Wikipedia:Meetup
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Regular (or more spontaneous) face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians take place in cities around the world. This page is used as a starting point for Wikipedians organising meetups, and subpages are used for finalising the details once a meetup has been agreed. For meetings in other languages/places please use the interlanguage links from this page.
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Cities and countries hosting meetups around the world[edit]
Projects and events[edit]
Projects, initiatives, user groups[edit]
- AfroCROWD
- Art+Community
- Art+Feminism
- Black Lunch Table
- Black WikiHistory Month
- Black Women Intelligentsia
- Canada Wide Canadian History Edit-a-thon
- Music in Canada @ 150 edit-a-thon campaign
- Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
- Florida Librarians of Wikipedia
- Indigenous Film & Media
- Indigenous Storytellers WikiThon
- GLAM Café in Philadelphia
- Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thon
- Kentucky Wikimedians User Group
- La Guardia and Wagner Archives
- Plants And People – includes New York Botanical Garden
- Smithsonian APA Asian Pacific American
- Wiki Loves Pride
- WikiConference North America
- wikiD: Women. Wikipedia. Design.
- Wikimedia United States Coalition aka 'Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States' (WALRUS) committee WP:WALRUS
- Wikipedia Day US (January)
- Great American Wiknic (June)
- Wikipedia Loves Libraries (October/November)
- Wikipedia Takes America (September)
- Wikimedia User Group China (中国维基媒体用户组)
- Wikimedians of Colorado User Group (WM-US-CO)
- WikiProject Medicine Mount Sinai
- WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Women in Red
- Writing Middle Eastern Women into History Initiative (WMWH)
- Wiki Loves Women
International[edit]
- WikiCon (WikiConference/WikiConvention)
Categories[edit]
- Wikiday
- Wikimania
- Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiWednesday
- Wikipedia Takes The City
- WikiSym
- Wikiversity Meetup
See also[edit]
Future meetups[edit]
Scheduled future meetups[edit]
| November 2018 +/- | |
|---|---|
| Hong Kong 118: Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ Fo Tan | November 3, 2018 |
| BLT @ Staten Island Museum | November 10, 2018 |
| London 136 | November 11, 2018 |
| San Diego 35 @ Chula Vista | November 11, 2018 |
| Cork for Worldcon/Dublin2019 | November 14, 2018 |
| Vanderbilt Asian Month 2018 | November 14, 2018 |
| Oxford 67 | November 18, 2018 |
| December 2018 +/- | |
| San Diego 36 @ Rancho Bernardo | December 2, 2018 |
| London 137 | December 9, 2018 |
| Cambridge 39 | December 15, 2018 |
| Full Meetup Calendar | |
Procedure and advice[edit]
- Create the page
- Use or create a sub page of Wikipedia:Meetup to organize the meeting.
- Make it easy to sign up, with simple subsections like Likely attendees, Possible attendees and Regrets for signup lists, as at Meetup/NYC.
- See Wikipedia Meetups - A design pattern catalogue for advice about Locations, Timing, People, and Topics.
- Attract attendees
- Solicit invitations of geographically local Wikipedia users.
- Create a geonotice request.
- Create a list of Wikipedians interested in future and regular meetups for a given location where they can sign up (alternatively, userboxes with corresponding categories can be used).
- Use an info box like {{Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne/Invite}} for mass invitations.
- Use other media outside of Wikipedia to advertise to non-Wikipedia users
- Post a notice at the relevant page of wikipedia.meetup.com
- Post a couple of notices on Craigslist (free).
- Word of mouth is always an option.
- Don't be afraid to spam people: Make a big list like Meetup/NYC/Invite list from all people who have ever expressed interest in attending a meetup, as well as all people in categories like Category:Wikipedians in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia userbox and other regional categories.
- Don't manually post notices to all the editors who are listed in a geographical category. Simply post a request at WP:BOTREQ, asking for a bot owner to have a bot deliver the (specified) message to everyone in the category.
- Place notices at talk pages like Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philadelphia and even Talk:Philadelphia.
- Contact your local chapter - if you have one - who will be able to contact people in the local area, or help you in other ways.
- Organize event
- Organize location
- Organize eating arrangements
- Settle on a definite time and place, and don't change it. If someone is just bold, people will know about the date a few weeks in advance (instead of a couple of days), which will make planning easier for individuals. Getting input from everyone is good, but you don't need a formal vote on everything, which can delay the process.
- Consider whether you want any sort of agenda for the meetup (like a discussion on a specific topic, or forming a local chapter).
Past meetups[edit]
There have been many meetups in various locations across the globe.
Pictures[edit]
A gallery from many different cities can be found at:
Gallery[edit]
First meetup
Dhaka, Bangladesh
July 14, 2007Fifth meetup
Philadelphia, United States
November 11, 2007First meetup
Vancouver, Canada
May 5, 20081st WikiMeetup
Mumbai
September 20, 20101st WikiMeetup
New Delhi
September 22, 201019th Bangalore Meetup
Bangalore
September 24, 20101st WikiMeetup
Kolkata
December 11, 2010Bangalore Odia Wiki Workshop
Bangalore
March 6, 2011Wikimedia Kenya meet up
Kenya
May 26, 2012Third meetup
Chittagong
February 7, 2015AfroCROWD Kickoff Event
Brooklyn, United States
February 7 and 8, 20152015 Art+Feminism @ MoMA
New York City, United States
March 7, 2015Wikipedia Singapore Meetup 8 @ National Library, Singapore
November 8, 2015Wikipedia Johor Meetup 1 @ Mall of Medini, Iskandar Puteri, Johor, Malaysia
May 22, 2016Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 1 @ Berjaya Times Square, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
June 5, 2016Wikipedia Selangor Meetup 1 @ Sudo Brew, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
December 11, 2016Wikipedia Selangor Meetup 2 @ Sunway Tower, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
February 25, 2017Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 2 @ Feeka Coffee Roasters, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
April 22, 2017Wikipedia Indonesia-Malaysia Meetup 1 @ Wikimedia Indonesia Chapter Headquarters, Menteng, Jakarta, Indonesia
August 10, 2017Wikipedia Johor Meetup 2 @ Larkin 2 National Primary School, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
October 8, 2017Wikipedia Johor Meetup 3 @ Big Bites Café, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
October 22, 2017Wikipedia Johor Meetup 4 @ Crescendo International College, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
December 9, 2017Wikipedia Johor Meetup 5 @ Sunway College Johor Bahru, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
January 20, 2018Wikipedia Johor Meetup 6 @ Q House, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
February 24, 2018Wikipedia Johor Meetup 7 @ Handicapped and Mentally Disabled Children Association Johor Bahru, Saleng, Kulai District, Johor, Malaysia
April 14, 2018Wikipedia Malaysia-Taiwan Meetup 1 @ Leaf Cafe, Da'an District, Taipei, Taiwan
April 28, 2018Wikipedia Sabah Meetup 1 @ Sandakan District Education Office, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia
May 17, 2018Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur 3 @ AIA Cap Square Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
June 30, 2018Wikipedia Johor Meetup 8 @ Crescendo International College, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
July 14, 2018Wikipedia Kelantan Meetup 1 @ Kamil National High School, Pasir Puteh, Kelantan, Malaysia
Augusts 6, 2018Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 4 @ Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
August 26, 2018Wikipedia Indonesia-Malaysia Meetup 2 @ Wikimedia Indonesia Chapter Headquarters, Menteng, Jakarta, Indonesia
September 10, 2018Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 5 @ Malaysia Design Archive, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
September 15, 2018Wikipedia Melaka Meetup 1 @ Multimedia University, Bukit Beruang, Melaka, Malaysia
October 10, 2018
Tools[edit]
See also[edit]
- Geonotice
- Meta Meetup
- WikiCon (WikiConference/WikiConvention)
- Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon
- Community of Wikipedia
- Program evaluation: edit-a-thons
External links[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikipedia events. |
