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_December... [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NiBmuf5auQCjhPwAsG1kLbywLhumAUWqsrs3... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/NC/Virtual_Editathon_Dec...