Hi everybody,

Thanks to everybody who came to today’s North Carolina Wikipedians monthly meetup! Some action items and follow-ups: - I’ve moved our meeting notes to the Meta Wikipedia [1] — please have a look and correct any mistakes I've made! - Thanks again to Bill Adair for talking to us about his planned book! I’ve CCed him on this e-mail, so feel free to reach out to him directly if you’d like to be interviewed for his project, or if you have suggestions on people or resources he should check out. - Please have a look at the draft annual report for our group [2] — please make any edits or let me know if there’s anything I should fix. I’ll submit it this Friday unless any of you tell me not to. - WikiCurious is hosting an event at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wed, July 2 from 5-8pm [3] — I’ll forward an e-mail from the organizers soon, but it sounds like a really fun event! - We came up with a name for our core team ("Core Team") and chose the first three Core members (Jennifer, James and me — plus Richard as an official external supporter). We think the criteria for being on the Core team should be that you have attended at least one monthly meeting in the last year, but that might change in the feature. I’ve created a barebones page at [4], and we’ll need to come up with how this Core team is going to work in the coming months. Please feel free to edit and improve the barebones page — we can discuss all the changes at our next meeting! - Jennifer pointed out that the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos contest [5] will be running from July 1 to August 31 and is looking for participating communities. I’ve added us to the list! We now need to following the Organizers Guide [6] and set up some pages to organize this effort within North Carolina.

I think our two big priorities for the next few weeks should be: 1. Trying to get out the word about the WikiCurious event in Charlotte — I’ll be looking into whether we can use the Mass Message sender system [7] to message the Participants and Supporters [8] on our Meta wiki page, and I assume they’ll be able to set up a CentralNotice. Is there anything else we can do to help people find out about this event? We could organize a meeting in the next few weeks to do this if necessary. 2. Starting the ball rolling on a Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos contest for North Carolina — should we focus on our WikiPix 2022 photos and try to put them into articles, come up with a list of North Carolina articles needing photographs, or something different? All ideas welcome!

See you at our next meeting on Tuesday, July 8 at 7pm ET!

cheers, Gaurav

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