Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2015-09

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The September 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This will be the next in our main monthly series of "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events and editathons.

Details[edit]

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (feel free to come by early as 6, stay later for social hour)
Location: Babycastles. 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), 2nd Floor, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011 40°44′17.5″N 73°59′54.5″W / 40.738194°N 73.998472°W / 40.738194; -73.998472
Subway:
- to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 7th Avenue)
- to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
- to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
- to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
- to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
- to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 8th Avenue)
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M14A, M14D, X1, X7, X9, X10, X12, X17, X27, X28 buses
Hashtag: #WikiWednesday

After the main meeting: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery

Etherpad link

Agenda[edit]

Wikipedia Meetups
April 2024 +/-
London 203	April 14, 2024 (2024-04-14)
Oxford 99	April 21, 2024 (2024-04-21)
San Diego 110	April 22, 2024 (2024-04-22)
North Carolina Earth Day	April 23, 2024 (2024-04-23)
Edinburgh 15	April 27, 2024 (2024-04-27)
BLT Office Hours	April 28, 2024 (2024-04-28)
May 2024 +/-
Auckland 22	May 4, 2024 (2024-05-04)
Leeds 6	May 4, 2024 (2024-05-04)
London 204	May 12, 2024 (2024-05-12)
US Mountain West online	May 14, 2024 (2024-05-14)
Bay Area WikiSalon	May 16, 2024 (2024-05-16)
San Diego 111	May 20, 2024 (2024-05-20)
BLT Office Hours	May 26, 2024 (2024-05-26)
Full Meetup Calendar • Events calendar on Meta For meetups in other languages, see the list on Meta

Bring your own ideas!

Introductions / new users[edit]

Introductions
Focus on new users, questions, etc.

Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events[edit]

Local Wikipedia Free Culture Alliance NYC projects
Past, present, and future institutional partnerships with Wikipedia
Recent editathons and projects
- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American editathon @ MoMA - September 2

Chapter business[edit]

Grants review
Committees review
Public broadcasting cooperation projects
Tech/app/bot projects
Reimagining WMF grants and annual plans
Advance prepping for Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin

Future plans[edit]

Monthly: Regular WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles (next: Oct 28), Editathons @ MoMA and timing
Semester-long: Planning Fall 2015 WP:NYCEDU wiki-classes
September: AfroCROWD Wikipedia Editathon @ Queens Library (Sunday, September 20) - Eventbrite RSVP
October:

WikiArte Latin American editathon with Iberocoop @ MoMA (Saturday, October 3)
WikiConference USA 2015 @ National Archives in DC (October 9-11)
Women in Architecture editathon @ Guggenheim (Thursday, October 15)
Wikipedia Takes Manhattan Strikes Back (October 17-18)
WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles (Wednesday, Oct 28)

November:

Afrocrowd Wikipedia Editathon @ MoMA returns (Tuesday, November 10?)
Women in Science editathon @ New York Academy of Sciences (Sunday, November 22)

January 2016: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 for the 15th anniversary (see Wikipedia Day NYC 2015)

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions[edit]

Keynote[edit]

15-20 minutes

TBA

Lightning talks[edit]

5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!

Sign up[edit]

Likely attendees[edit]

Pharos (talk) 21:43, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
BrillLyle (talk)
Jim.henderson (talk) 20:43, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Aliceba (talk) 22:15, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
kosboot (talk) 15:37, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Shanluan (talk)
Roman Spinner (talk) 22:47, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hexatekin (talk) 18:35, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Becksguy (talk) 20:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Bluerasberry (talk)
DGG (talk)
Jeremyb (talk)
Ronald Sexton (talk)
Skigg (talk)
Vmenkov (talk)

Possible attendees[edit]

For the first time, I might actually get the chance to attend one of these meetups. I'll have to see what happens when I get to the city. -------User:DanTD (talk) 00:48, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Regrets[edit]

Can't make it this time, but after last month I certainly plan on making a regular appearance! — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:48, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]