User talk:Rustbelt Maps

Help!

I am incredibly lost. I want to help and I'm really a great cartographer. I work in Illustrator, as has been the industry standard for 20-odd years. I also do GIS. And sure, Illustrator exports into SVG; I'm sure I'll figure out the details later on my own.

But I find so much of Wikipedia so disorganized (try to find other examples of maps easily!) and there's no logical place to ask questions of other people who help out around here.

I'd really like to help and to contribute my expertise to something that I believe in, but I need a little bit of hand holding to find my around for the first week or so. Where do I post such requests?

Thanks!

Rustbelt Maps (talk) 20:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome~

You noticed that you are a confirmed cartographer, with a long experience, using GIS too.

If so, please see :

Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop - where our users (mainly skilled amators) make maps,
User:Sting-fr : User:Sting (Gallery on his upload on "Commons" + talk page on Commons)]] - the skillest map maker of us, used to GIS.

I guess Sting may be interesting to learn some more professional skills, or easier ways to works. A collaboration Sting-Yourself may be interesting ;).

A first step would be for you to upload one of your work on commons :

This will allow Sting to understand your level ;)

"Commons" is a short term for the wikipedia's images/files store website, that's where we upload our works (maps), and keep them.

Wikipedia is a complex website and long project, we have time. Start with those some few pages. I myself contact Sting, who may help you to start.

Good luck to you. Yug (talk) 16:59, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Stories Project

Aloha!

My name is Victor Grigas, I’m a storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco working on collecting unique and interesting stories from Wikipedians that can be used to compel donations for the 2011 fundraiser.

I found your user name on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Chicago

If you are interested in participating, and would like to schedule a telephone or Skype interview with me, please send me an email (vgrigas@wikimedia.org) along with any questions or concerns you may have.

Thanks for your time!

Victor, User:Victorgrigas Victor Grigas (talk) 20:34, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PS If you know of anyone with whom I should speak please let me know :)

Call for presentations for WCNA 2022 and Mapping USA

Call for presentations for WikiConference North America 2022 and OpenStreetMap US's Mapping USA

This is a call for presentations by EOD, Sunday, October 15, for WikiConference North America (Nov 11-13), held jointly with OpenStreetMap US's Mapping USA. We encourage you to please submit your Wikipedia and Wikimedia proposals at Wikiconference:2022/Submissions or OpenStreetMap US proposals at Call for Proposals: WikiConference North America + Mapping USA. We are sending this mass message to you because we deduced that you may be in North America and interested in maps in Wikimedia or Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, or OpenHistoricalMaps. We are looking for lightning talks in particular on Friday, Nov 11. Some suggestions:

Cultural similarities and differences, for instance OpenStreetMap and Wikivoyage (map and describe what you know) versus Wikipedia (verify with citations)
Type of licensing for each project and how they differ: OpenStreetMap, Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia
The flow of information from one project into another, and how maps are generated
How OpenHistoricalMap works and possible interactions with Wikimedia projects
Your ideas!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:31, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Registration is open for WCNA 2022 and Mapping USA

WikiConference North America 2022 will be virtual, November 11-13. We will hold it jointly with OpenStreetMap US's Mapping USA. Our theme this year is open knowledge allies.

Registration is now open here! Please register by the 10th so that we can set everyone up online on our platform. Like last year, we are planning on using Hopin.

Our schedule is will be finalized and available in the next few days. We have an exciting line-up of sessions related to Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap, and the intersection of the two. Stay tuned!

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