Tom Calhoun has announced nearly 1800 consecutive games for the St. Louis Blues and it was surprising that he didn't have a Wikipedia page. I am not great with sports stuff so I had to look up what a hockey announcer actually does (the organists I know about 😂 ) and how the Stanley Cup playoffs work. Most of what I know about hockey comes from Shoresy and Heated Rivalry Insta content and growing up down the road from Bobby Sweeney. This one was fun to write.
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The Democratic Socialists of America have been gaining ground in every election (they won seven out of seven races in Vermont yesterday). They have two national co-chairs. Ashik Siddique already had a Wikipedia page, but now Megan Romer has one too.
I helped a man at Drop-In Time start shifting his tech processes from his iPad to his laptop. His desktop was a background of many years of Vermont Life covers. He had a bit of a hand tremor so I set him up with a bigger cursor and showed him how speech-to-text worked. When I worked with someone else she said "Do you know who that WAS?" I did not. Turns out it was Tom Slayton, retired longtime editor of Vermont Life. No Wikipedia page (til now). An honor to write it.
Avoided Apple news and Wordpress news by spending this rainy afternoon learning about Joseph Mikulec, a Croatian man who became naturalized in America and spent his life walking all over the world #AsOneDoes and collecting autographs in a huge book. He died with no money (having bequeathed his book for $2500 some years before) and the book sold in 2025, to the mayor of his Croatian hometown, for $225 K. When I say book, you really can't imagine....
A friend was watching Hyperland, a movie from 1990. She noticed a bit from a woman, Amanda Goodenough, who had created a hypercard deck that was also an interactive childrens' story. Turns out it was probably the first interactive digital story when it came out, in 1987. Thanks to the miracle of digital archiving and emulating, we can interact with that same story, in nearly the same way, 40 years later. And I wrote a short Wikipedia article about Amanda. (Thanks Dinah!)
Jim got a Postcrossing postcard from Belarus. We looked at the stamp and tried to read the script. It gave the name of the artist who had an article on French Wikipedia but not one on English Wikipedia. Turns out he was a painter in Paris for most of his life except for that time where his neighbors ratted him out to the Gestapo (wanting his studio!) and he almost went to Auschwitz. He survived, his studio was intact, he lived until 1990. And he had Jim's birthday!
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In a solidarity event, WikiProject Organized Labor is wrapping up tomorrow. It was a monthlong community editing event to improve coverage of union-related topics on all the wiki-properties. I started out just moving union/strike/organizer images from Flickr Commons to Wikimedia Commons but then I realized I could make an article for You Deserve a Tech Union, a very good book about a very important topic. Just a stub, but I'm pleased with it.
I went to a concert called Endfest in 1992 which was a wild event with the Beastie Boys, L7, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney and a bunch of others. The Wikipedia page for the event had a redlink for the venue where they played. So now there's a page for the Kitsap County Fairgrounds and Events Center.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsap_County_Fairgrounds_and_Events_Center
Kitsap County Fairgrounds and Events Center