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The September 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at [http://babycastles.com/ Babycastles], a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
This will be the next in our main monthly series of "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events and editathons.
== Details ==
- Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
- Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (feel free to come by early as 6, stay later for social hour)
- Location: [http://babycastles.com/ Babycastles]. 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), 2nd Floor, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011 {{Coord|40|44|17.5|N|73|59|54.5|W}}
- Subway:
- {{NYCS Broadway-Seventh|time=bullets}} to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 7th Avenue)
- {{NYCS Sixth local|time=bullets}} to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
- {{NYCS Canarsie|time=bullets}} to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
- {{NYCS Lexington|time=bullets}} to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
- {{NYCS Broadway|time=bullets}} to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
- {{NYCS Eighth south|time=bullets}} to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 8th Avenue)
- Bus: {{NYC bus link|M1|M2|M3|M14A|M14D|X1|X7|X9|X10|X12|X17|X27|X28}} buses
- Hashtag: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/WikiWednesday #WikiWednesday]
- After the main meeting: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery
- [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/2015-09-16_NYC-WikiWednesday Etherpad link]
Agenda
Bring your own ideas!
= Introductions / new users =
- Introductions
- Focus on new users, questions, etc.
= Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events =
- Local Wikipedia [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_Alliance_NYC Free Culture Alliance NYC] projects
- Past, present, and future institutional partnerships with Wikipedia
- Recent editathons and projects
- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American editathon @ MoMA - September 2
= Chapter business =
- Grants review
- Committees review
- Public broadcasting cooperation projects
- Tech/app/bot projects
- Reimagining WMF grants and annual plans
- Advance prepping for Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin
= Future plans =
- Monthly: Regular WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles (next: Oct 28), Editathons @ MoMA and timing
- Semester-long: Planning Fall 2015 WP:NYCEDU wiki-classes
- September: AfroCROWD Wikipedia Editathon @ Queens Library (Sunday, September 20) - [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-wikipedia-editathon-comes-to-queens-tickets-18485854689 Eventbrite RSVP]
- October:
:*WikiArte Latin American editathon with Iberocoop @ MoMA (Saturday, October 3)
:*[http://wikiconferenceusa.org/ WikiConference USA 2015] @ National Archives in DC (October 9-11)
:*Women in Architecture editathon @ Guggenheim (Thursday, October 15)
:*Wikipedia Takes Manhattan Strikes Back (October 17-18)
:*WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles (Wednesday, Oct 28)
- November:
:*Afrocrowd Wikipedia Editathon @ MoMA returns (Tuesday, November 10?)
:*Women in Science editathon @ New York Academy of Sciences (Sunday, November 22)
- January 2016: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 for the 15th anniversary (see Wikipedia Day NYC 2015)
= Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions =
== Keynote ==
15-20 minutes
- TBA
== [[Lightning talk|Lightning talks]] ==
5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
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= Likely attendees =
- Pharos (talk) 21:43, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
- {{User0|BrillLyle}}
- Jim.henderson (talk) 20:43, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- Aliceba (talk) 22:15, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
- kosboot (talk) 15:37, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
- Shanluan (talk)
- Roman Spinner (talk) 22:47, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
- Hexatekin (talk) 18:35, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
- Becksguy (talk) 20:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
- {{User0|Bluerasberry}}
- {{User0|DGG}}
- {{User0|Jeremyb}}
- {{User0|Ronald Sexton}}
- {{User0|Skigg}}
- {{User0|Vmenkov}}
= Possible attendees =
- For the first time, I might actually get the chance to attend one of these meetups. I'll have to see what happens when I get to the city. -------User:DanTD (talk) 00:48, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
= Regrets =
- Can't make it this time, but after last month I certainly plan on making a regular appearance! — MusikAnimal talk 22:48, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Food tonight
[http://www.dirtybirdtogo.com/ Dirty Bird To Go]
- Chicken fingers, chicken wraps, rotisserie chicken
- Vegetable selection including roasted kale with garlic and grilled zucchini
Comments / feedback / suggestions about tonight's food and/or for next month's food selection? Please let us know!
External links
{{Commons category|2015-09 WikiWednesday}}
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC Wikipedia Meetup - NYC] (main events page)
- [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City Wikimedia New York City]
- [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_Alliance_NYC Free Culture Alliance NYC]