On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Tal S Safran tss260@nyu.edu wrote:

On the wiki, it says that the event is exclusively for Columbia students. I'm an NYU guy, will that mean that my role in the event will only be as an outside "volunteer?"

• Tal

Hi Tal,

We discussed this at the Columbia Free Culture meeting last night, and we decided that this event should be open to everyone.

However, as an NYU student, you might not be eligible for certain free stuff and prizes paid for from Columbia University funds. But, we'll at least try to get top performers who are not Columbia students alternative prizes. And if Free Culture NYU wants to co-sponsor, that's another opportunity for great prizes for NYU students.

Of course, everyone is invited to the party that evening, and to have the free food there.

And the event will be open to everyone to participate directly. However, we've been talking about possibly "encouraging" the long-time Wikipedians to volunteer as photography mentors to the competing groups rather than competing directly (this hasn't really been decided). But certainly, the main role for volunteers would be in the ending party at night, when we have to upload, tally, and organize all the pictures.

I've updated the full information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan

Thanks

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:

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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

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