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==Wiki Wednesday / Wiki Weekend==
==18th Anniversary and Business Meeting==
* [http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Weekends Here's something] to think about for 2010. Apparently participation for Bloomingpedia petered out quickly, but I could imagine doing a semi-annual or quarterly event, maybe with a theme (especially if we can hold it somewhere with accessible materials on site, such as an archive, local history museum, library, etc.)  Just off the top of my head I'm thinking of maybe talking to Melinda about setting up a booth at the downtown library. If we can get 2 - 4 veteran Bhamwikiers (that's everyone reading this, btw) along with a couple of extra chairs and a stack of materials (and maybe a scanner) maybe we could spend an afternoon expanding the wiki and introducing strangers to it. Then we could go out for a drink afterwards. Thoughts? --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 15:24, 21 December 2009 (PST)
* Save the date. I have booked [[Rojo]]'s side room for an 18th anniversary party and business meeting on the afternoon of Sunday, March 17, 2024 (St Patrick's Day) from 1:00 to 4:00. The agenda for the business meeting is "Time to Grow Up", and we will aim to draft an advisory committee which will take up the task of discussing the future of the website (succession plans, etc.)  Anyone interested is invited to join us. More information to come. Feel free to contact me with questions, etc. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] ([[User talk:Dystopos|talk]]) 10:05, 1 February 2024 (CST)
** It sounds like a great idea, but due to family commitments and distance, I can't guarantee I'll be available to come. :-( --[[User:Lkseitz|Lkseitz]] 21:40, 27 December 2009 (PST)
** I have created an event page on Facebook. If you haven't been invited to interact with that page and would like to be, just let me know. Facebook interaction is by no means a requirement for actually coming to the party. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] ([[User talk:Dystopos|talk]]) 14:43, 12 February 2024 (CST)
*** I should be able to help pretty much any afternoon after the first of the year. [[User:Wheresdib|--Wheresdib]] 12:00, 28 December 2009 (PST)
*** Thank you to everyone who showed up. It was a surprisingly good turnout and very enjoyable. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] ([[User talk:Dystopos|talk]]) 11:23, 19 March 2024 (CDT)


==Athletics==
===Remarks===
* I've spent some time overhauling a lot of sports categories (specifically collegiate sports and MLB players). Hopefully these categories are starting to make more sense. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 17:01, 6 January 2010 (PST)
* You can find a copy of my remarks here: [[Bhamwiki talk:Messageboard/18th Anniversary notes]]. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] ([[User talk:Dystopos|talk]]) 20:01, 18 March 2024 (CDT)


== Google Earth historical photos ==
===Advisory committee ===
* As mentioned in my spoken notes, I do plan to convene an advisory committee or like body, using the names proferred in March (and any others who are interested). I expect to be sending out an email in the next week or so. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] ([[User talk:Dystopos|talk]]) 16:33, 10 May 2024 (CDT)


Maybe I'm just behind the times, but I just discovered Google Earth now has an option to see past photo data.  For example, there's an aerial shot of [[Brookwood Village]] from just before the remodeling.  Unfortunately, they don't seem to currently go back farther than the late 1990s. You can either use the button on the tool bar or select View > Historical Imagery.  Then you'll get a slider at the top showing the dates of available photos of the area you're currently zoomed to.  --[[User:Lkseitz|Lkseitz]] 10:10, 14 January 2010 (PST)
==Giants==
 
* Any interest in a [[:Category:Restaurants named for San Francisco Giants players]]? --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] ([[User talk:Dystopos|talk]]) 10:26, 22 June 2024 (CDT)
== 6400 ==
"The 6,400th article was [[Lakeshore]], added by User:Lkseitz on January 18."  D'oh!  If I'd known that, I would have held off. --[[User:Lkseitz|Lkseitz]] 08:54, 19 January 2010 (PST)
* I set the snare and you walked right in. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 11:03, 19 January 2010 (PST)
 
== Street categories ==
* I had an idea this morning, that I'm trying out starting with [[:Category:Spring Villa Circle]]. When a street is an obvious feeder to one (or a very few) larger streets, it can be a subcategory of that street. (I'm not sure I'm ready for "1st Avenue North" to a become a subcategory of every significant cross-street, though -- so this pertains to branching streets rather than gridded ones) --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 08:04, 28 January 2010 (PST)
 
== Newspapers starting with "The" ==
 
I know we've discussed this, but I can't find it and it's bugging me.  What's our reason for dropping "The" off the title of newspapers that include it? For (the biggest) example, look at the front page of ''The Birmingham News''.  It's got "The" in big fancy letters, yet our article is titled ''[[Birmingham News]]''.  It may be that we didn't have DEFAULTSORT when that article was written, but now we do.  (Obviously, we should have redirects that don't include the "The", just in case.)  Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birmingham_News includes the "The"] and I think we should too. --[[User:Lkseitz|Lkseitz]] 21:07, 4 February 2010 (PST)
*Oops, I didn't see this until I'd already moved ''The Hoover Gazette'' to ''[[Hoover Gazette]]''.  Somewhere in Dystopos' style guides he says to drop "The" from names.  It's just a personal preference I guess.  It's like not naming the whole business in the name of the article, but in the meat of the article you should use its exact name.  I dunno.  [[User:Wheresdib|--Wheresdib]] 18:22, 5 February 2010 (PST)
** I need to be flexible. I've found it impossible to leave the "The" off of "The Club" and "The First 48", and difficult to leave it off of "The Nick" and "The Distortions". I don't know that I have a reasonable defense for having left it off "The Birmingham News", especially given that the pedant-party at Wikipedia has arrived at that consensus. On the other hand, my inner voice prefers to say "the 'Birmingham News'," instead of "The Birmingham News", which sounds to it like those smirking jocks at the beginning of NFL games that say "'''THE''' Ohio State University". --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 19:39, 5 February 2010 (PST)
*** PS: I just recall that I've witnessed a dispute at Wikipedia over whether it is proper for the full name of my alma mater to be used as the primary article name: "The Tulane University of Louisiana" (the "The" on my diploma is in big fancy letters, for what it's worth). --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 19:42, 5 February 2010 (PST)
 
== 65.55.209.11 ==
* Microsoft's search spider crawled all over us yesterday (to the tune of 54,000+ hits). Did you feel anything? --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 15:34, 8 February 2010 (PST)
:* They're still crawling us hard. Three of our heaviest days ever and the site feels fine to me. Makes me more assured that the suggestions Dreamhost was giving me a couple of years ago when things were slow and error prone was misdirected advice. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 07:47, 10 February 2010 (PST)
 
== Municipalities ==
 
It seems redundant to put a city's entry in both its own category and the county municipalities category that is that city's category's parent.  (Did you follow that?  If not, an example is [[Birmingham]] in both [[:Category:Birmingham]] and [[:Category:Jefferson County municipalities]], which is a parent category of Category:Birmingham.)  Especially since, when you go to the municipalities category, the sub-categories appear at the top, so users see those first and probably won't bother to scroll down after seeing the city name they're looking for.  Just wanted to put my two cents in before Dystopos went and changed them all. --[[User:Lkseitz|Lkseitz]] 14:31, 11 February 2010 (PST)
* My thinking was that it's nice to have a direct link from the "Category:Jefferson County municipalities" to the articles about them, rather than having to navigate the extra step. The Category page nicely distinguishes between articles and subcategories. I've pondered this issue before in other contexts, and the right answer seems to flit back and forth. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 15:29, 11 February 2010 (PST)
** And you wouldn't be who you are if you didn't let things flit back and forth. [[User:Wheresdib|--Wheresdib]] 04:17, 12 February 2010 (PST)
*** Thanks! Wait. Hey! well. thanks. I think. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 06:19, 12 February 2010 (PST)
 
== Largest city wikis ==
* Just to have a place to put this, I'm reproducing the table from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_wiki#Largest_city_wikis Wikipedia:City wiki#Largest city wikis] with all the non-USA wikis brashly tossed out:<br/><br/>
 
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Rank<br/>
!Founded<br/>
!Name of Wiki<br/>
!Location (City, State)<br/>
!Articles<br/>
!Images<br/>
!Edits<br/>
!Users<br/>
|-
|1
|2004-06-24
|[http://daviswiki.org DavisWiki]
|Davis, California
|12,561
|16,563
|248,737
|9,368
|-
|2
|2007-02-06
|[http://www.omahawiki.org Omaha Commons]
|Omaha, Nebraska
|7,076
|1,404
|35,909
|510
|-
|3
|2006-03-15
|[http://www.bhamwiki.com Bhamwiki]
|Birmingham, Alabama
|6,483
|1,653
|55,564
|270
|-
|4
|2005-01-18
|[http://www.rocwiki.org RocWiki]
|Rochester, New York
|6,040
|3,003
|75,019
|3,101
|-
|5
|2006-12-05
|[http://www.mankatopedia.com Mankatopedia]
|Mankato, Minnesota
|3,984
|572
|15,254
|99
|-
|6
|2006-02-27
|[http://www.scruzwiki.org Santa CruzWiki]
|Santa Cruz, California
|3,135
|1,603
|16,497
|98
|-
|7
|2005-09-09
|[http://arborwiki.org ArborWiki]
| Ann Arbor, Michigan
|2,982
|404
|20,539
|672
|-
|8
|2005-07-18
|[http://www.bloomingpedia.org Bloomingpedia]
|Bloomington, Indiana
|2,717
|1,159
|22,762
|2,480
|-
|9
|2006-07-19
|[http://www.chicowiki.org Chico Wiki]
|Chico, California
|2,495
|2,070
|18,245
|90
|-
|}

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18th Anniversary and Business Meeting

  • Save the date. I have booked Rojo's side room for an 18th anniversary party and business meeting on the afternoon of Sunday, March 17, 2024 (St Patrick's Day) from 1:00 to 4:00. The agenda for the business meeting is "Time to Grow Up", and we will aim to draft an advisory committee which will take up the task of discussing the future of the website (succession plans, etc.) Anyone interested is invited to join us. More information to come. Feel free to contact me with questions, etc. --Dystopos (talk) 10:05, 1 February 2024 (CST)
    • I have created an event page on Facebook. If you haven't been invited to interact with that page and would like to be, just let me know. Facebook interaction is by no means a requirement for actually coming to the party. --Dystopos (talk) 14:43, 12 February 2024 (CST)
      • Thank you to everyone who showed up. It was a surprisingly good turnout and very enjoyable. --Dystopos (talk) 11:23, 19 March 2024 (CDT)

Remarks

Advisory committee

  • As mentioned in my spoken notes, I do plan to convene an advisory committee or like body, using the names proferred in March (and any others who are interested). I expect to be sending out an email in the next week or so. --Dystopos (talk) 16:33, 10 May 2024 (CDT)

Giants

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