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- 1 Sick time
- 2 Disambiguation link notification for January 6
- 3 Disambiguation link notification for January 14
- 4 Saturday February 6 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon
- 5 Invite
- 6 Feb 16: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ GuggenheimFeb 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
- 7 First NYC African American teacher of white students
- 8 Disambiguation link notification for March 1
- 9 Saturday, March 5: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
- 10 Disambiguation link notification for March 10
- 11 WIR A+F
- 12 March 16: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
- 13 Interference Archive A+F event in the New Yorker
- 14 Talkback
- 15 Pings
- 16 Mount Prospect Park
- 17 April 13: WikiWednesday Salon NYC and Mini-Video Opportunity
- 18 Disambiguation link notification for April 9
- 19 Renee Radell pictures
- 20 new section
- 21 Category:New York City articles missing geocoordinate data
- 22 Thank you Jim!
- 23 Saturday April 30: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim
- 24 Hudson River Museum
- 25 Disambiguation link notification for May 8
- 26 May 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC / Enterprise MediaWiki Conference
- 27 Sunday June 5: Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon
- 28 Disambiguation link notification for June 2
- 29 SOWING
- 30 June 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
- 31 Disambiguation link notification for June 12
Sick time
Friends have asked, so yes, I've been sick for two weeks now. Didn't get my flu shot. Not very sick. I expect at least another week of sitting around, wishing I could be biking instead. Jim.henderson (talk) 22:55, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
- Ugh, flu. It's usually the 'a bit sick', but not enough to be anything more than tiring and really, really irritating. Keep resisting the urge to battle the elements because you can't take sitting around inside for a second longer: it tends to be the wrong choice. Wishing you a speedy recovery! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 03:12, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Gradually improving, after missing two and a half weeks of warm December. Strong enough now that I ought to be more active in Wikipedia, especially processing my own picture backlog, and even getting some outdoor exercise. Our wise friend Iryna kindly reverted the pitiful insults of a thoughtless troll. My diminished power of judgment caused me to consider reinstating them and answering in a disdainful tone. Fortunately, since then, my power has increased so far as to make me unable to disregard the futility of such a gesture. We have people who have studied insects and learned to swat them efficiently. Oops, where did that disdainful tone come from? No, I'm not yet fully recovered.Jim.henderson (talk) 02:23, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
- Oops! Your temperature must have gone up unexpectedly. Have a little rest until the buzzing in your head goes away. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 03:07, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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Saturday February 6 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon
Saturday February 6 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon | |
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You are invited to join us and the AfroCROWD initiative at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for our upcoming editathon, a part of the Black WikiHistory Month campaign.
The Wikipedia training and editathon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, with a reception following in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building at 5:00pm. We hope to see you there!--Pharos (talk) 19:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC) (Bonus upcoming event: WikiWednesday Salon @ Babycastles - Wednesday, February 17) |
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Black Women's History online edit-a-thon
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Tuesday February 16, 5:30pm: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim | |
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You are invited to join us for an evening of social Wikipedia training and editing at the Guggenheim, with a workshop given by the Art+Feminism project to prepare for next month's major campaign, and a tour and edit-a-thon of Photo-Poetics: An Anthology.
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Wednesday February 17, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project! We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, and welcome input from community members on the sorts of projects the chapter should support through both volunteer and budgetary efforts. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One talk this month will be on use of Wikipedia press passes for photographers.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 00:28, 11 February 2016 (UTC) |
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First NYC African American teacher of white students
Jim we met and you were enormously helpful at black lives matter editathon earlier this month List of African American Cemeteries in New York. I have just finished a very short, but I think important article, if you have a moment, do take a look and I'd appreciate comments or direct improvements! Here it is: Susan Elizabeth Frazier All the best. WindingRoad (talk) 11:27, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
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Saturday, March 5: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
Saturday March 5, 10am-5pm: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA | |
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You are invited to join us for the MoMA Art+Feminism edit-a-thon on Saturday, to support the expansion of Wikipedia's coverage of women in the arts. We encourage both people new to Wikipedia, and people who have experience editing online, or have joined us for past edit-a-thon events. This is by far our biggest event of the year (over 200 participants in the last edition), and every extra hand counts, so please join and volunteer to help us engage new communities!
And bring your interested friends and colleagues! For those outside of the city, or unable to join on Saturday, check out Art+Feminism regional and global events as well. --Pharos (talk) 21:48, 2 March 2016 (UTC) |
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WIR A+F
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Wednesday March 16, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent (Art+Feminism!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also vote on nominations for the global Wikimedia Foundation board. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One likely talk this month will be on the Wikidata project.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:11, 10 March 2016 (UTC) |
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Interference Archive A+F event in the New Yorker
In case you haven't seen this yet :)
A feminist edit-a-thon seeks to reshape Wikipedia. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 21:46, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- Delightful. The New Yorker, half a century ago, was one of the four or five magazines I carefully read every week, and now I'm in it. With a trivial error, as my laptop is a half year old Acer. Should have paid extra for a Dell, but didn't. Hmm, TNY being WP:Reliable, I am perhaps technically eligible for a Wikibiography. Don't anyone try it, though. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:14, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
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- FYI New Yorker piece mentioning a guy with your last name.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:55, 14 March 2016 (UTC) Update: just saw the previous paragraph.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:59, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
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Pings
Hi. Regarding this, just to let you know that a user will only receive a notification when you ping them if you include the (correctly formatted) template in the same edit that you sign the post. If you subsequently have to correct the template, then you have to sign again to make the ping work properly. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:28, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
- Ah. Thanks, Cordless Larry for the hint. Of course, the question wouldn't have arisen if I had stayed awake during the process. Jim.henderson (talk) 22:31, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
- True, but we all make those mistakes (and I didn't realise that notifications don't work in these instances until someone told me, so I thought I'd pass it on). Cordless Larry (talk) 22:33, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Mount Prospect Park
I thought it would be helpful to provide a description of its location between the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Apparently you didn't, and I'm curious why. Frank Lynch (talk) 23:06, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
- Didn't it say that before, Frankenab, as well as after our edits? Are you suggesting there should be more detail? Like, east of BPL, west of BBG? Jim.henderson (talk) 23:48, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Yes, that detail is helpful. All it said before my edit was that it was near Grand Army Plaza and "shared a parcel of land" with the library and the BBG, and I think the expression "sharing a parcel" is not as clear as "sandwiched between" or your option. Frank Lynch (talk) 12:40, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
- "Sandwiched between" is a colorfully idiomatic phrase, which is a pleasant quality in writing that need not be WP:FORMAL but less good in WP articles. Careful thought will probably turn up (another colorful idiom, okay in talk pages) a better way to say it. Anyway in the next several days I must put fewer hours into Wikipedia, so such questions would be better discussed somewhere besides a personal talk page seen by only a few of our fellow editors. Perhaps, Frankenab, you will find the most helpful audience by posting in Talk:Mount Prospect Park. Jim.henderson (talk) 12:17, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
April 13: WikiWednesday Salon NYC and Mini-Video Opportunity
Wednesday April 13, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC and Mini-Video Opportunity | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Special this month, a Mini-Video opportunity for individuals to share their Wikipedia experiences (during pre-meeting, 6-7pm, and in side-office during regular meetup). A videographer will be present to record 1-3 minute Mini-Videos of folks informally speaking, sharing anything about their Wikipedia-related projects, whether an edit-a-thon they joined, an article they edited, or a class project they were a part of, etc. We will also follow up on plans for recent (Art+Feminism!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also place our chapter's votes for the global Wikimedia Foundation board. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 14:20, 6 April 2016 (UTC) |
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Renee Radell pictures
Hi Jim. We met last month at the New York Chapter and had a pleasant conversation about photography in New York. I hope to see you Wednesday night and catch up. It happens that my article on Renée Radell made it to the main space and now I need to add some pictures. Would you have any guidance in that area? Should I use Visual Editor? I also need to add an Info Box. Would you have a suggestion of how to find the best template for an Info Box and pictures for a fine artist? Hope to see you Wednesday! OtterNYC (talk) 03:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Nice to hear from you again, @OtterNYC and DGG:. I pinged David as well, seeing that he has kindly been giving you some of his scarce time. My time is also scarcer than usual, mainly from trying to fill in for my injured Astronomy club president. I'll see you tomorrow night, probably a little late due to photographing a political rally in Washington Square. I shall also attend User:Aliceba's edit a thon in Brooklyn Sunday and maybe you would like to spend time there, swapping tips with fellow editors with probably a smaller crowd. Oh, here's the link for that. Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/2016 April Black Women Writers WiR BPL
- The main way that beginners put an infobox in an article is to find an article about a similar subject, copy its infobox, and and change the lines that need change. More experienced users look up a template in that namespace, copy the blank version, and fill it in. In this case I guess it's Template:Infobox artist though I've never handled it, as I usually shun biographies especially of the living. If you mess up, just look in article history tab, undo, and try again.
- The hardest part about Wikipictures is rights. When I snap the picture, I own it and can give away my creative rights. If someone else makes the picture, we need evidence that the owner of the rights has given them away or they have expired or some such thing. After that it's mechanics. Somewhat complex mechanics, mainly because Wiki software stinks for this purpose.
- Go to Main Page
- In the column on the left, look for "Participate" and below that, "Upload".
- Click "Upload" and follow the instructions. Release your rights, and in the next page fill in the blanks, best you can. For Category, use the same Categories that are at the bottom of her article. Right now, they are "Women artists" and "American Expressionist painters". Those are enough for a start; we can add more later.
- Next page, you get something that can be copied into a Wiki. Do that, save, and it will appear on the page. Later, we can integrate it into the infobox, but usually I do these kinds of things roughly and then spruce up the appearance in another edit.
- Notify me and some other old timer and mention it in your own talk page. One or more of us will come along and say, "Oogh, she's trying but I can make it right" and presto, it will become right along with clear, we hope, explanations of how we made it right.
- Wikipedia is collaborative; we're all ignorant but on different things and we rely on colleagues who know what we don't. Oh. PS. Visual Editor doesn't make adding pictures easy. Better to paste into Source Editor. Jim.henderson (talk) 18:37, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Jim, thanks very much. I am starting to get the hang of this and I truly appreciate your willingness to convey knowledge. I will not take advantage of this kindness. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! Kevin OtterNYC (talk) 03:01, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
new section
hiHannah Silverman (talk) 00:47, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Category:New York City articles missing geocoordinate data
I have been working on Category:New York City articles missing geocoordinate data and Category:New York articles missing geocoordinate data. I have the city down to 46 articles, and the state down to 1,019 articles. Perhaps you can help me. I especially think the defunct LIRR stations can be photographed and coordinates determined. The defunct schools and places of worship are especially difficult at a distance. what would you advise?--DThomsen8 (talk) 00:19, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Dthomsen8: A quick look at the city category shows me vaguely described locations with little hope of clarification. Suburbs are a little more hopeful, such as school districts whose head office likely has a listed address. In my experience, train stations that closed before mid 20th century are mostly vanished without physical trace. Best hope for them is the large and unorganized collection in Commons of late 19th and early 20th century commercial atlases. Giving each of those maps an Object Location template for its center would allow finding the right map with a Commonscat Geogroup template fairly quickly. Line up the old roads with a modern map having coordinates. Easily said, and last year I located a number of defunct NYC Elevated stations by a similar method, except I used http://www.historicaerials.com/ instead of maps for the first step, and Google Earth for the second. Buildings other than schools and train stations are much less reliably shown on old maps. Spring has now sprung, putting me outdoors and shortening my keyboard time, so I'm shedding load rather than taking on new tasks.
Thank you Jim!
Great info and very kind and patient assistance today! Much appreciated and great to meet you.Maitefa (talk) 19:38, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Saturday April 30: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim
Saturday April 30, 1-6pm: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim | |
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On Saturday April 30, 2016, in conjunction with a global campaign, the Guggenheim will host its fourth Wikipedia edit-a-thon — or, #guggathon — to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of modern and contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and to counter geocultural systemic bias on Wikipedia. The Guggenheim aims to further the goals of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and build on the model of campaigns like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, Wikipedia Asian Month, and Art+Feminism. New and experienced editors are welcome. The event will include a training session for participants who are new to Wikipedia and Wikipedia specialists will be on hand to provide basic instruction and editing support. Can’t join us in New York? Visit our global MENA Artists Month partnership page to coordinate international and online events as well.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) ~~~~~ |
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Hudson River Museum
Jim, Thanks for picking up the additional "Winnie-the-Poo" vandalism on the Hudson River Museum page ... I thought I'd cleaned it all up, but unfortunately I made the mistake of not checking on the earlier edit by that same person. Am glad you spotted it. - Xenxax (talk) 00:37, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for noticing. For decades I have tended towards a long view. I miss the details that quicker minds grasp, but see some things that they miss. In Wikivigilantism I mostly look at changed articles when they approach the bottom of my watchlist, which is usually 35 to 45 hours after the last change. Usually this merely confirms that the quicker have done their job, but once in a while . . . . Jim.henderson (talk) 00:48, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
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May 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC / Enterprise MediaWiki Conference
Wednesday May 25, 6pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC / Enterprise MediaWiki Conference | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon. This month's WikiWednesday Salon, we'll meet and share with the MediaWiki software development community, through a community learning night at NYU on May 25.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 13:50, 21 May 2016 (UTC) |
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Sunday June 5: Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon
Sunday June 5, 12-5pm: Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon | |
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Join us for a full Sunday of social Wikipedia editing at the Center for Jewish History (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to Women in Jewish History. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. Expanding coverage of Jewish women on Wikipedia makes these women and their creations discoverable, addresses the gender bias on Wikipedia in a positive way, and works to correct imbalances archival collecting practice and institutional projects that have historically silenced women's narratives. A training session on editing Wikipedia will be held at 12:30 pm. Experienced Wikipedians will be on-hand to assist throughout the day. Please bring your laptop and power cord; we will have library resources, WiFi, and a list of suggested topics on hand. Light refreshments will be provided. Make edits! Ask questions! Be bold!
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 15:02, 1 June 2016 (UTC) P.S. Stay tuned / sign up early for our June 15 WikiWednesday and other upcoming events. |
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SOWING
Hi Jim,
Did you happen to take any pictures at the SOWING event at the Simons Foundation last week? If so, would you be up for uploading one or more to Commons? Not looking for anything in particular -- just something to illustrate the event because I may wind up doing a quick blog post about it for wikiedu.org/blog. If not, or if it's a hassle, no worries :) Thanks — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:10, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for reminding me. I spent my time in chats that were less productive than expected. These are the best three; the other four were merely the same things except poorer. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:35, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
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Just curious why you removed them from the Simons cat? I created the category because the events took place at the Simons Foundation. Perhaps I should've added a subcategory "Events at the Simons Foundation"? My Commons categorization instincts are not always on point :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 20:52, 11 June 2016 (UTC)Facepalm — Rhododendrites talk \\ 20:54, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
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Wednesday June 15, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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