User talk:Qwerty0/Archive 1

Your idea on 9/11
Hey, a scrolling reference box is a good idea in principle, and it's come up as a suggestion before due to the large number of sources used. However, it's not compliant with our Manual of Style for accessibility, printing, and browser issues. It would be nice if we had a template or something which fixed those, but oh well. --Haemo (talk) 21:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to MCB
Hi there, welcome to the Wikiproject. If you have any comments or suggestions, or if I can help with anything, please drop me a note on my talkpage. All the best Tim Vickers (talk) 16:41, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia meetup
As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Meetup/DC 4.

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McMillan Reservoir
The photo you added is perfect. Just what I had in mind. --D. Monack | talk 19:43, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Well done, nice to see you're a fellow parasitologist as well. Tim Vickers (talk) 21:46, 8 July 2008 (UTC Hello, I've noticed some linkages are now being posted regarding potential links between plant cell modification tools that are self replicating into a new form of human skin eruption called Morgellons (syndrome).

I myself have experienced odd seemingly non-biological tiny bits of fibers, metals and other non-biological debris that came from small bumps on my leg. Oddly, the materials once cleared seem to then reinfest the area.

Tiny bits of glasslike, shiny substances that are as hard as rock and microfiber wire like threads appear spontaneously.

You might look at this as a potential human expression of bio-mechanical dna manipulation that is vectoring into a viral and uncontrolled human dermatological condition.

Wild, yes? (spooky music) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.245.197.163 (talk) 19:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, June 6, 2009
The 7th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, June 6th, starting at 5 p.m. The event will be at Bertucci's, near George Washington University and the Foggy Bottom metro station. It will follow the Apps for Democracy open source event at GWU. For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Meetup/DC 7. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.) Delivered by The  Helpful  Bot   at 20:12, 2 June 2009 (UTC) to report errors, please leave a note here.

Volunteer opportunity in Bethesda, Thursday, July 16
The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting an all-day Academy at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, July 16. The team that will be teaching at the Academy, a mix of paid staff and volunteers, is looking for four more volunteers to be teaching assistants, providing one-to-one assistance in workshops whenever a workshop participant has a problem following the instructional directions. (We currently have two editors signed up as teaching assistants, and are looking for a total of six.)

The NIH editing workshops are only for two hours, but volunteers are asked to meet the Wikimedia Foundation team at the hotel in Bethesda at about 7:15 a.m. (time to be finalized shortly) and to stay for the entire day, which ends at 4:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. (The full schedule can be found here.)

The team is not necessarily looking for expert editors (though they are welcome), just people who can help novices who might get stuck when trying to do some basic things. If you've been an editor for at least 3 months, and have done at least 500 edits, you probably qualify.

If you're interested, please send John Broughton an email. If you might be interested, but would like further information, please post a note on his user talk page, so that he can respond there, and others can see what was asked.

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D.C. Meetup, Saturday, September 26
The 8th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, September 26, starting at 6 p.m. The event will be at Burma Restaurant (740 6th St, NW near the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station). For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Meetup/DC 8. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.) --EdwardsBot (talk) 07:04, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Planning Discussions Now Ongoing Regarding DC Meetup #9
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Planning Discussions Now Finished Regarding DC Meetup #9
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File:Standard advent calendar.jpg
This file that you uploaded to Commons a year ago has been tagged as a blatant copyvio, which it certainly looks like. If you really are the artist who made this (and it wasn't a work for hire) then please go to the Commons and say so. -- Zsero (talk) 20:13, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Planning Discussions Now Underway Regarding DC Meetup #10

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Meetup/DC_10
Check out the new things that the Smithsonian is offering us! Sadads (talk) 15:45, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

WP:GLAM/SI invite

 * We definitely need your kind of help. In fact, we will probably need people to mentor new SI staff after Wiki-Academies and workshops, monitor their editing activities, and generally help people with questions at the Academies and Workshops. The idea is to engage the whole community (wiki-side and SI-side) in this project. Sadads (talk) 18:26, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Campus Ambassador
Hi there, my name is Annie Lin; I am the Campus Team Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation. I am emailing you because Wikimedia is launching a new project (the "Public Policy Initiative") for the 2010-2011 academic year and is currently looking for dedicated Wikipedians near the George Washington University and Georgetown University areas to serve as the project's Campus Ambassadors, and I thought you might be interested.

More details about the Wikipedia Campus Ambassador role can be found at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Campus_Ambassador. Here is also a little bit more information; in a nutshell: The Campus Ambassadors are crucial components of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative. Volunteers in this role will mainly be in charge of providing face-to-face training and support for professors and students on Wikipedia-related skills, such as how to create new articles, how to add images, how the talk pages work, etc. Campus Ambassadors will also help recruit other people on campus to contribute to Wikipedia articles, for example by setting up Wikipedia-related student groups and by organizing "Welcome to Wikipedia" social events. In general they will become known as Wikipedia experts on the university campus (in your case, on the GWU or Georgetown University campus). The estimated time commitment for this role is 3-5 hours a week, possibly slightly more at the very beginning and very end of the semester. The Wikimedia Foundation will hold a mandatory three-day training for all Campus Ambassadors in August, and will continue to stay in contact with and offer full support for the Campus Ambassadors throughout the academic semester.

Please let me know if this is something that sounds interesting to you, so we can talk about next steps in the application process. Feel free to respond on my talk page or email me (alin@wikimedia.org). Thanks, and I look forward to hearing back from you!

Alin (Public Policy) (talk) 18:27, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

First Smithsonian workshop conversation
Please check out the conversation at Wikipedia talk:GLAM/SI, thanks Sadads (talk) 22:28, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Returning the Favor
I too can see you. Thanks for forcing me to check out your used page. Will be definitely adding myself to the DC Wikipedians list. Alharaka (talk) 21:44, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

TRG Article
You can read my talk page, but you make good points. I will work on it when I got time. Alharaka (talk) 01:21, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Meetup/DC 11
Hey, just in case you missed it, there is an oppurtunity to get a free dinner this Tuesday August 11 and a chance to meet and hang out talk about WikiProject United States Public Policy and WP:GLAM/SI. Sorry that this is so late in the game, I was hoping the e-mail would be a better form of contact for active members (if you want to get on the e-mail list send me an User e-mail ). Hope that you can attend, User:Sadads (talk)12:37, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

DC Meetup #12
An off-wiki discussion is taking place concerning DC Meetup #12. Watch this page for announcements.

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Wikipedia DC Meetup 13
You are invited to Wikipedia DC Meetup #13 on Wednesday, November 17, from 7 to 9 pm, location to be determined (but near a Metro station in DC).

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WikiXDC: Wikipedia 10th Birthday!
You are invited to WikiXDC, a special meetup event and celebration on Saturday, January 22 hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration in downtown Washington, D.C. Please RSVP soon as possible, as there likely will be a cap on number of attendees that NARA can accommodate.
 * Date: January 22, 2011 (tentatively 9:30 AM - 5 PM)
 * Location: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), downtown building, Pennsylvania Avenue & 7th St NW.
 * Description: There will be a behind-the-scenes tour of the National Archives and you will learn more about what NARA does. We will also have a mini-film screening featuring FedFlix videos along with a special message from Jimmy Wales. In the afternoon, there will be lightning talks by Wikimedians (signup to speak), wiki-trivia, and cupcakes to celebrate!
 * Details & RSVP:  Details about the event are on our Washington, DC tenwiki page.

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--DC Public Art Task Force--

Wikpedia: Public Art - DC Task Force!
Thanks for your interest in helping bring DC public art to Wikipedia! We have updated our Task Force page for DC, so please take a look and get started. We look forward to seeing your contributions and please let me know if I can help you with anything. Missvain (talk) 14:03, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikimania 2012 bid, DC chapter & next meetup!

 * 1) At WikiXDC in January, User:Harej proposed that DC submit a bid to host Wikimania 2012. A bid and organizing committee is being formed and seeks additional volunteers to help. Please look at our bid page and sign up if you want to help out.  You can also signup for the bid team's email list.
 * 2) To support the Wikimania bid, more events like WikiXDC, and outreach activities like collaborations with the Smithsonian (ongoing) and National Archives, there also has been discussion of forming Wikimedia DC, as an official Wikimedia chapter.  You can express interest and contribute to chapter discussions on the Wikimedia DC Meta-Wiki pages.
 * 3) To discuss all this and meet up with special guest, Dutch Wikipedian User:Kim Bruning, there will be a meetup, Meetup/DC 16 this Tuesday at 7pm, at Capitol City Brewery, Metro Center. There will be a pre-meetup Wikimania team meeting at 6pm at the same location.

Apologies for the short notice for this meetup, but let's discuss when, where & what for DC Meetup #17. Also, if you haven't yet, please join wikimedia-dc mailing list to stay informed. Cheers, User:Aude (talk)

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DC Meetup: May 7 @ Tenleytown Library
The next DC Wikimedia meetup is scheduled for Saturday, May 7, 3:30-5:30 pm at the Tenleytown Library (adjacent to the Tenleytown Metro Station, Red Line), followed by dinner & socializing at some nearby place.

This is the first official meeting of our proposed Wikimedia DC chapter, with discussion of bylaws and next steps. Other agenda items include, update everyone on our successful Wikimania bid and next steps in the planning process, discuss upcoming activities that we want to do over the summer and fall, and more.

Please RSVP here and see a list of additional tentatively planned meetups & activities for late May & June on the Meetup/DC page.

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Rolling locomotion...
Thank you for the praise! I think positive encouragement is what keeps Wikipedia running – and it feels nice to receive at any rate! » Swpbτ • ¢ 16:42, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

May 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
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June 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 22:36, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

GLAM-Wiki Baltimore meetup
 You are invited to the first Wikipedia Baltimore meetup on Saturday, July 23, 10:00am-12:30pm at the Walters Art Museum. Come meet Wikimedians, learn about GLAM-Wiki partnerships, get involved, and discuss future wiki outreach and activities in the Baltimore area!

There also is a Wikipedia & Cultural Heritage at the Young Preservationist Happy Hour on Friday, July 22, 6:30pm at the Midtown Yacht Club, an unpretentious neighborhood pub.

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The WikiProject National Archives Newsletter
The first ever WikiProject National Archives newsletter has been published. Please read on to find out what we're up to and how to help out! There are many opportunities for getting more involved. Dominic·t 21:37, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

July 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 13:20, 24 July 2011 (UTC)