Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2016

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You can register for the WikiConference on googleforms here—which can also be linked as bit.ly/wikiday15.

Wikipedia Day
15th Birthday Bash
When and Where
Date:Saturday, January 16, 2016
Time:10:00 am – 7:00 pm EDT
Address:Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway
(Waverly and Washington Place)
4th Floor
New York, NY 10003

The Wikipedia Day 15th Birthday Bash NYC is a celebration and mini-conference to be held on Saturday January 16, 2016, hosted by NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City and fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC partners.

The NYC celebration is one of a number of Wikipedia Day worldwide – see Wikipedia 15.

You can register for the WikiConference on googleforms here—which can also be linked as bit.ly/wikiday15.

Event details[edit]

Attentive listeners
  • Date: Saturday, January 16, 2016
  • Time: 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
  • Location: Tisch School of the Arts. New York University. 721 Broadway (between Waverly and Washington Place), 4th Floor, New York, NY 10003 40°43′45.2″N 73°59′37.6″W / 40.729222°N 73.993778°W / 40.729222; -73.993778
    • Access information: There is an elevator – After presenting photo ID, go to the 4th floor
  • Subway:
  • Bus: M1, M2, M3, M5, M8, M14A, M14D, X1, X7, X9, X10, X12, X17, X27, X28
  • Parking: Two commercial garages, one block north at 445 Broadway.
  • Participation: Participation (and pizza and cake!) will be free, with room for ~100 participants, who should bring a photo ID for entrance.
  • Welcome: All are welcome. We are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from cultural institutions interested in developing Open Education projects.
  • Format: In addition to the party, the event will be a modified unconference, with dedicated plenary sessions (organized on this wiki), lightning talks to the whole assembly, and of course open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so it will be good to bring your ideas with you.
  • Wifi: There is wifi access, and we will give you the log in details on-site. N.B. Projectors will also probably be available for use by the various presenters.
  • Twitter: @Wikipedia_15
  • Hashtag: #Wikipedia15
  • Meetup link: Wikipedia Day 2016 NYC
  • Etherpad: Wiki15NYC
  • Video Livestream: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016

Event format[edit]

Panel B: Education

Participation (and pizza and cake!) will be free, with room for ~100 participants, who should bring a photo ID for the door. All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from cultural institutions interested in developing Open Education projects.

In addition to the party, the event will be a modified unconference, with dedicated plenary sessions (organized on this wiki), lightning talks to the whole assembly, and of course open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so it will be good to bring your ideas with you.

There is wifi access, and we will give you the log in details on-site. Projectors will also probably be available for use by the various presenters.

Schedule of sessions (tentative)[edit]

The event will be a modified unconference, with dedicated plenary sessions (organized on this wiki), lightning talks to the whole assembly, and of course open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so it will be good to bring your ideas with you.

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Morning
11:00–11:15 Intro Remarks
11:15–11:30 Intro to Open Space
11:30–12:30 Plenary Session A
Wikidata
12:30–1:00 Open Space Open Space Open Space Open Space
Lunch
2:00–3:00 Plenary Session B
Education and Edit-a-thons
3:00–3:30 Lightning Talks I
Views from Wikipedians and Everyone Else
3:30–4:00 Open Space Open Space Open Space Open Space
4:00–5:00 Lightning Talks II
Simulcast Session
5:00–5:30 Open Space Open Space Open Space Open Space
Dinner and Party till 7
(pizza, cake, art, puzzles, quizzes, discussion, and bonus sessions)

Plenary sessions[edit]

Wikidata @ Wikipedia Day 15

Panel Session A: Wikidata

Wikidata can be found at Wikidata as well as on Meta: Wikidata
See also: Wikidata Game!

Panel Session B: Education and Edit-a-thons, moderated by Mozucat – Ann Matsuuchi, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

  Wikipedia:Education program: List of participating institutions, WikiEdu            

Lightning talks[edit]

Add your 5-minute lightning talk topic you can personally present, about wiki topics or anything Free Culture-related. (actual schedule for lightning talks will be determined the day of). Lighting talks with active discussions can break out into Open Space sessions! Last-minute entries always accepted!
  • How to organize Wikipedia Day and similar-scale events in your hometown – Pharos (talk) 18:03, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Copyright and Plot Summaries Sorry – RoyGoldsmith (talk) 08:15, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • The nature of "Wikipedian in Residence" jobs in the communication industry Blue Rasberry '(talk) 17:24, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Automated prevention of spam, vandalism and abuse and how this protects the integrity of the encyclopedia so you can rely on it MusikAnimal talk 16:57, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Musings on arbitration/community sanctions enforcement as someone who used to do a ton of it and needs to get back to it again. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 21:28, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • GITenberg and the Git-flow approach to collaborative editing.--Openly (talk) 15:32, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I accidentally a poem: collaborative sonnets. --CassieTarakajian (talk) 17:27, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comparing Indian language Wikipedias and the English Wikipedia . --Quantumavik (talk) 00:40, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • From Low-tech to High-tech: Or, There and Back Again: Managing the Crossover in the Composition & Research Classroom HullIntegritytalk / 22:54, 13 January 2016 (UTC) + Mozucat (talk)[reply]
  • The process for handling new articles. Pt. 1 What is supposed to happen User:DGG/NYC2016- DGG ( talk ) 16:03, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The process for handling new articles. Pt. 2, What goes wrong -- DGG ( talk ) 23:42, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Introduction to Wikimedia Commons Frenezulo (talk) 19:34, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wikidata and causality. Emw (talk) 20:58, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bulletin Board list I – 3 pm

  1. Power of Provincialism
  2. Opasnet: A Wiki for Decision Support
  3. The News of Record – News and Story as Annotation
  4. Gitenberg – Openly
  5. New Articles: 1. What works – DGG
  6. New Articles: 2. What does not work – DGG
  7. The wonderful world of AE/CS enforcement
  8. Korean server wipeout – Jean
  9. Wikimedia Commons – introduction
  10. Automated prevention of abuse – MusikAnimal
  11. poem: collaborative sonnets – Cassie T

Bulletin Board list II – 4 pm

  1. Wikidata and causalityEmw
  2. Good + Evil: Uncovering bullshit and avoiding becoming an Evil Minion
  3. Indian language vs. English Wikipedia
  4. SignPost and other Wikipedia media: What's popular, what's not, etc.
  5. LaGuardia Archive project
  6. Storychip
  7. FREEBASSEL – on the fate of Bassel Khartabil

Hello Wikipedia! – My Proudest Article[edit]

Proposed time for session: Saturday January 16, 2015, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm NYC Time (21:00 UTC Globally – time conversion link), to last about one hour.
  • Hello Wikipedia! – My Proudest Article Global Teleconference Session – a micro-lightning talk event later in the afternoon:
    • At each participating location, alternately, a selection of Wikipedians will complete the following sentence (taking less than 30 seconds each) in the shared global video feed, progressing in groups by year since 2001, starting if possible with User:Jimbo Wales:

Open space sessions[edit]

No, not really. I'd like to know "What's really on Wikipedia?"
Add ideas you will bring for open space and sign up below (actual schedule for open space will be determined the day of). Last-minute entries always accepted!
  • Technological and social innovations for editathons – for Women in Red, Art+Feminism, Black WikiHistory MonthPharos (talk) 17:50, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • "What's really on Wikipedia?" see pic at right – Smallbones(smalltalk)
  • Wikipedia in the classroom, using health classes as an example. Will include an introductory wiki-workshop for educators. – Blue Rasberry (talk) 22:18, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • How to Evaluate New articles and Drafts. How to evaluate with new articles and help their new users: a workshop using live examples DGG ( talk ) 02:56, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Register and Get Started Editing – come learn one-on-one or as part of an open space session! -- BrillLyle (talk)
  • WMF Grant Discussion & Workshopping – contribute to active grant applications for Wikimedia NYC annual grant and AfroCROWD's third (!) grant :-) -- BrillLyle (talk)
  • Technical and Implementational Aspects of MediaWiki
    Topics discussed in greater or lesser detail
    • Installation and maintenance of MediaWiki, hosting services offering out-of-the-box wikis
    • Getting templates into fresh wiki installations
    • Semantic MediaWiki vs. Wikibase
    • Using Wikidata with stand-alone wikis
    • Merging datasets into Wikidata (while avoiding duplicates)
    Main Conclusions
    • Developed the idea that there should be a “core set” of (most popular? most expected?) templates (automatically) derivable from the (here understood: English) Wikipedia with which to seed new MediaWiki installations
    • Concluded that the Wikidata UI, especially on query.wikidata.org, still needs a lot of work
    (these notes contributed by BlaueBlüte (talk) 16:17, 17 January 2016 (UTC))[reply]

Sign up[edit]

You can register for the WikiConference on googleforms here—which can also be linked as bit.ly/wikiday15.

Likely attendees[edit]

  1. Pharos (talk) 19:07, 16 December 2015‎ (UTC)[reply]
  2. BrillLyle (talk)
  3. Mozucat (talk) 15:25, 17 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. nafSadh did say 23:56, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. ResMar 20:54, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Smallbones(smalltalk)
  7. King of ♠ 01:30, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Sidepocket (Sidepocket (talk)) 22:16, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Sumana Harihareswara 15:33, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  10. nycdi (talk) 18:35, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  11. MusikAnimal talk 18:38, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:05, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  13. DGG ( talk ) 04:00, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  14. DanielPenfield (talk) 19:41, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:23, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:37, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Shanluan (talk)
  18. Becksguy (talk) 18:35, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Lange.lea (talk) 01:11, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Masterknighted (talk) 16:57, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Napplicable (talk) 17:23, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  22. This will be one crazy weekend for me, here's to starting it with a bang. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 21:25, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Frenezulo (talk) 13:45, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  24. With no blizzards on the horizon, I think I can make it to this one. Liz Read! Talk! 18:44, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Yanping Nora Soong (talk) 22:05, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Emw (talk) 02:56, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Frimelle
  28. Daniel Case (talk) 04:18, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Nwhysel (talk) 15:01, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  30. Quantumavik (talk) 00:49, 13 January 2016 (UTC) Excited to participate in an unconference, while preparing for another research conference![reply]
  31. Openly (talk) 15:05, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  32. Wlmg (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  33. Wwwhatsup (talk) 05:28, 14 January 2016 (UTC) (Livestream)[reply]
  34. CmdrDan (talk) 02:08, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  35. BlaueBlüte (talk) 01:04, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  36. Megs (talk) 14:49, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  37. Jim.henderson (talk) 17:37, 15 January 2016 (UTC) Probably late, surely slow[reply]
  38. mr.messner 15 January 2016, I'll be there
  39. Dispenser 01:59, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  40. DutchTreat (talk) 13:28, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  41. Etlib (talk)
  42. Frank.manus (talk)
  43. HullIntegrity (talk)
  44. JeanL
  45. Jtuom (talk)
  46. LittleLotta (talk)
  47. LLarson (talk)
  48. mikejlamond (talk)
  49. Quarl (talk)
  50. Roadrunnernyc (talk)
  51. Scottandrewhutchins (talk)
  52. Shanluan (talk)
  53. Tdik
  54. Wozniakjan

Possible attendees[edit]

  1. MichaelVernonDavis (talk)
  2. ·addshore· talk to me! 11:14, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Aude (talk) 11:15, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Robert Greer (talk) 21:41, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Tanuyeiro (talk) 03:52, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Patrug (talk) 00:31, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  7. I can come in the evening. Eddie 13:46, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Remote participation[edit]

 

Regrets[edit]

  1. Theredproject (talk) 22:53, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. kosboot (talk) 18:26, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. czar 22:06, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Netherzone (talk) 00:01, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Still dealing with medical bills. I'll be surprised if I can come up before the Summer of 2016. -------User:DanTD (talk) 00:56, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6. WilliamDigiCol (talk) 14:21, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  7. RoyGoldsmith (talk) 22:07, 23 December 2015 (UTC) Something came up; sorry[reply]
  8. Aap1890 (talk) 20:08, 11 January 2016 (UTC) Wasn't able to come--sorry to miss out![reply]

Webcast[edit]

  • The introduction, plenary sessions, lightning talks, some open space, and global teleconference were livestreamed:
    • Livestream
    • Livestream is segmented into sessions and individual lightning talks.

Food[edit]

  • Coffee will be available
  • Food will be provided. Please let us know if you have vegetarian or other dietary restrictions.

Lunch[edit]

Dinner[edit]

  • From Francesco’s Pizzeria. 140 W 4th Street (Avenue Of The Americas & W Washington Sq), New York, NY 10012 (212) 477-1161

Gallery[edit]

Livestream grabs[edit]

Past events[edit]

See our past years' local celebrations

External links[edit]