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(second half)

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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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  Wiki-Cake at Wikipedia Day 2024
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  Wiki-Picnic - Governors Island - June 2024
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  Wiki-coaches and cake - Wikicurious at Civic Hall - July 2024
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  Wikicurious: Editing to the Beat at Lehman College - September 2024

See also

• Archive of events in prior years
• Wikimedia New York City's Code of Conduct
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February 2017
Wikimedia NYC WikiWednesday

When and Where
Date	Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Time	7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Address	Babycastles 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) 2nd Floor
City, State	New York City, New York 10011

The February 2017 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held Wednesday, 15 February, 2017, 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, February 15, 2017
• Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
• Location: TBD
• Location: Babycastles. 145 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), Basement level, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011

40°44′18″N 73°59′55.6″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
• Accessibility: Let us know if we should set up the manual elevator for this meetup.
• Hashtag: #WikiWednesday
• After the main meeting: Food and refreshments
• Meetup link: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
• Etherpad: WikiWed-2017-02

Agenda

Bring your own ideas!

• 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Introductions for visitors
• 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm: Meeting, Part I (roundtable on ongoing projects)
• 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Meeting, Part II (new project proposals and ideas)

Chapter business

A. Outreach, Partnerships & Programming

• GLAM: La Guardia and Wagner Archives: Ed Koch Archives at La Guardia and Wagner Archives
• Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan Museum of Art and upcoming release of 375k images
• Health science school partnerships: Update
• Wiki Loves the Dominican Republic, a collaboration of Columbia + Mount Sinai medicine: Should WM NYC endorse?
• World Science Festival: Proposed a partnership. No clear suggestion yet, but possible June event in NYC

B. Proposals

• Tracking program outcomes - Should WM NYC be an early adopter of this experimental program management software provided by the Wikimedia Foundation?
  • Programs & Events Dashboard on Meta
• Keeping wiki friendly - should WM NYC be an early adopter of draft friendly space policy provided by the Wikimedia Foundation?
  • Keeping events safe
  • Online harassment
• Time to purchase insurance

C. Staffing

• WM NYC Metrics and Reporting Assistant Position 2016: Position filled
• Perhaps we could use a paid professional presentation on addressing conduct issues at events

D. Grants & Funding

• Press Pass Pilot Program: Update on pilot program
• WMF Grant UPDATE
  • Winifred Checkin: Tue, January 10, 2017, 8pm – 9pm
  • 2016-2017 Grant Final Report: Final report is due 30 April 2017
  • 2017-2018 APG Grant (1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018): Start APG in January or February 2017?

Check in - ongoing projects

Wikipedia Meetups

October 2024 +/-
NC Triangle Trivia	October 1, 2024 (2024-10-01)
London 209	October 13, 2024 (2024-10-13)
Seattle meetup	October 15, 2024 (2024-10-15)
Oxford 105	October 20, 2024 (2024-10-20)
WikiClub Toronto meetup	October 20, 2024 (2024-10-20)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 1	October 23, 2024 (2024-10-23)
Edinburgh 18	October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
NYC Wikidata Day	October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
Chicago Wikidata Day	October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
Seattle Wikidata Day	October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
San Diego 115	October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
BLT Office Hours	October 27, 2024 (2024-10-27)
November 2024 +/-
London 210	November 10, 2024 (2024-11-10)
US Mountain West online	November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 2	November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 3	November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20)
WikiCon Australia 2024	November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23)
BLT Office Hours	November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24)
Full Meetup Calendar • Events calendar on Meta For meetups in other languages, see the list on Meta

Recent edit-a-thons

Since last WikiWednesday

1. TO COME

New and upcoming projects

1. TO COME

1. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros: New GLAM project
2. DOITT: January 2017?
3. Gitmo editathon: January 2017?
4. Broadly workshop
5. Monthly wiki-workshop/hackathon series at Ace Hotel: starting February 2017
6. BedStuy or Die Rapper editathon outreach
7. AfroCROWD BlackWikiHistory Month: Updates? Schomburg possibly? February 2017
8. Art + Feminism planning? March 2017

Upcoming events

1. TO COME

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

Lightning talks

5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!

• Update on wiki.JacksonHeights.nyc (Tom Lowenhaupt) p.s don't go thee yet!
• More...

Food tonight

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

• TBD

External links

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

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Regrets

1. BrillLyle (talk) - apologies, conflicts with new job schedule
2. sheridanford (talk) 00:43, 10 February 2017 (UTC) Conflict. I will be at U of Michigan giving a talk on Black Music Matters and my protesting in NYC.
3. 69.74.186.251 (talk) - so sorry, have a scheduling conflict

Likely attendees

1. Pharos (talk) 04:16, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
2. kosboot (talk) 04:28, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
3. Mozucat (talk) 20:43, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
4. Roman Spinner (talk) 08:24, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
5. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:25, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
6. Tomlzz1 (talk) 17:31, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
7. Netherzone (talk) 22:32, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
8. Nwhysel (talk) 23:30, 9 February 2017 (UTC) - I may be a bit on the late side (splitting time between two events) but want to talk about an event I'm planning, hopefully with Wikimedia Vancouver and ASIS&T in March.
9. Joanaz (talk) 00:42, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
10. Paige lothlorien (talk) 03:12, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
11. 2604:2000:50C0:3800:588B:CBCA:2AED:A3F0 (talk) 04:14, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
12. JoAsQueeniebee (talk) 19:37, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
13. Librarianhelen (talk) 22:41, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
14. Becksguy (talk) 19:07, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
15. SeoMac (talk)
16. ValeskaVida (talk) 18:45, 13 February 2017 (UTC)