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The Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met will be the Metropolitan Museum of Art's second edit-a-thon, hosted on Sunday November 19, 2017 in the Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education (81st Street entrance) at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Following the first Met edit-a-thon in May 2017, the museum is excited to work with Wikipedia Asian Month for the potential to seed new articles about Asian artworks, artwork types, and art traditions, from any part of Asia. These can be illustrated with thousands of its recently-released images of public domain artworks available for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse Asian collections onsite and remotely.
Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks, drinks and cake will be provided.
We also welcome remote participation for the global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month, running November 1-30.
Thanks, and hope to see you at the museum, and/or as part of the online Wikipedia Asian Month contest!--Pharos (talk) 16:36, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for the willingness to help. I'm not sure what each of the testcases page examples represent, but the last one still has a caption missing, does that indicate that there's still a problem? I was mostly trying to get an image and caption visible on the High Line article. The caption hadn't been visible for a long time, I think, due to this error. My sandbox version fixed it, but a more permanent solution would be awesome. As long as you can make the template display the caption in that article, I'm happy. ɱ(talk) · vbm · coi) 04:31, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Each example on the testcase page exercises the template in a different way -- for each section, the left version is the live template, while the right version is the sandbox.
What do you see in the sandbox section titled "Caption under custom map"? I see a long caption below the map of Puget Sound that begins with "Located in the northern Puget Sound region..." You don't see that? I'm using Firefox 57. If you are not seeing that, then there may be some odd browser compatibility thing going on. —hike395 (talk) 05:25, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
I just added High Line as Case 5. Do you see the caption with the colored boxes? I do. —hike395 (talk) 05:44, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Yeah, on Chrome on my pc and android it doesn't show the map caption at all in the non-sandbox version, in those last two cases. ɱ(talk) · vbm · coi) 06:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Also not visible using Opera or the default internet browser on my phone. Hmmm... ɱ(talk) · vbm · coi) 06:15, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Oh, sorry. I wasn't clear. The map caption should appear in the sandbox version (right-hand column) for you. I put the proposed fix into the sandbox version. If it shows up in the right-hand column, then we're good. I'll promote the sandbox to the main template now. —hike395 (talk) 14:59, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Okay, awesome, thank you!!! I'm not the best template editor, your helps is much appreciated. ɱ(talk) · vbm · coi) 15:28, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:43, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Category:Century Association members, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. TM 22:18, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
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You are invited to join us at Ace Hotel for Wikipedia Day NYC 2018, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of the project's global 16th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with keynotes, plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions.
And there will be cake.
We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
10:00am - 6:30 pm at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:42, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hello Ɱ: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Abishe (talk) 16:02, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
Yeah, part of the town (going up the Escarpment slopes to [[North Mountain (Catskills)|North Mountain, the town's highest point, is inside the Blue Line. But if we start adding the article to the town cat on that account, we have a very long list of other town categories that we'd have to add, as well. Do you think we should?
Another point I would make: The town and village are probably named after the creek, but we're not as sure it lent its name to the mountains (and, by extension, the park) as well. Daniel Case (talk) 18:45, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
@Daniel Case: Sorry. I'm not doing much today, we only celebrated last night. I do usually include geographic features in a town or village's cat, even if it's just a portion. But I'd understand if a place like the Park, which is in so many towns, would be an exception. Either way works for me. ɱ(talk) · vbm · coi) 18:55, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
Sorry to take so long to respond. The greater (and indeed, it is greater) issue is that if you're going to do this, you'd then want to similarly categorize the Adirondack Park into every town it contains, and given that it contains two counties in their entirety, and significant portions of nine others, that would be a awful lot of categories to add.
It might really be better to create a "Towns in the Catskill Park", or even "populated places in the Catskill Park" category (and same for the Adirondack Park) and handle it that way, assuming this idea would pass WP:OCAT. Daniel Case (talk) 19:16, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts (4th floor) at 721 Broadway in Manhattan.
We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) ~~~~~
Part of Wikipedia's global 17th birthday celebration, Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 at Ace Hotel will include a mini-conference of scheduled panels as well as unconference style talks and discussions proposed by attendees on the day of the event. We are very excited to announce speakers such as Jason Scott (Internet Archive), Jackie Koerner (Visiting Scholar, Wiki Ed), and Andrew Lih (Wikimedia DC), as well as a fantastic line-up of panels that highlight projects and issues of relevance to the Wikimedia NYC community.
We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
10:00am - 6:30 pm at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) 02:22, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Sustainability session
I'm still not totally sure at this point that I will be able to do the presentation. But I had indeed been thinking about that aspect of it, although mainly for our events. And I will incorporate what you wrote. Daniel Case (talk) 17:31, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
@Daniel Case: cool, thank you. I wish I could hear it if you do it. Just had to cancel, I got a virus and won't be up to going. Hope you enjoy, though! ɱ(talk) · vbm · coi) 17:56, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Hm
I tried to help you by moving your comment and my replies to the appropriate talkpage. I have pinged the people involved. I've just now noticed you've posted an empty threat and insults towards Jytdog (linked in the Article talk pages section above); but Jytdog is the one you gotta talk to... (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 03:22, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.
We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) 22:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
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Request for your feedback on "Like a Resume" box on John Langeloth Loeb Jr. Page
Hi Ɱ - I am working on updates for John Langeloth Loeb Jr.'s page and see that you have added the "Like a Resume" tag to this page on November 8, 2016. There have been many updates to this page since that time, including the addition of several citations. I would like your advice on what additional updates, if any, are needed so that the "Like a Resume" tag/box can be removed.
When you have a few minutes, please let me know what you think. I welcome your feedback and as much information as possible to help me learn what updates are necessary to merit removing the "Like a Resume" box.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.
You can "move" articles from sandboxes to the mainspace, in which case you keep the edit history. I think you are doing cut and paste moves which are described at Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Fixing cut-and-paste moves. Or otherwise, I could be missing something. What you did is fine because you do cite the source but history merging could be done also, if I am seeing this correctly.
It looks like you got people to engage so congratulations and thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:50, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
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