Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/National Maritime Museum April 2015

The tour of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

About the event

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This is a joint event between Wikimedia UK and the National Maritime Museum.

The event will focus on editing Wikipedia articles about Longitude

It is intended for a team of experts at the NMM, plus a limited number of experienced Wikipedians. The National Maritime Museum has kindly offered to cover local travel costs for experienced Wikipedians, to apply for travel costs please email Jonathan Cardy in advance.


Lunch; We are grateful to our hosts the National Maritime Museum for providing lunch, there will be both vegetarian and non vegetarian food.

How do I prepare?

Attendees

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When you have arrived and logged on please sign below with * ~~~~

(Stuart Prior WMUK) --Battleofalma (talk) 09:28, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still sorting out a work problem currently so expect to be arriving at about 12:30. Andrew D. (talk) 09:38, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Trainers

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  1. Jonathan Cardy (WMUK) (talk)
  2. RHaworth (talk · contribs)

Target List

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Attendees and others are welcome to suggest Wikipedia articles that could be improved during this session.

If the query on a talkpage has been resolved you can strike it out and mark it resolved with the code:

<s>[[talk:Nevil Maskelyne]]</s> resolved giving talk:Nevil Maskelyne resolved

Wikipedia articles that could be improved, and talkpages with queries we may be able to answer with sources at the National Maritime Museum:

Wikipedia articles created
These are subjects related to the board of longitude that don't yet have a wikipedia article. To avoid having multiple articles on the same topic, or having edit conflicts with each other, please start articles in sandboxes and move them to mainspace when ready. If a sandbox or article is red it doesn't exist yet, if its blue it has been started.
Wikipedia articles updated
  1. James Cook – added a popular culture section
  2. William Whiston – added a better lead image and developed the content about his work on longitude
  3. Longitude Prize / Longitude reward – Katy moved to the new title and then moved it back after discussion with other tables.
Andrew D. (talk) 15:03, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Accessibility

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This event is wheelchair accessible. If you need a disabled parking space please contact us.

Our hosts have hearing loops in the rooms we are using and at their admissions desks.

Bespoke welcome

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We have a tailored welcome for this event, just post:

{{subst:User:Jonathan Cardy (WMUK)/NMM}} ~~~~ to the talkpage of any new accounts created for the event