Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle
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The first of a series of Seattle Wikipedia meetups (or Cascadia bioregion meetups — they don't all have to be held in one city!) took place on Saturday, 6 November 2004 at the Seattle Central Library. The second took place 15 January 2005.
Third meetup
Currently being planned for Saturday, January 14, 2006, see Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle3.
Second meetup
15 January 2005 See Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle2 for a more detailed account of this meetup.
Topics of conversation included:
- Wikipedia Signpost, Wikipedia's new internal newspaper, started by Michael Snow.
- SeattleWiki, started by Matiasp.
- Possible contact with small, local history museums; DanKeshet and Jmabel followed up to the point of writing Wikipedia:Museum projects, though there has not yet been systematic outreach.
- Whether some (maybe 1%?) of articles are either sufficiently controversial or sufficient "vandal magnets" that our normal, open way of free-for-all editing may just not work for these; suggestion of starting dialogue on alternatives. Jmabel will probably try to start discussion on this.
- Larry Sanger's recent criticisms of Wikipedia, and the issues of elitism/anti-elitism
- ... and we pretty much all seem to think Seattle, Washington is ready to be a featured article.
First meetup
6 November 2004 See Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle1 for a more detailed account of this meetup.
The first Seattle Meetup took place Saturday, 6 November 2004 at the Seattle Central Library and was a great success. Decumanus says it was "fantastic". Participants came from a geographic area ranging from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, British Columbia.
Topics of discussion included:
- How to get librarians to understand Wikipedia so they might consider it worthy of being an authorative source. (Within days after the meeting, this led to a pretty good start on a document at Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia.)
- Licensing issues
- Possible software changes that might allow POV-type overlays
- Wikipedia war stories about POV warriors, trolls, etc.
- BryceHarrington regaled us with tales of the wild and wooly early days of GNUPedia and Nupedia, and how he made the leap to Wikipedia.
- User:Jwrosenzweig earned our sympathy with his stories about being on the arbitration committee, a thankless task for which none of us seemed to envy him.
- We came to a quasi-agreement, mostly through a nodding of heads, that a system of committees that might judge the worthiness of questionable content (rather than just violation of Wikipedia rules per se), might save everyone lots of pain and heartache. As of November 12, however, no one has begun fleshing this into a concrete proposal.
After initially gathering at the coffee cart we moved to the 10th floor, under the slanted roof designed by Rem Koolhaas We also tried our hands at Michael Snow's Wikipedia quiz.
At six o'clock most of us adjourned to have dinner in Seattle's International District, at a Chinese restaurant, Hing Loon.
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First introductions at the Coffee Cart: from left, Jordan, DanKeshet, Llywrch, Eclecticology, Michael Snow, Jwrosenzweig, and Jmabel. -
On the Tenth floor: Llywrch, Kees Cook, BryceHarrington, and Eclecticology
