Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2015-12

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

Details

 * Date: Wednesday, December 9, 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: Food and refreshments and video games in the gallery
 * Meetup link: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
 * Etherpad: WikiWed-151209

Agenda
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: Grants on Meta
For reference:
 * 2016 Budget: 2016 plan
 * Meetups: 2016 Meetups
 * Metrics & Reporting Staff: Metrics & Reporting Staff
 * WikiConference Scholarship Program: WikiConference Scholarship Program
 * AfroCROWD 2016 Grant: 2015 Grant -- 2016 Grant to come
 * Art+Feminism: Art + Feminism Renewal

Check in - ongoing projects

 * 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
 * Race, Ethnicity, Class in Media @ WikiEdu at The New School
 * Haitian Creole in Context @ WikiEdu at NYU
 * Learning Places LIB-ARCH 2205 at New York City College of Technology


 * Committee selection? TBD

New and upcoming projects

 * Art & Law editathon @ School of Visual Arts (Saturday, December 12)
 * Black Film Editathon: AfroCROWD @ Brooklyn Public Library (Sunday, December 13)
 * 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

Lightning talks
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 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)

Sign up

 * You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page.

Likely attendees

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

Possible attendees

 * 1) Ira Leviton (talk) 23:45, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) me. (will discuss later) --

Regrets

 * 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

Food tonight
''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.
 * 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...