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Hey, I noticed your edits to Jack Van Impe and Robert Tilton and wanted to thank you for the information you added to those articles. I wrote those two articles in substantial part, but wasn't aware of any of the facts that you added, which were quite interesting. Thanks! - Jersyko·talk 19:04, 1 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

You're welcome! Scarletsmith 19:08, 1 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Removing redlinks to people we will never have an article on is good but don't remove them if it is reasonable for us to eventually have an article about them. a) This lets people know that the article doesn't yet exist and b) if someone else happens to make an article about the person then the article is already linked there. JoshuaZ 05:02, 25 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Sorry - my bad re the Typo summary - I should have noticed that there was another intervening edit. I'm going to leave it though, to see if one of the other editors agrees with your change - but I will post on the talk page. --Trödel 15:16, 23 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

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My mistake. sorry. Will restore your previous version. KGV 06:08, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. Scarletsmith 06:14, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for expanding the Deadliest Catch articles so much. Great work! =) -- Gogo Dodo 00:31, 27 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

You're welcome! I love that show. Scarletsmith 00:33, 27 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Season 4 has started and I've written the summaries for the first two episodes. It would be great if you could contribute to the articles as you did for last season. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

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I'm sorry if I sounded insensitive to DeYoung's affliction, and in the interest of not pulling the discussion toward it and to remove an insensitive remark that was not called for, I removed my own quote about it and your response to it and I apologize for my remark. I wish you good luck on your own path to recovery.--Bamadude 01:43, 19 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for your additions to rhabdomyolysis. When making contributions to medical articles, please adhere to WP:MEDMOS, which amongst other things recommends that drugs should be referred to by their generic names rather than brand names. I will probably make some other small changes to your addition, particularly with regard to the references. JFW | T@lk 21:31, 22 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

I have looked at the evidence, and I think I disagree that rosuvastatin has a higher rate of rhabdomyolysis than other drugs. The FDA statement says as much. It would be a bit of a misrepresentation to say that just because it has a black box warning, Crestor is more evil than other statins.

I also removed the material on fluoroquinolones. The source that you used (personal reports from people in a non-peer reviewed survey) is probably unsuitable as per WP:RS. Searching PubMed for reports of rhabdomyolysis due to quinolones showed only a smattering of 2-3 cases for each member of the class - that is very low indeed. Let me know if you have any questions about this. JFW | T@lk 08:48, 23 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Please refrain from vandalizing the Lidia Bastianich page with unsourced non-sense and useless claims of "self-identification".

--69.116.6.82 (talk) 20:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Fine. I'll leave you and the other insane Croatianistas to trash the article and make it as unusable as most of the Wikipedia articles on living persons. Have fun trashing the page. Scarletsmith (talk) 00:45, 21 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Can you change the Intervention page to have detailed episode information? I apologize if you didn't make the changes, but I saw from the history that you have made multiple changes and I assume it was you who changed it. The page is infinitely less useful now. To have to go to A&E's site to check each episode, especially when different seasons are listed on different pages and is not easy to navigate, is WAY harder to get info. There are people discussing the issue on the Discussion page of the article.

Please consider it. The current format is just not useful at all. "WikiProject Television, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to television programs and related subjects on Wikipedia", is what it says at the top of the page. The page was detailed before the changes, now it is not.

You might be interested in participating in the on-going A-Class review instead of editing the page directly; Nehrams is trying to conclude the review and press on to FAC, so discussing the edits would be beneficial to all. Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 23:37, 10 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Hey, just in case you missed it, there is an oppurtunity to get a free dinner this Tuesday August 11 and a chance to meet and hang out talk about Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy and WP:GLAM/SI. Sorry that this is so late in the game, I was hoping the e-mail would be a better form of contact for active members (if you want to get on the e-mail list send me an User e-mail ). Hope that you can attend, User:Sadads (talk)12:39, 9 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hello Scarletsmith. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Jaime Herrera, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. Thank you. Salvio ^{Let's talk 'bout it!} 22:43, 2 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

WP:POLITICIAN states, "Politicians who have held international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office, and members and former members of a national, state or provincial legislature and judges," [are notable]. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 23:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Cool, thanks for the answer. It really looked questionable, and I think we've all seen pages go up on Wiki that look more like political ads than actual Wiki pages. Thanks! Scarletsmith (talk) 23:12, 2 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

US elections tend to bring out the political hacks and hatchetmen. At least no-one's accused me of being a Republican this cycle, just because I tried to stop their hatchet wielding. Dlohcierekim 23:41, 2 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Hello! Nice to meet you. I appreciate you noting the suspect nature of an article on a mere candidate for Congress, but I intentionally tailored the article to fit the notability criterion, having gotten into a similar discussion with another editor on an even less notable figure before. I put first not her status as congressional candidate, but as member of and leader in the state legislature, which is inherently notable. Also included are several significant secondary sources, again implicitly establishing notability. In the future I'd appreciate it if you would take a little more time examining the notability criteria before using the speedy deletion tag. I'm learning how to use the Wiki standards as well, and I figure it's through experiences that we learn best how to use the system, so it's no big deal, but just wanted you to be more circumspect next time. That said, thanks for seeking more expert help, and thanks for getting involved!--Wikibojopayne (talk) 00:24, 12 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Hi, I was just in the middle of a larger edit when I got an edit conflict with your latest edit in this section. I have tried to clean it up but it may not be perfect. Not sure if you realized that you used "frequently" in somewhat ambiguous manner. If you have an interest in this particular section it could surely benefit of some good sources. Richiez (talk) 23:24, 10 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Sarah (talk) 00:04, 8 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

I'm sorry but I've reverted your changes again. On a second reading I realised that there was no baby: it was all bathwater. Seriously. The article currently sticks to a chronological run-through of Sellers's life, not a thematic one, so to change one small part into a thematic connection just makes no sense. On top of that, you still managed to add back on the horrible and unnecessary harvard comma and exactly the same spelling mistake. In relation to the section header, you were asked earlier to please go to the talk page to discuss a potential change, as per WP:BRD, but you didn't do that and just reverted again and I'm wondering why you don't think BRD is worth bothering about in this instance?

The Sellers article was made up to a Featured Article very recently (actually less than ten days ago), and during the FAC and PR process we were lucky enough to have some very, very good editors share their views and thoughts. The structure of the article—and the section titles used—were all deemed to be of FA standard, which is to say among "the best articles Wikipedia has to offer". As it stands therefore, no further edits are really needed to improve this article at the moment (although there always may be a typo hidden away somewhere), especially the major ones you tried to implement. - SchroCat (^ • @)

IMO, (and I've got a LOT of bios and a couple of FAs under my Wiki belt, FWIW), it's a highly disjointed chronological bio. It reads like somebody decided to quote from say, four bios without putting them together into their logical narrative flow. While staying true to source is a good thing at times, if I was telling the story of say, the three pigs and wrote something like "They waited for the wolves. One of them built his house out of bricks and thought the wolves wouldn't be able to blow his house down. The wolf was slow in coming. One of them had just used sticks to build his house but wasn't at all worried about the wolf coming to get him.", it might be chronologically true (they didn't all wait for the wolf at the same time), it reads like I just picked four facts at random and stuck them together. Instead, the logical and narratively correct thing to do is to organize them into thought groups (the two building portions together, then the waiting on the wolf), which keeps all the facts reasonably in order but makes it clear that the reason one pig was confident and one wasn't just didn't care was because of their building techniques.

But, if your article's consensus values chronology over narrative and logical flow, I'll back away and allow you to maintain it as you choose. Thanks... Scarletsmith (talk) 22:18, 27 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

I agree with you Scarletsmith, and I got a chuckle out of your "Three Pigs" story. I've too expressed my concern over the structure and narrative of the newly revised entry, but wasn't heard. That's ok, since I have ever-more limited (time) resources and therefore cannot pitch in enough to have things tilt my way. But it's a shame—there's a wealth of info, but at present it's a quote-heavy "fact dump", not a well-crafted and logically organised narrative. I've been involved in FAC/GAs for science- and history-related entries and experienced much more rigorous reviews and thoughtful discussions there, so from now on I'll stick to these. Malljaja (talk) 15:04, 28 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

You make a very good point here, and it might be worthwhile for the Sellers' bio maintainers to look at other Wiki bios that have been GAC/FAs. I use as example the Robert Downey Jr. article; I was one of the writers who laid it out in its current form and help maintain it to this day. It's chronological, but it's also grouped together into themes (early career, substance abuse issues, recovery and comeback, Summer 2008 blockbusters, post-2008 career, personal life). It has a narrative flow. It reads like a really good magazine article, not a fact-dump. That's the result of a lot of really good writers working really hard to keep every fact relevant and put into its proper context. New writers come in all the time and add things. Sometimes we have to take them out, but more often than not, it merely takes some wordsmithing or contextual analysis to make sure a new writer's contribution makes the article better, and better != (does not equal) 100% rigidity to a chronology.

But again, some articles can only reach consensus by coming to a very strict, rigid format that Thou Shalt Not Change, so it's probably best to allow those articles to be maintained that way even if it does hurt rather than help the overall tone of the entry.

Thanks for your input. Scarletsmith (talk) 01:49, 30 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

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The Washington, DC event will be held on Monday, December 10, 2012 at Busboys & Poets on 5th St NW & K St NW near Mt Vernon Square. The area is easily accessible by the Red Line Chinatown stop and the Yellow Line and Green Line Mt Vernon Square stop, as well as by WMATA buses.

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Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 04:35, 13 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

Please join Wikimedia DC for Happy Hour at the Capitol City Brewery at Metro Center on Thursday, February 28 at 6 p.m. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 34. Hope to see you there! Harej (talk) 02:20, 24 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hi Scarletsmith, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)

There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!

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Hope to see you there! -Pete (talk) 19:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Guapo's at Tenleytown-AU on Saturday, March 9 at 5 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 13:56, 4 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays (talk) 23:11, 20 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, April 13 at 5:30 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 36. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 19:00, 10 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

The "All Things GW" editathon on Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. is a rare chance to go behind the scenes in the University Archives of the GW Libraries and use their unique resources to research and update Wikipedia pages related to The George Washington University and the Foggy Bottom neighborhood. Did you miss our last D.C. history editathon? This is your is your chance to come edit with wiki-friends using different great collection! The event includes a behind-the-scenes tour of the University Archives and a show-and-tell of some of its most interesting treasures, snacks, and the editathon.

Participation is limited to 30 volunteers, so RSVP today! Dominic·t 07:22, 15 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:

On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.

On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.

We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill ^[talk] 20:05, 15 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, May 11 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 23:05, 7 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of May 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 18:20, 17 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!

On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.

Please go to the event page to get more information, including a detailed program schedule.

If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com. Please indicate if you are coming in person or if you will be joining us via the webinar. After registering, you will receive additional information about how to get to our campus (if coming in-person) and details about how to join the webinar. Klortho (talk) 00:45, 25 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Thursday, June 6 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 11:50, 3 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

I'm sorry for the last-minute notice, but on Saturday, June 8, from 3 to 6 PM, Wikimedia DC and the Cato Institute are hosting a Legislative Data Meetup. We will discuss the work done so far by WikiProject U.S. Federal Government Legislative Data to put data from Congress onto Wikipedia, as well as what more needs to be done. If you have ideas you'd like to contribute, or if you're just curious and feel like meeting up with other Wikipedians, you are welcome to come! Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

I hope to see you there!

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Harej (talk) 04:22, 6 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, June 15 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 19:53, 10 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 00:27, 6 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 04:08, 8 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 11:43, 19 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Are you free on Saturday, September 14? If so, please join Wikimedia DC and local Wikipedians for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages are welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please visit the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 19:00, 25 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 5 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 14:59, 28 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 26 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 05:54, 17 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for a special WikiSalon at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library's Digital Commons Center. We will gather at 3 PM on Sunday, October 13, 2013 to discuss an important topic: what can Wikipedia and the DC area do to help each other? We hope to hear your thoughts and suggestions; if you have an idea you would like to pursue, please let us know and we will help!

Following the WikiSalon, we will be having dinner at a nearby restaurant, Ella's Wood Fired Pizza.

If you're interested in attending, please sign up at the event page. We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 02:13, 8 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hey!

You are invited to two upcoming events in DC:

• Meetup at Capitol City Brewery on Saturday, January 25 at 6 PM. Please join us for dinner, drinks, socializing, and discussing Wikimedia DC activities and events. All are welcome! RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.
• Art and Feminism Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, February 1 from Noon – 5 PM. Join us as we improve articles on notable women in history! All are welcome, regardless of age or level of editing experience. RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.

I hope to see you there!

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Harej (talk) 00:07, 16 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hello there!

Our February WikiSalon is coming up on Sunday, February 23. Join us at our gathering of Wikipedia enthusiasts at the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery with an optional dinner after. As usual, all are welcome. Care to join us?

Also, if you are available, there is an American Art Edit-a-thon being held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Professor Andrew Lih's COMM-535 class at American University on Tuesday, February 11 from 2 to 5 PM. Please RSVP on the linked page if you are interested.

If you have any ideas or preferences for meetups, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC.

Thank you, and hope to see you at our upcoming events! Harej (talk) 18:42, 4 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Come one and come all. To a presentation at the Laurel Historical Society about how you can help verify, validate, and edit the information that is on the front line of local history.

• Show the Internet who is the better editor.
• Be the creator of culture that you know you are.
• Spread the knowledge of noteworthy people who no one but you cares about.
• Lead the charge to a better Wikipedia --- eventually.

Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:08, 6 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

See you at the Laurel Pool Room, 9th and Main Street, Laurel, MD on Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 7:00 PM EST. See http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205494212/ for more information. Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:13, 6 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

The WikiSalon is a special meetup usually held during the first and third full weeks of every month, from 7 PM to 9 PM. It's an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss Wikimedia wikis and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own.

If you're coming by Metro, the closest station is Dupont Circle (on the Red Line). If you're driving, a lot of parking opens up downtown after 6:30 PM, so finding a parking space (even a free one) should be easy. Once you've found the building, go to Cove on the second floor. We will be in the conference room.

When: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Where: The Cove, Dupont Circle, 1730 Connecticut Avenue NW, 2nd floor, 20009, DC

For more information, see http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205500822/

My best regards, Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:26, 6 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia DC's Upcoming meetups

• Thursday, September 11: “Wikipedia and YOUR History: Taking Control of the Internet, One Article at a Time!”

  A presentation at the Laurel Historical Society about how you can help verify, validate, and edit the information that is on the front line of local history. Laurel Pool Room, 9th and Main Street in Laurel, MD. 7 PM.

• Wednesday, September 17: WikiSalon

  Come for the pizza, stay for the conversation. 7 PM – 9 PM

• Saturday, September 20: September Meetup

  Get dinner and drinks with fellow Wikipedians! 6 PM

• Sunday, September 21: Laurel History Edit-a-Thon

  Local history for Wikipedia! 10:15 AM – 4 PM

• Saturday, September 27 – Sunday, September 28: Please RSVP for the Open Government WikiHack at Eventbrite by clicking on the link. The National Archives and Records Administration and Wikimedia DC are teaming up to come up with solutions that help integrate government data into Wikipedia. 10:30 AM – 5 PM each day

My best regards, Geraldshields11 (talk) 22:50, 6 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

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