15, 2024
by Gaurav Vaidya 27 Oct '24

27 Oct '24

Hi everybody! I’ve created a page for the virtual editathon we were discussing to be tentatively held on Sun, Dec 15 from 10:30-12pm [1]. Our intention was to have an unstructured editathon where anybody would be welcome to join us and edit any article of their interest, but we’d select some articles and photos to work on related to the counties devastated by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. This is a very rough page — please feel free to edit it as much as you'd like! To find photos we could work on, I’m also working through the list of photos submitted to WikiPixNC 2022 and writing down the county that each photo claims to be from [2], so we can focus on western NC photos first — help welcome! All the photos (as linked to from the “url” column) should have a little “County:” section in their description, so all you need to do is copy that into the spreadsheet. We decided that for an editathon it would make sense to put out a Geonotice [3] instead of a Central Notice: this will only appear in the Watchlist page of signed-in Wikipedia editors, so it’s less annoying that a Central Notice, and should target editors rather than readers. I’ve started a discussion thread on the event talk page to come up with a nice, pithy Geonotice — please add your suggestions there [4]! cheers, Gaurav [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Virtual_Editathon_Decembe… [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NiBmuf5auQCjhPwAsG1kLbywLhumAUWqsrs… [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/NC/Virtual_Editathon_De…

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North American Wikimedians Hub
by E.S. Jack 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

Hello NC Wikipedian friends! Some of you have heard about plans to develop a North American Hub to connect Wikimedians from North America -- primarily organized around affiliates like our user group. I've been excited about the possibility of this project because I think such a hub would be tremendously useful to us as we continue to grow and develop. I think only good things can come from more cross-pollination between North American affiliates. And while we're no longer the scrappy upstart we were five years ago, I love the possibility the Hub would offer to make it easier for future affiliates to get off the ground. Richard (user: Pharos), sent draft text for the Hub's founding <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_American_Wikimedians/Hub_founding/Agr…>, and asked whether our user group might be interested in signing on in support of the Hub. I would like to propose that the North Carolina Wikipedians sign on. If you have thoughts or opinions, please send them. If you are *opposed* to our signing on, please respond by Oct. 31. If I haven't heard any objections by then, I will sign on in support of the Hub on behalf of our user group. Thanks, Emily

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Fwd: [Wikidata] Join Us for the 12th Birthday Celebration of Wikidata: Hospital & Health Center Data Improvement Week
by Gaurav Vaidya 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

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Meeting today at 7pm ET
by Gaurav Vaidya 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Hi everybody, Just a reminder that our next virtual North Carolina Wikipedians meeting is scheduled to take place today from 7-8pm ET on Zoom [1]. Our agenda is: * Debrief of the NCW Trivia meetup (Oct 1, 2024) * Future events? * Interest in Western NC / Hurricane Helene themed online edit-a-thon? Maybe focused on the WikiPix images Cleanup, highlighting images from affected areas * Wikimedia Board governance update If there’s anything else you’d like to discuss, please add it to our agenda [2]. See you later today! cheers, Gaurav [1] https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86495384977?pwd=MIaGbqtj0kudGQJXFef6nVXkMGFIyX.1 [2] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/North_Carolina_Wikipedians

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Meeting next week (October 8)
by Gaurav Vaidya 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

Hi everybody! Our next virtual North Carolina Wikipedians meeting is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, October 8 from 7-8pm ET on Zoom [1]. Our agenda so far is: * Debrief of the NCW Trivia meetup (Oct 1, 2024) * Future events? But if you know of other things we need to discuss, please reply to this e-mail or add them to our meeting notes [2]. Hope to see you next week! Cheers, Gaurav [1] https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86495384977?pwd=MIaGbqtj0kudGQJXFef6nVXkMGFIyX.1 [2] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/North_Carolina_Wikipedians

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Trivia night Oct 1, future meetings, and more!
by Emily Jack 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Hello NC Wikipedian friends! *JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT IN-PERSON EVENT* Our next in-person gathering will happen at *Boxyard RTP on Oct. 1 from 5:30 to 7:45 p.m*. We had a great turnout at the last event at Boxyard, and we hope to see many of you there! Boxyard will be hosting a trivia night that evening, and we'll form at least one team. Show up and help us win! (Again!) Full details are here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Triangle_Trivia_October_2…>. If you're planning to attend, add your name to the "attending" list at the bottom of that page. There probably won't be another in-person gathering in the Triangle until the spring, so take advantage of your last chance in 2024 to meet other Wikipedians (and Wikipedia fans)! *FUTURE MEETINGS: ACTION REQUIRED* We like to do a pulse check at the start of each academic year to make sure our meeting times are friendly to everyone who wants to attend. We've been meeting once a month, on Tuesday evenings from 7pm to 8pm. If you're interested in attending meetings in the coming year and that time is *not* good for you, please send me an email (on- or off-list). Depending on responses, we may send out a Doodle poll. *NEXT MEETING* Our *next meeting will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 7pm*. Agenda and Zoom link to come. Mark your calendar! Cheers, Emily

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