Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2016-05

The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference / WikiWednesday Community Learning Night with the Wikimedia NYC community was held  Wednesday, May 25, 2016, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm, hosted by NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts.

We met and shared with the MediaWiki software development community.

Details

 * Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016
 * Time: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm ''
 * Location: Tisch School of the Arts. New York University. 721 Broadway (between Waverly and Washington Place), 4th Floor, New York, NY 10003 40.72922°N, -73.99378°W
 * Access information: There is an elevator – go to the 4th floor
 * Subway:
 * to Astor Place (exit at Astor Place)
 * to 8th St. (exit at 8th Street)
 * Bus:
 * Parking: Two commercial garages, one block north at 445 Broadway.

Agenda
Bring your own ideas!
 * 6:00 pm: Introduction, pizza
 * 7:00 pm: MediaWiki tutorial, community involvement and extension ideas, novel uses of wiki technology
 * 8:00 pm: State of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia / Wikimedia community
 * 9:00 pm: Monthly WikiSalon in San Francisco video-link, casual bicoastal chat

Potentially up for discussion: Metrics reporting Hiring Committee progress

 * See | proposed job descriptions for two positions proposed by committee.
 * Committee also prepared to propose hiring timeline.

Sign up

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

Possible attendees

 * 1) Netherzone (talk) 20:40, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Newyorkbrad (talk) 14:21, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Aliceba (talk) 20:03, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Likely attendees

 * 1) Pharos (talk) 21:54, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Mozucat (talk) 22:39, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 3)  DGG ( talk ) 20:46, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Tom LowenhauptTomlzz1 (talk) 13:29, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Naylarodrigues (talk) 15:15, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Roman Spinner (talk) 21:43, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) LexSMW (talk) 11:23, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Ronald Sexton (talk) 17:24, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Tomlzz1 (talk) 16:33, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) 24.42.82.185 (talk) 14:09, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) False friend (talk) 14:19, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) Jim.henderson (talk) 13:33, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) Tleeditor (talk) 19:34, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 14) LoreMariano (talk) 15:18, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 15) Becksguy (talk) 15:52, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 16) Nwhysel (talk) 20:03, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 17) CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 15:54, 25 May 2016 (UTC)