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If Wikipedians—most of whom are broke or cheap —could afford the $17.50 to get a ticket to take the elevator to the top of this building, we might get to see our fair city from this view at one of our events.
Welcome to the Wikipedia Club of New York!
After a surprisingly successful New York City
meetup on 9 December 2006 in which almost 50 people expressed an interest in attending, several participants discussed the possibility of getting together more often than the infrequent meetup. One thing that all of us who attended the December 2006 meetup noticed is that there are a wide variety of interesting personalities in our area who work on Wikipedia....most of whom are just normal enough to want to meet again.
The Wikipedia Club of New York gets together about once each month for various activities which may include:
Eat: Enjoy one of NYC's 39,000 restaurants and bars or join us for a barefoot picnic in the
Central Park (someone's gotta bring a
frisbee)
Volunteer: Give some time en masse to the community in one of New York's
soup kitchens, repairing a dilapidated historic structure, etc.
Field Trips: Do what most New Yorkers don't admit they do: go to
New Jersey...or worse...go to
Philly...often because New York doesn't have it...like
good beaches, decent
Cheesesteaks, clean air, for starters, half-way decent baseball (go
Red Sox!...o.k. I might be rubbing it in.) or there happens to be a much-hated
sales tax on it in NYC. Join us for field trips to important places, like
Washington's Headquarters in
Morristown, New Jersey, or
Thomas Edison's Laboratory in
West Orange, New Jersey, or museums, or baseball games, or college campuses, or parks.
and more (anything is possible in New York)!
So keep posted, we'll probably be planning something in the early weeks of each month.
Events
31 JANUARY 2007: Wikipedia's own
Jimmy Wales is giving a talk entitled Free Culture, Transparency, and Search for the Free Culture Club at
New York University, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. to be held at the Courant Institute, 251 Mercer Street, Room 109, in New York City. More details can be found at
www.freeculturenyu.org.