Champs is a sports bar and the noise will be terrible ona sunday nfl day On 12/29/10, James Hare <jamesmhare(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Agreed - a sports bar on a weekend is really no place for a Wikipedia meetup. Otherwise, I'm amicable to Bertucci's. They've always treated us well, and considering that we're starting to run up against the clock on this one, we should do that and start looking around for other venues for a future social meetup while we have a long lead time. If no one has any huge objections to doing Bertucci's, I'll call them on Friday and make a reservation for us. 2010/12/29 aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com>om>: -- Ben F. Schumin http://www.schuminweb.com/ schuminweb(a)gmail.com

Well we did eat at that terrible Singaporan restaurant in Chinatown once. -Dan On Dec 30, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Bruce R. Gilson wrote:

Sorry to hear. We will miss you but don't worry about getting back to DC for the meetup Katie Sent from my iPhone On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Alex Stinson <stinsoad(a)dukes.jmu.edu> wrote:

2010/12/30 Dan Rosenthal <swatjester(a)gmail.com> Well, it wasn't Singaporean; it was Burmese. And obviously, if you think it's so terrible, I won't suggest it again because we want to please everyone. But I wonder why you think so -- I rather liked it! -- Bruce R. Gilson brg1942(a)gmail.com

I actually *like* Burma...one of my favorite places in Chinatown. I'm not going to be able to make tomorrow's meeting, but I have a couple of things I'd like to put out there as agenda suggestions. Get the idea out there, maybe get some discussion going, see where it might lead. Does anyone object if I post them to the listserv? On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Ben F. Schumin <schuminweb(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

OK, here they are. 1.) Some sort of article-creating geobot. I mentioned this at the last meeting, but haven't gotten around to doing something more about it. Briefly: a proposal for such a bot was floated a couple of years ago. Fritzpoll agreed to code it, and he did - but for some reason it never got further beyond the planning stage, though there was approval of it. I think it's time we revisit the issue. There are plenty of reliable sources online from which even rudimentary geographic data can be drawn; we can go about it as we did before, with people vetting lists of articles prior to creation to ensure that all links are correct. If it works as well as I hope it would, then presumably its scope could be expanded to cover other geographical features, such as rivers, lakes, and mountains. If you all think it worthwhile, I'm going to dredge up the old suggestion and see what can be done about getting it started again. 2.) Some sort of Geograph project, but for the United States. I've always thought it a pity that no such project exists outside of the British Isles, and I don't see why not. Dr. Blofeld and I were talking about this one day, and he suggested that such a project might be hosted, or at least supported, by Wikimedia. I think it's a great idea; it worked for the UK, so why not here? And if it works as well as I hope, it might be expanded to cover other countries, too. Besides which, it would be a *great* source of free images that we could well use. 3.) A WikiAtlas. This was another of Dr. Blofeld's ideas - I haven't discussed it with him as much, but I think it would be something similar to OpenStreetMap. Could be a good idea, if you think Wikimedia would support it. 4.) Wiktionary outreach in third-world languages. I was reading something over at meta yesterday, and it made me think about what a potentially huge resource for such outreach we have here in DC. And a lot of third-world languages don't have very much of a profile online. Perhaps this would be something to integrate into our discussions with the National Museum of the American Indian, for instance - I'm sure Wiktionary could stand a good infusion of words from American Indian languages. And I'm sure the museum carries out some good linguistic research. How do these sound to you? 2011/1/1 aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com>