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Wikimedia NYC remains committed to the well-being of its communities. We have decided to begin hosting in-person events with a hybrid element starting late 2022. We ask if you want to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space. If you are not feeling well, please attend remotely.

Upcoming meetups and ongoing events

November

• Foundation and Friends' Free Culture Friday

When: Friday November 22, 1:30–7pm EST

Where: Prime Produce (424 W 54th St, New York, NY)

• Wikicurious: Capturing the Moment

When: Tuesday November 26, 3–8pm EST

Where: Jefferson Market Library (425 6th Ave, New York, NY)

January

• Wikipedia Day 2025

When: TBA

Where: TBA

Past Meetups & Events in 2023–24

• October 26: Wikidata Day 2024
• October 3–6: WikiConference North America in Indianapolis
• September 25: Annual Election & Members Meeting
• September 21: Wikicurious: Editing to the Beat
• August 24: Roosevelt Island Wiknic
• August 7–10: Wikimania 2024 in Poland
• July 19: Wikicurious: Editing Wikipedia for Beginners (launch event)
• June 26: WikiWednesday Salon - June
• June 8: Governors Island Wiknic - June 2024
• June 2: All-Day Hacking Sunday - June
• May 8: WikiWednesday Salon - May
• May 4: Community Gardens Edit-a-thon
• April 25: Hacking Night - April
• April 11: City Tech Library LBGTQIA Editathon
• April 10: WikiWednesday Salon - April
• March 16: Queens Name Explorer Edit-a-thon at the Queens Public Library Tech Lab at Queensbridge
• March 14: Pi Day Hacking Night
• March 5: Wiki Gala and fashion show with Wikimedia Foundation
• February 25: AfroCROWD Black Wiki History Month - Online edit-a-thon
• February 21: WikiWednesday Salon - February
• February 8: Hacking Night - February
• January 14: Wikipedia Day 2024 at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation
• January 4: Hacking Night

2023

(second half)

• December 6: NYC Hacking Night
• November 15: WikiWednesday Salon - November
• November 8–13: NYC→Toronto Wiki-Train for WikiConference North America
• October 29: Wikidata Day in New York City
• October 21–22: Wiki-NYC Pavilion for Open House New York
• October 3: History of Medicine in Newark Wikipedia Editathon at Dana Library
• October 1: Hispanic-Latinx Heritage Month: Edit-a-thon!
• September 20: Annual Election & Members Meeting
• August 27: Great North American Wiknic on Governors Island
• August 23: WikiWednesday Salon - August
• July 29: New York Botanical Garden Environment of the Bronx Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
• July 19: WikiWednesday Salon - July

Photos from past Meetups & Events

• 
  Wiki Worlds Fair - August 2022
• 
  Wikipedia Day - Jefferson Market Library - January 2023
• 
  WikiWedneday - Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch - February 2023
• 
  Groiler Club Tour - March 2023
• 
  Earth Day Edit-a-thon with Sure We Can recycling center - Brooklyn Public Library Bushwick Branch - April 2023
• 
  Environment of the Bronx - NYBG - July 2023
• 
  Wiki-Picnic - Governors Island - August 2023
• 
  WikiWednesday - Prime Produce - September 2023
• 
  Wikidata Day - October 2023
• 
  Wikipedia Day - Brown Institute - January 2024
• 
  Wiki-Cake at Wikipedia Day 2024
• 
  Community Gardens edit-a-thon at Prime Produce - May 2024
• 
  Wiki-Picnic - Governors Island - June 2024
• 
  Wiki-coaches and cake - Wikicurious at Civic Hall - July 2024
• 
  Wiki-Picnic - Roosevelt Island - August 2024
• 
  Wikicurious: Editing to the Beat at Lehman College - September 2024

See also

• Archive of events in prior years
• Wikimedia New York City's Code of Conduct
• Wikimedia New York City Discord server
• Membership

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Oxford 106	November 17, 2024 (2024-11-17)
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The 7th New York City Meetup event will be held on Sunday June 1, 2008 in the Columbia University area. This will be the fourth of the meetups with a session dedicated to discussing meta:Wikimedia New York City issues.

What, Where, When, and How?

There will be one public meeting in the afternoon at Columbia's Pupin Hall, where we can take further steps to organize the Wikimedia New York City local chapter.

Additionally, there will be optional post-meeting social activities at a local restaurant and (providing weather is OK) an observing session with telescopes on the roof of Pupin Hall.

Watch this space for future possible changes. And please watchlist this page.

Main public meeting (to discuss Wikipedia issues and chapter formation):

• 1402 Pupin Hall, Columbia University. Take the elevator to the 13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. Meeting to be held in the library at the east end of the hall. 2:30 PM - 5:00PM

Optional post-meeting meetup

• Meetup at Pupin Hall, and then walk together to The Symposium, a Greek restaurant. After the restaurant, we can return to Pupin Hall for an observing session with the telescopes on the roof weather permitting. 5:00 PM onwards.

Late arrival info and Transportation

If you plan on arriving late, and are concerned about not finding your way to the group, you can drop your mobile phone number ahead of time at Special:Emailuser/Pharos (e-mail will not be able to be checked during the actual meetup time, leave requests ahead of time).

Nearby subway stations:

• 116th Street–Columbia University (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) (That's the number 1 train)

Who can tape the meeting?

Since I will be unable to attend, someone else will have to record the meeting. As I recall, David Shankbone, Daniel Case, and one or two others have digital cameras with camcorder function, so for those who like to keep a record of the meeting (I'd like to be able to view it myself afterwards), you'll have to make arrangements. Sorry! Nightscream (talk) 04:58, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Agenda

Bring your own ideas!

• Follow-up on ideas raised in the March 16, 2008 meeting minutes
  • Review of how Wikipedia Takes Manhattan went on April 4th. (See our cool gallery).
• Chapter business
  • "Wiki Week" or "Wiki Conference" is planned with Columbia Free Culture for Fall at Columbia University (see below)
    • A Wikipedia:Academy (requires on-site volunteers)
    • Wikipedia Takes Manhattan 2 (bigger and better)
    • High-profile speakers
    • Would it be better as a few events held over a week, or as an intensive conference over one or two days?
  • Wikimedia New York City forming as a non-profit
    • Organization makes more sense now, since it has come to light that under 508(c)(1)(B) we can achieve non-profit status without going through the difficult 501(c)(3) process, as long as we have <$5,000 in income—and if we do plan for a larger budget, we have 15 months to decide anyway
    • Increased collaboration with the Columbia group and others on big events makes such organization more necessary
    • A draft by-laws will be presented at the meeting
    • At least 3 interim board members (18+ only, state of residence unimportant) will be elected, resposible for finishing the by-laws, submitting them to the Chapters Committee, and incorporating in New York State
    • Volunteers to the board are encouraged to put themselves forward at the meeting for President, Treasurer, Secretary, and other positions, especially if they have relevant experience
    • People will have to serve on the board under their real names (see here for example, but if you don't want to publicly associate your name with a user account that shouldn't be a problem)
      • Can people volunteer for the board of electors, or be able to vote for a candidate, in absentia? I can't make this Meetup. Nightscream (talk) 01:55, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
        • I don't think that would be practical at this time. In the future, when we are organized and have a roster of registered members, online voting will be possible, and we can implement this at the next election after we are incorporated. For now, there might be non-board officer positions that will be created, that would be open to appointment by the board.--Pharos (talk) 04:27, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Do we want to hold a satellite event during Wikimania 2008? Do we want to make a bid for meta:Wikimania 2010 or future years?
  • Proposals of date and place for next meeting (should we have a more regular schedule?)
  • 2nd annual WikNYC Picnic in Central Park this August?
  • Grassroots Jam June 14-15 with OLPC
  • How are our neighbors doing with the Philadelphia Meetups? (we have an overlapping membership)
  • Same for the DC meetup, maybe. I attended. — Becksguy (talk) 04:01, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
• Speakers and roundtable discussions
  • User:ScienceApologist's pseudoscience update
  • User:MBisanz on the Wikipedia:Admin coaching program
  • David Shankbone on the problems with Biographies of Living Persons; anonymity and privacy on Wikipedia.
    • I would encourage anyone with a desire to present to sign up here, and we'll try to make room for you.--Pharos (talk) 05:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Question-and-discussion session with non-Wikipedians who have been invited to the meeting
  • user:volt4ire On July 18th-20th there'll be a big hacker (as in technology enthusiast, not petty criminal) conference in Manhattan H.O.P.E. . I was thinking of doing a speech/session about Inclusionism vs. Deletionism on Wikipedia (let me know if you're interested in helping me with that), but I also think someone from the group should do a separate session on what exactly Wikipedia NYC does and plans to do. It would be a great place to recruit new members.
• Date/time/location for next meeting. While Columbia University Pupin Hall 14th Floor Library is nice: it might be better if we could find a place that wasn't so limited access.
• —

Wiki Week

This could be a pretty big event, a prelude to Wikimania even. Do you think we should have an outreach events format or a conference format? Can you think of other types of event besides Wikipedia Academy and Wikipedia Takes Manhattan that might draw in people (think primarily Columbia students), and engage them with the Wikimedia projects in a visceral way?

Add any comments or your own wacky suggestions below.

• Wikipedia:Academy (small-scale)
  • Is there a way we could design this as a more "fun" event (reflecting the thoughts of the Columbia people)?--Pharos (talk) 20:17, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

• Wikipedia Takes Manhattan 2
  • What can we improve this time?--Pharos (talk) 20:17, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

• Musical event?: live performance and recording of historically significant music (concert or contest?)
  • OK, this is a truly wacky (and possibly topical) suggestion for the creation of PD music of encyclopedic value, a "Wikipedia Presidential Election History Jamboree". See the campaign song page for a couple of songs I convinced someone to record earlier. I happen to own a big book with dozens of these, and a lot of them are quite fun (especially the negative ones). We could even do sing-alongs.--Pharos (talk) 20:17, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
    • I demand a 10 minute drum solo in honor of the incredibly lengthy presidency of William Henry Harrison! MessedRocker (talk) 03:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Likely attendees

• Pharos (talk) 22:04, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• Wlmg (talk) 22:39, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• Becksguy (talk) 10:22, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
• volt4ire 01:58, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
• David Shankbone 02:01, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
• Enigma ^message 20:24, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
• DGG (talk) 21:26, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
• MBisanz ^talk
• --rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 22:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
• ScienceApologist (talk) 16:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 17:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Andre (talk) 23:45, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Gosgood (talk) 14:44, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
• TravellingCari, not moving. 99% certain I'll be there. _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 15:08, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
• Nbauman (talk) 14:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC) Insha'Allah
• Daniel Case I was a bit late in making arrangements, but I'll be there. 16:35, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Possible attendees

• — _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 03:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC) : depends on whether I'm moving that weekend.
• Mblumber (talk) 12:39, 19 May 2008 (UTC)— I have other plans for the day, but there's a high probability that they will fall though and I can come.
• GlassCobra 00:03, 20 May 2008 (UTC) - sounds interesting! I'll try to get off work that day.
• —
• JAF1970: Maybe. JAF1970 (talk) 01:31, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
• Staffwaterboy ^{Critique Me Guestbook Sandbox} 16:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC) I can possibly attended depends what time i get off of work.
• DCDuring (talk) 13:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
• 50% probability. I hope to be there! Keep me informed of future events too! That's how I found this one. CoolGuy (talk) 22:12, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Regrets

• Nightscream Sorry, but it's my cousin's college graduation party. Make sure someone else brings a camcorder to tape the meeting! I'd like to see it myself!
• JustPhil I'll be in Germany during this time. Sorry, guys!
• Robert Greer Sorry, I've got ballet tickets (not sorry I've got tickets, just sorry I can't be in two places at the same time!)
• Markus Poessel (talk) – whose idea was it to hold this event during the last day of New York City's first big science festival? In any case, I would have liked to come, but I'm involved with the festival, so that's where I'll be...
• Swatjester: Wish I could make it, but I'm working at a firm in florida all summer, and I left today. I don't get back to DC until August. I'll see some of you at DC #5 in August though, and hopefully the next NYC meetup.
• Blue387: I will be busy that afternoon with Forgotten NY tour 34. Maybe another day? Or record the thing and upload to Youtube?
• DanTD: I'm already in NYC this month, but I'll be returning to Florida on May 22, 2008.
• Sharkface217: I will be camping in Pennsylvania that day and I won't get back until very late. Sorry I can't make it!
• hmwithτ 22:57, 25 May 2008 (UTC): I cannot make it this June, but I would love to attend the next one.
• Alas, I have a paper I desperately need to finish.--ragesoss (talk) 02:09, 28 May 2008 (UTC)