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Archive 1

European meetings 2004

There are some European meetings that will happen in June/July 2004 together with Jimbo in Berlin, Genoa, Munich, Paris... if you want to set up one for the UK please do so and let us know :-) Fantasy 12:05, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The centre of English-speaking Wikipedian mass is probably London, I would guess. Are the locations being determined by Jimbo's movements? Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 12:32, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Should somebody draw attention to this on the Village pump? I think more regular users will spot it there than on the front page (I spotted the summary in my watchlist rather than the link itself). Also, Pete seems to have conveniently forgotten that the USA, Australia and (parts of) Canada are also English-speaking - but London is certainly a centre of mass, and the one that would be relevant to me. - IMSoP 14:04, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

OK, I have put it to the village pump. And: Jimbo is simply following invitations, it is not he who imposes this. If you don't organise, then there will be no meeting. And: Pete has not forgotten. London IS the english center in EUROPE (see above)

Thanks for help :-) Fantasy 19:18, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I was thinking in terms of a Jimbo european tour but wasn't explicit about it, and simply meant that London would be the best place for a meetup involving English-speaking (i.e. British and Irish) European Wikipedians with Jimbo. Anyhow Jimbo has just written on the mailing list that he doesn't plan to be in the UK this summer, but does plan to be there in Summer 2005. Pete/Pcb21

Oh, I had not seen the 2005 in his email... I thought, he was staying the rest of the time in the UK. That makes it more clear. Thanks for correcting me :-) Fantasy 19:39, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

PS: Jimbo wrote "so I do need to not over-schedule.", just if someone wants to organise another meeting, don't take it for granted that Jimbo will come. But a meeting is alway nice, why not oranising one nevertheless! :-)

IMSoP checks the Pump carefully in some confusion, as this is still not mentioned, and finally discovers it in the edit history. So, are we going to try and organise a meeting (Jimbo or no) or not? If we are, there's no point the 3 of us talking to ourselves on here, we need to tell people that something's going on. So either it should stay on the pump, with an amendment that Jimbo will most likely not be involved, or, erm, see you all next year? - IMSoP 21:02, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Just some examples:

• In Munich we are meeting every one or two months.
• In Berlin also some Wikipedians started to meet (i think once a month)

I was wondering, why there is nothing like this happening in english speaking countries.

BUT: I am not living in a english speaking country, so I can/will not be the one to organise it.

Someone living in London can organise a "London-meeting" whenever he wants (next week, next month, in the Summer... whenever)

So, if you are living in an interresting place: SET A DATE AND START ADVERTISING (village pump, mailinglist, main page, ...), you will get to know a lot of interresting people!

Just do it, its absolutely worth it :-) Fantasy 09:59, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Call me unforgivably lazy but I would prefer to go to something someone else has organised rather than have that responsibility thrust upon me! Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 18:42, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

If anyone is interested in doing one in Seattle, I'd be glad to be involved. I know we have at least a few very active Wikipedians here: myself, Lukobe, DanKeshet, probably ohters where geography never came up... On the other hand nothing is going to drag me onto a Wikipedia mailing list. -- Jmabel 22:44, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

More out of curiosity than anything else---what's going on at these meetings? It seems planning is probably better done over email where everyone can participate, so are these presentations, or just social gatherings, or something else? --Delirium 22:58, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

USA meet up

Feel free to discuss the subject. Sam Spade 05:26, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Don't feel like organising it yourself, Sam? -- Tim Starling 05:30, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

What? thats what I'm doin, see here [1] (sorry, shoulda put that link here! :S Sam Spade 05:32, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I thought you were paranoid about people knowing your real name and where you live? Anyway - I'm stuck on the west coast on that day. --mav 05:36, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Jimbo gave me the idea (see the top of the page). I had a change of mind on that subject, and it can be discussed elsewhere, but in short I think being a real person is a better way to go. And yeah, I didn't expect a big turn out, but thanks for the thought. Sam Spade 05:43, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Is midnight on a Sunday night the most appropiate time? Some of us have work to go to :-)! Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 08:54, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I have mondays off, and work 2nd and 3rd shift. I work Sunday, but I get off in time to go there. I'll be there anyways, my co-workers and I go there sundays. I don't expect a huge turn out, but it will be cool to meet wiki's. If you would like to schedule additional meet ups (at times and places convenient to you), that would rock too ;) Sam Spade 09:45, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

A good ressource to get people to know about the meeting, is to poste a link on the discussion page of the people registered in Wikipedia:Wikipedians/United_States. Advertisement helps ;-) Fantasy 18:13, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I already contacted everybody in a state nearby, and in my state. I suppose I could contact the entire USA as well, but it seems a bit unrealistic... I'll think about it! Sam Spade 21:45, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This July, O'Reilly is sponsoring their Open Source Conference here in Portland, Oregon, which is where I live. If any of you are planning on attending this event, feel free to drop me a line, & let's see if we can't organize a BOF session (or just have a few beers at one of the local brewpubs). -- llywrch 04:28, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

London meet up

7pm on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday evening in Central London would suit me just fine, thanks! Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 10:21, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I could do those days too if there ever is a London meetup, or maybe Birmingham would be more central? Angela. 08:11, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

There are probably enough UK Wikipedians to support both, at some point in the future. If we went for a big event with a wide net, I would vote Birmingham too. I guess I implicitly had in mind a lower key after-work event in a pub or something. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:14, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Though thinking about it, an internet cafe might be more appropiate than a pub, depending on the extent of physical addiction to Wikipedia :-). Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:14, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

and now Angela has noted that Jimbo will be in the big smoke in early June. Not sure if he announced that on the mailing list (I delete a lot messages)... anyone know if there is anything being organized. is it worth talking about organizing something on this page? Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 15:05, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It hasn't been announced on the mailing lists as far as I know. Jimbo told me on IRC and I said I would add it to this page, but I don't think anything has been organised as such. Angela. 02:10, Mar 26, 2004 (UTC) See User:Jimbo Wales/2004-06-05

SF Bay Area meet

We should have a meetup in the Bay Area. Many of us are here all the darn time and lots of you probably come to visit for business or pleasure throughout the year. Anyone have any good ideas on time/place? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:44, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)

meetup.com

From: Wikipedia talk:Meetup/NYC#Other NYC "Meetup" project

On the project page, Omegatron asked, "Also, what is the relationship between this meetup and this meetup?" It seems that some people came together through the Meetup.com website and set up a meeting for the evening of Monday, December 13. As far as I can tell, the relationship is that there was none, i.e., the two sets of planners were each ignorant of the other's work. (It was Omegatron's post here that told me about the Meetup.com group; I've posted a message there about the December 12 meetup.) JamesMLane 14:36, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Mostly correct. The one via meetup.com is a regularly scheduled event for locals. There are similar meetups happening all across the world at the same time on the same day.... that's how meetup.com works. The meeting being organized here is due to Jimbo, Angela and Anthere happening to be in town. I knew of both. - UtherSRG 14:54, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Is there any way these two could be synced up? The meets scheduled here could be synced up with the meetup.com one, since it's a scheduled event the same day every month, but the meetup.com thing is dumb because it's never on weekends. But it's not like the people on there aren't regular old wikipedians and can't talk about it here. Maybe the meetup thing could be unofficially rescheduled to sync up with more convenient ones planned on here? - Omegatron 04:09, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)

Page maintenance

China meetup in Beijing

As this event is now in the past, can we archive the information about it? –– Constafrequent ^{(talk page)} 08:46, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Meetup Fees

Update 6/15/2005: On April 12, 2005, Meetup.com converted to a pay website by charging groups a monthly fee ($19/month for new groups, $9/month for existing ones). Organizers of groups were given a grace period to begin paying fees. On May 16, 2005, organizers who had not paid their group's fees were automatically removed as organizers. It is estimated that on or around June 16, 2005, groups without organizers will also be removed.

As of today, there were 40 Wikipedia Meetup groups. Of them, only two still have organizers: Calgary and Boston, so it's quite possible that the others will be removed in the near future.

Given this lack of interest in using Meetup, this article should be revised to suggest alternate ways to coordinate in-person meetings.

BWatkins

(source: http://www.meetup.com/boards)

Summer?

Come to Wikimania this summer, August 4–8!

Summer? That doesn't sound very NPOV :P

(Don't worry - just stirring!) -- Chuq 09:07, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Pruning

I've cut down this page drastically, because (quite frankly) it's become confusing as hell. Every comment on this page was an expression of interest in having a meetup, and not a single one actually mentioned a pending meet. I have changed this. template:meetup is for documenting meets that have already happened, and this page is for announcing ones that are scheduled, for which a location and/or date have already been selected. →Raul654 03:56, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Having a list of users, broken down by area, that are interested in meetups seems to be the start of coordinating one--I'm not sure I see the confusion. If you think such a list isn't useful, can you suggest an alternative mechanism? Demi ^T/_C 06:40, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Very simple - just do what I did for the Tampa2 meetup. We already have lists of users by area (both lists and cateogries, actually). When a meetup is scheduled, notify the people in the area, and link them to hte relavant page. On that page, have a signup sheet of interested wikipedians. →Raul654 07:56, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

But how do I schedule a meetup if I have no idea if anyone else is even interested and there's never been a meetup there before? It's one thing to advertise a meetup and another to actually have people show up. — Laura Scudder ☎ 08:20, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

(Speaking as someone whose organized several of these) Before you ever decide to have the meetup, you have to ask around and find a few people who are interested (as well as nailing down details like date and location). This page, while plenty cluttered and confusing, was not helpful in the least to this end. →Raul654 08:50, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Still waiting...

...for a Vancouver meetup. I live across the Strait of Georgia from Vancouver, and would just love to have another reason to see my favourite city again. --  Denelson83  05:10, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Meetups don't organize themselves you know... Raul654 05:15, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, I'm no organizer, thus I have to wait for the opportunity to materialize on its own.  Denelson83  04:59, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Tampa

Howdy everyone - I've never been to a meetup before (despite being in the top thousand in number of edits - how 1337 is that!!) but I noticed there's one in Tampa and frankly, Tampa beats New York for a place to be on January 14th. If anyone could offer just a bit of persuasion it would probably be enough to get me to take the JetBlue down there. Hope to see/hear from you all Paul 06:09, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Can this Tampa meetup actually be in Tampa this time? St. Petersburg is its own city, across the Bay from Tampa, and that has prevented me from going to the last two meetups. I think it's only fair that if we're going to call it the Tampa meetup, that it actually BE in Tampa. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 03:35, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Next NYC meetup?

Please notify me when the next NYC meetup is planned (I live on Long Island), so I can decide whether to attend or not. --TML1988 20:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

They don't organize themselves, you know (hint hint) ;) Raul654 21:58, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Me too. — Omegatron 23:27, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Just curious

Gang, I just had a very negative experiance with someone trying to find me in the real world based on my Wikipedia work. Can these meetups lead to that kind of thing? Do stalkers come to them, hoping to bring edit wars into the real world? I wold actually be scared to go to one of these. I'm just curious to hear from people who've attended. -Husnock 23:52, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I've been to quite a few meetups. There was one uncomfortable experience when a couple of users banned by the arbcom showed up to protest and appeal - in person - to Jimbo. Far more often, members of the press show up ;) Raul654 23:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

The Minneapolis meet-up was very very tame, User:UninvitedCompany was the "highest ranked" person that showed up, and going by his arbcom votes everyone likes him so, no stalkers/protests. Also us Minnesotans tend to be pretty laid back. We had the meet-up at famous daves. We ate, chatted a while and left. -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 05:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

But I digress, I have to know, did the appeal work? :P Navou ^banter 17:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Hug Jimbo-athon

Is it possible we could set up a marathon in times square, NY, where we can get almost all wikipedians to hug jimbo? It'll make him feel better.. :-P James S 22:15, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Meetups in other countries

German cities with Wikipedia meetups

Since spring 2004 there are regular meetups in various German cities (more then 100 until end of 2006) and there are more and more meetings in other countries too – you should have a look at the local language's wiki pages. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nichtich (talk • contribs) 12:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC).

Documenting the meetups

Greetings Wikipedians. My name is Nic Hill and I'm directing an independent documentary film about Wikipedia. Our film crew Underdog Pictures is following Jimmy Wales around the world and documenting the movement. Part of the film will focus on the lives of Wikipedians from all over the world. So far we have documented wikipedians in the US, India, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, & Indonesia. We will be traveling with Jimmy over the next 6 months and would love to interview more wikipedians and document more meetups.

Please take a look at our movie trailer and our podcasts. http://wikidocumentary.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

The film crew and I are traveling to Africa, Egypt, Australia, & Fiji.

Cape Town - April 14th to April 23rd Cairo - April 24rd to April 29th Austrailia - April 22nd to April 28th Nadi - April 28th to May 1st

Please contact us if you are interested in meeting up with us. It could be a great opportunity to link up with fellow wikipedians and share your two cents on the movement. THANKS!

-Nic Hill director sfgrafdoc@hotmail.com

More 411: http://www.rocketboom.com/stories/rb_07_apr_02

For information about meet-ups in Israel, you can take a look here: meta:Wikimedia Conference Israel. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Drork (talk • contribs) 09:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC).

I'd love to be filmed in such a documentary. I'm in the US, Illinois. Laleena^{talk to me contributions to Wikipedia} 12:44, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

is there a special page for London meetups? / the meetup ranklist is skewed

Okay. (taking a deep breath) Many cities in Germany have frequent meetups (e.g. Karlsruhe and Munich: monthly meetups, Hamburg: every two months) so the meetup "highscore" is skewed. On the other hand, I don't think there should be such a list - it's pretty useless. I stumbled across this page because I will be in London in April and I was looking for a page like this one where users from one city connect. They don't exist, do they? --Benutzer:Gnom 24 Feb 06, 21:10 (CET) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.176.7.222 (talk) 20:12, 24 February 2007 (UTC).

Underage participants

Has anyone had a problem with managing the appearance of 12-14 year old editors at other meetups? This is a hypothetical query BTW. Apart from legal implications in a group of adults being default guardians for a child they've never met before (other than on the internet), social standards and discomfort to other people attending would be offputting. Would it be unreasonable to post a message at the meetup notice saying that only people of legal age (depending on your own jurisdiction) can attend? —Moondyne 14:49, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like a bad idea, I know of "underage" users who have attended meetups. It's unneeded instruction creep. Majorly _{(o rly?)} 17:08, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

We had a boy at the Hamburg meetup who brought along his mom the first time he came. It was perfectly OK. --85.176.26.220 19:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

We've had a couple of young folks who've come to NYC meetups with a parent in tow. There's never been a problem; on the contrary, we get an edge in converting both generations into wiki-contributors!--Pharos (talk) 02:35, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

We once had a 10 year old at a meetup. He decided to cause trouble in a number of ways, If you would like a fuller answer, let me know. Zesty Prospect 16:11, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Sydney meetup

hi folks - never found this stuff before, but had a look at the page, and thought that on first glance, sydney could have the 100th meetup to coincide with jimbo's visit here at the end of april - terribly exciting, no? - anyone fancy it? (or p'raps someone more clued up could point me in the direction of a better suited page......?) - cheers all, Petesmiles 08:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

A proposal placed at Australian Wikipedians' noticeboard would probably be the place to garner some attention.--cjllw | TALK 10:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Seems like the Aussies have it together. They appear to meetup more than any other nation on Earth! G'Day!  ;)--THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^TALK 13:59, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Chicago Please!

My fellow Wikipedians,

I do not have that much access to travel, so I am hoping that another CHICAGO Wikimeet is set up soon, as I am eager to meet some fellow editors. Please have this considered.

Happy editing! --Stealthrabbit127:: 13:08, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Honolulu?

Possibly? There's never been a meetup there! Unfortunately, I can't arrange because I'm still a minor. Sr13 20:54, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

New York City Public Library

I would like to set up a Wikipedia meet up - but not as a meet and greet, but as a massive research project at New York Public Library to take on articles tagged for {expansion}, {unsourced}, and articles for creation. Any interest? --Ozgod 02:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

That would be a great idea. I can't participate in it since it's too far, but ask around. Wizardman 16:13, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Baltimore and Suburbs

I don't know how one would go about organizing a meetup, but I would be willing to help and/or lead. Dfmclean 14:59, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

kinda old but i would SOOOO go. Jack The Pumpkin King 01:07, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Suburban Chicago meetup?

I could best arrange a meetup in a northern suburb of Chicago, Grayslake. It's near Gurnee for shopping & Six Flags. Hotels are in Gurnee, too. Laleena^{talk to me contributions to Wikipedia} 12:40, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Geonotices

I have almost completed the Requests for Geonotice page. If any groups are interested in advertising their meetups, feel free to do so. If you don't know what a geonotice is, here is a quick intro:

A geonotice is a targeted sitenotice-style message, that appears on watchlists to users within a certain area. You can see Wikipedia:Geonotice for more info.

Thanks! Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 23:26, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Any meetups keen on using this? It gets a lot of results. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 23:33, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Denver area

If there would be interest in a meetup in the Denver area, I would be willing to work on setting it up. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 08:22, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Local chapters in the US

Please see meta:Wikimedia Unites States Chapters Council for a discussion on the possibility of local US chapters evolving from the meetup process (including a tally of which areas may be most able to support a chapter). Thanks.--Pharos 01:21, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Numbers of meetups

Hi, if those numbers are intended to be global, all the meetups of German Wikipedians are missing. We have monthly meetings in Munich since December 2003 (!) and monthly too in Berlin since sometimes mid 2004, plus many more all over the country. de:Vorlage:Wikipedia-Terminkalender usually lists about ten meetups or other events for Wikipedians per month. --h-stt !? 21:35, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Videoconferencing?

Given that Wikipedia is perhaps the world's leading example of remote collaboration, has anyone looked into videoconferencing some meetups? --Teratornis (talk) 22:00, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Allow me to officially extend an invitation on behalf of the NYC group to any other city that wants to try a videoconference link between two meetups.--Pharos (talk) 02:41, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Salt Lake City

Would anyone be interested in a meetup in the vicinity of Salt Lake City? Useight (talk) 08:14, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I guess not. Useight (talk) 00:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Regional conference in Northeast US

For a discussion of this possibility, see this discussion thread on the new Wikback discussion forum.--Pharos (talk) 17:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Daytona Beach

Meetup in Daytona Beach or Sanford, anyone? CJ Miller. (^{That's my name.}_{Don't wear it out.}) 00:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, this is like.. so late but yes! Daytona Beach, fianlly. LOL --eric (mailbox) 17:17, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Reform this page

I propose to reform this page by moving the tallies of past meetups and most of the pictures elsewhere, and focusing mostly on preliminary proposals for meetups and advice on how to set one up. Thanks.--Pharos (talk) 19:28, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree this page needs some work. There's a lot of meets missed here, and should be documented properly. Majorly (talk) 21:27, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Past meetups are all recorded at Wikipedia:Meetup/Past meetups, which I created when reforming Template:Meetup.--Pharos (talk) 21:35, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've done a preliminary reform. Now, the main thing is to expand 'Procedure'. And maybe add back two or three of the best pics from Wikipedia:Meetup/Gallery.--Pharos (talk) 20:09, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

help!

Please can someone tell from the Wikipedia:Meetup/Manchester_3 page which pub they're meeting at, it says the manchester and piccadilly at the top, but I think they decide on something else further down. It's tomorrow so I need help!:) Special Random (Merkinsmum) 19:28, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki - next meetup -- where to go for help?

I administer two sites using MediaWiki technology. Both of these have "next New York meetup" appearing on them. This seems like a terrible MediaWiki bug — I don't want this Wikipedia info on my wikis!!! Can someone tell me the best way to get rid of this, or a more appropriate place to ask this question? Merci. Timneu22 (talk) 17:59, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

You should ask User:Gmaxwell.--Pharos (talk) 19:03, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like you "borrowed" content from MediaWiki:Common.js. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:21, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

DOH! That's exactly what I did. But I don't immediately see what I need to comment out. Help, please?Timneu22 (talk) 20:57, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I got it. There's a "geo targeted" section. I commented that and it did the trick. Timneu22 (talk) 22:00, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Number of attendees?

Does anyone know the average amount of attendees to meetups? At the last Manchester one, a total of 11 people showed up, which wasn't too many, but not too few either. Some, like the NYC ones seems to have at least 2 dozen, and others only have 3 or 4 showing up. Majorly (talk) 22:29, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I guess it would depend on (1) how much effort you put into promoting it, and (2) the population of the metropolitan area.--Pharos (talk) 04:51, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

DC Meetup 4??

Anyone want to have a third one? I'm not good at planning things..... The Placebo Effect (talk) 03:13, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Have a look at the previous meetup pages, and spam the users who attended. I started three meetups, but didn't really do any planning whatsoever, as I'm useless at that kind of thing. Trust me there'll be someone who will be able to. Just create the page, suggest a date or set of dates, and spam the users. Majorly (talk) 00:12, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Συνάντηση Βικιπαιδιστών στην Αθήνα

there will be a meeting of wikipedians in athens on 31/03/08, see el:Βικιπαίδεια:Συνάντηση —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.173.150.146 (talk) 13:13, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Providence

I started a page to see if there is any interest in a meetup in Providence, Rhode Island. --mikeu (talk) 15:56, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Project Nabuur meetup?

The Project Nabuur Initiatives draws upon volunteers and supporters who are enthusiastic about our agenda and wish to take part in our movement (affiliated with the Institute for African Ecology and Philosophy). The main purpose of this meetup is to provide natural resource and science students with social and professional opportunities through community projects, tours for children, seminars and social events through the Young Diplomats Forum. It is funded by the Jahwar Amber Trust. We are committed to promote and defend reason, science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor.

Meetup in Africa was linked by Mr. Boaz Adhengo who remains the founding President of the Humanist and Ethical Union of Kenya. Currently he lectures at the United States International University and is the author of "Attempting the Ultimate: Kenyan Positivism" Lulu Books, 2009.

Columbus meetup?

Just probing around here...would anyone be able to make it to some sort of meeting in Columbus, Ohio? Voice-of-All 04:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

New blog covering on-the-ground Wikimedia activities in Northeast US

Check it out: http://wikinortheast.blogspot.com/

Anyone who is interested is also very welcome to contribute to this joint blog. Thanks.--Pharos (talk) 00:17, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Limits on Photography at Meet-ups

Given the current situation with User:Newyorkbrad's pending retirement, I would like that at all future Meet-Ups it become very known and clear to people who want anonymity the situation that Newyorkbrad has endured. I also think shots of people in the background not knowingly the subject of the photograph be banned. Newyorkbrad will be retiring from Wikipedia in the morning - the root of this is that he has been photographed at New York Meet Ups. That was his choice, but there is a lesson to be learned and shared. We need to stop being so sloppy. --David Shankbone 03:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

There isn't enough context in the above for those unfamiliar with the situation (like me) to understand what you're talking about. Can you clarify? ike9898 (talk) 20:26, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Using hCalendar microformat

It would seem sensible to use a simple template (or raw HTML) for each meet-up, to emit an hCalendar microformat, so that users can quickly add an event of interest to their calendar application or on-line service. Such a template would need to emit, at a minimum, mark-up like:

<td class="vevent"><td class="summary location">Anytown</td> <td>{{start date|YYYY|MM|DD}}</td></tr>

I've added an example to {{Meetup}}.

Comments welcome. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 20:05, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

New Year's Caribbean cruise

I'm thinking of going on a cruise for New Year's, Eastern Caribbean, Carnival cruise line. If there are any Wikipedians that would like to join me, let me know.  :) --Elonka 18:21, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Birmingham_3

This is in the planning stage, hope some of you are interested and will join the discussion. (Hope it's ok to post this here.) Sticky Parkin 19:47, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Proposal

Proposal

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Montreal 2009 Peter Horn 17:08, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Digital Copyright, a session of Visual Web Meetup.

Speakers: Mike Godwin, Gen Counsel Wikimedia; Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Simon Frankel, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Wednesday 2 September, 18:30.

Covington & Burling, LLP, One Front Street, San Francisco.

Free but must RSVP at [2].

-- Jeandré (talk), 2009-08-25t20:15z via m:OTRS ticket:2009082510051751

Joint Meetup

Is it okay if a user outside Wikipedia can organize a meetup here because of very limited users an other projects belongs to a particular location?

What "other project"? Is it another Wikimedia project?--Pharos (talk) 14:20, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Moving to Meta

All,

Given that our community is much wider than just the English Wikipedia, I've moved the place for the London meetup pages to be on meta (see m:Meetup/London/29). I'd suggest that, to be more inclusive, others do the same for their meetups (though that's of course your choice)! :-)

James F. (talk) 20:51, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I would actually think it is much more inclusive for meetups in English-speaking areas to be hosted here, because 99% of potential attendees don't use meta regularly, which is very much for the in-crowd.--Pharos (talk) 21:06, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Pharos - also, I have Wikipedia:Meetup/London 29 watchlisted, along with Wikipedia:Meetup/London 21 through Wikipedia:Meetup/London 39 inclusive, so that I know immediately when the pages are created. Since I hardly ever visit Meta (except by accident because some help page has a link there), and have certainly never made any edits there, is there any chance that watchlists could be shared across wikis, so that meta changes could show in my English Wikipedia watchlist? --Redrose64 (talk) 21:35, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, I've met several London-based Wikimedians who had no idea at all that there were regular Wikimedia-related meetups. Particularly when meeting at Wikimania people who live a couple of miles away from me, it underlines that we're not good enough in reaching out to the wider Wikimedia community.

I'm still planning to have a page on enwiki for each London meetup (with a link to the sign-up page on meta), but it doesn't seem sensible to exclude so many contributors.

James F. (talk) 19:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I think that you are rather unintentionally excluding many more people by hosting on meta, a site which noone but the most hardcore people (such as you and I) ever touch. I've met dozens of people in NYC who only found out about our meetups through the geonotice tool on enwiki, and I think it's safe to say that not one of these new people has ever had a meta account beforehand. I think you would also reach many more people in the London area if you retained the primary meetup pages on enwiki, where they are accessible to a far broader group of people, as well as including pointers to the local meetup pages on the meta and Wikimedia UK sites.--Pharos (talk) 16:05, 24 December 2009 (UTC)