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The September 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
This will be the next in our main monthly series of "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events and editathons.
Details edit
- Date: Wednesday, September 16, 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: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery
Agenda edit
| May 2024 +/- | |
|---|---|
| Auckland 22 | May 4, 2024 |
| Leeds 6 | May 4, 2024 |
| London 204 | May 12, 2024 |
| US Mountain West online | May 14, 2024 |
| Bay Area WikiSalon | May 16, 2024 |
| Oxford 100 | May 19, 2024 |
| San Diego 111 | May 20, 2024 |
| Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture edit-a-thon |
May 22, 2024 |
| BLT Office Hours | May 26, 2024 |
| June 2024 +/- | |
| Exeter | June 8, 2024 |
| London 205 | June 9, 2024 |
| BLT Office Hours | June 23, 2024 |
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Bring your own ideas!
Introductions / new users edit
- Introductions
- Focus on new users, questions, etc.
Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events edit
- Local Wikipedia Free Culture Alliance NYC projects
- Past, present, and future institutional partnerships with Wikipedia
- Recent editathons and projects
- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American editathon @ MoMA - September 2
Chapter business edit
- Grants review
- Committees review
- Public broadcasting cooperation projects
- Tech/app/bot projects
- Reimagining WMF grants and annual plans
- Advance prepping for Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin
Future plans edit
- Monthly: Regular WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles (next: Oct 28), Editathons @ MoMA and timing
- Semester-long: Planning Fall 2015 WP:NYCEDU wiki-classes
- September: AfroCROWD Wikipedia Editathon @ Queens Library (Sunday, September 20) - Eventbrite RSVP
- October:
- WikiArte Latin American editathon with Iberocoop @ MoMA (Saturday, October 3)
- WikiConference USA 2015 @ National Archives in DC (October 9-11)
- Women in Architecture editathon @ Guggenheim (Thursday, October 15)
- Wikipedia Takes Manhattan Strikes Back (October 17-18)
- WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles (Wednesday, Oct 28)
- November:
- Afrocrowd Wikipedia Editathon @ MoMA returns (Tuesday, November 10?)
- Women in Science editathon @ New York Academy of Sciences (Sunday, November 22)
- January 2016: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 for the 15th anniversary (see Wikipedia Day NYC 2015)
Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions edit
Keynote edit
15-20 minutes
- TBA
Lightning talks edit
5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!
Sign up edit
Likely attendees edit
- Pharos (talk) 21:43, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
- BrillLyle (talk)
- Jim.henderson (talk) 20:43, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- Aliceba (talk) 22:15, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
- kosboot (talk) 15:37, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
- Shanluan (talk)
- Roman Spinner (talk) 22:47, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
- Hexatekin (talk) 18:35, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
- Becksguy (talk) 20:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
- Bluerasberry (talk)
- DGG (talk)
- Jeremyb (talk)
- Ronald Sexton (talk)
- Skigg (talk)
- Vmenkov (talk)
Possible attendees edit
- For the first time, I might actually get the chance to attend one of these meetups. I'll have to see what happens when I get to the city. -------User:DanTD (talk) 00:48, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Regrets edit
- Can't make it this time, but after last month I certainly plan on making a regular appearance! — MusikAnimal talk 22:48, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Food tonight edit
- Chicken fingers, chicken wraps, rotisserie chicken
- Vegetable selection including roasted kale with garlic and grilled zucchini
Comments / feedback / suggestions about tonight's food and/or for next month's food selection? Please let us know!
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2015-09 WikiWednesday.
- Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
- Wikimedia New York City
- Free Culture Alliance NYC