Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2016-04

The April 2016 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community was held Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm (video hour at start, 6-7pm) at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

Details

 * Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2016
 * Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm  (video hour at start, 6-7pm)
 * 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
 * Accessibility: Let us know if we should set up the manual elevator for this meetup.
 * Hashtag: #WikiWednesday
 * After the main meeting: Food and refreshments and video games in the gallery
 * Meetup link: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
 * Etherpad: April 2016 WikiWednesday Meeting Notes Thanks so much Mozucat!

Agenda
Bring your own ideas!
 * 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Mini-Video and social hour
 * 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)

Video opportunity

 * For this meeting, a videographer will be present to record 1-3 minute videos of individual Wikipedians saying anything about their Wikipedia projects. 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.

6:00 – 7:00 pm video hour
Sign up here if you'd like to do a video from 6:00 – 7:00 pm, before the regular meetup:
 * 1) Mozucat (talk)
 * 2) Pharos (talk) 10:53, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) kyraocity (talk)

7:00 pm or later video in side office
Sign up here if you'd like to do a video at 7:00 pm or later video in the adjoining room, on the side of the regular meetup:

Check in - ongoing projects

 * Annual Plan Grant update -- We are funded for the year!
 * Discussion of Action Plan to implement the grant and committee selection.


 * 2017 WM NYC Strategic Plan - outline / planning stage
 * see 2011 WM NYC Strategic Plan for reference
 * Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan 2016-2017 is up for review
 * Recent edit-a-thons
 * Women of African Disapora @ Hunter College
 * Writing+Feminism @ Barnard
 * Wiki-classes this semester
 * TBD / discuss at next month's WikiWednesday!
 * Wikimedia Affiliate-Selected Board Nominations: Public vote on our chapters's final choices for the Wikimedia Foundation board elections. Please read candidate information in advance if possible! :-)
 * Maybe start with a straw poll where each person selects their top three candidates, then broach a larger discussion

New and upcoming projects

 * Upcoming events:
 * Library event in association with Meetup/Women in Red/10 - April
 * AfroCROWD Black Women Writers Wikipedia Editathon @ Brooklyn Public Library (Sunday, April 17, 2016) part of Women in Red
 * Middle East and North Africa (MENA) #guggathon (Saturday, April 30, 2016) part of Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative
 * Science Outreach Working to Inspire the Next Generation @ Simons Foundation (Tuesday, May 31, 2016) part of Wikipedia Year of Science
 * WikiWednesday Salon + Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Community Night (May) @ Babycastles (Wednesday, May 25, 2016)
 * Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon @ Center for Jewish History (Sunday, June 5, 2016) – Tentative
 * See Friendly space policy
 * See also Babycastles Safer Spaces Policy


 * Wiki Loves Earth 2016 photo competition - May 2016

Lightning talks
5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares Sign up here!

Food tonight
''Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!''
 * New York-style pizza - traditional regional cuisine

Sign up

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

Regrets

 * 1) BrillLyle (talk) 00:41, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Likely attendees

 * 1) Pharos (talk) 13:05, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Mozucat (talk) 22:30, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Roman Spinner (talk) 19:59, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Baebobae (talk) 00:50, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Jim.henderson (talk) 11:59, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Imc00ln0treally (talk) 23:54, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Hannah Silverman (talk) 14:23, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) 69.120.89.217 (talk) 16:28, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Palimpsestic 23:50, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) Magdalamar (talk) 02:02, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Becksguy (talk) 13:33, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) Quantumavik (talk) 19:06, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) americasroof (talk) 19:06, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 14)  DGG ( talk ) 18:58, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 15) Kyraocity (talk) 23:00, 13 April 2016 (UTC)