It is The Reader that we should consider on every edit to Wikipedia.
"Let us keep our minds open by all means, as long as that means keeping our sense of perspective and seeking an understanding of the forces which mould the world. But don’t keep your minds so open that your brains fall out!"
You are invited to join us at Ace Hotel for Wikipedia Day NYC 2018, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of the project's global 16th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with keynotes, plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions.
And there will be cake.
We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
Part of Wikipedia's global 17th birthday celebration, Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 at Ace Hotel will include a mini-conference of scheduled panels as well as unconference style talks and discussions proposed by attendees on the day of the event. We are very excited to announce speakers such as Jason Scott (Internet Archive), Jackie Koerner (Visiting Scholar, Wiki Ed), and Andrew Lih (Wikimedia DC), as well as a fantastic line-up of panels that highlight projects and issues of relevance to the Wikimedia NYC community.
See Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 speakers + scheduleAnd there will be cake.
We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
Hi Jim - I finally have a weekend devoted to Wiki learning and writing and came upon my first difficulty. I couldn't find a link to the video recording of WikiDay 2018 where it should be somewhere on the event page Do you think it is there - I don't know how to do an exhaustive search Hannah Silverman (talk) 04:38, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I have been patiently waiting. They should be at Media related to Wikipedia Day 2018 NYC videos at Wikimedia Commons but that's empty so far. As it happened I was dining with Wikipedians including @Bluerasberry: a few hours ago and the videos have been delayed getting there because Wikimedia Commons only allows a few rare video formats and they haven't been converted yet from ordinary format. However, most of the videos are at the Livestream site here. The one I shot, no, not yet, but that was for software writers anyway. Doing anything with video, I learned when I gave it a try, takes a lot of time. Would you like me to pedal downtown this weekend to a restaurant or library to meet? I need the exercise, having recently recovered from more than a month of illness. Especially fun if you can invite another new editor. Jim.henderson (talk) 05:05, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I forgot to ping @Hannah Silverman: to make sure you get a little red alert bell at the top of your page.
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
I tried to put a personally created picture (Cecile Chong wikipedia IMG_6329.jpg) on the sandbox material on this future article material which I am not submitting until better citations as we talked. it seems wiki commons wont let me do until there is an actual stub. Is that right?Nudgol (talk) 02:39, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nice to hear from you again so soon, @Nudgol: In all my years I never heard of such a restriction, but there's always a first time. Incidentally it's easier if you can link to the various things in question, though it was easy to see that what you are talking about is User:Nudgol/sandbox. A little investigation turned up File:Cecile Chong wikipediq IMG 6329.jpg. Oh, of course you don't know that odd little insider's trick of the two brackets and colon; silly forgetful me. Anyway with the Edit Source you can see the line at the top of this section which invokes that picture. You can paste that line into your sandbox; I'll let you do it rather than put it in myself. You should also look in your Commons watchlist to see what happens to the picture; sometimes they are deleted because of minor errors that could easily be corrected if only the author noticed the warning.
Incidentally tonight, Tuesday, I'll be dining with a few old friends at the Park Plaza Restaurant [1] in Brooklyn Heights, convenient to Downtown Brooklyn subways, 7 PM in the back of the restaurant. We'll bring our laptops and cameras and discuss local history and putting pictures in Wikipedia, among other topics. You and others watching this page will be welcome; there's always a spare table in case we get an unexpected crowd. Good Wi-Fi and good food, too. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:42, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk)
Due to the winter storm warning, the WikiWednesday Salon & Skillshare scheduled for March 21st has been cancelled. Please consider attending one of the many edit-a-thons scheduled for this week. We look forward to editing with you soon!
Women in Red's April+Further with Art+Feminism 2018
Please join us as Women in Red and Art+Feminism continue our collaboration in April 2018. Continue the work you've done in March and pledge to help close the gender gap in April! All you need to do is sign up on the Meet-Up page below and list any articles you create in the month of April.
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly WikiWednesday evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda! After the main meeting, pizza and video games in the gallery.
7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our agenda, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk)
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in this edit you added a beautiful photo of Walther calculator. however, the main visible feature is not the accumulator (which is partially shown at the lower right section), but the "rotor", a row of pinwheels that activate the accumulator. because it's such a beautiful machine, i'm replacing it with another photo from the same photographer, where the accumulator is a bit more prominent.
Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 21:41, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
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New Page Patrol?
Hi Jim.henderson,
I've recently been looking for editors to invite to join New Page Patrol, and from your editing history, I think you would be a good candidate. Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; we could use some additional help from an experienced user like yourself. The flag might also come in handy with your event coordination activities.
Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. If you choose to apply, you can drop an application over at WP:PERM/NPR.
I am honored, @Insertcleverphrasehere: but have already bitten off more than I can chew. More of my time and edits now go to pictures in Wikimedia Commons, another of the many corners of the Wiki-empire that need more attention from us experienced editors. I hope the recent ban on new articles without an account is a help. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:03, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes ACTRIAL has been an enormous help. If you are busy elsewhere that is totally fine, and uploading of images to commons is something that we also need more of, so thanks for that work! See you around and thanks for your work on Wikipedia. — Insertcleverphrasehere(or here)19:17, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there Jim, noticed you added a hyperlink to the word "space" in my article on Thaddeus Stanley Golas. Isn't that a word everyone already knows the meaning of? Does it help the reader to define "space"? I wouldn't have thought to do that. So my questions are: why do you think it is helpful and how did you even notice this obscure article? Metaphysics Man (talk) 15:13, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to WikiProject Telephone
Hello Jim.henderson/Archive 20. Thank you for joining and welcome to WikiProject Telephone. Please check out:
Wikimedia NYC invites you to attend a Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon on Thursday, July 12th at Jefferson Market Library! Wiki Loves Pride is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. We are holding this year's event in July in order to support folx who want to contribute a photograph they took at one of NYC's many Pride events or edit an article about something they learned this June. Not sure what to contribute? No problem! We will have a list of articles that need your help.
For fearlessly running out into the streets of a city thousands of miles from home, leaving a key speech by the WMF’s director behind, to take pictures of a fire, getting your new phone pickpocketed in the process. Daniel Case (talk) 12:02, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
And guess what? There was yet another fire on a train in Cape Town just two days ago.
You are invited to join us the "picnic anyone can edit" in Brooklyn's green Prospect Park, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck.
2–7pm - come by any time! Our reserved picnicking area is by Bartel-Pritchard Square entrance, located at Prospect Park West and 15th Street.
The picnic will be held by the park's Bartel-Pritchard Square entrance immediately on the lawn to your right as you walk through the lovely lotus columns.
Look for us by the Wikipedia / Wikimedia NYC banner!
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 23:52, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.
This month will also feature on our agenda, upcoming editathons, the organization's Annual Meeting, and Chapter board elections - you can add yourself as a candidate.
We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 20:43, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello Jim. I'm glad I met you at The Schomburg Center, Black Lunch Table the other day. You are so knowledgeable I was impressed. I would be happy to meet you and go together to take pictures and see how you work. Let me know. Take care.
Juliajusto8 (talk) 15:25, 28 September 2018 (UTC)Sept 28, 2018, Juliajusto8 (Julia Justo).[reply]
Images at NYBG
Hi Jim - Great to meet you today! Could you please let me know when you post the images from the Wikipedia edit-a-thon today? Thanks so much!
Amanda
I ought to visit you again at AMNH which is much closer to my home in Hell's Kitchen. Anyway the pix are cropped, straightened and uploaded. If desired, I can also upload the unretouched original .JPG files, and the ones I didn't like enough to retouch. E-mail will follow. Jim.henderson (talk) 20:53, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Triangle Arts Association in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
(note this month we will be meeting in DUMBO, Brooklyn, not at Babycastles)
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 01:29, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Wikidata, the newest project of the Wikimedia movement, went live on October 29, 2012. Please join Wikimedia New York City as we celebrate its sixth birthday at the Ace Hotel. There will be (optional) lightning talks, casual conversation, and, most importantly, CAKE!
No experience with Wikidata? No problem. This event is open to all.
Invitation re: Fourth Amendment related police procedure pages
Hi Jim.henderson, you responded to a comment I left on the Economic inequality page. My main interest is fixing up Terry stop and Consent search over the next few weeks. I left some messages on the Talk pages there and I'd like to see if I can get you interested. If so, please visit :-)
Hello, Jim.henderson. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Thank you, @Ronhjones: indeed it's my error a month ago. I am surprised it took so long; quicker if you simply trimmed the the passage as I did today, since the topic is adequately covered in the linked main article. Jim.henderson (talk) 00:11, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It not really my subject, we do get lots of messages at OTRS saying "page X is wrong". Usually we tell them they can fix it, but they was not sure what word was missing. Ronhjones (Talk)02:05, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ah. The original complainant saw the error, but was clueless and anxious, so your part was just to find and notify the culprit, namely me. The clumsiness of this method surprises me, but thanks again, @Ronhjones: for your part. Jim.henderson (talk) 02:27, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan, near Columbus Circle. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
(note this month we will be meeting in Manhattan, near Columbus Circle, not at Babycastles)
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 03:22, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
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Got busy and later forgot about this. Sure, @Dthomsen8: it sounds like a good topic and one of which I know almost nothing. I could do one about New Jersey but signed at the Lightning Talk section with wiki-photography instead. Maybe with NJ examples. Yesterday I also signed on the Volunteer page which was an external link. Don't remember; was that Everbrite? Whatever; it gave me no difficulty; just gave my E-mail and will be contacted. I assume my hand will heal by then and let me work as porter or whatever. Jim.henderson (talk) 16:49, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Idle moment while the astronomy lecturer describes the horoscope he cast for New York in the January 21 lunar eclipse. Most these lightning talks are technical, not topical, but I can’t guess whether this makes you smarter than most or dumber. Anyway, different, probably pleasant, and maybe highly informative. Jim.henderson (talk) 01:26, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Jim, You already know more about Jersey from the above list than you did before. I plan to talk a very little bit about Jersey and other Channel Islands, 1 minute or less, and two minutes about what I plan to do this year, ending with a pitch for editors to join me. I will reherse this week, and I will have a handout on paper and online. --Dthomsen8 (talk) 03:28, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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