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''This post was written by | ''This post was written by Graeme Arnott ([[wikipedia:User:Oswin_Oswald|User:Oswin Oswald]]) and originally published [http://whynotedtechblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/glasgow1-wikimedia-meetup.html here]'' | ||
[[File:Glasgow Meetup 1.JPG|thumb|200px|right|Attendees of the first ever Glasgow Meetup on Sunday 12 May 2013.]] | |||
I’ve done a little bit of editing on Wikipedia but not much. I don’t really have much confidence on it but I’ve now got a new user name I now feel better about contributing on a regular basis. (I was using my own name which increased the pressure not to publicly mess up). I’m going to do the P2P University’s School of Open course '[https://p2pu.org/en/courses/49/writing-wikipedia-articles-the-basics-and-beyond/ Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond]' when it starts in July (for European times). | |||
I | Anyway, getting back to the story. Whilst assembling the material for the TMA presentation I happened to find out that the very first Wikimedia meet up in Glasgow was taking place a fortnight or so before the TMA’s hand-in date, and this was too good an opportunity to miss. Eleven of us met in the [[wikipedia:John Moore (British Army officer)|Sir John Moore]] pub on Argyle Street on 12th May and I think it went really well, although you wouldn’t know it from my expression in this picture :-). | ||
It transpired that the pub’s name was not insignificant. Dan and Julia looked up Wikipedia to get some background on Sir John Moore and found out that he was a Glaswegian who had first seen action for the British Army in the American War of Independence. One of his postings in the 1790s was to the West Indies under a certain Sir Ralph Abercromby. Now, bizarrely the Sir Ralph Abercromby is the pub where Wikimedia hold their meetups in Manchester. How odd is that? Was there then some strange hand guiding the choice of these pubs? If so, what was the pattern and what did it signify? Were these pubs in these similar ex-industrial cities effectively hyperlinked in a way reminiscent of psychogeographic ley lines? Were we like the people on Borges’ map only now were we living on a Wikipedia article? Was the fact that Wikimedia held their meetups on the territory of these one time opponents of liberation a tongue-in-cheek comment on web freedom? Perhaps the solution lay with a certain Richard John Blackler the gentleman after whom the Wetherspoon’s pub is named and where the Liverpool Wikimedia meetups are held. Would he also be a representative of the imperialist redcoats? | |||
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