Roberta Wedge (WMUK)

I've really enjoyed working with you today Roberta. TrabiMechanic 10:32, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Science Museum Late

Hi Roberta, how are you? By chance I saw a mention of this, which I might be able to help out at. Are you still looking for volunteers? I should be able to make it both to the event and to the planning session, although I will need to re-arrange my schedule somewhat. I can't sign up on the page itself because it seems an account "Arthur goes shopping" already exists on that wiki but I have no clue what the password may be. Arthur goes shopping (talk) 07:57, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello Arthur. I'm not sure if we've met? Your help would be very welcome at this event. The more active editors we can draw in, the better. At least one has managed to sign up on the WMUK wiki. My colleague is looking into why your username is having difficulty. Do you have a preference for the event you'd like to be involved with? Photo uploads, perhaps? Roberta Wedge (WMUK) (talk) 11:02, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Or better yet (because so far no one's signed up) the voice recordings? Up to you. Roberta Wedge (WMUK) (talk) 11:38, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi Roberta, I think we met while working on the registration desk and helpdesk at Wikimania 2014. Could be misremembering though!

The voice recording would be fine, so long as it means it when it says no expertise is required - this is not something I've done before. Arthur goes shopping (talk) 11:49, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello again. Yes I did work those desks at Wikimania but I'm afraid my memory fails me. My colleague has found the reason you can't log on to the wiki. Could you email me at roberta.wedge at wikimedia.org.uk and we'll take it from there? Roberta Wedge (WMUK) (talk) 10:42, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Done. Arthur goes shopping (talk) 12:34, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Phyllis C. Richman

Just to let you know that the article Phyllis C. Richman is now live, written by User:Darragoldstein, who joined us yesterday by Skype from the United States.

I've put it up for a DYK, [1], so let's see how that goes.

Darra's very busy with an impending deadline, so it was great that she was able to take a "foray into an alternate universe" as she put it. Jheald (talk) 19:30, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

From the state of T:DYK/Q, it looks like this is likely to be live on the front page from 7:20 to 19:20 New York time tomorrow (ie Tuesday), barring upsets. (12:20 to 00:20 our time). I don't know if any of the editathon organisers would like to be alerted? There should still be a couple of days in hand, if anyone else from the editathon wants to get an article into DYK -- I'm very happy to lend a hand with any wikignoming needed to get it to pass the house-style police. Cheers, Jheald (talk) 22:30, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you James. I've taken a screenshot (perhaps you have as well?), which might have more immediate currency to some of the participants. I'm up to my eyes with Science Museum Late (6000 people! tomorrow!) but will try to get the word out to the BL/OFS new editors. Your help has been *invaluable*. Roberta Wedge (WMUK) (talk) 23:10, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Translation event

Hi Roberta, Nice to see you at the Science Museum, if briefly. Jonathan, I think, was telling me about a UCL medical translation event you ran. James Heilman runs the main Wiki Medical Translation initiative (also Jacob de Woolf) and was interested to know more. Is there a page for it? Johnbod/Wiki CRUK John (talk) 15:46, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello John. Wasn't the Lates turn-out fantastic - IIRC there were about 30 volunteers, and over such a huge area. The UCL "translatathon" didn't have its own page, as it was an internal event. I understood that Dr Heilman's sterling work at WP:MED depends on professionals (medical or translation), and these were students at the beginning of their MA Translation who had not yet covered medical terminology, so I didn't wish to trouble him. The one-off afternoon was in part a "proof of concept" exercise for the course leader in using Wikipedia with students; I've put her in touch with Toni Sant for possible future use of the Courses Extension. Roberta Wedge (WMUK) (talk) 09:12, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

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Contacting Editors from the Ada Lovelace Editathons

Hi Roberta,

I hope you don’t mind me contacting you via your talk page. I’m a new Editor to Wikipedia, part of a small research team based at the University of Birmingham in the UK. I’m getting in touch as we’re trying to contact all the Editors who were involved in the Ada Lovelace Editathons in Oxford or London. If you have been, or still are, involved in editing, whatever the scale of your involvement, we would be very grateful for the opportunity to talk to you about your experiences. In the first instance, we’ve set up a short (10 minute) survey, which you can access via my User Talk Pages. If you are interested in helping with our research project, please can you drop me a line?

Thanks, --RuthPage (talk) 16:01, 6 June 2016 (UTC)