Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2016-03

The March 2016 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held Wednesday, March 16, 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, March 16, 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-2016-03

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
 * Affiliate-selected Board seats/2016/Nominations - public vote on candidates who should be included in Wikimedia Foundation board elections

Check in - ongoing projects

 * Recent edit-a-thons
 * #BRONX AFRICA Black Life Matters Edit-a-thon – Saturday, February 27, 2016
 * Art + Feminism 2016 @ MoMA - Saturday, March 5, 2016
 * 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
 * WMF legal research for us
 * Copyright of Political Speeches
 * Committee selection?
 * TBD / discuss at next month's WikiWednesday!

New and upcoming projects

 * Upcoming events:
 * Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Guggathon - Saturday, April 30, 2016
 * Library event in association with Meetup/Women in Red/10 - April?
 * MediaWiki Conference Community Night - Wednesday, May 25, 2016
 * Media opportunity At the Wednesday 13 April WikiWednesday a videographer will be present to record 1-3 minute videos of Wikipedians saying anything about Wikipedia. Videos will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and YouTube. With the time we have, anyone may present a video. Rehearse your talk before you come. You may share an experience, give a lesson, make a presentation, or say what you like. The audience might be anyone searching for videos of Wikipedians talking about Wikipedia. This will be an amateur effort.
 * Proposal: Some people participate in programs that direct them to volunteer a certain number of hours. Such programs include student groups and government-managed community service programs. If such people report editing Wikipedia as community service, under what circumstances, if any, should Wikimedia NYC review and sign-off on their volunteer hours? People in such programs typically need for a registered nonprofit to confirm that they spent time volunteering, and that their actions advanced a nonprofit mission.
 * 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

Lightning talks
5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares Sign up here!
 * Wikidata session with User:Aude!
 * Possible OCLC collaboration, videochat with User:Merrilee
 * Regina and Nebraska A+F – editathon problems

Food tonight
''Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!''
 * Moaz Vegetarian - menu

Sign up

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

Possible attendees

 * 1) Becksguy (talk) 20:34, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Anarchyshake (talk) 21:19, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) OtterNYC (talk) 00:19, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Likely attendees

 * 1)  – I'm home!
 * 2)  DGG ( talk ) 17:54, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) varda (talk) 18:24, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 23:17, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Lange.lea (talk) 02:48, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Jim.henderson (talk) 11:19, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Aude (talk) 11:55, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) BlaueBlüte (talk) 19:12, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 9)   Blue Rasberry   (talk)  21:08, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) Becksguy (talk) 21:43, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Theredproject (talk) 01:49, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) Jdubbleu (talk) 22:08, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) Shanluan (talk)
 * 14) Tleeditor (talk) 01:00, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Shanluan (talk)
 * 2) Tleeditor (talk) 01:00, 12 April 2016 (UTC)