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Nashville, Tennessee
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Welcome

Welcome to the Nashville meetup page! Listed here are both past and future meetups. Basically, interested people (mostly Wikipedia editors) occasionally get together at various meeting places around the world to meet each other and have some fun. Not only does it provide an opportunity to meet other Wikipedians face-to-face, but also to share what we know in a more relaxed and personal setting. Overall, a meetup is an excellent opportunity to meet new friends. If you are interested in Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects—regardless of your level of experience or involvement—or if you are otherwise involved with free content, you are invited and welcome.

Invite list

An invites list was created in May 2017, with the intent that invites for upcoming events will be sent to it. Feel free to add yourself to the list!

Upcoming

|Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashville/Open Access Week 2017 Wednesday, October 24, 2017; 11am to 1pm
 At the Vanderbilt University Digital Humanities Center, 344 Buttrick Hall
Lunch will be served!
Bring your laptop, drop-ins welcome!


We Are Open in Order to:____________.


11:15 am Kelly Doyle Wikipedian-in-Residence for Gender Equity, West Virginia University


What concrete benefits can be realized by making scholarly outputs openly available? “Open in order to…” prompts us to focus on what openness enables—in an individual discipline, at a particular institution, or in a specific context; then to take action to realize these benefits. Open in order to increase the impact of my scholarship. Open in order to enable more equitable participation in research. Open in order to improve public health. These are just a few examples of how this question can be answered.

Established by SPARC and partners in the student community in 2008, International Open Access Week is an opportunity to take action in making openness the default for research—to raise the visibility of scholarship, accelerate research, and turn breakthroughs into better lives.

Join the Vanderbilt University Libraries and the Vanderbilt Digital Humanities Center for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries. Help available for beginner Wikipedians. All are welcome, no experience required. Chat with editors, feminists and scholars and contribute your knowledge. Reference materials, lunch and editing help provided. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate.

No registration necessary.


Make Wikipedia's Citations More Open with OAbot

The Wikipedia Library is taking part with a viral, microcontribution campaign called #OAwiki. The idea is simple: go to the web app OAbot, review a citation with a closed access (paywalled) link, check the suggested open citation, and add the open link to the citation if it's a good fit.

This makes every citation on Wikipedia easier to access, read, and verify! Please try out http://oabot.org.

Tweet https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/922529464898043904

Blog https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/24/open-access-week/



Attending

Pages Edited


Possible Pages to Edit & Update

  • 1. Sparc
  • 2. Vanderbilt University Libraries
  • 3. NEDCC [Northeast Document Conservation Center]
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Past

Past meetups
5 September 2009 at Blackstone Brewery. From left to right: RivGuySC, Kaldari, FloNight, Flo's husband, Bullzeye, Jennavecia, MZMcBride, Keegan, and BendersGame.
  • Nashville's first meetup was a two-day event held on Labor Day weekend 2009 (September 5–6). It included a Saturday dinner at Blackstone Restaurant & Brewery, and a Sunday lunch at Jackson's Bar & Bistro. Unfortunately, the scheduled Play in the (Centennial) Park was rained out.
  • The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University hosted the Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on October 15, 2015.
  • The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University hosted the "CITATION NEEDED!" Edit-a-thon in the third-floor computer lab of Peabody Library at Vanderbilt University on October 23, 2015.
  • An ART + FEMINISM Edit-a-thon was supposedly hosted in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on March 14, 2016. (There does not appear to be a meetup page for this event.)
  • The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University hosted the 2016 Nashville Architecture Edit-a-thon in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on October 25, 2016.
  • The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University hosted the Second Annual "Our Story Matters" Edit-a-thon, which focused on "Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memory", in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on November 15, 2016.
  • The Nashville Public Library, in partnership with the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University, hosted the Third Annual "Our Story Matters" Edit-a-thon, which focused on "Black Education: People and Places that Inspired African American Education", in the Special Collections section on its second floor on February 11, 2017.
  • Another ART + FEMINISM Edit-a-thon was hosted in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on March 14, 2017.

See also

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