Wikis Take Manhattan
September 29th, 2008Hi all,
I wanted to give our New York City Wikimedians a heads up for the following event, Wikis Take Manhattan, a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City. The event is based on last year’s hugely successful Wikipedia Takes Manhattan, and the event organizers have evolved it to include StreetsWiki this year.
Participants begin the hunt from one of two locations: Columbia University (at the sundial on college walk) and one at The Open Planning Project’s West Village office:
349 W. 12th St. #3
Between Greenwich & Washington Streets
By the 14th St./8th Ave. ACE/L stop
Cary Bass,
Volunteer Coordinator
Update!: Interested parties can join the Wikimedia NYC email list at Wikimedia NYC.
September 29th, 2008 at 21:00
Don’t forget the grand prize – dinner for three with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, at Pure Food and Wine. There’ll also be gift certificates to Bicycle Habitat and the LimeWire Store, and more!
September 29th, 2008 at 21:04
Just to make clear to everyone, you can compete together in teams of up to three, but please only one camera and memory card per team (no special knowledge is required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city).
Check-in is at 1:00 PM, and we’ll return later for the uploading party at 6:30 PM.
If you want to see which of your fellow Wikipedians/Wikimedians are coming, check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan
Also, you should check out the links from last year’s event:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Spring_2008
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Gallery
September 30th, 2008 at 02:09
Hi Cary, I’d like to attend the meet-up.
Hope all is well!
Cheers,
Vishal
October 4th, 2008 at 23:00
I have had ecthyma for over two years and have gone to three different doctors that really don’t know what I have. I accidently found this web site by putting the name of the medication that has helped me with the symptoms that I have been experiencing. I had put in the word impetago on your web site previously but it did not list ecthyma as a possible answer when I did. When I put in amox clav the site lists impetigo – impetigo contagiosa – then it lists Ecthyma, if impetigo had listed various stages of this disease , I may have been able to get the doctor to prescribe this medication. It would have saved me taking useless medication. I believe it should also be listed under impetato for individuals like me that is looking for answers. I just started taking this medication and in two days I am finally feeling better. I don’t have to sleep for twelve hours a day which is one of the main symptoms this disease has caused me. I don’t know why my doctors haven’t been able to figure this out? The medication they had been prescribing me Cephalexin 500mg with altabax ointment. They have given me five refills of each but neither has helped. I do have one question- how long can I take amox/clav before I have any negative side affects? Thank you for such a great web site that helps individuals like me looking for answers when doctors haven’t been able to give them.
October 6th, 2008 at 09:26
Hello, greatings from Portugal
Just wanna say a few words…
First, great job with the site Wikipedia & associated sites…
Second, last week I found some offensive article about a Band (I guess that was the opinion of somebody that don’t like that music), anyway…
It take several days before somebody make a change, and it has to be me, and when I did it, I was warn that waht I’ve done, was incorrect, i should register and then change…
You don’t believe in good faith ? Do we still have the truth among us or what?
See ya, bye
October 11th, 2008 at 03:25
There’s a great short video of the event created by Streetfilms here:
http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/wikis-take-manhattan/