Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Libraries/2012

Events and highlights from Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2012.

There was a Wikipedia Loves Libraries planning workshop event in July at Wikimania 2012.

Online

• Open Access Wikipedia Challenge at Peer to Peer University The challenge is to embed media that was harvested from Open Access journals in Wikipedia, earn special barnstar too.

United States

Wikipedia Loves Libraries events can be held on any day in October or November 2012.

With grassroots organizing help from local Wikipedia:Meetup groups and the Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) committee...

Everyone is free to start a Wikipedia Loves Libraries page for your local institution, and please sign up at your event's meetup page:

• Northeast

• Amherst, MA - Oct. 22, 9-5pm - W. E. B. Du Bois Library - 10/22 Countering systemic biases @ the Du Bois Library
• Boston, MA - Nov. 10, 1-4:30pm - Wikipedia Loves the Boston Public Library! on November 10 from 1–4:30pm
• Baltimore - Enoch Pratt Free Library - User:Prairieskygal & User:Aude
• Cambridge, MA - Nov. 17 - Wikipedia loves Libraries @ Cambridge Public Library - User:EagleRockBear & User:Sven Manguard - 11/17
• College Park, MD - Oct. 16 - University of Maryland Edit-A-Thon at McKeldin Library
• Darien, CT - Nov. 17 - Darien Library Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - User:librarianerin
• New York City - Dec. 1 - Wikipedia Goes To The Movies at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - User:Kosboot
• Princeton, NJ - Oct. 19 - Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library - 10/19 Mudd Edit-a-thon Three
• Washington, DC - Oct. 12 - Backstage Pass at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National Museum of Natural History - User:sarasays - Friday, Oct. 12, 2012
• Washington, DC - Oct. 20 and Oct. 27 - Hitting the Books: Exploring GWU's Special Collections Libraries, at George Washington University - User:Lisa - 2 different events Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 & Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012

• Midwest

• Ann Arbor, Michigan - Oct. 22 - University of Michigan Library Open Access Week Lightning Talks
• Bloomington, Indiana - Indiana University Archives Edit-a-Thon
• Minneapolis - Nov. 3 - Minneapolis Central Library on November 3—see WT:Meetup/Minnesota#Wiki loves libraries 2012 and Minneapolis History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
• St. Louis - Oct. 27 - Webster Groves Public Library on October 27 depending on the timescale of the library's construction completion. Marcus Qwertyus
• Chicago - Nov. 10, TBD - Wikipedia Loves Libraries at the Pritzker Military Library on November 10 at a time to be determined.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:55, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
• Cincinnati - Nov. 24 - Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Wikipizza!

• South

• Asheville, NC – early stages of planning. Contact me if interested. Braincricket (talk)
• Atlanta 4 - Nov. 17 - User:Ganeshk
• Denton, TX - Nov. 5 Willis on Wikipedia at University of North Texas
• Washington, DC - Oct. 12 - Backstage Pass at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National Museum of Natural History - User:sarasays - Friday, Oct. 12, 2012
• Washington, DC - Oct. 20 & Oct. 27 - Hitting the Books: Exploring GWU's Special Collections Libraries, George Washington University - User:Lisa - 2 different events Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 & Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012
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• West

• Boulder
• Gunnison, Colorado, Ann Zugelder Library. WiFi accessible. Draconrex (talk) 02:45, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Contact User_talk:Draconrex for details and discussion about interest.

• West Hollywood, CA - Nov. 17, 1-5pm - Wiki Loves WeHo at the West Hollywood Library.
• Portland - Oct. 27, 2-4pm - Multnomah County Edit-athon - Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 2-4pm at the Central Library
• Seattle, Saturday, December 8, 2012, 10am-3pm, Seattle Public Library.

Mexico

• Mexico City - Campus library of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City (Día de Muertos Estilo Wiki) Photography contest sponsored by the library and the Humanities Department related to Mexico's Day of the Dead celebrations in Oct/Nov Uploading from 5 Oct to 5 Nov with prizes awarded on 15 Nov.

Australia

• Sydney - On 13 October, there was an editathon at the State Library of New South Wales, where editors worked on articles about compositions from a top 100 countdown of Australia's favourite French works of classical music run by ABC Classic FM.

South Africa

• Centurion - on 29 and 30 October, a 2 day Train the Trainer session was held by ITOCA and Wikimedia South Africa, in which a group of approximately 30 delegates (mostly librarians, with a few academics and public and private sector workers included) were taught the basics of how to use Wikipedia in libraries and academic settings. The trainer was David Richfield.