Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2017-05 WikiWednesday



The May 2017 NYC WikiWednesday salon with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held Wednesday, May 24, 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, May 24, 2017
 * Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
 * Location: TBD


 * Hashtag: #WikiWednesday
 * After the main meeting: Food and refreshments
 * Meetup link:
 * Etherpad:

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.
 * Earth Day Edit-a-thon @ CUNY Graduate Center Thursday April 27, 2017
 * Race and Gender Bias in Medicine @ Icahn School of Medicine. Friday April 28, 2017
 * Action=History: Sunday Hackathon @ Ace Hotel. Sunday April 30, 2017
 * Wiki Loves the Dominican Republic @ Columbia University Wednesday, 3 May, 2017
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative Sunday May 21, 2017

New and upcoming projects

 * -It is time to submit a 2017-18 funding request to the Wikimedia Foundation. The is challenging to edit, but anyone may propose a small project for funding support either through this or with chapter support through other funding pathways.
 * -Wiki Loves Dominican Republic continues and is requesting review of a $2000 grant request. This project is based in Columbia University and in partnership with Mt. Sinai Hospital. They are developing wiki content and providing offline copies of it to schools and clinics in Central America.


 * Upcoming events
 * Meetup/NYC/Afrocrowd/AMC Sunday June 18, 2017
 * Wiki Loves Pride 2017 @ MoMA Thursday June 22, 2017
 * Annual NYC Wiknic for "the picnic anyone can edit". 10th anniversary edition!
 * 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
 * TED (conference) (wikiproject)
 * Salesforce.com just purchased 1095 Avenue of the Americas at Bryant Park and are maturing as a service. They offer nonprofit software that could support some Wiki NYC needs. To what extent could Wiki NYC benefit by using their products?  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  20:25, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Free video on Wikimedia Commons!
 * Episode 3: Strongly formalized, yet still a cultural artifact 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

 * sheridanford (talk) 22:12, 24 May 2017 (UTC); can't make tonight but VERY interested since I am a TED Fellow in the TED Wikiproject being discussed.

Likely attendees

 * Pharos (talk) 16:35, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 *  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  20:26, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * kosboot (talk) 17:53, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Becksguy (talk) 21:14, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * MainlyTwelve (talk) 18:34, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 *  DGG ( talk ) 00:36, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Jim.henderson (talk) 12:42, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Vizzylane (talk) 13:14, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Megs (talk) 13:51, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 14:46, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Shanluan (talk) 21:00, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * BlaueBlüte (talk) 21:14, 24 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Mozucat (talk) 21:24, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

≈* 139.170.1.213 (talk) 18:16, 19 June 2017 (UTC)