Hi all,
And now for an update!
We're currently planning a joint event for Friday March 28 (Rain date: Saturday March 29) with our friends at the Students for Free Culture chapter at Columbia University, with students to be scrambling all over Manhattan in a competition to snap Wikipedia-requested photos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan
If you have any photo requests of any kind, don't be shy. Add them to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Targets
There's also going to be some role for Wikipedian/Wikimedian volunteers at this event, perhaps assissting some of the competing teams during the day, and certainly working on uploading the images at the party in the evening, and placing them in Wikipedia articles.
To clarify, the "Wikipedia Academy" article-writing event with Free Culture Columbia I mentioned in my previous message is still being planned, but it will be a separate event, held later in the semester.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about these developments, we'd be glad to hear them.
Thanks, Pharos