Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2015-12#Lightning talks

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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)

• 2016 Budget: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_New_York_City/2016_plan 2016 plan]
• Meetups: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_New_York_City/2016_meetups 2016 Meetups]
• Metrics & Reporting Staff: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_New_York_City/metrics_and_reporting_staff Metrics & Reporting Staff]
• WikiConference Scholarship Program: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_New_York_City/2016_WikiConference_USA_scholarship_program WikiConference Scholarship Program]
• AfroCROWD 2016 Grant: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/User:Aliceba/Empowering_Afrodescendant_women_in_Wikipedia 2015 Grant] -- 2016 Grant to come

For reference:

• Art+Feminism: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Art%2BFeminism_Editathon_training_materials_and_network_building/Renewal Art + Feminism Renewal]

• Recent edit-a-thons
• Aphra Behn Society
• Basquiat: Still Fly @ 55 @ MoMA
• wikiD @ Seaport
• Soviet Jewry @ Center for Jewish History
• Women in Science @ New York Academy of Sciences

• Wiki-classes this semester
• [http://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/The_New_School/Race,_Ethnicity,_Class_in_Media_%28Fall_2015%29 Race, Ethnicity, Class in Media @ WikiEdu] at The New School
• [http://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/New_York_University/Haitian_Creole_in_Context_(Fall_2015) Haitian Creole in Context @ WikiEdu] at NYU
• [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/CUNY,_City_Tech/Learning_Places_LIB-ARCH_2205_(Fall_2015) Learning Places LIB-ARCH 2205] at New York City College of Technology

• Committee selection? TBD

• Art & Law editathon @ School of Visual Arts (Saturday, December 12)
• Black Film Editathon: AfroCROWD @ Brooklyn Public Library (Sunday, December 13)
• meta:Wikimedia Conference 2016 - selecting chapter delegates before January
• Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 - 15th anniversary (Weekend January 17/18, 2016) - replacing WikiWednesday Salon in January
• AfroCROWD editathon @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Saturday February 6, 2016 - part of Black WikiHistory Month
• Art + Feminism 2016 @ MoMA - Saturday, March 5, 2016

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

• Proposal for WM NYC to oversee a pilot which would issue 2016 press credentials to an established photographer and Wikimedia contributor. Described a bit at Wikipedia:Press pass.
• Give an overview of the dotNeighborhoods project and the city's OK for wiki neighborhoods. Can we get a prototype dotNeighborhood, e.g. JacksonHeights.nyc?;
• Wiki Loves Earth — I would like to talk about some thoughts I have for doing this in the springtime. Daniel Case (talk) 19:40, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

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:You can also RSVP at [http://www.meetup.com/WikimediaNYC/events/226871386/ our Meetup.com page].

1. Pharos (talk) 18:00, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
2. {{User0|BrillLyle}}
3. Roman Spinner (talk) 14:02, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
4. Aliceba (talk) 18:35, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
5. Mozucat (talk) 18:49, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
6. Lange.lea (talk) 18:58, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
7. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:57, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
8. kosboot (talk) 00:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
9. Daniel Case (talk) 02:17, 3 December 2015 (UTC) My schedule works out this time!
10. Tomlzz1
11. Shanluan (talk)
12. Fashionethics (talk) 19:46, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
13. Jim.henderson (talk) 20:35, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
14. DGG ( talk ) 01:45, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
15. Theredproject (talk) 00:27, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
16. {{user0|Becksguy}}
17. {{user0|Quantumavik}}
18. {{user0|Ronald Sexton}}

1. Ira Leviton (talk) 23:45, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
2. me. (will discuss later) -- {{User0|72.226.125.231}}

1. Netherzone (talk) 01:53, 9 December 2015 (UTC) I would like to attend but am taking a group of students to the UN COP21 event.
2. Librarianhelen (talk) 20:58, 9 December 2015 (UTC) Some other time

Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!

• Maoz Vegetarian tonight folks! We will be picking it up beforehand.
• [http://www.maozusa.com/sites/default/files/Maoz_Menu_Board.pdf Menu]
• Feedback tonight for future planning
• A bit too much food, could reduce amounts by a bit (sides and desserts were too much)
• Lay it out before meeting starts, but covered; then do new people / intros, then uncover food and continue with meeting...

{{Commons category|2015-12 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]