Wikimedians of Los Angeles

The official Los Angeles user group for @Wikipedia + other @Wikimedia projects. Posting WP news, digital culture stuff, and local meetups!

[Katherine Maher @krmaher]

Hey hey! So proud to see @Wikipedia ranked as one of the technology projects having the most positive impact on society. After all, that’s exactly what it is here to do.

[Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Rosiestep) 👩🏻 ✍️🏻 @Rosiestep]

🩺And just like that, today, I started my 1⃣5⃣0⃣0⃣ woman's biography on #Wikipedia:

🩺Lucilla Cheney, M.D. (1853-1878), physician + missionary. Died in India within 48 hrs of contracting cholera. https://t.co/Yn68P3UICq @WikiWomenInRed

#⃣1⃣➖1⃣4⃣9⃣9⃣: https://t.co/YceJIeSeN8

[Jaime Crespo @jynus]

What the heck is Wikipedia Pro???? Is anyone else getting this? Are they experimenting with a new feature?

[Peter Suber (@[email protected]) @petersuber]

No surprise, @Wikipedia already has a long, creditable article on yesterday's #insurrection.
https://t.co/orWbgazDP5

Thank you, Wikipedians.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

Do you love my work? Do you believe in kind and thoughtful fact based dialog as the most wonderful thing about being human? Then fight for section 230. It matters. A lot.

[Wikimedians of Los Angeles @Wikipedia_LA]

@xkcd

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

Excited about this virtual editathon happening over Nov 24-Dec 1st. Sign up to join a global community working on climate change information on Wikipedia. Also, check out this extraordinary, comprehensive guide they made for making edits in this area: https://t.co/wHFLAo0opP

[Wikipedia @Wikipedia]

Wikipedia editors put an enormous amount of care and dedication into getting information correct.

One contributor invested 90 hours and read through 3,000 pages of scientific literature to rewrite just one section of Wikipedia's climate change article. https://t.co/phFAiwGdOA

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

I just discovered that the Wikipedia infoboxes for presidents' dogs includes fields for "Term", "Predecessor", and "Successor", as though they were elected 😂

Screenshot is from https://t.co/OqUcBb1FlY

[Andrew Lih @fuzheado]

This is what announcing the US president-elect looks like on @Wikipedia - they like references to reliable sources. A lot of them. @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris #Election2020 https://t.co/q4WhxEERRr

[Wikimedians of Los Angeles @Wikipedia_LA]

Wikipedia official at 8:29 a.m. PT!
https://t.co/iuylY5Nybs

[Andrew Lih @fuzheado]

Just a sample of @Wikipedia activity around the US elections happening right now

[LAist @LAist]

Thinking the fireworks will alert us when this ends, but does LA even have any fireworks left after June/July/August/Lakers?

[Wikimedians of Los Angeles @Wikipedia_LA]

Wikipedia's coverage of California elections here: https://t.co/bLhLVd66JY

[Valerie Love @valerielovenz]

Hot off the press for #WDPD2020, we've added a new digital preservation guide to help iwi, community archives, and organisations to manage their digital heritage material
https://t.co/X5mvDq5Y43 #digipres #nlnz

[Jason Scott @textfiles]

Archive team is grabbing thousands of sites this week, evidence of elections, of positions, of statements, of everything. And all the other crap we're making online, of course.

[Wikimedia Foundation @Wikimedia]

"Here, I was needed. Here, I could do something."

Librarian Mary Mann shares how she found renewed purpose during the pandemic by contributing to @Wikipedia. Get ready to feel inspired ⬇️ https://t.co/Tcx3QgHd5r

[Wikimedians of Los Angeles @Wikipedia_LA]

@propheticone1 @donwinslow Actually, a job for Wikidata! https://t.co/NnjfOtCFhp

[Wikimedians of Los Angeles @Wikipedia_LA]

@JennyENicholson 🤔

[WLM Perú @WLMPeru]

#WikiLovesMonuments

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