Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2015-07
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September
- When: Saturday September 21, 1-7pm
- Where: Lehman College
- When: Wednesday September 25, 7-9pm
- Where: Prime Produce
October
- When: Saturday October 26
- Where: Pratt Institute School of Information
Past Meetups & Events in 2023–24
- August 24: Roosevelt Island Wiknic
- August 7-10: Wikimania 2024 in Poland
- July 19: Wikicurious: Editing Wikipedia for Beginners (launch event)
- 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
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- 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
September 2024 +/- | |
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Christchurch 31 | September 1, 2024 |
London 208 | September 8, 2024 |
Oxford 104 | September 15, 2024 |
Seattle meetup | September 17, 2024 |
BLT Office Hours | September 22, 2024 |
San Diego 114 | September 23, 2024 |
Brixton 3 | September 24, 2024 |
San Bernardino 1 | September 29, 2024 |
October 2024 +/- | |
NC Triangle Trivia | October 1, 2024 |
London 209 | October 13, 2024 |
Seattle meetup | October 15, 2024 |
WikiClub Toronto meetup | October 20, 2024 |
Seattle Wikidata Day | October 26, 2024 |
BLT Office Hours | October 27, 2024 |
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The July 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, July 8, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
This will be the third of hopefully a series of approximately monthly "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events and editathons.
Details
- Date: Wednesday, July 8, 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 / 40.738194°N 73.998472°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
Agenda
Bring your own ideas!
Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events
- Local Wikipedia Free Culture Alliance NYC projects
- Past, present, and future institutional partnerships with Wikipedia
- Recent editathons:
- Art+Feminism - Long Island City edition @ The Oracle Club - June 13
- Train the Trainers by AfroCrowd @ Brooklyn Public Library - June 20
- Wiki Loves Pride 2015 Editathon @ The Museum of Modern Art Library - June 24
Chapter business
- Board Officers
- Grants review
- AfroCROWD Project Manager grant
- Committees review: Education, Events, Grants, (Law, Story, Bugs, Regional)
- Social media and documentation review
- Domain expiration - nycwiki.org
- Diversifying roles! Diversity?
- "Historian" to photograph and document events
- Officers
- Potential public broadcasting collaboration
- Calendar coordination of WMNYC events
Future plans
- Monthly: Regular WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles and timing
- August - tentatively to be skipped
- July: Black Lunch Table edit-a-thon @ The Museum of Modern Art Library - July 13
- July: NYCers at Wikimania?
- August: Great American Wiknic @ Prospect Park - August 2
- August: August Smithsonian Asian Pacific American editathon at MoMA - no date yet
- October: Multi-city editathon with Iberocoop
- October: Wikipedia Takes Manhattan Strikes Back - October 17-18?
Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions
5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!
- Maybe a group discussion about outreach for non-English Wikipedias in the NYC area -- Pharos (talk) 05:41, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
- Wikiphotography Jim.henderson (talk) 00:57, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
- Helping Wikidocks folks (those in the Wikipedia Meetup boondocks without active local chapters) set up a local event using Wikimedia typical page layouts and information; adding state (Nebraska) to Meetup list -- BrillLyle (talk) aka Erika
- Wikipedia in LIS Education - Editathons at Pratt SILS -- drhandel & Anarchyshake (talk) 23:51, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
Sign up
Likely attendees
- Pharos (talk) 15:11, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- kosboot (talk) 16:26, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- Aliceba (talk) 16:51, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- Lange.lea (talk) 22:41, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- E. Lee (talk) 17:44, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- DGG ( talk ) 00:09, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
- Jim.henderson (talk) 03:55, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
- Megs (talk) 13:39, 29 June 2015 (UTC))
- Becksguy (talk) 16:41, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
- Unconsciouseclecticism (talk) 04:40, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
- BrillLyle (talk) 16:53, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
- Anarchyshake (talk) 15:16, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
- Ericl (talk) 13:02, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
- Atjackiesnow (talk) 15:06, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Possible attendees
- Dilettante Army (talk) 1:22, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
- ɱ (talk · vbm) 03:54, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
- Thomas Levine (talk) 07:32, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
- MusikAnimal talk 15:38, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
- Robert Greer (talk) 16:31, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Regrets
- RoyGoldsmith (talk). Can't come on Wednesdays; Good Luck.
External links
- Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
- Wikimedia New York City
- Free Culture Alliance NYC