This event: http://kingscrossenvironment.com/2014/06/16/authoring-kings-cross/ sounds, er interesting: Who will author the future of King’s Cross? You are invited to join us for an in-person and on-location collaborative update to Wikipedia’s entry for King’s Cross Central. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

I think you have just invented the sledgathon, aka wreckshop ...

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Charles Matthews wrote: I think you have just invented the sledgathon, aka wreckshop ... A sledgeathon just gives me the mental image of trying to edit Wikipedia while hurting down an icy track in a bobsleigh. I'm not certain this would be successfull. Chris ---- Chris McKenna cmckenna(a)sucs.org www.sucs.org/~cmckenna The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart Antoine de Saint Exupery _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

It has the potential to go down hill rapidly On 20 June 2014 11:06, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Richard Nevell Assistant Office Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0753 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Icy what you did there. On 20 Jun 2014 11:19, "Richard Symonds" <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

I helped out with this event today, pretty interesting afternoon it made too, Central St. Martin's being a new creative space and the gallery there giving a free display of end-of-year works by students. The event was "paper based" with lots of the public discussing the history and community of King's Cross Central and the coordinators gathering all suggestions and cut & pasting the huge wall printout as the day went on. Rebecca Ross was coordinating the event and is on the faculty of CSM, specialising in urban history and communications. She has my email and I have offered to help with the staging/review/release of updates to the Wikipedia article, this will probably take a week or two. I took some photos and there were some photographers with the larger stage of the event, so hopefully those will make their way to Commons later. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Editathon_in_King%27s_Cross_Cen… . I took a little time out to interview Rebecca, and I am thinking of shaping this up into a Signpost article, along the lines of how an independent event like this can empower communities to change the way Wikipedia might represent their local area, including members of the public who do not want to edit Wikipedia for various reasons. You may well be onto something there. A new "flavour" going back to the