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Sunday January 13: Wikipedia Day 2019 in NYC

You are invited to join us at Ace Hotel for Wikipedia Day 2019, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of the project's global 18th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event features keynote presentations, panels, lightning talks, and, of course, open space sessions.

And there will be cake.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

9:30AM - 6:00PM at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan

We especially encourage folks to add your 3-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 20:34, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

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I added a date for the opening of the new station to the history section you wrote. I thought you might want to check it out. Thanks again for all of the histories you wrote.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 19:41, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

HotelStGeorge jpg

can you mention the name of the other 2 files in commons whose name is similar to File:HotelStGeorge.jpg ? that sort of information is needed in the rename template or in the edit summary. once You respond, myself or someone else can handle this rename request. thanks. DBigXray

Gladly. File:Hotel St George vc.jpg, and I thought Jim Henderson uploaded one, but I double checked and found it was simply File:Hotel St George Henry jeh.jpg. So I was mistaken about one, but not the other. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 18:33, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind reply. I am sorry I will have to deny rename per WP:FMNN. the current name is unique and other files have sufficient disambiguation. your rename request could have been accepted had this been a recently uploaded file. but for old files unless, there are compelling reasons, we tend to not rename the file because renaming might break internal and external linkages. hope you understand. However this should not discourage you from making rename requests in future, according to the policy page I linked. regards. DBigXray 19:28, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Feb 27 WikiWednesday Salon + Mar 2 MoMA Art+Feminism and beyond

February 27, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan
(note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 08:59, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Saturday March 2: MoMA Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon

Art+Feminism’s sixth-annual MoMA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 4 West 54 Street, on Saturday, March 2, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. People of all gender identities and expressions are encouraged to attend.

And on Sunday this weekend:

Stay tuned for other Art+Feminism and related edit-a-thons throughout the month!

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Why are we suddenly adding welcome/rest areas and truck weigh stations in the Exit List? In the past it was bad practice to include them, has that suddenly changed? Also, why are they all pink, it seems irrelevant to do that since they are part of the main line anyway. Personally I do not agree with this change and would much prefer adding a subsection instead of listing them with any additional information; could even mention about old rest area/weigh stations and reasons they may have been eliminated. After all, both welcome/rest areas and weigh stations do not require leaving the interstate. --WashuOtaku (talk) 03:23, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

For some reason, it seems to be okay to add them to the exit list as opposed to having a whole section on them. It seems fine on Interstate 75 in Florida, but all of the sudden I add them on Interstate 85 in South Carolina and it's considered bad practice? As for the pink, that's the color of partial interchanges, and since they only apply to one side it seems to be the appropriate color for them. Having said that, I can't get either incomplete access or concurrency colors on my monitor, because the replacement monitor that I'm using as a substitute for a broken one is broken itself, but that's more of a Dell issue than a WP:USRoads issue. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 06:09, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Another editor did Florida and nobody raised an issue about it; if you look at other interstates in other states you do not see welcome/rest areas and truck weigh stations in the Exit list and I believe that is the right approach. I'm willing to discuss this further in WikiProject U.S. Roads to confirm what is best standard in regards to welcome/rest areas and truck weigh stations. I wish I could help you in your monitor situation, but alas I have no connections with Dell. --WashuOtaku (talk) 22:52, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
March 20, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan
(note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! This month, optional post-meetup drinks afterward at 9pm!--Wikimedia New York City Team 18:46, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Saturday March 23: Asian Art Archive/New York Public Library Art+Feminism Editathon

Organized by Asia Art Archive in America]and Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library and in collaboration with Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, the Art+Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Women in Art in Asia helps participants edit Wikipedia to create and improve articles about women artists and practitioners in and from Asia, including architects, designers, filmmakers, curators, and art historians. Books and research materials—as well as refreshments—will be provided.

Also check out other Art+Feminism and related edit-a-thons throughout the month!

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