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Wikimedia NYC remains committed to the well-being of its communities. We have decided to begin hosting in-person events with a hybrid element starting late 2022. We ask if you want to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space. If you are not feeling well, please attend remotely.

Upcoming meetups and ongoing events

July

• Wikicurious: Editing Wikipedia for Beginners

When: Friday, July 19, 2024, 3 PM - 8 PM ET

Where: Civic Hall

August

• Wikimania 2024

When: August 7-10, 2024

Where: Katowice, Poland *(possibility of NYC satellite event in Greenpoint, Brooklyn)

Past Meetups & Events in 2023–24

• June 26: WikiWednesday Salon - June
• June 8: Governors Island Wiknic - June 2024
• June 2: All-Day Hacking Sunday - June
• May 8: WikiWednesday Salon - May
• May 4: Community Gardens Edit-a-thon
• April 25: Hacking Night - April
• April 11: City Tech Library LBGTQIA Editathon
• April 10: WikiWednesday Salon - April
• March 16: Queens Name Explorer Edit-a-thon at the Queens Public Library Tech Lab at Queensbridge
• March 14: Pi Day Hacking Night
• March 5: Wiki Gala and fashion show with Wikimedia Foundation
• February 25: AfroCROWD Black Wiki History Month - Online edit-a-thon
• February 21: WikiWednesday Salon - February
• February 8: Hacking Night - February
• January 14: Wikipedia Day 2024 at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation
• January 4: Hacking Night

2023

(second half)

• December 6: NYC Hacking Night
• November 15: WikiWednesday Salon - November
• November 8–13: NYC→Toronto Wiki-Train for WikiConference North America
• October 29: Wikidata Day in New York City
• October 21–22: Wiki-NYC Pavilion for Open House New York
• October 3: History of Medicine in Newark Wikipedia Editathon at Dana Library
• October 1: Hispanic-Latinx Heritage Month: Edit-a-thon!
• September 20: Annual Election & Members Meeting
• August 27: Great North American Wiknic on Governors Island
• August 23: WikiWednesday Salon - August
• July 29: New York Botanical Garden Environment of the Bronx Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
• July 19: WikiWednesday Salon - July

Photos from past Meetups & Events

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  WikiGap Women, Health & Environment - Swedish Residence - April 2022
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  Hacknic - Prospect Park - May 2022
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  Wiki Worlds Fair - August 2022
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  Depths of Wikipedia live in NYC - August 2022
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  WikiConference North America - November 2022
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  Wikipedia Day - Jefferson Market Library - January 2023
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  WikiWedneday - Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch - February 2023
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  Groiler Club Tour - March 2023
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  Earth Day Edit-a-thon with Sure We Can recycling center - Brooklyn Public Library Bushwick Branch - April 2023
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  Environment of the Bronx - NYBG - July 2023
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  Wiki-Picnic - Governors Island - August 2023
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  WikiWednesday - Prime Produce - September 2023
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  Wikidata Day - October 2023
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  Wikipedia Day - Brown Institute - January 2024
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  Wiki-Cake at Wikipedia Day 2024

See also

• Archive of events in prior years
• Wikimedia New York City's Code of Conduct
• Wikimedia New York City Discord server
• Membership

Wikipedia Meetups

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Christchurch 30	August 4, 2024 (2024-08-04)
NC Triangle Wiknic	August 6, 2024 (2024-08-06)
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London 207	August 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
San Diego 112 Wiknic	August 17, 2024 (2024-08-17)
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Oxford 103	August 18, 2024 (2024-08-18)
BLT Office Hours	August 25, 2024 (2024-08-25)
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The October 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

Details

• Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2015
• Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (feel free to come by early as 6, stay later for social hour)
• Location: Babycastles. 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), 2nd Floor, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011 40°44′17.5″N 73°59′54.5″W
• Subway:
  • ​​ to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 7th Avenue)
  • ​ to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
  • to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
  • ​​ to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
  • ​​​ to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
  • ​​ to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 8th Avenue)
• Bus: M1, M2, M3, M14A, M14D, X1, X7, X9, X10, X12, X17, X27, X28 buses
• Hashtag: #WikiWednesday
• After the main meeting: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery

• Etherpad link

Agenda

Bring your own ideas!

• 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Introductions for visitors
  • Newcomer's Wiki Workshop!
• 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm: Review of 2016 budget proposal
• 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Reflection on budget - group discussion - everyone present should speak. Criticism especially welcome!
• 9:00 pm: Maybe watch livestreaming of 'How can you write an open access encyclopedia in a closed access world?' from Wikimedia Foundation offices

Chapter business

2016 budget

• We should have a talk about the money available in the movement, what volunteers can do, what staff can do, and how to address the increasing demand this chapter gets for professionalism, outreach, and services for partner organizations.

Part time positions

Part time positions for several staff considered.

• Program Managers. Projects including Art+Feminism, Architecture+Feminism, AfroCROWD are high profile and already have their own WMF grants to operate. WM NYC would not seek to encroach upon their already successful operation. However, chapter participants should have a discussion about the affiliation between the chapter and the managers of these projects. Managers for these individual projects may be hiring and overseeing their own staff, and to some extent, these projects reflect on this chapter and the international Wikimedia community.
• Outreach Coordinator. Assist with reporting of project outcomes, communication, and scheduling. It has been difficult to automate this. Organizations including the WMF would appreciate the routine reporting of what the Wikimedia community does in affiliation with the chapter. If such a person is hired, they would be the central point of contact for any area project which needs assistance collecting and reporting Wikimedia metrics and reporting outcomes in the channels that the Wikimedia Foundation prefers. The reason why this should be a staff position is that it seems to be a poor use of volunteer time to learn the proprietary and esoteric customs for reporting the odd metrics in the odd ways that are customary in the Wikimedia community. If there could be centralization of this then project managers could spend their time focusing on impact, and learning the required Wikimedia reporting customs would be less of a barrier to participation.
• Videographer. It is proposed to hire an established, professional videographer on 5-8 days in 2016. There would be two types of video days: for big events, this person would attend and make a 3-5 minute mini-documentary about the event. In the other type of event, this person would set up a temporary film studio somewhere - probably in Babycastles where we usually meet - and any WM NYC participate could apply for studio time to make a short video with good video, audio, and the ability to show slides. After the filming day the videographer would do post-production and return videos to be published. The speed of this program will depend on the videographer's time to do post production and WM NYC participants readiness to write scripts, rehearse, and plan their presentations in advance of volunteering to present on camera.

Check in - ongoing projects

• Wiki-classes this semester
  • Race, Ethnicity, Class in Media @ WikiEdu at The New School
  • Haitian Creole in Context @ WikiEdu at NYU
• OHNY photo contest - should we hold a follow-up image workshop for the new wiki-photographers?
• AfroCROWD + DAWN @ Brooklyn Public Library
• WikiConference USA report-back
  • Of related possible interest: "Op Ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith" from Wikipedia Signpost

New projects

• Aphra Behn Society @ Grand Summit Hotel (Summit, NJ)
• Basquiat: Still Fly @ 55 @ MoMA (Tuesday, November 10)
• Architecture event in the South Street Seaport, from 12:00 - 6:00 pm (Saturday, November 14)
• Women in Science editathon @ New York Academy of Sciences (Sunday, November 22)
• Soviet Jewry editathon @ Center for Jewish History (Sunday, November 22)
• WikiWednesday (November) (TBD)
• Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 - 15th anniversary (January 2016)

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

Lightning talks

5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
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Likely attendees

• Pharos (talk) 20:02, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
• BrillLyle (talk)
• Mozucat (talk) 16:35, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
• Megs (talk) 17:30, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
• Aliceba (talk) 18:12, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
• Lange.lea (talk) 20:32, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
• Shanluan (talk) 21:55, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
• DGG ( talk ) 00:52, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
• Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:41, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
• Roman Spinner (talk) 21:34, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
• Becksguy (talk) 14:56, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
• MusikAnimal ^talk 21:18, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
• Anarchyshake (talk) 21:46, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
• TheBriggs (TheBriggs|talk)16:31, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
• GregoryBenjamin (talk) 16:36, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Possible attendees

• — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 14:36, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
• I have a conflicting work-related event at 5:30, but hope it will end early enough to make at least part of this meeting. I'm sorry you all haven't seen much of me lately. Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:41, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
• Netherzone (talk) 02:02, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
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Regrets

• kosboot (talk) 16:00, 21 October 2015 (UTC)(got a conflict that night)
• Still stuck in Florida, and dealing with my broken wrist too. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 19:02, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
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Food tonight

Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!

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External links

• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City
• Free Culture Alliance NYC