Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston
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This is a list of recent and future Wikipedian gatherings in the Boston area. Please add or update events listed with details, links to pictures, and mugshots of attendees who got nabbed. Pictures, I say!!
[edit] General information
| Upcoming | |
|---|---|
| Washington, DC 9 | January 9, 2010 |
| Bangalore 9 | January 10, 2010 |
| London 29 | January 17, 2010 |
| Wikipedia Day NYC | January 24, 2010 |
| Recent | |
| Bangalore 8 | December 20, 2009 |
| London 28 | December 13, 2009 |
| Cairo | November 25, 2009 |
| Bangalore 7 | November 22, 2009 |
| New York City 16 | November 15, 2009 |
| Cambridge 5 | November 14, 2009 |
| London 27 | November 8, 2009 |
| Past meetups | |
[edit] Mailing list
We are moving our mailing list to one hosted on the wikimedia servers, for better long-term archiving. Please join to connect directly with other group members. There is more support for Wikipedia at universities near Boston than ever, and lots of interesting work we can do this year!
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston
[edit] Old Yahoo! Group and Meetup Site
- Yahoo! Group with a discussion list
- Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group -- includes current calendar of meetups
[edit] Upcoming
Monthly meetups are planned and can be rsvp'ed for here or on <sigh> meetup.com.
[edit] November 9 2009
In Davis Square
[edit] Earlier
[edit] October 21 2009
A discussion at Wagamama with Mayo Fuster Morell.
[edit] October 12 2009
At Christopher's.
[edit] September 14 2009
At Christopher's again.
[edit] August 18 2009
Dinner, then ice cream and a discussion with Jonathan Zittrain at the Berkman Center.
[edit] August 10 2009
A cozy dinner date at Christopher's.
[edit] July 14 2009
A monthly meetup at Qdoba on Mass Ave.
[edit] July 9 2009
A quick meetup on the occasion of Brion Vibber's visit to Boston for the OER Discovery 2009 workshop.
[edit] June 14 2009
See Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/FC+ for the first of a series of Free Culture+ meetups. Note: this meetup was cancelled due to scheduling conflicts.
[edit] March 28 2009
BLP at the BPL
(Lunch beforehand at Chilli Duck at 11:30 AM for Thai food and pre-research wiki talk at the Chilli Duck, 829 Boylston Street (between Fairfield St & Gloucester St).)
1PM in the Elliott Room (located in between Bates hall and the Hub computer area) of the Boston Public Library. From there, we'll get reference materials and find a place to work. Organized by User:sj
We will have a Wikipedia sign. Bring your referencing problems if you like and we can all work on them. I can also give short Wikipedia referencing and/or library research tutorials if anyone wants. Bring your BPL card if you have one!
A reference day at the BPL, focused on BLPs and [other] disputed topics.
In particular, I would like to see List of people from Boston improved and expanded to include modern people, so that it look more like lists from other major cities (e.g., List of people from Chicago and List of Austinites).
Modern writers, musicians, and educators might be a place to start. A Reference Challenge with a list of 100 peeps to begin with would be interesting. (does someone want to start putting this together?)
I would start with
- Category:People from Boston, Massachusetts
- Older unref'ed BLPs from Category:Unreferenced_BLPs
- Topic searches of the BLP noticeboard's archives
And at the end of the day we could have a new and improved list of Bostonians (with a special marker for BLPs? for those who have been through BLP review?) and wrap up with comments on the en:wp policies... Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons
[edit] 24 January 2009
7pm at Asmara in Central Sq., organized by User:Sj.
- Where
- Asmara, 700 Mass Ave Cambridge, MA 02138. (617) xxx-xxxx
- When
- 1900 EST (there is wifi there, so we may be on IRC as well in #wikipedia)
Agenda:
- ongoing projects people have suggested we start
- support from local companies and unis. offers of space for regularly hosted events.
- speakers for a monthly speaker series,
- chat about recent wikimedia goings-on: more formal organization of the meetup group, chapters, library collaborations.
- updates on wikipedia references in the MIT Mystery Hunt and elsewhere (forum warz, anyone?)
Come join us on Saturday 7pm at Asmara for all of this and more. Friends and family are welcome. BYOS.
Attendees:
[edit] 12 January 2009, 1900 EST
7pm at Wagamama in Harvard Sq.. Organized by User:Sj. (57 JFK St, Cambridge, MA 02138, (617) 499-0930.)
Agenda : good food and conversation! wikis to use at work. hyperlocal wikis.
Attendees: (15) for dinner and boba tea afterwards...
[edit] Past Meetups
- 2008 gatherings
- 2006-2007 gatherings & mania planning
- April — December 2005 gatherings
- November 2004 to March 2005 gatherings
- July 31, 2004 with Jimbo Wales
[edit] Wikimania
Our group did a lot to plan for and host Wikimania 2006. (For more on Wikimania see the public site, Wikimania 2006 wiki, planning info, the at-large discussion list, and the local list.)
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