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December 6: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our first NYC Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. This event is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Wednesday, December 6 Hacking Night @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Introductions + Hacking) 9:30 pm – 10:00 pm (Showcase) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)
Wikimedia New York City Executive Director job listing
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Women in Red December 2023, Vol 9, Iss 12, Nos 251, 252, 290, 291, 292 Online events: New: Alphabet run K & L | Women who died in 2023 | Honoured Women Continuing: Peace and Diplomacy (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Tip of the month: Avoid copyright problems by rewriting in your own words. You can check any article or draft with Earwig's copyvio detector. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:24, 27 November 2023 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply[reply]

Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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Hi. I got a welcome message from you a few days ago, which surprised me since I’ve been a registered user since 2006. Perhaps I “leveled up” to more than 50 contributions?

I’ve been working on a draft new page, my first, about a newspaper from the 1970s-1980s: Draft:PLEXUS West Coast Women’s Press. It is quite minimal, a stub, but I’m close to submitting it for review. It contains two images, neither of which have clear/explicit copyright permission. As a result both are tagged “the file could be deleted seven days after the upload.” I waited the seven days to see if they disappeared, and a bit more time because of the American Thanksgiving holiday, but they are still there. I don’t know how these things work. Are they still subject to deletion at any time?

One of the images, an early staff photo, was published by the Berkeley Barb whose full archive is now available open access on JSTOR. I have gotten in touch with the copyright owner, oldest child of the now deceased publisher. They indicated an intent to give me permission to use the photo from their article, but they are traveling overseas right now. I could use some advice about how to convert that intent into a form that Wikipedia will accept.

I’d be happy for any pre-review suggestions you have for my draft article.

BananaSlug (talk) 23:37, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, I will respond at Draft talk:PLEXUS West Coast Women’s Press.

Here is a couple of other Bay Area publications that I know of:

• Friends of Perfection Commune (1969), Kaliflower, [San Francisco, CA, US: Free Print Shop, OCLC 1035253569, an inter-communal newsletter that published a couple of years starting in 1969
• Good Times, 1969–1972

Peaceray (talk) 05:02, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks! :) Rupeliano (talk) 16:50, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

January 4: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for NYC Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. This event is a successor to our inaugural December 2023 Hacking Night. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Thursday, January 4 Hacking Night @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Introductions + Hacking) 9:30 pm – 10:00 pm (Showcase) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)
January 14: Wikipedia Day 2024 @ Columbia University
In addition, you are invited to Wikipedia Day 2024, hosted at Columbia University by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation with Wikimedia NYC. Eventbrite RSVP is required, while RSVP on-wiki is also highly encouraged. The special focus this year will be Artificial intelligence in Wikimedia projects. More details about the event will be shared later, but save the date for now!

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Seattle Wikimedia meetup | 16 January 2024
What: Meetup to chat about Wikipedia and schedule an edit-a-thon When: Tuesday 16 January 2024, 5:45–7:45 pm Where: Distant Worlds Coffeehouse at 6401 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle Please come! We'd love to see you.
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(t · c) buidhe 05:30, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Women in Red | January 2024, Volume 10, Issue 1, Numbers 291, 293, 294, 295, 296 Online events: New: Education (year-long initiative) | Alphabet run M & N | Temperance women Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2023 Announcement In 2024 Women in Red also has a one biography a week challenge as part of the #1day1woman initiative! Tip of the month: Check out the new navigation on our Women in Red Project home page. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:18, 28 December 2023 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply[reply]

Happy New Year!

Peaceray,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 14:44, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Thank you! Peaceray (talk) 17:03, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Greetings, as you are the one monitoring the Renaissance Community page, I thought that I, as the author of that page should contact you. The Renaissance Community came to an end in 1988 when its founder, Michael Metelica was asked to leave. By then, of the original 300 full-time members, only about six remained. The rest had left because of Metelica's increasingly erratic and uncontrollable behavior due to drug and alcohol abuse, In 2006, allegations of sexual abuse of young women concerning him and select UNNAMED other men were brought forth, not by the victims but by second parties. Since then, there has been no solid stand-up-in-court evidence that these crimes happened. Metelica died in 2003. While the sexual abuse caused by "Spiritual" leaders is sadly, nothing new, evidence is still needed to support these claims, evidence that this author has begged his community for and welcomes. "Mikalson" has mixed fact and fiction in her accusations and since there are no names given or actual evidence given, it falls into the realm of hearsay. If she DOES name men without factual evidence on a public site, she (and Wikipedia) run the risk of legal charges of libel and defamation of character. So this is a murky situation and because I respect Wikipedia's commitment to truth, I need some advice on how this issue of hearsay and lack of legal evidence should proceed. I have repeatedly begged members of our community on our private Facebook page to deal with this abuse issue to no avail. My goal here on Wikipedia is to protect those many innocent members of this community who have been unfairly targeted by "Mikalson" and to correct damaging misconceptions of the Renaissance Community in general. Thank you for your time. Dbrown1793 (talk) 14:50, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Dbrown1793: Note that there is this criteria for revision deletion. This includes Grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive material that has little to no encyclopedic or project value, or violates our biographies of living people policy. This includes slurs, smears, and grossly offensive material of little or no encyclopedic value, but not mere factual statements, and not "ordinary" incivility, personal attacks or conduct accusations.

I do wish to note that your behavior has not been without reproach. You have posted what are copyright violations into the article, & you have disruptively edited the talk page by repeatedly blanking it, removing material in violation of WP:TALKO, & by removing the talk page headers. I rarely threaten anyone by indicating that they can be blocked, but I will note that when I refer someone to an administrators' noticeboard, I usually do so after an editor has spooled out enough rope to hang one's self, proverbially speaking. I would not hesitate to do so in your case. I would advise that you to read & heed English Wikipedia's policies & guidelines so you can continue to make useful contributions instead of getting blocked. Peaceray (talk) 17:14, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiProject Unreferenced articles | February 2024 Backlog Drive
There is a substantial backlog of unsourced articles on Wikipedia, and we need your help! The purpose of this drive is to add sources to these unsourced articles and make a meaningful impact. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles cited. Remember to tag your edit summary with [[WP:FEB24]], both to advertise the event and tally the points later using Edit Summary Search. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:38, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]