The February 2016 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community was held Wednesday, February 17, 2016, 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, February 17, 2016
- 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-160217
Agenda
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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
edit2016 budget: Grants on Meta
editAs always, Grants are on our Meetup page, "Projects & Grants" tab
Meeting notes are on our Meetup page, "About" tab
- WM NYC 2016 Annual Grant
- Documents
- Supplemental info: WM NYC APG – 2016 Supplemental information
- Staffing plan: WM NYC Staffing Plan
- Budget: Budget Template
- WikiConference Scholarship Program: WikiConference Scholarship Program
- Documents
Check in - ongoing projects
edit- Recent edit-a-thons
- Wiki-classes this semester
- Mozucat (talk) checkin:
- January-June 2016: La Guardia and Wagner Archives Koch-era NYC project on history of AIDS
- Spring 2016: Classes at LaGuardia Community College will start in March. At least 2 Wikipedia classes expected
- February 27, 2016: Octavia Butler editathon at Spelman College
- Mozucat (talk) checkin:
- Committee selection?
- TBD / discuss at next month's WikiWednesday!
New and upcoming projects
edit- Upcoming events:
- #BRONX AFRICA Black Life Matters Edit-a-thon – Saturday, February 27, 2016
- Art + Feminism 2016 @ MoMA - Saturday, March 5, 2016
- Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Guggathon - Tuesday, May 3, 2016
- MediaWiki Conference Community Night - possible Wednesday, May 25, 2016?
- Proposal: Require that WM NYC events have an event page procedure for categorizing events: event documentation
- Discussion: What kind of safety and safe space system should WM NYC have? See the new WMF team at Support and Safety
- WikiEdu's Year of Science
- February - Zoology
- March - Chemistry
- April - Environmental science
- May - Psychology
- June - Astronomy
- July - Plant biology
- August - Sociology
- September - Linguistics
- October - Computer science, technology, and math
- November - Medicine
- December - Physics
- WikiProject Women scientists - Worklist (for reference, ties into Year of Sci)
- Press!
- Knipel, Richard (February 12, 2016). "Connecting Wikipedia with the Guggenheim". Guggenheim Museum.
Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions
edit5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!
- Google Ngram Viewer - Becksguy (talk)
- Yaron Koren from WikiWorks talks about upcoming MediaWiki conference in May. WM NYC will be supporting this event as one of its WikiWednesdays. See SMWCon -- User: Yaron Koren
Sign up
edit- You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page.
Likely attendees
edit- Pharos (talk)
- BrillLyle (talk)
- Roman Spinner (talk)
- Ronald Sexton (talk)
- Shanluan (talk)
- Becksguy (talk)
- Katellington (talk)
- Quantumavik (talk)
- Jim.henderson (talk)
- Mozucat (talk)
- Poohlaga (talk)
Possible attendees
edit- I have a scheduling conflict this date but hopefully not for the whole evening. Newyorkbrad (talk) 21:15, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- DGG ( talk ) 05:54, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Regrets
edit- kosboot (talk) 03:20, 18 February 2016 (UTC) - had a conflict I forgot about
Food tonight
editComments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016-02 WikiWednesday.
- Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
- Wikimedia New York City
- Free Culture Alliance NYC