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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Wikipedia Day 2023 at Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, a Wikipedia and Public Domain Day celebration and mini-conference as part of birthday festivities marking the project's founding in 2001. In addition to the party, the event features presentations by Jason Scott of the Internet Archive and Anne Hunnell Chen of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive, panels, and, of course, lightning talks. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!
After 5PM, migration to afterparty at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th St
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!
We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!
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This is somewhat of a sequel to last year's Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Brunch in terms of the participants, though this time it is an evening event in a different borough.
We may leaven the event with a few impromptu lightning talks, a Wiki-fashion show (yes, really!), and likely an afterparty tour.
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Hi, Jim! Looking forward to seeing you at the Earth Day edit-a-thon in Beacon in April. Any chance you are going to be taking photos before the event? Would you be open to having others join you, if so? No pressure either way! Hope all is well. :) Emjackson42 (talk) 13:27, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, Emjackson42 I hadn't thought of visiting Beacon except on that day, Saturday April 15. Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Earth Day Beacon, NY 2023. I was thinking of visiting Ossining this Sunday for some photography around the Croton Reservoir, but the forecast is for wind making some discomfort while bicycling there, so that might be better another day. If you or others want to set a day, including this coming Sunday, to walk around a town where I have never been, I can pretty easily do it since, being an old retired guy, I seldom have a schedule conflict. And of course I'll be pleased. A weekday might be better because train service is more frequent, or I could find out about weekend bus service. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:02, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Jim.henderson: Oh, nice! I was wondering if you were coming up any earlier on that day, though another day might also work. Maybe we can see what the interest is in scheduling a photography day by asking the attendees at the April 15 event? If you're open to a potential second trip in the summer! Emjackson42 (talk) 17:45, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Emjackson42: it doesn't matter whether we are pinged on our own own talk page, since we get an Alert Bar (OBOD, Orange Bar of Doom) anyway. I'm a bit slow in answering today, for no good reason. I have discovered that D-Day for this session, April 15, is also the first day of the annual Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) which at last is running again at Rockland Community College in Suffern after a 3-year plague break. So, they'll get along without me. Maybe to make up I should write them an article. As for going to Beacon, no, not tomorrow and maybe not at all before D-Day. I mistakenly assumed you sought pictures before then; it would have been an effort but not a big problem either way. In any case you ought to snap and upload some camera phone pix pretty soon, inside the library and especially out. On D-Day there's only one morning train that I'm likely to be on, which will put me in the station with more than half an hour to walk a mere mile. So, naturally I'll snap a few pictures upon arrival, and some during the session. As for a separate photography day, best is to bring my bicycle so as to allow getting to many locations not only in Beacon but across the river in Newburgh. Unless we use other transport. Company would be appreciated, and your company especially, Esther. Oh, I'll send an E-mail to your WMNYC address so you'll know my real address. Jim.henderson (talk) 21:58, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!
We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a pair of special events this weekend as we wrap up Earth Week! No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome.
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!
We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.
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We are proud to announce that monthly food has returned!
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I sent this to an E-mail group on another topic, but found myself writing this summary:
Last night at the monthly Wikimedia NYC Wikiwednesday I tried to make my new Lumix G100 camera work as a Webcam, but after following the instructions in a Youtube video I failed. Must study it more. Other participants made their Logitech Webcam do the job. Less optically sophisticated, but in Logi products working with a computer is the actual design goal rather than an afterthought. Making the Samsung Android tablet work as a second screen, however, worked quite nicely.
Mostly I was busy with a student, a retired librarian who had somewhere else presented a slideshow about a sculpture on West End Avenue and wanted to make it into a Wikipedia article. We ran into a problem with cut & paste on her Macbook which another teacher with relevant experience was able to handle. It will still be a somewhat complex job, converting a chatty slideshow commentary into proper prose in scholarly style with references, but she’s got the basic skills and only has to learn various oddities of our editorial policies and software. I hope to see her again in the next few days since we live near each other; nice when we can work with minds who understand scholarly work. Which, after all, is why many of our events are held at research libraries.
Also I am the test subject for the local Chapter’s new User Business Card. Some people suggested that since we’re not a business it isn’t a “business card” but I think the proposed alternatives were already used during the Gilded Age of “Cartes de Visite” so we might as well use the modern common term which will not need explanations. Even before passing it out I already have a criticism or two for the design. Anyway a few hours from now I’ll be at MacSorleys drinking with a less formal club of retired telephone workers and will look for people who ought to have the card. Members of biker gangs are actually better prospects; maybe I’ll join one of them at another bar on Sunday. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:15, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
WikiWednesday (Aug 23) and Governors Island Wiki-Picnic (Sun Aug 27)
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This is the first big summer Wiknic since the 2019 edition and will feature an edit-a-thon focused on Governors Island and ArtCrawl Harlem, Depths of Wikipedia (recently of perpetual stew fame), as well as plenty more food topics drawing on the potluck ethos. All are welcome, new and experienced!
This is the first summer Wiknic since the 2019 edition and will feature an edit-a-thon focused Governors Island and ArtCrawl Harlem, Depths of Wikipedia and perpetual stew, as well as plenty more food. All are welcome, new and experienced!
The Members' Meeting is similar to other WikiWednesday meetups, except that its primary function is to elect a new Board of Directors. We will elect five board seats. After being elected, those elected can potentially appoint more seats. We will also have a fun WikiWednesday!
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History of Nursing in Newark edit-a-thon at Rutgers University
Hi Jim -- I hope you can join us! Looking forward to seeing you next month in Philly!
You are invited to join Rutgers-Newark archivists from Dana Library and Smith Library on Tuesday, October 3 (3:00pm-5:00pm) for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon highlighting the history of medicine in Newark. Come to Dana Library and help increase the online representation of important Newark scientists and health professionals on the largest open encyclopedia on the internet.
No experience editing Wikipedia is required. Beginners are encouraged to attend! At the beginning of the edit-a-thon we’ll have a brief introduction to Wikipedia. We’ll provide a list of articles to edit, as well as reference materials. In addition, we'll give a brief overview of archival collections related to the history of medicine housed at Smith and Dana Libraries at Rutgers-Newark. The edit-a-thon is free and open to the public. If you are not a current Rutgers student or employee, please bring a laptop to participate in the event.
Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Time: 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Location: Hybrid--- but in-person strongly encouraged!
Online (via Zoom) and at Rutgers-Newark Campus, John Cotton Dana Library, Electronic Classroom, lower level. Click here for directions to Dana Library. Use 77 Bleeker St, Newark NJ 07102 if you are using a GPS.
Please note: In person attendees must present a current Rutgers ID card or government-issued ID (e.g., driver license, passport, Real ID, etc.) to enter Dana Library.
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Don't know if you still get out and bike around the city (I can't imagine you don't), but, if you do and get over to College Point in Queens any, I found out where the Dish Network call center George Santos worked at in 2011–12 is, and it looks like it could be photographed from nearby public streets (or even the driveway of the business next to it, if it's open). Since there's a paucity of images in the article due to the shortage of what we could reasonably use, if you could get over there and take and upload one that would be nice.
So, I made a Wikidata item for it. 31-89 123rd Street (Q123675390) with geocoodinates so it will be a red dot on the WikiShootMe map when I bicycle through there. Though, my WD item doesn't say why the building is interesting; probably there's a good WD way of saying that. As for when I visit the neighborhood again, during the plague I aged at least a dozen years and now bike shorter distances and in warmer weather. It's not at all far from the Flushing station, but as for warm days we'll see. Jim.henderson (talk) 02:13, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for NYC Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. This event is a successor to our inaugural December 2023 Hacking Night. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well!
Good answer to the "Can anyone ..." question. I've upvoted it. Mine is shorter though similar; as usual with Quora, I hadn't seen yours.
I've been keen on astronomy for over 70 years and I did a lot of biking when I lived in Dunedin but not since moving back to the North Island in 1971. I've not got into Wikidata. My main wiki work is on Familypedia.
@Robin Patterson: Here in New York we have several astronomy clubs, but my favorite little club died in the plague even though none of the members did. I need to get into one of the bigger ones and make some sort of cooperation with our Wikimedia NYC chapter. Maybe in connection with the April 8 Total Eclipse. I am likely to give away my 100mm Maksutov next month. The tripod is too heavy to carry by hand anymore to a good observing site.
The biker gangs, no. For one thing I bike less now that I'm no longer in my 60s. I went out on a photo ride with a fellow editor-biker a couple months ago and being one third my age she had to limit her speed severely so I could keep up. Ah well, I can still do short solo rides looking out for targets that have coordinates in WD but have no photo. I hope things go well for you in the new year. Jim.henderson (talk) 18:59, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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