WikiMeetup in DC, looks to be a blowout Options

[thekohser]

Tons of famous Wikipedians will be there.

I think part of the reason is the "Unlimited Soda Pop".

I wish I could go, but I have prior commitments to have my toenails clipped and I'm also dropping off our accumulated plastic grocery bags into one of those recycling barrels at the supermarket.

I could have bummed a ride with Sageross, too.

[Nerd]

They'd have loved to see you there Greg. Just imagine the welcome you'd get!

(PS Why is this in bureaucracy?)

[A Horse With No Name]

Tons of famous Wikipedians will be there.

Wow, an all-star line-up! Miss Clin, Mr. Brad, Mr. Randy (not the one from Boise), Dan "How I Won the War" Rosenthal and (pause for the kodo drum pounding) the two-and-only Kat Walsh!

I think part of the reason is the "Unlimited Soda Pop".

Wow, Pizza Buffet! In a great food town like DC, this is the best they can come up with? In honor of the kid in Africa, they should be dining out at this super Washington establishment!

I wish I could go, but I have prior commitments to have my toenails clipped and I'm also dropping off our accumulated plastic grocery bags into one of those recycling barrels at the supermarket.

I could have bummed a ride with Sageross, too.

I live less than hour from Sage -- I should stop by his house to borrow some beer.


Oh, WTF -- let's crash the party! We know where it is and we know what these characters look like. Come on, if Tareq and Michaele Salahi can do it, why can't we?

All if favor of crashing the party, raise your hoofs!

This post has been edited by A Horse With No Name: Wed 30th December 2009, 2:24pm

[Malleus]

All if favor of crashing the party, raise your hoofs!

Even if I lived next door I wouldn't go. I don't care what other wikipedians are like in real life, and neither do I have any desire to meet them. I only care about what they're like when I come across them editing. not eating and drinking.

This post has been edited by Malleus: Wed 30th December 2009, 2:40pm

[GlassBeadGame]

Pseudonymously offering to provide a ride is probably a good way of obtaining private time in a situation in which you exercise a high degree of control with people who are too young to have a drivers license. A more prudent project might be concerned about that.

[Malleus]

Pseudonymously offering to provide a ride is probably a good way of obtaining private time in a situation in which you exercise a high degree of control with people who are too young to have a drivers license. A more prudent project might be concerned about that.

I probably shouldn't have laughed out loud when I read that, but I have to admit that I did. Not because I think you're wrong, but because I think you're right.

[TungstenCarbide]

Tons of famous Wikipedians will be there.

I think part of the reason is the "Unlimited Soda Pop".

I wish I could go, but I have prior commitments to have my toenails clipped and I'm also dropping off our accumulated plastic grocery bags into one of those recycling barrels at the supermarket.

I could have bummed a ride with Sageross, too.

Going to an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet with Gmaxwell, CydeWeyes and JamesF sounds like a real hoot!

[Nerd]

I've been invited to attend many meetups before, but never managed to get round to going to one. Not sure if I really want to as it is.

[thekohser]

(PS Why is this in bureaucracy?)

Oh, come on -- this is WikiBureaucracy at its best, in the national capital of bureaucracy, no less!

Anyone else notice the irony of visiting the Library of Congress? Jimbo's Wikia is supposed to be "the rest of the library"! I wonder if there's a Yu-Gi-Oh! section in the LOC?

[A Horse With No Name]

Oh, come on -- an "Animal House" style food fight with the Wiki elite? Really, who wouldn't want to give a Moe Howard-worthy pie toss to some of these people?

[dtobias]

I see Carol Moore is there; I know her from Libertarian Party conventions going way back before Wikipedia existed.

There was supposedly going to be a Miami meetup this past weekend, but it never managed to get together.

[Peter Damian]

They'd have loved to see you there Greg. Just imagine the welcome you'd get!

Well I'm going to the London meetup on the 17th

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/29

I'm sure I'll get a resounding welcome.

[Eva Destruction]

They'd have loved to see you there Greg. Just imagine the welcome you'd get!

Well I'm going to the London meetup on the 17th

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/29

I'm sure I'll get a resounding welcome.

Hey, I'll go if you do... I imagine the pair of us turning up would be the Wikipedia equivalent of a strippagram at a Requiem Mass.

[dogbiscuit]

They'd have loved to see you there Greg. Just imagine the welcome you'd get!

Well I'm going to the London meetup on the 17th

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/29

I'm sure I'll get a resounding welcome.

Hey, I'll go if you do... I imagine the pair of us turning up would be the Wikipedia equivalent of a strippagram at a Requiem Mass.

I think it could be quite a constructive meeting - people find it quite difficult to be the loonies they appear to be on line in person.

It could also be an interesting bit of research because having made that comment, there are signs that the corrosion of common sense that occurs online does seem to leak into the real world.

[Peter Damian]

I think it could be quite a constructive meeting - people find it quite difficult to be the loonies they appear to be on line in person.

What exactly do you mean by that?

Hey, I'll go if you do... I imagine the pair of us turning up would be the Wikipedia equivalent of a strippagram at a Requiem Mass.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?titl...4&oldid=1782411

The food looks great, however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:London_meetup_10.JPG


This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Fri 1st January 2010, 7:31pm

[dogbiscuit]

I think it could be quite a constructive meeting - people find it quite difficult to be the loonies they appear to be on line in person.

What exactly do you mean by that?

Lots of things

However, the main point is that most normal people are far more reasonable in person than in email so you should be able to have constructive discussions about things that trouble you and be heard - it is quite difficult to reproduce a pile-on like on Wikipedia in real life.

Most Wikipedians come across as quite odd when you look at the way they conduct themselves - most normal people simply don't get involved once you try going to the admin pages expecting common sense.

[Nerd]

The food looks great, however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:London_meetup_10.JPG

Yeah, it's a Wetherspoons which usually does good food.

Do the Wikipedians look great too?

[Peter Damian]

The food looks great, however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:London_meetup_10.JPG

Yeah, it's a Wetherspoons which usually does good food.

Do the Wikipedians look great too?

The Wikipedians look lovely.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wik...07-01-02_02.jpg

This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Fri 1st January 2010, 10:53pm

[Cla68]

Tons of famous Wikipedians will be there.

Wow, an all-star line-up! Miss Clin, Mr. Brad, Mr. Randy (not the one from Boise), Dan "How I Won the War" Rosenthal and (pause for the kodo drum pounding) the two-and-only Kat Walsh!

I think part of the reason is the "Unlimited Soda Pop".

Wow, Pizza Buffet! In a great food town like DC, this is the best they can come up with? In honor of the kid in Africa, they should be dining out at this super Washington establishment!

Yes, there are a lot of great restaurants in DC, so I wonder why they're choosing Uno? I assume because it's near Union Station it makes traveling easier for out-of-town attendees, Uno has lower prices than the more upscale restaurants around the downtown DC and Capital Hill areas, and pizza is a food that most people can eat.

This post has been edited by Cla68: Fri 1st January 2010, 11:40pm

[RMHED]

Yeah, it's a Wetherspoons which usually does good food.

I'm hoping that's sarcasm, otherwise your tastebuds must be severely impaired.