Hi, folks!
Mark your calendars, RSVP, and plan to join us online one week from today as we kick off our October event series focused on Dix Park in Raleigh!
Here are the details for our October hybrid event series focused on Dix Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Dorothea_Dix_Hospital_Edi… in Raleigh. Please plan to join us for one or all three of the following events:
* Online kickoff Sunday, October 5, 3-4:30 PM
* "Dark History" Walking Tour, Dix Park, Raleigh, Friday, October 10 5:30 - 7:00 PM (optional picnic beforehand) Sign up for the tour on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dix-hill-asylum-dark-history-tour-tickets-1005….
o Alternate date: The tour is also available Friday, October 17
* Online Edit-a-thon Sunday, October 19th 3-4:30 PM
Our goal for this event series is to improve Wikimedia content about Dix Park, the historic Dorothea Dix hospital site, and related topics. We'd also love to engage some new editors and re-engage some formerly active editors.
It's especially important that you RSVP for the (free!) tour on Eventbrite, because the tour could fill up.
Please also share the event page with your networks to encourage a good turnout! The event is beginner-friendly and has aspects that can appeal to a wide variety of interests.
Yours,
Jennifer
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Hi everybody,
I wrote a little script to split our Global Message Delivery list into an active list [1] (users who have edited in 2020 or later) and an inactive list [2] (users who last edited between 2015 and 2019). I’ve deleted users who last edited before 2015. The Core team’s plan is to send messages only to active users (along with clear instructions on how to remove themselves from that list), but to recheck the inactive list every few years to see if any of those users have returned. I’ve also started a draft Global Message to send out to this list about our Dorothea Dix event [4] — if you have some time, please feel free to have a look and improve it in any way you can!
In terms of other marketing places, a slightly shortened version of our Geonotice [5] should be live as of today, and I’ve added this event to the Wiki Loves Monuments event page under North Carolina [6], but that’s not very prominent.
We still have four more days to put in a request for a CentralNotice banner for the in-person tour component of the event (deadline is 14 days before the event, so this Friday), but I still don’t think that’s the best way to advertise an event in like — I feel like that’s better for month-long events like Wiki Loves Monuments. Any thoughts on that? I was hoping that we could piggyback on the Wiki Loves Monuments campaign, but it doesn’t look like there’s one for the US [7] (yet?).
Does anybody have any other ideas on where we could advertise this event?
cheers,
Gaurav
[1] https://github.com/gaurav/wikipedia-global-message-cleanup
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/North_Carol…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/North_Carol…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/Global_messages#…
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice#Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Dorot…
[6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_the_Unit…
[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNotice
Greetings, North Carolina Wikimedians!
We've confirmed the dates and RSVPs are now open for our October hybrid event series focused on Dix Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Dorothea_Dix_Hospital_Edi… in Raleigh. Please plan to join us for one or all three of the following events:
* Online kickoff Sunday, October 5, 3-4:30 PM
* "Dark History" Walking Tour, Dix Park, Raleigh, Friday, October 10 5:30 - 7:00 PM (optional picnic beforehand) Sign up for the tour on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dix-hill-asylum-dark-history-tour-tickets-1005….
o Alternate date: The tour is also available Friday, October 17
* Online Edit-a-thon Sunday, October 19th 3-4:30 PM
It's especially important that you RSVP for the (free!) tour on Eventbrite, because the tour could fill up.
Please also share the event page with through your networks to encourage a good turnout! The event is beginner-friendly and has aspects that can appeal to a wide variety of interests.
Yours,
Jennifer
Greetings, NC Wikimedians!
The GovDirectory WikiProject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory will have a focus week for North Carolina, October 6th through 12th. North Carolina is currently the U.S. state being most actively developed for GovDirectory. A goal of this focus week is to help us get some US content published on GovDirectory for WikiConference North America.
Some ways you can contribute will be to add and update information to the Wikidata items that are instances of state agency of North Carolina (Q133309046 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133309046). There's lots of room to contribute whatever your interests: adding contact information, geolocations, social media accounts, and other information that can often be easily sourced from the Wikipedia page itself. Or get more ambitious and research things like main regulatory text and agency structure. And please spread the word to others who like editing about North Carolina!
Need a quick intro or refresher on Wikidata? Check out the Wikidata Tours https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours.
Every Friday, the GovDirectory project has a 9am Eastern office hour (see Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Events page). On Friday, October 10th, this office hour will focus on North Carolina.
Note: there is also a focus week on the U.S. federal level September 22-28 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Govdirectory/United…, with a special office hour at 3PM Thursday September 25th as well as the regular Friday morning 9AM office hour.
Yours,
Jennifer
Our small but motivated core team of volunteers at NC Wikimedians is planning a 3-part hybrid event series about Raleigh's Dix Park. Dix Park is Raleigh's largest park, with 308 acres and ages of influential history, and it still doesn't have its own Wikipedia page!
Do you like planning events? Join our next monthly meeting at 7 PM on Tuesday, September 9th. We'd love to have more folks involved in the planning. This event series will be a tie-in with Wiki Loves Monuments https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.
Tentatively, what we have planned is this:
~ Sunday, September 28th, time TBD: Online kickoff event. Explore, discuss, and evaluate the material already available on Wikipedia about Dorothea Dix Hospital, North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services, Dix Park itself, and related pages. This session may include training on Wikipedia's quality assessment. (Does that interest you? Do you have experience rating pages? Could you provide the training?)
Friday, October 3, 5:30 - 7:00 PM Dix Hill Asylum Dark History Tour. The incredibly informative walking tour is free, although you are encouraged to support this nonprofit effort with a donation after the tour. Maybe a bit of a picnic beforehand. Share your thoughts - is that a good idea?
~ Tuesday, October 7th evening Edit-a-thon. Apply what we've learned and improve Wikimedia content related to Dorothea Dix Park.
Join our regular meeting at 7 PM on the second Tuesday of the month, September 9th. We'll be meeting at this Zoom link: [1] https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87188031861?pwd=BRJxiJeTpa9NLPn6QCttmJUiHDKviL.1
If you're interested in helping to plan the event but can't make that meeting time, go ahead and let us know--we'll find a way to help you get involved.
Yours,
Jennifer