Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Action=History February 2017

Sign up via Outreach Dashboard For our first monthly hackathon event, AfroCROWD hosted a Black WikiHistory Month workshop focused on the Wikidata project, improving metadata on African Diaspora biographies and related topics on Sunday, February 26, 2017.

For our second month, on Sunday, March 26, 2017, the focus will be on building better edit-a-thon tools, and user-testing them with the community. See meetup.com event.

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ACTION EQUALS HISTORY: A WIKISALON MONTHLY MEETUP

2PM - SUN FEB 26, 2017 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - BOARDROOM, NEW YORK

In the era of “fake news” and “post-truth,” Wikipedia serves as a particularly useful information model — nonpartisan by design, it's a transparent locus of knowledge maintained by citizens of all ages and backgrounds who build on Wikipedia’s troves of freely accessible information. While it's aim is true, the Wikipedia movement openly acknowledges that racism, classism and gender bias impact the site as they do society in general. This is where you come in.

On the last Sunday of every month from 2-6, the Boardroom at Ace Hotel New York hosts Action Equals History* — a unique opportunity for New Yorkers with good hearts and open minds to learn more about the mechanics, practices and benefits of Wikipedia. This is an opportunity for all citizens to gather, share and work collectively towards a more robust account of history.

For our first monthly event, AfroCROWD initiative will be hosting a Black WikiHistory Month workshop focused on the Wikidata project, improving metadata on African Diaspora biographies and related topics.

Action Equals History guests are encouraged to RSVP in advance. Ace Hotel New York will share RSVP info (name and email) with the Wikimedia NYC, who will ultimately oversee admission.

Note: "Action Equals History" refers to URLs visible when a user views a Wikipedia entry's edit history — e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ace_Hotel&action=history

Event details

 * Date: Sunday, February 26, 2017
 * Time: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
 * RSVP: Ace Hotel or Meetup.com
 * Participation: Participation (food and cake!) will be free, with room for ~100 participants
 * Welcome: All are welcome. We are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from cultural institutions interested in developing Open Education projects.
 * Twitter: #WikiAceNY tentative

Ideas for Wikidata queries and tools

 * Black WikiHistory Month-related concepts
 * Querying artists and artworks - African American artists query
 * Histropedia timeline tool
 * and global groups
 * Wikidata Distributed Game: African Americans, and innovating on this as a tool
 * Black Lunch Table task list
 * Please endorse the Black Lunch Table ID on Wikidata!
 * Query by location as well as by gender, so for events at different geographic locales, the task list can be customized and updated live, probably with Listeria?
 * Reasonator to make and add labels in Haitian Creole
 * Add ideas here!


 * Put projects worked on today on the Etherpad !

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Regrets

 * 1)  06:44, 15 February 2017 (UTC) -- sorry, illin

Possible attendees

 * 1)  23:29, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Likely attendees

 * 1)  13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 2)  17:55, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) 207.237.149.238 (talk) 20:18, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 4)  21:48, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 5)  22:37, 26 February 2017 (UTC)