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The 2nd Seattle meetup occurred Saturday, January 15, 2005 [[Seattle Central Library]]. It was not as large as the November meetup, but that was anticipated: we had trouble finding a day this month that was open for even this many, and we didn't really have an out-of-town contingent this time.

In attendance were:
* [[User:Jmabel|Jmabel]]
* [[User:Michael Snow|Michael Snow]]
* [[User:LionKimbro|Lion Kimbro]]
* [[User:DanKeshet|DanKeshet]]
* [[User:Matiasp|Matiasp]]
* [[User:Trent|Trent]]
* and a few non-[[Wikipedia:Wikipedian|Wikipedian]] friends and relations

< I suspect that list isn't complete, please feel free to add yourself as appropriate; there were some comings & goings -- [[User:Jmabel|Jmabel]] | [[User talk:Jmabel|Talk]] 22:08, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC) >

Topics of conversation included:
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|Wikipedia Signpost]], Wikipedia's new internal newspaper, started by Michael Snow.
* [[SeattleWiki]], started by Matiasp; check out http://www.seattlewiki.org.
* Possible contact with small, local history museums; Dan Keshet and Jmabel have followed up to the point of drafting [[Wikipedia:Museum projects]], but [[as of 2005|as of mid-February 2005]] there has been no active outreach.
* Whether some (maybe 1%?) of articles are either sufficiently controversial or sufficient "vandal magnets" that our normal, open way of free-for-all editing may just not work for these; suggestion of starting dialogue on alternatives. Jmabel will probably try to start discussion on this.
* [[Larry Sanger]]'s recent criticisms of Wikipedia, and the issues of elitism/anti-elitism
* Michael Snow pointed out that there is very little in Wikipedia on ''performers'' of previous generations, unless their work was in a medium where it would be preserved. For example, our coverage of classical composers is at least semi-decent, but performers of classical music from before the present generation, and especially from before recording, are very under-covered. Even more so for dancers, stage actors, etc.
* ... and we pretty much all seemed to think [[Seattle, Washington]] is ready to be a featured article (which it soon was).

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