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  Wikicurious: Editing to the Beat at Lehman College - September 2024

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• Archive of events in prior years
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• Membership

The March 2016 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 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, March 16, 2016
• 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: Food and refreshments and video games in the gallery
• Meetup link: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
• Etherpad: WikiWed-2016-03

Agenda

Wikipedia Meetups

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)
San Diego 116	November 18, 2024 (2024-11-18)
Seattle meetup	November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19)
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)
December 2024 +/-
London 211	December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
Full Meetup Calendar • Events calendar on Meta For meetups in other languages, see the list on Meta

Thank you Babycastles!

Bring your own ideas!

• 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Introductions for visitors
  • Newcomer's Wiki Workshop!
• 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

2016 budget: Grants on Meta

As always, Grants are on our Meetup page, "Projects & Grants" tab
Meeting notes are on our Meetup page, "About" tab

• WM NYC 2016 Annual Grant
  • Documents
    • Supplemental info: WM NYC APG – 2016 Supplemental information
    • Staffing plan: WM NYC Staffing Plan
    • Budget: Budget Template
  • WikiConference Scholarship Program: WikiConference Scholarship Program
  • meta:Affiliate-selected Board seats/2016/Nominations - public vote on candidates who should be included in Wikimedia Foundation board elections

Check in - ongoing projects

• Recent edit-a-thons
  • #BRONX AFRICA Black Life Matters Edit-a-thon – Saturday, February 27, 2016
  • Art + Feminism 2016 @ MoMA - Saturday, March 5, 2016
• Wiki-classes this semester
  • Mozucat (talk) checkin:
    • January-June 2016: La Guardia and Wagner Archives Koch-era NYC project on history of AIDS
    • Spring 2016: Classes at LaGuardia Community College will start in March. At least 2 Wikipedia classes expected
    • February 27, 2016: Octavia Butler editathon at Spelman College
• Committee selection?
  • TBD / discuss at next month's WikiWednesday!

New and upcoming projects

• Upcoming events:
  • Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Guggathon - Tuesday, May 3, 2016
  • MediaWiki Conference Community Night - Wednesday, May 25, 2016
• Proposal: Require that WM NYC events have an event page procedure for categorizing events: event documentation
• Discussion: What kind of safety and safe space system should WM NYC have? See the new WMF team at Support and Safety

See Friendly space policy

• WikiEdu's Year of Science
  • Wikipedia:Year of Science

February - Zoology

March - Chemistry

April - Environmental science

May - Psychology

June - Astronomy

July - Plant biology

August - Sociology

September - Linguistics

October - Computer science, technology, and math

November - Medicine

December - Physics

• WikiProject Women scientists - Worklist (for reference, ties into Year of Sci)
• Press!
  • Knipel, Richard (February 12, 2016). "Connecting Wikipedia with the Guggenheim". Guggenheim Museum.

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

Lightning talks

5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
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• Maybe Wikidata session with User:Aude!
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Possible attendees

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Regrets

1.  

Food tonight

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

External links

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

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Likely attendees

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1. Pharos (talk)
2. BrillLyle (talk)
3. Mitchazenia (talk) – I'm home!
4. DGG ( talk ) 17:54, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
5. varda (talk) 18:24, 10 March 2016 (UTC)