Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Action=History April 2017

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Join us on Sunday April 30 2017 for a Wikipedia hackathon to develop tools for contributing content Wikipedia and user-testing them with the community.

Action=History: Sunday Hackathons @ Ace Hotel

On the last Sunday of every month from 2-6pm, the Boardroom at Ace Hotel New York hosts Action Equals History — a unique opportunity for New Yorkers to learn hands-on in a technology training/workshop session about the mechanics, practices and benefits of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. This is an opportunity for all to gather, share and work collectively towards a more robust account of history.

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

April 2017

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Agenda

Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/AceApril

Tools to create or improve
- WP:Meetup pages
- Edit-a-thon pages
- Enabling meetup campaigns like WP:Wiknic
- {{Wikidata list}}
- {{Preloaddraft}} - Saint Jerome as Scholar
- Artworks in Wikidta list - User:Jane023/Self-portraits of women
- Wikireporter.org and generating wiki-items on public gatherings in the news
- mw:Content translation multilingual tool
Other topics
- mw:Code of Conduct adoption
- Lightning talks
- How to file a bug on Phabricator, and propose technical changes to Wikimedia sites
- Pizza!

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