Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2017-04



The April 2017 NYC WikiWednesday salon with the Wikimedia NYC community was held Wednesday, 19 April, 2017, 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, April 19, 2017
 * Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
 * Location: TBD


 * Hashtag: #WikiWednesday
 * After the main meeting: Food and refreshments
 * Meetup link: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
 * Etherpad: WikiWed-2017-04

Agenda
Bring your own ideas!
 * 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Introductions for visitors
 * 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)

Check in - ongoing projects
Since last WikiWednesday
 * Recent edit-a-thons, etc.
 * 1) Black Power Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with AfroCROWD. Saturday, February 25, 2017 – part of Black WikiHistory Month
 * 2) Action=History WikiSalon (February) with AfroCROWD @ Ace Hotel New York. Sunday, February 26, 2017 – part of Black WikiHistory Month
 * 3) Black Lunch Table Black WikiHistory Month @ Creative Capital, NYC. Monday, February 27, 2017 – part of Black WikiHistory Month
 * 4) International Women's Day, Art+Feminism @ FIT. Wednesday, March 8, 2017
 * 5) Equality Archive @ Baruch College, CUNY. Thursday, March 9, 2017
 * 6) Women in Science @ Rockefeller University. Thursday, March 9, 2017
 * 7) Art+Feminism @ MoMA. Saturday, March 11, 2017
 * 8) Art+Feminism @ Interference Archive. Sunday, March 12, 2017
 * 9) Black Lunch Table co-hosts Art+Feminism @ Kickstarter HQ. Sunday, March 12, 2017
 * 10) Art + Feminism @ School of Visual Arts Library. Saturday, March 18, 2017
 * 11) Action=History @ Ace Hotel New York (March 2017). Sunday, March 26, 2017
 * 12) Hack the Canon Edit-a-thon at Barnard College. Tuesday, March 28, 2017
 * 13) WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at Queens College (CUNY). Wednesday, March 29, 2017
 * 14) WikiD New York Writing Workshop at the Center for Architecture. Thursday, March 30, 2017
 * 15) Wikimedia Conference 2017. March 31 - April 2, 2017.

New and upcoming projects

 * 1)  Wikimedia Foundation board elections upcoming! Nominations accepted now, voting 1 to 14 May 2017
 * 2) WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art and image release to Commons


 * Upcoming events
 * 1) Race and Gender Bias in Medicine @ Icahn School of Medicine. Friday April 28, 2017
 * 2) Action=History @ Ace Hotel New York. Sunday April 30, 2017
 * 3) Next WikiWednesday Salon. Wednesday May 24, 2017
 * 4) Annual NYC Wiknic for "the picnic anyone can edit". 10th anniversary edition!
 * 5) Wikimania in Montreal, and organizing an NYC wiki-train to get there. August 2017

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

by BlaueBlüte (BlaueBlüte (talk) 05:13, 11 April 2017 (UTC))
 * Episode 2: Let’s Make It an Ontology! of the Wikidata mini-series

Food tonight
''Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!''
 * pizza / Russian pies, maybe

Regrets

 * 1) Sorry, taking my Biology teacher certification exam that day. Bearian (talk) 00:49, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Possible attendees

 * FULBERT (talk) 11:35, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Likely attendees

 * BlaueBlüte (talk) 05:13, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Pharos (talk) 14:30, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Roman Spinner (talk) 20:36, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Jim.henderson (talk) 22:41, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
 * kosboot (talk) 23:14, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:42, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
 * &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 03:43, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 *  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  16:54, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Emjackson42 (talk) 17:22, 17 April 2017 (UTC) Will likely be a bit late; can't leave work in the Bronx until 6 :)
 * Arthur.frick (talk) 19:11, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * — Dispenser 02:09, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * MusikAnimal talk 02:40, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yurik (talk) 03:55, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Arglebargle79Arglebargle79 (talk) 21:20, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Lutzv (talk) 11:36, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * sheridanford (talk) 22:28, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Becksguy (talk) 02:03, 20 April 2017 (UTC)


 * 1) NewEnglandDoug (talk) 21:28, 23 April 2017 (UTC)