User talk:Jim.henderson

This is my English Wikipedia talk page. I am also active in Wikimedia Commons, where I'm at

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Thanks for helping me
Jim helped me with basic edits today. I hope I have contributed something useful to the group! FrankNJNY (talk) 20:21, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Mar 8: WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central
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Beacon Earth Day
Hi, Jim! Looking forward to seeing you at the Earth Day edit-a-thon in Beacon in April. Any chance you are going to be taking photos before the event? Would you be open to having others join you, if so? No pressure either way! Hope all is well. :) Emjackson42 (talk) 13:27, 24 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hmm, Emjackson42@undefined I hadn't thought of visiting Beacon except on that day, Saturday April 15. Meetup/NYC/Earth Day Beacon, NY 2023. I was thinking of visiting Ossining this Sunday for some photography around the Croton Reservoir, but the forecast is for wind making some discomfort while bicycling there, so that might be better another day. If you or others want to set a day, including this coming Sunday, to walk around a town where I have never been, I can pretty easily do it since, being an old retired guy, I seldom have a schedule conflict. And of course I'll be pleased. A weekday might be better because train service is more frequent, or I could find out about weekend bus service. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:02, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It seems I made a error with the template. Maybe this one will work better. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:05, 24 March 2023 (UTC)]
 * Oh, nice! I was wondering if you were coming up any earlier on that day, though another day might also work. Maybe we can see what the interest is in scheduling a photography day by asking the attendees at the April 15 event? If you're open to a potential second trip in the summer! Emjackson42 (talk) 17:45, 24 March 2023 (UTC)


 * it doesn't matter whether we are pinged on our own own talk page, since we get an Alert Bar (OBOD, Orange Bar of Doom) anyway. I'm a bit slow in answering today, for no good reason. I have discovered that D-Day for this session, April 15, is also the first day of the annual Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) which at last is running again at Rockland Community College in Suffern after a 3-year plague break. So, they'll get along without me. Maybe to make up I should write them an article. As for going to Beacon, no, not tomorrow and maybe not at all before D-Day. I mistakenly assumed you sought pictures before then; it would have been an effort but not a big problem either way. In any case you ought to snap and upload some camera phone pix pretty soon, inside the library and especially out. On D-Day there's only one morning train that I'm likely to be on, which will put me in the station with more than half an hour to walk a mere mile. So, naturally I'll snap a few pictures upon arrival, and some during the session. As for a separate photography day, best is to bring my bicycle so as to allow getting to many locations not only in Beacon but across the river in Newburgh. Unless we use other transport. Company would be appreciated, and your company especially, Esther. Oh, I'll send an E-mail to your WMNYC address so you'll know my real address. Jim.henderson (talk) 21:58, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Apr 12 WikiWednesday + Earth Week (Apr 15-23)
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May 17: WikiWednesday Salon + Queering Wikipedia
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New Editor
Hi there! I just made my first edit to an article. Kghuang (talk) 18:42, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

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MLK Jr Monument
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WikiWednesday 19 July
I sent this to an E-mail group on another topic, but found myself writing this summary:

Last night at the monthly Wikimedia NYC Wikiwednesday I tried to make my new Lumix G100 camera work as a Webcam, but after following the instructions in a Youtube video I failed. Must study it more. Other participants made their Logitech Webcam do the job. Less optically sophisticated, but in Logi products working with a computer is the actual design goal rather than an afterthought. Making the Samsung Android tablet work as a second screen, however, worked quite nicely.

Mostly I was busy with a student, a retired librarian who had somewhere else presented  a slideshow about a sculpture on West End Avenue and wanted to make it into a Wikipedia article. We ran into a problem with cut & paste on her Macbook which another teacher with relevant experience was able to handle. It will still be a somewhat complex job, converting a chatty slideshow commentary into proper prose in scholarly style with references, but she’s got the basic skills and only has to learn various oddities of our editorial policies and software. I hope to see her again in the next few days since we live near each other; nice when we can work with minds who understand scholarly work. Which, after all, is why many of our events are held at research libraries.

Also I am the test subject for the local Chapter’s new User Business Card. Some people suggested that since we’re not a business it isn’t a “business card” but I think the proposed alternatives were already used during the Gilded Age of “Cartes de Visite” so we might as well use the modern common term which will not need explanations. Even before passing it out I already have a criticism or two for the design. Anyway a few hours from now I’ll be at MacSorleys drinking with a less formal club of retired telephone workers and will look for people who ought to have the card. Members of biker gangs are actually better prospects; maybe I’ll join one of them at another bar on Sunday. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:15, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

WikiWednesday (Aug 23) and Governors Island Wiki-Picnic (Sun Aug 27)
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Sunday: NYC Wiki-Picnic @ Gov Island
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Sep 20: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election Meeting
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History of Nursing in Newark edit-a-thon at Rutgers University
Hi Jim -- I hope you can join us! Looking forward to seeing you next month in Philly!

You are invited to join Rutgers-Newark archivists from Dana Library and Smith Library on Tuesday, October 3 (3:00pm-5:00pm) for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon highlighting the history of medicine in Newark. Come to Dana Library and help increase the online representation of important Newark scientists and health professionals on the largest open encyclopedia on the internet.

Please register in advance.

No experience editing Wikipedia is required. Beginners are encouraged to attend! At the beginning of the edit-a-thon we’ll have a brief introduction to Wikipedia. We’ll provide a list of articles to edit, as well as reference materials. In addition, we'll give a brief overview of archival collections related to the history of medicine housed at Smith and Dana Libraries at Rutgers-Newark. The edit-a-thon is free and open to the public. If you are not a current Rutgers student or employee, please bring a laptop to participate in the event.

Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Time: 3:00–5:00 p.m.

Location: Hybrid--- but in-person strongly encouraged!


 * Online (via Zoom) and at Rutgers-Newark Campus, John Cotton Dana Library, Electronic Classroom, lower level. Click here for directions to Dana Library.  Use 77 Bleeker St, Newark NJ 07102 if you are using a GPS.
 * Please note: In person attendees must present a current Rutgers ID card or government-issued ID (e.g., driver license, passport, Real ID, etc.) to enter Dana Library.

Please register for the edit-a-thon in advance:  https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/10896552

Special instructions: If you don't already have an account on Wikipedia, please sign-up for an account BEFORE coming to the edit-a-thon. Dbiunno (talk) 17:16, 20 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @Dbiunno already registered and eager, Diane Jim.henderson (talk) 20:48, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Forwarding you the Wikipedia meetup page: Meetup/NYC/History of Medicine in Newark/October 2023 We just published it this morning. Dbiunno (talk) 20:32, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Sun Oct 1: NYC Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023
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A kitten for you!
Hi Tim!

Thank you for teaching me today!

xo Jacquie

SolarPunk27 (talk) 17:29, 1 October 2023 (UTC)  Yay! It showed up in the right place! :) SolarPunk27 (talk) 17:31, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

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Nov 15: WikiWednesday Salon + Wikimedia NYC Executive Director job
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Wed Dec 6: Hacking Night + job listing
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Editor experience invitation
Hi Jim.henderson :) I'm looking to interview people here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss 🍀  (talk) 13:33, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Photo you might be able to take?
Jim,

Don't know if you still get out and bike around the city (I can't imagine you don't), but, if you do and get over to College Point in Queens any, I found out where the Dish Network call center George Santos worked at in 2011–12 is, and it looks like it could be photographed from nearby public streets (or even the driveway of the business next to it, if it's open). Since there's a paucity of images in the article due to the shortage of what we could reasonably use, if you could get over there and take and upload one that would be nice.

Also, there's something I've got to email you about, so I will be doing that soon. Daniel Case (talk) 22:36, 4 December 2023 (UTC)


 * So, I made a Wikidata item for it. with geocoodinates so it will be a red dot on the WikiShootMe map when I bicycle through there. Though, my WD item doesn't say why the building is interesting; probably there's a good WD way of saying that. As for when I visit the neighborhood again, during the plague I aged at least a dozen years and now bike shorter distances and in warmer weather. It's not at all far from the Flushing station, but as for warm days we'll see. Jim.henderson (talk) 02:13, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Thu Jan 4: Hacking Night + Wikipedia Day soon
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Quora
Good answer to the "Can anyone ..." question. I've upvoted it. Mine is shorter though similar; as usual with Quora, I hadn't seen yours.

I've been keen on astronomy for over 70 years and I did a lot of biking when I lived in Dunedin but not since moving back to the North Island in 1971. I've not got into Wikidata. My main wiki work is on Familypedia.

Kind regards, Robin Patterson (talk) 11:12, 28 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Here in New York we have several astronomy clubs, but my favorite little club died in the plague even though none of the members did. I need to get into one of the bigger ones and make some sort of cooperation with our Wikimedia NYC chapter. Maybe in connection with the April 8 Total Eclipse. I am likely to give away my 100mm Maksutov next month. The tripod is too heavy to carry by hand anymore to a good observing site.
 * The biker gangs, no. For one thing I bike less now that I'm no longer in my 60s. I went out on a photo ride with a fellow editor-biker a couple months ago and being one third my age she had to limit her speed severely so I could keep up. Ah well, I can still do short solo rides looking out for targets that have coordinates in WD but have no photo. I hope things go well for you in the new year. Jim.henderson (talk) 18:59, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello Jim!
It's Siobhan. Thanks for your introduction to Wikipedia! Chiffon Lions (talk) 00:59, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Harper's Magazine, February 2024
"A white-haired retiree I know spends his days cycling around the Tri-State Area, taking freely licensed photographs of infrastructure, and sometimes letting me tag along."

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 * Lovely, thanks, Lane. Not everybody understands that, though young women are the class most assiduously flattered, old men are the ones most hungry for it, eagerly lapping it up even when it's done without a name. I am especially pleased that our friend has exaggerated; I actually spend most days at the computer and our bike ride was only once, and she was the one who had to wait for me to catch up. Anyway I had a lot more fun than usual and hope to do it again in warmer weather. Jim.henderson (talk) 01:22, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Images of bicycles


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Thu Feb 8 NYC Hacking Night + Feb 21 WikiWednesday
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Howdy and Thank you
Thanks again. Ewildcardjo (talk) 01:57, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC
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Jersey City Photography Meetup
Jim,

Nice meeting you yesterday evening. I would like to include a photograph for the May 20th event announcement (preferably one of you, but anything you select is fine). Also, some text to include. Any info on a particular project would be good too. I will post on Meetup.com and Facebook. The text I am thinking about ...

Jim Henderson is a Wikipedian, Wikimedia Commons Photographer, and avid cyclist from Wikipedia NYC. He will present to us what Wikidata is and it impact on the world and how to contribute you photographs and other files to the service. He will show us various tools such as "shoot me" and Wikimedia Commons. His links are: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jim_Henderson_(Wikipedian) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jim.henderson Schwartzray (talk) 13:44, 12 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Jim Henderon (Wikipedian).jpg
 * All righty; we had communication uncertainties at both ends except I don't have the excuse of working in unfamiliar software. And obviously I'm hours later than I said. Been busy all week starting with the eclipse in Rochester, and various meetings and such starting a couple hours after my return. Tomorrow's two zoomcalls will leave me with an empty week in my calendar. With any luck I'll start catching up on my backlog of new photo editing, uploading, curating old photos, checking my 5000 watchlisted articles here in ENWP (English Wikipedia), etc. The two links are good.
 * ". . . . He will tell us what the Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons sites are about, and their impact on the 300+ Wikipedias and the rest of the world of free information. He will show how to contribute your photos and other kinds of knowledge such as words and data. He will show us tools such as the "WikiShootMe" Webpage and "Wikimedia Commons" Android app for pictures. . . ."
 * I've lengthened your two sentences into three, so feel free to chop away any excess. Or add; whatever. As you saw in Commons, we have plenty of pictures of me; problem is they all make me look old. Well, yeah.
 * For WD and photo demos, I like to use a fresh example. Presumably the building where we meet has no Wikidata item or Commons picture, and fails to meet the criteria of WP:NOTABILITY. Thus, it will work nicely if you find the data (street address, construction date, owner, business tenants, height and no, of course we don't need all of those and might use any other data) beforehand. With some of that, we can build the WD item before everyone's eyes. Or some other building or old (before 20th century) statue or monument for which we can step outside and snap a picture. I like built structures because they have locations.
 * As usual in talk pages, any talkpage WP:STALKER is welcome to butt in here with questions, corrections, ideas, whatever. For those people, we're talking about a meeting of a photo club near City Hall in Jersey City on May 20. At least, I think that's correct. Now I'm getting sleepy and won't search for the club's webpage. Jim.henderson (talk) 01:54, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Thu April 25: WikiNYC Hacking Night
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Hi Jim
I'm next to you at the Edit-a-thon. Thank you so much for your help.Skristol (talk) 17:56, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

May 8: WikiWednesday Salon with new Executive Director
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Sat June 8: Governors Island Wiknic
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June 26: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Fri July 19: Wikicurious in NYC, Editing Wikipedia for Beginners
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Is Long Island a language?
Asking a fellow LI'er if we should have translations for Lawn Giland? PaulieZiegfeld (talk) 21:42, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the help!
Hi there,

I appreciate you help editing Wikipedia pages.

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