Sounds awesome, Christian! Please add preliminary Harvard details here, and maybe create a starter wiki page ( or just borrow Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston ):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries#Northeast I've been involved in helping plan the WLL events nationally, and the NYPL event in particular, so let me know if you have questions. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Christian Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a Harvard undergrad and Wikipedian who decided about a week ago that I > wanted to do something at Harvard for "Wikipedia Loves Libraries". I didn't > know of this list at the time, and I reached out to the Harvard library > community over internal lists. My proposal was a two-part "Intro to > Wikipedia" event to be held at one of Harvard's libraries. There would be a > brief presentation on the internal workings of Wikipedia followed by an > editing workshop. There's enormous interest in Wikipedia among the Harvard > community (students, professors, library staff, etc.) but very little > understanding of how it works behind-the-scenes and how an individual or > group can contribute to the project. I wanted to tap into this interest. > > The Harvard library community has responded very positively to my proposal. > Since broadcasting the idea, I've received excited emails from 16 different > librarians, many of whom view this event as a stepping stone towards future > collaborations with Wikipedia. I'm very excited by this interest. I want to > make the event go ahead as planned, and I want to help every interested > librarian find a way to contribute to the project. > > I would love to get local Wikipedians on-board with this. The first order of > business is running the event. The date is up in the air, but it will be > happening either late afternoon on a weekday (4:30pm +, pizza will be > served) or in the afternoon on a Saturday (the former is better for library > staff, the latter is probably better for undergrads). In my mind, it will be > happening sometime in early November. The more boots on the ground, the > better. Any Wikipedian who wants to be involved can get guest access to the > host library. The event is being planned on a public mailing list that I > have created for the purpose of furthering collaboration between the > Wikipedia and Harvard communities: > > https://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia > > On the topic of this mailing list: I created this list yesterday and there > are now ~30 Harvard librarians subscribed to it. Subscription is open to the > public. Please subscribe! This list will be an ideal place for Wikipedians > to reach out to the Harvard community and vice-versa. I think the first > step, for Wikipedia, is to host this intro event and talk face-to-face with > the Harvard community. But the list is there for anyone who wants to use it. > > christian > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-boston mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-boston mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston
