Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Kansas City

Would someone be willing and able to send a notice out to the Kansas City users about the upcoming edit-a-thon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup:Kansas_City/Women_in_Jazz_March_2020 Here is the facebook page as well: https://www.facebook.com/events/491690671520912/ Thank you! I'd do it myself, but I don't know how :)

Interview on Radio Active Magazine on 90.1 FM, KKFI, Kansas City Community Radio?

Might a few (preferably two or three but at least one and at most five or six) people with this Meetup group care to be interviewed on Radio Active Magazine, Presenter: Bob Grove, KKFI, Wikidata Q57451712{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link) some Tuesday evening?

See the web page for that show or the description and podcast in that series of an interview with a Wikimedian, who is a lead organizer for that radio show.

If there is enough interest, we might produce several radio shows -- possibly inviting people to call in with questions -- with each show having a different focus from list of activities of the Meetup group.

FYI, since the start of COVID, nearly all my interviews have been via Zoom, either live or prerecorded. I tend to prefer live interviews, but I often prerecord material for later broadcast, depending on the availability and interests of the interviewees.

Also, if there is interest in having a Meetup via Zoom, I have a Zoom license for up to 100 participants, so I could host such a meeting if there is interest. In the unlikely event you think we might attract more than 100 participants, I can see what it would take to host a larger Zoom meeting.

BACKGROUND ON KKFI: Roughly 85 percent of KKFI's 24/7 broadcast hours are locally produced by volunteers. I'm one of those volunteers. We broadcast at 100,000 watts, which is the maximum rating the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allows for new FM stations. KKFI's "Active Members" officially select the Board, who make all the major decisions regarding the station.

Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 03:04, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Edit-a-thons to create directories of Kansas City organizations?

Might there be interest in collaborating on producing edit-a-thons to create directories of different types of organizations in the greater metro area?

I think Wikidata should be an ideal platform for doing something like this: Volunteers could maintain the needed information on Wikidata, which could be extracted automatically daily or monthly and posted on someone else's website. Examples:

1. PeaceWorks Kansas City has a"Community Organization Directory of Peace, justice, environment, and human rights groups in the Kansas City Metro" on its website. It has not been updated since 2018 but still attracts a fair amount of traffic. That suggests it would be worth the effort to create a system that would make it easy for volunteers to maintain it.
2. People with the Community of Reason Kansas City want to create a directory of news outlets of interest to people in the greater metro area.

Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/List includes the Wikimedia names of 352 users, but only 5 have been added since 2012. I believe that some of these must still be active with Wikimedia Foundation project and might like to support something like this. However, I don't know how to contact them. DavidMCEddy (talk) 18:54, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

I feel like this would violate WP:NOTDIRECTORY. — voidxor 23:08, 20 November 2022 (UTC)