Tanankyo

I am in need of copyediting help quite soon on the 2008 Belgian Grand Prix page, an article currently on a GAR hold. If there is any way as an independent editor you could help out on said page, I would reward you handsomely... Apterygial (talk) 11:12, 29 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, Tanankyo, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hi, I noticed you are a pretty experienced copy-editor. I wondered if you could take a look at the Gregory House article, various users have been contributing to the page. It has been listed for FA candidatecy multiple times but has not been promoted yet, I think it would be nice if the article could be copy-edited before I list it for a peer review. It would be appreciated if you would take a look, but don't feel obligated to do anything. --Music26/11 15:52, 7 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thank you very much, nice work.--Music26/11 19:02, 11 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

You're very welcome! tanankyo (talk) 20:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

My current project on Wikipedia is increasing the quality and quantity of copyediting. We have people who are good with AP Stylebook and Websters, but we have very few people participating in article reviews who have many years of professional copyediting experience, and I'm wondering ... why? Some copyeditors have switched jobs, or are retired, or aren't sufficiently challenged, and wouldn't mind doing a little volunteer copyediting, and it would be nice to have more professionals in the mix. If you're interested in doing more, great; if not, this is just an informal survey, and I'd appreciate your ideas on what would attract more professional copyeditors.

Dan

Hey, Dan. Sorry about the length of time it has taken me to reply to your question, but I'll see if I can't shed some light. Personally, I decided to get more active on Wikipedia because the glut of grammar and punctuation errors was starting to grate on the English Major inside me. I had been making a lot of unsigned edits, and a friend finally convinced me that having a user profile would get my edits taken more seriously. As far as attracting more professionals to the mix, there's not a lot to be done. Anyone who is interested in making Wikipedia a better resource will, ideally, jump onboard and heave-to, though, to be honest, the learning curve involved in familiarizing oneself with the behind-the-scenes action here is, in a word, daunting. Perhaps you'd find some more response if the need for decent editors was made plain, or if there was some kind of test required of a person who is interested. The test would serve to show that Wikipedia is serious about the quality of editing it expects. I'm not sure if this helps at all, but I wish you the best in your quest to find good copyeditors.

"That Wikipedia is serious about the quality": I didn't follow, tell me more. Let's assume that the learning curve is small; people who already follow some kind of style guide in their day job are very much needed on Wikipedia, so I (and others) can always go behind your work looking to see if there is some guideline or policy point that you didn't know about. When you say you want Wikipedia to be serious, do you mean you want to be operating in a community of people that perform at a certain standard, rather than just editing random articles? There are over 2.5M articles, we can't fix all of them, but we can focus on the >2K Featured Articles, or the Good Articles, or the 30K articles on the DVD. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 00:56, 3 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

I guess what I'm getting at with the remark about being serious about quality is that right now, anyone online can make a change to an article. This, I know, leads to a lot of vandalism, and it can also be off-putting to copy-editors who take pride in their work; if necessary edits made in good faith to better an article can be reversed by a prankster, a zealous writer, or anyone else for any reason, the editor may think twice about donating their time. At least making sure contributors are required to have an account and be signed in before being able to make revisions would go a long way to show that Wikipedia is trying to make sure users are responsible, or at least trackable by something other than their IP address. tanankyo (talk) 00:38, 4 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

First, the Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7 is coming out soon with around 30000 articles, and of course, the articles can't be vandalized once they're selected for the DVD, so if you want to copyedit articles for next year's DVD, stick around. Second, we never delete anything, so even if you believe the quality of a page degrades after you work on it, you can always show people the version that you copyedited by pulling up the history. Third, banning anonymous editing is not going to happen, because of the arguments at WP:PEREN#Prohibit anonymous users from editing, and because we're quite familiar with the results. It's been done many times on Wikipedia (every time we "semi-protect" articles) and on other sites. It's hard to argue with success, and we're the top content site in the world ... there are 4 sites with more hits, such as google.com, but people are usually using them to get to someplace else. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 02:22, 4 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the link to the page about anonymous editing; I had no idea this is as old an idea as it appears to be with Wikipedia, and it's gratifying to know that the system has been tried and seen to fail. I apologize for beating the dead horse, as it were, but I can only plead ignorance. That said, and to get back to the original push of our conversation (the attraction of quality copy-editors), I think attracting editors isn't the problem, but rather keeping them around. This article I just read on MSN will hopefully address the problem: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28037910/from/ET/. As I mentioned before, the learning curve, not for the Wiki Formatting Manual, but for the nuts-and-bolts of working with an article, is daunting. A lot of people, myself included, who know English grammar and usage well, may not be able to easily wrap their heads around the myriad coding and tagging requirements to making an article appear correctly on Wikipedia. Making the editing process more user friendly will go a long way toward retaining individuals who are skilled at editing but don't want to spend an inordinate amount of time familiarizing themselves with the minutiae of html coding. tanankyo (talk) 03:02, 4 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Yes, that's a very reasonable objection. I'm hoping we can find a way to make it easier for people to copyedit the articles that are being reviewed for Featured Article or Good Article status without too much sweat. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 03:13, 4 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

So do I, though with my luck, I'll just be getting used to reading around the coding when the changes go into effect. Ah, well; isn't progress great! Thanks again for the insights, and if I can ever be of any help, please let me know. tanankyo (talk) 03:31, 4 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hi Tanankyo, I have an article that needs copyediting as the main reason that is preventing it from becoming Featured Article, and I was recommended from \ / that you are a fantastic copyeditor. The article could certainly use some help and it would be great if you can go through it. An accompanying peer review is ongoing for the article; please feel free to comment on how the article can be improved. - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 07:22, 21 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

• Thanks for copyediting the article! That was nice work. One thing, was the three dashes at the start of the article meant to do something? Other editors are asking about it. I intend to propose a rewritten lead on the peer review itself, so that it can be reviewed again by everyone before putting it up. Merry Christmas! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 15:28, 24 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
  • You are very welcome! In regards to the three dashes at the top of the article, if I put those there, I apologize; I didn't mean to. I know I was having a wee issue with copy/pasting a dash to remedy an incorrectly handled one in the article, so it may have been me. Good luck with the rewritten lead! Happy Holidays, tanankyo (talk) 20:26, 24 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
    • The lead has been further shortened. If you don't mind, could you look it through once and see if it's grammatically correct. Please feel free to leave any specific feedback on the Peer Review if you'd like. Thank you once again, Mailer Diablo 15:24, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
      • I've cut the sentence into two. Does it sound better now? - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 03:02, 4 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

On 5 January, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Montana State Prison, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

» \ / (⁂ | ※) 00:43, 5 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Congrats on your comprehensive, well-written new article! Time to bring it one step up? :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 05:25, 5 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Why thank you! You know, stepping it up's not a bad idea. Any suggestions on where to start? tanankyo (talk) 22:07, 5 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Peer Review (for feedback), Good Article Nomination (second-tier articles) and Featured Article Candidate (first-tier articles). - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 16:52, 6 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Hi, as a member of the Guild of Copy Editors you're hereby notified of and invited to participate in the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2010. Please help us eliminate the 8,000+ copyedit backlog! Participating editors will receive barnstars and other awards, according to their level of participation. ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! 00:16, 22 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I'd like to invite you to participate in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. In May, about 30 editors helped remove the {{copyedit}} tag from 1175 articles. The backlog is still over 7500 articles, and extends back to the beginning of 2008! We really need your help to reduce it. Copyediting just a couple articles can qualify you for a barnstar. Serious copyeditors can win prestigious and exclusive rewards. See the event page for more information. And thanks for your consideration. ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! 15:23, 10 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated in the drive! Over 100 editors—including Jimbo Wales—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody! Stats If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you edited in the May 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, your word totals are cumulative for barnstars (not the leaderboard). Over the course of the next week or two, we will be handing out the barnstars.   Eight people will receive The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Barnstar (100,000+ words): Chaosdruid, Diannaa, Ericleb01, Lfstevens, Shimeru, S Masters, The Utahraptor, and Torchiest. Bullock and Slon02 will receive The Order of the Superior Scribe (80,000+). The Barnstar of Diligence (60,000+) goes to Derild4921, GaryColemanFan, kojozone, and Mlpearc. The Modern Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar (40,000+) goes to A. Parrot, AirplanePro, Auntieruth55, Bejinhan, David Rush, and mono. Nobody will receive The Old School League of Copy Editors award (30,000+). The Tireless Contributor Barnstar (20,000+) goes to Backtable, Cindamuse, dtgriffith, Duff, e. ripley, Laurinavicius, NerdyScienceDude, and TEK. The Cleanup Barnstar (12,000+) goes to Brickie, Casliber, cymru lass, December21st2012Freak, Nolelover, TheTito, Whoosit, and YellowMonkey. The Working Man's Barnstar (8,000+) goes to Bsherr, Duchess of Bathwick, HELLKNOWZ, Mabeenot, noraft, Pyfan, and Richard asr. The Modest Barnstar (4,000+) goes to Adrian J. Hunter, Airplaneman, Annalise, Camerafiend, Cricket02, Fetchcomms, Gosox5555, LeonidasSpartan, Paulmnguyen, Piotrus, SuperHamster, Taelus, and TPW. Gold Star Award Gold Star Award Leaderboard Articles Words 5k+ Articles 1. Diannaa (248) Shimeru (200,392) Shimeru/Ericleb01 (13) 2. Slon02 (157) Diannaa (164,960) Chaosdruid (8) 3. GaryColemanFan (101) Chaosdruid (130,630) Derild4921 (7) 4. Torchiest (100) The Utahraptor (117,347) GaryColemanFan/Slon02 (6) 5. Shimeru (80) Ericleb01 (114,893) Bejinhan/The Utahraptor (5) Coordinator: ɳorɑfʈ Talk! Co-coordinators: Diannaa TALK and S Masters (talk) | Newsletter by: The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions

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Having looked at the article mentioned, I am impressed! I'd begun to think I was among the very few who know or care much about that subject. What is your interest? Mine revolves around a book I'm composing, where the prison plays a minor but important role. Also as a Deer Lodge boy, I was very close to the prison riot events chronicled so ably in Mr. Giles book as my dad was the police chief. I remember sitting over in the 4-B's watching the mattress burning and (Dick?) Kendall's NG troops. My brother knew Jim Rothe pretty well. Last summer while doing research in the library I chanced across the 1908 SS Post article on the fight in Conley's office. Anyway, if you're so inclined please contact me at my talk site. Regards - John Wilson Jwilsonjwilson (talk) 08:24, 12 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Glad to see your response on my page. Thought perhaps you had stopped looking at this. You know, User talk:Mike Cline (and others I imagine) is working on increasing activity in the Montana-related articles on Wikipedia, which was rather moribund til recently I gather. Thanks to his instigation I'm composing Montana Cattle Industry article. I don't doubt that there are many worthy (Montana-related) subjects currently unaddressed here, at least some of which are currently 'stubs' as they call them. Further participation by an author of your ability would be most welcome should you have some interest. Personally, I'd like to see (and hope to produce and/or edit) more on Deer Lodge and the valley, including Anaconda and Butte at least. Regards - JW Jwilsonjwilson (talk) 19:39, 15 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!       Discussions are underway to elect our inaugural group of GOCE Coordinators. Guild members and Drive participants are invited to have a look at the Coordinators page and join the discussion on its associated talk page. We have reached the midway point in our backlog elimination drive, so here is an update. Participation report — The November drive has 53 participants at this point. We had 77 participants in the September drive. In July, 95 people signed up for the drive, and in May we had 36. If you are not participating, it is not too late to join! Progress report — The drive is quite successful so far, as we have already almost reached our target of a 10% reduction in the number of articles in the backlog. We are doing very well at keeping our Requests page clear, as those articles count double for word count for this drive. Please keep in mind the possibility of removing other tags when you are finished with an article. If the article no longer needs {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, or other similar maintenance tags, please remove them, as this will make the tasks of other WikiProjects easier to complete. Thanks very much for participating in the Drive, and see you at the finish line! Your drive coordinators –The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors     Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!   We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated. Stats   58 people signed up for this drive. Of these, 48 people participated in the drive. Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of 10%. 49 awards will go out to 33 of 48 participants. Check out the complete list of barnstar winners here. Barnstars If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the September 2010 backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering these barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Our next drive is scheduled for January 2011. In the meantime, please consider helping out at the Wikification drive or any of the other places where help with backlogs is needed. Thank you for participating in the last 2010 backlog elimination drive! We look forward to seeing you in January! Your drive coordinators –The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

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Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors     We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 503 editors 2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives Our encounter with Jimbo Wales Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned Report on our inaugural elections Guild Plans for 2011 New barnstars introduced Requests page improved Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011! – Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast.

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Hello, Tanankyo! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

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Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive   Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats.   Participation   So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. Progress report We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal. Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success! Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), The UtahraptorTalk to me, and Tea with toast (Talk)

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Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive     Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated. Statistics 54 people signed up for the year's first Backlog elimination drive. Of these, 40 participated. One of our goals was to reduce the size of the backlog by at least 10%. We managed to reduce the backlog by 633 articles, or about 12%. Another goal was to eliminate as many 2009 months as possible from the queue. We eliminated January, February, March, and April—4 out of 12 months is not bad! In addition, we eliminated 37% of all remaining 2009 articles from the queue. Chaosdruid copy edited Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya for 32,711 words, which is the largest single article completed in one of our drives so far. This article counts as six 5000-K articles, and Chaosdruid wins the "most 5000-K articles" leaderboard category. Way to go! A complete list of individual results is here. Barnstars If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March. Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk)

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The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors   The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". >>> Sign-up now <<<

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Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors   The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. >>> Sign up now <<<

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Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report     We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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Wikipedia users in the United States Mountain West and High Plains will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MST, Tuesday evening, February 14, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the history, articles, or photographs of our region is encouraged to attend.

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Wikimedia US Mountain West

Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MDT, Tuesday evening, May 9, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the history, geography, articles, maps, or photographs of the Mountain West or the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. Please see our meeting page for details.

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Wikimedia US Mountain West

Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MDT, Tuesday evening, August 8, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in articles, history, geography, maps, or photographs of the Mountain West or the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. We may try to organize one or more Wiknics. Guests are welcome. Please see our meeting page for details.

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Wikimedia US Mountain West

Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MST, Tuesday evening, November 14, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the Mountain West or the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. All guests are welcome. Please see our meeting page for details.

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-MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:04, 9 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia US Mountain West

Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MST, Tuesday evening, February 13, 2024, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the Mountain West or the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. All guests are welcome. Please see our meeting page for details.

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