Hey NC Wikipedian friends!
At our meeting last night we discussed possible dates for hosting some sort
of Wikipedia Day event. Thanks to Morgan, who contacted the *Chapel Hill
Public Library*, we are a GO for holding our event there on *Feb. 4, 11am
to 1pm*.
They sent us this PDF with info about holding events there:
*https://chapelhillpubliclibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Preparing-for-your-event.pdf
<https://chapelhillpubliclibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Preparing-for-your-event.pdf>*
I am AGAIN without power, as part of some big outage in Durham, and don't
have the capacity to think through logistics right now, but wanted to send
that date, time, and location tonight so anyone who's interested can get it
on their calendars.
We're planning to keep this light and lean -- just a group of Wikipedians
in a room, hanging out and willing to talk about Wikimedia and the user
group, and/or willing to demonstrate edits to anyone dropping in who's
curious.
If you're interested in attending and/or helping to plan, please send a
note either on- or off-list. (Folks who were there last night, I'm assuming
you're still on board.) I'll send a follow-up about plans to everyone who
expresses interest -- that way we can keep the general list from getting
too chattery.
Looking forward to it!
Emily
On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 4:42 PM Gaurav Vaidya <gaurav(a)ggvaidya.com> wrote:
Hi everybody,
As we discussed on our last call, we’re thinking of organizing a Wikipedia
Day event in Jan or Feb 2024 to commemorate Wikipedia’s founding on January
15, 2001. I’ve set up a meetup page to organize that [1] and added it to
the consolidated list of NC events I’ve been working on [2]. Please feel
free to edit either page!
(Big thanks to Frank, whose Wiknic page [3] I stole the layout from!)
I think the two main things we need to decide are the date and location. I
think a weekend event would be the easiest for people to attend. The last
weekend of January (Jan 27-28) would work particularly well for me, as I
might be a bit busy on the weekends before and after then (Jan 20-21 and
Feb 3-4). I don’t think I’ll be able to attend anything from Feb 10
onwards, but my travel plans then are still fluid, so let’s see.
Anywhere in the Research Triangle would work well for me, but I’d be
willing to drive as far as Winston-Salem or Zebulon if that works better
for all of y’all. I like the idea of doing this in a public library so that
we don’t need to worry about the weather and we might get some foot traffic
wandering in.
Happy Holidays!
Cheers,
Gaurav
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Wikipedia_Day_2024
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Wiknic_2023
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