Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2016-02

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 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: 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-160217

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
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: Budget Template
 * WikiConference Scholarship Program: WikiConference Scholarship Program

Check in - ongoing projects

 * Recent edit-a-thons
 * Black Life Matters AfroCROWD @ Schomburg
 * Wiki-classes this semester
 * 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 Friendly space policy


 * WikiEdu's 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!

Lightning talks
5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares Sign up here!
 * Google Ngram Viewer - Becksguy (talk)
 * Yaron Koren from WikiWorks talks about upcoming MediaWiki conference in May. WM NYC will be supporting this event as one of its WikiWednesdays. See SMWCon -- |MediaWiki User: Yaron Koren

Sign up

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

Likely attendees

 * 1) Shanluan (talk)
 * 2) Becksguy (talk)
 * 3) Katellington (talk)
 * 4) Quantumavik (talk)
 * 5) Jim.henderson (talk)
 * 6) Mozucat (talk)
 * 1) Katellington (talk)
 * 2) Quantumavik (talk)
 * 3) Jim.henderson (talk)
 * 4) Mozucat (talk)

Possible attendees

 * 1) I have a scheduling conflict this date but hopefully not for the whole evening. Newyorkbrad (talk) 21:15, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 2)  DGG ( talk ) 05:54, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Regrets

 * 1) kosboot (talk) 03:20, 18 February 2016 (UTC) - had a conflict I forgot about

Food tonight
''Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!''
 * Hello folks! We are going to have food from Coppelia
 * Cubanos, empanadas, and a veg option
 * If a lot of vegetarians are coming please let us know!