On 21 June 2014 22:47, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > I helped out with this event today, pretty interesting afternoon it > made too, Central St. Martin's being a new creative space and the > gallery there giving a free display of end-of-year works by students. > > The event was "paper based" with lots of the public discussing the > history and community of King's Cross Central and the coordinators > gathering all suggestions and cut & pasting the huge wall printout as > the day went on. Rebecca Ross was coordinating the event and is on the > faculty of CSM, specialising in urban history and communications. She > has my email and I have offered to help with the > staging/review/release of updates to the Wikipedia article, this will > probably take a week or two. > > I took some photos and there were some photographers with the larger > stage of the event, so hopefully those will make their way to Commons > later. See > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Editathon_in_King%27s_Cross_Central > . > I took a little time out to interview Rebecca, and I am thinking of > shaping this up into a Signpost article, along the lines of how an > independent event like this can empower communities to change the way > Wikipedia might represent their local area, including members of the > public who do not want to edit Wikipedia for various reasons. > > You may well be onto something there. A new "flavour" going back to the roots of the editathon - a meetup with an editing theme - but a gathering with a different kind of activism.
Charles
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