This will be Saturday March 28th, in the afternoon (around 1pm). We will have a wikipedia sign. Bring your referencing problems if you like and we can all work on them. I can also give short wikipedia referencing and/or library research tutorials if anyone wants. Bring your BPL card if you have one!
-- phoebe On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear wikiboston, > > Phoebe is coming to visit at the end of the month, and Nicole and I > have been talking about getting together for a reference day at the > BPL, focused on BLPs and [other] disputed topics. > > In particular, I would like to see [[List of people from Boston]] > improved and expanded to include modern people, so that it look more > like lists from other major cities (e.g., [[List of people from > Chicago]] and [[List of Austinites]]). > > Modern writers, musicians, and educators might be a place to start. > A Reference Challenge with a list of 100 peeps to begin with would be > interesting. (does someone want to start putting this together?) > > I would start with > * [[Category:People_from_Boston,_Massachusetts]] > * Older unref'ed BLPs from [[Category:Unreferenced_BLPs]] > * Topic searches of the BLP noticeboard's archives: > http://tinyurl.com/blpsearch > > And at the end of the day we could have a new and improved list of > Bostonians (with a special marker for BLPs? for those who have been > through BLP review?) and wrap up with comments on the en:wp > policies... > [[Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons]] > > SJ, > who can bring a 12-plug power strip. > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Nicole Willson > <[email protected]> wrote: > < So, do we want to do BLP at BPL? Also is there a >> specific area of BLP that could use help, like people in a certain area of >> the humanities (authors, artists etc.)? Another idea would be researching >> disputed articles. >> >> What time should this be? I just remembered that the BPL opens at 9 on >> Saturdays, but I think it'd be better that this start around 1 or 2. >> >> I know Hasty and Janet were interested, so that's two people right there. I >> can also email Evan to see if he can make it. >> >> SJ: Could you post this to the meetup group and the mailing list? I can do >> some sort of write-up, but can't post things to the meetup group. Thanks! >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:18 AM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Sounds like the humanities area is the way to go, and someone should >>> bring a power strip. >>> >>> Can you guys publicize it to wpians? I can put together a quick how to >>> reference page. Doing boston history articles would also be sweet, but >>> maybe too hard. >>> >>> If we even get one or two people it will be a fun way to spend an >>> afternoon. >>> >>> P. > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-boston mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston
