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7:32 am on April 20, 2012 · editathon (3), nycwiki (3), nypl (3), wikimedia (4), wikimedia nyc (19)

@wikimediaNYC Wiki-Gangs of New York editathon on Saturday @nypl

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Wikimedia NYC

Wikimedia NYCWiki-Gangs of New York is a civic editathon, Wikipedian meet-up and instructional workshop that will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012, at the New York Public Library Main Branch.

The goal will be to improve Wikipedia articles and content related to the neighborhoods and history of New York City.

Wiki-Gangs of New York at the NYPL website.

Please bring a laptop if you have one; if not, several loaner laptops will be available.

This event is jointly organized by the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, NYPL Reference and Research Services, and NYPL Labs.

 

4:44 pm on May 18, 2011 · android (1), bikemonth (1), Connecting .nyc (4), nyc (130), nycwiki (3), transportation (3)

Mapping the Hood Day – May 21, 2011 #NYC #nycwiki #bikenyc #gis #android @MappingTheHood

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Get the My Tracks app
Get the My Tracks app

Mapping the Hood is conceived as a mapping initiative to define and empower New York City neighborhoods. It seeks to generate neighborhood maps by piggybacking on Transportation Alternatives’ 2011 Bikemonth. The maps will initially be displayed on NYCwiki.org, a dotNeighborhood’s development site. Later, with the activation of the .nyc TLD, they will be used in support of the city’s neighborhoods in sites such as Astoria.nyc, BrooklynHeights.nyc, Chelsea.nyc…

This Saturday May 21 2011 participating bikers will activate the My Tracks app on their Android phones, slip the phone in their pocket or backpack, circumnavigate their neighborhood (perhaps adding some ID pins), then email the My Tracks file to ConnectingNYC. Contributors will receive an invite to a ‘Mapaganzza’  event later that day.

5:08 am on October 19, 2010 · nyc (130), nycwiki (3)

.nyc TLD general meeting – Oct 27 #newtld #nyc

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Connecting.nyc is sponsoring a general meeting about the .nyc TLD on Wednesday, October 27, 7 PM at the historic Neighborhood Preservation Center, 232 East 11th Street.

Two items are on the agenda:

* An intro to the NYCwiki.org, the collaboration between the Wikimedia NYC, Internet Society-NY and Connecting.nyc Inc. to prepare for that glorious day when .nyc goes live and the dotNeighborhood names are activated – Astoria.nyc, BrooklynHeights.nyc, Chelsea.nyc, Douglaston.nyc… and 350 others. Hear Richard Knipel, president of Wikimedia NYC talk about the development and progress of the wiki neighborhoods collaboration.

* Tom Lowenhaupt, Connecting.nyc Inc.’s director will provide an update on the status of the .nyc TLD, including a report on the City-TLD Governance and Best Practices workshop he moderated in Vilnius, Lithuania on September 17th. The workshop was part of the U.N.’s 5th meeting the Internet Governance Forum.

When: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 7 PM
Where: Neighborhood Preservation Center, 232 East 11th Street, NYC

Connecting.nyc Inc. is the NYS not-for-profit created to advance the acquisition and development of the .nyc TLD as a public interest resource.