User talk:Pharos/Interregnum

Mail
Hi, you've got mail. Best, Walter 10:12, 19 November 2014 (PDT)

Please review DYK nomination
Hi, Richard. I wonder if you could review our DYK nomination for the new article Honey Queen Program our students created at Vassar College as part of a curricular project. Thanks! Cristian Opazo (talk) 15:11, 22 November 2012 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Honey_Queen_Program

Wikipedia Loves Libraries
Hi. I hope you're doing well. I am looking forward to the NYPL event, but what are we planning to do? Is it an editathon, a teaching event, lectures, all of the above? Is there a planning page? If so, could you link it at Wikipedia Loves Libraries? Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:02, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

"how is Carnegie doing?"
In what sense? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 16:49, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Geonitice
Hi, Pharos. I'm Cristian and I'm a mostly active on it.wiki. I'm also a Wikimedia Italia board member. We would like to implement the Geonotice also on it.wiki. User:Nemo_bis told me that you are currently maintaining it and it consist mostly of Javascript running on the toolserver. I'm going to ask one of our it.wiki's JS wizards to help me in implementing it. May you help us?. Thanks in advance. -- CristianCantoro (talk) 18:15, 12 September 2011 (UTC) p.s.: please answer me (in English, of course) on my it.wiki talk page, thank you.

SUNY-ESF, Syracuse NY Professor Interested in using Wikipedia
Hi Pharos, Can I give him our name/email to have him get in contact with you? He is a polymer chemist and has been really interested in the work we were doing here at Michigan and would like to do the same at SUNY-ESF this semester. Can we have some of the Syracuse Ambassadors take on his course as well? Thanks! MichChemGSI (talk) 14:21, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

You're invited! Wikimedia DC Annual Membership Meeting
Note: You can remove your name from the DC meetup invite list here. -- Message delivered by AudeBot, on behalf of User:Aude

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Spacecraft in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution
Category:Spacecraft in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. The Bushranger One ping only 08:22, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

So I was looking
at the Wikipedia Loves Libraries, specifically at the event posted for the Embudo Valley Library and thought to myself, "Gee Einar, You're even better than I thought. I don't even remember how I managed to link this to the little blurb I put on our website.  I'm impressed with me." However upon closer inspection I discovered that it appeared to be you who did it. All those things that i said about myself - well they are all now pointed at you, squared. Very nice work and thank you very much. Feel free to drop in. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 22:50, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Chicago 5
I have been attempting to contact the Chicago Public Library official that I met with and she has not been responding to my communications. I will start the page when I hear from her.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 11:55, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Meetup/Chicago 5 is all set.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:22, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Category:Holocaust in art and literature
Hi there. Just a head's up that I've proposed a merger of this category into Category:Works about the Holocaust. Discussion is here. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:03, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Sorry about the WLL event in Warwick
I'm retiring from editing and am not the guy to encourage others to participate. Thanks for your leadership. BusterD (talk) 22:40, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

WLL in Fresno.
I was able finally was to talk to the head librarian(well, the person who can) 2 wks ago, I have been talking with about WLL, and showed them the WLL web page. They told me they need to work it out and they will let me know. I Been going over each week to see if they have the opportunity to with the higher ups. The one person I was talking to said. It sounded like a great Idea. I will keep you inform.

>Kingduran (talk) 21:13, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:The Musical in NYC Oct 22
You are invited to Wikipedia:The Musical in NYC, an editathon, Wikipedia meet-up and lectures that will be held on Saturday, October 22, 2011, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center), as part of the Wikipedia Loves Libraries events being held across the USA.

All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and here !--Pharos (talk) 04:50, 18 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I think the event was a decided success, with at least half a dozen total newbies learning the ropes, and another dozen Wikipedians finding materials that they would not otherwise have had access to. I expanded the article on The Boy (musical) together with one of my trainees (User:Annveal), and we moved it from Stub class to at least Start class.  Both of my trainees also got practical experience making edits and adding refs to articles that they selected.  I really think that training-oriented sessions at the libraries are a great way to try to get new people involved in WP.  An interesting thing that one of my trainees told me is that she was hesitant to edit, for fear that she would make a mistake, and also worried that other editors would criticize what she had done.  The male trainee had no fears like that.  I wonder if one of the reasons for the reluctance of women to join the WP project is that they are, in general, more risk-averse regarding editing.  Obviously, there are lots of exceptions, but this was a very stark contrast in my two trainees yesterday.  All the best!  -- Ssilvers (talk)

Mail
Please check your e-mail, concerning a Chapter-related matter. Thanks and regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 03:14, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Spanish translation of NYC bylaws
Are there plans to make a Spanish translation of the Wikimedia NYC bylaws? It would not be legally binding, but would help New York residents who do not speak much English but who know Spanish Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 08:34, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

You're invited! Wikipedia Loves Libraries DC
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Hi Pharos! Thanks for putting together the Wikipedia Loves Library event in NYC. It'd be grand to have a report about it (no matter how short or long) for This Month in GLAM. I do hope you or another attendee can provide a description of how the event went, outcomes and perhaps images (with links to any Wiki space). Please visit here and contribute if you can. It can be in the main features or the briefly section. Thanks again for coordinating the event :) SarahStierch (talk) 20:43, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello
Hi Pharos, Just wanted to let you know that I am partially incapacitated because I ruptured the ACL in my left knee two months ago. I'm still in a brace, and my life currently consists of exercising and napping with little bits of Wikipedia in between! Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 14:00, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

thanks for you kind words
following my complete failure as a wikipedia workshop organizer. I was not really trying to draw experienced editors, rather was hoping to work with a few locals. Were I to try and do a wikigathering I would first attempt to get a venue in Santa Fe because, it is already a destination for a lot of folks. I had not really given that idea any thought - now I will. You seem to be a New Yorker, probably lots of wikipedians out there. Life is supposed to be interesting and it pretty much lives up to billing. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 02:32, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Danish Modern furniture at MOMA
Hello Pharos. As resident Wikipedian at MoMA, you may be able to help out with photos of Danish Modern furniture. I visited MoMA a couple of years ago but my photos are not detailed enough to illustrate the article we are developing on Danish modern and the biographies of related designers. I realize there are already a few overviews of the exhibition of modern furniture and design on Commons but what we really need are individual shots: chairs, tables, lamps or whatever. You will get a better idea of what we are looking for if you look at the Danish modern article itself. Perhaps you or one of your colleagues could help out by photographing a few of the exhibits and uploading them onto Commons. Basic info should include the name of the designer, the year designed and the designation of the object. - Ipigott (talk) 10:27, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

About your notices
Hi there! I'm not a capitol-area wikipedian. Please discontinue sending me information about such events. I do consider myself a Hudson Valley resident, just like those who live in Yonkers might consider themselves so. I am interested in NYC-based events, though my recent involvement in Wikipedia has declined due to lack of gumption. Thanks for your efforts, and please don't consider this negative feedback any form of criticism. BusterD (talk) 10:49, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm getting emails from people I never gave my email address to. Please ask these folks to take me off the mailing list. This is a disappointing development. BusterD (talk) 02:42, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Vancouver meetup
Hello,

I have written up a summary of the Vancouver meetup. Sorry it took me so long, it escaped me.

Thank you. Inverse Hypercube 00:30, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

TUSC token 97479adbc21bdfaac357994e50fc338f
I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

Stanley Holloway
Stanley Holloway has been [Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Stanley Holloway/archive1 Nominated at FAC]. If you can review the article and [Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Stanley Holloway/archive1 comment here], it would be much appreciated. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:59, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Problem with IP editor
Hi. I really need some administrator-to-administrator advice. Can you offer your opinions on Question 2 - 5 that I've posed at the top of this discussion?

Everyone else participating there is only focusing on Question 1, which I thought would be answered more quickly and straightforwardly, and is already being discussed at Talk:Kobe Bryant sexual assault case If you want to offer your insights on Question 1 as well, can you do so there? Thanks! Nightscream (talk) 05:10, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

The New Yorker
Congratulations Richard, you made page 19 of the New Yorker! Invertzoo (talk) 23:39, 23 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Really? Congratulations, dude! What issue/cover date is that? I couldn't find it through a Google search. Nightscream (talk) 04:20, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

The upcoming Meetup
Richard, I'd like to start a campaign to do away with unregistered IP editing, and would like to take advantage of the upcoming Meetup to do so. How should I go about this? Do I need to reserve a talk, or something? Or should I pass around a petition or start a page for it? Nightscream (talk) 04:20, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The best thing for this type of topic would probably be to add it as a lightning talk here: Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day.--Pharos (talk) 17:59, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Are the lightning talks those ones that I partipated in last year, from which I got the free TV shirt? If so, then rather than repeat myself, I'd like to actually implement this. How do I go about doing so? Nightscream (talk) 01:51, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, yeah, that was your talk topic last year. I guess to try to implement something like this you would make a proposal page on-wiki, and you could possibly invite people to an open space group discussion session if enough people are interested.  BTW, I actually rather disagree on this one, but that's why we talk about stuff :)--Pharos (talk) 02:21, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Interview?
My apologies for the non-personalized note; I've got several people to contact here. We're looking for administrators who would be willing to be interviewed by students as a part of Wikipedia's WP:United States Education Program. Dr. Jonathan Obar is teaching the course, and it's a study in how Wikipedia is governed and how administrators are selected. If you're not interested, you may either ignore this invitation or remove your name from the list of admins we've contacted. Thanks, Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 20:02, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
Hi Pharos, would you mind giving a quality rating to my article on the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, as far as International Relations is concerned? Someone's added this box to the talk page of the article, but there's no rating. All best, -Darouet (talk) 19:54, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Pharos,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 17:54, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon at Hennepin County Library
Minneapolis History edit-a-thon

We invite the Minnesota Wikipedia community and local historians to edit entries in Wikipedia on Minneapolis history. Please help us increase the depth of information on Minneapolis history topics by utilizing materials in the Minneapolis Collection. Find your own Minneapolis History topics to edit or work from a list developed by Special Collections Librarians.

Where: Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis

When: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 10-5 pm

10 am - 11 am Orientation to Minneapolis Collection

11 am - 5 pm Edit-a-thon Website: Hennepin County Library, Special Collections, Map & Directions

Parking: Metered street parking or pay ramp in basement, enter on 4th Ave --HCLschlubb (talk) 16:26, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Pharos,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 03:05, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

education report
Thanks for putting up that article! I have to admit Ive been a little sidetracked by some other things, like my upcoming presentation about Wikipedia Education at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana today. The article looks good to me. Do you mind if I pop a message on the teacher's listserv to ask others to take a look?Thelmadatter (talk) 17:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:PD-US-LOC
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You're invited to DC Meetup #28!
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question about coverage of education program in the Signpost
Hi,

Re: Wikipedia Signpost/2012-03-12/Education report, Skomorokh suggested I contact you regarding my questions.

Is the Signpost Education section meant to be a Wikipedia Education report or a Wikimedia Education report? I notice that most of the information in the new education article doesn't have much to do with the en:wp community, and the seven editors chosen in the report as "pilot students" have done little if any editing on the en:wp. (Check their contributions.)

This new article focused on projects that take place off en:wp. Meanwhile, the US/Canada Education Program has started on the en:wp with little sign that the massive problems it encountered during the Fall semester have been addressed. For example, one editor on the "Online Ambassadors Steering Committee" was responsible for many of the problems. She submitted an article for Good article review on en:wp a few weeks ago that contained copyvio/plagiarism/close paraphrasing. When this was pointed out to her, she didn't understand the problems. (See Talk:Douglas W. Owsley/GA1)

Also, I suggest that you look through Wikipedia talk:United States Education Program/Archive 1 and Wikipedia talk:United States Education Program/Archive 2 and search for "cindy" you will get an inkling of the degree her approach disrupted the en:wp community.

Yet this editor is still a member of the Online Ambassador Selection Committee.

I have attempted to obtain more information about Online Ambassador Selection, as have others, but have run against a brick wall. See: User talk Moonriddengirl aka Mdennis(WMF) suggested I contact you I've learned that there is no one to contact that supervises the Online Ambassador Selection Committee, and no way to learn what's going on.

I'm hoping that the "Education report" will contain information helpful for editors on en:wp. Will this be possible? Or is the coverage only going to be of off site activities that are not directed at the en:wp editing community?

Thanks, MathewTownsend (talk) 13:53, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Ping
There are questions and comments for your perusal at the education desk, its talkpage, and in the newsroom, oh Education editor. If you could take a look today and get back to us, that would be splendid. Cheers, Skomorokh  13:56, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Pharos, it's 24 hours 'til deadline and we need to make some decisions, so please let us know in the newsroom as soon as you get a chance to review things. Cheers, Skomorokh  13:37, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Social connections
Thanks for posting on my page to tell me about that Wikipedia Loves Libraries meetup the next city over. I am not sure what I think about the fact that it is possible for people to be organizing nearby events and for people to not necessarily know that they are happening. I wrote to the people organizing it and it seems like we will stay in touch.

I came here to ask you for advice about who I should contact for User:MathewTownsend's problem, but I see that he just came to you above. I feel like when Wikipedia editors take on public presentation roles and seem to be getting a Wikipedia community endorsement then any complaints about them ought to be fielded efficiently with the most possible care, and Mathew has has already put a lot of effort into trying to be heard without getting a sufficient response. I want to put this on the discussion agenda for the next IRC chat, but in the meantime, can you think of who else I could ask for advice on handling this?  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   14:56, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Signpost in other languages
Hi,

I was unaware that the Signpost was translated into other languages and disseminated to other wikis. Thanks for the information. I guess the feedback from the Foundation and other language communities are screen out from our en:wp, and the articles they write are also screened out, as all articles I've ever seen are written by en:wp editors. Thanks for that information also. (I wonder how all that works.) I was interested to see that the seven editors you mention in your article don't edit on en:wp. Perhaps you could add to the article where they do edit? Or is it your view that the main action of en:wp and other wikis is not on the encyclopedia but in meet ups and other off site activities? That would justify such a long article that actually includes very few people that contribute directly to the encyclopedia. (Guess that explains why editor contributions to en:wp is dwindling - they're just not important.) Thanks, MathewTownsend (talk) 17:41, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * p.s. Could you explain what WASC is? Thanks, MathewTownsend (talk) 17:55, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Like I said, the Signpost includes many topics under its remit, both English and other languages, both Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and both online and real-life activities. WASC is just an acronym for the Wikipedia Ambassador Steering Committee.--Pharos (talk) 01:20, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Is it distributed to other languages? Ambassadors/Steering Committee seems to cover only the US and Canada. And there is a dearth of material reported in the Signpost on the happening of that committee. MathewTownsend (talk) 01:33, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
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Happy Adminship Anniversary
Wishing Pharos a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk about my edits? 00:24, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Email
The subject isn't hugely important but I thought you might be interested in it. Pine(talk) 08:40, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Category:World War II ghettos
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Update/cleanup
This historical page needs to be updated to change the tenses and to confirm which events took place: Meetup workshops - 2011. -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:07, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

You're invited! New England Wikimedia General Meeting
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Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting
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MSU Research Questions
Hello, I am involved with a research project for Michigan State University and am wondering if you would be able to answer a few questions regarding tool sets on Wikipedia. What were the tools you mainly used prior to becoming an admin, and after becoming an admin? Here is a link to the project if you are interested United States Education Program/Courses/Wiki-Project Management (Jonathan Obar), and if you have any questions please let me know. Thanks! Ltezl (talk) 22:26, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

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Education peer review
Hi Pharos! We're talking about doing some kind of assessment of student article quality from the U.S./Canada programs (see here), and I referenced the peer review project you're trying to get going as a possible partnership for such an idea. If you're interested, please join the discussion. :) -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 23:30, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Request to help set-up a Photo Scavenger Hunt
Hi! I wanted to ask if you can set me up with a username and password for the Wikimedia Photo Scavenger Hunts website. I'm working with the Walters Art Museum to organize a public art focused photo scavenger hunt from June 17 through August 11. Thanks for your help! --Eli.pousson (talk) 13:16, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Fabulous Prize!
Thanks for helping. Here's your fabulous prize: A UNICORN!



I am so definitely insane.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  03:21, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

You've got mail
Pine(talk) 07:42, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

PMA wants a Wikipedian
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is interested in finding a Wikipdian with whom they can work to improve coverage of the art content related to the PMA. Would you be interested, or could you recommend someone who is? The criteria are: (1) an experienced editor (2) with an interest in the arts (3) who preferably lives in the Philadelphia area. (This is not a Wikipedian in Resident position - yet. They are still exploring that possibility) Raul654 (talk) 02:56, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Agenda for tomorrow
I was thinking about applying for this but I would much rather that James do it, and he had the idea independently. Can you look at this? I mentioned you on the talk page.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   13:40, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Ideas for Houston Wikinic
Suggesting locations could be a good idea - Perhaps I could suggest a few centrally located parks. Houston has a bunch! WhisperToMe (talk) 01:06, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Alright, I posted the preliminary info! I'll see if people start making suggestions WhisperToMe (talk) 00:46, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * An idea I have is to individually message Houston-area Wikipedians who may be active and suggest a time or place. Unfortunately I do not believe I personally will be able to attend a Wikinic because I may have work commitments around that time in another city, but I can help facilitate a Wikinic among any interested parties in the area. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:29, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Howdy! Whisper informed me on a little gathering. I will do my best to attend, but my schedule may not allow me to, but I would be glad to help in any way I can. --Hourick (talk) 14:12, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

User:Domanskim/Women at Princeton University
Hi, you moved this page to user space after I tagged it as a copyvio but according to WP:UPNOT the same rules for copyright apply to userpages as well as mainspace. I haven't tagged the page but left a message for Domanskim suggesting they move the draft off wiki until it's written in their own words. It certainly looks a notable topic and worthy of an article but I don't think it can last as it is. NtheP (talk) 20:17, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Vollard Suite
Hi, Pharos I was asked today to inquire as to whether or not MoMA has the entire suite and can any images be made available to us as fair use. Apparently only 30-something are shown on the database. Please let me know, thanks. (Maybe lunch this June? I'll finally have some time this summer)...Modernist (talk) 00:11, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity for deletion
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Altanta Wiknic
Hi Pharos, Sorry, I will not be able to host the Atlanta Wikinic. Unfortunately I do not have much time for wiki activities due to work stuff in RL. — Ganeshk  ( talk ) 10:58, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I would suggest using the Centennial Olympic Park for the event. Whoever is hosting the event will need a large banner to attract participants to the venue. And the location must be specific, for example, next to the fountain of rings. — Ganeshk  ( talk ) 14:18, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * One other option is the scenic Morgan Falls Overlook Park in Sandy Springs. It has a nice history behind it. — Ganeshk  ( talk ) 14:24, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Houston Wikinic stuff
Okay.. I said that I supported Hourick's recommendation. Anyway I put my name in the "Regrets" column - I am unable to attend. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 04:09, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I'm busy for the whole week and weekend. I am unable to attend. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:55, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm also busy for those time periods too. I'm simply unable to attend. However, Hourick has been on Wikipedia for a long time, and many of the Houston editors who I have been in contact with on Wikipedia have been editing for a long time too. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:21, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

YGM
 Lynch 7  02:38, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Question about Wikimania Takes Manhattan
Hi Pharos! I understand that you are the person to talk to about Wikimania Takes Manhattan. I asked a question here but it doesn't seem like the page is updated often by organizers, but an answer would be great. Thanks in advance, Ynhockey (Talk) 00:49, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Hawaii Chapter
We discussed this in IRC and I wanted to find out what exactly I can do to make this happen. ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ Talk ♪  ߷  ♀ Contribs ♀ 04:57, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Quasi-nonsensical help request
How do you give someone a barnstar? I would like to give you a barnstar thanking you for helping me figure out how to give someone a barnstar, but I need you to help me figure that out first. -— Isarra ༆ 05:29, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

wicnic
thanks for the info, but im in the other corner of florida, its really more like Lower Alabama, as much as i hate to say it... --Frazafraaaz (talk) 09:05, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Any idea where the talk for the potential Richmond Va Wiknic meetup might be? That's close enough to where I might be able to go...Tokyogirl79 (talk) 12:31, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia New York City Annual Meeting Sat Jun 30
Join us at Jefferson Market Library on Saturday starting at 1pm for our annual meeting and elections, details at Meetup/NYC!--Pharos (talk) 17:32, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

MoMA exhibit at the Palacio de Bellas Artes opening today
You might like to know that I got invited to the opening of the German Exprssionism and Edvard Munch exhibit at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City where they are showing works on loan from MoMA. Pics here Thelmadatter (talk) 20:39, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania
Thank you for managing the group. The group ecouraged me to attend Wikimania and it was a blast! Frank.manus (talk) 14:53, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Loves Libraries sign-up
Hey Pharos, I have a bit of a beef with the form at. It has radio buttons for the affiliation question. Some of us would want/need to say both "institution staff" and "wikipedian". Is there a reason the form was written not to allow that? Lady of  Shalott  20:31, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, I've liberalized it.--Pharos (talk) 20:39, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :) Lady  of  Shalott  20:44, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

EduWiki Conference 5-6 September in Leicester, UK
I am writing to you as you have signed up to the Education Meetup at Wikimania 2012 and perhaps are interested in how Wikipedia links to education. Wikimedia UK is now running a education related event that may be of interest to you: the EduWiki Conference on 5-6 September in Leicester. This event will be looking at Wikipedia and related charitable projects in terms of educational practice, including good faith collaboration, open review, and global participation. It's a chance to talk about innovative work in your institution or online community, and shape the future of Wikimedia UK's work in this area!

The conference will be of interest to educators, scholarly societies members, contributors to Wikipedia and other open education projects, and students.

For details please visit the UK Chapter Wiki.

Please feel welcome to register or promote within your network.

Thank you, Daria Cybulska (talk) 16:20, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Early bird
Hi Pharos, I think you will like this, Meetup/Atlanta/Atlanta_4. :) — Ganeshk  ( talk ) 00:14, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I had started the page early for planning purposes. I have asked the Libraries folks for permission and their support. I am waiting for their response. I will keep you posted. — Ganeshk  ( talk ) 16:10, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan
Greetings Pharos,

I presume you are in charge of Wikipedia Takes Manhattan?

I would like to attend, but I don't really have a group and don't know what to do, and I do have some good equipment that would be of use for the project.

Best, -- Ecstacy Xtcy3  02:36, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

User:Mitchazenia/WTM3 listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect User:Mitchazenia/WTM3. Since you had some involvement with the User:Mitchazenia/WTM3 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). 2011wp (talk) 15:32, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Will you setup an account for me for the Scavenger Hunt site?
You're welcome to email me the info, since that would be the best way, I believe. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 02:37, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Please see
Please see the discussion at Template talk:NRHP row

Smallbones (talk) 22:10, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Takes Houston photo event in September
I'd like to, but unfortunately, I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to do any editing on my pet projects. :(--Hourick (talk) 05:22, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

I, too, am unable to organize the Houston photo event due to engagements I have that day. Apologies! Witlash (talk) 20:31, 15 August 2012 (UTC) => Truthfully, I am not sure if there will be enough participants. I couldn't find anyone during the Wiknic. Witlash (talk) 22:22, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons
Hello, could you help me in commons? Appearently administrators there (Herbythyme & Jameslwoodward) have a Grudge against me. All files uploaded by me have been nominated for deletion. --Ne0 (talk) 04:48, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

File:WALRUS map.png
Pharos, want me to request the Graphics Lab at the commons to make a Spanish version of File:WALRUS map.png? WhisperToMe (talk) 23:44, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Organization
I was questioned about WP takes Chicago. Am I suppose to map out a day, make a list of neighborhoods that need photos, or let people individually determine their photo objectives for the day. I had personally planned to retake a lot of photos I had taken with a point and shoot, now that I have a DSLR camera with better lenses. I was going to do the Magnificent Mile and LaSalle Street canyon. However, if I am suppose to tell everyone a specific route, I have to rethink the day.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:44, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Backstage at the Smithsonian Libraries
Backstage at the Smithsonian Libraries is part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2012, the second annual continent-wide campaign to bring Wikipedia and libraries together with on-site events. Running this fall through October and November, libraries (and archives) will open their doors to help build a lasting relationship with their local Wikipedian community.

Organized by Wikimedia DC, this event will take place on October 12, 2012, and will include new editor training, a "backstage pass" tour of the National Museum of Natural History, and an edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Kirill [talk] 18:47, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 06:01, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Takes Portland
Hi Pharos, thanks for amending the Wiki Takes Portland page. I hope you like my expansion of the main Portland meetup page (and subpages) as well as the major categorization efforts at Category:Wikipedia meetups in the United States. The restructure took quite a bit of time, but hopefully time well spent. I am all ears if you have any feedback or recommendations.

(By the way, we met very briefly at GLAM Night Out at Wikimania 2012. Perhaps our paths will cross again one day!) --20:27, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia_Takes_America/San_Antonio
Hi! We had 4 Wikipedians show up here in San Antonio (might've been another who didn't meet up with us but took photos nonetheless) earlier today! Still uploading photos, but you can check out the commons category at commons:Category:Wikimedia_takes_American_in_San_Antonio_photos.--v/r - TP 21:31, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

its a idea i have
the sanford thing is a idea i have maby someday it will happen Windows.dll (talk) 18:27, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Education_Working_Group/RfC
I invite you to move your discussion of my !vote to the discussion section where it belongs. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:42, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

WLL Minneapolis
We're having another event in Minneapolis for WLL (Nov 3), and I was wondering if you could help me with how to get the word out on Wikipedia. Do I need a geonotice or will the WLL banners there will be be enough? I'm thinking of starting an invite list. How should this be run? (Saw you use AWB, will do.) Thanks, &mdash;innotata 01:37, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

That page of our goofiest disputes?
Hi Pharos, could you give me the link to that page we talked about? I can't remember now what it is called. Thanks! Invertzoo (talk) 22:56, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

S'OK! I found it here! Invertzoo (talk) 23:00, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Template:Song sample listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Song sample. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Song sample redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so).  MBisanz  talk 14:50, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

GLAM Talk Advice
Hello. I'm doing on a talk on GLAM and wanted to know if have any suggestions for things to include in the talk. Do you have any suggestions on specific projects I should include? I'm planning to give some background info on Wikipedia and then talk about the GLAM project, why libraries and archives should be involved, how libraries can be involved and some key institutions (OCLC, Smithsonian, National Archives) that have been involved as well as the Wikipedian in Residence program. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Etlib (talk) 01:11, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

The Jewish Museum NY
Hi Pharos,

An article about Claudia Gould - a suggestion

I would like to suggest an article about Claudia Gould, the Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director of The Jewish Museum (New York). to be added to Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wise_web_owl/Claudia_Gould

The article will be similar to these articles:

Thelma Golden

Thomas P. Campbell

Richard Armstrong (museum director)

Thank you, Wise web owl (talk) 22:28, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

WP New York City in the Signpost
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject New York City for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 05:49, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC this Saturday Dec 1
You are invited to Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC, an editathon, Wikipedia meet-up and workshops focused on film and the performing arts that will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center), as part of the Wikipedia Loves Libraries events being held across the USA.

All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and at meetup.com!--Pharos (talk) 07:38, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

In The Times
FYI, the event is mentioned in The New York Times in print (arts today) and online (here). --regentspark (comment) 14:47, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

DC Meetup #33
December 10 is Ada Lovelace's birthday! Not only was she the world's first computer programmer, but also the world's first female open source developer! Come celebrate with Wikimedia District of Columbia at Busboys & Poets for an informal get together!

The Washington, DC event will be held on Monday, December 10, 2012 at Busboys & Poets on 5th St NW & K St NW near Mt Vernon Square. The area is easily accessible by the Red Line Chinatown stop and the Yellow Line and Green Line Mt Vernon Square stop, as well as by WMATA buses.

Kirill [talk] 14:06, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC Holiday Party and Wiki Loves Monuments Exhibition
Please join Wikimedia DC and four other local media nonprofits—the National Press Club's Young Members Committee, 100Reporters, IRE and the Fund for Investigative Journalism—in winding down another year with a night of well-mannered frivolity.

The festivities will take place on Friday evening from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM in the Zenger Room on the 13th Floor of the National Press Club, located on 529 14th Street NW, near Metro Center. There will be meat and vegetarian appetizers as well as a cash bar with specially reduced drink prices all night long. In addition, we will be exhibiting the finalists of the Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest at the event.

Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 04:31, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Invite to Topeka Wikipedia Day Event Jan 15 2013
Invite to Topeka Wikipedia Day Event Jan 15 2013 Because you are editing wikipedia about Topeka, I would like to invite you to Meetup/Topeka/Wikipedia_Day at the Library at 6:30 PM please can you also print the poster and distribute it?

PDF Version

thanks, mike

James Michael DuPont (talk) 19:16, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Videos, NC, GLAM, big project
Please check out GLAM/smarthistory and consider signing up! After checking around, I see that you are the man on videos, but that videos have gone nowhere on Wikipedia for 2 years. This might be a chance to change that.

Short version: Smarthistory, part of Khan Academy, has 300+ completely non-profit educate-the-world-for-free, totally on point, directly parallel to our articles video, completely free (except with an NC license) expert art interpretation video. For the ones where we have a separate article on the artwork, and they have the equivalent video just on that artwork (the large majority), I don't want to bury the video under external links (usually the last place people look). Any idea of how to properly display?

Any help welcome.

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 22:02, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Celebration and Mini-Conference in NYC Saturday Feb 23
You are invited to celebrate Wikipedia Day and the 12th anniversary (!) of the founding of the site at Wikipedia Day NYC on Saturday February 23, 2013 at New York University; sign up for Wikipedia Day NYC here, or at bit.ly/wikidaynyu. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience!--Pharos (talk) 03:02, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon
Hi Pharos, looking forward to seeing you tomorrow for the Wikipedia intro and edit-a-thon tomorrow morning! Hope you can still make it. We'll have an intro for beginners at 10am; if you're a more experienced Wikipedian, join us at 11am.

Click here for directions: Offices of EchoDitto, 1 Davis Square, Somerville. (Next to the Red Line station, upstairs from CVS.) -Pete (talk) 23:16, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Tour of Consumer Reports' laboratories
On Tuesday January 15 at 3pm Wikipedians are invited to join a tour of laboratories at Consumer Reports in Yonkers. If you would like to attend please RSVP at Meetup/NYC/January 2013. If you have questions feel free to ask on that page or contact me on my talk page or by my office phone at 914.378.2684. Thank you.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   19:46, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassadors update
Hi! You're getting this message because you are or have been a Wikipedia Ambassador. A new term is beginning for the United States and Canada Education Programs, and I wanted to give you an update on some important new information if you're interested in continuing your work this term as a Wikipedia Ambassador.

You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

Another major change in the program will take effect immediately. Beginning this term, a new MediaWiki education extension will replace all course pages and Ambassador lists. (See Course pages and Help:Education Program extension for more details.) Included in the extension are online volunteer and campus volunteer user rights, which let you create and edit course pages and sign up as an ambassador for a particular course.

If you would like to continue serving as a Wikipedia Ambassador — even if you do not support a class this term — you must create an ambassador profile. If you're no longer interested in being a Wikipedia Ambassador, you don't need to do anything.

First, you need the relevant user rights for Online and/or Campus Ambassadors. (If you are an admin, you can grant the rights yourself, for you as well as other ambassadors.) Just post your rights request here, and we'll get you set up as quickly as possible.
 * Please do these steps as soon as possible

Once you've got the ambassador rights, please set up at a Campus and/or Online Ambassador profile. You can do so at:
 * Special:CampusAmbassadorProfile
 * Special:OnlineAmbassadorProfile

Going forward, the lists of Ambassadors at Special:CampusAmbassadors and Special:OnlineAmbassadors will be the official roster of who is an active Ambassador. If you would like to be an Ambassador but not ready to serve this term, you can un-check the option in your profile to publicly list it (which will remove your profile from the list).

After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:
 * Communication and keeping up to date
 * 1) The education noticeboard has become the main on-wiki location for discussion of the Education Program. You can post there about broad education program issues as well as issues with individual courses.
 * 2) The Ambassadors Announce email list is a very low-traffic announcements list of important information all Ambassadors need to be aware of. We encourage all Ambassadors (and other interested Wikipedians) to subscribe to the list; follow the instructions on the link to add your email address.
 * 3) If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the  IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)
 * Ambassador training and resources

Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.

Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 20:41, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Punkcast
Thank you for your comment at this AFD. I agree with you that WP:CSB should not be used in a deletion argument, it even says so right there on the page. I also appreciate how you withheld from !voting because you know the subject of the page. Is this a personal decision of yours or is it policy, I am curious? Thank you, MarioNovi (talk) 07:37, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Free Library of Philadelphia Event
FLP and Smallbones and others are having an event on 2:30 on 2/23 on Wikipedia. Contact him.--DThomsen8 (talk) 18:56, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Copyright, Commerce, and Culture
Hi Pharos, just letting you know that I volunteered as online ambassador for the course. Hope there will be students soon as well! Cheers, -- ELEKHHT 02:53, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Redirects for discussion
Greetings! Since you have previously edited Arabia, you might be interested in the discussion at Redirects for discussion. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:26, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Notice of discussiont to revamp WP:FS
As a formerly active discussant at WT:FSC, I would like to call your attention to Wikipedia talk:Featured sound candidates.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:08, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

NYC event of interest
Pharos - will you tell the NYC chapter about this event on Wednesday, which may be of interest to people? http://centeronnationalsecurity.org/node/510 -- Y not? 20:05, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

DC happy hour on Thursday, February 28!
Please join Wikimedia DC for Happy Hour at the Capitol City Brewery at Metro Center on Thursday, February 28 at 6 p.m. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, see Meetup/DC 34. Hope to see you there! Harej (talk) 02:16, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to a discussion: Wikipedia and legislative data
Hi Pharos, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)

There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!


 * Please sign up here
 * Announcement on Cato's blog
 * Background from Cato sponsor Jim Harper's perspective
 * Background from Wikipedian Pete Forsyth's perspective

Hope to see you there! -Pete (talk) 19:22, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, March 9!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Guapo's at Tenleytown-AU on Saturday, March 9 at 5 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 13:51, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

ASL annotation to video
Hi, Pharos!

I found meta:Requests for new languages/Wikipedia American Sign Language 2 and I wonder what the best way is to add an ASL annotation to File:Sextortionagent interview.ogg, a sound file about sextortion. Should it display text that states what signs to use, or should someone be filmed and have the video footage mixed with the sound? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 07:31, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok! Do you know if there are Wikipedians/Wikimedians who make videos of themselves signing? WhisperToMe (talk) 22:30, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

You are invited to a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29
In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays (talk) 23:06, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Help on Personality Rights
Hi Pharos! I am trying to post pictures on my wikipedia page and was wondering about personality rights.. if i want to post a picture of a celebrity am i allowed to use the ones on their wikipedia page? or on Google? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calvinlin97 (talk • contribs) 00:16, 26 March 2013 (UTC) Calvinlin97 (talk) 01:08, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Giving The Devil His Due
I don't know if you saw my response on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sammy_Davis,_Jr. Sammy Davis Jr. talk page]. His involvement with LeVay Satanism is not insignificant and sourceable by Davis' own autobiography. Growing up in the 70s it was a well-known urban legend that Davis was a Satanist; apparently this is still going on. How any of this relates to Poor Devil idk. Never heard Levay gave him an award, but there seems to be sufficient evidence that he did participate, or at the very least was present at meetings of the coven. Perhaps a blurb about this in the article with the WP:RS can set the record straight about this peculiar incident in his life. --Wlmg (talk) 19:19, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Copyright, Commerce, and Culture - update?
Hi Pharos. I'm really confused about what's going on at Education Program:New York University/Copyright, Commerce, and Culture (Spring 2013), which starts with "In this course we focus on a legal subject" whereas the articles chosen by students seem to be in no relation to the topic. Could you please update me? -- ELEKHHT 23:41, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Meetup NYC this Sunday April 14
Hi Pharos! You're invited to our next meeting for Wikipedia Meetup NYC on Sunday April 14 -this weekend- at Symposium Greek Restaurant @ 544 W 113th St (in the back room), on the Upper West Side in the Columbia University area.

Please sign up, and add your ideas to the agenda for Sunday. Thanks!

Delivered on behalf of User:Pharos, 18:01, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, April 13!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, April 13 at 5:30 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see Meetup/DC 36. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 18:56, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Uganda space program for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Uganda space program is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Uganda space program until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Philafrenzy (talk) 23:22, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

NYC Museums
I just tried to sort a section, and the institutions still appear on the page in their original order. I don't know what's going on there. TimidObserver (talk) 21:44, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

DC meetups on April 19 and 20
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:

On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.

On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.

We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:01, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

AffCom related question
Pharos, there's a thread at the ENB where I mentioned your name as the right person to respond to a question from Laura Hale; could you take a look? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 09:10, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

May 3 2013, 19-20h UTC, GLAMout Google Hangout Link Location is GLAM/GLAMout
Hello, You signed up to participate or view in this month's GLAMout. We'll be using Google Hangout, but unfortunately the link to the Hangout won't be available, until 15 minutes beforehand. We'll post the link as soon as possible at GLAM/GLAMout

Time: 12pm-1pm Pacific Time (3pm-4pm ET | 19-20h UTC) Coordinator: Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Anchor topic: VIAFbot and authority control in EN:WP, and on Wikidata.

EdwardsBot (talk) 05:06, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, May 11!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, May 11 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 23:01, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

DC WikiSalon on May 24
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of May 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 18:16, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Webinar / edit-a-thon at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!

On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.

Please go to the event page to get more information, including a detailed program schedule.

If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com. Please indicate if you are coming in person or if you will be joining us via the webinar. After registering, you will receive additional information about how to get to our campus (if coming in-person) and details about how to join the webinar. Klortho (talk) 00:41, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Great American Wiknic geonotice
I have commented here. The catchment area is too large, and encompasses much of Canada, not to mention the vast swath of the US that is not participating in this endeavour. As well, I do not understand why you are advertising what is essentially an afternoon social in a few cities for almost 7 weeks. Two weeks before should be more than sufficient. Risker (talk) 04:02, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I've added to that message by Risker: the three-rectangle idea doesn't work as intended. -- Red rose64 (talk) 10:25, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

DC WikiSalon on June 6
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We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 11:46, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Have time on Saturday?
I'm sorry for the last-minute notice, but on Saturday, June 8, from 3 to 6 PM, Wikimedia DC and the Cato Institute are hosting a Legislative Data Meetup. We will discuss the work done so far by WikiProject U.S. Federal Government Legislative Data to put data from Congress onto Wikipedia, as well as what more needs to be done. If you have ideas you'd like to contribute, or if you're just curious and feel like meeting up with other Wikipedians, you are welcome to come! Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, June 15!
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For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 19:50, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Meetup page
just curious, but what was the deletion and restoration about?  Enigma msg  04:09, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It was so that Wikipedia con Sabor Latino would be on the watchlists of those who are watching the main NYC meetup page.--Pharos (talk) 13:08, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Dropping By To Say Hi
It's been so long since I've had the opportunity to come to a Wiki event in NYC, but I wanted to come by and thank you for inviting me on my page and through emails to meetups and events in NYC. I still check every time, to see if I can go to the upcoming event/meetup Jillian was here. Say It. 15:32, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

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You are invited for discussion
Hello,

As one of the participants in the original discussion, you are invited to participate in the follow-up discussion to a Mass removal of indefinite rangeblocks under controlled conditions. Your views will be appreciated.

Cheers, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 06:47, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Wendy Davis (politician)
I don't think this page warrant indefinite SEMI based on history. The current attention is only due to her filibustering abortion bill in Texas. SYSS Mouse (talk) 15:49, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, July 13!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

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2nd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting
You are invited to the 2nd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting, on 20 July 2013 in Boston! We will be talking about the future of the chapter, including GLAM, Wiki Loves Monuments, and where we want to take our chapter in the future! EdwardsBot (talk) 09:47, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Survey on Wikimedia Chapters
Hi Pharos,

I would like to invite you and your chapter to take a part in a survey on WM Chapters. As I briefly explained there, it is an effort agreed during WCA meetings, taken to start gathering information about us and present it visibly. For the moment, information about chapters is scattered, and often missing - and even people wanting to highlight the chapters, build more bridges between them, create some benchmarks and share solutions are lacking data about all the local entities. Please help me in showing your Chapter! :)

First presentation will be given in Hong Kong. Further hopefully will come.

I know it is an additional work and the survey is far from being perfect, but someone needed to start it. Survey can be responded on a dedicated meta subpage or in other form if it is more suitable for the chapter. Your subpage is here.

Thanks for your help!

aegis maelstrom

New England meeting notes
I’ve attempted to take Sven’s first pass at meeting notes and supplement with my own notes. See meeting notes

As I just mentioned to Kevin here, I missed some items near the end, and I know that Kevin had to leave before we fully wrapped up, so I hope you can fill in with some of the missing info.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  19:12, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

The Unvisited App
Hi, this is the guy that takes all the pictures... Here's the link on google play to the app I'm writing. It's purpose is to find articles with coordinates but that don't have pictures, and plan routes to get as many pictures as possible in a short time. It's still kind of a beta version, so I welcome feedback from anyone. I can also generate and email itineraries if anyone needs one.

Unvisited

Here's an example of a 6 mile Brooklyn walk generated by the app. Clicking he 'tour' link displays the tour in google maps.


 * Tour


 * A Saint_Saviour_High_School_of_Brooklyn 40.6671°N, -73.9771°W
 * B International_High_School_at_Prospect_Heights 40.6698°N, -73.961°W
 * C Brooklyn_Amity_School 40.67°N, -73.9614°W
 * D Brooklyn_Academy_of_Science_and_the_Environment 40.67°N, -73.9614°W
 * E On_Prospect_Park 40.6733°N, -73.9683°W
 * F Unnameable_Books 40.6784°N, -73.9688°W
 * G Teunis_G._Bergen_Elementary_School 40.6785°N, -73.9664°W
 * H Ward_Baking_Company_Building 40.681°N, -73.969°W
 * I New_York_City_Players 40.6851°N, -73.9734°W
 * J Moe's_bar_and_lounge 40.687°N, -73.9747°W
 * K Brooklyn_Music_School 40.687°N, -73.9773°W
 * L Center_for_Improvisational_Music 40.6792°N, -73.9801°W
 * M Aliento_de_vida 40.6773°N, -73.9797°W

John Phelan Faolin42 (talk) 22:28, 21 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Is the app region locked? Can't download it. Unsure where Google play users position (Hong Kong) or country associated with account (Sweden) but either way...


 * Also (of it doesn'talready exist) would it be possible to add a setting to change which language version of wikipedia it looks at? Lokal_Profil 18:30, 6 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Whoops. I didn't enable it for enough countries.  I just went in and enabled it for all countries, but it might take a few hours to take effect.  Maybe try again tomorrow?

And you're right. I should have a setting for which language version of wikipedia it looks at. I'll put that on my todo list. What language are you specifically interested in? (If it's annoying to Pharos, we can move the discussion to my talk page) Faolin42 (talk) 22:46, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. Have now installed and tried it. Really nice, instantly found some tours around Hong Kong. Will try it out more in the following days. Specifically I was interested in the Swedish (sv.wiki) language since we often try to organise photo safaris. (Can shift to your talk page if Pharos wants). /Lokal_Profil 05:11, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Wow, thanks! It would be nice to have this for the Dutch Wikipedia too. Jane (talk) 08:19, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Norwegian (no and nn) would have been lovely too :) Profoss (talk) 08:22, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Rick Remender
Hi. A user named Canoe1967 keeps reverting the Rick Remender article, despite the fact that a consensus discussion on the disputed portion of it is still ongoing, and despite the fact that he has been informed that this is edit warring, and is a blockable offense. I tried to protecting the article, but a complaint was made that I'm not an uninvolved admin. Can you protect the article for a couple of weeks, and if he reverts it again, block him if necessary? Thank you. Nightscream (talk) 16:59, 7 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Canoe has now removed the photo from the article. Please block him. Nightscream (talk) 02:28, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, August 24!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

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Bloomington Wiknic
Thanks! Hope all is well out your way! <span style="font-family:linux libertine o, times; font-variant:small-caps">Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 22:45, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

GLAM
What is your role with GLAM?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/WP:FOUR/WP:CHICAGO/WP:WAWARD) 16:44, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, did you mean June in this edit?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/WP:FOUR/WP:CHICAGO/WP:WAWARD) 17:08, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
 * P.S. what are the eligibility requirements for WALRUS. I am trying to hand off some of my responsibilities to someone who may make a good candidate.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/WP:FOUR/WP:CHICAGO/WP:WAWARD) 17:08, 14 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Hit me up on chat when you have some time.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/WP:FOUR/WP:CHICAGO/WP:WAWARD) 18:34, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Are you free on Wednesday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at our K Street office.

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We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 11:40, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:NYCLP row
Template:NYCLP row has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:50, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Meet up with local Wikipedians on September 14!
Are you free on Saturday, September 14? If so, please join Wikimedia DC and local Wikipedians for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages are welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please visit the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 18:56, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Are you free next Thursday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 5 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 14:55, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Please check
Please check my recent change at Wikipedia Takes America ‎ (a bit different). I think I could approve the pending change myself - but I wanted to check with you (since it is a bit different!). The important thing to get across here is that this contest is from WP:NRHP, and essentially unrelated to the "Best photo" contest of WLM-US. It's just for fun and barnstars. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 15:20, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Another Believer moved it to "See also" which may not be the perfect solution, but is ok. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 18:56, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Takes Brooklyn! Saturday September 7

 * Sorry I didn't have time to check in. I got 17 sites and see that DM got 2 others.  Anybody else get pix? There are 15 sites left unillustrated!  All the best.  Smallbones( smalltalk ) 14:54, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Greetings
Perhaps you could add some wisdom to Wikimedia Foundation for the curious. Best! Biosthmors (talk) 17:00, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Campus ambassador/volunteer
I've been asked to become a campus volunteer for this course (as I participated as a student last semester) but can't seem to make sense of the instructions here. It says there should be a link on the course page to "Become a campus ambassador" but I can't seem to find it. Do I need to do something to get it to appear? Eparness (talk) 03:53, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Category:Political positions of mayors and leaders of cities in the United States
Category:Political positions of mayors and leaders of cities in the United States, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. p b  p  23:44, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Libraries 2013
Just an FYI, Pharos, so you know what we are doing over here on the opposite side of the country! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 15:47, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Greetings from a BC Theater History student
Hi there! I'm a first year Performing Arts Management MFA candidate at Brooklyn College and am enrolled in "Theater History to 1642" with Professor Hughes this fall. She asked that we introduce ourselves this week as we begin our Wikipedia projects. Thanks for all of your help and I look forward to working with you! --Kfurano1129 (talk) 02:34, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello! Tagging on Kim's comment to introduce myself as well. I'm also one of the Performing Arts Management MFA candidates in Professor Hughes' class this fall. Excited to get started; thanks so much for helping us with our projects! Ashleybirdsell (talk) 02:45, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Brooklyn College Theater History to 1642 Student
Hello! I am another Performing Arts Management MFA student enrolled at Brooklyn College, and I wanted to introduce myself. I'm looking forward to working with you. Cheers! Gdirado (talk) 21:18, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello from yet another Brooklyn College MFA Candidate
Hi there! My name is Yona, and I am a student of Amy Hughes and slowly but surely learning Wikipedia .... :)Yona M. Corn (talk) 22:09, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Saint Peter's invite
Pharos, Thanks so much for the invitation. I took a look at the course description and I think that Jersey City, New Jersey would be an excellent model for this type of course. The city is large and old enough to have many events, sites, neighborhoods, people and other potential article subjects, it's covered in adequate detail that there is a foundation to build on, while leaving enough subjects that are available for expansion and creation. I'm based in Teaneck, but Jersey City is accessible and I would be happy to participate in any way that I can. Feel free to reach me via my talk page or by email. Thanks again for thinking of me. Alansohn (talk) 15:58, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Are you free next Thursday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 26 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 05:51, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

YGM Sept 19
Hello, i've listed possible ideas for my main article. When your able please take a look and let me know if theres anything i may be able to add. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ACaccamo ACaccamo (talk) 11:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Potential Articles_com232
Hi! I would like to edit Otto Eckmann ,William Caslon and Will Burtin Any help will be appreciated --Kpervaiz (talk) 14:58, 25 September 2013 (UTC)kpervaiz--Kpervaiz (talk) 14:58, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

COMM 3460: Maria Popova
Hi Pharos, it is good to make your acquaintance on Wikipedia! My name is Ric, and I am currently working on the Wikipedia Project with my group members Catherine and Jennifer for our COMM 3460 course at Cornell. We are looking to make edits/improvements to the article on Maria Popova, a rising influence in the Communications space. As our initial draft for our article is due next week, we will be working through the weekend on this project and would appreciate any specific feedback on our outline/edits or general recommendations that you might have.

You can find our outline on the talk page for Maria Popova here: talk page. For your convenience, here is a link back to our course page if you wanted to take a look: course page. Thanks again, we look forward to hearing back from you!

Ric.chi (talk) 14:30, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Translations
Hi Pharos, My name is Sasha, I'm currently enrolled in Com 232 at CSI. I have decided to research and make a page for Joaquín Ibarra and had a few concerns about how to do this correctly. Joaquín Ibarra has a Spanish Wikipedia page which I would like to translate and add more information on. When translating a Wikipedia post how should I go about it and how do I do so without violating copyright? I would also like to know if I would have to transfer all of citations from the original page to the one I'm currently working on. Thanks in advance! MagnifyIt (talk) 18:07, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

COMM 3460: Pocahontas (1995 Film)
Hello Pharos! My name is Elizabeth and I'm part of the Cornell University/Online Communities (Fall 2013) Wikipedia Education program. I'm working with my group members Shelby and Sarah to improve the page on Disney's Pocahontas film. We wanted to put some more media on the page, as well as validate the media that is already there. The talk page of Pocahontas mentions that the fair use explanation of the existing photos is missing. How can we make sure that the images are fair use as well as add some new ones? We have explored the Wikimedia Commons but cannot find any photos relating to the movie, only photos relating to the history figure Pocahontas. Any suggestions/tips?

Thanks! Easowers (talk) 17:15, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Pharo House
Thought you might be interested. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 01:29, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Help test better mass message delivery
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Wikimedia NYC Meetup! Saturday October 5
Hey, Pharos, I'd hoped to go to the WikiMeetup this Saturday but I was a "Maybe" and I, indeed, can't make it. I appreciate that you organize these events and hope to make it to one in the future, especially if it is in Manhattan. From New Jersey, Brooklyn is more time-consuming to travel to. We met at a Wiki gathering but that was probably 3 or 4 years ago. Glad to see these events have continued! Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 17:43, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Online Communities Class @ Cornell University, ambassador
Hey, Pharos!

We're from Cornell's Online Communities class, and you're our ambassador. We wanted to reach out to you and ask you a brief question.

On our talk page for Peter Pan, user Stelmaris recommended us to use British English when editing the article. We don't have any experience with British English. Do you have any guidelines or suggestions?

Thanks Hek34 (talk) 17:49, 5 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Hek34, Pharos can advise you if you should use British English or not but if you want more information on the difference between British and American English, check out Manual of Style/Spelling. Liz  <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 18:00, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Merging into Peer-to-peer
Hi Pharos!

I am part of the Online communities class, and my group is editing Peer-to-peer. We came across another article, Social peer-to-peer processes, which we feel should be merged into the article that we are editing. Can you provide us with some feedback about going about this process?

I have created a section about this on the peer-to-peer talk page. Thank you!

CBCompton (talk) 15:51, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Are you free on Sunday? Join us for a special Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for a special WikiSalon at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library's Digital Commons Center. We will gather at 3 PM on Sunday, October 13, 2013 to discuss an important topic: what can Wikipedia and the DC area do to help each other? We hope to hear your thoughts and suggestions; if you have an idea you would like to pursue, please let us know and we will help!

Following the WikiSalon, we will be having dinner at a nearby restaurant, Ella's Wood Fired Pizza.

If you're interested in attending, please sign up at the event page. We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 02:10, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

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Help with your discussion for Campus Ambassador application: Aashaa
Dear!

Recently I apply for Campus Ambassador Program. Please suggest and discuss here on my proposal. For being support and promote wikipedia and wiki culture at my country and my university, you're comments will be helpful.

Thank You--Aashaa (talk) 04:05, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Vanderbilt Workshop
Hi Pharos! I've started a workshop page for our Vanderbilt Workshop on Wednesday. A few of us will be meeting at 2:30 CDT today to refine the syllabus. We'd welcome any suggestions! Thanks Clifford Anderson (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Hold up a sec ;-)
Why me? I'm not even going to be in town. =) I mentioned you at the WP:ENB, by the way. Best. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 12:30, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Ask ? Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 12:32, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Also if you could engage at WP:ENB about the WP:WEF that would be fantastic. I did mention you again over there. Thanks so much. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 11:06, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Help plan our next multimedia features
Hello Pharos, good to meet you! I would love your advice about new multimedia features we're developing for Wikipedia and Commons. I just sent you an email with proposed topics and dates. If you're interested, please let me know when would be a good time for us to talk: <fflorin-at-wikimedia-dot-org>. Hope to speak with you soon. All the best. Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 06:51, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Takes America
Did you organize the Wikipedia Takes America in Brooklyn?

I'm not much of a photographer, but my company is about to organize a photography club. I was thinking I should do a presentation on Wikipedia in general, and maybe propose a local monument contest. I'm hoping someone has already created a presentation (PowerPoint or generic) that I could use or modify. Or any other thoughts you might have.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  16:12, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia LGBT
Hi Pharos, I hope you are well! I just wanted to bring Wikimedia LGBT, a proposed user group and thematic organization that promotes the development of content on Wikimedia projects which is of interest to LGBT communities, to your attention. I am sure you are so busy with your current projects, but I hope you might be able to direct people to this group if they are interested in LGBT content in any way. Of course, you are also more than welcome to indicate your interest/support, if you wish. Hopefully we can get some LGBT-related GLAM/Education/etc. projects up and running in the near future. (Dorothy mentioned some LGBT organizations in NYC that have been wanting to work with Wikipedia--hopefully we can help there as well.) Best, -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:09, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Poke!
I've learned via email that some of these students have questions, particularly about image copyright! Thanks in advance for answering them! Wadewitz (talk) 17:10, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

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Art and Feminism Editathon / Feb 1
Hi Pharos. I'm working with some people to organize an editathon on Art and Feminism. I sent you an email, but wanted to follow up. Here is the Meetup Page. We will be doing it at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, and are working with other non/new wikipedians to organize satellite meetups in other cities; at present Chicago, DC, and Montreal are pretty solid and/or confirmed. We definitely want Wikimedia NYC folks to come. We are also going to need help reaching out to Wikimedia Chapter/Ambassador type people in other cities as those venues are solidified. Can you help with that and/or can you direct me to someone who can? Thanks. --Theredproject (talk) 02:57, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Life is a Dream: Translation/copyright issue for student editor
Hello, Pharos! Can you please comment on this translation/copyright issue at Talk:Life Is a Dream? Thanks for any guidance, as this is outside my area of experience. -- Ssilvers (talk) 23:51, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

MassMessage
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User:Sara.Powell20
OK, unblocked. it was the creation of multiple articles that attracted my interest, plus I've had a number of absolutely clear-cut spammers recently choosing names ending in numerals. I'm reassured that she is a GF editor, cheers, <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  20:15, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

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Virtual meeting invite
Would you like to participate in the January 2014 Seattle meetup virtually? We will meet on Saturday, January 11 at 6pm. If you can participate please sign on the talk page and install Skype. Hope to see you at the meeting. --<span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;"><b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉ 02:28, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

New England Wikipedia Day @ MIT: Saturday Jan 18
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Meetups coming up in DC!
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You are invited to two upcoming events in DC:


 * Meetup at Capitol City Brewery on Saturday, January 25 at 6 PM. Please join us for dinner, drinks, socializing, and discussing Wikimedia DC activities and events. All are welcome! RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.
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Harej (talk) 00:07, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

New features for course pages
Several noticeable improvements to the EducationProgram extension (in addition to some small bug fixes) will go live on or around 2014-01-23:

Notifications
 * All participants in a course (students, instructors, volunteers) will receive Notifications whenever their course talk page is edited. Thus, editors can use course talk pages to send messages they want the whole class to be aware of, and the class participants are likely to see them.

Special:Contributions student notice
 * For users enrolled as students in courses that are active, a notice will appear at the top of Special:Contributions noting which course(s) they are enrolled in. This will make it easy for users who come across the work of student editors to find out that they are part of a course and identify other class participants.

Adding articles
 * Course instructors and volunteers will be able to assign articles to student editors, instead of all articles needing to be added by the student editors themselves.

Adding students
 * Instructors and volunteers will be able to add users as students in courses, instead of all student editors needing to enroll for themselves. This makes it easier to maintain complete lists of students, and also makes the extension more suitable for tracking participation in edit-a-thons, workshops and other collaborative projects beyond the Wikipedia Education Program.

If you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know! --Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 18:14, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

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Brooklyn?
Pharos, I did not create a separate ArtAndFeminism meetup page for Brooklyn, as I was not sure of the history in Brooklyn and whether or not it was under the Meetup/NYC umbrella. If you would like, I could create Meetup/Brooklyn/ArtAndFeminism 2014. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello Pharos (talk). I am so tickled that you are joining our class! :-) The timeline/grading is still very much in progress--I'll shoot you a message sometime next week when it's in better shape so you can let me know everything I am forgetting. :-) I am crossing my fingers that everything runs smoothly, as I would like to set this up as a regular course/courses and maybe sell the concept to my colleagues. DrX (talk) 18:01, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

how do i remove myself from the autopost list?
for the nyc events. thanks Metallurgist (talk) 04:10, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Account creator
So you are aware, the account creator rights are redundant to the administrator permission. --Rschen7754 05:25, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Wikipedia events and real-life initiatives
Category:Wikipedia events and real-life initiatives has been nominated for. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. :) Acather96 (click here to contact me) 10:52, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiCon USA 2014
Congrats on getting WikiCon USA 2014 up and running.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:10, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!
This is just a note to say thanks for helping me create my first Wikipedia entry yesterday and for contesting its deletion! You were so patient and I appreciate the help! Sarahmirk (talk) 20:49, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Coming up in February!
Hello there!

Our February WikiSalon is coming up on Sunday, February 23. Join us at our gathering of Wikipedia enthusiasts at the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery with an optional dinner after. As usual, all are welcome. Care to join us?

Also, if you are available, there is an American Art Edit-a-thon being held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Professor Andrew Lih's COMM-535 class at American University on Tuesday, February 11 from 2 to 5 PM. Please RSVP on the linked page if you are interested.

If you have any ideas or preferences for meetups, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC.

Thank you, and hope to see you at our upcoming events! Harej (talk) 18:42, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Upcoming Saturday events - March 1: Harlem History Editathon and March 8: NYU Law Editathon
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edu syllabus on talk page?
Hi User:Mozucat and Pharos. I noticed that the edu syllabus is on the talk page. I went to move it to the article page, and realized that I should maybe ask first, as it was doing the whole "create course" template...

edu syllabus on talk page?
Hi User:Mozucat and Pharos. I noticed that the edu syllabus is on the talk page. I went to move it to the article page, and realized that I should maybe ask first, as it was doing the whole "create course" template... --Theredproject (talk) 15:31, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, please move. Apologies if I inadvertently did this (tried to fix - must be not possible due to rights). Thanks!!! Mozucat (talk) 18:17, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Education Program technical update, February 2014
We've started working on "editor campaigns", a system that we expect will eventually be able to replace our current Education Program extension (and be useful for many other purposes as well). The early work with that project will focus on a system for signup up new editors for editing campaigns (such as courses, but also edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.). Because of that, progress will be slow on the current course page system. However, we have several improvements that should be available within the next few weeks.

As part of the effort to make course pages behave more like regular wiki pages, we've enabled editing of course pages by anyone. Users who currently have the right to edit courses will have access to all the fields (so that they can change the start/end dates, and change the enrollment token). Users who currently cannot edit courses will be able to edit only the "page text" portion. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
 * Anyone can edit the main text of course pages

We've considerably simplified the interface for editing course pages, removing the options to rename courses. Changing the title of a course would also move the course page, creating confusion and leading to a number of bugs. Several other parts of the course editing interface were not very useful, so we've removed them to make it easier on newcomers. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
 * Simplified course editing interface

Two students participating in the Facebook Open Academy mentorship program are currently working on additional Notifications for course pages. For the first of these, users will be notified whenever someone else adds them to a course.
 * Additional Notifications

Once again, if you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 17:38, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

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DC Meetups in March
<div style="background: #EFFDF5; padding:3em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size:110%;"> Happy March!

Though we have a massive snowstorm coming up, spring is just around the corner! Personally, I am looking forward to warmer weather.

Wikimedia DC is looking forward to a spring full of cool and exciting activities. In March, we have coming up:


 * Evening WikiSalon on Wednesday, March 12 from 7 PM – 9 PM. Meet up with Wikipedians for coffee at the Cove co-working space in Dupont Circle! If you cannot make it in the evening, join us at our...
 * March Meetup on Sunday, March 23 from 3 PM – 6 PM. Our monthly weekend meetup, same place as last month. Meet really cool and interesting people!
 * Women in the Arts 2014 meetup and edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 30 from 10 AM – 5 PM. Our second annual Women in the Arts edit-a-thon, held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Free lunch will be served!

We hope to see you at our upcoming events! If you have any questions, feel free to ask on my talk page.

— Harej (talk) 05:11, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

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Hello.
Hello Pharos,

My name is Melissa Galarza and i am in the class ENG 103.0896. Thank you for the amazing learning experience. I am very pleased with the novel Kindred by Olivia E. Butler, the idea of the story is very intriguing. Mel26 19:33, 10 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Melissagalarza (talk • contribs)

Hello
Just wanted to say hi and what do you think of the storyline of Kindred?Jarika5230 (talk) 19:36, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Im in English 103 just wanted to say hi and thanks for helpingus out.Redhead321 (talk) 01:29, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon question
Hi Pharos,

I work at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. We're looking forward to hosting our first edit-a-thon later this spring! I'd like to create a project page for PEM on the GLAM Wiki site, but I'm having some trouble. Is this something that only an administrator can do?

I'd really appreciate your help and advice getting started.

Thanks! Cathypem (talk) 20:33, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

HELLO
HELLO PHAROS IM A STUDENT IN ENG103 ON MONDAY FROM 1-4:25. I JUST WANT TO SAY HELLO AND THANK YOU. Goga1994 (talk) 15:46, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

HI
Hello I am a student in Doctor x's class and I look forward to corresponding with you this semester in building our class' wikipedia page. Maxamillion412 (talk) 19:56, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello
Joe0312 (talk) 00:26, 14 March 2014 (UTC) Hi Pharos (nice name by the way) I'm a current student at Ximena's English class. Thank you for helping us building a better Wikipedia Page.

Hi Pharos, my name is Adoreher. I'm currently taking an English class that uses Wikipedia. So far I've seen how helpful Wikipedia, is despite people indifference. Thank you for your time. Adoreher (talk) 06:30, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello!
Hello Pharos, I am currently a student at Ximena's English class at Laguardia CC. Thank you for all that you are doing to help us with this Wikipedia page. Redrosex1025 (talk) 01:13, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello
Hi Pharos,I am a current student in Dr. Ximena's English class, and i just wanted to thank you for your helping our class this semester.The North Remembers16 (talk) 02:04, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello
Hi Pharos,I am a current student in Dr. Ximena's English class, and i just wanted to thank you for your helping our class this semester.The North Remembers16 (talk) 02:04, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello Pharos
Hi my name is Shaniqua and I am currently a student in Dr.X ENG 103 class at LaGuardia Community College, and I look forward into having you assist us with editing techniques throughout the semester while working on the article on "Kindred". Thank you.SNSmith27 (talk) 06:50, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello Pharos
My name is Jonathan and I am excited to see how this course turns out this semester. Ronin1123 (talk) 14:37, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello
Hi my name is Telissa. I am a student in Dr. X's English 103 class and I look forward to creating our class Wikipedia page with your help. Thanks. Telissa18 (talk) 16:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello
Hello, Im Starshema Murray. Im in class ENG 103. I am new to using Wikipedia and I am so happy and excited to learn how to use Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goldilocks14 (talk • contribs) 20:28, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hola Pharos my name is Unue, I am enrolled in my Eng 103 class and looking forward in taking part of this experiences. thank you Pacer87 (talk) 20:43, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Pharos Lissetlot15 (talk) 23:05, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello
Thank you §Raphael Abreu — Preceding unsigned comment added by R 1994 (talk • contribs) 00:46, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello Pharos
Hello I'm excited to learn and establish a new way of life with our fellow wikipedians, and I'm new to this but step by step I'm learning. I feel everyday is a learning experience and in life you can never learn enough. Thank you and I'm very interested about this new book I'm reading called Kindred BY:Octavia Butler and soon I will be making wiki page with my fellow classmates. Thank you for your time and have a wonderful day!!!!!!!!!!Watoflifej23 (talk) 18:24, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

An exciting month of wiki events!
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I am pleased to say that April will be a very exciting month for Wikipedia in Washington, DC. We have a lot of different events coming up, so you will have a lot to choose from.

First, a reminder that our second annual Women in the Arts Edit-a-Thon will take place on Sunday, March 30 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Coming up in April, we have our first-ever Open Government WikiHack with the Sunlight Foundation on April 5–6! We are working together to use open government data to improve the Wikimedia projects, and we would love your help. All are welcome, regardless of coding or editing experience. We will also be having a happy hour the day before, with refreshments courtesy of the Sunlight Foundation.

On Friday, April 11 we are having our first edit-a-thon ever with the Library of Congress. The Africa Collection Edit-a-Thon will focus on the Library's African and Middle East Reading Room. It'll be early in the morning, but it's especially worth it if you're interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of African topics.

The following day, we are having our second annual Wiki Loves Capitol Hill training. We will discuss policy issues relevant to Wikimedia and plan for our day of outreach to Congressional staffers that will take place during the following week.

There are other meetups in the works, so be sure to check our meetup page with the latest. I hope to see you at some of these events!

All the best, James Hare

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New Wikipedia articles posted by ITP Core 2 class
Hi Pharos! Theredproject and Msmale asked us to let you know that we've posted a new Wikipedia article on Kathleen Fitzpatrick's book Planned Obsolescence: Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology and the Future of the Academy. Thanks for all your guidance! Hamsindh (talk) 19:54, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

You're invited!
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April 2014
Hello - just to let you know that I mentioned you in an AN/I discussion -.Smeat75 (talk) 17:54, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

question about Education Program:CUNY, LaGuardia Community College/The Research Paper: Kindred (Spring)
I have this course on my watchlist (not sure why, possibly I welcomed some of the students) and notice that a lot of text is accumulating on Education_Program_talk:CUNY,_LaGuardia_Community_College/The_Research_Paper:_Kindred_(Spring). It seems article-like but would take quite a bit of work to turn into an article. It's not going to be dumped into article space at the end of the course, is it? Stuartyeates (talk) 07:22, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Education Program technical update, April 2014
Since the last update, development of the editor campaigns project has been continuing, and it's almost at the point that it will be useful to users running edit-a-thons and other non-course outreach events. (If you are planning such an event soon and would like to beta test it for tracking the contributions of newcomers, get it touch.) In the meantime, we've made a few small improvements and bug fixes to the Education Program extension:

The default end date for courses is now approximately six months in the future, instead of immediately. This will prevent the common problem where a user creates a new course page but does change the default dates, resulting in a course that is immediately considered "ended" and thus cannot be enrolled in.
 * Default course end date

Whenever a user gets added to a course by someone else, they will now receive a Notification.
 * Notifications when you get added to a course

The student profile special page (Special:Student/Username, not to be confused with Special:Students) is a page that lists the courses a student editor is enrolled in, and is also supposed to list the articles that user is working on. However, the list of articles can include incorrect data in cases where an instructor or volunteer assigned the articles to the student editor. These profiles are being removed from the extension altogether. This change should go into effect Thursday, May 1. (Logs are still available to find out which courses a user is enrolled in.)
 * Disabling individual student profiles

A nearly complete patch from Facebook Open Academy student Jeff Lloyd will add a new type of Notification: students will be alerted to edits made by others to the article(s) they are assigned (as well as the corresponding talk pages). Expect to see this feature within the next several weeks.
 * Article edit notifications for students coming soon

Bugs in the course page creation process (now fixed) led in some cases to duplicate listings for the same course at Special:Courses. This happens when the same course page had two (or more) different course ID numbers. It is possible to clean up such duplicate entries using by making calls to the API. I've documented this process and written a Python script for it.
 * Duplicate courses and API deletion

If you have feedback about these changes, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let Anna Koval or me know!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

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Two edit-a-thons coming up!
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Hello there!

I'm pleased to tell you about two upcoming edit-a-thons:


 * This Tuesday, April 29, from 2:30 to 5:30 PM, we have the Freer and Sackler edit-a-thon. (Sorry for the short notice!)
 * On Saturday, May 10 we have the Wikipedia APA edit-a-thon, in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, from 10 AM to 5 PM.

We have more stuff coming up in May and June, so make sure to keep a watch on the DC meetup page. As always, if you have any recommendations or requests, please leave a note on the talk page.

Best,

James Hare

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Abrahamic creation myth
That's the best suggestion yet for the title of our missing article. Thanks for your comment. Your username happens to be my favorite brand of Mexican cigarettes which, strangely, we don't have an article on. Cigarettespedia to the rescue! Cheers...&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 22:51, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Category:National questions
Is Category:National questions really a good category? It doesn't seem like any of these disputes necessarily have anything to do with each other other than their name - and thus WP:SHAREDNAME would apply. It's not really a "defining characteristic." I'm tempted to nominate it for deletion at CFD, but maybe I'm missing something? SnowFire (talk) 21:31, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Landowners / Peasants
Actually, I believe you'll find that "landowners" and "peasants" are not as opposite as they might seem. A "peasant" was typically an agricultural worker occupying a parcel of land and working it themselves. Often, a peasant had some sort of property right to the land they occupied. This right might not have been as absolute as is typical, say, of the US where freehold tenure is the norm; they might, for example, hold a long-term lease from a local or regional magnate. This lease might be subject to expiration at fixed periods, or upon the death of the occupant, or it might by law or custom be inherited within a family. The tenure could be quite valuable in economic terms, but was often inalienable (just as noble estates were often inalienable). Conversely, in early modern Eastern Europe a peasant might also inherit obligations, e.g. to live upon and work the property even if they preferred not to. Further confusing matters is that early modern farmers were often very cash poor even when prosperous; they might effectively control a good deal of productive land, they might eat well in a time when many did not, but they still would have little or no money. MarkBernstein (talk) 14:06, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jews_and_Communism_(2nd_nomination)
You are invited to join the discussion at Articles_for_deletion/Jews_and_Communism_(2nd_nomination). Thanks. MarkBernstein (talk) 21:27, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Meet up with us
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Happy May!

There are a few meetups in DC this month, including an edit-a-thon later this month. Check it out:
 * On Thursday, May 15 come to our evening WikiSalon at the Cove co-working space in Dupont Circle. If you're available Thursday evening, feel free to join us!
 * Or if you prefer a Saturday night dinner gathering, we also have our May Meetup at Capitol City Brewing Company. (Beer! Non-beer things too!)
 * You are also invited to the Federal Register edit-a-thon at the National Archives later this month.

Come one, come all!

Best,

James Hare

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Hi Pharos
Don't mean to be brusque or anything but Timeline of the far future is a featured list and any new additions to it really need to be cited. I'm sure you can find sources for your info; after all, finding sources is your thing, isn't it?  Serendi <sup style="color:#bb0000;">pod ous  10:01, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi again. This is totally a "gift horse, open wide and say aah" moment, but I was wondering, could you have a look at this list? It's all the material from an earlier version of this article that I haven't been able to find sources for. I'm not sure if any of it will be all that useful to be honest; the one sourced Unix timecode overflow was already taken down from this page on the admittedly fair assumption that we probably won't still be using Unix, or even seconds, in 292 billion years. As for the star occultations, I personally don't think they're that relevant, but I am interested in the other things. Please let me know if you find anything. Thanks.  Serendi <sup style="color:#bb0000;">pod ous  16:36, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia US
Hi Pharos, WikimediaUS-l is not shown as a public email list, and when I sent an email to the list I didn't get a bounce or a copy of my email. Can you check what's going on?

Also, will you put up a US-wide geonotice and ask people to update their announcements for the 2014 Wiknic?

Pine

Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Washington, DC meetups in June
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Greetings!

Wikimedia DC has yet another busy month in June. Whether you're a newcomer to Wikipedia or have years of experience, we're happy to see you come. Here's what's coming up:


 * On Wednesday, June 11 from 7 to 9 PM come to the WikiSalon at the Cove co-working space. Hang out with Wikipedia enthusiasts!
 * Saturday, June 14 is the Frederick County History Edit-a-Thon from 11 AM to 4 PM. Help improve local history on Wikipedia.
 * The following Saturday, June 21, is the June Meetup. Dinner and drinks with Wikipedians!
 * Come on Tuesday, June 24 for the Wikipedia in Your Library edit-a-thon at GWU on local and LGBT history.
 * Last but not least, on Sunday, June 29 we have the Phillips Collection Edit-a-Thon in honor of the Made in America exhibit.

Wikipedia is better with friends, so why not come out to an event?

Best,

James Hare

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Greg Kohs and WikiConference USA
Dear Pharos: Is this report accurate: WikiConference USA bans critic from open meeting? If it is accurate do you know if a response from the conference organizers is forthcoming? I won't spend time explaining exactly how upsetting this is and how very bad it looks on its face until the accuracy of the report is confirmed. It looks really bad, though, and I really hope there's a plausible explanation. Note that I'm not asking about the rejection of Kohs's presentation, but only about the allegation that he was barred from an event touted as "open to all participants, regardless of previous level of involvement with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia projects. We welcome the curious, the skeptical, and others wishing to engage in meaningful conversation about the Wikimedia movement in the United States, free culture and digital rights, advocacy and outreach, community building, and technology." I posted the same question on 's talk page, but he declined to respond substantively. I am also leaving it on the talk pages of the other conference organizers. &mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 19:18, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Online Ambassador
Hi there. I applied for this position on the Education Noticeboard. Do you mind reviewing my application when you get a chance? Akifumii Talk 21:59, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Draft thing
The really rough draft that I did was stashed here. Did you want to do something with it? -— Isarra ༆ 01:08, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Saturday June 21: Wiki Loves Pride
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Mass message
Please make sure to include a timestamp at the end of messages sent by mass message so that archiving bots do not skip those sections. Thanks, -- Glaisher  [talk]  18:10, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, my apologies. It's a bit non-intuitive to leave the timestamp with massmessage, but I'll do this for the next one for the Wiknic.--Pharos (talk) 18:39, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * How so? You can just use . Legoktm (talk) 18:47, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Sunday July 6: WikNYC Picnic
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The Great American Wiknic and other events in July
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I am pleased to announce our fourth annual picnic, the Great American Wiknic, will take place at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, July 13 from 1 to 5 PM (rain date: July 20). We will be hanging out by the statue of Dante Alighieri, a statue that was donated to the park in 1921 as a tribute to Italian Americans. Read more about the statue on Wikipedia. If you would like to sign up for the picnic, you can do so here. When signing up, say what you’re going to bring!

July will also feature the second annual Great American Wiknic in Frederick, Maryland. This year’s Frederick picnic will take place on Sunday, July 6 at Baker Park. Sign up here for the Frederick picnic.

What else is going on in July? We have the American Chemical Society Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, July 12, dedicated to notable chemists, and our monthly WikiSalon on Wednesday, July 16.

We hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

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Repeated addition of material apparently failing WP:V
I'm concerned about your re-addition of material to the History of the Jews in Nepal article that I have not been able to verify, and for which you have not reponded to Talk page queries regarding the specifics, with respect to some of which I have provided links demonstrating no hits, no emphasis, etc. Note that Nishidani, who is more knowledgeable in this field than I, has recently looked at some of the previous additions of material and concurred that it didn't belong in the article, was fringe, etc.

On the Talk page you reiterated mention of a "Jewish Karim" in a source, and since I haven't found that, please specify the source and the page number, or self-revert the re-addition of that material. Without a "Jewish Karim", it should be apparent that there would be no notable "historic trade routes" between Nepal, as the entire section would rest on a note recorded by a single Jewish merchant based in Cairo in the eleventh century.

The distinction between the Old and New Testament versions of spikenard also would seem to be relevant, as the issue regarding the plant from the Himalayas. Please respond to these queries on the article talk page. -- Ubikwit  連絡見学/迷惑 08:39, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I.e., where in the Geniza document does the Jewish merchant mention that his spikenard came from 'Nepal'? Horace writing decades before A.D. wrote of spikenard, but this doesn't mean there was a Roman connection with Nepal.Nishidani (talk) 09:58, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

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Greetings from Aragotton!
Hey Pharos, sorry I didn't reply to your emails lately, I have been busy. And about the article military history of Bangladesh, I don't think that is necessary, they already have one. But I am trying to work on this History of Bangladesh under British rule. Nayways, and about the second message you gave me I will try to get as bilingual people for future meetups. Thanks!

nyc meetups
Hi Pharos, Is there a mailing list or some other sort of way that I can send things to everyone involved in Wikimedia NYC? I'd like to meet a few other Wikipedians, most likely through a mini edit-a-thon at a Starbucks in NYC.

Best, Upjav Upjav (talk) 19:55, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Battle of Fort Stevens Edit-a-Thon!
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Greetings!

Sorry for the last minute update, but our friends at the DC Historical Society have scheduled a Battle of Fort Stevens Edit-a-Thon to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle fought in the District. The event will last from noon to 2 PM on Wednesday, July 30. Hope you can make it!

Best,

James Hare

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Wikimania 2014
Hi!

My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller and video producer for the Wikimedia Foundation. I'll be looking to capture stories about Wikimedians at Wikimania in London in a week. Here is an example of the kind of thing that I'm aiming to do. I saw that you're attending Wikimania and I was wondering if you might have some time to talk about your work on Wikimedia projects. Anyway let me know if you are interested, I'll be at Wikimania from the 6th-10th of August and would need maybe 30 minutes of your time. I can answer any questions you may have. I’m best reached at vgrigas(at)wikimedia.org

Thanks!

Vgrigas (talk) 19:26, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Whisperback - August 2014
Peaceray (talk) 02:11, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Help with wikipedia page
Hi, my name is Paul and I am administrator for Indiggo Twins website: http://www.indiggotwins.com. Indiggo are identical twin professional actresses, singers, writers, composers signed with Sony BMG and Imagem USA, featured and credited on Jay-Z & Kanye' West's 4 times Grammy award-winning album Watch The Throne, respectively on "Murder To Excellence". I am writing to you to kindly ask of you to help contribute to the Indiggo wikipedia page, to establish a neutral and just point of view of the "America's Got Talent" section as fans who have followed Indiggo's growth and development have notified me that the Indiggo wikipedia page has been vandalized. There are several racist, false and malicious comments regarding Indiggo's performances on America's Got Talent, respectively on the New York audition, that are allowed on the Indiggo wikipedia page and that harm Indiggo's image. I have also been notified that whenever their fans have tried to bring other arguments or write other AGT judges' comments they were blocked and threatened by users from Great Britain who are favoring artists who they think they vie with the Indiggo Twins. Judge Sharon Osbourne has praised the twins and the audience rooted for Indiggo and cheered for them to be approved to the next stage of Las Vegas callbacks. Yet, whenever someone has tried to bring these actual arguments, they were blocked. The ones who vandalize wrote that judge Piers Morgan said the twins are the worst singers and dancers in the competition on the NY audition. He hasn't said that, he actually said that "I started to enjoy your performance" and he approved the pair to go to the next stages, to top 40. Nevertheless, judges' comments should not be posted at all and only facts should be admitted on a serious and classy encyclopedia as wikipedia. I hope to hear from you soon and to receive your help. I do believe in justice and that artists' hard work and growth should be respected and protected. Many thanks, Paul Indiggo7777 (talk) 02:39, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Sunday August 17: NYC Wiki-Salon and Skill Share
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August 17th I'll be at the Mets/Cubs game. But I thank you for the invite. TimidObserver (talk) 22:21, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Westchester Meeting 24 August Local transport
I don't know whether I will have car availability, but plan to attend in any event. Looking at the train and bus schedules, there are few buses on Beeline route 14 on Sunday. If folks will be coming by train, you might want to offer pickup at the stations in time for participants to get there close to the start. I don't know whether anyone would take you up on the offer, but it might reduce a barrier to attendance. I have inserted some schedule info on the meeting page. DCDuring (talk) 18:40, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Asian Americans in New York City


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Westchester endangered species
See wikt:User:DCDuring/Westchester_endangered_species and links therefrom to Wiktionary entries for a few items and to Wikispecies. I have found some out-of-date species names in the list. I will be adding Wiktionary entries for the vernacular names, plants first.

Thanks for being an online volunteer
Thanks for becoming an online volunteer for my course [| Communication in Groups and Organizations.] I've done some Wikipedia editing myself and have used WP writing assignments in past courses. Still it is nice to have a real Wikipedian watching over us. Robertekraut (talk) 21:47, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia and YOUR History: Taking Control of the Internet
Come one and come all. To a presentation at the Laurel Historical Society about how you can help verify, validate, and edit the information that is on the front line of local history.
 * Show the Internet who is the better editor.
 * Be the creator of culture that you know you are.
 * Spread the knowledge of noteworthy people who no one but you cares about.
 * Lead the charge to a better Wikipedia --- eventually.

Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:08, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia and YOUR History: Taking Control of the Internet
See you at the Laurel Pool Room, 9th and Main Street, Laurel, MD on Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 7:00 PM EST. See http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205494212/ for more information. Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:13, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC invites revolutionaries, free thinkers, and other sundry editors to a DC WikiSalon
The WikiSalon is a special meetup usually held during the first and third full weeks of every month, from 7 PM to 9 PM. It's an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss Wikimedia wikis and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own.

If you're coming by Metro, the closest station is Dupont Circle (on the Red Line). If you're driving, a lot of parking opens up downtown after 6:30 PM, so finding a parking space (even a free one) should be easy. Once you've found the building, go to Cove on the second floor. We will be in the conference room. When: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Where: The Cove, Dupont Circle, 1730 Connecticut Avenue NW, 2nd floor, 20009, DC

For more information, see http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205500822/

My best regards, Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:25, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC's Wonderful meetups
Wikimedia DC's Upcoming meetups My best regards, Geraldshields11 (talk) 22:50, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thursday, September 11: “Wikipedia and YOUR History: Taking Control of the Internet, One Article at a Time!”
 * A presentation at the Laurel Historical Society about how you can help verify, validate, and edit the information that is on the front line of local history. Laurel Pool Room, 9th and Main Street in Laurel, MD. 7 PM.
 * Wednesday, September 17: WikiSalon
 * Come for the pizza, stay for the conversation. 7 PM – 9 PM
 * Saturday, September 20: September Meetup
 * Get dinner and drinks with fellow Wikipedians! 6 PM
 * Sunday, September 21: Laurel History Edit-a-Thon
 * Local history for Wikipedia! 10:15 AM – 4 PM
 * Saturday, September 27 – Sunday, September 28: Please RSVP for the Open Government WikiHack at Eventbrite by clicking on the link. The National Archives and Records Administration and Wikimedia DC are teaming up to come up with solutions that help integrate government data into Wikipedia. 10:30 AM – 5 PM each day

Request for Comment
Based on your comments here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Avoiding_harm, I am interested in having your feedback/criticism dialogue here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Guideline_for_crime_victims_of_world_wide_significanceMeropeRiddle (talk) 11:02, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Introduction
Hello Pharos,

I'm Amy Hughes' new student in her Theatre History Course at Brooklyn College.

Thanks for volunteering!

Andreabee12 (talk) 17:40, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Vanderbilt Edit-a-Thon
Hi Pharos, I thought I'd introduce you to Nikilada, who is our Library Dean's Fellow this semester for Wikipedia. She'll be organizing an edit-a-thon this fall, probably on November 1st. She's also just applied to become a campus ambassador. We'll keep you posted as our plans develop. We might need help again setting up a geo-notice for the edit-a-thon. Best wishes! Clifford Anderson (talk) 20:50, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Pharos! I am Gillian, an MFA performing arts management student, taking Amy Hughes' Theater History class! I can't wait to make WikiHistory with your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gilliark (talk • contribs) 03:57, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi Pharos
My name is David Irving, and I'm in Professor Hughes Theater History to 1642 class. I'm an theater history and criticism MA. Looking forward to working with you, Deliirving (talk) 22:28, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello Pharos! My name is Haruki, MFA performing arts management student taking Professor Hughes' Theater History course at Brooklyn College. Thank you for helping us in our project, and I look forward to working with you! Decafespresso (talk) 23:12, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello
Hello Pharos,

I am a student in the Theatre History to 1642 course. Thank you in advance for all the help you will give my classmates and I this semester!

Jcbjaw12 (talk) 00:02, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello, Pharos
My name is Marni. I am enrolled in Theatre History to 1642. Thank you so much for helping our class out on our project. I look forward to working with you! Mcraab123 (talk) 00:14, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

another Brooklyn College Theatre History student
Hi Pharos, Thank you for being a wiki ambassador for our course. I can't wait to dig in and get started. If I need help with something should I post here on your talk page or is there another wiki-appropriate way to ask for your guidance? Always -Jessiechapman (talk) 02:00, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Greetings from another Brooklyn College Student
Hello Pharos! Thank you in advance for your time contributing to our class project. I look forward to working with you this year :) Jsattler07 (talk) 14:58, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

The wonderful annual meeting! And more!
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Hello, fellow Wikipedian!

I am excited to announce our upcoming Annual Meeting at the National Archives! We'll have free lunch, an introduction by Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, and a discussion featuring Ed Summers, the creator of CongressEdits. Join your fellow DC-area Wikipedians on Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 4:30 PM. RSVP today!

Also coming up we have the Human Origins edit-a-thon on October 17 and the WikiSalon on October 22. Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

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Thanks for coming to the Mount Sinai Edit-a-thon
I just wanted to thank you for making your way out to New York City last week. I think the edit-a-thon went well, and we are eager to have more support from the Wikipedia community. If you have any comments or suggestions for future events, let me know!

Thanks, Mjbailey (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Submit your data to the II Round of voluntary reporting
Hi Pharos, Hope this finds you well. I wanted to reach out to see how I can help you to get some of your program evaluations included in this year's round of voluntary reporting. I have in my records that you were coordinating the «Greenwich Village in the 60s» and «Open History: Queens» editathons, is this correct? I know from project pages that you have done some amazing work and been documenting the outcomes. Can you please write back to me to my talk page, or email me to mcruz [at] wikimedia [dot] org? Thanks! MCruz (WMF) (talk) 22:19, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello Pharos, I'm with the Program Evaluation & Design team at WMF. I'm following up on Maria's note about program data for the NYC Law Editathon.  There are still a few bits of missing data we'd like to fill in before Nov 26th.  I've posted them over on the event talk page, could you please respond with any data you have, or "Don't know" for the answers you do not have, within the next week?  If you have any questions, please do contact me through my talk page or at abittaker at wikimedia dot org.  Thanks so much, this really helps our program learning and capacity building for future editathons! --Abittaker (WMF) (talk) 23:46, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

UN maps and WP:WATERMARK
Please see discussion at Wikipedia talk:Image use policy. Cheers. Kaldari (talk) 09:56, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

AWB Question
A quick question: I am on the AWB request list, but it is apparently backlogged. Would AWB really be useful for my work on the Children's articles and, if so, can you approve me? HullIntegrity (talk) 17:13, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Thursday December 4: NYC Wiki-Salon and Skill Share
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Pharos, please take me off any mailing lists for these things, I do want to receive these invites or any other messages pertaining to Wikimedia NYC. Nightscream (talk) 13:53, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Nightscream: Done. Though I hope we can get together again sometime.--Pharos (talk) 02:29, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

End-of-the-year meetups
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Hello,

You're invited to the end-of-the-year meetup at Busboys and Poets on Sunday, December 14 at 6 PM. There is Wi-Fi, so bring your computer if you want!

You are also invited to our WikiSalon on Thursday, December 18 at 7 PM.

Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

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Wikipedia Regional Ambassadors
Where is the most updated list of Wikipedia Regional Ambassadors for the WikiEd Foundation? OR drohowa (talk) 19:01, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year Pharos!
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Happy New Year! Pharos, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.  Serendi <sup style="color:#bb0000;">pod ous  15:29, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2015}} to user talk pages.

Nashville Public Library Edit-a-Thon
Hi Pharos,

I'll be meeting with my counterparts at the Nashville Public Library on Tuesday, January 13 to plan an edit-a-thon. Any chance that we could Skype with you to discuss holding it into concert with other libraries? How about 12:30 EST?

Talk soon, I hope. Clifford Anderson (talk) 16:33, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Looking forward to hopefully getting this cross-country editathon happening in February! Amwilliams15 (talk) 20:02, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon
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Museum hacks and museum edits
<div style="padding:3em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size:110%; line-height:1.75;"> Hello there!

Upcoming events:


 * February 6–8: The third annual ArtBytes Hackathon at the Walters Art Museum! This year Wikimedia DC is partnering with the Walters for a hack-a-thon at the intersection of art and technology, and I would like to see Wikimedia well represented.
 * February 11: The monthly WikiSalon, same place as usual. RSVP on Meetup or just show up!
 * February 15: Wiki Loves Small Museums in Ocean City. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, with support from Wikimedia DC, will be leading a workshop at the Small Museum Association Conference on how they can contribute to Wikipedia. Tons of representatives from GLAM institutions will be present, and we are looking for volunteers. If you would like to help out, check out "Information for Volunteers".

I am also pleased to announce events for Wikimedia DC Black History Month with Howard University and NPR. Details on those events soon.

If you have any questions or have any requests, please email me at james.hare@undefinedwikimediadc.org.

See you there! – James Hare

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Wikimedia DC celebrates Black History Month, and more!
<div style="max-width:1000px; margin:0 auto; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size:110%; line-height:1.75;"> Hello again!

Not even a week ago I sent out a message talking about upcoming events in DC. Guess what? There are more events coming up in February.

First, as a reminder, there is a WikiSalon on February 11 (RSVP here or just show up) and Wiki Loves Small Museums at the Small Museum Association Conference on February 15 (more information here).

Now, I am very pleased to announce:


 * Tuesday, February 17 from 10 AM to 3 PM there will be #WikiTurgy at the University of Maryland. Join fellow theatre enthusiasts for a “mass act of public dramaturgy!”
 * Thursday, February 19 from 10 AM to 4 PM we are hosting the Howard University Black History Edit-a-Thon. We are working in partnership with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of African-American and African diasporic history.
 * Tuesday, February 24 from 6 PM to 8 PM we have the Black History Month “First Edit” at NPR. Help improve Wikipedia and help others make their first edit to Wikipedia!
 * Finally, our monthly dinner meetup is on Saturday, February 28.

There is going to be a lot going on, and I hope you can come to some of the events!

If you have any questions or need any special accommodations, please let me know.

Regards,

James Hare

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Account Creator
I was wondering if it might be useful at editathons if I had Account Creator rights. Would it be? I certainly do not mind doing so. HullIntegrity (talk) 13:29, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Conjectural portrait


The article Conjectural portrait has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Unsourced article fails WP:NEO, no significant coverage in WP:RS about this term

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Vrac (talk) 21:02, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Where at Barnard College?
Exactly where at Barnard College is the NYC event? Any suggestions about parking for motorists from far out of town?--DThomsen8 (talk) 02:22, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Editing for Women's History in March
<div style="padding:3em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size:110%; line-height:1.75;"> Hello,

I am very excited to announce this month’s events, focused on Women’s History Month:


 * Sunday, March 8: Women in the Arts 2015 Edit-a-thon – 10 AM to 4 PM
 * Women in the Arts and ArtAndFeminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Free coffee and lunch served!
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup
 * Wednesday, March 11: March WikiSalon – 7 PM to 9 PM
 * An evening gathering with free-flowing conversation and free pizza.
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup (or just show up!)
 * Friday, March 13: NIH Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon – 9 AM to 4 PM
 * In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is organizing and hosting an edit-a-thon to improve coverage of women in science in Wikipedia. Free coffee and lunch served!
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup
 * Saturday, March 21: Women in STEM Edit-a-Thon at DCPL – 12 PM
 * Celebrate Women's History Month by building, editing, and expanding articles about women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields during DC Public Library's first full-day edit-a-thon.
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup
 * Friday, March 27: She Blinded Me with Science, Part III – 10 AM to 4 PM
 * Smithsonian Institution Archives Groundbreaking Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Free lunch courtesy of Wikimedia DC!
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup
 * Saturday, March 28: March Dinner Meetup – 6 PM
 * Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup

Hope you can make it to an event! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Thanks,

James Hare

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Account creator rights - question
I see you granted me Account Creator Rights, probably because of the outreach events I assist at. I understand the need for it, due to the limit on account creation in some places. I looked at the related WP page, but it wasn't terribly helpful for me - a lot of technical and policy stuff related to problematic scenarios. I was hoping you could provide me with a quick summary of what I should do if and when the account creation limit is reached. Do I just go to the Special page for creating accounts, and do it myself while logged in? Cheers, AstroCog (talk) 23:26, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, just stay logged in as yourself, and go to Special:CreateAccount.--Pharos (talk) 23:30, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Email
Hi Pharos,

Thanks for your email. Unfortunately I cannot help out, since I will be doing things out of state this weekend, but thank you for the invitation.

Thanks,

Tito xd (?!? - cool stuff) 18:56, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Talkback
Peridon (talk) 17:52, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

THANK YOU!


Thank you so much for all of your insights & help at the NYC Edit-a-Thons, especially this past weekend @ Art+Feminism MoMa and the Babycastles Satellite events!! You're awesome! I look forward to running into you again (probably at the 2015 Wikipedia Day mini-conference). --Deckdeckdeck (talk) 14:59, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference
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Error in invitation?
Hi Pharos, I just got your invitation to Wikipedia Day 2015, but it looks like there's a typo... It says the event is happening from 10:00pm - 9:00 pm. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks! nycdi (talk) 04:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, my mistake! The start time is of course 10am, and hopefully the error is a relatively obvious one that people will find corrected on the main meetup page.--Pharos (talk) 17:06, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Interested in asking some questions re: NYPD Wikipedia editing
Hey Pharos,

I'm a journalist looking to get some comments from Wikimedia commenters in NYC on the NYPD edits to Wikipedia that were released by Capital New York. I reached out because I saw that you were the president of the NYC Wikipedia Meetup group. Would it be possible to have a talk?

Thanks so much!

--Thencarolsaid (talk) 18:16, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Account creators?
Pharos,

Are you giving out account creator to anyone who posts at ArtAndFeminism/AccountCreator? Several users have been processed who appear to have no wiki-experience, and in some cases requesting this advanced permission was their only edit. Are you personally managing these editors and removing when special events are over? I started removing a few who appeared to be related to events that were over, but wanted to check in with you as a touchpoint to see what was going on. Thanks! — xaosflux  Talk 04:29, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Category:MoMA This is for Everyone exhibit, 2015
Haven't finished uploading the about 40 pictures. Totally unretouched for now. Jim.henderson (talk) 02:28, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Finished uploading all 40. Someone else can do the cropping, identifying etc, but if not, I'll eventually get to those jobs, umm, busy weekend so, next week. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:16, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

CUNY?
I haven't heard from CUNY about their ideas for Beginners' Wiki-Editing on Wikipedia Day. (See User_talk:RoyGoldsmith.) I really wanted to talk to them before the meeting. In the worst case, I will be at Barnard Hall around 9 o'clock tomorrow. --RoyGoldsmith (talk) 18:46, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!
Hi, Pharos! Just wanted to express my thanks for everything you did yesterday to make WikiDay such a great experience, especially for a newbie like me! Hope to see you again soon, and very best wishes! Amy E Hughes (talk) 22:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Fashion Institute of Technology class
Hello!

Just a quick note to ask about this course: Education Program:Fashion Institute of Technology/Cg223-fd223 (spring2015). Is this something that WikiEdu can provide support for?

Thanks! (And thanks again for organizing what seemed like a very successful Wikipedia Day -- I know that at least for me it was a great experience). --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:14, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I plan to help a bit myself (going there Wed morning), but any assistance from you and WikiEdu staff would be welcome as well. And it was great to have you at Wikipedia Day, you should always consider yourself a most welcome part of the NYC community.--Pharos (talk) 17:47, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It looks like only the description has been added thus far. Maybe it's a good time to have the instructor go through the assignment design wizard if the assignment is compatible? Thanks. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:32, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, the wizard was actually not working at the time this was set up (Sage informs me the webhost went down for the first time!), so this was created the old-fashioned way, and I'm not sure it makes sense to recreate the whole page, now that the instuctors and students are already a part of it. Still, I'm going to work with them step-by-step through the process of adding the timeline, etc, by the manual process, and this should get the same end result.--Pharos (talk) 16:16, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah! Sorry to hear that. Maybe I misunderstand, but the Wizard doesn't actually replace the course page -- it would just replace the paragraph course description that's there. Up to you, of course. Let me know if I can do anything to help out. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:47, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Contacts in NC?
Hi Richard,

Did you end up finding anyone to help out at that edit-a-thon in NC? I just got a message from someone at UNC who's organizing one. We haven't talked much yet, but if you happened to find someone enthusiastic about such things, I'd like to connect them. Thanks. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:01, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Your support needed for AfroCROWD Inspire campaign
Hi DGG, hoping you can add a comment in the Project Team section as an advisor or other role since you have already advised, trained and supported AfroCROWD: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Empowering_Afrodescendant_women_in_Wikipedia

Thanks in advance! --Aliceba (talk) 22:16, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Upcoming attractions in DC
<div style="padding:3em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size:110%; line-height:1.75;"> Hello!

Here are some upcoming DC meetups in April and May:


 * Tuesday, April 14: National Archives Hackathon on Wikipedia Space with American University – 2:30-5pm
 * See the latest work on the Wikipedia Space exhibit in the new NARA Innovation Hub and brainstorm on new ideas for a public exhibit about Wikipedia
 * Friday, April 17: Women in Tech Edit-a-thon with Tech LadyMafia – 5-9pm
 * Team up with Tech LadyMafia to improve Wikipedia content on women in the history of technology.
 * Saturday, April 25: April Dinner Meetup – 6 PM
 * Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!
 * Friday, May 1: International Labour Day Edit-a-Thon – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
 * An edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland

Hope to see you at these events! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Cheers,

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In need of a Wikimedian.
I am trying to follow the guidelines to create a wiki-glam-page for our edit-a-thon project. I'm not sure what my next step is and how to find a Wikimedian that might be available the day-of

April 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Future WikiCons?
Hi, Pharos, I tried to look at the WikiConference USA website but it redirects to another WP meetup site. Do you know whether there will be future WikiCons in the U.S.? Or was this a one time event? Thanks for any information you can provide. Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 16:28, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
 * At the official site I'm seeing Washington, DC. Rumor has it, Columbus Day Weekend, early October. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:57, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

June 10: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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Wikiproject Black Visual Arts
Hi, Richard. At The Studio Museum in Harlem editathon, the organizers were looking for a way to organize ongoing discussions and lists of articles that need work, so I suggested a Wikiproject. I'll try to make a page for it, but I may ask you for help when I put up a draft of it. -- Ssilvers (talk) 15:30, 18 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Instead of making a whole new project, I created this subpage, which I think will be simpler. Would you please review it and see if you can fix the coding on the cats, etc?  WikiProject African diaspora/Visual arts.  Please delete anything that you don't think will be helpful to the Black visual arts contributors.  Thanks for any help!  -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:05, 19 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Ssilvers: Looks like a good start; though I couldn't figure out right now how to add the task force functionality to WikiProject African diaspora (and the categories depend on that), I've added a link to this from Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/Lists of Articles, part of the larger NYC-based initiative that helped organize this event.--Pharos (talk) 15:59, 20 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking a look. If you can find someone who is good with the technical stuff, would you ask them please to see if they can fix the functionality/categories?  Thanks very much!  -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:27, 20 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Ssilvers: I think I've figured out the tech stuff, modifying WikiProject African diaspora and adding the task force sub-banner to Talk:George Herriman, though I haven't set up all the categories yet.--Pharos (talk) 22:59, 25 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 23:03, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Meetup
Hi again,

I'll email you in the next few days about the possibility of another August event in Westchester; in the meantime I wanted to let you know that one of the attendees of today's event approached me just before I left, asking for the deletion of Dynamism of a Speeding Horse Houses as a misspelling of Dynamism of a Speeding Horse + Houses. Let me know if you can do that. Thank you!-- ɱ    (talk  ·  vbm)  03:15, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Ɱ: I just redirected the incorrect title to the correct one; I don't like to use administrative tools when unnecessary, and in this case the original history of their contribution to the article is preserved. Let me know about Westchester :)--Pharos (talk) 16:39, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. I've been in contact with the historical society; they'll probably be glad to host it and we'll try to get the library on board too. I'll let you know when I have more information.-- ɱ    (talk  ·  vbm)  01:45, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Ottawa wiki-event
I am not sure if I would be able to participate in an Ottawa event. It depends on timing. I will be out of town for a few periods over the summer. --Big_iron (talk) 10:35, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!
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 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

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A kitten for you!
I know you are not much for bells and whistles, but I did want to thank for all your help the last few semesters with my classes and with assisting me in becoming s "full-time" Wikipedia. Meow/Cheers.

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July 8: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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 * Go to sleep :^) E. Lee (talk) 06:03, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library needs you!
We hope The Wikipedia Library has been a useful resource for your work. TWL is expanding rapidly and we need your help!

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Please return to the discussion on the article "white genocide conspiracy theory"
I'm still discussing and have read through the books and article used as sources. Olehal09 (talk) 18:55, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

I remind you of the discussion on white genocide conspiracy theory. When you ask for a discussion, you should hold your word. Olehal09 (talk) 10:56, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Account creator rights
Hi, Pharos, I noticed User:Girlstothefront has account creator rights but they have just made 3 edits four months ago and didn't even have any user page until now when I created their user talk page. I asked EdJohnston about it and he told me that Girlstothefront created three accounts as an editathon volunteer in June and to ask you if you think the rights are still needed. Thanks for looking into this. Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 10:18, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Sunday August 2: WikNYC Picnic
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 * Hi, Pharos,
 * I hope the picnic went well! I had planned on coming but was in the midst of an RfA and thought maybe socializing wasn't the best idea. I hope to participate in future events, especially ones in Manhattan which is an easier trek from New Jersey. Be well! Liz  <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 22:33, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

August 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Edu review
Template:Edu review has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:47, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Thanks for reviewing Andries Hudde, Pharos.

Unfortunately Kudpung has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

"This article contains no sources. Please tag appropriately."

To reply, leave a comment on Kudpung's talk page.

On Promoting The Asian American Wikithon
Hay it's me User:Sidepocket. I didn't know how to contact you so I'm posting on here and Twitter.

I don't know if I will be able to attend so I'm spreading the word of the event through the Asian American community here in NYC.

One of the things that would help a ton if for you and possibly someone of MoMA to apply to be a guest on the Asian Pacific Fourm Radio show on WBAI taking place Monday in the afternoon.

Some links: http://www.wbai.org/program.php?program=16 http://www.asiapacificforum.org/

I can work with you to set this up. You can reply by emailing me or by leaving a comment on my talk page: talk page

Five minutes to help make WikiProjects better
Hello!

First, on behalf of WikiProject X, thank you for trying out the WikiProject X pilot projects. I would like to get some anonymous feedback from you on your experience using the new WikiProject layout and tools. This way, we will know what we did right, and if we did something horribly wrong, we can try to fix it. This feedback won't be associated with your username, so please be completely honest. We are determined to improve the experience of Wikipedians, and your feedback helps us with that. (You are also welcome to leave non-anonymous feedback at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject X.)

Please complete the survey here. The survey has two parts: the first part asks for your username, while the second part contains the survey questions. These two parts are stored separately, so your username will not be associated with your feedback. There are only nine questions and it should not take very long to complete. Once you complete the survey I will leave a handwritten note on your talk page as a token of my appreciation.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Harej (talk) 17:49, 2 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello! Just sending a reminder to complete the survey linked above. (This is the only reminder I'll send, I promise.) Let me know on my talk page if you have any questions. Thank you!!! Harej (talk) 22:13, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

September 16: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Saturday October 3: WikiArte Latin America Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Thursday October 15: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim (drop-in any time, noon-8pm!)
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Thursday October 15: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim (drop-in any time, noon-8pm!)
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You've got mail!
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This Friday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA
You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA on October 16! (drop-in any time, 6-9pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:29, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry
I'll be at the 40th annual Iowa Science Fiction Convention (ICON). -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  19:43, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Grants:IEG/Wikipedia likes Galactic Exploration for Posterity 2015
Dear Fellow Wikipedians,

I JethroBT (WMF) suggested that I consult with fellow Wikipedians to get feedback and help to improve my idea about "As an unparalleled way to raise awareness of the Wikimedia projects, I propose to create a tremendous media opportunity presented by launching Wikipedia via space travel."

Please see the idea at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_likes_Galactic_Exploration_for_Posterity_2015. Please post your suggestions on the talk page and please feel free to edit the idea and join the project.

Thank you for your time and attention in this matter. I appreciate it.

My best regards, Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:00, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry
So sorry for blanking the page on the Women's edit-a-thon. I was intending to delete the announcement from my own talk page, and wasn't where I thought I was. Oh, and not that I'm not interested, but I live in MD and not MA, and just returned from MS, so won't be going to MA or ME until next April.Sarnold17 (talk) 21:36, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for
the notification for the Cambridge event! I'm at UChicago for the semester and so will stop by their event. -Darouet (talk) 23:22, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hi, Pharos! You can see my page now Yoko_Alender. It's the first page that I ever created! Thanks for your support during the edit-a-thon! Todd F Hughes (talk) 18:55, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Women in architecture lists
Pharos, I realize you might have some priorities for your physical edtathons but I have been extremely confused by the changes you have been making to the list of red-linked women architects. I spent a considerable amount of time yesterday tidying up your additions only to see that you overruled everything I had been doing. The list you included from Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation was misleading as it not only contained numerous misspellings but many of the red-linked names on the list were in fact already included in articles. I made a number of redirects and similar adjustments, researched each of the remaining names carefully and added at least one link for guidance. I don't think it is in our contributors' interest to put them through the same trouble as I experienced. Please leave the list as it now appears on the editathon page. Remember people are participating from all over the world. When you reply, please either ping me or leave a message on my talk page. I realize we are both working for the same good cause and I am sure we can collaborate effectively for all concerned.--Ipigott (talk) 09:08, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Cambridge, MA edit-a-thon
Hi Pharos, I appreciate the invite and wish I could make it, but I don't live in the States any longer. I tried to find where I had subscribed to the list but couldn't, being a bit of a dolt that way. Can you point me to where I can unsubscribe? Thanks, Kafka Liz (talk) 08:18, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

You have...
an e-mail. Thanks and regards. --Millars (talk) 11:50, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Oct 28: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Wikipedia Editathon @ Brooklyn Public Library
Hello! Thanks for all the great tips and useful advice. Thanks for lending your experience and knowledge.

Nnekia TheBriggs

I just meet you!
Hello! — Preceding unsigned comment added by GregoryBenjamin (talk • contribs) 20:23, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for participating in Women in architecture
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Thank you for your participation in the Women in Architecture Virtual Edit-a-thon, 15–25 October 2015, sponsored by the Guggenheim Museum, and hosted by Women in Red. In addition to upgrades, we created about 170 new articles. Your contributions are appreciated! --Ipigott (talk) 09:14, 27 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Pharos, for your help in setting this up and contributing background information and red links. You might be interested in reviewing this list of participants which includes both those who contributed during the physical editathons and those who just contributed remotely. The ones simply labelled (new) seem to have participated in the physical editathons and then disappeared. I don't know if you can contact them and encourage them to stick with Wikipedia. It seems a great pity that after all your efforts, valuable contributors should not take things further.--Ipigott (talk) 09:14, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

 * Hi. If you notice anything else like this, please give me a heads up. Thanks, --Rosiestep (talk) 16:36, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

BLM
Thank you so much for your help with BLM. --JumpLike23 (talk) 19:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Ottawa wiki-events
I might be a little too unplugged to be useful for the Meetup/ArtAndFeminism event planned in Ottawa. If there are other Ottawa people available to help out, that might be better for all concerned. --Big_iron (talk) 17:42, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Sunday Nov 22: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion
== Dec 9: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC; Dec 12: Art & Law editathon + Dec 13: Black Film editathon ==

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NYC mailings
Please remove me from the NYC mailings.--DThomsen8 (talk) 16:06, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Please add me
I'm in Pittsburgh, a mere four hours away and I would like to be added to your NYC events mailing list since there are none here. (I've tried but no one comes.) Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) (talk) 14:32, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Saturday January 16: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference
{|style="background:#d5dceb; border:1px solid #6881b9; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;border-radius: 8px;" !colspan=2 style="font-size:150%; padding: .4em;"|Saturday January 16: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016
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You are invited to join us at New York University for Wikipedia Day NYC 2016, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of Wikipedia 15, the project's global 15th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.


 * Saturday January 16 Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 (RSVP on-wiki or at bit.ly/wikiday15).
 * 10:00am - 7:00 pm at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway (between Waverly and Washington Place)

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) 17:56, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas and happy new year
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Problems with Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 message
Greetings. I just edited User talk:Alansohn. I attempted to place my message at the bottom of the page according to protocol. On each occasion, no matter how many spaces below the '2016' message I began, the message showed up in the blue box. I finally placed my edit out of turn, above the box. I included an account to Alansohn in my message. Do you have a clue what my have caused the problem? Your name was inside the box, hence this message to you. Regards Tapered (talk) 05:31, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I made a mistake in sending the message, and I'm going to fix them today.--Pharos (talk) 15:08, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!
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Wishing you a happy holiday season and a Merry Christmas. May your new year be happy and prosperous. ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 06:44, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Lightening talk
Interested in attending the NYC January session at NYU. Are there video links to past 5-min. lightening talks either in NYC or elsewhere English-speaking? Thanks!--A21sauce (talk) 16:58, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Community User Group - Côte d'Ivoire
Hello Pharos,

Thank you for warning us. We have just posted our annual report on Meta. Kindest regards, Zenman (talk) 17:31, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

2016
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Savvyjack23 (talk) — is wishing you a Happy New Year! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the New Year cheer by adding {{subst:New Year 1}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

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Help decide the future of Wikimania


The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).

After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.

In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk), from Community Resources 23:46, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

February
Hi. I've created Meetup/Women in Red/7. Can you please expand the lede area and add links about the in-person event(s) for next month which will coincide with our online event? Also, do you want to list yourself as a facilitator? --Rosiestep (talk) 14:57, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

hi! new editathon...
Hi there. I'm doing another editathon... this time in Charlotte, Feb 4. and we'll be doing it once a week in Feb. Please let me know if you know any locals who can join us! Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Charlotte--Heathart (talk) 03:22, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Cologne events, your new category
Hallo Pharos,

Mariz Tadros, (2013). Politically Motivated Sexual Assault and the Law in Violent Transitions: A Case Study From Egypt. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. p. 26. and some of the other sources Empiricus and I introduced at taharrush gamea would be of use for your goals. It says that times of political changes gave rise to sexual violence (including those by groups) in the arab world. Same for Talk:Taharrush_gamea. How about moving Rape in Egypt] to Sexual violence in Egypt? The deWP article [[:de:Sexuelle Gewalt in Ägypten is based on large parts of the first Taharrush gamea article and goes along that line. Polentarion Talk 19:26, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to an online editathon on Black Women's History
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Saturday February 6 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon
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Speedy deletion nomination of Rex Goreleigh


A tag has been placed on Rex Goreleigh requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 15:57, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Towards a New Wikimania results
Last December, I invited you to share your views on the value of Wikimedia conferences and the planning process of Wikimania. We have completed analysis of these results and have prepared this report summarizing your feedback and important changes for Wikimania starting in 2018 as an experiment. Feedback and comments are welcome at the discussion page. Thank you so much for your participation. I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, 22:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

February events and meetups in DC
Greetings from  Wikimedia DC !

February is shaping up to be a record-breaking month for us, with nine scheduled edit-a-thons and several other events:
 * On Friday, February 12, NPR will host a Black History Month First Edit event.
 * On Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14, we're working with the Wiki Education Foundation to hold a series of four edit-a-thons at the AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting.
 * On Tuesday, February 16, we're holding the Smithsonian American Art Museum and American University WikiWorkshop with Professor Andrew Lih's class.
 * On Saturday, February 20, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will host the African American Artists Edit-a-Thon.
 * On Friday, February 26, Howard University will host its second annual Black History Month Edit-a-Thon.
 * On Saturday, February 27, we have three different events. In the morning, we're holding an Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.  In the afternoon, we'll host our second February WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle, followed by our monthly dinner meetup at Vapiano.

We hope to see you at one—or all—of these events!

Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at [mailto:info@wikimediadc.org info@wikimediadc.org] !

Kirill Lokshin (talk) 16:41, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

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Idea to revive Haitian Wikipedia: Contacting NYC-area Haitian organizations
Pharos,

At ht:Diskisyon_Itilizat%C3%A8:WhatamIdoing I've generated a listing of some Haitian organizations in New York City. I wonder if they can be contacted and if that will give new users to the Wiki WhisperToMe (talk) 20:53, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Feb 16: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim Feb 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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WikiProject African diaspora/Visual arts
hi, i have filled in some articles manually for our DC editathon. could you please check my work, and the assessment bot? thanks. Duckduckstop (talk) 18:32, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon
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--Rosiestep (talk) 20:59, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Bozeman
Yes, I'm free that day and I'm interested. I don't want to step on toes, but I'd actually love to help. Montanabw <sup style="color:orange;">(talk) 03:47, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Austin Art and Feminism 2016
Thanks for the invite but I won't be able to make it. Hopefully one of the other long-time editors from Austin can make it. ★ Bigr   Tex  19:00, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Art+Feminism Lima 2016
Dear Pharos. I hope you are fine. I'm organizing an Art+Feminism event in Lima, we have very little help from local Wikipedians, but we are doing fine. However, I' ve been receiving e-mails from people who live outside Lima who also want to participate. Up to now, we have only had presential participation and I was wondering if you could please tell us what are the necessary requirements and how to manage online/virtual participation. Many thanks in advance. Regards from Peru!- Yhhue91 (talk) 17:36, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Saturday, March 5: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Hi
I try to reach you via gchat to no avail. Kinda waiting... Siska.Doviana (talk) 15:53, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

March events and meetups in DC
Greetings from  Wikimedia DC !

Looking for something to do in DC in March? We have a series of great events planned for the month:
 * On Wednesday, March 9, we'll host our first March WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle.
 * On Friday, March 11, the National Archives will host the Women in the Civil War Edit-a-Thon.
 * On Saturday, March 19, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian will host the Color History with the Smithsonian! event, and we'll hold our second Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
 * On Sunday, March 20, the American Chemical Society will host the Computers in Chemistry Edit-a-Thon.
 * On Saturday, March 26, we'll host our second March WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle, followed by our monthly dinner meetup at Vapiano.

Can't make it to an event? Most of our edit-a-thons allow virtual participation; see the guide for more details.

Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at [mailto:info@wikimediadc.org info@wikimediadc.org] !

Kirill Lokshin (talk) 16:30, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

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WIR A+F
(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 19:48, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you on Bonny Pierce Lhotka
Thank you on your work on the Bonny Pierce Lhotka article that I created on Saturday-I certainly did not anticipate its nomination for deletion, but it looks like you helped to save the day. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) (talk) 00:56, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi! Leads to local editors?
Black Lunch Tables is hosting an editathon on 3/11 at Xavier University and two at Project Row Houses in Houston (3/14, 3/16) any leads to local editors who might want to join us is welcomed! We'll be able to handle it ourselves, but its always easier with help. Thanks as always! --Heathart (talk) 23:14, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

March 16: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Invitation to our April event
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Thank you! Also, Cecily Wong
Hello! Thank you again for your help at the edit-a-thon last night!! It's always wonderful to have representation from the WMNYC community, and I know everyone appreciated having you there. I want to let you know I revert the page move for Cecily Wong. The article was not an instance of userfy, and I've since added to the article as well. Of course, please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any concerns about this. Megs (talk) 20:59, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

April Fools? Nope! Welcome to the Women Scientists worldwide online edit-a-thon during Year of Science
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AC Cleanups
Pharos, Are you going to process a clean up for all the temporary account creator permissions you assigned last month? — xaosflux  Talk 13:40, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
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April 13: WikiWednesday Salon NYC and Mini-Video Opportunity
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Shhh! Invitation to Women in Espionage
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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Méret Oppenheim Object.jpg
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Photography
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Saturday April 30: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim
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Women artists of Middle East / North Africa... a WiR & Guggenheim collaboration
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WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Art of the Middle East
Hi Pharos. Thanks for adding this page. I wonder: How did you search for the names of artists in Wikipedia? One by one? or did you use some tool to automate the process. Thanks. -- M2545 (talk) 22:23, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Hangout invite?
Hi Richard, you may or may not have sent me a Google Hangout invite. Just letting you know ... I don't know what that is, but you're welcome to leave a message any time on my talk page. - Dank (push to talk) 23:53, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Problem with Missing encyclopedic articles/Art of the Middle East
I have noted a problem with Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Art of the Middle East on its talk page. In brief, because it uses template Preloaddraft too many times, it may create draft articles where there are existing articles or redirects. That restriction is not currently documented for Preloaddraft but is a byproduct of a lower-level function #ifexist: that it uses. Also as a result, the page appears in the category Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls. --Big_iron (talk) 15:10, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

MENA women artist tweets
In case you want to retweet with #guggathon or something else, @wikiwomeninred has tweeted these:
 * 1) Tagreed Darghouth
 * 2) Gohar Dashti
 * 3) Heba Amin
 * 4) Golnaz Fathi
 * 5) Hadieh Shafie
 * 6) Safeya Binzagr
 * 7) Nermine Hammam
 * 8) Youmna Chlala
 * 9) Nadia Benbouta
 * 10) Fatemeh Emdadian
 * 11) Rheim Alkadhi
 * 12) Safia Farhat
 * 13) Samira Alikhanzadeh
 * 14) Tamam Al-Akhal
 * 15) Jumana Emil Abboud
 * 16) Sooreh Hera
 * 17) Dina Danish
 * 18) Zoulikha Bouabdellah
 * 19) Baya (artist)
 * 20) Shirin Aliabadi
 * 21) Foundland
 * 22) Maliheh Afnan
 * 23) Hanaa Malallah
 * 24) Iman Issa

May 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC / Enterprise MediaWiki Conference
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Spotlight on women entertainers!
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Sandbox Deletions?
Hey! I have had some issues with a user (Admin?) deleting sandboxes my students are working in. User:Jimfbleak and case in point: bayonNAVY43/sandbox2. What is up with that? HullIntegrity \ talk / 16:54, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2016
As a past contributor, you are invited to participate in the third annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs through the month of June. The purpose of the campaign is to create and improve content related to LGBT culture and history. How can you help?
 * Create or improve LGBT-related Wikipedia pages and showcase the results of your work here
 * Document local LGBT culture and history by taking pictures at pride events and uploading your images to Wikimedia Commons
 * Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Looking for topics? The Tasks page, which you are welcome to update, offers some ideas and wanted articles.

This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group's mission is to develop LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Visit the affiliate's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:57, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Sunday June 5: Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon
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A barnstar for helping us to fix the gender gap
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June 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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You've got mail!
Please introduce yourself to the other GLAM Boot Camp attendees tonight! Dominic·t 19:20, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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Poster I mentioned
Feel free to put it on your user page - or anywhere else.

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 17:07, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Wednesday June 29: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Grace Lotowycz
Hi--I'm new at editing and don't know if I'm in the right place. I sat at the table near Esther during the NYBG Editathon and worked in my Sandbox on Grace Lotowycz. I've since added all the additional information I had, but would appreciate your help and comments upon reviewing it. (I see that you created it...correct?) Margaret Mcscience (talk) 21:11, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the Hall of Fame!
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Sunday July 10: WikNYC Picnic @ Central Park
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Invitation to participate in Wikipedia mini summer program
Greetings Pharos:



It appears you have participated in an editathon in the past. We are doing a mini research study involving past editathon participants to transform and improve Wikipedia. If this sounds like something quick you would want to do this summer, please sign up to our mini summer research program.

You can read more about our project here.

Together we can revolutionize Wikipedia!

Thanks & Cheers

Wiki crowdresearch (talk) 15:46, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Brexit Semi-Protected Edit Request
Hello,

I am a student at Baruch College. Professor Gaunt at Baruch College recommended that I contact you regarding an edit request I made that was rejected. I am doing some research on power structures within the Wikipedia community. I would greatly appreciate if you would take a few minutes to answer some questions below and take a look at an edit request I made. Here is the link to the edit request.

1. What has been your experience with other editors acting as "gatekeepers" of articles. Have you seen more experienced editors reject edits for trivial reasons, or have you found that some editors exert power over less experienced editors in rejecting their edits for less than substantive reasons? Perhaps to have had contact with editors who feel they are the final authority on a subject?

2. When an article has been place under semi-protection, who are the editors that must approve new edit requests? Do you feel this is an effective/good/democratic way of restricting who can make edits to certain articles?

3. In regards to your experience with your edits being rejected, do you feel that you are always able to reach a satisfactory agreement and move forward with the edit?

4. What do you recommend that I do with my rejected edit (link provided above) to make it stick?

Thank you for your time and your thoughts!

Raymond Cazis — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr Dunn Mills (talk • contribs) 21:36, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

For your collection
...since you are a campaign paraphernalia junkie. I was tempted to put it on the AfD page but didn't want to clutter it up with side conversation. --MelanieN (talk) 21:30, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project
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Indigenous women & Polar women editathons
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Join us this Saturday (July 30) at the Philadelphia Wiknic
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San Diego Wiki-Dinner
I work on the evening on that day, but I would like to know how I can help.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:02, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * and I will be in SD on Thu-Sun (4-7 August) and would be glad to meet up with you on another day if you let us know what works for you. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:05, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Did you mean to send to everybody in Canada? -- Red rose64 (talk) 08:54, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's WikiConference North America, including the US, Canada and Mexico.--Pharos (talk) 10:13, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WNYC
Template:WNYC has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:55, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

August 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Wikiconference North America Geonotice
Hi Pharos, I was just at the WP:Geonotices and I noticed you added a Geonotice for the US and Canada. Wouldn't you think a geonotice could be added for Mexico and Puerto Rico as well? :) Particularly since it is happening right across the border from Tijuana... MikeLynch (talk) 18:32, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming editathons: Women in Nursing & Women Labor Activists
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Updated WIR page
Hey Pharos: could you update your WIR role at https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence. Thanks! Astinson (WMF) (talk) 14:07, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

September 14: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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Multi-site multi-day edit-a-thon
Hi, Pharos! I have been working with other botanical librarians to plan a week-long edit-a-thon with different institutions offering events on different days. For example, NYBG will host an edit-a-thon one day, the Smithsonian will host an edit-a-thon another day, etc. We will have individual themes for our events but all topics will be around the theme of "Plants and People." How should we add this event/program to Wikipedia? Is there any standard way to create a parent event page for the individual child programs?

Thanks for your help! Sorry to miss yesterday's meetup--I hope it was a blast.

Emjackson42 (talk) 14:21, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

IEG Grant : Alt Text Tools
Hi Richard,

I got your name from Dispenser, and I was wondering if you’d be willing to discuss what you think some of the best strategies would be for putting together some events in NYC, specifically focusing around accessibility and our funded Alt Text Tools project.

Specifically, we are looking to leverage NYC Wikipedians to use our tool so that we can develop strong documentation, best practices, and additional information concerning the utilization of the tool and alt tag treatments across the Wikipedia ecosystem.

Here is our grant page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Alt_text_tools This is a prototype of the tool itself: http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/altedit.py

Part of our grant funding is to facilitate 3 meetups in or around NYC to promote and foster the tools use as well, so we have some money (albeit small) to make this happen.

Please let me know if you have any opinions, suggestions, criticisms, anything at all!

arthur.frick (talk) 11:30, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to 	 Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons
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Thanks for the tour
Looking forward to the next one. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 10:11, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

GlobalSchoolNet
Oops, my bad! I forgot to block with autoblock disabled. May I reblock with autoblock disabled? Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 20:03, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, since they're in the room too, I've advised them to start an account under a different name, User:WandaStar, and am trying to show them COI.--Pharos (talk) 20:22, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiConference template
Hi, I think we met in the San Diego library and I asked for help with the book on Native American astronomy. I have created WikiConference North America 2016, should I now advertise its use somehow? - Brianhe (talk) 20:03, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Sun October 16: CommonsLab / Open House NY Photo Contest + Hackathon
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Saturday October 22: WikiArte Latin American Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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An invitation to November's events
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DYK for Consairway
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Best practices for adding week-long event?
Hello! I hope you are well. I'm working with a group of botanical librarians to develop a week of edit-a-thons held at various institutions. What is the best way to put that into wikipedia? Is a week-long events page appropriate?

Thanks for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emjackson42 (talk • contribs) 17:28, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

NYC DoITT
Hey, I see that you're the admin who appears to be running Meetup/NYC/DoITT. I have noted that this project is creating a lot of NYC housing project articles, many of them based on this questionable source. I would recommend that you have your meetup editors add some type of project banner to the article talk pages so that we can see that they were added as part of this project (when I first encountered the pattern, I assumed it was part of some unregistered school project), and I would also recommend that you discuss the subject of reliable sources with your meetup attendees. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 16:22, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks you, and appreciate your help editing, I will follow up with them on that.--Pharos (talk) 17:05, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Meetup signup button fix
Little used feature on this wiki is to load a script with a URL parameter. This way you can use ordered lists, on any section on the page, and display a nice confirmation page with event name, location, date and time. — Dispenser 19:25, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Saturday November 12: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences (plus Sunday Indigenous People's Justice event)
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim
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December 2016 at Women in Red
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December 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (plus Wikipedia Day on Jan 15!)
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January 2017 at Women in Red
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Hello and the Met
Hi, it was very nice meeting you. And wanted to tell you that after looking at the Met's schedule I will come on Friday (18th) as its open till 8 and I always prefer as much time as possible, I'm of those who try to see and read everything they can manage. :)

So if you can, let me know if and where you are there or another day (but before Friday) you are there when I can also come if you are available to chat and maybe also have cool things to tell about at the museum.

Sorry if that's the general talk page and not the specific intendend for new posts, I'm just writing from cell so it's difficult to see.

Hope we manage to talk and meet there! אומנות (talk) 14:59, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Happy 2017!
Wishing good health and happiness as we start the new year! --Rosiestep (talk) 19:21, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
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Hi - I hope you had a very merry holiday season. May your new year be happy and prosperous! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 03:53, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Sunday January 15: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference

 * Thanks for a great conference! (I am one of Dr. Kyra Gaunt’s students.) I just want to mention that the food at lunch was unlabeled with either names or allergen warnings; I ended up spending much of my time there recovering from throwing up and taking Benadryl as a result. Something to consider for next time, since it’s free, unbiased information to share. EnunciationOfTruth (talk) 08:45, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

RfC Notice
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February 2017 at Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Contact on IRC
Hi, at 17:55 UTC+1 you contacted me at IRC (I wear Urbanecm there). But you have disconnected. May I help you now? Best, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 19:31, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry but I was sleeping during your second contact. You can contact me from 9:00 UTC - 16:00 UTC in a most of workdays at IRC. BTW if you reside in different timezone at all you can contact me easier using e-mail, my address is martin.urbanec@undefinedwikimedia.cz (or just use the Wikipedia form). Best, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 07:42, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

WikiBreak
Dear, can you please watch and monitor my pages? I have to take a wikibreak from all the drama and trolling lately. Thanks in advance. Bearian (talk) 15:22, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

List of disasters in New York City by death toll
Hi. List of disasters in New York City by death toll currently has no references. I'm also concerned it may be original research/synthesis. Any thoughts? --MZMcBride (talk) 20:23, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

ThoughtAudio Review Request
I am seeking independent and neutral viewpoints on the article ThoughtAudio, which is being considered for deletion. If you have a few minutes to review it, I would appreciate your opinion on the decision to retain and improve, or to delete it. I fear that ThoughtAudio may have been targeted by the same editor that made a failed attempt to delete the wikiquote article Michael Scott Gallegos on the grounds "Not sufficiently notable." The majority of my work has been as the wikiquote editor ELApro. I have also been a long time editor for Wikipedia, but have not created many articles here. I would much appreciate your advice and/or contributions with regard to this decision. ELApro (talk) 18:30, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Food
Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's  going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 20:54, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

February 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Images taken by myself
It was nice to see you last night. I have a question another question about images in Wikipedia. If I understand what I have read correctly, I could take pictures of the current exhibition at FIT and make them available CC0. Correct? Librarianhelen (talk) 16:29, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

List of years in computer games
Article was renominated for deletion. Since you have contributed to this first nomination of the article, I want you to be aware of this deletion and to weigh in on the decision again.  Yoshiman6464   ♫🥚 16:16, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Smith College
Your offer of "Smith and Mount Holyoke" sounds good. Would you meet with Smith College if they were up for it? I believe I can contact their top person but want to know we have someone to catch their offer if they make it. Could you sign up on the page? Cheers Victuallers (talk) 12:51, 22 February 2017 (UTC) Smith and Mount Holyoke

Category cleanup
Hi Pharos, I think the Category:FA-Class_Metropolitan_Museum_of_art-related_articles ("art-related", not "Art") categories are conflicting with the Category:FA-Class_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_articles categories to prevent the 1.0 bot from creating its assessment table. Wanted to check with you if it would be all right to delete the former cats. czar 16:58, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, certainly, thanks for you help with this.--Pharos (talk) 17:46, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Much better: User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Metropolitan Museum of Art czar  18:11, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks!--Pharos (talk) 18:23, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

This one's for you
de:Ned-Kelly-Rüstung ;-) --Gnom (talk) 09:57, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

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Eventbrite sign-up or alternative.
Good morning. I need to compile a list of the real names of all non-FIT folks coming to the Intl Women's Day Editathon on Wednesday, March 8. Eventbrite has this really nice feature that creates a sign-in sheet that would be perfect for handing over to the security desk. Would you do me the favor of signing up via Eventbrite? http://fashionedtwiki.fitnyc.edu. If for some reason you don't want to do that, please let me know and I'll add your name manually. Thanks. --Librarianhelen (talk) 14:53, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Argh! Correction:http://fashioneditwiki.eventbrite.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Librarianhelen (talk • contribs) 16:56, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

March 11: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA (and beyond!)
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 * Thank you for inviting me to this excellent event. Bearian (talk) 23:43, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Geonotice link
Should the MoMA link in MediaWiki:Gadget-geonotice-list.js connect to Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism 2017 instead of Meetup/ArtAndFeminism (which looks like an organizer page)? czar 18:16, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

follow up
here is a link to the document we started re: notability. thanks!--Heathart (talk) 01:50, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

12 years of adminiship, today.
Wishing Pharos a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman ( talk ) 23:44, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Sunday March 26: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
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User:Likebox
Please remove User:Likebox from you mailer. Your mails are cluttering up User talk:Likebox making it hard for editors to find non-automated content. -- PBS (talk) 16:10, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I found and removed the entry in Meetup/NYC/Invite list -- PBS (talk) 16:12, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

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black panther
you are right, i removed it. one of my few forays into inappropriate editing. at least it was just the talk page. my apologies to everyone. thanks for the heads up.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 23:33, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

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Comic-Con 2017
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Wikimedian in Residence BoF at Wikimania 2017
Hello!

My name is David Alves (User:Horadrim~usurped), and I'm an Wikipedian in Residence at RIDC NeuroMat (User:Horadrim). I've reach your contact through the Wikimedian in residence page in Outreach. As you may know, Wikimania 2017 is coming! I am here because, as a fellow WiR, I believe this would be a great opportunity for us to share experiences, discuss difficulties and exchange solutions, creating a community among us capable of supporting in other projects that would benefit from residents. In that sense, I have submitted a proposal of a Birds of a Feather activity to Wikimania that you can check out here. I hope to count with your support in this project and would like to invite you to join us if you participate in Wikimania. In case of any doubts, please feel free to contact me, either in my talk pages or by e-mail at david.alvesoutlook.com.

Thank you very much! Horadrim~usurped (talk) 00:33, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

April 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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account creators
Hi Pharos, do you have a tracking table somewhere to remove all of these temporary account creators you created after their scheduled events? Some of these users have 0 demonstrated experience on wiki. — xaosflux  Talk 02:16, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello are you around? Baring any other comment, use of the the expiration system may be the solution here and can be added to the existing users - to allow expiration at the end of the event. —  xaosflux  Talk 16:50, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Apologies for delay, the expiration system sounds quite appropriate for those who will only use annually. I'm not sure I've seen it in action, though, where is it documented?--Pharos (talk) 20:09, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The big write up is over on mediawiki - its boring, small discussion is at WT:PERM - but for the most part, next time you go to Special:UserRights it should be pretty obvious; you get a pull down like you do for blocks. If you have any issues, let me know and I'll look in to them for you. —  xaosflux  Talk 21:58, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Pharos, I never really saw a response to the actual item I brought up here - how are all of these accounts you enabled be tracked and managed? When are they currently expected to have this extra flag removed?  Is that listed somewhere? —  xaosflux  Talk 14:57, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * My apologies, I've been absorbed by the Met Museum project, but I have a list, and I'll set the month-exprirations where appropriate next week - not in all cases, though, as some will be using for other events.--Pharos (talk) 17:00, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * What is the status of this? — xaosflux  Talk 01:05, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I saw you took care of a very minor batch, but there are still a very large number left and you are not responding promptly to queries regarding your administrative action. — xaosflux  Talk 01:32, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
 * My apologies, you're entirely right. I had wanted to get them all done at your last message, but all of my recent time has been absorbed in Wikimania (and a number of events I committed myself to in the days before and after) and I at least wanted to get my basic procedure set up by then.  The rest is just mechanical, and I'll finish by at latest Wednesday.--Pharos (talk) 04:38, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, note this situation (having completely inexperienced editors with indef accoutncreator access) is one of the factors that is likely derailing the current RfC that would have allowed for adding "confirmed" at the same time. I think that may get traction again in the future - but event management will need to be better clarified.  FWIW, I'm in favor of some sort of event-kiosk type situation (what would mostly just be a web page and someone's tablet/computer) to support edit-a-thons.  I think these are important events to bring in new editors. —  xaosflux  Talk 17:23, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, working on this tonight.--Pharos (talk) 18:55, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I ran a quick query of accountcreators with under 25 edits inactivate >100 days, here: User:Xaosflux/Sandbox34 - a random sample of 5 all are from you. Have you given up on this clean up? —  xaosflux  Talk 02:21, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

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Article generator for MET
Hi Pharos, just checking: the article generator you plan to use / present for the MET Glam; it is only intended for drafts, project subpages, ... and not for actual enwiki articles, right? At the moment, Listeriabot maintained articles in the mainspace are not allowed. Fram (talk) 09:07, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, the article generator only creates drafts (which can become mainspace articles with additional human content). And the Listeria table itself lives just on project pages, i.e. GLAM/Metropolitan Museum of Art/Artworks.--Pharos (talk) 15:57, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks. I have no problem with Listeria tables outside mainspace, they are often useful or interesting (sometimes some problems with fair use images, but that's the only problem I know of). Fram (talk) 19:29, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Sunday May 21: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon + global online challenge
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Adjunct Institute
Hi - Elaine want to know if you want a computer room - meaning everyone has computers - or if a room with a computer and projector is preferred. Librarianhelen (talk) 17:57, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

May 24: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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New York City landmarks
Look it over, try it out: NYC LPC header and NYC LPC row. I noticed the "Upload image" function doesn't work, as it actually doesn't on the NRHP template either! This is because the NRHP template's button corresponds to the 2016 Wiki Loves Monuments event, which closed, and I suppose it hasn't been updated for the 2017 event yet, as it hasn't opened. Should we wait to fix this when they fix the NRHP template, or should I simply replace that nonfunctional "Upload image" url with the standard Upload Wizard url? ɱ (talk) · vbm  · coi) 02:18, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

And not a big consideration, but would you want the header's colors to be different from the current (NRHP) color used, in order to distinguish that it's separate from the NRHP lists? If so, do you have a particular color in mind? Other than this, it looks like these templates are largely done, unless you have further ideas for parameters, renaming, etc. ɱ  (talk) · vbm  · coi) 02:24, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Wanted to introduce myself - I'm Kevin, one of the organizers of WLM 2017 in the United States. I'm glad you made this template, thank you! You may have seen that last year, we expanded the scope of our campaign to not only include NRHP sites, but also state-designated sites. In the future we'd have templates like these for all states, as well as the corresponding WLM database data for them.
 * I'm currently caught up in Wikimania but I'll take a look at your concerns, especially regarding that upload button. Cheers, ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 19:16, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

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Rectangular Octave Virginal
How can the article title be modified to indicate this is a particular specimen of an instrument, not a class of instruments ?  DGG ( talk ) 05:38, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Thursday June 22: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Proposal endorsement?
Hi there. Thanks again for this weekend! We have a new Rapid Grant Proposal and need endorsements. We would absolutely love if you could give us yours! You probably have some of the most experience with our goals. Also feel free to let me know any formatting or content fixes or tips on the page. Thanks!Heathart (talk) 00:15, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

About METhodology
Hello Pharos! I'm, sysop in the Basque Wikipedia and currently project manager of the Basque Wikimedians User Group. We have been contacted by an instituton to make a work with a big bunch of museum items and I want to talk to you about this (maybe better in private). I'll be attending Montréal Wikimania, but maybe you are not. Could you please send me an e-mail and I give you some insights about our first ideas on this topic so we can contrast them with your experience in the MET? Thanks! -Theklan (talk) 17:28, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you
This was useful and important to me. Thank you for the endorsement. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:14, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Sunday July 9: WikNYC Picnic @ Governors Island
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Sunday July 16: New England Wiknic @ Cambridge, MA
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July 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Donne nella collezione MET / Women's art from the Collection of the MET
Hi Pharos, I filled the survey you send to me. I also shared your award (thank you ;-) ) with one of the women who wrote the biggest number of articles during this editathon in Rome, she's username is FloraFlavia. --Camelia (talk) 09:39, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you too for sharing with the WikiDonne group, and we would invite them to participate in the survey as well.--Pharos (talk) 17:31, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Please
...Keep inviting me to your meet-ups. I will make an effort to come to the next one. I have a job interview on the 31st. Do you have another date after that? What kind of recommendation for lodging can you give me?
 * Best Regards,
 * Barbara (WVS) ✐   ✉  21:32, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Barbara, I'm not sure what you mean - are you saying that you're travelling to New York City on July 31? We do have an event on July 30, actually. Or that you would like to join us at a meet-up sometime later in the summer/fall?--Pharos (talk) 23:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I am sorry that I wasn't more clear. I have a job interview here in PGH on the 31st, which means I can't come to NYC on the 30th. I would like to come later in the summer or early fall. Do you have any suggestions where a reasonable place to stay might be?
 * Barbara (WVS) ✐   ✉  23:26, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * The next Ace Hotel event is August 27, while the next WikiWednesday at Babycastles is probably August 30, but unconfirmed. I'll think about and ask around for reasonable places to stay.  By the way, have you seen WALRUS/July 2017?--Pharos (talk) 14:05, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep me on your ping list when you plan for a NYC event (one more person in the area that may have lodging tips). --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:05, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Sunday July 30: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
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August 30: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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removal of my account creator status
Hi Pharos, I had the creator ststus before the A+F events, as I regurlarly animate wikipermanences and events where I need this status. Furthermore I have one planned event in september where I will need this status. Would you mind restoring the account creator status that you recently deleted, in the light of the above informations? Kind regards, --Nattes à chat (talk) 07:51, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Hey again, and Met
Hi, thank you very much for your mail and with that I'm so sorry, also for myself, I only saw it after coming back from my travels :( . I kept looking on the 17th if you respond on this page, also checked my primary-mail. I was also mostly outside, going from attraction to attraction in New York, so wasn't always with wifi connection and my internet package was also screwed often (which I also used a lot during my 2 prior weeks in Iceland and then Canada/Montreal). Back home I saw your message, on my "social"-mail section...

So alongside my self-disappointment from loosing this chance to meet further, I apologize I didn't notice to check there, and for my late reply. I'm just at work now, where the mail is blocked, but wanted to write you already, so doing this again here (this time at the right bottom-page placing ;)). I also wanted to tell you that on the 18th I asked a bunch of people at the Met's staff if they can locate you via office number or something, but eventually (after I managed to open the wifi to see your surname) they said you don't have an extension of your own, which I figured, and anyway I knew it was a long shot with you not permanently/only volunteering from this institute.

I will mail you later about few cool things I managed to do, also the official site's online-catalogues for the enormous collections which I managed to find while I barely managed to scrap their surface when I was physically there. And just ask you some few questions about these catalogues in hope I can find the outmost ways to browse via "Galleries + chronology" and such, and keep exploring this fantastic place, till next time I arrive there.

Thanks again for your willingness! אומנות (talk) 14:05, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

September 2017 at Women in Red
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Met links to Wikidata
Hi Pharos, I just stumbled upon this tweet and was wondering whether there were plans to turn the mention of the Wikidata ID into an actual link. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 20:08, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

September 27: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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Invitation to Admin confidence survey
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Wrong date in the geonotice
Sep 14 → Sep 27, unless there are two annual chapter meetings. :) &mdash; <span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;"> Rhododendrites <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk  \\ 05:26, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red October editathon invitation
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Account creator rights for edt-a-thons
Hi Pharos! I see that my account creator rights were revoked now that our Art+Feminism event is past. I'm assisting with two additional edit-a-thons in October both at the University of Michigan and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Could I have those rights renewed? Happy to provide more information if that would be helpful. Thanks! Msitar (talk) 13:11, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * if you don't hear back drop a note at Requests for permissions/Account creator if you have dates for your events (and even better if you have an event page as well) these are routinely processed there. — xaosflux  Talk
 * (ping fix) — xaosflux  Talk 15:55, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I have granted you the account creator rights again, active for the next 30 days. Thanks for your edit-a-thon efforts!--Pharos (talk) 16:20, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Met challenge
Hi Pharos, Are all the Met images already uploaded to Commons, or is there a link to some which still need to be uploaded? I ask as I'm thinking about starting #100wikicommonsdays and I'd be glad to upload some Met collection images, especially inclined if they are PD. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:52, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Rosie. We're not quite done uploading them all, but there is a technical issue we're working out to get the last of them.  We don't need help on the manual uploading side, as the remaining part will be semi-automated too, but maybe there are other ways you could participate, by categorization or something else..--Pharos (talk) 20:15, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Met challenge paintings
Can an article be made for each notable painting on exhibit @ the Met? Antonioatrylia (talk) 22:30, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Multimeet
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Sunday October 15: Wikipedia @ Open House New York / Weekend Photo Competition
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October 18: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Meetup/NYC/Invite_list
Hey Pharos I have been attending the NYC Meetups and am even a paid member, though just heard about and signed up for the NYC Invite list this morning. Is this something new or did I just somehow fall through the cracks and not get added to it? I get infrequent emails, so this should be really helpful. Just thought you should know that it may not be known by everybody who attends or wants to follow the NYC Meetups. FULBERT (talk) 14:13, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * It's a long list but this is one reason I stalk the talk pages of a couple dozen friends (and sometimes butt in). When they are notified of something that interests me, I learn of it. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:31, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

November editathons from Women in Red: Join us!
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Category:States and territories by year of establishment has been nominated for discussion
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon (Nov 19) and global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month (Nov 1-30)
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Account creator
Pharos, could you please help me with another temporary account creator status? I'm conducting an editing workshop in one hour, and another on the 30th (all @ FSU). I asked participants to register in advance, but I don't think they did. Thanks! Domusaurea (talk) 18:58, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure, done.--Pharos (talk) 19:01, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'll sure put it to good use. :) Domusaurea (talk) 19:04, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

November 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC @ NYU ITP
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December 13: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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New Year's resolution: Write more articles for Women in Red!
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Merry X-Mass
To you and yours, the Met project is going great, and thanks from those on the ground. A tune in appreciation.... Ceoil (talk) 21:48, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

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Duplicated MET accession numbers
Hi Pharos, I pinged you on my Wikidata talk page, but you probably missed it. Zolo found two Met objects with accession number 38.34 ( and ). No two objects are supposed to have the same accession number. Can you look into this? Multichill (talk) 12:01, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Did you get an answer for this question? Multichill (talk) 11:12, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Hey there
We are applying for our first big Wiki grant. Please consider [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/BlackLunchTable/BLT_2018 endorsing us! ] :) Thanks!--Heathart (talk) 05:14, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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Wiki in Near Space
Hi Pharos,

Remember how I wanted to send an electronic copy of Wikipedia into Outer Space?

I persuaded a Washington, District of Columbia team to place an electronic copy of the English language articles on SpaceBlimp 7. Then, query the payload and read the articles. The SpaceBlimp 7 will go as high as Spaceblimp 5 and 6 launches, which reached 118,500 and 104,000 feet respectively. So, this is Wikipedia in Near Space.

I realize this Wiki in Near Space project does have the same utility as sending a Tesla Roadster into solar orbit near Mars. Like that, how many encyclopedias can claim they were sent into Near Space?

Please would you consider leading your support to this mission?

My best regards, Geraldshields11 (talk) 17:18, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Umkhosi Wokweshwama
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AfC notification: Draft:The Anhalt Medallion Carpet (Metropolitan Museum of Art) has a new comment
<div style="border:solid 1px #9accf6;background:#f1f9ff;padding:1em;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:1em;color:black;margin-bottom: 1.5em;width: 100%;"> I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:The Anhalt Medallion Carpet (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Thanks! Legacypac (talk) 01:27, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

February 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Republic of Florida (group)
The article was created previously and then moved to draft space here. Article had several editors during the day it was up, and the new version was just a copy paste into it. Should the article be histmerged, or speedily deleted with the draft to replace it? I'm almost sure its going to end up nominated for AfD if left in mainspace, but for time being in terms of attribution, what would be the best action to take. <b style="color:#000080; font-family:Tahoma">WikiVirus</b><u style="font-family: Tahoma">C <b style="color:#008000">(talk)</b> 22:45, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I've histmerged for the sake of tidiness, and I agree an AfD is inevitable. If you'd like to start that, go for it.--Pharos (talk) 02:45, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the histmerge. I may nominated in future, but I'll probably wait and see if there is more coverage over the next week to confirm the ONEEVENT scenario we are in with them. Will determine whether anyone bothers to do any significant coverage afterwards which I highly doubt. It was fine as a draft to wait and see which article creator didn't seem to mind, but someone else put it back out there, so can assume any other attempted redirects/draftifys will be contested. <b style="color:#000080; font-family:Tahoma">WikiVirus</b><u style="font-family: Tahoma">C <b style="color:#008000">(talk)</b> 02:56, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Account creations
Hey Pharos,

I notice you've created the account Harlemtx directly - this is a request which has also come via WP:ACC which is where I've picked up on it. My concern is that when you created the account, you didn't send the password via email to the new user, so from the logs, either the account you created should be treated as compromised, or it should be treated as an account you have control over. If this is an account created for someone else, please can you use the "Use a temporary random password and send it to the specified email address" flag going forward to reinforce these accounts are neither compromised or yours? This way it's guaranteed that you have no way of knowing the account password, which protects both you and them. I'd prefer that we didn't have to block newbie accounts for being compromised! :)

Cheers muchly! <b style="font-family: Verdana;">&#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;</b> 22:30, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey Pharos, I don't know if this post slipped under your radar as I haven't seen any acknowledgement, and I see you've continued to either leave your account open to compromise or create accounts which should be classed as compromised themselves; I'm inclined to think it's the former given one of the accounts you've created had the reason "i never had one". stwalkerster (talk) 13:48, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Gowanusmap2.PNG


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13 years of adminship
Wishing Pharos a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman ( talk ) 22:04, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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Account Creation
Hi Pharos My account creator rights were revoked now that our Art+Feminism event ended. I'm assisting with a Wikimedia workshop at Vanderbilt. Could I have those rights renewed? Happy to provide more information if that would be helpful. Thanks! CatonMA2 (talk) 18:58, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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Wikipedia course creation
Hi Richard, I am a professor at Hamilton College and am planning to do a Wikipedia assignment in my Latin American Politics class in the fall. I am using the Wikipedia Education Program's 12 week syllabus as a template for the assignment design, planning to have the students improve a stub or start class article. I was writing because "The Essentials" PDF says that my Regional Ambassador needs to give course instructor rights before I can register my institution and set up a course page. We don't have a Campus Ambassador, but one of our librarians is very excited about working with me on the project. Let me know if you need any additional information from me. Thanks, Heatvan (talk) 15:39, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

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Kundiman edit-a-thon
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GLAM and COI
Hi Richard, I'm preparing for a GLAM-sector staff training. To avoid COI as editors add to pages, we have people working on other organizations than their own. Do these new editors all need to state their institutional affiliation on their user page? thanks. CatonMA2 (talk) 18:34, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Outer Lands for deletion
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A kitten for you!
Thanks for editing with Black Lunch Table!

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question
hey there if you have a chance, can you peek at this person's article? I think its a good start article to go ahead and move to live, no? they asked me to take a look. --Heathart (talk) 17:30, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks like a perfectly fine article to me. The only question I might have is whether it might be merged with the successor organization at some point, but it's good as is.--Pharos (talk) 18:23, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

AFD of QuickStudy
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Your draft article, Draft:The Anhalt Medallion Carpet (Metropolitan Museum of Art)


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Wednesday's Salon Introduction
Hi. I signed up for Wednesday's Salon. I was browsing through the other sign-ups.

I started at WP 8 years ago and was part of a partnership that promoted Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri from C Class to GA. I am editing Indiggo, which was a battleground in 2014. Currently, it is deserted, but I have concerns that a registered editor who was a combatant might return. Although that editor has not contributed in 2 years, I had a recent 6 year break.

Seeing that you are an administrator, I'm writing this note to introduce myself well in advance of any crisis. I hope everything remains peaceful, but I was shocked browsing through the revision history. Perhaps my discoveries can be fodder for an interesting conversation Wednesday. Vyeh (talk) 07:42, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

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China cabinet
Hey would you be able to delete China cabinet, the redirect, to move Draft:China cabinet to its place? Thanks - ɱ  (talk) · vbm  · coi) 21:51, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done!--Pharos (talk) 22:11, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! ɱ  (talk) · vbm  · coi) 22:16, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Judeopolonia
Did you read a book by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz? This book gained no popularity, when it was written, but afterwards it was recalled befor WW1. After 1945 it was put on the censor list and it is now completely forgotten. There is no any reason to have a separate article, as significance was very minor. Judeopolonia therm gained some popularity related to German plan during WW1. ^^^^
 * I did read the short story where the term "Judeopolonia" originated from. The reason for a different article between Judeopolonia and League of East European States is that the first is fiction/conspiracy theory, and the second is actual history.  By giving the name of a conspiracy theory to a real thing, we would be lending credence to it.--Pharos (talk) 19:05, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

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IAdmin
Hi Pharos, per the support at Special:PermaLink/860742082 I've added temporary interface administrator access to your account. Ideally, a long-term process for access should be created and any assistance you can offer towards getting the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Interface_administrators resolved would be helpful. Best regards, — xaosflux  Talk 18:44, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

re: Polish epigram
Interesting, but I have trouble finding references or anything of much value in Wikidata entries (after all, they are aimed for machines, not humans). Perhaps you could stub the entry on en wiki? I'll see if I can expand it. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 12:38, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Great, I expanded it and nominated for DYK: Template:Did you know nominations/Heaven for the nobles, Purgatory for the townspeople, Hell for the peasants, and Paradise for the Jews. Perhaps you can think of an even better hook? --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:25, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

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Hello is me from Edith a then
Hi. Thank you for your help. Let me know about future meetings. I'd like to learn more.--Juliajusto8 (talk) 19:29, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Interface Edit Requests - Bot Table
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DYK problem?
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know and Talk:Heaven_for_the_nobles,_Purgatory_for_the_townspeople,_Hell_for_the_peasants,_and_Paradise_for_the_Jews. As a co-creator of this article, I'd appreciate your input (and I guess you can co-share the infamy of being an anti-semite for having created this anti-semitic article, apparently...). --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:27, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Edit-a-Thon & creation of new editors
Hi Pharos, I'm hosting an Asian month Edit-A-Thon at Cohen Hall at Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery next week on 11/14. Can I get temporary rights for creating new accounts please? Our IP address is 129.59.153.0/25. thanks and best, CatonMA2 (talk) 16:50, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * if you don't hear back from Pharos you can drop a request for this at WP:PERM/EVC. — xaosflux  Talk 16:56, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks again #Pharos! I'll be listing our event shortly. CatonMA2 (talk) 20:08, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Multimeet
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Academic work?
I don't know if you'd be interested in co-writing an academic paper, but I see from your userpage you are involved with GLAM stuff, so I figure I'll ask :) All of this discussion of WP:OR re Paradisus Judaeorum has made me actually think that there's a real academic paper in this, about how an originally xenophobic poem gave rise to a much more neutral proverb and two-word construct through the process of Reappropriation. I don't know if I'll write it myself, but since you are the Wikipedia article co-author, I thought you may find this potential collaboration idea intriguing, at least. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:48, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

WP:WAM and art
Hi, I had written somewhere asking for suggestions. you seem to be the lead so, I'm asking for any east asian subjects. Thanks. Hayholt (talk) 13:28, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Heaven for the nobles, Purgatory for the townspeople, Hell for the peasants, and Paradise for the Jews for deletion
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MET, GLAM extension of Asia Month 2018
Evening Pharos. Referring to your message to me at the meta.wiki, I would love to continue to produce articles for Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan Museum of Art. I will be pressed for time in the next 1-2 weeks, but I will be looking for material via the Met's excellent website. This being said, do you have any works of art in particular that you would like me to evaluate for an article? SamHolt6 (talk) 00:17, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Message
Left you suggestion here - GizzyCatBella (talk) 17:30, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Move review: Paradisus Judaeorum
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World Pride New York
Hey,

after a hiatus from Wiki events I wanted to set everything up for Wiki participation in World Pride New York 2019. I think I talked to you about this in Cape Town. For this I wanted to ask you whether you could again tell me the name of the hotel that WMNYC has already collaborated with? The human rights conference which will probably be the most interesting part for us would take place from 24th to 25th of June. The opening ceremony will be on the 26th and the final parade on the 30th.

So we would probably reserve places at the hotel from 24th to 30th of June for a group of let's say 7 people. Could you maybe get in contact with the hotel and tell me whether that would be possible? Just because they already know you it would probably make more sense. You can cc me: saskia.j.ehlers@gmail.com

Also as you're working at the MoMA I wanted to ask if it would be possible to have an editathon at MoMA specifically for LGBT content (and maybe they have an archive / material that we could also use). That would then probably be on the 27th, 28th and 29th of June.

Additionally if WMNYC is already in contact with LGBT organizations or has sponsors in general it would be great if I could get their contact to ask if they would sponsor the event (in terms of flight/ train costs for participants)- public transport, hotel and food would most likely be covered by a Foundation grant.

Best regards and a happy new year -- Sparrow (麻雀)     🐧   20:34, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

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Article for review
Dear Richard, I was told by Black Lunch Table to contact you via your talk page to ask you to review an article I wrote about artist Camille Chedda. Link to the draft in my Sandbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Goodaz/sandbox. I am new to Wikipedia so not sure if I am doing the review process correctly. Please let me know if you have questions or comments. Happy new year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goodaz (talk • contribs) 18:24, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

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Honolulu Museum of Art edit-a-thon
Aloha Pharos! We corresponded a few years ago, when I was helping to set up an edit-a-thon at WP:GLAM/Doris_Duke_Foundation_for_Islamic_Art. You helped connect us with User:TParis, whose guidance and expertise were invaluable. I'm planning another edit-a-thon, this time at the Honolulu Museum of Art: WP:GLAM/Honolulu_Museum_of_Art. It'll be on Friday, February 8, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm HST. We'll be expanding articles about Hawai'i artists and arts organizations using a newly digitized collection of museum newsletters, among other sources. Two local Wikipedians, User:wmpearl and User:Mcampany will be helping out during the event. Please join us if you can! AwedOakSun (talk) 01:11, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Lightning talks published?
I am withdrawing from attendance for health reasons. Are the Lightning Talks published, recorded, or just orally presented in person? Is there any remote attendance?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 18:47, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of campaign announcement
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Template:Did you know nominations/campaign announcement
Hey Pharos. You have new messages at your DYK nomination of Campaign announcement, please respond if you still wish to purse the nomination. Thanks and happy editing. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 10:35, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/campaign announcement has been marked for closure
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Feb 27 WikiWednesday Salon + Mar 2 MoMA Art+Feminism and beyond
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Nomination of Judeopolonia for deletion
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Template:Did you know nominations/campaign announcement (again)
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DYK for Presidential campaign announcements in the United States
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May you join this month's editathons from WiR!
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-IADMIN
Hello Pharos, please note that per the interface administrator policy, your interface admin access is being removed as you have made no edits using the permission for at least 6 months. This has no bearing on your administrator access. Should you have a need for this access again, you may request at WP:BN. Best regards, — xaosflux  Talk 00:49, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular
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URGENT!
Hello. I would like to request immediate attention on user:2600:1017:B80F:B7C3:B04B:1068:F2AA:8247 because they just made a terroristic threat. CLCStudent (talk) 17:38, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I have now blocked this account.--Pharos (talk) 17:44, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

The 'Chances' for Peace
Hey- I was looking at the Chance for Peace speech transcript on Wikisource and I realized- the Eisenhower library transcript is likely a flawed or "grammatically rectified" clean-up of the real speech. There's a whole preamble to the speech that isn't included. I'm only one sentence in, and there are two or three minor differences from what I'm hearing to what's in the transcript. I recommend giving a literal transcription of the words he used, and adding the grammatical differences in brackets if they are necessary and proper. I will do this later, but I invite you to give me your advice and join in on the editing (or do it yourself if you want to). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or9I-qElmCY https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/speeches/chance_for_peace.pdf https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chance_for_Peace Geographyinitiative (talk) 04:05, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Indefinite blocking of IP addresses
Hi Pharos! I hope you're having a great day and that life is treating you well. :-) I'm messaging you because it came to my attention that you blocked IP user 2600:1017:B80F:B7C3:B04B:1068:F2AA:8247 indefinitely. I'm not sure if you did this on accident or not, but I wanted to bring it up to you informally anyways. :-) While the block was certainly justified due to the user's repeated threats and disruption, an indefinite block definitely wasn't. This IP address is allocated to Verizon, a mobile network carrier in the United States. This means that IP addresses will frequently change hands as devices connect and disconnect from their data network and travel from node-to-node, or tower-to-tower. The indefinite block, given its allocation and the fact that it will frequently be handed out to different users over the span of just hours means that it will cause much more harm than good by affecting innocent users who happen to be given that IP address next. There are circumstances that have called for indefinite IP address blocks in the past, but these situations are extremely rare occurrences. I've run into IP users who have needed an indefinite block maybe twice while I've been an admin... so, definitely not a common thing. ;-) Anyways, I just wanted to give you a heads up; the indefinite block has already been fixed by another admin - so no harm done. ;-) If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let me know and I'll be happy to discuss them with you and help. I hope you have a great weekend and I wish you happy editing. :-D Cheers -  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:59, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

May 22: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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June events with WIR
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Your draft article, Draft:The Annunciation (Sandro Botticelli)


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June 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (stay tuned for Pride on weekend!)
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Sunday June 23: Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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July events from Women in Red!
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Sunday July 14: Annual NYC Wiki-Picnic @ Roosevelt Island
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WikiWednesday Salon & Skillshare format survey
Wikimedia New York City Team 15:38, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

What's with this infobox?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Zero#Music

I keep getting alerts that the image has been marked for speedy deletion because it's not being used on any article, when it should be displaying here but isn't for reasons I don't understand, since I'm not sure what's wrong with the wiki markup to prevent it. --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 19:36, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Wikimania Stockholm
Car sharing

Hally Pharos,

I would like to invite you to join us for the trip from Copenhagen to Stockholm. Please let me know if you are interested or not, as I would change the configuration of the seats accordingly and/or offer the trip to travellers outside Wikipedia. --Bahnmoeller (talk) 12:15, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Fashion
Hy Richard, here's the Meta page of the campaign (and here is on Italian Wikipedia if you might need it). We have the page about the suggested articles and we also created Wikidata lists about models, fashion houses etc. Please add yours and add you as a coordinator/participant, and your affiliate as supporter. I also want to know more about the event about fashion you said that Wikimedia NY chapter organized about fashion, you can give a lot of input. --Camelia (talk) 09:30, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

August 28: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (+editathons before and after)
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Took awhile for me to respond
– MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 03:34, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Saturday Sept 7: Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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October Events from Women in Red
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Sept 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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How do I pay dues so I can vote for the Board?
I sent this message to Megs: "Could you post the link where I can pay the $5 dues to be eligible to vote 9/25? Thanks. Vyeh (talk) 20:00, 16 September 2019 (UTC)" I haven't received a reply. When I first saw the agenda, there was a board election on it. Now there isn't. When is the board election? BTW, I'm not interested. I'd be very happy if the current board was for life. Vyeh (talk) 15:23, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi . You can do that online on the Wikimedia NYC website, but we've also typically taken dues on the day of the election. (i.e. online is preferred, but if someone forgets to sign up online, you can just bring $5 to the meeting). &mdash; Rhododendrites  <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk \\ 18:05, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Your QID
Hi. I'm building w:template:WiR_table_row to help automate the Wikipedians_in_Residence table. Do you have an existing qid? See Q25212744 as an example. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 06:56, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedian in Residence end date
Hello. I'm updating the Wikipedian in Residence. Is it correct for your WiR position? In particular, are the dates accurate? I've used the current table info to update so that I can automate the WiR table (in progress). T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 01:28, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Today's meetup; Concert Grove DYK
Hey Pharos. I really enjoyed today's meetup, and appreciated meeting you there. I hope to come to another edit-a-thon or Wikimedia NYC meeting sometime soon.

Anyway, I nominated the article for DYK: Template:Did you know nominations/Concert Grove. Check it out if you want. epicgenius (talk) 03:35, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Oct 23: WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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New Wikimedian in Residence table
A new wikimedian in residence table should soon be implemented based on data from Wikimedian_in_residence (draft table). If there are any WiRs you know that are missing, please add them. In the meantime, see the map! T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 08:49, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Saturday Nov 16: Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Women Do News Edit-a-thon on 11/16
Hi Pharos. ipgott of Women in Red suggested I contact you. Would you available to help out the Women Do News team this coming Saturday, in NYC? We're looking for an experienced editor or two to help guide us in setting up new entries. (We're rookie edit-a-thon organizers, so apologies for contacting you so late!) Our event is from 10:30 to 3pm in midtown, but of course any portion of that time span would be great. Please see our event page for all the information. Thanks, Emily--Ejgertz (talk) 21:11, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to discus the rule on whether to include the victims names
Dear Pharos,

I hereby invite you to discuss a possible new rule on whether or not the name of victims should be included on various articles (i.e. Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Santa Fe High School shooting.

The discussion can be found here: Village_pump_(idea_lab)

TheHoax (talk) 17:23, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Nov 20: WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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December events with WIR
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Substantial removals of my edits
Sir, in rescinding my color-coded population charts en masse, you've also removed countless other contributions that were related to population figures that were not a part of the objected-to chart. I would appreciate their restorations, because this is a gargantuan waste of my valuable time having to revisit every single page to see what's missing.DJ Jones74 (talk) 15:29, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Concert Grove
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 01:08, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Dec 18: WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Belated holiday greetings
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Belated holiday greetings. Merry Christmas and happy new year.

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Met photos
Hi Pharos, sorry for asking again, but I forgot: Itti asked me to help her transfer this photo from the Met website to commons. There is no "OA" mark next to the photo. Does this mean that we can't transfer it? Thanks, --Gnom (talk) 11:27, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Jan 22: WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Saturday Jan 25: Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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February with Women in Red
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question
Hi Pharos. thanks for the great wiki site for nyc. I would like to help out with various tasks there, such as categorization, keeping pages updated, and various wikignome tasks, as well as regular informational items and articles as well. could I please be given the ability to edit protected pages there? I have over ten years experience at Wikipedia. I would really appreciate it. feel free to be in touch any time. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 23:25, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Feb 19: WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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1632 Rembrandt in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Pharos,

You're the closest person I know to being an expert who would know anything about this. The Allentown Art Museum has discovered in its Samuel H. Kress collection a 1632 Portrait of a Young Woman, Rembrandt van Rijn. Actually it was originally attributed by Kress as a Rembrandt about 1961, but then downgraded to "workshop of", and now after restoration by NYU, again attributed to Rembrandt.

Ref AP. See also Portrait of a Young Woman (Rembrandt). I was going to add the Allentown pic in there but, probably not yet.

<Gallery mode=packed heights=250> File:Rembrandt - Portrait of a young woman - Allentown.jpg|Allentown, pre-restoration, 1632 File:Rembrandt - Portrait of a Young Woman - WGA19199.jpg|Web Gallery of Art, possibly his sister. 1632 File:A Young Woman in Profile, with a Fan, by Rembrandt.jpg|Nationalmuseum Sweden, 1632 File:Rembrandt - Rembrandt's sister (Morehead).jpg|Morehead Planetarium? Chapel Hill, NC c. 1633 File:Rembrandt - Portrait of a Young Girl - Richmond.jpg|Virginia Museum of Fine Art, c.1632 File:Bust of a young woman, by Rembrandt van Rijn.jpg|at J. Paul Getty, LA 1632

Looks like a pattern to me. I'll check this out further and will decide if there's anything to do about it. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 16:23, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Smithsonian and CNN answered most of my questions. Yes same model sat for several paintings and she has historically been labeled as his sister. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 18:08, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Paradisus Judaeorum GA?
I think it's about to pass, good news. Slightly less so is that it now has a gibberish poem translation, I am wondering if you'd like to copyedit it a bit or such. The translation, I mean. Don't look at me, I told the GA reviewer it's not a good idea, but they think it is better than nothing. Errr. Ok. Cheers :) --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:23, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

March 18: First ever ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background-color:#E6E6FA; border: 1px solid #7D00B3; margin: 0.5em auto; padding: 0.5em; width:90%; text-align: center"> Happy Adminship Anniversary! Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 01:18, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Coronavirus impact on personal gatherings for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Coronavirus impact on personal gatherings is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Coronavirus impact on personal gatherings until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. jamacfarlane (talk) 19:42, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

GS Alert
Barkeep49 (talk) 20:04, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you reviewed
Hello, Pharos

Thank you for creating Teleconferencing in the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.

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I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Interstellarity. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Teleconferencing in the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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April 22: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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100th Wikipedia Weekly Youtube Subscriber Stub
Hey, Safwan Morshed here. First of all, didn't know Wikipedia Weekly existed till my brother told me about it a couple days ago, and it looks pretty cool. Anyways, regarding the 100th sub stub, a youtuber widely known as Markiplier had started a channel called Unus Annus (latin for "one year") which is a channel which would be deleted after said timeframe from the date of its creation. He had worked with his friend Ethan Nestor on this channel, and they publish videos daily. In one of their daily videos, in which they had to be physically separated during this unfortunate situation, they decided they would do a Wikipedia race, that is, open 2 random articles and start from one and race to the other by clicking each link included or related to the article and its resulting articles. Well, at the end of the video, they found that all mentions of Ethan on Wikipedia were all under Mark's Wikipedia page. I thought it'd be neat if Ethan had his own stub article. Thanks, and keep up the neat stuff! Safan41 (talk) 20:11, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Wikispore
Template:Wikispore has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 21:50, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Sat May 9: Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19
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Userbox cropping


JFYI, userboxes usually have the width of 238 pixels. When placed in a caption of -wide image, the userboxes are truncated in all skins except Minerva. —⁠andrybak (talk) 17:43, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

May 20: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Question re Telegram group url
Hi. Could you please tell me how to join the group on Telegram for the group CROW? could you please post the url? thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 13:40, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

question re items
Hi. It was really great to attend the Zoom Call for NYC last week. thanks for your great work on running that call! I am writing to ask a question. Would it be ok for me to communicate with you in advance of the next meeting, to discuss some items that I would like to add to the agenda? I would really appreciate it. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 13:14, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

mail
Smallbones( smalltalk ) 22:41, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

June 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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ygm re The Signpost
Smallbones( smalltalk ) 23:27, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

A kitten for you! Great job at the NYC 2020 Census Multilingual Edit-a-thon hosted by Sure We Can!!


Thanks for editing at the NYC 2020 Census Multilingual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - ONLINE - hosted by Sure We Can! Keep editing! We appreciate you and your edits!

--Wil540 art (talk) 20:09, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

yg mail
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Sun Aug 16: Great American Wiknic NYC & Beyond
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Near NYC
Hello will there be a WikiCon NYC 2020 or a virtual Zoom because I received a notification there would be a meetup. Thanks. Personisgaming (talk) 00:38, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The meetup is virtual, it will start at 3pm Eastern on Sunday on YouTube for the national session, and then at 4pm we'll have regional Zoom sessions.--Pharos (talk) 16:10, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * That means no train, no Uber, no public transportation. Personisgaming (talk) 16:17, 14 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Yeah, this one is at home.--Pharos (talk) 16:20, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for coming to Wiknic Midwest 2020!
Hi Pharos! Thanks for attending the Wiknic Midwest breakout session today! I hope you enjoyed it, and if you're interested in continuing to chat with others about local Wikimedia organizing across the US, look no farther than Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS). WALRUS has calls twice a month – to get the invitations, shoot a message to. And, of course, always feel free to leave me a note if I can be any help. Best, Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:22, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Broken docs.plus

 * https://docs.plus/p/wiknic-nyc
 * https://docs.plus/p/wiknic

The links above are not working for some unusual reasons Personisgaming (talk) 21:13, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon
Where will the Edit-a-thon take place? Times Square I was informed it would be 9-6-20 Personisgaming (talk) 00:15, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

September Women in Red edithons
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WMNC
Hi Richard. I don't recognize any names here from WM North Carolina ... but I haven't been in contact with them lately. I see they signed COLOR. If they've contacted you or you know that they'll be tuning into the upcoming meeting on the 13th or the 20th, great ... if not, I'll contact them. Thanks for all your work on this ... much appreciated! - Dank (push to talk) 13:23, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

September 6th: NYC COVID-19 Multilingual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - ONLINE
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October editathons from Women in Red
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Sat Sep 26: Met Fashion Virtual Edit Meet-up
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Ynés Mexía - botanical specimens found with CC0
Hi Richard. Found some of the specimen scans that have been released as CC0 by the Smithsonian. Found via DPLA and if you click all the way through to the original record they are CC0 labeled with a special footer. https://dp.la/search?q=%22Ynes%20Mexia%22 / Example: https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:nmnhbotany_13489631?q=record_ID%3Dnmnhbotany_13489631&record=1&hlterm=record_ID%3Dnmnhbotany_13489631 If you want to put them on Commons, go ahead. If not, I can do it and add a gallery to the Ynés Mexía page. Let me know what works best for you. Thanks! -Doreva Dorevabelfiore (talk) 02:00, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

October 21: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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November edith-a-thons from Women in Red
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Category:Interracial romance in fiction has been nominated for renaming
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November 21st ~ NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health Edit-A-Thon - ONLINE
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October 18: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC (plus weekend editathons)
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December with Women in Red
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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:13, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikiconference North America 2020
Thanks for helping organize the conference! I look forward to a community run alternative to Wonder and Zoom hosted on the Wikimedia platform, such as you mentioned to me during the conference. The social interface and ease of use of Wonder.me was good, but the unfree aspect of Telegram, Wonder, and Zoom makes it a non-starter for many. C.f. You may already be well aware of this distinction, yourself, but even if so, its for us who know media technology to help educate the rest of the editors by leading them away from proprietary software, even if its free/gratis, to free/libre. Wikipedia is built on this very concept. Best Regards. Jaredscribe (talk) 22:59, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Free_software
 * Free_and_open-source_software
 * GPL
 * Thanks for joining and contributing to our event, I'm aware of these issues and have been recently advocating for the development of a Wikimedia Social Suite.--Pharos (talk) 17:19, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Whoa! nice.  An event like WCNA ought to be the perfect way to get editors onboarded to Jitsi and Mattermost, and similar tools instead of the commercial offerings.  In an IRC #wikimedia-conference (i think that was it) I got called out for Soapboxing Free software for recent contributions to articles on Appropriate Technology and Sustainable Development.  Still not yet reverted, though.  There is a challenge because of unacknowledged POV:commercial in the mainstream industry press, and therefore real existence of WP:Systemic bias on wikipedia itself, of all places, against free software.  Like not a single mention in either of those two articles?  Thats a significant reason why your comrades are unaware of the ethical issues at stake, and they make decisions on the basis of mere convenience - which is a mistake.  See my proposed criteria on Wikimedia Social Suite.  Its not enough to do it right;  we must explain why its the right thing to do.  It only stays that way when the simple are made wise.  I'm a content focused newb, but will definitely ally with you if I get more involved in future years.Jaredscribe (talk) 05:32, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

December 16: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Thank you!
, I'd like to thank you for all the work you did to bring WikiConference North America to life during this difficult year. It was a real treat to be able to participate. --TrudiJ (talk) 14:01, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Attending the monthly WALRUS meetings
My name is Michael Barera, and I am a Wikipedian who works at the University of Texas at Arlington. After speaking with this week, she suggested that I ask you about being invited to attend the monthly WALRUS meetings. Would it be possible for me to begin attending these meetings? Thanks in advance for your consideration! Michael Barera (talk) 19:43, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Online coach
Hi, Richard, I know you're busy with high level org work, but during last week's Meetup/NYC/December 2020 a newbie was darn near begging for coaching of the kind done at non-plague-year edit-a-thons, so I got to thinking, and then through Quora I met User:Fuertebrazos whose Draft:Bloomingdale was declined last month. So, it seems there's a considerable demand for such tutoring. Where can I find suggestions? I expect sessions to be up to a couple hours, usually one on one, sometimes me and three or four learners. Screen share is a required feature. This is thinking of me as host, but if someone else is hosting such sessions, that might be even better. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:45, 20 December 2020 (UTC)


 * So, I did some study (mostly Youtube) and decided Google Meet looks best for an ignorant host of small sessions with little planning or coordination. It seems to lack the ability to share a screen other than that of the original host of the session, which is probably a fairly small handicap. Jim.henderson (talk) 18:37, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!Starzoner (talk) 00:04, 24 December 2020 (UTC)