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Seattle Wikipedians is a meeting in Seattle which takes place on the first Tuesday of every month from 7-9 at Café Allegro in the University District. The purpose of the meeting is to collaborate Wikipedia projects among Seattle-area Wikipedia users and to share in-person Wikipedia training.

Seattle Wikipedians is entirely volunteer run. Meetings are free to attend but if you want coffee you should buy it downstairs before coming up. If you intend to come, please put your name on the list!

Directions

Café Allegro is in the alley on 43rd between 15th and University Way. It among the closest coffee shops to the western side of the University of Washington campus. At night there is street parking on 15th.

Here is Google's entry for the place and a map.

The meeting may be upstairs - please note that the cafe has two downstairs rooms and one upstairs one. The upstairs one is reserved for us, but when downstairs is quiet it is also closer to the coffee.

Tuesday 6 November 2012

This month's regular meeting will be at the usual place and time - Café Allegro at 7pm.

Planning to attend:

Still planning on being there unless something comes up. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 01:28, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Election day, huh. Well I already voted so OK. — Brianhe (talk) 03:36, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Tuesday is 4 November not 6 November. This time I might be able to make it! Are we discussing any theme in particular at this meeting? --Pine^✉ 17:11, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Um ... Are you looking at the right year's calendar? Today is Saturday the third; Tuesday will be the sixth. — Brianhe (talk) 17:25, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Right year, wrong month. I was looking at December. --Pine^✉ 18:22, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question how do we recognize the Wikipedians? Cafe Allegro can be a crowded place. --Pine^✉ 22:53, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I have a Wikipedia sticker on my laptop. Brian and I will probably have motorcycle helmets sitting around. A while ago, I ordered some Wikipedia buttons to wear, but no sign of them yet. There's usually about 5 people in the cafe at that time, and you can always just ask. Or print a Wikipedia logo on a piece of paper and put it on your table. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:49, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, something has happened and I won't be able to make it tonight. --Pine^✉ 22:29, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Regrets:

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I will be in NYC. I requested a geonotice for this here. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:29, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Past meetings

Tuesday 2 October 2012

This month's regular meeting will be at the usual place and time - Café Allegro at 7pm.

Planning to attend:

--Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:50, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Brianhe (talk) 05:12, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
sign here with ~~~~

Regrets:

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I am still in NYC. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:11, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tuesday 7 September 2012

This month's regular meeting will be at the usual place and time - Café Allegro at 7pm. The topic, again, will be the September Wikipedia Takes America/Seattle contest. Will it happen? Who? How?

Planning to attend:

Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:01, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
sign here with ~~~~

Regrets:

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Tuesday 7 August 2012

This month's regular meeting will be at the usual place and time - Café Allegro at 7pm. The topic of this meeting will be the September Wiki Loves Monuments contest. In this contest, people take pictures of local monuments and upload them to Wikimedia Commons to increase access to free media about this area.

Planning to attend:

sign here with ~~~~
Liquidzoot (talk) 18:48, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Regrets:

Sorry, I'll be at National Night Out. See you next month. Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:21, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have other commitments that evening, but please do keep me posted on any plans. As some of you know, I've done a lot of this sort of images here. There may be much more to do in Thurston County than elsewhere near Seattle, and that might merit an expedition. In any case, Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington/Requested Photos may be of interest, though some of these may have been done now and no one removed them from the list. - Jmabel | Talk 05:17, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Seattle Wiknic Sunday June 24

In June we met at Golden Gardens park in Ballard for a picnic.

Tuesday 1 May 2012

A digital library is a repository for media which has been digitally preserved. In this Age of Internet it would be possible to share more media with more people if more media could be freely distributed. Wikipedia Campus Ambassador at the University of Washington will be present at this meeting if anyone wants to discuss sharing digital media.

Planning to attend:

User:Dylanflesch (talk) - Master of Library and Information Science candidate at the University of Washington
Dennis Bratland (talk) 01:31, 24 April 2012 (UTC) ([reply]

Regrets:

I just got a temporary job and am moving to NYC for a few months. I really regret leaving Seattle especially at this time of year. I just went to a Portland Wikipedia meetup and they have a good community. I hope that the Seattle community can also develop, and I would be happy to support this meetup any way that I could while I am gone. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:43, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I can't attend this month's meetup after all. But I hope to attend soon. It'll be nice to meet more Wikipedians IRL. - J-Mo ^{Talk to Me} _{Email Me} 22:39, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Summary:

I made it tonight but I didn't know what Dylanflesch looked like. We'll need to put up a sign next time. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:42, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tuesday 3 April 2012

On 16 April 7pm in room 133 at University of Washington's Gates Hall there is a meeting of the organization Science Online. This organization promotes greater access to science data through the internet. To coincide with this event, this Wikipedian meeting on 3 April at Café Allegro has the theme of the value of information to companies, organizations, and individuals. Come join us to talk about Wikipedia and access to information.

Planning to attend:

Also user:rainbowofpeace and user:marvelinthesky

Regrets:

Semi-regrets: I'll try to drop by, but will definitely be late if I can make it at all. - Jmabel | Talk 15:20, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- For the record: I showed up halfway through. - Jmabel | Talk 15:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tuesday 6 March 2012

March is WikiWomen's History Month! There are two issues for discussion. One is Wikipedia articles about Seattle women. The other is the gender gap on Wikipedia - most editors are male! Why is this? Let's talk about it over coffee! Bring any other issues you have to the table.

Planning to attend:

Regrets:

Cataobh (talk) 00:24, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tuesday 7 February 2012

Seattle is a world center for promoting open access projects, particularly in the sciences. Since the media currently is talking about the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act, the theme of this meeting will be open access. Note that there is a WikiProject Open Access to coordinate the development of articles related to this topic!

Planning to attend:

Regrets:

Tuesday 3 January 2012

2012 is the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair and the city is planning a summer party. Lots of people will be talking about Seattle history and current conditions. When these people go to Wikipedia looking for information we should be ready to ask them to become Wikipedia editors. Let's talk about this, and we will also make time to discuss any attendee's Wikipedia interests.

Planning to attend:

Bluerasberry (talk · contribs)
Dennis Bratland (talk · contribs) Sorry this slips my mind every time. I really do want to show up this time, barring any last minute distractions.
Brianhe (talk · contribs) I made it, thanks b.r. for the invite on my user talk page.

Tuesday 6 December 2011

Tour of Wikipedia! Wikipedia does many things. At this meeting we will take a tour of many of the work areas on Wikipedia and assess interest for future meetings.

Planning to attend:

Bluerasberry (talk · contribs)
Bennetto (talk · contribs), Pioneer Square
Todrobbins (talk · contribs), Kirkland
Dennis Bratland (talk · contribs), Ballard
brianhe (talk · contribs), Kirkland
Haruo (talk · contribs), Skyway

Regrets:

Arthur Allen (talk · contribs), Renton (car troubles)

Meeting summary - We toured the site with new users and reviewed each others' work. We talked about how to get access to copyrighted journal articles by using community resources such as libraries.

Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle 2012

The 2012 Wikipedia Loves Libraries in Seattle is planned. It's Dec 8th 10am-3pm at Seattle Public Library, and we'd love to have you there, and hear your ideas about what to edit. Maximilianklein (talk) 23:19, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tuesday 25 October

Past meetings in Seattle are posted at WP:meetup/Seattle.

Tuesday 25 October - "Wikipedia loves libraries!"

7 people attended! See above link for details.

2012 Seattle Wiknic

The second annual Seattle Wiknic was on Sunday June 24th, 2012 at Golden Gardens Park in Ballard, 12:00 to 3:00 PM. Details are here.

Wikipedia Loves Libraries - October 2011

Wikipedia:Meetup/seattleWLL

Tuesday October 25, 7-9pm Allegro Coffee in University District

A Google map of Allegro Coffee is here.

Wikipedia is encouraging local communities to organize Wikipedia Loves Libraries events this October. The primary topic for discussion is creating or improving the Wikipedia articles about local library resources so that researchers can use Wikipedia as a tool by means through which they can find reference materials.

Seventh meetup

Saturday, June 25, 2011 - Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle7

You ought to be outside picnicking anyway, so why not go to a place with other Wikipedians doing the same thing? Wikipedia is promoting June 25 as an international Wikipedia picnic day, the Wikipedia:Wiknic!

Reddit, another popular information website, has an active Seattle community which was already organizing a picnic at Golden Gardens Park on this day. Their organizers have asked Wikipedians to join in and share common interests in information sharing, the beach, and barbecue.

The link to the Reddit picnic can be found here. Please join!

Sixth meetup

Sessions: April 8 and April 18, 2009 See Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle6 for a more detailed account of this meetup.

Note that this is to gather Wikipedians, but not in the traditional style of a meetup. Our research group, from the University of Washington (Seattle campus), is looking for user input to help design an application that will eventually be released to the Wikipedia community. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle6 for more information.

Fifth meetup

tentative: June 19, 2008 See Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle5 for a more detailed account of this meetup.

Still in the planning phases. Some researchers at the University of Washington have expressed interest in helping organize this meetup.

Fourth meetup

September 9, 2006. See Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle4 for a more detailed account of this meetup.

Topics of conversation included:

Linkspam, paid editing, and public relations flacks. There was a general sense the Wikipedia is attempting a "Just Say No" policy and that, like the U.S. government War on Drugs, it isn't working.
A broad conversation about original research, Verifiability, intellectual honesty as the "missing pillar", overcitation, civility and admin behavior (including "Jimbo dropping in out of the blue to ban somebody"), the "gap between written and actual policy".
Further work on articles about the Pacific Northwest.

Third meetup

14 January 2006 See Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle3 for a more detailed account of this meetup.

Topics of conversation included:

Librarian and library sciences attitudes toward Wikipedia
A suggestion that we should supplement Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia with some more related project pages:
1. Wikipedia:How a Wikipedia article is built, which would explain the various mechanisms that facilitate collaboration and the policies (No original research, Verifiability, etc.) that support reliable content.
2. Wikipedia:How to read an article history, about what to look at in an article history to help evaluate an article.
3. Wikipedia:A researcher's guide to discussion pages: how to read discussion pages as part of determining reliability, and how to use them if you have doubts.
Contrasts to Encarta
Stable versions, semi-protection, etc.
Original research, verifiability and all that, especially the original intent of the policy against original research.

Second meetup

15 January 2005 See Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle2 for a more detailed account of this meetup.

Topics of conversation included:

Wikipedia Signpost, Wikipedia's new internal newspaper, started by Michael Snow.
SeattleWiki [1], started by Matiasp.
Possible contact with small, local history museums; DanKeshet and Jmabel followed up to the point of writing Wikipedia:Museum projects, though there has not yet been systematic outreach.
Whether some (maybe 1%?) of articles are either sufficiently controversial or sufficient "vandal magnets" that our normal, open way of free-for-all editing may just not work for these; suggestion of starting dialogue on alternatives. Jmabel will probably try to start discussion on this.
Larry Sanger's recent criticisms of Wikipedia, and the issues of elitism/anti-elitism
... and we pretty much all seem to think Seattle, Washington is ready to be a featured article.

First meetup

6 November 2004 See Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle1 for a more detailed account of this meetup.

The first Seattle Meetup took place Saturday, 6 November 2004 at the Seattle Central Library and was a great success. Decumanus says it was "fantastic". Participants came from a geographic area ranging from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, British Columbia.

Topics of discussion included:

How to get librarians to understand Wikipedia so they might consider it worthy of being an authorative source. (Within days after the meeting, this led to a pretty good start on a document at Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia.)
Licensing issues
Possible software changes that might allow POV-type overlays
Wikipedia war stories about POV warriors, trolls, etc.
BryceHarrington regaled us with tales of the wild and wooly early days of GNUPedia and Nupedia, and how he made the leap to Wikipedia.
User:Jwrosenzweig earned our sympathy with his stories about being on the arbitration committee, a thankless task for which none of us seemed to envy him.
We came to a quasi-agreement, mostly through a nodding of heads, that a system of committees that might judge the worthiness of questionable content (rather than just violation of Wikipedia rules per se), might save everyone lots of pain and heartache. As of November 12, however, no one has begun fleshing this into a concrete proposal.

After initially gathering at the coffee cart we moved to the 10th floor, under the slanted roof designed by Rem Koolhaas We also tried our hands at Michael Snow's Wikipedia quiz.

At six o'clock most of us adjourned to have dinner in Seattle's International District, at a Chinese restaurant, Hing Loon.

First meetup, introductions at the Coffee Cart: from left, Jordan, DanKeshet, Llywrch, Eclecticology, Michael Snow, Jwrosenzweig, and Jmabel.
First meetup, on the Tenth floor: Llywrch, a friend of Bryce's, BryceHarrington, and Eclecticology
Third meetup, clockwise: Katy (in red scarf), Jmabel, GTBacchus, DVD_R_W, JFPerry, WAvegetarian, Bumm13, Brassratgirl, The Rod, Michael Snow, Ksnow, SchmuckyTheCat (behind the snows), Eclecticology, Shawn. Also present, llywrch, joshuadfranklin, and at least one person who didn't sign in.

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 is the 50th anniversary of the [[Century 21 Exposition|Seattle World's Fair]] and the city is planning a [http://www.thenextfifty.org summer party]. Lots of people will be talking about Seattle history and current conditions. When these people go to Wikipedia looking for information we should be ready to ask them to become Wikipedia editors. Let's talk about this, and we will also make time to discuss any attendee's Wikipedia interests.