Sorry, I won't be able to make it- we have an NYC meeting that Sunday, so it's pretty tight.
But let me know how things go, and maybe someone would be interested in guest-blogging the BPL event for Boston for http://wikinortheast.blogspot.com/ We can't shamelessly copy your events if you don't share the details. And we do want to copy you :) BTW, I see that the meetup.com thing is expiring- let let me if you want to shift the organizing on-wiki, because I could help with that. Thanks, Pharos On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:11 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > This will be Saturday March 28th, in the afternoon (around 1pm). We > will have a wikipedia sign. Bring your referencing problems if you > like and we can all work on them. I can also give short wikipedia > referencing and/or library research tutorials if anyone wants. Bring > your BPL card if you have one! > > -- phoebe > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear wikiboston, >> >> Phoebe is coming to visit at the end of the month, and Nicole and I >> have been talking about getting together for a reference day at the >> BPL, focused on BLPs and [other] disputed topics. >> >> In particular, I would like to see [[List of people from Boston]] >> improved and expanded to include modern people, so that it look more >> like lists from other major cities (e.g., [[List of people from >> Chicago]] and [[List of Austinites]]). >> >> Modern writers, musicians, and educators might be a place to start. >> A Reference Challenge with a list of 100 peeps to begin with would be >> interesting. (does someone want to start putting this together?) >> >> I would start with >> * [[Category:People_from_Boston,_Massachusetts]] >> * Older unref'ed BLPs from [[Category:Unreferenced_BLPs]] >> * Topic searches of the BLP noticeboard's archives: >> http://tinyurl.com/blpsearch >> >> And at the end of the day we could have a new and improved list of >> Bostonians (with a special marker for BLPs? for those who have been >> through BLP review?) and wrap up with comments on the en:wp >> policies... >> [[Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons]] >> >> SJ, >> who can bring a 12-plug power strip. >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Nicole Willson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> < So, do we want to do BLP at BPL? Also is there a >>> specific area of BLP that could use help, like people in a certain area of >>> the humanities (authors, artists etc.)? Another idea would be researching >>> disputed articles. >>> >>> What time should this be? I just remembered that the BPL opens at 9 on >>> Saturdays, but I think it'd be better that this start around 1 or 2. >>> >>> I know Hasty and Janet were interested, so that's two people right there. I >>> can also email Evan to see if he can make it. >>> >>> SJ: Could you post this to the meetup group and the mailing list? I can do >>> some sort of write-up, but can't post things to the meetup group. Thanks! >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:18 AM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Sounds like the humanities area is the way to go, and someone should >>>> bring a power strip. >>>> >>>> Can you guys publicize it to wpians? I can put together a quick how to >>>> reference page. Doing boston history articles would also be sweet, but >>>> maybe too hard. >>>> >>>> If we even get one or two people it will be a fun way to spend an >>>> afternoon. >>>> >>>> P. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-boston mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-boston mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston
