User talk:Benjamin Mako Hill/Archive 8
Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 23, 1 PM[edit]
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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. |
WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.5 -2017[edit]
Newsletter Nr 5, 2017-12-30, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)
 Participation: This is the fifth newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) A demo wiki is up and running! Dear members of WikiProject Genealogy, this will be the last newsletter for 2017, but maybe the most important one! You can already now try out the demo for a genealogy wiki at https://tools.wmflabs.org/genealogy/wiki/Main_Page and try out the functions. You will find parts of the 18th Pharao dynasty and other records submitted by the 7 first users, and it would be great if you would add some records. And with those great news we want to wish you a creative New Year 2018!
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Stranded encyclopedias[edit]
Still remembering your 2012 Wikimania presentation on "Almost Wikipedia", perhaps you are interested in this conference in September in Stockholm, Sweden, on failed or stranded encyclopedias 1600-2000. I'm not among the organizers, I just saw this call for papers. --LA2 (talk) 10:57, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
- @LA2: Thanks for the suggestion! I contacted and the organizers and threw my name in. Let's see if they think it's a good fit! —mako๛ 00:12, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
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- @Anomalocaris: Thanks so much! I've made the change! —mako๛ 00:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks! —Anomalocaris (talk) 09:31, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Cryptid listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Cryptid. Since you had some involvement with the Cryptid redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 19:22, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Art+Feminism, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Saturday, May 12th, 1-5pm[edit]
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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 |
Jacob Lawrence Gallery, UW, Seattle |
Seattle Wiknic 2018[edit]
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ArbCom 2018 election voter message[edit]
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Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 29, 1 PM[edit]
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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. |
WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.6[edit]
| Newsletter Nr 6, 2018-12-25, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)
Participation: This is the sixth newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) Now 100 supporters[edit]At 3 December 2018, the list of users who support the potential Wikimedia genealogy project, reached 100! A demo wiki is up and running![edit]You can already now try out the demo for a genealogy wiki at https://tools.wmflabs.org/genealogy/wiki/Main_Page and try out the functions. You will find parts of the 18th Pharao dynasty and other records submitted by the 7 first users, and it would be great if you would add some records. And with those great news we want to wish you a creative New Year 2019!
Cheers from your WikiProject Genealogy coordinator Dan Koehl. To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Wikipedia Day 2019 — curating images from Asahel Curtis and older Seattle photos[edit]
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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. |
Women’s History Wikithon, Washington State History Museum, Saturday 3/9[edit]
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| 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]
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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 |
Jim Walden (Lawyer)[edit]
Hi Mako,
Thanks very much for your notes regarding the edits to the biography page about Jim Walden. Apologies for any edits that were to subjective. I do think that there's still much detail, informational value, integrity and abundant factual accuracy and citations that can be retained after a skillful edit to remove the subjective things.
Would you be able to advise on the best way to proceed?
Also, I apologize but I can't figure out how to include the text to be reviewed by you in a "subpage of the user page" as you suggest. Could you let me know how to do this?
Many thanks, and again I'm truly grateful for your offer to help to make the edits to the page as a neutral editor.
Walden, Macht & Haran (talk) 02:47, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Accepting your kind offer to help with Jim Walden's[edit]
Hi Benjamin,
I'd like to accept your very kind offer for you to review the edits I'd like to suggest to Jim Walden's page, here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Walden_(lawyer)
I made some edits before and you called my attention to how they need to be amended, so I'm grateful for that! I have followed your instructions and made the suggested edits available to you on a subpage of my new user page. I also edited the changes to now make them conform, I hope, with Wikipedia guidelines. Here is the text in my sandbox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:J-Pac-brooklyn/sandbox
If you could please have a look, I think you'll find that it's very carefully considered, and cited, and that the rampant peacocking and puffery you mentioned before has been eliminated.
I'm really grateful for your offer to help and am hoping you might have some time in the coming days to have a look. In think it culls a lot from the old page but is much better organized and written from a fact-driven journalistic perspective.
Also, I think I need to delete the user account Walden, Macht, Haran. Can you advise me on when to do that? I don't want any text or reference links that may be needed to be lost so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks so much.
Best regards,
Julia
Accepting your kind offer to help with Jim Walden's Page[edit]
Hi Benjamin,
About a month ago you reviewed edits to Jim Walden's page and reverted to an earlier version citing issues with the text. You offered to help review and incorporate new edits appropriately so I was hoping I could take you up on that very kind offer! You sent this message below suggesting I leave a message on your talk page so here goes.
- I'm happy to help with this if you want to start working on the content that I removed. Please just leave a message on my talk page. I hope this isn't to disappointing. Let me know if I can help! —mako๛ 06:12, 4 May 2019 (UTC)"
I included the suggested edits for your review on a subpage in my sandbox. Could you have a look and let me know if these edits, which I'm confident are very accurate, could be updated to Walden's page with any edits you feel necessary. I'd truly appreciate the help. Thanks so much!
Best,
Julia — Preceding unsigned comment added by J-Pac-brooklyn (talk • contribs) 00:16, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- @J-Pac-brooklyn: Thanks for the ping, Julia! I was totally offline for the last couple weeks and I'm currently on a work trip and I'm not sure I'll be able to get this before the weekend after next. I've added it to my list though and I won't forget! —mako๛ 00:11, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, Mako! Weekend after next is great. Thanks very much for your help with this, really appreciate it! If there's anything I can clarify on sources, citations, etc. please just let me know. Many thanks! Best, Julia — Preceding unsigned comment added by J-Pac-brooklyn (talk • contribs) 00:29, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Mako,
Just wanted to see if you could have a look at editing the article on Jim Walden to update his page. Another editor looked but didn't make changes and asked me to do so. Sorry to chase but any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
Julia J Pac Brooklyn J-Pac-brooklyn (talk) 18:39, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi Mako: I've been really conscientiously trying to get suggested changes and edits reviewed by editors since May of this year. It's been over 6 months and I would be really grateful if you could have a look at the resubmitted draft which incorporates literally all of the edits and suggestions you and another editor subsequently made. Could you please have a look and see if you can submit the changes to the Jim Walden page? The draft is in my SANDBOX here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:J-Pac-brooklyn/sandbox&redirect=no — Preceding unsigned comment added by J-Pac-brooklyn (talk • contribs) 19:42, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Seattle Wiknic 2019[edit]
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Editing as Activism: Edit-A-Thon to Correct Systemic Bias in Wikipedia[edit]
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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Womxn Artists of the Pacific Northwest[edit]
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Jim Walden's page[edit]
Hi Benjamin,
This is Julia, J-Pac brooklyn, writing to ask for your help in finalizing the updates too Jim Walden's page. I have followed all the instructions I was given by you and another editor and it still seems to be in a holding pattern. I resubmitted the changes but haven't seen or heard any activity in a review or updates to the real page for Jim Walden. I would be super grateful for any guidance or advice you could give about how to update the page appropriately as I first made the edits in March. Here is the draft that I'm hoping someone can review and approve. Again, I'm happy to follow any instructions or guidance you can give. Many thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Jim_Walden
Best,
J-Pac-brooklyn — Preceding unsigned comment added by J-Pac-brooklyn (talk • contribs) 19:27, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Monday, December 23, 5:30pm PST[edit]
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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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Belated holiday greetings[edit]
↠Pine (✉) 05:50, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
FYI, your words will appear in The Signpost[edit]
FYI, under development for late January issue: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Special report ☆ Bri (talk) 06:43, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
violetzq - Edited article based on feedbacks[edit]
Hi!@Benjamin Mako Hill:
Thank you so much for the feedback! I have edited my article "Code Kunst" based on them. I added references for the nominated awards and other facts mentioned in the "life and career" section. I also combined the separated facts in this section and made them more coherent. I made most of the edits to the "Interview" section by changing it to trivia, and instead of listing random facts, I also tried combining them and make them more relevant. I added a "filmography" section that listed all the television he appeared on that I can find. I hope this looks better. --Violetzq (talk) 08:07, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees[edit]
Hello! Your submission of Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 16:12, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- Moving this here! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:13, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset, Shalor (Wiki Ed), and Aliylo: Awesome! Thanks! We'll work on that in the next few days! —mako๛ 18:28, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- mako, any idea how soon you'll be able to get to this? It's been a week and a half without any edits. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset, Shalor (Wiki Ed), and Aliylo: Awesome! Thanks! We'll work on that in the next few days! —mako๛ 18:28, 23 March 2020 (UTC)