Thanks, Gaurav! We can definitely include your mailing list website sign-up at the event.

Hope you and others can make it! We'll be setting up a central notice banner next week, and will keep you all posted on any other updates.

Let us know if you have any questions in the meantime.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:

Hi Crystal,

Thanks so much for this exciting update! I’ll need to check whether I can make it to Charlotte that day, but I will certainly try. I’m also CCing this to our mailing list to see if any of our other members can make it to the event.

A physical signup sheet sounds like a great idea! I think showing a QR code that takes people to our mailing list website [1] during the presentation would be really helpful in making it easy for anybody at the event to get in touch with us afterwards. Having one of us speak at the event would of course be perfect — hopefully we’ll know who can make it to the event pretty soon!

Please let us know how we can help get the word out about this event. We’re working to set up a mass message to the participants and supporters on our user group page [2] and I assume you’ll be setting up site notices, but if there’s anything else we can do to help, please let us know!

Cheers, Gaurav

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikimedia-us-nc.lists.wikimedia....

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians#Participants_and_...

On Jun 10, 2025, at 7:58 PM, Crystal Boceta < crystalboceta@wikimedianyc.org> wrote:

Hi Gaurav,

I hope you are doing well! Just wanted to circle back here with details for our next Wikicurious event. *Wikicurious: Rewriting the Canvas on Wikipedia *is happening on *Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from 5-8pm at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, North Carolina*. More information, including the event description and program agenda can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikicurious:_Rewriting_the_Canvas_on_Wik...

We'd love to have you (or another member of the NC usergroup) come and speak for a couple minutes at the top of the program about the usergroup, and how folks can join. We can also have a physical sign-up sheet at the event if that is helpful for you.

We'd also love it if you could please pass the invitation along to members to come as attendees, and also as experienced Wikieditors, who can walk around during the Edit-a-thon portion and help any guests who have questions as they edit. For the folks who have more experience editing and want to volunteer to help others, please just flag those usernames for us so that we can ensure they are given the correct badge upon arrival.

Please let us know if you are available, and if you have any questions!

Thank you, Crystal

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM Crystal Boceta < crystalboceta@wikimedianyc.org> wrote:

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Sounds good, thanks Gaurav!

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:

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Yay! We don’t really do RSVPs, so we won’t know until the day. But one person has e-mailed me to say he’ll be there next Tuesday, and we usually get 2-5 people show up at our monthly meetings, so that’s probably what we’ll see next week.

Cheers, Gaurav

On Apr 23, 2025, at 4:25 PM, Crystal Boceta < crystalboceta@wikimedianyc.org> wrote:

We received it, thanks so much Gaurav! Let us know how many others end up signing up.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:

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Hi Crystal,

Done, and I’ve invited both you and Pacita — please let me know if either of you haven’t gotten the invite!

Cheers, Gaurav

On Apr 21, 2025, at 5:19 PM, Crystal Boceta < crystalboceta@wikimedianyc.org> wrote:

Hi Gaurav, yes April 29 works! Can you please send a calendar invite? Thanks so much.

Crystal Boceta (she/her) Wikicurious Program Manager Wikimedia NYC

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:

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Hi Crystal,

I think you meant April 29 (April 19 is tomorrow!), and yes, it would be at 7pm ET — I’d send an e-mail to our mailing list to see if anybody else was able to join, otherwise it might just be the three of us. But I think we’ll have a few more people turn out at least. Would Tuesday, April 29 at 7pm ET work for you both?

cheers, Gaurav

On Apr 18, 2025, at 5:17 PM, Crystal Boceta < crystalboceta@wikimedianyc.org> wrote:

Thanks Gaurav! May 13 is travel day for Pacita so that might be tough, but I think we can both make April 19 work. Would it also be at 7pm ET?

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:

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Hi Crystal,

That sounds great! The North Carolina Wikipedians will next be meeting on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 7pm ET — we could discuss this with everybody then, or we could meet on one of the next two Tuesdays (April 22 or 29) at the same time and see how many people we could get. What would you prefer? I think a meeting focussed just on Wikicurious on April 29 before discussing it with the full group on May 13 makes the most sense to me, but whatever works for you will be fine.

cheers, Gaurav

> On Apr 16, 2025, at 2:30 PM, Crystal Boceta < crystalboceta@wikimedianyc.org> wrote: > > Hi Gaurav, > > I hope you are well. My name is Crystal Boceta and I just started as the Wikicurious Program Manager. My colleague, Pacita gave me your contact information and mentioned that she had been in touch with you and Emily about a potential Wikicurious program at the University of North Carolina. > > We're wondering if there is an opportunity to partner together here, perhaps for an event in June? Let me know if you're available to hop on a call over the next couple of weeks to discuss! > > Thank you, > -- > Crystal Boceta (she/her) > Wikicurious Program Manager > Wikimedia NYC >

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