Wikipedia:Meetup/Boulder/November 2013



Wikipedia Loves Libraries took place at the Boulder Public Library in beautiful Boulder, Colorado on November 16, 2013. Come by to chat about Wikipedia with other editors, plan the next set of local Wikipedia events, fix up some local articles, upload photographs, and hang out with other local Wikimedians!

Find out more about how Wikipedia and libraries can work together!

Location

 * Boulder Public Library on Saturday, November 16, 2013 from 2pm to 6pm. We'll be in the Boulder Creek Meeting Room.
 * The library closes at 6pm, so we should aim to wind things down/move somewhere for dinner at 5:30pm.
 * Parking: The City parking lot off Arapahoe Avenue and adjacent to the library is a "Pay by the Space" parking lot, however, library patrons, including people using the Boulder Creek Meeting Room, may park for free for up to three hours. Library users planning to stay at the library for more than three hours are advised to park elsewhere. These parking restrictions are in effect between 9 am and 7 pm Monday through Saturday only. Please be advised that in the future, all library users may be required to pay to park. Parking questions need to be directed to: Parking Services at 303-441-7300. (from http://boulderlibrary.org/about/creek_usage.html)
 * However, parking in downtown Boulder is free on Saturdays.

Plan

 * We could take photographs of the Pearl Street Mall and old buildings thereabouts.
 * Or walk along Boulder Creek.
 * A lot of Boulder articles need work or creating, including:
 * Boulder Library
 * Boulder, Colorado could use a bit of tidying
 * It'd be nice to put our heads together and make a list of Wikipedia articles relating to Boulder county that we could work on. This would make it easier to plan both editathons and photohunts in the future!

Articles
This should be all we need, really
 * Category:Boulder, Colorado
 * Category:Boulder County, Colorado

I pulled these off http://www.geonames.org
 * Andrews Arboretum
 * Area codes 303 and 720
 * Balch Fieldhouse
 * Baseline Road (Colorado)
 * Boulder County, Colorado
 * Boulder High School
 * Boulder Municipal Airport
 * Boulder Valley School District
 * Boulder, Colorado
 * Colorado Chautauqua
 * Colorado Shakespeare Festival
 * Coors Events Center
 * Crossroads Mall (Boulder)
 * eTown (radio program)
 * Fairview High School (Boulder, Colorado)
 * Flatirons
 * Folsom Field
 * Fourmile Canyon
 * Fourmile Canyon Creek (north of Boulder, Colorado)
 * Fox Theatre (Boulder, Colorado)
 * Highland School (Boulder, Colorado)
 * Hotel Boulderado
 * KCFC
 * KRKS-FM
 * Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
 * Mesa Laboratory
 * Mind and Life Institute
 * Naropa University
 * National Center for Atmospheric Research
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Boulder County, Colorado
 * Samson Design
 * Sommers-Bausch Observatory
 * Summit Middle Charter School
 * Twenty Ninth Street (Boulder, Colorado)
 * University of Colorado at Boulder
 * University of Colorado at Boulder Computer Science Department
 * University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
 * Valmont, Colorado

Some other additions:
 * Boulder Floral Park Historic District

What we did

 * Uploaded a bunch of images from our last meet up to commons:Category:Wikimedians Take Denver 2013 including a group photo, and a few photographs of the Boulder Public Library at night, the Library's Canyon entrance, and Boulder Creek.
 * Uploaded 59 images to commons:Category:University of Colorado at Boulder.
 * Created a stub for the Boulder Public Library.
 * Discussed some ideas for future meetups, including what a Backstage Pass tour at one of the local museums might look like.

Organizing

 * Gaurav (talk) 23:06, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Attending

 * Gaurav (talk) 23:06, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
 * ~KvnG 15:43, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Seraphimblade Talk to me 21:04, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Awickert (talk) 20:56, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * You?

Can't make it?

 * Future events will be organized and announced on the Wikimedians in Colorado mailing list, and on Boulder Wikipedia meetups page.

Your suggestions?

 * WP:BB!