WP:Meetup/ComeEditWikipedia(WeHo)
Event details
- Date: Saturday,
July 27th,August 31st, and September 21st, 2013 - Time: 1 - 5pm
- Location: West Hollywood Room at the [http://www.colapublib.org/libs/whollywood/index.php West Hollywood branch] of the LA County Library Public Library, 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
- Event: An edit-a-thon! Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and collaborate with others in editing articles related to West Hollywood and beyond! (We have also been known to engage in deep philosophical discussions about Wikipedia, and by extension, life)
- Hashtag: The Twitter and social hashtag is: #ComeEditWikipedia
- Facebook event: Coming Soon.
Come contribute to the world's most popular encyclopedia! The West Hollywood Library is hosting an editing party to pump up West Hollywood's presence on Wikipedia. Have no experience with editing Wikipedia? We'll teach you!
Anyone with an interest in editing collaboratively and having a great time is encouraged to attend. Bring digital photos of West Hollywood to upload, and/or your own laptop if you wish. If not, computers will be provided.
What to bring
- Laptops (bring it if you got it)
- Ideas for topics or articles you might want to work on (though suggestions will be provided for those just looking to be put to work)
- We'll have resources available but feel free to bring any relevant reference materials you might have
- A friend (you can also bring your spouse, kids, family, etc.) – we love to meet new would-be-editors!
- Or, if you don't have any of the above, just bring yourself :-)
- Any digital photos you've taken that you would like to use on Wikipedia
=September 21st=
==Attending==
- Olegkagan (organizer)
- Chris Troutman (talk) 06:28, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Cannot attend
Roll Call
- Olegkagan (talk)
- Tada! Chris Troutman (talk) 22:31, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- Mpathfinder (talk) 22:52, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
Articles to improve
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- West Hollywood, California
- Norma Triangle
- Pacific Design Center
- MOCA, Pacific Design Center location
- Sunset Strip
- Plummer Park
- Ferus Gallery
- West Hollywood Gateway Project
- Moses Sherman
- Christopher Street West
- ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
- Edward H. Fickett
- Barney's Beanery
- Edward Kienholz
- Craig Kauffman
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- Edward Ruscha
- David Hockney
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Irving Blum
- Molly Barnes
- Eugenia Butler
- Felix Landau (art)
- Riko Mizuno
- Nicholas Wilder
- Zora Gallery
- Ceeje Gallery
- Cecil Hendrick
- Jerry Jerome (artist)
- Wallace Berman
- Llyn Foulkes
- Betye Saar
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- Robert Irwin
- Walter Hopps
- Billy Al Bengston
- Kenneth Price
- Robert Irwin (artist)
- John McCracken
- Craig Kauffman (artist)
- Edward Ruscha
- Bruce Nauman
- Ed Moses (artist)
- John Altoon
- Allen Lynch (artist)
- Arthur Richer
- John Mason (artist)
- And much much more...
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Previous sessions
Cannot attend
- I'm in Boston til July 29. Wish I could be there. Had a blast at the Wiknic. JSFarman (talk) 01:55, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
- Olegkagan - Unfortunately, though this is at my library, I have a wedding that I can't miss (I'm a groomsman).
- Unfortunately I cannot make it—but only because I've scheduled a research field trip related to a Wikipedia entry! Alafarge (talk) 16:18, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
Roll Call
- Chris Troutman (talk) 20:42, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
- Miram Binman
=August 31st=
==Attending==
- Olegkagan (organizer)
- User:Calliopejen1 (tentative)
- User:Dreamyshade (maybe! it's a long bus ride.)
Cannot attend
- Sorry. Not free this weekend. Chris Troutman (talk) 02:48, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
- Alas, I'm busy that day. —howcheng {chat} 16:02, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
- Sorry, I'm busy this weekend. Let me know how it goes! Wadewitz (talk) 22:35, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
- Sorry, not going to be able to make it. Cbl62 (talk) 20:03, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Roll Call
- Wehoeditor (talk) 21:06, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
- Olegkagan (talk) 21:08, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
- User:themrferd (Stanford/Harvard-bound... need rec letters!!)
- Vojen