Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2015-12
< Wikipedia:Meetup | NYC
The December 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community was held Wednesday, December 9, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
Details
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- Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2015
- Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (feel free to come by early as 6, stay later for social hour)
- Location: Babycastles. 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), 2nd Floor, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011 40°44′17.5″N 73°59′54.5″W / 40.738194°N 73.998472°W
- Subway:
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 7th Avenue)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 8th Avenue)
- Bus: M1, M2, M3, M14A, M14D, X1, X7, X9, X10, X12, X17, X27, X28 buses
- Hashtag: #WikiWednesday
- After the main meeting: Food and refreshments and video games in the gallery
- Meetup link: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
- Etherpad: WikiWed-151209
Agenda
[edit]| February 2025 +/- | |
|---|---|
| Utah Wikipedia Day at Sundance Film Festival |
February 1, 2025 |
| Singapore 19 | February 1, 2025 |
| Los Angeles Wildfire Edit-a-thon at the Hammer Museum |
February 2, 2025 |
| CAH Black History Month online | February 4, 2025 |
| London 213 | February 9, 2025 |
| US Mountain West online | February 11, 2025 |
| WikiCredCon - San Francisco | February 14, 2025 |
| Christchurch 36 | February 16, 2025 |
| Oxford 108 | February 16, 2025 |
| Seattle | February 18, 2025 |
| NYC (WikiWed) | February 19, 2025 |
| South Africa 45 | February 22, 2025 |
| March 2025 +/- | |
| Edmonton A+F Panel | March 6, 2025 |
| London 214 | March 9, 2025 |
| Brighton 4 | March 15, 2025 |
| Seattle | March 18, 2025 |
| Edinburgh 20 | March 29, 2025 |
| Full Meetup Calendar • Events calendar on Meta For meetups in other languages, see the list on Meta | |
Bring your own ideas!
- 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Introductions for visitors
- Newcomer's Wiki Workshop!
- 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm: Meeting, Part I (roundtable on ongoing projects)
- 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Meeting, Part II (new project proposals and ideas)
Chapter business
[edit]2016 budget: Grants on Meta
[edit]- 2016 Budget: 2016 plan
- Meetups: 2016 Meetups
- Metrics & Reporting Staff: Metrics & Reporting Staff
- WikiConference Scholarship Program: WikiConference Scholarship Program
- AfroCROWD 2016 Grant: 2015 Grant -- 2016 Grant to come
For reference:
- Art+Feminism: Art + Feminism Renewal
Check in - ongoing projects
[edit]- Recent edit-a-thons
- Wiki-classes this semester
- Committee selection? TBD
New and upcoming projects
[edit]- Art & Law editathon @ School of Visual Arts (Saturday, December 12)
- Black Film Editathon: AfroCROWD @ Brooklyn Public Library (Sunday, December 13)
- meta:Wikimedia Conference 2016 - selecting chapter delegates before January
- Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 - 15th anniversary (Weekend January 17/18, 2016) - replacing WikiWednesday Salon in January
- AfroCROWD editathon @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Saturday February 6, 2016 - part of Black WikiHistory Month
- Art + Feminism 2016 @ MoMA - Saturday, March 5, 2016
Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions
[edit]5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!
- Proposal for WM NYC to oversee a pilot which would issue 2016 press credentials to an established photographer and Wikimedia contributor. Described a bit at Wikipedia:Press pass.
- Give an overview of the dotNeighborhoods project and the city's OK for wiki neighborhoods. Can we get a prototype dotNeighborhood, e.g. JacksonHeights.nyc?;
- Wiki Loves Earth — I would like to talk about some thoughts I have for doing this in the springtime. Daniel Case (talk) 19:40, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Sign up
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- You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page.
Likely attendees
[edit]- Pharos (talk) 18:00, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- BrillLyle (talk)
- Roman Spinner (talk) 14:02, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
- Aliceba (talk) 18:35, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- Mozucat (talk) 18:49, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- Lange.lea (talk) 18:58, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:57, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- kosboot (talk) 00:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
- Daniel Case (talk) 02:17, 3 December 2015 (UTC) My schedule works out this time!
- Tomlzz1
- Shanluan (talk)
- Fashionethics (talk) 19:46, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
- Jim.henderson (talk) 20:35, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
- DGG ( talk ) 01:45, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Theredproject (talk) 00:27, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Becksguy (talk)
- Quantumavik (talk)
- Ronald Sexton (talk)
Possible attendees
[edit]- Ira Leviton (talk) 23:45, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
- me. (will discuss later) -- 72.226.125.231 (talk)
Regrets
[edit]- Netherzone (talk) 01:53, 9 December 2015 (UTC) I would like to attend but am taking a group of students to the UN COP21 event.
- Librarianhelen (talk) 20:58, 9 December 2015 (UTC) Some other time
Food tonight
[edit]Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!
- Maoz Vegetarian tonight folks! We will be picking it up beforehand.
- Feedback tonight for future planning
- A bit too much food, could reduce amounts by a bit (sides and desserts were too much)
- Lay it out before meeting starts, but covered; then do new people / intros, then uncover food and continue with meeting...
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2015-12 WikiWednesday.
- Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
- Wikimedia New York City
- Free Culture Alliance NYC