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, United States - March 31, 2012. Link: Wikipedia Environment
Wikipedia Meetups
| June 2012 +/- | |
|---|---|
| Townsville | June 3, 2012 |
| San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2 | June 16, 2012 |
| Naga | June 23, 2012 |
| 2012 Wiknic | on or around June 23 |
| Fayetteville, Arkansas | June 22, 2012 |
| Boston | June 23, 2012 |
| Pittsburgh | June 23, 2012 |
| Chicago | June 23, 2012 |
| Cincinnati | June 23, 2012 |
| St. Louis | June 23, 2012 |
| Boulder, Colorado | June 23, 2012 |
| San Francisco | June 23, 2012 |
| Los Angeles | June 23, 2012 |
| Houston | June 23, 2012 |
| Oahu | June 23, 2012 |
| Wichita, Kansas | June 23, 2012 |
| Albany, New York | June 23, 2012 |
| North Florida | June 23, 2012 |
| Seattle, Washington | June 24, 2012 |
| Evansville, Indiana | June 30, 2012 |
| July 2012 +/- | |
| Wiki World's Fair (New York City) | July 7, 2012 |
| Meetups @ Wikimania (Washington, DC) | July 12, 2012 - July 15, 2012 |
| 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
- Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon
[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
