Thank you for sharing. I doubt many people watch the Cascadia Wikimedians/Events page, but I went ahead and added details there at Meta-Wiki nonetheless: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_Wikimedians/Events.
Happy editing!, Jason On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Monika Sengul-Jones <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear Cascadians, > > You are invited to circulate and share three exciting events taking place > at the University of Washington on Friday, Feb. 13 and Saturday, Feb. 14: > > *-- Editing Workshop: Learn to Contribute to Wikipedia!** Friday, Feb. > 13, 2-4pm, Research Commons > *-- Wikipedia Editing Facilitation Training Workshop*, Friday, 6-8pm, > Mary Gates Hall 430 > *-- 'I Love To You: A Critical Wikipedia Edit-a-thon**, Saturday, Feb. > 14, 9:30am - 1:30pm, Research Commons * (Link to RSVP below!)* > > *Recommended pre-session for I Love To You > > Details for each event are pasted below,and will circulate in separate > emails as well > > Best, > Monika Sengul-Jones > Co-Host, I Love To You, Critical Wikipedia Edit-a-thon > <http://www.ilovetoyou.wordpress.com> > > ------ > > > *Editing Workshop: Learn to Contribute to Wikipedia!* > > Friday, Feb. 13, 2pm-4pm at the University of Washington Research Commons > <http://commons.lib.washington.edu/about/location-1>, Green Room A > <http://commons.lib.washington.edu/resources/green-a> > > Hosted by Wikimedia DC and Wikimedia Cascadia User Group > > > > Learn to be an editor on Wikipedia! Wikipedia is a free online > encyclopedia. Anyone can learn to contribute. Get signed up, learn the > markup language, and how to avoid common pitfalls. Whether you're > completely new, or you've written or edited in the past, the workshop will > cover the basic skill set. Experienced Wikipedia editors will be on hand to > answer questions. This workshop is open to anyone who wishes to attend. Bring > your own laptops & power cords. (Guest access to UW WiFi will be available.) > > > > The Wikipedia Editing Workshop is recommended as a pre-session for > participants in 'I Love To You': Critical Wikipedia Edit-a-thon > <http://www.ilovetoyou.wordpress.com/>, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2013. > > > ----- > > *Wikipedia Facilitator Training Workshop* > Friday, Feb. 13, 6-8pm > Mary Gates Hall <http://www.css.washington.edu/MGH_Directions>430 > > Led by James Hare, from Wikimedia DC, this workshop covers best practices > on teaching new Wikipedia editors. In his words: "Knowing these best > practices allows you to translate your expertise in Wikipedia into > something an audience with a modest amount of technical literacy can > understand." This workshop is open to anyone interested in learning how to > host an edit-a-thons or other Wikipedia editing event or activity for > newcomers. > > Bring your own laptops & power cords. (Guest access to UW WiFi will be > available.) > > ----- > > > *'I Love To You': Critical Wikipedia Edit-a-thon * > Valentine's Day, Saturday, Feb. 14, 9:30am - 1:30pm > UW Research Commons <http://commons.lib.washington.edu/> > > 'I Love To You' will bring dialogues in feminist theory to a hands-on > editing workshop to build community and critically engage with Wikipedia. > > Cost: Free! Anyone who wishes to attend this event is welcome. Bring your > own laptops & power cords. (Guest access to UW WiFi will be available.) > Bring your own coffee mugs and water bottles to enjoy delicious > refreshments sustainably. > > 'I Love To You' would like offer free childcare to participants who RSVP > and indicate their childcare needs by 5pm on Friday, January 23, 2015. > > RSVP here > <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GAwZP22RTC0MDMgLtgzcuYeO6QO_t4yQvvcny7wc_0g/viewform> > ! > > https://ilovetoyouedit.wordpress.com/ > Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/386485468200575 > Twitter: #ilovetoyouedit > > Affiliated Sponsors: UW Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; > UW Research Commons; UW Simpson Center for Humanities; Wikimedia > Washington DC; UW iSchool; UW Human Centered Design and Engineering; UW > Comparative History of Ideas; UW Department of Communication; UW Pipeline > Project; Cascadia Wikimedia User Group > > Hosted by Monika Sengul-Jones <http://monikasengul.com/> and Amanda > Menking <http://www.amandamenking.com/>. > > ~~~~~ > > “I love to you means I maintain a relation of indirection to you. I do not > subjugate you or consume you. I respect you (as irreducible). I hail you: > in you I hail. I praise you: in you I praise. I give you thanks: to you I > give thanks for … I bless you. > > […] > > "The 'to' is the guarantor of indirection. The "to" prevents the relation > of transitivity, bereft of the other's irreducibility and potential > reciprocity. The "to" maintains intransitivity between persons, between the > interpersonal question, speech or gift: I speak to you, I ask of you, I > give to you (and not: I give you to another). > > The "to" is the sign of non-immediacy, of mediation between us.” > > ~ Luce Irigaray. *I Love To You: Sketch of a Possible Felicity in History*. > Translated by Alison Martin. Routledge: New York, NY. 1996. pp. 109-110 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > >
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