User talk:Jim.henderson
| This is Jim.henderson's talk page, where you can send him messages and comments. |
|
"Let us keep our minds open by all means, as long as that means keeping our sense of perspective and seeking an understanding of the forces which mould the world. But don’t keep your minds so open that your brains fall out!"
Walter Kotschnig, 1939
Archives
Archive 1 — Archive 2 — Archive 3 — Archive 4 — Archive 5 — Archive 6 — Archive 7 — Archive 8 — Archive 9 — Archive 10 — Archive 11 — Archive 12 — Archive 14 — Archive 15 — Archive 16 — Archive 17 — Archive 18 — Archive 19 (2017) — Archive 20 (2018) — Archive 21 (2019) — Archive 22 (2020) — Archive 23 (2021) Archive 24 (2022)
.svg){kind=small} | Daily pageviews of User:Jim.henderson
A graph should have been displayed here but graphs are temporarily disabled. Until they are enabled again, visit the interactive graph at pageviews.wmcloud.org |
Sun Jan 15: Wikipedia Day returns to NYC![edit]
| Sunday January 15: Wikipedia Day 2023 NYC | |
|---|---|
 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Wikipedia Day 2023 at Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, a Wikipedia and Public Domain Day celebration and mini-conference as part of birthday festivities marking the project's founding in 2001. In addition to the party, the event features presentations by Jason Scott of the Internet Archive and Anne Hunnell Chen of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive, panels, and, of course, lightning talks. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! And there will be WIKICAKE.
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. New York Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.  P.S. Next regular event February 15 will be Feb WikiWednesday. | |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:50, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Feb 15: WikiWednesday Salon in Brooklyn[edit]
| Feb 15: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom | |
|---|---|
.jpg) You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.
| |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:52, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me[edit]
Jim helped me with basic edits today. I hope I have contributed something useful to the group! FrankNJNY (talk) 20:21, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Mar 8: WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central[edit]
| Mar 8: WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central | |
|---|---|
 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation for our WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central, in-person at Convene 101 Park Avenue in the vicinity of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! This is somewhat of a sequel to last year's Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Brunch in terms of the participants, though this time it is an evening event in a different borough. We may leaven the event with a few impromptu lightning talks, a Wiki-fashion show (yes, really!), and likely an afterparty tour. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.
| |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
Beacon Earth Day[edit]
Hi, Jim! Looking forward to seeing you at the Earth Day edit-a-thon in Beacon in April. Any chance you are going to be taking photos before the event? Would you be open to having others join you, if so? No pressure either way! Hope all is well. :) Emjackson42 (talk) 13:27, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
- Hmm, Emjackson42
I hadn't thought of visiting Beacon except on that day, Saturday April 15. Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Earth Day Beacon, NY 2023. I was thinking of visiting Ossining this Sunday for some photography around the Croton Reservoir, but the forecast is for wind making some discomfort while bicycling there, so that might be better another day. If you or others want to set a day, including this coming Sunday, to walk around a town where I have never been, I can pretty easily do it since, being an old retired guy, I seldom have a schedule conflict. And of course I'll be pleased. A weekday might be better because train service is more frequent, or I could find out about weekend bus service. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:02, 24 March 2023 (UTC) - It seems I made a error with the template. Maybe this one will work better. @Emjackson42: Jim.henderson (talk) 15:05, 24 March 2023 (UTC)]
- @Jim.henderson: Oh, nice! I was wondering if you were coming up any earlier on that day, though another day might also work. Maybe we can see what the interest is in scheduling a photography day by asking the attendees at the April 15 event? If you're open to a potential second trip in the summer! Emjackson42 (talk) 17:45, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Emjackson42: it doesn't matter whether we are pinged on our own own talk page, since we get an Alert Bar (OBOD, Orange Bar of Doom) anyway. I'm a bit slow in answering today, for no good reason. I have discovered that D-Day for this session, April 15, is also the first day of the annual Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) which at last is running again at Rockland Community College in Suffern after a 3-year plague break. So, they'll get along without me. Maybe to make up I should write them an article. As for going to Beacon, no, not tomorrow and maybe not at all before D-Day. I mistakenly assumed you sought pictures before then; it would have been an effort but not a big problem either way. In any case you ought to snap and upload some camera phone pix pretty soon, inside the library and especially out. On D-Day there's only one morning train that I'm likely to be on, which will put me in the station with more than half an hour to walk a mere mile. So, naturally I'll snap a few pictures upon arrival, and some during the session. As for a separate photography day, best is to bring my bicycle so as to allow getting to many locations not only in Beacon but across the river in Newburgh. Unless we use other transport. Company would be appreciated, and your company especially, Esther. Oh, I'll send an E-mail to your WMNYC address so you'll know my real address. Jim.henderson (talk) 21:58, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
A bowl of strawberries for you![edit]
|
Hi Jim! It was nice to meet you :) I'm Clover. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 17:40, 24 March 2023 (UTC) |
Apr 12 WikiWednesday + Earth Week (Apr 15-23)[edit]
| April 12: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom | |
|---|---|
|
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.
| |
| April 15-23: Earth Week! | |
|
Please RSVP on-wiki to any of the Earth Day/Week activities you will be joining, all are open:
| |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:07, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Sat: Earth Day Edit-a-thon + Sun: Wiki-Picnic[edit]
| April 22: Earth Day Edit-a-thon + April 23: Wiki-Picnic | |
|---|---|
 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a pair of special events this weekend as we wrap up Earth Week! No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome.
| |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:37, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
A recycled cup of coffee for you![edit]
|
Thank you! |
| Hello Jim! Thank you for editing with Sure We Can and Wikimedia New York City at the Environment of the Brooklyn Earth Day Edit-a-thon! Please enjoy this image of a mug-shaped planter made from recycled tires that I found on Wikimedia Commons. Your presence and knowledge is appreciated! - Wil540 art (talk) 21:34, 24 April 2023 (UTC) |
Disambiguation link notification for April 29[edit]
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Colonization of the asteroid belt, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Ceres.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:03, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
May 17: WikiWednesday Salon + Queering Wikipedia[edit]
| May 17: WikiWednesday + Queering Wikipedia @ BPL + on Zoom | |
|---|---|
|
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We will also sync with the Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference and Wiki Loves Pride 2023 and have a Wikidata session on LGBT themes for figures in religion/mythology. We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.
| |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:42, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for May 31[edit]
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Homelessness in New York, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Tenant.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:38, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Hudson Valley, New York[edit]
A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Hudson Valley, New York indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:16, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
June 21: WikiWednesday Salon back in Manhattan![edit]
| June 21: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce | |
|---|---|
 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We are proud to announce that monthly food has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Prime Produce encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.
| |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:05, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
New Editor[edit]
Hi there! I just made my first edit to an article. Kghuang (talk) 18:42, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
July 19 WikiWednesday + New York Botanical Garden Edit-a-thon (July 29)[edit]
| July 19: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce | |
|---|---|
|
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We are proud to announce that monthly free food has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Prime Produce encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.
| |
| July 29: NYBG Environment of the Bronx Edit-a-thon! | |
 You are also invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our 9th Editathon with the New York Botanical Gardens! Attendees familiar with editing Wikipedia can edit off of a worklist focused on the environment of New York City; as well as, a sub-list focused on the environment of the Bronx. Additionally, LuEsther T. Mertz Library will pull topical media from their collection to assist the editing. You can also learn more and RSVP on the NYBG website here. Bring your own laptop if you can, the Library can only provide laptops on a first-come, first-served basis. Entrance to the Library is free; when you arrive, alert Security that you are here for the event. Please enter through the Mosholu Entrance at 2950 Southern Boulevard.
| |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:23, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
MLK Jr Monument[edit]
Thanks!Lhallingby (talk) 22:59, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
WikiWednesday 19 July[edit]
I sent this to an E-mail group on another topic, but found myself writing this summary:
Last night at the monthly Wikimedia NYC Wikiwednesday I tried to make my new Lumix G100 camera work as a Webcam, but after following the instructions in a Youtube video I failed. Must study it more. Other participants made their Logitech Webcam do the job. Less optically sophisticated, but in Logi products working with a computer is the actual design goal rather than an afterthought. Making the Samsung Android tablet work as a second screen, however, worked quite nicely.
Mostly I was busy with a student, a retired librarian who had somewhere else presented a slideshow about a sculpture on West End Avenue and wanted to make it into a Wikipedia article. We ran into a problem with cut & paste on her Macbook which another teacher with relevant experience was able to handle. It will still be a somewhat complex job, converting a chatty slideshow commentary into proper prose in scholarly style with references, but she’s got the basic skills and only has to learn various oddities of our editorial policies and software. I hope to see her again in the next few days since we live near each other; nice when we can work with minds who understand scholarly work. Which, after all, is why many of our events are held at research libraries.
Also I am the test subject for the local Chapter’s new User Business Card. Some people suggested that since we’re not a business it isn’t a “business card” but I think the proposed alternatives were already used during the Gilded Age of “Cartes de Visite” so we might as well use the modern common term which will not need explanations. Even before passing it out I already have a criticism or two for the design. Anyway a few hours from now I’ll be at MacSorleys drinking with a less formal club of retired telephone workers and will look for people who ought to have the card. Members of biker gangs are actually better prospects; maybe I’ll join one of them at another bar on Sunday. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:15, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
WikiWednesday (Aug 23) and Governors Island Wiki-Picnic (Sun Aug 27)[edit]
| August 23: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce | |
|---|---|
|
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.
| |
| August 27: Annual NYC Wiknic @ Governors Island | |
 Additionally, you are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Governors Island, at Colonel's Row by ArtCrawl Harlem house, as part of the Great North American Wiknic celebrations (and Wikimania satellite events) being held across the continent. This is the first big summer Wiknic since the 2019 edition and will feature an edit-a-thon focused on Governors Island and ArtCrawl Harlem, Depths of Wikipedia (recently of perpetual stew fame), as well as plenty more food topics drawing on the potluck ethos. All are welcome, new and experienced!
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct, and don't forget your sunscreen! | |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:52, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Sunday: NYC Wiki-Picnic @ Gov Island[edit]
| August 27: Annual NYC Wiknic @ Governors Island | |
|---|---|
|
You are invited to the Annual NYC Wiknic, "the picnic anyone can edit" on Governors Island, at Colonel's Row by ArtCrawl Harlem house, as part of the Great North American Wiknic celebrations (and Wikimania satellite events) being held across the continent. This is the first summer Wiknic since the 2019 edition and will feature an edit-a-thon focused Governors Island and ArtCrawl Harlem, Depths of Wikipedia and perpetual stew, as well as plenty more food. All are welcome, new and experienced!
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct, and don't forget your sunscreen! | |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:27, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
Sep 20: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election Meeting[edit]
| September 20: Annual Election & Members Meeting | |
|---|---|
 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Annual Election & Members Meeting, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. The Members' Meeting is similar to other WikiWednesday meetups, except that its primary function is to elect a new Board of Directors. We will elect five board seats. After being elected, those elected can potentially appoint more seats. We will also have a fun WikiWednesday! Election info:
Meeting info:
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. | |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:04, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
History of Nursing in Newark edit-a-thon at Rutgers University[edit]
Hi Jim -- I hope you can join us! Looking forward to seeing you next month in Philly!
You are invited to join Rutgers-Newark archivists from Dana Library and Smith Library on Tuesday, October 3 (3:00pm-5:00pm) for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon highlighting the history of medicine in Newark. Come to Dana Library and help increase the online representation of important Newark scientists and health professionals on the largest open encyclopedia on the internet.
No experience editing Wikipedia is required. Beginners are encouraged to attend! At the beginning of the edit-a-thon we’ll have a brief introduction to Wikipedia. We’ll provide a list of articles to edit, as well as reference materials. In addition, we'll give a brief overview of archival collections related to the history of medicine housed at Smith and Dana Libraries at Rutgers-Newark. The edit-a-thon is free and open to the public. If you are not a current Rutgers student or employee, please bring a laptop to participate in the event.
Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Time: 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Location: Hybrid--- but in-person strongly encouraged!
- Online (via Zoom) and at Rutgers-Newark Campus, John Cotton Dana Library, Electronic Classroom, lower level. Click here for directions to Dana Library. Use 77 Bleeker St, Newark NJ 07102 if you are using a GPS.
- Please note: In person attendees must present a current Rutgers ID card or government-issued ID (e.g., driver license, passport, Real ID, etc.) to enter Dana Library.
Please register for the edit-a-thon in advance: https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/10896552
Special instructions: If you don't already have an account on Wikipedia, please sign-up for an account BEFORE coming to the edit-a-thon. Dbiunno (talk) 17:16, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Dbiunno already registered and eager, Diane Jim.henderson (talk) 20:48, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
- Forwarding you the Wikipedia meetup page: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/History of Medicine in Newark/October 2023 We just published it this morning. Dbiunno (talk) 20:32, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
Sun Oct 1: NYC Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023[edit]
| October 1: Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023: Edit-a-thon! | |
|---|---|
 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023: Edit-a-thon!, with in-person at Prime Produce Guild Hall in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is being held in the middle of National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sep 15–Oct 15). Some past local edit-a-thons touching on this area have included the two editions of Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiArte at MoMA in 2015-16, and the CUNY LaGuardia translat-a-thons held annually since 2018. Meeting info:
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. | |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:01, 23 September 2023 (UTC)