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Toledo Wiki Edit Party at Seed!

Sorry for the late notice, but there is a Toledo Wiki Edit Party this Saturday, the 12th from 4-6 pm at Seed Coworking on St. Clair Street. I posted more information about the Edit Party from the website below.

I've been a fan of Toledo Talk for a number of years, and it's the first place I go to find good local knowledge - a recommendation for a certain type of contractor, a restaurant that serves a hard-to-find dish... ToledoWiki.net is a way to share and organize this type of local knowledge in a Wikipedia-style format.

I hope some Toledo Talk posters check ToledoWiki.net out and share some of their knowledge over there. The site just launched a few months ago and is still growing, and it could really use your valuable contributions of local knowledge. I think one Toledo Wiki page may be especially interesting to Toledo Talk posters - a page for Food Questions that easily creates maps for the answers to particular Food Questions. For example, the page uses some of your answers to upso's question about where to find smelt in a restaurant.

http://toledowiki.net/Food_Questions

You can look around the whole site. Maybe find something interesting, maybe add something interesting. Hope you can make it to the Edit Party and make some edits!

According to the localWiki Guide, an edit party is simple: "get some people together to work on the wiki together." An edit party is also useful for recruiting/introducing new people to wiki concepts and procedures and to meet other editors in person.

The November 24, 2012 Learn & Launch probably qualifies as the first ToledoWiki Edit Party.

The 2nd Edit Party was held on December 8th at Black Kite.
Next Edit Party: January 12, 4-6pm, Seed Coworking

The 3rd Edit Party will be Saturday, January 12th from 4-6pm at Seed Coworking.

Where: Seed Coworking is located at 25 South Saint Clair Street in downtown Toledo. There should be plenty of free street parking on S. St. Clair.
A representative from Seed will be on hand to give you a tour, tell you how coworking works, membership benefits, etc. Of course, you do not have to be a Seed member to attend the Edit Party. But you may like it there and want to join!
What to bring: A laptop, power supply (free, high-quality WiFi will be available). A list of questions about ToledoWiki. A list of pages you plan to work on.
What will we do: Depends on what people are interested in. We can all work independently, but there is a projector, so someone can do a demo to the whole group if needed.
Food & drink: Downtown Latte closes at 3pm, but we can order Home Slice Pizza. You can bring your own drinks and food. Seed will provide coffee and there is some community soda (Pepsi, Dew) in the fridge.
What else you can do before the Edit Party: 20 North Gallery is just down the street. Its "Art for All Souls Exhibit" ends on January 12th. The gallery closes at 4pm on Saturdays.
Please RSVP at the Facebook event. Invite others to the Facebook event.
You will also find information about this event on other calendars (to help raise awareness): Toledo Calagator, Toledo On The Map.

created by ifXthenWhyNot on Jan 11, 2013 at 02:50:20 pm
updated by ifXthenWhyNot on Jan 11, 2013 at 02:51:14 pm
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From the site: Brian Zelip launched Toledo Wiki out of love and can't wait to turn it over to a collective of engaged editors outside where it will stop making a mess on the rug.

Why would anyone go to all the time and trouble of creating a Wiki for a gravel pit?

posted by madjack on Jan 11, 2013 at 06:14:03 pm     #  

"Why would anyone go to all the time and trouble of creating a Wiki for a gravel pit?"

The Centennial Quarry page does not exist yet. Since Toledo Wiki includes the surrounding area, you could create that page for Sylvania.

This is the first time that I have heard about toledowiki.net. Last summer, I heard about localwiki.org, which is the software behind toledowiki.net.

Here's a November 2012 localwiki blog post about Toledo Wiki's first "learn & launch" event.

And here's a page at Toledo Wiki about the November edit party.

ToledoWiki Learn & Launch took place on Saturday, November 24, 2012, from 4p-6p, and was the first public gathering about ToledoWiki.

Between 50-60 people with backgrounds in the arts, non-profit, business and tech sectors of the community attended to learn about the project and get involved.

Toledo Free Press published an article about the Learn & Launch prior to the event.

Hosted at and catered by Black Kite, funding for food and outreach was provided by Code For America's Race for Reuse campaign.

November 2012 Toledo Wiki Learn & Launch Edit Party at Black Kite coffee shop.

posted by jr on Jan 11, 2013 at 07:20:04 pm     #  

After creating a page, where do you find instructions and tips for editing/updating a page to add web address, location, pictures, etc.?

posted by Trilby on Jan 12, 2013 at 10:23:09 am     #  

Trilby posted at 09:23:09 AM on Jan 12, 2013:

After creating a page, where do you find instructions and tips for editing/updating a page to add web address, location, pictures, etc.?

http://toledowiki.net/Help
http://toledowiki.net/Wiki_Style_Guide

If the above pages do not provide enough info, try these:

http://guide.localwiki.org/
http://guide.localwiki.org/Help
http://guide.localwiki.org/Usage_Guide

posted by jr on Jan 13, 2013 at 02:31:02 am     #  

How do I delete the original page and start over.
I created a page before I "signed up" and creaed a "login". Now the page does not appear under Business>service. Also, I now want to use a template.

posted by Trilby on Jan 13, 2013 at 11:11:45 am     #  

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