Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/NYBG July 2023

 

• Hosts: The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden
• Date: Saturday, July 29th, 2023
• Time: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
• Location: New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458 40°51′59.5″N 73°52′44.5″W / 40.866528°N 73.879028°W / 40.866528; -73.879028 Entrance to the Library is free; when you arrive, alert Security that you are here for the event. Please enter through the Mosholu Entrance at 2950 Southern Boulevard.
• Directions: Directions @ NYBG
• Cost: Free
• NYBG page (optional): Event page at nybg.org
• What to bring: Laptop if you have one! Questions about Wikipedia!
• Dashboard: Join New York Botanical_Garden/Environment of the Bronx (July 2023)
• Participants: Open to all!

Note: We have compiled a list of articles that need attention. For the beginners: Don't be intimidated! A great place to start is to search through an article that interests you and look for spelling or grammar errors. Find one word out of place. Editing one sentence to make it flow better. Those are all great contributions. It is ok to start small.

• Environment of The Bronx related articles to review, improve, & create
• Environment of NYC related articles to review & improve
• Environment of NYC related articles to create

For multilingual editors, there are wikipedia projects in many different languages, for example: Spanish-language Wikipedia. For those that are multilingual, there are a lot opportunities to translate English language wikipedia articles into other languages.

Current exhibition: Ebony Patterson, mention of art exhibitions at LuEsther T. Mertz Library and New York Botanical Garden#Exhibitions generally.

Other thematic: Elizabeth Akers Allen poem, natural dye yarns

Oysters in New York City

12:15pm-1pm - Welcome to Wikipedia & Introductions

Welcome to NYBG - words from Samantha D'Acunto - Reference Librarian and Manager of Public Services

Welcome to Wikipedia

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City

Group introductions

City Island Oyster Reef - presentation by Barbara Burn Dolensek

Hutchinson River Restoration Project - presentation by Barbara Zahm

Editing Wikipedia demonstration

1pm-2:30pm - Independent Editing & Snack breaks

2:30pm-3pm - Library Tour/Display

Please break for snacks whenever desired! - light snacks provided by WMNYC

after 3pm - possible walk

Training will be offered throughout this event covering introductory topics.

• New York Botanical Gardens
• LuEsther T. Mertz Library at New York Botanical Gardens
• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City

You can also optionally sign up off-wiki at the nybg.org event page.

• Jim.henderson (talk) 13:53, 29 July 2023 (UTC) Not very sick, just not strong enough to go places for fun.[reply]

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• Anna Spiro.. not using user name..
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to NYBG Editathon 2023.

Articles published:

• Oysters in New York City
• Houseboats in New York City
• Rhabdocline laricis

Articles edited:

• City Island, Bronx
• Hutchinson River

Wikidata items edited/created:

• City Island Oyster Reef, Inc.
• The Island Current
• Hutchinson River Restoration Project
• color produced - inspired by information about natural dyes from Mertz library exhibition
• Public School 17
• P.S./M.S. 175 City Island