Greetings, NC Wikimedians!
The GovDirectory WikiProject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory will have a focus week for North Carolina, October 6th through 12th. North Carolina is currently the U.S. state being most actively developed for GovDirectory. A goal of this focus week is to help us get some US content published on GovDirectory for WikiConference North America.
Some ways you can contribute will be to add and update information to the Wikidata items that are instances of state agency of North Carolina (Q133309046 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133309046). There's lots of room to contribute whatever your interests: adding contact information, geolocations, social media accounts, and other information that can often be easily sourced from the Wikipedia page itself. Or get more ambitious and research things like main regulatory text and agency structure. And please spread the word to others who like editing about North Carolina!
Need a quick intro or refresher on Wikidata? Check out the Wikidata Tours https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours.
Every Friday, the GovDirectory project has a 9am Eastern office hour (see Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Events page). On Friday, October 10th, this office hour will focus on North Carolina.
Note: there is also a focus week on the U.S. federal level September 22-28 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Govdirectory/United_..., with a special office hour at 3PM Thursday September 25th as well as the regular Friday morning 9AM office hour.
Yours,
Jennifer
In case anybody’s curious (I was!), it looks like we have 244 NC state agencies currently listed in Wikidata [1], from the NC National Guard (founded in 1663) to the North Carolina Energy Policy Task Force (founded 20 days ago). Some of those don’t look like state agencies, so there’s clearly a bunch of work to do in terms of cleaning up that list! I would love to see an inception date for every state agency (they must all be documented somewhere, I hope!).
cheers, Gaurav
On Sep 13, 2025, at 12:46 PM, Jennifer Miller via Wikimedia-US-NC wikimedia-us-nc@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings, NC Wikimedians!
The GovDirectory WikiProject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory will have a focus week for North Carolina, October 6th through 12th. North Carolina is currently the U.S. state being most actively developed for GovDirectory. A goal of this focus week is to help us get some US content published on GovDirectory for WikiConference North America.
Some ways you can contribute will be to add and update information to the Wikidata items that are instances of state agency of North Carolina (Q133309046 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133309046). There's lots of room to contribute whatever your interests: adding contact information, geolocations, social media accounts, and other information that can often be easily sourced from the Wikipedia page itself. Or get more ambitious and research things like main regulatory text and agency structure. And please spread the word to others who like editing about North Carolina!
Need a quick intro or refresher on Wikidata? Check out the Wikidata Tours https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours.
Every Friday, the GovDirectory project has a 9am Eastern office hour (see Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Events page). On Friday, October 10th, this office hour will focus on North Carolina.
Note: there is also a focus week on the U.S. federal level September 22-28 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Govdirectory/United_States_of_America#GovDirectory_Focus_Week_for_the_United_States,_September_22nd_to_28th, with a special office hour at 3PM Thursday September 25th as well as the regular Friday morning 9AM office hour.
Yours,
Jennifer
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