Hi everybody,
I’ve added some photos to the event page [1] — please have a look and improve it in any way you see fit, and please sign up if you can join us next Sunday! I've set up a Geonotice for our event [2], but we need at least 14 days notice and a bunch of banner design work to create a CentralNotice, so I don’t think we’re going to be able to do that for this event.
I think the next big thing is to advertise this event as much as possible before next Sunday — if you know of any mailing lists, Facebook groups, social media or other channels that might reach people interested in Wikipedia events focussed on Eastern NC, please let them know about our event!
cheers, Gaurav
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Virtual_Editathon_August_2... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice#Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Virtua...
On Aug 18, 2025, at 2:22 AM, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Hi everybody,
At last Tuesday’s meeting, we decided to organize a second WikiPix virtual editathon [1] to be held in two weeks on Sunday, August 31, 2025. Our goal is continue working through the 452 WikiPix images that remain to be checked [2] and improved with metadata [3]. That’s the last day for Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos [4], which seems like a useful project.
For the virtual editathon, we would like help in the following areas:
- If you have a few minutes to review and improve the event page [1], that would be fantastic — and please do sign up if you’re interested!
- Do you have thoughts on the best time to organize the event? We debated between 3-4:30pm and 3:30-5pm — would either of those times, or other times that day work best for you? Please let us know!
- Are you interested in helping to lead the virtual editathon and guide attendees through checking the submissions, improving the metadata and finding Wikipedia articles that could benefit from additional photos? Please let us know!
Other Core members: please do add any other need-help items I forgot!
cheers, Gaurav
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Virtual_Editathon_August_2... [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiPixNC_2022_images_to_check [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SHz0G8jS2QqAZR4MLUF6JUndpKPsB8q_NLI-AXF8... [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos