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Bay Area Wikipedia Meetup: Computer History Museum Tour and Brainstorming
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Meetup details

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  • Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012
  • Time: 4:00pm-8:00pm
    • Tour starts at 4:00pm
    • Brainstorming at 5:30pm
  • Location: Computer History Museum, 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, California
  • Hashtag: The Twitter an
  • Social hashtag is #chmwikipedia
  • RSVP BELOW

Meet Wikipedians and help edit a museum exhibit about Wikipedia!

The purpose of this meet up is twofold:

  1. Meet fellow Wikipedians in the San Francisco Bay/Silicon Valley area while getting a behind the scenes tour of the Computer History Museum.
  2. Help edit this exhibit! The Museum is crafting an exhibit about Wikipedia to debut in 2014. What kind of interactives would get people engaged with Wikipedia? How should the exhibit display Wikipedia's activities, live, for visitors? What should an exhibit about Wikipedia have? Who better than ask than Wikipedians. We're looking for ideas and how to display, interact with, and visualize Wikipedia to the public.

Food and drinks will be provided. Don't know how to edit Wikipedia? That's ok, we're looking for your ideas.

Can't make it, or want to get started with ideas? Start editing the wiki page: Wikipedia:Computer History Museum exhibit

Event details

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Everyone is welcome to come with us at this event - newbies, experts, editors, non-editors. The brainstorming session will be to come up with ideas for an exhibit about Wikipedia.

Bring your camera, take photos of the exhibits, and make it an Edit-a-thon!

QUESTIONS? CONTACT: Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) andrew -at- andrewlih [dot] com

What to bring

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  • Laptop, or Internet-access device (optional)
  • Bring your camera, take photos of the exhibits, and make it an Edit-a-thon
  • A friend, or anyone who's interested in computer history, or might be a potential Wikipedia editor
  • Any memorabilia or Wikipedia-related historical artifacts of note

To-do list

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  • TBD

Photos

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Photos of the event:

  • Fuzheado's flickr set [2]
  • Pete Forsyth's flickr set [3]
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Gallery of photos from the first session

Attending

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Will be there
Staff of Computer History Museum
  • Kirsten Tashev, VP of Collections and Exhibitions, Responsible for the overall Software exhibit
  • Marc Weber, Internet History Program Founding Curator, Responsible for creating the content of the Wikipedia and Texting sections of the Software exhibit
  • Emily Routman, Contract Exhibit Planner, Responsible for helping develop the Software exhibit's design and interactives
  • Jon Plutte, Director of Media, Responsible for creating mini-movies and any other video content for the Software exhibit
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