February 6–8: The third annual ArtBytes Hackathon at the Walters Art Museum! This year Wikimedia DC is partnering with the Walters for a hack-a-thon at the intersection of art and technology, and I would like to see Wikimedia well represented.
February 11: The monthly WikiSalon, same place as usual. RSVP on Meetup or just show up!
February 15: Wiki Loves Small Museums in Ocean City. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, with support from Wikimedia DC, will be leading a workshop at the Small Museum Association Conference on how they can contribute to Wikipedia. Tons of representatives from GLAM institutions will be present, and we are looking for volunteers. If you would like to help out, check out "Information for Volunteers".
I am also pleased to announce events for Wikimedia DC Black History Month with Howard University and NPR. Details on those events soon.
If you have any questions or have any requests, please email me at james.harewikimediadc.org.
Not even a week ago I sent out a message talking about upcoming events in DC. Guess what? There are more events coming up in February.
First, as a reminder, there is a WikiSalon on February 11 (RSVP here or just show up) and Wiki Loves Small Museums at the Small Museum Association Conference on February 15 (more information here).
Now, I am very pleased to announce:
Tuesday, February 17 from 10 AM to 3 PM there will be #WikiTurgy at the University of Maryland. Join fellow theatre enthusiasts for a “mass act of public dramaturgy!”
Thursday, February 19 from 10 AM to 4 PM we are hosting the Howard University Black History Edit-a-Thon. We are working in partnership with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of African-American and African diasporic history.
Tuesday, February 24 from 6 PM to 8 PM we have the Black History Month “First Edit” at NPR. Help improve Wikipedia and help others make their first edit to Wikipedia!
Finally, our monthly dinner meetup is on Saturday, February 28.
There is going to be a lot going on, and I hope you can come to some of the events!
If you have any questions or need any special accommodations, please let me know.
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Friday, March 13: NIH Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon – 9 AM to 4 PM
In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is organizing and hosting an edit-a-thon to improve coverage of women in science in Wikipedia. Free coffee and lunch served!
Saturday, March 21: Women in STEM Edit-a-Thon at DCPL – 12 PM
Celebrate Women's History Month by building, editing, and expanding articles about women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields during DC Public Library's first full-day edit-a-thon.
I'm not sure that this user is around Wikipedia enough to give your inquiry immediate attention. However, I think if you email him at cydeweys (at) gmail.com, you will get a prompt response. Good Ol’factory(talk)00:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Hello,
My company is interested in building a Wikipedia page. I understand the Wikipedia community's defense of having an inviolable, objective database of verified (bits of) knowledge. What I'm trying to do now is link to outside sources and create the page (I'm an officer of the company) in an authoritative manner in such a way that sheds no doubt on it's authenticity or objective mention.
Current issues are:
notability
outside links
conflict of interest / promotional material (per previous editorial comment)
Whoops, my bad. I failed to clean up something after testing recent fixes for proper category moving. I just deleted it. --Cyde Weys19:23, 9 April 2015 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for pointing this out. Looking at the code, I believe it should apply to all category pages, not just speedy moves. The new code that takes advantage of the category moving functionality isn't also editing the text of the page like it used to when it was copy/pasting the category text from the old page into the new page. It looks like I need to do a separate edit now after the move completes. I'm working on it now. --Cyde Weys13:23, 5 April 2015 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for getting on to this. I agree that it's not only speedy moves but ordinary CFR renames too which are not being edited at the moment. – FayenaticLondon20:28, 12 April 2015 (UTC)Reply
I've made some fairly significant changes to how all of this stuff works now. Please keep your eye out! But it should all be working. --Cyde Weys20:29, 19 April 2015 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, I'm looking into it. It's hitting exceptions on some of the tasks. Looks like some issues in PyWikiBot-core. I'll probably be submitting another patch soon. --Cyde Weys17:52, 12 May 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Wondering if it's worthwhile to estimate ages of the giant trees. This might help people learning about them to see how important conservation efforts are as these are certainly not replaceable. Thank you! 168.156.111.2 (talk) 20:09, 26 May 2015 (UTC)Reply
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...is running just fine (well, at least, as of this post :P). Anyway, just pinging you to say I appreciate the bot and hope everything's going well for you otherwise. Cheers =) --slakr\ talk /04:25, 11 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Hi, I never saw the Call for Renaming, so I'm late to the discussion, but with the recent addition of the hyphen, Jewish-American short story writers is the only one in the tree to use the hyphen. What's the best thing for me to do in order to discuss whether to revert the change or to change the entire tree? Thanks, Aristophanes68(talk)19:58, 25 June 2015 (UTC)Reply