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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

November

Foundation and Friends' Free Culture Friday

When: Friday November 22, 1:30–7pm EST

Where: Prime Produce (424 W 54th St, New York, NY)

Wikicurious: Capturing the Moment

When: Tuesday November 26, 3–8pm EST

Where: Jefferson Market Library (425 6th Ave, New York, NY)

January

Wikipedia Day 2025

When: TBA

Where: TBA

Past Meetups & Events in 2023–24

October 26: Wikidata Day 2024
October 3–6: WikiConference North America in Indianapolis
September 25: Annual Election & Members Meeting
September 21: Wikicurious: Editing to the Beat
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
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

Wiki Worlds Fair - August 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
Community Gardens edit-a-thon at Prime Produce - May 2024
Wiki-Picnic - Governors Island - June 2024
Wiki-coaches and cake - Wikicurious at Civic Hall - July 2024
Wiki-Picnic - Roosevelt Island - August 2024
Wikicurious: Editing to the Beat at Lehman College - September 2024

**Wikipedia Day 2018**

When and Where
Date:	Sunday, January 14, 2018
Time:	10:00 am – 6:30 pm EST
Address:	Ace Hotel 20 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001

Event details

Date: Sunday, January 14, 2018
Time: 10:00 am – 6:30 pm
Location: Ace Hotel, Lower Level and Lobby, 20 W. 29th Street, New York, NY 10001 40°44′45″N 73°59′18″W / 40.7458°N 73.9882°W / 40.7458; -73.9882
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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

Participation: Participation (food and cake!) will be free, with room for ~100 participants
Welcome: All are welcome. We are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from cultural institutions interested in developing Open Education projects. All attendees must agree to follow our Friendly Space Policies.
Wifi: There is wifi access, and we will give you the log in details on-site. N.B. Projectors will also probably be available for use by the various presenters.
Food: Ace Hotel's own restaurant The Breslin will provide a coffee, bagel, and fruit breakfast and a lunch suitable for vegans and omnivores. And it wouldn't be much of a birthday without cake, so we'll have plenty of that too.
Facebook: ---
Twitter: #WikipediaDay
Video Livestream: Livestream | Facebook simulcast
Video archive: ---

Schedule

Wikipedia Day 2018 will be a modified unconference, with dedicated plenary sessions (organized on this wiki), lightning talks to the whole assembly, and open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so bring your ideas with you.

Rooms

There are open rooms! The conference will feature opportunities for you or anyone else to speak on stage to all attendees and invite a small group to a breakout sessions to discuss any topic which matters to you! This is an interactive event so plan to participate!

The event will be in four areas on the lower level of Ace Hotel New York:

Liberty Hall is the main space for all plenary sessions. The Internet Society will livestream and record all talks here. See keynotes and panel sessions in this track.
Commons Bar, a breakout room with table for 15 people to have a focused discussion
Board Room, a breakout room with table for 15 people to have a focused discussion
Meta Room, Please speak on video at anytime during the day! This room has a camera and microphone setup for 1-2 people to share any story for upload to Wikimedia Commons and elsewhere. If you will present for 2-4 minutes, then you will get a video to promote your project, record your thoughts, or teach any wiki-lesson that you want to pass around on video.
The upstairs Lobby is an additional option for break-out spaces for small groups.

Agenda

	Liberty Hall	Board Room	Commons Bar
9:30 am	Doors open and Welcome!
10:00 am – 10:15 am	Calls for open space proposals Propose a 30-minute discussion or presentation!		Coffee time, bagels and muffins
10:15 am – 10:30 am	Welcome from Wikimedia NYC Post open space proposals to schedule
10:30 am – 10:55 am	Outreach campaign panel	(open)
11:00 am – 11:50 am	Keynote presentation: Jason Scott from Textfiles.com and Internet Archive
12:00 pm – 12:55 pm	Education panel	Introduction to Wikipedia	(chill space)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	LUNCH
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm	Cultural Partners panel		(chill space)
3:00 pm – 3:25 pm	Reaching all languages	Yuri Astrakhan presents Wiki Tech!
3:30 pm – 3:55 pm	Lightning talks I
4:00 pm – 4:25 pm	Jackie Koerner presents implicit bias	(open)
4:30 pm – 4:55 pm	Andrew Lih presents Wikidata!	(open)
5:00 pm – 5:25 pm	What's Wrong with Online Communities?	(open)
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm	Lightning Talks II and Closing

Panel sessions

Last year's Post-Truth Panel (video)

Outreach campaign panel

When Wikipedians plan outreach, which groups do we target for the most impact and why? Hear from three of the most successful outreach campaigns!

Keynote presentation - Jason Scott from Textfiles.com and Internet Archive

Textfiles.com, Internet Archive, and Wikimedia projects are all good friends!
Nonprofit media organizations collaborate and support each other!

Education panel - moderator Ryan McGrady

Students edit wiki too! Instructors and students will speak up in this panel to describe how they use Wikimedia projects in the classroom.

Jeffrey Keefer, New York University
Shelly Eversley, Baruch College
Rachel Bogan, CUNY Graduate Center

Reaching all languages

NYC has the greatest language diversity in the world. What projects can people in NYC support to increase the availability of information in all languages?

Daniel Bogre Udell presents Wikitongues, a video archive of native languages!
Translathons!
Internet-in-a-Box!

Cultural partners panel

A panel with Wikipedians in residence sharing how they support their organization's wiki efforts. How do partnerships like these work?

Chemical Heritage Foundation - User:Mary Mark Ockerbloom
Century Association Archives Foundation - User:Ɱ
Consumer Reports - User:Bluerasberry
Metropolitan Museum of Art - User:Pharos

Yuri Astrakhan presents Wiki Tech!

Jackie Koerner presents implicit bias

Andrew Lih presents Wikidata!

Race and Online communities

We point to our friendly space policy then have an expert presenter speak about being nice online!

Lightning talks

Add your 5-minute lightning talk topic here!
Present a brief talk about wiki topics or anything free culture-related. Actual schedule for lightning talks will be determined the day of event. Lighting talks with active discussions can break out into Open Space sessions!

Free-Programming-Books by user:Openly
WikiProject sum of all paintings--Pharos (talk) 16:20, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia Visiting Scholars — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 22:12, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Transitioning from Edit-a-thon host to Classroom Integration by --Librarianhelen (talk) 22:06, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Documenting NYC protests and demonstrations on Wikimedia Commons — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 22:11, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together, a WebJunction training program for public librarians Vizzylane (talk) 02:11, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Editing at Interference Archive: Increasing coverage of social activism and making ephemera collections visible Napplicable (talk) 9 January 2018
AfroCROWD Columbia University Oral History Project on Marginalized Ethnic and Linguistic Communities, presented by Columbia University Oral History MA Student Dian Zi
Update on cool new scripts/tools I wrote, AfC-related or not Enterprisey (talk!) 07:34, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Kurt Boone Lightning Talk on starting a "Street Culture Portal" on Wiki
Om Kundu Lightning Talk on "The Calling to Save For What Matters"
Internet Society of NY: Connect globally. Act locally. Talk by Joe Plotkin, Board member, ISOC-NY
Getting an article to Good Article status: Yoko Ono article as a case study--A21sauce (talk) 01:42, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Requested articles and an example of how to build an article. PointsofNoReturn (talk) 03:14, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Open space sessions

Add your open space topic here!

Notability and inclusion(ism)--Pharos (talk) 16:18, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Promotionalism and conflict of interest, including paid editing DGG ( talk ) 02:15, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Wikidata, its limitations, and its possibilities--Pharos (talk) 02:22, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have a scheduling conflict in the morning through mid-day, but will attend the last couple of hours, and would be glad to give an open space talk. Topic TBA. Newyorkbrad (talk) 22:44, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Copyright and intellectual property issues
Role of Wikipedia/Wikimedia in a free and open internet
Wikipedia introductory workshop (for newbies)
In honor of MLK: diversifying topic coverage --eikko (talk) 11:34, 10 January 2018 (EST)
An updated version of my presentation on how Wikimedians can lower the environmental impact of their wiki-related activities, now that I've seen Lukas Mezger's presentation on the Sustainability Initiative at last year's Wikimania. Daniel Case (talk) 21:59, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Livestream

https://livestream.com/internetsociety/wikidaynyc

Simulcast: https://www.facebook.com/isocny/

Past Wikipedia Days

To give you an idea of the range of activities and sessions:

External links

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Remote participation

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Regrets

sheridanford (talk) 11:56, 31 December 2017 (UTC). I'll be traveling to Mexico that day. If i could pull it together, could I share a video as a lightning talk? Learned so much more this year from hosting WikiEdu courses snd from my own editing.[reply]
out of town for the holiday weekend :( Aude (talk) 16:17, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Stuck in Florida with two types of doctors appointments next week. No way I could possibly make it. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 02:58, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
$ɱ$ (talk) · vbm · coi) 15:49, 13 January 2018 (UTC) Likely won't happen anymore due to sudden illness. Family and/or friends might try to attend anyway?[reply]

Possible attendees

Artaxerxes (talk) -- 17:31, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Elyaqim (talk) 13:30, 18 December 2017 (UTC) (This event conflicts with the monthly afternoon meeting of a community organization wherefor I volunteer, and it may be too ambitious for me to attend in the morning and return in the evening.)[reply]
Jahaza (talk) 16:45, 18 December 2017 (UTC) (Sundays are difficult because of Church commitments. If I come, it'll be in the afternoon.)[reply]
Emjackson42 (talk) 14:37, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
A21sauce (talk) 19:58, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
SnowFire (talk) 08:41, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Likely attendees

Shanluan (talk) 13:50, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Enjen99 (talk) 18:34, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Pharos (talk) 18:01, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
kosboot (talk) 21:08, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:54, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
DGG ( talk ) 02:14, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Taikage (talk) 21:28, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Vizzylane (talk) 00:05, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:03, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
S.ann.adams (talk) 16:27, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Openly (talk) 16:18, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Dbudell (talk) 12:08, 18 December 2017 (UTC-5)
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 03:23, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Enterprisey (talk!) 06:00, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 00:53, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Mkdw ^talk 21:04, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Mozucat (talk) 17:46, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Arglebargle79 (talk) 00:21, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
BlaueBlüte (talk) 07:19, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Mirza Ahmed (talk) 18:51, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Gina Zammit + 1 18:18, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
PointsofNoReturn (talk) 01:50, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
HugoHelp (talk) 04:11, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Shanluan (talk) 13:22, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel Case (talk) 04:56, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
nycdi (talk) 05:10, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Suzanna Schmeelk (talk) 05:56, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
--Joshualouie711^talk 01:28, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Jim.henderson (talk) 18:35, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
FULBERT (talk) 21:15, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Kkbirds (talk) 02:30, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Kbwords (talk) 14:21, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
LikesLibraries (talk) 22:01, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Napplicable (talk) 22:05, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
EditorEls (talk) 02:41, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Jackiekoerner (talk) 19:05, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Shubhneet rhs (talk) 20:01, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
74.65.255.80 (talk) 22:45, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Librarianhelen (talk) 12:29, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Valentine camano (talk) 16:18, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Jeremyb (talk) 22:20, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
NSubZero (talk) 21:25, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Cocoaguy ここがいい 20:15, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 22:04, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Lisa J Imnotlostrui (talk) 06:17, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Jweiss11 (talk) 03:11, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Eikko (talk) 05:19, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
MusikAnimal ^talk 10:37, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
— Dispenser 12:39, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
creeeeeg 15:44, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Doctorpd (talk) 16:33, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Rolery02 (talk) 18:13, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Magdalamar (talk) Magdalamar (talk) 19:43, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Krouncha (talk) 00:32, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
2604:2000:E14B:9D00:8C04:D30F:6E46:CEEB (talk) 04:46, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Eikko (talk) 16:35, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to attend the event and bring one guest. Thank you. AaronWeisman (talk) 20:40, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
acellisauniverse and a guest. Acellisauniverse (talk) 01:30, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Can't believe I'm saying yes, but damn glad I am. Mitch32^{(The many fail: the one succeeds.)} 03:07, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
2600:1017:B41B:1E52:1C31:E2C6:AE18:54AF (talk) 19:50, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 22:58, 11 January 2018 (UTC) Will likely arrive around 1 PM.[reply]
Taikage (talk) 16:12, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Taoofx (talk) 21:32, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
RSVP attendance. Please confirm. Best, Barbara Bullard Barbara Bullard (talk) 04:51, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
KAnds42 (talk) 08:11, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
C. Zawadi Morris BK Reader (talk) 12:12, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Truthbene23 (talk) 14:28, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sophie8614 (talk) 17:33, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Heathart (talk) 22:40, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Becksguy (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]