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• Gene93k (talk) 01:31, 15 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Hello! I saw your edit to Ebenezer O. Grosvenor and read about your interest in Michigan elections and politicians. I've been working recently on adding some articles on historical Michigan politicians. I created 1st Michigan Legislature and have been working on turning the red links blue, starting with the senators (Horace H. Comstock, Jonathan D. Davis, John McDonell (American politician), Conrad Ten Eyck, Laurent Durocher, Edward D. Ellis, Olmstead Hough, Silas Finch, William J. Moody, Henry Rumsey, John Clarke (Michigan politician), and Charles C. Hascall so far). I think it would be good to eventually get the state legislative history to the same level of completeness as Category:New York (state) legislative sessions. It sounds like your interest is primarily in more recent elections/politicians, but I thought you might be interested in taking a look at these articles, and would welcome any improvements or corrections! Sarcasmboy (talk) 19:05, 17 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hey! I'm absolutely interested in this project! Right now I'm sort of working my way down the Michigan ballot and backwards in time to get rid of red links and generally improve article quality. (For example, Frank Murphy (lieutenant governor) is a different guy than Frank Murphy, yet both served in Michigan politics around the same era. Also, I can only find one paragraph on FM(LG) from an old version of Michigan.gov, so that's fun.) My general thought process is to focus on NPOV information that would be most valuable to contemporary readers, but I'm very interested in helping out with historical versions of the Legislature! Perhaps we can focus on one session at a time. I'll take a look at the articles you mentioned today and let you know if I can help! MatthewRMiller2 (talk) 19:40, 17 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Call for presentations for WCNA 2022 and Mapping USA edit

 

This is a call for presentations by EOD, Sunday, October 15, for WikiConference North America (Nov 11-13), held jointly with OpenStreetMap US's Mapping USA. We encourage you to please submit your Wikipedia and Wikimedia proposals at Wikiconference:2022/Submissions or OpenStreetMap US proposals at Call for Proposals: WikiConference North America + Mapping USA. We are sending this mass message to you because we deduced that you may be in North America and interested in maps in Wikimedia or Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, or OpenHistoricalMaps. We are looking for lightning talks in particular on Friday, Nov 11. Some suggestions:

  • Cultural similarities and differences, for instance OpenStreetMap and Wikivoyage (map and describe what you know) versus Wikipedia (verify with citations)
  • Type of licensing for each project and how they differ: OpenStreetMap, Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia
  • The flow of information from one project into another, and how maps are generated
  • How OpenHistoricalMap works and possible interactions with Wikimedia projects
  • Your ideas!

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Registration is open for WCNA 2022 and Mapping USA edit

 
WikiConference North America 2022 will be virtual, November 11-13. We will hold it jointly with OpenStreetMap US's Mapping USA. Our theme this year is open knowledge allies.

Registration is now open here! Please register by the 10th so that we can set everyone up online on our platform. Like last year, we are planning on using Hopin.

Our schedule is will be finalized and available in the next few days. We have an exciting line-up of sessions related to Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap, and the intersection of the two. Stay tuned!

Local meet-ups will occur in Indianapolis and New York City - if you are available and interested in attending either of these, you can find more details here.

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