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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

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

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Boardroom at Ace Hotel, Wikipedia Day 2017

Join us on Sunday November 26, 2017 for a Wikipedia hackathon to develop tools for contributing content Wikipedia and user-testing them with the community.

• Location: Ace Hotel, Lower Level and Lobby, 20 W. 29th Street, New York, NY 10001 40.7458°N 73.9882°W / 40.7458; -73.9882
• Access: Please enter and use hotel entrance (not restaurant entrance)

Transit details
Subway: to 28th Street to 34th Street to 28th Street to 28th Street MTA Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M7, M10, M20, M50, M55, M104 Car: Private parking garages are available

Agenda

• Etherpad:

Some people will be working on the Wiki NYC annual report.

• What will we report for 2017
• How will we do grant reporting
• Let's plan for the 2017-18 grant request

• Tools to create or improve
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  • Lightning talks
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  • How to file a bug on Phabricator, and propose technical changes to Wikimedia sites
  • Pizza!

External links

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

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Likely attendees

• Pharos (talk) 11:48, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

• Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:06, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

• Jim.henderson (talk) 01:25, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
• Becksguy (talk) 17:19, 26 November 2017 (UTC)