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
Hi everybody,
Just a reminder that we’ll be planning this three event spectacular at our regular monthly meeting tonight at 7pm ET on Zoom [1]. Hope to see some of you there!
cheers, Gaurav
[1] https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87188031861?pwd=BRJxiJeTpa9NLPn6QCttmJUiHDKviL.1
On Sep 4, 2025, at 8:37 PM, Jennifer Miller via Wikimedia-US-NC wikimedia-us-nc@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-NC mailing list -- wikimedia-us-nc@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-us-nc-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi everybody,
After some discussion at our monthly meeting yesterday, we have tentatively decided to postpone this event to October 5/10/12 — but if you disagree, please speak up so we can choose dates that work for the maximum number of people!
I’ve set up an event page for this event [1] — please improve it in any way you can! I’ve also drafted a Geonotice for this event [2] — I won’t submit it until we’re absolutely sure about the dates and have coordinated things around the tour and the editathons, but please have a look and improve the text in any way you can!
We will also be sending out a Global Message to everybody who has ever attended one of our events and has edited Wikipedia within the last X years from the full list I assembled for the Charlotte event [3]. I’ll spend some time this weekend looking for ways of automatically determining when everybody on that list last edited any Wikipedia, so that should help us figure out how far in the past “X” should be, but if anybody has suggestions for that, please let me know!
We’re hoping to have most of the details around this event nailed down in the next week so we can advertise widely, so if you have any suggestions for improving this event or where we should advertise or how, please chime in — the more organizers the better!
cheers, Gaurav
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Dorothea_Dix_Hospital_Edit... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/Geonotices#en:Wik... [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/North_Caroli...
On Sep 4, 2025, at 8:37 PM, Jennifer Miller via Wikimedia-US-NC wikimedia-us-nc@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-NC mailing list -- wikimedia-us-nc@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-us-nc-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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