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Wikimania is happening and hopefully you're enjoying the sessions. While it's fairly last minute, you're warmly invited to participate in the local Wikimania-themed meetup in the Wikimedia Foundation office this Friday (tomorrow!). You will have to register in advance, but we would love to see more people from the WikiSalon community participate! For more information and registration, please check out meta:Wikimania 2022/San Francisco Meetup.

The event will involve hacking, teaching, learning, and celebrating and we'll have snacks. We will have the opportunity to watch live sessions at Wikimania together in the afternoon. The rest of the day we'll have opportunity to participate in the hackathon, and we may have some on-demand workshops/learning sessions.

In case we run out of space, it's first-come-first-serve so let us know soon! Hope to see you there.

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–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Barte: Since you were a key W editor on this issue, I've taken the liberty of sharing below my response to "Netherzone's" most recent email complaint to us. We are doubting that "Netherzone"'s bias will make any corrections or retractions. Apologies if this is not the best contact method - not familiar with W options. - sincerely,

K. M. Williamson, Ph.D.

<< Allow me to introduce myself. I am K. M. Williamson, Ph.D., Director of Public Art in Public Places.  My staff directed me to your recent email, which prompted our review of the various errors and misleading comments your “Netherzone” persona has posted about Public Art in Public Places on Wikipedia.

I respectfully object to your claim that “the director”, myself, has made any contributions to Wikipedia.  Neither I nor my staff have ever made any such contributions to Wikipedia regarding Public Art in Public Places or its data archive:  it is against our policy.  A number of years ago we objected to erroneous claims and uninformed assumptions being made by some Wikipedia editors in response to a Wikipedia listing on our organization proposed by another Wikipedia editor, and we therefore made a formal request to have the Wikipedia listing on Public Art in Public Places removed, to safeguard our organization’s reputation. We noted at that time that “Netherzone” was an active promoter of much of this misinformation.

After reviewing “Netherzone’s” subsequent Wikipedia comments, we take issue with “Netherzone’s” ongoing bias, lately the pejorative claim that Public Art in Public Places is “only a blog”, and the oddly biased claim that the Google Arts & Culture online platform is “dubious.”  

Since “Netherzone” persists in remaining unfamiliar with our organization and the Google Cultural Institute, I direct “Netherzone” and other Wikipedia editors exposed to such comments to the following:

Public Art in Public Places is a not-for-profit, non-commercial, arts data organization establishing and managing an extensive open and public online public art data archive for the Sothern California and Hawai’i regions, in partnership with the Google Cultural Institute, its Google Arts & Culture program, and Google Maps. As of 2023, the Public Art in Public Places archive contains data on more than 5,000 public artworks in more than 250 cities.

We hope and expect that “Netherzone” will correct the errors it has posted on Wikipedia regarding myself as Director and regarding the Public Art in Public Places organization, and that “Netherzone” will also assist in notifying other Wikipedia editors who have been misled by what we view as misinformation that is damaging to our ethical and public-spirited mission and reputation.

K. M. Williamson, Ph.D.   Director, Public Art in Public Places

>> 40.137.251.37 (talk) 22:45, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Mx. Williamson, I see that you are copying and pasting this to numerous places on Wikipedia. It's best to keep the discussion in one place, perhaps your own Talk Page which is located here: User talk:M_Na_zdravi.

Could you please explain this: [1], this:[2], and these contributions:Special:Contributions/M Na zdravi where you repeatedly self-cited your organization?

For additional history on the matter there is this: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Public Art in Public Places.

Also see this,[3] as it seems the conflict of interest editing and linkspam goes back to 2014. Netherzone (talk) 23:54, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Let's consolidate this discussion at User talk:M_Na_zdravi, which was formerly called "K._M._Williamson". As that former name matches yours, that account and its history of PAPP-related contributions would appear to be yours. Looking forward to your response to @Netherzone:'s points. Barte (talk) 13:47, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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