Here's a multilingual-focused Wikipedia event we are holding on Saturday
afternoon:
The Spoken Wikipedia Workshop NYC will be held on Saturday July 26, 3:30 -
5:30pm at Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
I've also proposed for those who are interested afterward, a social
wiki-dinner around Prospect Heights and Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
(Twelfth Night!).
http://shakespeareintheparkinglot.com/
(Note of caution: Our meeting room at BPL officially only holds 10 people,
so there's a possibility not everyone will get a seat in there, but there
is also the public area around the library.)
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi All,
Per our discussion at our last meeting with Asaf, I brought up an idea that
a few of us have been discussing, that is, applying for a PEG (Project and
Event Grant.. rolling application..) to create a small-grants program
shared by Wikimedia NYC and New England Wikimedians
<http://ne-wikimedians.org/wiki/Home>. That way, if someone from either
chapter wanted to attend a Wikipedia event in the NYC/New England area,
they could apply for a small grant for travel and a hostel.
I've put the idea up on Idealab. Please sign your name if interested, and
perhaps we can continue the discussion on-Wiki.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WM_NYC,_NE_inter-chapter_eve…
Thanks!
Dorothy
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Dorothy Howard
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hi All,
I want to let you know that William Blueher of the Thomas J. Watson Library
at the Metropolitan Museum, has created a GLAM-Wiki page for their project
and will be training a few of their museum interns to help them edit in the
coming months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/TJWL
I'm excited to see where their project goes and will let you all know of
future developments there as it happens.
Thanks,
Dorothy Howard
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hi All,
I want to let you know that members of Wikimedia NYC including myself have
been talking with Sumana Harihareswara, Senior Technical Writer at the
Wikimedia Foundation, whom many of you know, about having her run an Ada
Initiative Ally Skills training
<http://adainitiative.org/what-we-do/workshops-and-training/> for WMNYC
sometime in late September. After the WMNYC meeting with Asaf yesterday,
there was also some talk about the WMF helping us find a suitable diversity
trainer to talk specifically about effective communication, tolerance, and
other topics of gender, privacy, etc. etc. in online communities.
If you are interested in helping coordinate this, please contact Lane or
myself and/or give us your feedback about scheduling a diversity training
event.
Thanks,
Dorothy
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*Dorothy Howard*, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hi All,
Thanks to those who attended the strategic planning meeting with Asaf from
the Wikimedia Foundation today. I think it was quite productive and
interesting!
The notes are at the following etherpad:
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wmnycjuly14
We should probably move them to an appropriate wiki or other space to make
sure they are preserved.
If you weren't at the meeting but have questions or comments as to the
notes please feel free to respond here or PM me or others who attended!
Perhaps we will do another recap of what happened that more succinctly also
lists the decisions we made going forward during the meeting.
Thanks,
Dorothy
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127