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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.
- 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
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- 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
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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
2016 budget: Grants on Meta
As always, Grants are on our Meetup page, "
Projects & Grants" tab
Meeting notes are on our Meetup page, "
About" tab
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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
- Recent edit-a-thons
- Wiki-classes this semester
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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
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Mozucat (
talk) checkin:
- Committee selection?
- TBD / discuss at next month's WikiWednesday!
New and upcoming projects
- 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
Lightning talks
5 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
- You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page.
Likely attendees
- 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
- 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
Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!
- Hello folks! We are going to have food from Coppelia
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
2016-02 WikiWednesday.
- Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
- Wikimedia New York City
- Free Culture Alliance NYC