Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2016-02#Lightning talks
Category:Wikimedia New York City in 2016
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 [http://babycastles.com/ Babycastles], a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
== Details ==
- 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: [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: Food and refreshments and video games in the gallery
- Meetup link: [http://www.meetup.com/WikimediaNYC/events/228031212/ WikimediaNYC @ Meetup]
- Etherpad: [https://etherpad.net/p/Wikiwed-160217 WikiWed-160217]
Agenda
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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
- WM NYC 2016 Annual Grant
- Documents
- Supplemental info: WM NYC APG – 2016 Supplemental information
- Staffing plan: WM NYC Staffing Plan
- Budget: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gkQPNL7sNCGQTHuWZCGO9kOot2l9HyDtz9tavGv2_Gk/edit?usp=sharing Budget Template]
- WikiConference Scholarship Program: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_New_York_City/2016_WikiConference_USA_scholarship_program WikiConference Scholarship Program]
== Check in - ongoing projects ==
- Recent edit-a-thons
- Black Life Matters AfroCROWD @ Schomburg
- Wiki-classes this semester
- {{User0|Mozucat}} 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
- 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
: See [https://nyc.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy Friendly space policy]
- WikiEdu's [https://wikiedu.org/yearofscience/ Year of Science]
- Wikipedia: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!
- {{cite news|last1=Knipel|first1=Richard|title=Connecting Wikipedia with the Guggenheim|url=http://blogs.guggenheim.org/checklist/connecting-wikipedia-with-the-guggenheim/|work=Guggenheim Museum|date=February 12, 2016}}
= Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions =
== [[Lightning talk|Lightning talks]] ==
5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!
- Google Ngram Viewer - Becksguy (talk)
- Yaron Koren from [http://wikiworks.com/ WikiWorks] talks about upcoming MediaWiki conference in May. WM NYC will be supporting this event as one of its WikiWednesdays. See [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon SMWCon] -- [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yaron_Koren|MediaWiki User: Yaron Koren]
Sign up
:You can also RSVP at [http://www.meetup.com/WikimediaNYC/events/226871386/ our Meetup.com page].
= Likely attendees =
- {{User0|Pharos}}
- {{User0|BrillLyle}}
- {{User0|Roman Spinner}}
- {{User0|Ronald Sexton}}
- Shanluan (talk)
- Becksguy (talk)
- Katellington (talk)
- Quantumavik (talk)
- Jim.henderson (talk)
- Mozucat (talk)
- {{User0|Poohlaga}}
= 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 =
Food tonight
External links
{{Commons category|2016-02 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]