Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2015-08

The August 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, August 19, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

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

Details

 * Date: Wednesday, August 19, 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 40.73819°N, -73.99847°W
 * Subway:
 * to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 7th Avenue)
 * to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
 * to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
 * to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
 * to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
 * to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 8th Avenue)
 * Bus: buses
 * Hashtag: #WikiWednesday


 * After the main meeting: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery


 * Etherpad link

Agenda
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 and projects
 * Black Lunch Table edit-a-thon @ The Museum of Modern Art Library - July 13
 * NYCers share experiences from Wikimania 2015 @ Mexico City - July 15-19
 * Great American Wiknic @ Prospect Park - August 2

Chapter business

 * Recap of Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City in July
 * Grants review
 * Committees review
 * Public broadcasting cooperation projects
 * Wikipedia app and photo upload campaigns
 * Use of Pywikibot to cross-post announcements
 * Possible collaboration on instructional videos with Simpleshow, e.g. - File:Basics of photography – how you learn to shoot better photos.webm
 * Should we experiment with the use of VisualEditor in editathons / outreach projects?
 * Introducing Afrocrowd Project Manager Sherry Antoine
 * NYC Media Lab - September event -- would this be something Wikimedia NYC might be interested in participating in?
 * NYC Media Lab registration info: http://tickets.nyu.edu/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=1986

Future plans

 * Monthly: Regular WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles, Editathons @ MoMA and timing
 * Semester-long: Planning Fall 2015 WP:NYCEDU wiki-classes
 * September: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American editathon @ MoMA (Wednesday, September 2)
 * October: Multi-city editathon with Iberocoop @ MoMA (Saturday, October 3)
 * October: WikiConference USA 2015 @ National Archives in DC (October 9-11)
 * October: Women in Architecture editathon @ Guggenheim (Thursday, October 15)
 * October: Wikipedia Takes Manhattan Strikes Back (October 17-18)
 * January 2016: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 for the 15th anniversary (see Wikipedia Day NYC 2015)

Keynote
15-20 minutes
 * TBA

Lightning talks
5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares Sign up here!
 * A suggestion of how everyone can help the GLAM community - kosboot (talk) 21:01, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * FamilySearch: Wikipedia Citations and FamilySearch -
 * Slideshow: "FamilySearch: FamilySearch + Wikipedia": PowerPoint + PDF


 * Promotional Editing - DGG

Likely attendees

 * Pharos (talk) 15:18, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Rumayor1 (talk) 23:34, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * BrillLyle (talk) 01:51, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Ronald Sexton (talk)
 * Jim.henderson (talk) 12:15, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Mozucat (talk) 16:27, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Newyorkbrad (talk) 17:41, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Aliceba (talk) 20:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 *  DGG ( talk ) 00:10, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Shanluan (talk) 18:41, 12 August 2015 (UTC);
 * PeterLFlomPhD (talk) 18:58, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Becksguy (talk) 19:32, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Omar sansi (talk)

Possible attendees

 * &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 21:04, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm flying to the West Coast the next day so it's unlikely...but anything is possible. ;-) Liz  Read! Talk! 01:35, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * PeterLFlomPhD (talk) 18:57, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not a member of the Wikimedia NYC community and don't even live on the continent, so I can't really participate in the meeting itself, but since I'm visiting NYC and meeting Wikipedians would be cool, perhaps I could come to say hi during the social hour afterwards if that's ok? --KFP (contact - edits) 01:04, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
 * KFP: Yes, you'd be more than welcome to join for all parts of the meeting. Perhaps you'd even like to share your Wikipedian experiences from Finland as a "lightning talk" :)--Pharos (talk) 14:54, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the hospitality! It was nice to meet, and interesting to hear about all the projects and collaboration you guys are doing. Keep up the good work! --KFP (contact - edits) 15:16, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Regrets

 * Rob T Firefly (talk) 22:23, 11 August 2015 (UTC) Sorry to miss it, I'm working. Have a good time!
 * Robert Greer (talk) 16:18, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * PointsofNoReturn Will be on vacation. Good luck at the event. PointsofNoReturn (talk) 00:24, 15 August 2015 (UTC)