North Carolina Wikipedians/Monthly-Meeting
These are the meeting notes for the monthly North Carolina Wikipedians meetings. We take our meeting notes on our Etherpad and then copy them over here for long-term storage.
February 11, 2025 - Monthly meeting
[edit]Attending: Gaurav, Barbara, Frank, Jennifer, James, Julian
Agenda:
- Debrief on the December Editathon
- WikiProject North Carolina Wikidata?
- Wikipedia in the news recently
- Next meetup/editathon?
Notes:
- Introductions
- Debrief on the December Editathon
- 14 completions before the editathon and 98 after, which is an increase of 84 files in 1.5 hours — that’s not bad! We still have 465 files remaining in the spreadsheet.
- Also had a bunch of first-time editors and/or first-time file editors
- Doing more of those?
- Online editathons are definitely something of interest
- Some attendees want to continue working with those images
- Some attendees are interested in the data aspect of this (i.e. Commons WikiData)
- WikiProject North Carolina Wikidata?
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025
- Coming soon in Feb 18-28, 2025
- WikiData Terminator: https://wikidata-terminator.toolforge.org/#/
- Good for translating descriptions into different languages
- Could be good for low-key work in the background
- e.g. improve cities and counties in North Carolina
- Improving Asheboro (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q725046) to the level of Raleigh would be useful (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41087)
- Could add just one kind of information: what counties border a particular county
- But you could be interested in fleshing out all the information about e.g. social media accounts by a local government
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cities_and_Towns is currently improving the Wikidata model for cities and towns -- we could get involved and try to get NC cities and towns up to exemplary status
- Wikidata is also great for bulk uploading data -- which is a great project for students
- This might also exist somewhere -- in which case we could pull it into Wikidata
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_UNC_Charlotte_Library
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025
- Rapid Grants
- Next meetup/editathon?
- It should be warm enough for in-person events by March?
- Everything is more fun in person!
- But online events would be more practical for people to join
- 400+ images still need to be categorized!
- Hybrid event?
- Problem: one of the two groups is going to be ignored
- Solution: assign one person to online and one person to in-person
- Library? NC Museum of Art? (TODO: Gaurav to e-mail NC Museum of Art and the NC Arboretum)
- HUGE outdoor sculpture garden
- need more photographs
- sculpture copyright lookups
- NC is a big leader in support of art
- Wikipedia editors tend to LOVE behind-the-scenes tours -- so if we can get that, that would be great!
- https://carolinatigerrescue.org/ (not the best places for photos)
- https://lemur.duke.edu/ (has a podcast!)
- James has a contact at the NC Zoo in Asheboro (TODO: James to ask)
- Asheboro itself might not be well-documented -- so good reason to have an editathon!
- Also great for helping the group expand past the Triangle in NC