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2006[edit]

HHV LAT[edit]

I originally added the cleanup tag as I believed that having over half the article text in headings made the article untidy to the point of embarrassment. The text is too jargon-dense for me to parse through with limited knowledge of the field, so I can't remove any of the headings without risking removing important content, and apparantly adding a cleanup tag isn't an acceptable solution to you either, so I did what I could to improve style: removing the table of contents and gaving a message in the comments about what I believed was the problem. The intent was not to be confrontational, but merely to suggest a way to improve the article. If presented with the same situation in another article, I'd do exactly the same and don't feel I was at all "quick" in my comment — which are only readable by editors. Instead, I wonder what you want me to do about my "annoying" comments. Would you prefer if I simply added changes without saying what I did, or why I did it? GeeJo _{(t) (c)} • 19:33, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adding the cleanup tag, particularly without comment, was snarky. Removing the TOC was helpful. Your comment about why you didn't like the style ("Too many headers") was communicative. The cleanup tag was added without editorial comment and somehow escaped the watched-pages mechanism. At least "Too many headers" initiates dialog.

I agree with WP:OWN, don't get preachy. If you know anybody who would like to add four times as many facts to the page and also improve the verbage throughout, please point them to the topic, they are desired greatly. You know what it really needs? Artwork. Are you good at that? I'm not. I appreciate that you aren't going to contribute to the content, although as a second-year chemistry student, I doubt it would be hard for you to do so. That is part of the reason that a "cleanup" tag is inappropriate. These tags encourage people to make edits when that probably shouldn't be encouraged. Already, any person who is at the level of the article will see that it needs more verbage, and then it will look cleaner. So my contention is that adding the cleanup tag was a helpful idea that was probably not helpful.

As for the Manual of Style, the Wikipedia is growing and it seems like I should try to get together an overall solution for technical articles. Consider that my contention is that technical articles benefit from a variation in style. The intent of my contributions on this article (as opposed to other contributions) is to write a technical article that is useful to technicians and students in the field. If you'd like, we could work together on my idea for how to effect this evolution.

ManVhv 20:06, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If your problem was with my original edit and the fact it didn't have an edit summary, why did you bring the problem to me only after my second edit several days later, and in the context of "annoying comments"? I'd agree that a better choice of tag would have been {{technical}}, but I've only become aware of that particular template in the last few days. In any case, {{technical}} is simply a more specific version of {{cleanup}}, and on opening the page it was fairly obvious something needed to be done to make the article more readable. I've gone through and converted half the article into prose, and shifted the more opaque bullet-point facts into the "miscellaneous reports" to be sorted through by someone who can make out their relevance. GeeJo _{(t) (c)} • 22:10, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Because you became persistently bothersome, instead of occassionally bothersome. Why are you rhetorically questioning my statements of intent, you argumentative young person, you? Why did you bring up how unoffended you are by the subject matter of the page? Why don't you make material contributions? And now you've totally vandalized the article in your attempt to improve it. I can't believe you're an undergrad in science and believe you just did a good thing. You really need to go bother others. ManVhv 23:51, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The question wasn't rhetorical and neither is the following. What exactly do you want me to do about this? The article in the state I found it was ugly. Having previously admitted I have no expertise in the area I added a cleanup tag to let someone more knowledgable about the subject have a bash at it - you removed it. After your comment I asked how you'd like to proceed and you stated "I appreciate that you aren't going to contribute to the content, although as a second-year chemistry student, I doubt it would be hard for you to do so.", so I had a go - and you reverted it. I'm honestly scratching my head wondering what exactly you think Wikipedia is. You refuse to have any modifications made to the article you started at all, and rather than discuss it, you list it for deletion. I'm not trying to goad you, or cast aspersions on your work, I'm simply trying to understand what you're thinking in doing this over some stylistic changes. GeeJo _{(t) (c)} • 01:11, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, thanks for the explanation. I still don't understand why none of the changes showed up on my watchlist, but I see now that there could be many reasons.

After re-reading some of our exchange, I see you originally misunderstood what I meant about "I appreciate you are not going to edit this...". I take it you thought I meant, "Thank you for not touching this." I believe that is the more usual sense of the word "appreciate," actually. What I actually meant was, "I comprehend that you will not be editting the content..." as in "This is the assumption I am making based on what I have seen so far." The truth is, I was trying to goad you into making contentful edits.

My main dismay at your contentful edit was your "reorganization" and suggestion that a knowledgable person could "make sense" of where the articles should go. That seemed asinine and needlessly pejorative. In fact, the articles you moved were already organized properly. I wonder if you could appreciate the schema? Your major edit really didn't do much to the content other than change the grammar such that it was wrong, and disorganize things that were previously organized.

I agree with you that the references look nicer as the short form, but inlined. You can see that long before you came along, I had adopted that standard in related articles. If you'd asked for that with your original {{cleanup}} tag, you would have gotten it without fuss.

Your point about the "poor guy's" email address is: passively-aggressively pejorative, and, again, asinine. The "poor guy" has already published his email address on the web for years. Look the paper up on PubMED if you are able to use the Internet. His email address has been on thousands of web sites for several years. He already has a solution to the SPAM problem, I take it.

GeeJo, I have been here a long time. I would hate it if I had been a new user you had come across. ManVhv 17:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Hinduism[edit]

Hi ManVhv, you say on your userpage that you ahve Hindu beliefs. You then may consider joining the project. Thanks Gizza^Chat ^© 09:02, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moronic acid[edit]

You seem to have problems with the link to wikipedia:chemical sources, could you please explain that? --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting phraseology. Sorry that I seem to have problems. It's true that I find your link ({{chemicalsources}}) both useless and distracting. Thus, I think it detracts from the pages to which you add it. In my mind, the problem is with your template. Your 'article' on chemical sources does not have anything specific information to do with moronic acid. Your template would be kind of neat if it took the compound name or CAS as arguments, and prepulated the searches. As it is, you paste in a big, long sentence that smacks of Advertising and is not in and of itself specific to moronoic acid. ManVhv 15:58, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dirk Beetstra nee Gently, please check out what I have done in creating {{ChemicalSources3}}, which you can observe as linked-to from Moronic acid. ManVhv 17:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry that my guestion seems a bit harsh, but the reversions were also done with a harsh remark, without explanation (the explanation of the chemicalsources template can be found here). I have now seen the new edit. I am sorry, I do not fully concur with this edit, the links to CAS etc. are already in the Chembox. The link from the template ChemicalSources there now indeed does indeed not link to specific information on moronic acid. But (similar to the link with the CAS number in the chembox), now it again links to one specific external link, using a maybe disputable identifier (CAS), which is just the problem (however thought of, they are biased, even if they already link to a non-commercial site). The page Chemical Sources has been created to eliminate ANY bias to links in the external section. Indeed, the page is not to it's full potential, but I have posted some questions on the talk page of chemical sources, and questions for help. And indeed the sentence can be rephrased (and that has been done), and we can discuss about that as well. But I guess we should move this discussion to that talk-page. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 17:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think what you dont't get about ChemicalSources3 is that it is more like a proof-of concept. You are invited to work on it. You can use the template to pass arguments to your page, I think. I have not yet figured out how,I admit. In that way, you can make your article specific. Just figure out how to do it. I agree I am sounding harsh at times over your automated edits. I think it is wrong to make an automated edit pass linking to a half-baked page. When it comes out of the oven, serve it. Maybe a chemical sources box is more appropriate. ManVhv 17:28, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, lets cut the crap and work together on this, I did not feel my question was harsher than yours, but well. The problem is, we need more than what you are doing, the chemical-sources page has to be hard-coded into wikipedia, like the Special:booksources page (I have been sandboxing with your solution already, can't get it to satisfaction). I am looking for a programmer to do that. Before that can be done, the page Wikipedia:Chemical sources has to be created (a work in progress), and to give an intermediate functionality, a link on all chemical pages is now provided to enable people to find the links where they can search for information on compounds outside the Wikipedia. For now, the link to CAS you provide is a link that is similar to the link already provided with CAS in the chembox (whether CAS should be used is another question). As for now I would suggest to keep the link to the {{chemicalsources}} template (rephrasing is OK with me, would indeed be nice if it would fit on about half a line, so that it uses not more than one line next to a chembox). Using {{ChemicalSources3}} would give a lot of extra work, which I am not willing to perform (though, you could put your code into chemicalsources, but I am not going to put the arguments in on every page). May I ask you to help me setting up a Special:Booksources-like page, so that, in the end, the majority of external links can be removed alltogether? --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 17:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, sorry I offended you. I can't contribute code unless it is into the public domain by anonymous, i.e., not under the GPL or using any GPL code. So I only wish I could help, but if I did it could harm both us and the Foundation. :( ManVhv 17:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks also, I am also sorry if I offended you. No problemo, I will look around for another programmer (I think the programming is under GPL, anyway, though I have the feeling that I don't understand what you mean there). But all help is welcome, also in the organisation of Wikipedia:Chemical sources or with template things. I have adapted the {{ChemicalSources}} template, I have put in your code, and have made the text of the template shorter. Hope to see you around! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 17:56, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What I was alluding to is that I am under contractual obligation to my anonymous employer that I not read any GPL source code. But the Wiki articles and templates are OK, since those are hypertext documents. An alternative is for me to publish code into the public domains or to the Creative Commons, but then I cannot have read any GPL code, due to the clauses of the GPL. For now, it is too much to deal with and I just don't write Wikimedia code, sad to say. I wish they would switch the codebase to some non-viral license. ManVhv 21:29, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I understand. Too bad. Still hope you can help with the rest of the edits. Cheers. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 21:32, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2007[edit]

Table addition[edit]

I think your changes to the species table in the Herpesviridae article are great - nice work. -- MarcoTolo 06:07, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, MarcoTolo! ManVhv 03:08, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kind words[edit]

Thanks for the positive feedback....it's always gratefully received.....like a sunny day in Seattle huh?? ;) Ah...you must be a virus expert judging by your edits....and it looks like the virus wikiproject needs a ton of work....happy editing!!! Ciar 07:07, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hee, hee, thanks. I'm a "virus hobbyist" and otherwise I'm a computer programmer. Over the last year I have been trying to compile lots of Herpes virus research, but there is a daunting amount to compile. I'm glad to see the Viruses wikiproject -- there are a lot of articles under this banner which need work. :) ManVhv 22:20, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your note[edit]

Hi, thanks for the vigilance, sorry for the sloppy edit. The article the IP provided said the same thing, but obviously not a reliable source, I should have been more careful. You know one of the external links you removed was there before my edit, right? Anyway, thanks again, I'll be more careful. Peace, delldot talk 01:29, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the kind note, see you around. Peace, delldot talk 15:51, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HSV (disambiguation)[edit]

I have undone your changes to HSV (disambiguation) because they do not meet the manual of style for disambiguation pages. Please refer to this when formatting disambiguation pages, thanks Rich257 08:11, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are mistaken. See MOS:D#Longer_lists. I have conformed to exactly the style guideline suggested (exception of "Airports") and this style is in use for many of the longer disambiguation pages. Please check that out. ManVhv 16:04, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The page to which you refer says that the category should be in bold, yours is in italics. The example shows no indentation for categories, yours has indentations. So your modifications to the page do not "conform... exactly" to the style guideline, as you state. I don't really think this is a long enough list to be worthy of a breakdown, I think it just adds clutter. Rich257 16:26, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The list is certainly long enough -- all other disambiguation examples are for ~3 words. Your nit-picking (bold-face vs. italics, long enough or not, revert rather than edit...) is very interesting. Do you dislike the way I have re-ordered the items in the list, according to my impression of their global relevancy? ManVhv 16:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I bold-faced the terms -- it looks much worse but now it complies. I tried to remove the indentation, but that was awful. Maybe you would like to change the style guideline? I removed the cleanup tag, because really the page is fine as it now stands. ManVhv 16:36, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You also removed the {{disambig}} template. The style "guidelines" aren't there to be picked and chosen from, and person preference isn't what it's about. Yes, it looks worse. In my opinion the page looks better as a single list.

My aim in adding {{disambig-cleanup}} was that someone from that project would format the page since we can't seem to agree on what the style guideline is, it seems.

If you think the style guidelines should be changed, then please open the discussion, I don't think they need changing. Rich257 20:49, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your ability to cite guidelines, but please keep in my mind that you are annoyed that a television station has been deemphasized on a disambiguation page. Why people waste their precious lives writing "encyclopedia" articles on fictional topics is beyond my understanding, but I have noticed that the people who do so are quick to point to style guidelines when they don't like the way their topics are being treated. Thanks for the tip re: the template. As for the indentation, I intend to leave it because it does look better and harms nothing. As for combining the list to one list, that violates MOS:D#Longer_lists, as I am sure you realize now. ManVhv 23:01, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As a matter of history, HSV previously did not point to the disambiguation page. It pointed to Herpes simplex virus, which had a back-link to the ship with letters HSV-2. I have corrected the situation such that HSV now redirects to Herpes simplex virus, but the virus article contains a link to the disambiguation page. Topics such as HSV-7 Television Station and Holden Special Vehicles are too absolutely irrelevant to warrant a top-level redirect to the disambigation page. Only Hue, Saturation, Value is comparably relevant -- all the other articles are niche-interest, local-interest, etc. ManVhv 23:10, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What was your reason for removing the links to pages in other languages? They are also disambiguation pages. Rich257 07:48, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You know, that was my mistake. I will put those back. Thanks for letting me know. ManVhv 05:07, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hepatitis B vaccine[edit]

Thanks so much for the edits to the article, it looks a lot better! It could probably benefit from being broken up into sections, but it may not be long enough yet. I think it's safe to remove the tags now! -- MacAddct1984 03:19, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ICP0[edit]

Hi there! I took a look at the HHV Infected Cell Polypeptide 0 (ICP0) page, and updated the evaluation. Wow, you have been busy....what a great job you are doing!! I added some comments to help with the improvements, and if I ever find any time, I'll stop by and try and help with those!!! Keep up the good work ~ Ciar ~ _{(Talk to me!)} 18:35, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:ChemicalSources3[edit]

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Wikipedia 15 meetup in Seattle[edit]

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Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 17, 2pm[edit]

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Art+Feminism, Saturday, May 6, at Jacob Lawrence Gallery, UW Seattle[edit]

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

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Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 23, 1 PM[edit]

If you are in the Seattle area, please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 23, 1 PM. If you cannot attend in person, you may join us virtually from your PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android at this link: https://zoom.us/j/2207426850. The address of the physical meeting is: Capitol Hill Meeting Room at Capitol Hill Library (425 Harvard Ave. E., Seattle, WA 98102) 47°37′23″N 122°19′20″W / 47.622928°N 122.322312°W

The event page is here. You do not have to be a member to attend, but only members can vote in board elections. New members may join in person by completing the membership registration form onsite or (to be posted) online and paying $5 for a calendar year / $0.50 per month for the remainder of a year. Current members may renew for 2018 at the meeting as well.

Cascadia Wikimedians User Group is a recognized 501c3 non-profit organization in the US. EIN # 47-3513818 Our mail address is Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, 520 Kirkland Way, PO Box 2305, Kirkland, WA 98083.

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Art+Feminism, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Saturday, May 12th, 1-5pm[edit]

For more info see
the meetup page
for Art+Feminism.

Wikipedia is one of the most wide-reaching repositories of shared knowledge, yet a 2011 survey found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female, suggesting an alarming absence of voices. What and how information is shared is skewed by this gender disparity. To help change this, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is organizing a quarterly series of Edit-a-thons to improve Wikipedia's coverage of womxn artists of color.

This Saturday afternoon's gathering will focus on creating, editing, updating, and expanding pages for womxn artists from Latin America and the Caribbean. The Edit-a-thon will feature a talk by Dan Paz, Lecturer in the UW School of Art + Art History + Design, an artist, and an educator who explores the labor of digital imaging production as a collaborative site where the intersections of the image-idea and lived experience are produced and contested. Through videos, photography, and sculptural projects that query the ability of documentary processes to be manipulated—to be multiplied and replicated, stopped and started, rewound and advanced—Dan works within the impossibilities of absolute replication to question the very ability of the image to truly represent.

Everyone is welcome. Access to UW WiFi will be provided for non-UW affiliated participants. All you need to bring is your laptop, power cord, and ideas. No previous Wikipedia experience required! Childcare, snacks from local businesses, and editing tutorials will be provided. Please check the Facebook event page for updates.

When: Saturday, May 12th, 1-5pm
Where: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building #132, 1915 NE Chelan Ln, Seattle, Washington 98105
Who: Everyone is welcome.
What to bring: A laptop and power cord. Access to UW WiFi will be provided for non-UW affliated participants.

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Seattle Wiknic 2018[edit]

In the Seattle area?

You are invited to the Seattle Wiknic 2018 on Saturday, August 25, 2018, noon to 3pm at the Washington Park Arboretum, in the meadow area to the south of the Graham Visitors Center, approximately at 47°38′15″N 122°17′38″W / 47.637435°N 122.293986°W / 47.637435; -122.293986. Click here for more details!

We will be reviving our monthly meet up on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 6pm to 8pm on the second floor of Café Allegro.

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Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 29, 1 PM[edit]

If you are in the Seattle area, please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 29, 1 PM. If you cannot attend in person, you may join us virtually from your PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android at this link: https://zoom.us/j/2207426850. The address of the physical meeting is: Capitol Hill Meeting Room at Capitol Hill Library (425 Harvard Ave. E., Seattle, WA 98102) 47°37′23″N 122°19′22″W / 47.622928°N 122.322912°W

The event page is here. You do not have to be a member to attend, but only members can vote in board elections. New members may join in person by completing the membership registration form onsite or (to be posted) online and paying $5 for a calendar year / $0.50 per month for the remainder of a year. Current members may renew for 2019 at the meeting as well.

Cascadia Wikimedians User Group is a recognized 501c3 non-profit organization in the US. EIN # 47-3513818 Our mail address is Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, 520 Kirkland Way, PO Box 2905, Kirkland, WA 98083.

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Wikipedia Day 2019 — curating images from Asahel Curtis and older Seattle photos[edit]

In the Seattle area?

Tuesday evening, January 15, 2019, 6-9pm at Wayward Coffeehouse, 6417 Roosevelt Way NE #104, Seattle WA 98115

Wikipedia Day celebrates the anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia. This year in Seattle, Cascadia Wikimedians' celebration of Wikipedia Day will focus on a different closely related project: Wikimedia Commons, which (among other things) functions as the media repository for Wikipedia. When you see a photo or map in Wikipedia, or hear an audio clip, etc., it usually is hosted on Wikimedia Commons and "transcluded" into Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Commons is a mix of users' own works and curated third-party content, either public domain or free-licensed. Our event is a hands-on workshop in curating third-party content, mostly early 20th-century photos of Seattle and other West Coast locations.

Currently, Wikimedia Commons has two intersecting sets of older photos, one from the Asahel Curtis Photo Company and the other a more general set of Seattle images. At this meetup, we will celebrate the 18th anniversary of Wikipedia by further curating these images by the creation and addition of categories, adding ImageNotes where useful, linking other versions of the same photo, enhancing the descriptions, and identifying and correcting errors. User:Jmabel has already categorized over 1000 images and corrected several hundred wrong dates, misidentified buildings, and etc., but there is much more to be done.

For more information, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Wikipedia Day 2019 — curating images from Asahel Curtis and older Seattle photos.

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Women’s History Wikithon, Washington State History Museum, Saturday 3/9[edit]

Come document women's history in Washington state!	Women’s History Wikithon When: Saturday, March 9, 10:00am-4:00pm PST Where: Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402 47°14′42″N 122°26′10″W / 47.24500°N 122.43611°W / 47.24500; -122.43611 Register in advance here: https://webformsrig02bo3.blackbaudhosting.com/49882/Womens-Suffrage-Centennial-Program GLAM page: Wikipedia:GLAM/Washington State Historical Society Check for updates: Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Women’s History Wikithon	Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, WA
FREE. Please register in advance. Includes museum admission and snacks; please bring a sack lunch plus a laptop. Scholars and interested citizens are invited to come together for an afternoon of collaboration to create or improve Wikipedia pages related to Washington State’s suffrage history. Learn from seasoned “Wikipedians” how to edit wiki pages, and work in small groups with women’s history experts. Honor Women’s History Month by updating our reference materials to reflect the dedicated work of Washington’s women suffragists. Bring a brown bag lunch, we’ll provide snacks. Hosted by Washington State Historical Society. Women's Suffrage Centennial Program, Washington State Historical Society -> Events & Programs

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Art+Feminism, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Saturday, April 6th, 1-5 PM[edit]

For more info see
the meetup page
for Art+Feminism.

Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors were women. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of representation from women.

Let’s change that.

To help change this, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is continuing a series of Edit-a-thons to improve Wikipedia's coverage of womxn and gender non-binary artists of color.

Childcare, snacks from local businesses, and editing tutorials will be provided.

All you need to bring is your laptop, power cord, and ideas. No previous Wikipedia experience required!

Everyone is welcome. Access to UW wifi will be provided for non-UW affiliated participants.

Please create a Wikipedia account before the event.

RSVP through this Facebook event link.

When: Saturday, Apr. 6, 2019, 1–5 PM
Where: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building #132, 1915 NE Chelan Ln, Seattle, WA 98105
Event Sponsors: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, School of Art + Art History + Design
Event Page: Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Parking: Free parking is normally available on campus after 12pm on Saturdays.

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Seattle Wiknic 2019[edit]

In the Seattle area?

You are invited to the Seattle Wiknic 2019 on Saturday, August 24, 2019, noon to 3pm at the Washington Park Arboretum, in the meadow area to the south of the Graham Visitors Center, approximately at 47°38′15″N 122°17′38″W / 47.637435°N 122.293986°W / 47.637435; -122.293986. Click here for more details!

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Editing as Activism: Edit-A-Thon to Correct Systemic Bias in Wikipedia[edit]

Help address the systematic biases relating to gender, race, and social class that lead to under-representation of topics, people, and organizations on Wikipedia.

When: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 9am–1pm
Where: UW Libraries Research Commons, 4000 15th Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98195
Hosted by: Labor Archives of Washington, UW Special Collections, and Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

Facebook event page
Please register here

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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Womxn Artists of the Pacific Northwest[edit]

Calendar page	Jacob Lawrence Gallery — Calendar \| School of Art + Art History + Design \| University of Washington
When	Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, 1 – 5 p.m.
Campus location	Art Building (ART)
Campus room	Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Event types	Special Events, Student Activities, Workshops
Event sponsors	Jacob Lawrence Gallery, School of Art + Art History + Design with support from Wikipedia and Art+Feminism
Facebook event page	www.facebook.com/events/2475807515865167/
Description	Free parking is normally available on campus after 12pm on Saturdays. Check the Gallery's website for information about getting there. The ‘Big Four,’ or the four white male artists that comprised the Northwest School, were the subject of the famous 1953 LIFE magazine article, "Mystic Painters of the Northwest": Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, and Mark Tobey. Each of these artists have robust pages on Wikipedia. However, key female-identifying artists from this time such as Margaret Gove Cafferman — who Mark Tobey cited as an influence on his work — lack Wikipedia articles.^{[* 1]} To help address the imbalance of representation on Wikipedia, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is organizing an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon focused on female-identifying artists of the Pacific Northwest. Childcare, snacks from local businesses, editing tutorials, books, and lists of artists will be provided. All you need to bring is your laptop, power cord, and ideas. No previous Wikipedia experience required! Everyone is welcome. Access to UW wifi will be provided for non-UW affiliated participants. Please create a Wikipedia account before the event. ^ Mentioned in Emily Pothast's lecture "You Are Not Invited: A Critical Survey of Seattle Art History" on May 30, 2019 at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

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Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Monday, December 23, 5:30pm PST[edit]

Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Monday, December 23, 5:30pm PST. You can join us virtually from your PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android at this link: https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt. If your are in Seattle, the address of the physical meeting is: Capitol Hill Meeting Room at Capitol Hill Library (425 Harvard Ave. E., Seattle, WA 98102) 47°37′23″N 122°19′22″W / 47.622928°N 122.322912°W The event page is here. You do not have to be a member to attend, but only members can vote in board elections. New members may join in person by completing the membership registration form onsite or (to be posted) online and paying $5 for a calendar year / $0.50 per month for the remainder of a year. Current members may renew for 2019 at the meeting as well.

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Great American Wiknic virtual edition 2020[edit]

W.A.L.R.U.S.

You are invited to the Great American Virtual Wiknic on Sunday, August 16, 2020, noon to 2pm

1st hour: National livestream via Streamyard / Youtube / social media (12-1pm Pacific)
2nd hour: Regional breakout rooms via Zoom / Wikimedia Meet, etc (1-2pm Pacific)

Click here for more details!

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Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia - Editathon 2021[edit]

Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia - Editathon 2021

Friday, February 26, 2021, 1:00-5:00 PM PST
with Oregon State University, Education Opportunities Program, and AfroCROWD
Guest Speaker: Spelman College's Alexandria Lockett
"Click here to register directly on OSU's site".

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May 2022 Seattle meetup[edit]

In the Seattle area? We are resuming Seattle monthly meetups on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 5:45pm to 7:45pm at the Distant Worlds Coffeehouse. For the address and to RSVP, please click here.

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March 2023 Seattle meetup[edit]

In the Seattle area? We are resuming Seattle monthly meetups on Tuesday, March 21, 2022, 5:45pm to 7:45pm at the Distant Worlds Coffeehouse as they have resumed their normal operating hours at their new location. For the address and to RSVP, please click here.

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LGBT films from SIFF 2023 edit-a-thon[edit]

Part of
Wiki Loves
Pride/2023

When: Saturday, June 17, 10am–3pm & Sunday, June 18, noon–5pm
Where: University Branch of the Seattle Public Library (SPL)
Who: Everyone is welcome.
What to bring: A laptop and power cord

The schedule and details will be posted to the LGBT films from SIFF 2023 edit-a-thon page. Editors can respond there if they plan to attend.

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Seattle Wiknic 2023[edit]

In the Seattle area?

You are invited to the Seattle Wiknic 2023 on Saturday, August 5, 2023, noon to 3pm at the Washington Park Arboretum, in the meadow area to the south of the Graham Visitors Center, approximately at 47°38′15″N 122°17′38″W / 47.637435°N 122.293986°W / 47.637435; -122.293986. Click here for more details!

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Meetup in Seattle on 16 January 2024[edit]

Seattle Wikimedia meetup \| 16 January 2024
What: Meetup to chat about Wikipedia and schedule an edit-a-thon When: Tuesday 16 January 2024, 5:45–7:45 pm Where: Distant Worlds Coffeehouse at 6401 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle Please come! We'd love to see you.
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[1] Mentioned in Emily Pothast's lecture "You Are Not Invited: A Critical Survey of Seattle Art History" on May 30, 2019 at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

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