Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes America 2012

A typical plaque found on properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places

Wikipedia Takes America is a campaign throughout September 2012 to organize Wikipedia Takes Your City photo scavenger hunts across the United States, to coincide with the international Wiki Loves Monuments architectural photography contest.

You can find out more information about Wiki Loves Monuments in the U.S. here.

You can use the free Android app to find sites and upload photos:

Guide to organizing a simple event

There are three points of the days to keep in mind for planning:

• Pick a starting point for the day, probably outside near a downtown landmark. Greet everyone and explain how it all works. Bring a Wikipedia sign or something similar for recognition!
• Have a big group photo-walk touring different historic sites around town, or alternatively teams can go out on their own. (Don't forget your cameras!)
• Optionally, designate a cozy spot for an after-party in the evening, can be a bar or restaurant. If you can upload some photos there too, all the better.

Photo events by region

Wikipedia Takes America events can be held on any day in September 2012.

With grassroots organizing help from local Wikipedia:Meetup groups and the Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) committee...

Everyone is free to start a Wikipedia Takes America page for your own city, and please sign up at your city's meetup page:

Northeast

Planned Northeast events

• Baltimore, sometime in September ;) --Aude (talk) 22:40, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Baltimore 2012 --Mech Aaron (talk) 12:59, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
• New York City: September 15 - Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan --Pharos (talk) 21:32, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
• Washington DC September 8th Lisa N Marrs (talk)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes DC 2012

Other Northeast ideas

• Long Island, anyone (Nassau County)? Electric Catfish 15:00, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
• Philly region sounds like a great candidate, but I wouldn't want to lead one :( Trainmastercrc (talk) 03:26, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
• Albany, NY region (i.e. Albany/Schenectady/Troy/Saratoga Springs area), but only if anyone but me can lead it as I'll be busy with graduate school when this takes place. :_-( JB82 (talk) 00:39, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston

Midwest

Planned Midwest events

• Chicago: September 29 - Chicago--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 12:31, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
• St. Louis, MO - St. Louis. A walk/bike through downtown St. Louis at noon followed by the Great Forest Park Balloon Race Sat. Sept. 15. Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 04:20, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Other Midwest ideas

• Siloam Springs, AR
• Oxford, MI -- Lakes and Golf -- Saturdays in September, beginning point will be the park (across from the Theater) 2pm
• Harlan, IA
• Lincoln, NE in late September. Would be interested if we can get at least four. May check with Lincoln subreddit as well. --CrunchySkies (talk) 19:23, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
• Grand Rapids, MI Vokesk (talk) 17:45, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
  • Grand Rapids
• Cedar Rapids, IA

South

Planned South events

• September 15 - Atlanta, GA
• Charlotte, NC Due to fortuitous wo scheduled events; the first will be held on Thu 06 Sep, designed to coincide with the day end of the The Democratic National Convention. There will be a second event when our city has calmed down a little on Fri 21 Sep 2012.
• September 15 - San Antonio, TX
• September 22 - Richmond, Virginia
• Saint Augustine

Other South ideas

• Houston, TX
• Memphis, TN? - Anyone else interested in doing a Memphis one? I don't know about the interest, so if you're in the area, let me know! Theopolisme _TALK 21:07, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
• New Orleans, LA Cocoaguy ここがいい 21:23, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
• Savannah, GA - Come on all you youthful artsy SCAD students. Let's do this! ThaABomb 15:22, 07 August, 2012 (EDT)
• Augusta, Georgia

West

Planned West events

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes America/Boulder/2012 - September 15, 11 am
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Utah
• Portland: Blurpeace 22:01, 3 August 2012 (UTC); happy to help as well! --Another Believer _(Talk) 22:40, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes America/Portland/2012 - September 22
• San Francisco/Bay Area:
  • Wiki Loves Monuments San Francisco Waterfront Photo Ride - September 15
  • Wiki Takes Yosemite - September 22-23
  • Wiki Loves Monuments bridges, palace, boats and tower tour - September 29
• Los Angeles - September 22, noon
• San Diego County - September 30, 2PM
• Seattle, WA Date September 15, 9 am, location Oddfellows Cafe + Bar.

Other West ideas

• Redlands, CA
• Riverside, CA -- There are enough NHR entries and monuments here to take up the whole day. I'll organize (or help) organize Riverside. If whomever listed Redlands would prefer? We can coordinate dates to avoid overlap. Pref later in Sept when temps have dropped below 100! Pls leave me a note. Cynthisa (talk) 08:43, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
• Olympia, WA, anyone?
• Western Nevada. With the exception of Reno, our towns are obviously too small individually to really do one of these, but maybe we can all get together and photograph Western Nevada as a whole. It'd be a great way to photograph the region, Wikipedia has a serious lack of images of it. If you live in Clark, Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Mineral, Storey, or Washoe county (or Carson City), contact me. I think we can turn this into a weekend tour. -TBustah