Category talk:Wikipedia meetups

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could someone add http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Treffen_der_Wikipedianer in the linklist? (i have no idea where the source lies) (adding all 65+ german meetups would be a bit too much i think ;)Elvis (talk) 12:25, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Subcategories

I just completed a major overhaul of categorization, creating subcategories by country and city (and in the U.S. by state). I am now considering subcategories by year. --Another Believer _(Talk) 23:48, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Affiliation subcategories

Another Believer would you please look at these? Pharos is also watching.

Please also consider

I would like to clean Category:Wikipedia meetups in New York City by moving things to subcategories. Ideally other stakeholders like the library could see meetups here through Category:Brooklyn Public Library meetups, and projects like Category:AfroCROWD could both see their meetups and separate events from pages with non-event documentation or projects. I also think there is value in matching names on English Wikipedia to the categories for files (like event photos) on Wikimedia Commons.

What do you think of these names? Pharos and I are a bit confused thinking about this and neither of us feel very confident about any category names. One problem is "organization support" sometimes does not match venue, because for example some organizations in New York do not own real estate and might support meetups in various places. "Organization" might be the same as "Project" - could Brooklyn Public Library and Art+Feminism both be called either "organizations" or "projects"? Wikipedia Day and Wiki Loves Pride both seem like projects to me, but I am not sure they are organizations. Venue and organization often overlap, like for example in NYC we often meet in a tiny art gallery as documented at Category:Babycastles meetups. "Babycastles" is sort of a project, but they will never be active outside their own venue.

Do you have opinions or thoughts on how to organize this? Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:13, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I kind of like the project category, but not so much the organization category, mostly because it just seems hard to define and many meetups are collaborations between community members, GLAM institutions, and/or multiple organizations/affiliates. I prefer to categorize meetups by year and location, and sometimes it can be helpful to include WikiProject categories. For example, a meetup hosted by the Smithsonian Institution could go under Category:Wikipedia-Smithsonian Institution collaboration. In my opinion, these WikiProject categories kind of eliminate the need for "organization" meetup subcategories, but I don't feel strongly either way. I think date and geography are most important, still. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:46, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For NYC, perhaps you could subcategorize by borough? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:47, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We can look into the subcategories of Commons:Category:Wikimedia movement for an example of what a mess this field of categorization can become. One reason it's messier there than in EN is, most events produce multiple pictures; each Wikimania produces hundreds at least. I have tried to neaten some of the subcategory trees there, for Wikipedia and meetups and edit-athons and conferences, but haven't spent enough time at it.

I'm all in favor of geography and chronology. Every event page should be categorized by year, probably month, worldwide. And again by country, prefecture, city, ward, school, building, whatever. And intersection categories for year by country, or whatever becomes big, such as NYC or Canada.

Sponsors, supporters, organizers, themes and projects are of course much trickier. The biggest fraction with event pages are edit-athons and are overtly or by implication biographical, which doesn't keep them from being also scientific or journalistic or whatever, and many have two or three supporting external orgs and internal WP projects, which may be approximately equal or one main and another merely nominal. Often the venue is a library, which usually has one location but sometimes that library is part of a national institution with far-flung locations, that is also a sponsor or co-sponsor of annual WP events on one topic or several.

So, yes, it's going to be complex and yes, lets get the date and place trees right, and then see how good a handle we can get on the more slippery and more tangled concepts of subject, host institution or venue, and organizing institution. Jim.henderson (talk) 11:29, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]