User talk:Reagle/Archives/2013

Wikipedia Day Celebration and Mini-Conference in NYC Saturday Feb 23

Doing the "Open Space" thing at one of our earlier NYC Wiki-Conferences.

You are invited to celebrate Wikipedia Day and the 12th anniversary (!) of the founding of the site at Wikipedia Day NYC on Saturday February 23, 2013 at New York University; sign up for Wikipedia Day NYC here, or at bit.ly/wikidaynyu. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience!--Pharos (talk) 03:05, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipediocracy blog post

Re your comments about locker-room culture quoted here, see also [1]. Andreas JN466 03:32, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Meetup NYC this Sunday April 14

Hi Reagle! You're invited to our next meeting for Wikipedia Meetup NYC on Sunday April 14 -this weekend- at Symposium Greek Restaurant @ 544 W 113th St (in the back room), on the Upper West Side in the Columbia University area.

Please sign up, and add your ideas to the agenda for Sunday. Thanks!

Delivered on behalf of User:Pharos, 17:50, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi

I read your blog on this mess, one of the better ones out there on the subject. Too many people misunderstand/oversimplify the complexities of categorization - and bandy the word "sexist" around a bit too loosely - so I was glad to see your nuanced approach. A few posts of mine that I'd love your thoughts on:

1. Wikipedia_talk:Category_intersection#A_working_category_intersection_today - A prototype for category intersection, that I tested with Nigerian novelists. It uses the catscan tool. My thought is, we could easily implement this, starting with gendered/ethnic/sexuality/religion cats of bios. Clean up the output of the tool, make it look a bit more friendly, and then remove all of the gendered/ethnic/etc subcats and just use static cat intersections at the top for any key intersections people want. The best part is, we can do it today - we've been waiting forever for Wikipedia to implement the semantic bit, and wikidata is finally starting, but they won't have this capability I bet for a year or more - it will be much more sophisticated, but this is something regular editors can do, today.
2. User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#On_structural_and_categorical_sexism where I expound at great length on the challenges of non-diffusing categories, and the problematic definition of categorical sexism.
3. Wikipedia_talk:Categorization/Ethnicity,_gender,_religion_and_sexuality#Correct_categorization_quiz If you have a bit of time, please take my quiz, wherein you are challenged to correctly categorize a single article without ghettoizing by sex, race, religion, or anything else. Not easy!

Anyway, welcome your thoughts on the above, thanks again for the blog, good stuff. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 05:12, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Arbitration case

I quoted some of the disturbing WP:BLP violations against you and others made by Oliver Keyes, Ironholds (talk · contribs) / Okeyes (WMF) (talk · contribs), at the Arbitration Committee. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 13:06, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

2nd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting

You are invited to the 2nd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting, on 20 July 2013 in Boston! We will be talking about the future of the chapter, including GLAM, Wiki Loves Monuments, and where we want to take our chapter in the future! EdwardsBot (talk) 09:27, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia NYC Meetup! Saturday October 5

Please join the Wikimedia NYC Meetup on October 5, 2013! Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for education, museums, libraries and planning WikiConference USA. --Pharos (talk) 21:37, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon! Saturday November 2

Please join Wikipedia "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon on November 2, 2013! Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for Greenwich Village articles on the history and the community. --Pharos (talk) 21:29, 29 October 2013 (UTC)