Thank you for the thoughts and organization! I am out of town on the 14th and am in general pretty absentee, but let me know if there is anything I can do on the teaching museum people about Wikipedia front. Andy
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Gaurav Vaidya <gau...@ggvaidya.com> wrote: > Hullo hullo! > > On 19 Nov, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At DYK. My suggestion for a hook is: > > > > Did you know that the first branch of the Boulder Public Library > (pictured) was built in 1906 for $15,000 from a donation by Andrew Carnegie? > > > > Any other ideas? > I think there's a link between the original funding of the BPL and Mary > Rippon, possibly the first woman to ever teach in a state university ( > http://boulderhistory.org/rippon.asp). There was something about that in > one of the books at the last meetup, but I unfortunately didn't start the > BPL article until Starbucks. Another reason to meet again at the BPL, I > guess! > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Also, we're about 300 characters away from getting the Boulder Public > Library article on the main page DYK. :) If anyone can suggest some more > references, I'll try to get it over 1500 and submitted. > Woah! We'll be famous! > > > If we do end up doing the museum one I can bring two. My wife has said > she's interested in going for that one as well. > I spoke to a few people at the museum, and they seem quite excited by this > idea! We brainstormed some ideas yesterday, and figure the most useful > format for the museum might be a two-part event, in which: > 1. Museum people show us around the collections, and then > 2. Talk to us about the best way for them to contribute to Wikipedia. > > I think this sounds like a lot of fun, since this way it'll be pretty > freeform: we'd probably start at 2pm in the public collections, to give > people time to show up; at some point, we'll all move to the collections > building and be shown around the collections. The goal here will be for us > to suggest how those collections could benefit Wikipedia -- would we like > photographs of the items in the collection themselves? What articles could > we write about the items in the collection or the people associated with > the museum? After this, we could have a normal editathon, or we could > continue working with museum people on a particular item which catches our > interest. Do you think that's a good way of organising this? Do you have > any other suggestions? > > If everything goes according to plan (hah!), I should have some details > finalised by early next week. Once that's done, I'm going to need your help > in publicising this. I'll make sure a Geonotice goes up, but there was some > talk of writing on the user talk pages of (1) anybody who's ever attended a > local Wikipedia event, and (2) anybody in relevant categories ("Wikipedians > interested in Colorado", "WikiProject Colorado members", and so on). If we > can do a lot of that over Thanksgiving weekend, I think we'll be a good > place going into December. > > An event page for Saturday, December 14 is up at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boulder/December_2013 -- > I'll update it as more details are finalised on the Museum's side, but > please fix anything that needs fixing, and do e-mail me if I've messed > anything up! > > cheers, > Gaurav > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co >
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