Friends and colleagues,
I'm running a daytime event at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London, on 20 April:
http://blog.pwcom.co.uk/2012/04/11/wikipedia-and-the-ice/
to talk about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in relation to that sector.
Its not an editathon, and it's not aimed at existing Wikipedians, but a few places are still available for representatives of civil engineering or related (architects, etc) bodies which have archives, or students and historians of such subjects who are new to Wikipedia.
Please inform anyone in your networks, who fits that description and may be interested.
Fantastic!
Quoting Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
Friends and colleagues,
I'm running a daytime event at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London, on 20 April:
http://blog.pwcom.co.uk/2012/04/11/wikipedia-and-the-ice/to talk about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in relation to that sector.
Its not an editathon, and it's not aimed at existing Wikipedians, but a few places are still available for representatives of civil engineering or related (architects, etc) bodies which have archives, or students and historians of such subjects who are new to Wikipedia.
Please inform anyone in your networks, who fits that description and may be interested.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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On 12 April 2012 16:02, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
Its not an editathon, and it's not aimed at existing Wikipedians, but a few places are still available for representatives of civil engineering or related (architects, etc) bodies which have archives, or students and historians of such subjects who are new to Wikipedia.
As a consequence of the Geological Society workshop, I started working in related areas, and stumbled across [[Telford Medal]]. It's a treacherous topic, because the early history is complex. But really interesting for 19th century history, because it's about innovations that we take for granted. It needs a task force, and the relevant info is probably only in contemporary periodicals. But if you come across anyone who is able to sort out exaclt who was awarded the medal in the early decades, that would be a great help in getting notability indications for civil engineers. (The problem is that there were silver medals, and bronze medals, and multiple awards most years: we really need the full details.)
An example for the area is [[Lewis Cubitt]]. You'd have thought with the new King's Cross concourse just opened, there would be more attention to the architect from 1852 of the original station. Not so, really (and the photo of a bridge I put in the article isn't great even if it is the right one ...)
Charles
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