Hi everybody,
Thank you to everybody who came to or helped organize our virtual and in-person Wikipedia Day celebrations last week — I’ve uploaded photos to the Wikimedia Commons [0]! I’ve added everybody who wrote their e-mail address on the in-person signup sheet to the mailing list (I sent y’all invites about a week ago, but I don’t think those went out properly?). We use this mailing list to organize our events and send out important Wikipedia news or reminders, but please feel free to ask any questions, provide feedback on our events, or use this mailing list is any other Wikipedia-related way. We list upcoming events on Wikipedia [1], but if you’d like us to list them elsewhere, please let us know. Once again: welcome!
We also meet virtually on the second Tuesday of every month at 7pm ET on Zoom. Our meetings are informal and we’d love anybody interested in our activities to join us — especially if you have suggestions for improving future events. We take meeting notes on Etherpad, which also has a list of upcoming events [2]. Our next meeting will be in 2.5 weeks on Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 7pm ET on Zoom [3] — please do join us if you’d like! We’ll send out a reminder closer to the meeting as well.
The next event we’ve planned is an editathon based on country music [4] at the Love House on the UNC Chapel Hill campus on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. We’re organizing this along with the Center for the Study of the American South and UNC University Libraries to celebrate *Southern Cultures*’s “Country Music Mythology” issue and playlist on country music. We’re currently working on:
- Coming up with ways to promote this event — I’ll be working on writing Geonotices and Central Notices for this event later this week, but other suggestions for marketing would be great.
- Finding funding for food — unfortunately we missed the Wikimedia Rapid Grant [5] deadline that could have funded this, but I’m seeing if I can find other funding opportunities with regional Wikipedia organizations.
- Experienced editors who can volunteer to help new editors work on country music articles on Wikipedia.
If you have any other suggestions for improving this event (or suggestions for future events), please feel free to e-mail this group, get in touch with one of the core members of this group [6], or bring them to our next Zoom meeting on Feb 10, 2026 at 7pm ET. We’re hoping to hear from you!
Stay safe and warm, everybody!
cheers,
Gaurav
[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Day_North_Carolina_20…
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC
[2] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/North_Carolina_Wikipedians#L21
[3] https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83223394074?pwd=86Q62WDVUpUa9T1QBAI4alEFBaYYBD.1
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Country_Music_Editathon_2…
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid#Cycle_3_(Deadline:_Nov…
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/Core