User talk:Richcherry

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Wikimedia@MW2010
I am attending and supporting some Balboa Park museum staff to attend Wikimedia@MW2010 in April, a workshop for exploring and developing policies that will enable museums to better contribute to and use Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. This meeting will be attended by Wikimedia Foundation Board members, staff, and Wikipedia editors as well museum professionals from across the country.

Your invitations to local wikipedians
Hello! You posted a message on my talk page about a possible meeting between existing wikipedians and Balboa Park museum people. I assume you are sending this to people who have contributed to articles about Balboa Park or San Diego. I gather this would be in advance of your Wikimedia meeting. I might be interested but I would need to know more about it, what your goals are and what your expectations are. (As I'm sure you know, Wikipedia takes a very dim view of paid editing, promotional editing, self-serving or conflict-of-interest editing, etc. - so we would need to be sure you aren't just looking for a bunch of people to plant good stuff in Wikipedia for you!) But as you gather information and names, please keep me informed. --MelanieN (talk) 23:56, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Balboa Park Local Wikipedia Meeting draft Goals
 * ''1. Introduce the real people behind the names that create and edit the articles on Wikipedia to the real people that work at local cultural institutions.
 * ''2. Inform cultural institution staff about how Wikipedia works, what the rules are and why Wikipedia is important to them
 * ''3. Open a local dialogue to determine how local cultural institutions could work with local wikipedians and vice versa.
 * ''4. Provide behind the scenes access to local Wikipedians to the cultural institutions of Balboa Park.
 * I would appreciate your comments on the above goals and if your still interested, any help you might be able to give in suggesting other potetial attendees. Richcherry (talk) 00:21, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


 * That's a tough one - for several reasons. One, I am relatively new here; two, a lot of Wikipedians don't reveal where they live, and three, many of the people who edit regularly on San Diego subjects actually live elsewhere. I'm not sure there are even enough of us identifiable to have a meeting! You might consider asking User:Ohnoitsjamie, User:Born2cycle, User:SoCal L.A., and User:Alex537. If they are interested they might be able to suggest others. (BTW, just now in looking for names I realized that some of the articles need serious work - for example, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center needs references added - and I added them to my to-do list.) --MelanieN (talk) 23:56, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

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