Calgary Wikipedia Meetup: Date:   Discuss when we should meet next Place:  ? The last Calgary Meetup occurred on January 28, 2007.

• I’m @grantzero@mstdn.ca on Mastodon/Fediverse.
• My gallery of photo & image contributions to Wikipedia.

Userboxes en This user is a native speaker of the English language. 2,000+ This user has made more than 2,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 3 months and 14 days.

Location

This user is a Wikipedian in Canada. This user comes from Alberta. This user comes from Calgary.

Language usage on Wikipedia

mankind This user supports the use of gender-neutral language. they This user considers singular they standard English usage. CA This user uses Canadian English spelling.  s  This user is militant about preventing the misspelling of anyway with an ‘s’ on the end.

I have significantly contributed to, or created, the following articles:

• Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission
• Aboriginal Justice Inquiry
• Advance poll
• Alberta general election, 2004 (I was a candidate)
  • Green Party of Alberta candidates, 2004 provincial election
• Alberta Greens (Green Party of Alberta) (I was president of the party for a couple years)
• Animal product (I'm vegetarian, leaning toward vegan, so concerned about such things)
• Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH)
• Bowness, Alberta
• Calgary Dollars (local currency that I work on)
• Calgary municipal election, 2007
• Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
• Various articles relating to the Canadian federal election, 2006.
• CJSW (I used to volunteer there)
• Community building (something I try to do)
• Craftivism (what the Revolutionary Knitting Circle does)
• Drawn and Quarterly (long-time fan)
• "Eyes on the Prize"
• Gaviotas (ecovillage that I read about and found very interesting)
• Lubicon Cree (I maintain an archive for them)
• Raging Grannies (activist group I've met and seen many times) (also, my first redirect article was The Raging Grannies)
• Revolutionary Knitting Circle (group I founded)
• Sexualization (something I oppose)
• Biographies:
  • Maude Barlow (national activist I've met)
  • Leanna Brodie (actor and playwrite I've met)
  • Adriane Carr (Green Party leader in B.C. - I worked on her election campaign in 2005)
  • Harry B. Chase (local activist I know)
  • Norman Conrad (first leader of the Green Party of Alberta)
  • Ray Danyluk (Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing)
  • Alana DeLong (Alberta politician I met at a rally)
  • Brigette DePape (Canadian activist)
  • Christopher Dock (early U.S. Mennonite educator)
  • David Eggen (Alberta politician I've met)
  • Cecilia Fire Thunder (American Indian leader)
  • Peter Fitzgerald-Moore (a local activist I worked with some years back)
  • Catherine Galliford (RCMP officer who brought forward allegations of extensive sexual harassment)
  • Paul George (B.C. environmentalist I worked on Green Party stuff with)
  • Tooker Gomberg (activist I met some years back)
  • Henry Hampton (U.S. documentarian)
  • Monica Hughes (Alberta science-fiction author who's books I adored as a kid)
  • Martha Kostuch (Alberta environmentalist)
  • Kate Manne (feminist writer who’s work I like)
  • Bernard Ominayak (Lubicon chief - I've met him)
  • Bill Phipps (friend and colleague)
  • George Read (friend and colleague)
  • Judy Rebick (Canadian feminist I've met)
  • Patricia Rozema (Canadian film director)
  • Debbie Stoller (author, knitter, editor of Bust)
  • David Swann (friend and colleague)
  • Richard Wagamese (First Nations writer)
  • Thomas Wharton (Alberta author - I read one of his books and liked it)
• Categories:
  • Category:Canadian environmentalists
  • Category:Wikipedian politicians
• Wikipedia meta:
  • User:UBX/del.icio.us
  • User:1ne/Userboxes/User politician
  • User:UBX/Twitter
  • User:UBX/Upcoming.org

Pages to start, or add to:

• Calgary Public Library (one of my favourite places)
• Community building
• Community development (field in which I work)
• Craftivism (I'm a practitioner)
• Cree language (I studied this years ago, and continue to host internet resources for it.)
• Democratic deficit (an issue I'm concerned about)
• Friends of Medicare (activist group in Alberta)
• Gaviotas (Colombian ecovillage)
• Green Party of Alberta
• Green Party of Alberta candidates, 2004 provincial election
• J26 G8 Protests (protests I helped organize)
• Lubicon Cree (aboriginal nation I've done some activist work for)
• National Action Committee on the Status of Women
• World Petroleum Congress (corporate get together which I helped organized protests against in 2000)

Biographies:

• Leanna Brodie (Canadian actor and playwright)
• Larry Fisk (Canadian author and peace educator)
• Peter Fitzgerald-Moore (Calgary activist, educator and former mayor of Bowness)
• Paolo Lugari (founder of Gaviotas)
• Bernard Ominayak (chief of the Lubicon Cree)
• Carolyn Pogue (Calgary author and activist)

Other wikis:

• Cree Language Wikipedia

WikiProjects and Collaborations:

• Canada collaboration
• Maintenance collaboration of the week
• WikiProject Alberta
• WikiProject Anti-war
• WikiProject Community
• WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada
• WikiProject Politicial parties and politicians in Canada

I do a fair amount of local media in my advocacy work. In this, I’ve ended up doing a couple of interviews talking about Wikipedia. I forget exactly when I did the first one. The second was on September 17, 2007, 7:45am, for CBC Radio Calgary’s The Eyeopener. That was specifically discussing WP and the Calgary municipal election, 2007 article.

The Working Man's Barnstar Great job with the clean up & neutrality work on Elizabeth May Ardenn 07:05, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)

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