Wikipedia:Geonotice/Old requests/2009

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Phoenix, AZ metro area
• Tucson, AZ
• Flagstaff, AZ

Possible messages:

• Phoenix-area Wikipedians are invited to join in a meet and greet event in downtown Phoenix!

Date range required:

• Now through December 8, 2009

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: Requesting to raise awareness for our first meetup,
• User requesting: Spike Wilbury (talk)

• OK, posted. It should be working now.--Pharos (talk) 16:07, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Chicago, Illinois

Possible messages:

• Wikipedia editors living in and around Chicago are invited to join a panel at the 2010 eChicago symposium, hosted at UIC.
• Chicago-area Wikipedia editors welcome to discuss Web 2.0 at the 2010 eChicago symposium.

Now-April 2010:

Misc info:Please send me a message if you are interested: knorri4@illinois.edu.

• Reason for requesting: As a future library and information scientist, I would like to get a large group of editors together--first virtually, and finally physically--to discuss their involvement and experiences with Wikipedia.
• User requesting: user:greypele

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Antarctica

Possible messages:

• Join WikiProject Antarctica!

Date range required:

• I don't mind when, or for how long it stays up

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: I just thought it would be nice to get some people who have actually been there and studied the local flora and fauna to participate in the project. (Besides, nobody else would be crazy enough to request a geonotice for a frozen wasteland).
• User requesting: Dendodge _T\^C

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Manchester, United Kingdom

Possible messages:

• A meetup is going to be held in Manchester on Saturday 5th September. All are welcome to

attend.

• There is a meetup in Manchester on Saturday 5th September. We hope to see you there.

Date range required:

• Now until 5th September

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: Meetup
• User requesting: Majorly talk

• Can you give us some suggested coordinates for the rectangle?--Pharos (talk) 20:10, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • not sure what that means I'm afraid. Majorly talk 20:29, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • We need latitude and longitude coordinates for the rectangle that we're going to cover around Manchester, and you would be better at supplying that than me.--Pharos (talk) 21:49, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • It would be preferable that the message was sent to everyone who edits in England - we get people from a wide area, some from London. If this is not possible, you could be able to work out co-ordinates from here - geography is not my thing. Majorly talk 21:55, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • OK, it's now set up for the area around Manchester and will activate 4 weeks before the meetup.--Pharos (talk) 23:15, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Bethesda, Maryland
• Silver Spring, Maryland
• Gaithersburg, Maryland
• Washington D.C. (District of Columbia)

Possible messages:

• Interested in volunteering for a Wikimedia Foundation Academy on Thursday, July 16, in Bethesda? ... more ...

Date range required:

• Now until midnight on Tuesday, July 14

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: A bot posting on user talk pages, for editors self-identifying as living in Maryland or DC, did not generate enough interest.
• User requesting: -- John Broughton (♫♫)

• Should be activated now. Let me know how it looks to you.--Pharos (talk) 17:05, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you very much for the prompt action. The only thing that struck me, looking at the notice, besides how large it was, was that it says "Maryland" rather than "Bethesda" I'm guessing that's because in case someone from (say) New York ends up seeing the notice; he/she wouldn't know where Bethesda is. If the system were more accurate in identifying the IP location, I'd push for "Bethesda" instead.
  • Any, again, thanks for the notice. The system is very useful. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 13:06, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • This message is still appearing (July 17). Maybe cache-related? I don't think so, though. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:26, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Ah ok, removed. We still have to close these things down manually; I guess it would be good if someone could figure out an 'end' parameter.-- (talk) 19:33, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required (cities/regions):

• United Kingdom

Possible messages:

• Help Wikimedia UK support free knowledge—join, donate or volunteer to work with schools, museums or businesses.

Date range required:

• No fixed date; ASAP would be preferable.

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: To draw attention to three initiatives currently being planned by Wikimedia UK, and also to more generally draw attention to the existance of the chapter (and to encourage people to join/donate).
• User requesting: Mike Peel (talk)

• Have you considered instead of all these links, maybe making a single page which would be a "welcome" to the chapter and its recent initiatives, and which would also have a sign-up space?--Pharos (talk) 04:25, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks for making this live. We thought about having one link, but thought that having links to the individual project pages would be more appealing to more people, who would be interested in specific things rather than the whole chapter. Mike Peel (talk) 20:27, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• The Wikimedia UK watchlist notice is problematic to editors using the "green on black" gadget - only the wikilinks are visible, other text appears in black on a black background. DuncanHill (talk) 15:06, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't know if there's much we can do about this, though if anyone has ideas that'd be great. BTW, you must be a very eccentric person to want to simulate a green-screen display in the 21st century :)--Pharos (talk) 23:19, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not eccentric, I just don't like to hurt my eyes - without the green-screen, Wikipedia is painful. DuncanHill (talk) 18:12, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• • • This hasn't been noticed before and there have been relatively few UK notices so far, so perhaps the brits are a somewhat more nostalgic bunch. Anyway, the color="#000" in MediaWiki:Geonotice.js needs to be removed so that the text colour of the notice inherits that of the page body. Someone on the script's talk page also disliked the larger size of the text, so perhaps the font tag (and its closing tag) could be removed altogether. --Para (talk) 00:52, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • OK, I've fixed the color parameter per Para's suggestion. I think the text size is working fine; we do want it to be a little but prominent.--Pharos (talk) 07:22, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• This can probably be removed now; thanks for running the notice. Mike Peel (talk) 21:38, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required (cities/regions):

• United Kingdom

Possible messages:

• United Kingdom residents are invited to sign a petition requesting clarification of copyright law.

Date range required:

• As soon as possible (not totally urgent though), for maybe 3 weeks.

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: Not your usual sort of request, I know, but I think that the possibility of really achieving something good for the WMF and everyone in the UK drives me in this interest. Details of the petition itself is on the linked page. (Only UK residents can sign the petition.)

• User requesting: - Jarry1250 ^{[ In the UK? Sign the petition! ]}

• Um, this seems like an almost direct involvement in the UK political process, and probably something we shouldn't go forward with unless there's a great deal of discussion and consensus achieved first. Because putting this up will kind of make it look like the WMF is officially supporting this specific political process, which would normally be a no-no.--Pharos (talk) 19:26, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I guess you're right. I wouldn't call it political but yes, I can understand the whole endorsement issue. On the other hand, I think of it more as an opportunity to get together to (potentially) further the goals of the WMF, like a big wiki-meetup if you will. - Jarry1250 ^{[ In the UK? Sign the petition! ]} 19:49, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Metro Manila, Philippines

Possible messages:

• A meetup is going to be held in Manila on Saturday 19th September. All are welcome to attend.
• Attendees will assemble at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City . We hope to see you there.

Date range required:

• Now until 19th September

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: Meetup
• User requesting: --Exec8 (talk) 13:57, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Karachi, Pakistan

Possible messages:

• We are planning to organinze a Wikipedians Meetup for the first time in Pakistan.
• Interested users are welcome to join us!

Date range required:

• As soon as possible

Misc info:

• To draw attention of wikipedians around Karachi.
• User requesting: Zainichi Gaikokujin (talk)

• OK, it should be up at UTC midnight.--Pharos (talk) 15:00, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required

• Cambridge, UK. East Anglia plus counties of Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Essex.

Possible messages

• Another Cambridge meetup is planned for the afternoon of Saturday 14 November. Please contribute to the Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 5 page and come along if you can. User:Charles Matthews.

Date range required

• Next ten days

Misc info:

• Meetup announcement
• Request from Charles Matthews (talk)

Query: has this happened? If not, it had better be within 24 hours, or there is not much point. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:14, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Possible messages:

• I'm planning to organinze a Wikipedians meetup for the first time in United Arab Emirates.

Date range required:

• As soon as possible

Misc info:

• To draw attention of Wikipedians around Dubai.
• User requesting: Saqib ^talk

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Florida

Possible messages:

• A Miami meetup for all Wikipedians is planned for the upcoming future. Contribute to Wikipedia:Meetup/Miami 3 page to work out the details. ThanksUser:Secret.

Date range required:

• Two weeks

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: Usual Meetup
• User requesting: Secret ^account

• OK, posted.--Pharos (talk) 02:17, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required (cities/regions):

• London, United Kingdom

Possible messages:

• The 23rd London Wikipedia meetup is on Sunday, 12 July 2009. We hope to see you there!
• There will be a Wikipedia meetup in London on Sunday, 12 July 2009. You're invited!

Date range required:

• Now until 12 July 2009

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Cebu, Philippines
• Visayas region, Northern Mindanao region

Possible messages:

• The 2nd Cebu Wikipedia meetup is on Sunday, May 3, 2009. We hope to see you there!
• There will be a Wikipedia meetup in Cebu on Sunday, May 3, 2009. You're invited!

Date range required:

• Now until 2009-05-03

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: Meetup
• User requesting:

Thanks Pharos for informing me on this tool :=)

Posted! It should appear on watchlists at 0 UTC (in about 5 hours).--Pharos (talk) 19:32, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Possible messages:

• There is a Melbourne meetup planned for this Sunday, April 17, all Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are welcome!

Date range required:

• Until this Sunday (April 20), sincere apologies for the late notice, everybody was still off in Berlin :)

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: Meetup
• User requesting: — Werdna • talk

• Brianna tells me I can just do this myself, so I've done it. — Werdna • talk 16:14, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locations required

• Seattle, WA
• Puget Sound region

Possible messages:

• Hello! Researchers at UW are holding focus groups on April 8 and April 18 to gather user input, which will be used to design an application that will eventually be released to the Wikipedia community.
• Hello! Researchers at UW are holding focus groups on April 8 and April 18. See Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle6 for details.

Date range required:

• Now until 2009-3-31

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: Researchers at UW looking for focus group participants
• User requesting: Commprac01 (talk)

Locations required (cities/regions):

• Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Detroit and surrounding area:
  • Michigan

Possible messages: Casual meeting up, to meet fellow wikians and work away from home. Library has computers, free wi-fi connection, and vending machines.

Date range required:

• now until 2009-02-28

Misc info:

• Reason for requesting: Meetup
• User requesting: Sheshed (talk)