Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2017-05 WikiWednesday
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| When and Where | |
|---|---|
| Date | Wednesday, May 24, 2017 |
| Time | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm |
| Address | Babycastles 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) 2nd Floor |
| City, State | New York City, New York 10011 |
The May 2017 NYC WikiWednesday salon with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
Details
[edit]- Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2017
- Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Location: TBD
- Location: Babycastles. 145 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), Basement level, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011
40°44′18″N 73°59′55.6″W / 40.73833°N 73.998778°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
- Accessibility: Let us know if we should set up the manual elevator for this meetup.
- Hashtag: #WikiWednesday
- After the main meeting: Food and refreshments
- Meetup link:
- Etherpad:
Agenda
[edit]Bring your own ideas!
- 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Introductions for visitors
- 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)
Check in - ongoing projects
[edit]| December 2024 +/- | |
|---|---|
| Christchurch 34 | December 1, 2024 |
| BLT Antenna New Orleans | December 7, 2024 |
| Haitian Creole NYC | December 8, 2024 |
| London 211 | December 8, 2024 |
| Chicago December 2024 | December 14, 2024 |
| Perth 85 | December 15, 2024 |
| San Diego 117 | December 16, 2024 |
| Seattle meetup | December 17, 2024 |
| January 2025 +/- | |
| Wikipedia Day Seattle | January 11, 2025 |
| London 212 | January 12, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day Minnesota | January 15, 2025 |
| Exeter 2 | January 18, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day Toronto | January 19, 2025 |
| Edinburgh 19 | January 25, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day NYC | January 25, 2025 |
| Brixton 6 | January 27, 2025 |
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- Recent edit-a-thons, etc.
Since last WikiWednesday
- Earth Day Edit-a-thon @ CUNY Graduate Center Thursday April 27, 2017
- Race and Gender Bias in Medicine @ Icahn School of Medicine. Friday April 28, 2017
- Action=History: Sunday Hackathon @ Ace Hotel. Sunday April 30, 2017
- Wiki Loves the Dominican Republic @ Columbia University Wednesday, 3 May, 2017
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative Sunday May 21, 2017
New and upcoming projects
[edit]- -It is time to submit a 2017-18 funding request to the Wikimedia Foundation. The is challenging to edit, but anyone may propose a small project for funding support either through this or with chapter support through other funding pathways.
- -Wiki Loves Dominican Republic continues and is requesting review of a $2000 grant request. This project is based in Columbia University and in partnership with Mt. Sinai Hospital. They are developing wiki content and providing offline copies of it to schools and clinics in Central America.
- Upcoming events
- Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Afrocrowd/AMC Sunday June 18, 2017
- Wiki Loves Pride 2017 @ MoMA Thursday June 22, 2017
- Annual NYC Wiknic for "the picnic anyone can edit". 10th anniversary edition!
- Wikimania in Montreal, and organizing an NYC wiki-train to get there. August 2017
- -
Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions
[edit]5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!
- TED (conference) (wikiproject)
- Salesforce.com just purchased 1095 Avenue of the Americas at Bryant Park and are maturing as a service. They offer nonprofit software that could support some Wiki NYC needs. To what extent could Wiki NYC benefit by using their products? Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:25, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
- Free video on Wikimedia Commons!
- Episode 3: Strongly formalized, yet still a cultural artifact of the Wikidata mini-series
by BlaueBlüte
Food tonight
[edit]Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!
- pizza / Russian pies, maybe
External links
[edit]- Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
- Wikimedia New York City
- Free Culture Alliance NYC
Sign up
[edit]To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.
Regrets
[edit]- sheridanford (talk) 22:12, 24 May 2017 (UTC); can't make tonight but VERY interested since I am a TED Fellow in the TED Wikiproject being discussed.
Possible attendees
[edit]Likely attendees
[edit]- Pharos (talk) 16:35, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
- Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:26, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
- kosboot (talk) 17:53, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
- Becksguy (talk) 21:14, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
- MainlyTwelve (talk) 18:34, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
- DGG ( talk ) 00:36, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
- Jim.henderson (talk) 12:42, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
- Vizzylane (talk) 13:14, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
- Megs (talk) 13:51, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
- Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 14:46, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
- Shanluan (talk) 21:00, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
- BlaueBlüte (talk) 21:14, 24 May 2017 (UTC)