Wikipedia:Meetup
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Regular (or more spontaneous) face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians take place in cities around the world. This page is used as a starting point for Wikipedians organising meetups, and subpages are used for finalising the details once a meetup has been agreed. For meetings in other languages/places please use the interlanguage links from this page.
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[edit] Cities hosting meetups around the world
[edit] Future meetups
[edit] Scheduled future meetups
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Wikipedia Environment Meetup at the Ross Library, Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri, USA - March 31, 2012. Link: Wikipedia Environment
Wikipedia Meetups
| February 2012 +/- | |
|---|---|
| Community lunch at the Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco) | |
| February 1, meetup with Shiju Alex, Consultant Indic Initiatives at WMF(Tezpur IN) | |
| February 4, meetup with Jon Davies, Chief Executive of WMUK (Cambridge UK) | |
| Feb 4, Kurukshetra(Chennai, IN) | |
| Feb 19, Ahmedabad (Ahmedabad IN) | |
| Feb 26, Melbourne (Melbourne AUS) | |
| March 2012 +/- | |
| March 10 (Washington, D.C.) | |
| March 8 (Dubai) | |
| Perth, Western Australia, Australia | March 17 |
| WikiWomen's History Month (Around the world) | |
| Full Meetup Calendar | |
If you don't want to bother formatting, just add your item below.
[edit] Future meetups without a date set yet
This list was last updated: February 1, 2012
- Add your event here!
[edit] Procedure and advice
- Create the page
- Use or create a sub page of Wikipedia:Meetup to organize the meeting.
- Make it easy to sign up, with simple subsections like Likely attendees, Possible attendees and Regrets for signup lists, as at Meetup/NYC or Meetup/Karachi 1.
- Attract attendees
- Solicit invitations of geographically local Wikipedia users.
- Create a geonotice request.
- Create a list of Wikipedians interested in future and regular meetups for a given location where they can sign up (alternatively, userboxes with corresponding categories can be used).
- Use an info box like {{Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne/Invite}} for mass invitations.
- Use other media outside of Wikipedia to advertise to non-Wikipedia users
- Post a notice at the relevant page of wikipedia.meetup.com
- Post a couple of notices on Craigslist (free).
- Word of mouth is always an option.
- Don't be afraid to spam people: Make a big list like Meetup/NYC/Invite list from all people who have ever expressed interest in attending a meetup, as well as all people in categories like Category:Wikipedians in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia userbox and other regional categories.
- Don't manually post notices to all the editors who are listed in a geographical category. Simply post a request at WP:BOTREQ, asking for a bot owner to have a bot deliver the (specified) message to everyone in the category.
- Place notices at talk pages like Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philadelphia and even Talk:Philadelphia.
- Organize event
- Organize location
- Organize eating arrangements
- Settle on a definite time and place, and don't change it. If someone is just bold, people will know about the date a few weeks in advance (instead of a couple of days), which will make planning easier for individuals. Getting input from everyone is good, but you don't need a formal vote on everything, which can delay the process.
- Consider whether you want any sort of agenda for the meetup (like a discussion on a specific topic, or forming a local chapter).
[edit] Past meetups
There have been many meetups in various locations across the globe.
[edit] Pictures
A gallery from many different cities can be found at:
[edit] See also
- Geonotice
- Highly Active Users
- Meta Meetup
- Wikiday
- Wikimania
- Wikinews Meetup
- Wikipedia Takes The City
- WikiSym
- Wikiversity Meetup
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wikimedia meetups |
- Flickr photos tagged wikipedia & meetup – photos probably of Wikipedia Meetups
