The June 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This event will include the Wikimedia NYC chapter's annual meeting.

This will be the second of hopefully a series of approximately monthly "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events and editathons.

• Date: Wednesday, June 10, 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 / 40.738194; -73.998472
• Nearest subway stations: 14th St. (1, 2, 3, F, M, and L trains), Union Square (4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, and R trains)
• After the main meeting: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery.
• Notes: Etherpad

Bring your own ideas!

Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events

• Local Wikipedia Free Culture Alliance NYC projects
• Past, present, and future institutional partnerships with Wikipedia
• Recent editathons:

• Writing and Righting History editathon @ The New School - May 1
• Afrofuturism editathon @ The New School - May 3
• Veterans affairs and small business editathon @ WNET - May 7
• Black Lunch Table editathon @ Studio Museum in Harlem - May 17
• Selections from the Guggenheim Collection editathon @ Guggenheim - May 19
• Women of Jazz editathon by Linked Jazz @ NYPL Performing Arts - May 30
• Africacrowd editathon @ Brooklyn Public Library - May 31
• Gender and Intersectionality in LIS Practice class editathon @ Pratt Institute SLIS - June 4

Chapter business

• Presentation of annual financial and activities report
• Chapter board election
• Recording of official meeting minutes
• Grants review
• Committees review: Education, Events, Grants, (Law, Story, Bugs, Regional)
• Social media and documentation review

Future plans

• Monthly: Regular WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles and timing
• June: Art+Feminism - Long Island City edition @ The Oracle Club - June 13
• June: Train the Trainers by AfroCrowd @ Brooklyn Public Library - June 20
• June: Wiki Loves Pride 2015 Editathon @ The Museum of Modern Art Library - June 24
• July: WikiWednesday Salon @ Babycastles - July 8?
• July: Black Lunch Table edit-a-thon @ The Museum of Modern Art Library - July 13
• July: NYCers at Wikimania?
• August: Great American Wiknic @ Prospect Park - August 2
• October: Multi-city editathon with Iberocoop?
• October: Wikipedia Takes Manhattan Strikes Back - October 17-18?

Candidates for Wikimedia NYC Board

Add your name below if you'd like to be a candidate!

• Newyorkbrad ( talk) 16:07, 29 April 2015 (UTC) reply
• Aliceba ( talk) 16:40, 30 April 2015 (UTC) reply
• Megs ( talk) 17:37, 30 April 2015 (UTC) reply
• Mozucat ( talk) 10:28, 1 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• DrX ( talk) 13:27, 6 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Theredproject ( talk) 02:59, 7 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• kosboot ( talk) 16:18, 10 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Becksguy ( talk) 00:39, 11 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• DGG ( talk ) 03:20, 11 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Pharos ( talk) 15:22, 12 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• OR drohowa ( talk) 16:16, 21 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Lange.lea ( talk) 16:56, 5 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• write in - User:Accents
• write in - User:Scottandrewhutchins

Election results

I was appointed election officer for this election.

Pre-printed ballots were provided listing everyone who had nominated themselves as candidates before the day of the election. Dues-paying members of Wikimedia NYC were invited to take a ballot. There was an opportunity for those present to pay $5 to become a member. Immediately before the election there was a call for anyone present to nominate themselves as a candidate. Two attendees did this. All candidates were invited to give statements. All candidates were present except Megs and Newyorkbrad, who both sent statements to be presented by other attendees. There was a call for questions or comments. After this, the voting began. When everyone had voted I collected the ballots and counted the votes. All votes came from members in attendance and there were no proxy votes. There were 22 votes. There were members in attendance who were eligible to vote but who declined to do so, and their blank ballots were not counted. All completed ballots were valid. I did not vote myself. The candidates with the most votes were as follows:

• Newyorkbrad
• Aliceba
• Megs
• Mozucat
• DrX
• Theredproject
• kosboot
• Becksguy
• DGG
• Pharos
• OR drohowa
• Lange.lea

These candidates are now board officers of Wikimedia NYC serving a one-year term. There were no objections raised to the election process or to the outcome of the election at the event. Thanks for candidates for volunteer to serve on the board and thanks to everyone who voted. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:56, 11 June 2015 (UTC) reply

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

Keynote

15-20 minutes

• Building a Video Game Museum on Wikimedia Commons - User:Evan-Amos

Lightning talks

5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!

• A short overview Print Wikipedia -- Theredproject ( talk) 19:48, 22 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• The Wikimedia Foundation board elections - Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:56, 10 June 2015 (UTC) reply

Shame I can't be there for this. Res Mar 16:40, 10 June 2015 (UTC) reply

You can also sign up at the meetup.com page.

Likely attendees

• Newyorkbrad ( talk) 16:07, 29 April 2015 (UTC) reply
• Mozucat ( talk) 10:29, 1 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Theredproject ( talk) 03:00, 7 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• kosboot ( talk) 16:18, 10 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Becksguy ( talk) 02:42, 11 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• DGG ( talk ) 03:20, 11 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Rhododendrites ( talk) 19:18, 11 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Pharos ( talk) 15:21, 12 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Nwhysel ( talk) 17:07, 12 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Juliensorelnyc ( talk) 15:39, 22 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Harej ( talk) 23:39, 2 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• Dilettante Army ( talk)
• Lange.lea ( talk) 16:55, 5 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• Scottandrewhutchins ( talk) 20:25, 7 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• Carlyohnein ( talk) 15:05, 8 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:26, 10 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• Aliceba ( talk) 18:59, 10 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• Accents 23:12, 10 June 2015 (UTC) reply

Possible attendees

• Robert Greer ( talk)
• Jeff G. ツ (talk)
• Jim.henderson ( talk) 14:33, 19 May 2015 (UTC) reply
•   ~  Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ contribs ⋅ dgaf)  16:54, 21 May 2015 (UTC) reply

Regrets

• Unless you can get me from Buffalo, negative. Mitch32^{( The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.)} 20:11, 11 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• At this point, I have very little chance of getting back up to NYC from Florida until either July or August. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 16:40, 12 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• As much as I would enjoy coming, I am out of town... Modernist ( talk) 19:19, 12 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Alas, other plans that day, but I'm planning to be at Wiki Loves Pride later in June! Amy E Hughes ( talk) 12:44, 26 May 2015 (UTC) reply
• Meet and greets aren't my thing and the 4-5 hours round trip of travel isn't fun. — Dispenser 19:23, 9 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• Regrets -- BrillLyle ( talk) 01:50, 10 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• Will be away - ɱ (talk · vbm) 01:41, 10 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• Work. Res Mar 16:39, 10 June 2015 (UTC) reply
• Day got away from me, sorry to miss it. Anarchyshake ( talk) 22:33, 10 June 2015 (UTC) reply

• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City
• Free Culture Alliance NYC