All,
The Philadelphia section of the New York chapter of Wikipedia is planning a
second iteration of Wiki Takes Philadelphia. It's a photo scavenger hunt and
contest where pictures are taken for the benefit of the Wikipedia project.
The event will be on Sunday, April 11, 2010, starting at Noon at the Drexel
University Quad (33rd and Market Streets).
To find more information or to sign up, visit our wikipedia project
page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Philadelphia/Wikipedia_T…>
.
Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you there!
-Marc Blumberg <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mblumber>
Hi everyone -
It was great joining you all for the Wikipedia meetup on Sunday. We
had quite a few debates, most of which were about
intellectual property issues. At Wikipedia Day last January, I
discussed the fact that debates over Wikipedia policies tend to get
very complex, long, and convoluted on discuss wikis. I'd like to
suggest (as an experiment) using the ideagraph system, which I
presented last Jan, to discuss a
few of the most complicated/controversial Wikipedia-related issues
that haven't yet garnered a consensus.
For example...
"Citing sources on the English Wikipedia should be optional in cases
where obtaining sources is difficult"
http://ideagra.ph/1755
...this is something we discussed on Sunday with regard to scientific
issues that are difficult to source.
The UI has been completely redesigned since last Jan - it now
resembles the look of a traditional Wikipedia discuss page with
indented refutations, etc. What makes this different from a Wikipedia
discuss page? Statements have a color (green/red) which represents
their current state of consensus (something that's been refuted, for
instance, is red). You can also re-use facts concluded in other
debates by other people - thus allowing the work of debating/reasoning
to be distributed among (potentially) billions of people.
The Ideagraph is a non-profit project based on the open principles of
Wikipedia (see the about page at the bottom). It was specifically
designed to fix the current problems with Wikipedia's discuss pages.
Hope you like it. Thanks!
-Peter
I joined Wikipedia but am unsure how to get involved. You appear to have a handle on this. Regards, Gary Gerstenfield.
Jim Henderson <jim.henderson(a)juno.com> wrote:
>> A reminder: This Sunday is the wikimeetup at Columbia University.
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>A pleasant and informative session as usual. I'm not online now and
>can't reach Wikipedia but the New York City Astronomy Seminars got kicked
>out of the basement of West 22nd Street Lutheran Church this month
>(someone else wanted the hall) and found a new home for twice monthly
>meetings at the ground floor conference room McBurney YMCA, across West
>14th from Salvation Army's New York Citadel. The fellow who made the
>arrangements is John Pazmino,
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> A reminder: This Sunday is the wikimeetup at Columbia University.
A pleasant and informative session as usual. I'm not online now and
can't reach Wikipedia but the New York City Astronomy Seminars got kicked
out of the basement of West 22nd Street Lutheran Church this month
(someone else wanted the hall) and found a new home for twice monthly
meetings at the ground floor conference room McBurney YMCA, across West
14th from Salvation Army's New York Citadel. The fellow who made the
arrangements is John Pazmino,
john.pazmino(a)ferc.gov
who I am confident will be eager to tell you about it, if we need a
meeting place.
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Come one, come all!
Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is Sunday March 21 at Columbia University.
This is a meeting for volunteers to the projects of the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation, and everyone else too, who has ever looked at
Wikipedia and wondered what's going on behind it.
One big topic of discussion, out of many, will be preparing for our
bid to host the international Wikimania 2011 conference.
Other topics will include the particular problems posed by Wikipedia
articles of such varying degrees of eclectic scientific controversy as
"climate change, alternative medicine, UFOs and Transcendental
Meditation", and discussing other issues relevant to Wikipedia and the
other Wikimedia projects.
We welcome all guests. If you support open education and free
culture, we are your people. If you have a project you want to work
on with us, this is a great opportunity to get acquainted. If you want
someone to give a talk or teach a class with an inside view of
Wikipedia, meet your volunteers. And if you just have any questions,
we'd be glad to try to answer them.
Remember, the agenda here is up to you! I encourage anyone who is
interested to sign up to give a presentation or suggest a topic for
general discussion at our wikimeetup page (given below).
---Meeting details---
2:30 PM - 5:00PM:
Room 1402 Pupin Hall, Columbia University. Take the elevator to the
13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. Meeting to be held
in the library at the east end of the hall.
5:00 PM onwards:
Meetup at Pupin Hall, and then walk together to a local neighborhood
restaurant (help us decide!). After dinner, we can return to Pupin
Hall for an observing session with the telescopes on the roof, weather
permitting.
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can officially 'sign up' at that page, and please add your ideas
to the agenda!
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City