Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2015

Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 was a celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday,* on Sunday March 22, 2015, hosted at Barnard College starting at 10:00 am, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City and fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC partners.

Event information
The event was held at Barnard Hall at Barnard College, 2987 Broadway, 4th Floor, James Room, on Sunday, March 22, 2015, from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm EST. Please note that Barnard Hall is the building straight ahead as you enter the main Barnard College gate, just north of West 116th Street on your left at 2987 Broadway.
 * Date: Sunday, March 22, 2015
 * Time: 10:00 am - 5:30 pm EST
 * Location: Barnard Hall at Barnard College: 2987 Broadway, 4th Floor, James Room
 * Subway note: The 1 train will not stop at 116th Street station going northbound this weekend
 * Subway option (up then down): In order to get to 116th Street station, take a 1 train to 137th Street station and transfer to a South Ferry-bound train to 116th Street.
 * Subway + Bus option (minimal walking): Take the uptown 1, 2, or 3 subway lines to 96th Street (Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line) and exit. At 96th and Broadway, take the M104 bus from 96th Street up to 116th Street
 * Subway option (includes walking): Take the uptown C or D subway lines to the Cathedral Parkway – 110th Street (Eighth Avenue Line) subway station at 110th Street and Central Park West (at the top left corner of Central Park), exit and walk west (away from the park) 3 short avenues to Broadway and continue uptown 6 blocks to 116th Street
 * Note this service disruption only applies to uptown trains -- downtown trains are not affected
 * Registration: You can  register for the Wiki-Conference  here — also linked as bit.ly/WikiDayBarnard. Or join for regular Wikimedia NYC events at meetup.com''
 * Parking: Parking garages here and here
 * Directions: Directions to Barnard
 * Participation: Participation (and pizza and cake!) will be free, with room for ~100 participants, who should bring a photo ID for entrance.
 * 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.
 * Format: In addition to the party, the event will be a modified unconference, with dedicated plenary sessions (organized on this wiki), lightning talks to the whole assembly, and of course open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so it will be good to bring your ideas with you.
 * Wifi: There is wifi access, and we will give you the log in details on-site. N.B. Projectors will also probably be available for use by the various presenters.
 * Hashtag: #WikiDay
 * Livestream: Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 at Livestream

Worldwide events
The NYC celebration is one of a number of Wikipedia Day local events that have been held worldwide.

See our past years' local celebrations at:
 * Wikipedia Day 2010 NYC
 * Wikipedia Day 2011 NYC
 * Wikipedia Day 2012 NYC
 * Wikipedia Day 2013 NYC

* FYI: January 15 is known as Wikipedia Day to Wikipedians. On this date in the year 2001, the wiki-based Wikipedia project went public after spending five days on Nupedia.

Event format
The event will be a modified unconference, with dedicated plenary sessions (organized on this wiki), lightning talks to the whole assembly, and of course open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so it will be good to bring your ideas with you.

Plenary sessions
Panel Session A: Education and Wiki-Classes, moderated by User:Mozucat (talk) - Ann Matsuuchi, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
 * Education program: List of participating institutions


 * Dr. Amy E Hughes (talk) - Associate Professor, Theater History & Criticism/Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies, Dept. of Theater, Brooklyn College, CUNY
 * Class listing: Education Program:CUNY, Brooklyn College


 * Prof. Christina Shane-Simpson (talk), Psychology, Hunter College, CUNY
 * Class listing: Education Program:CUNY, Hunter College


 * Dr. C. Jason Smith (talk), Professor of English, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
 * Class listing: Education Program:CUNY, LaGuardia Community College


 * Dr. Ximena Gallardo C. (talk), Professor of English, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
 * Class listing: Education Program:CUNY, LaGuardia Community College


 * Key takeaways: Thank -- and give WikiLove templates

Panel Session B: Editathons and Cultural Engagement, moderated by User:Kosboot
 * Alice Backer (talk) - founder of AfroCROWD
 * Recent event: Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd


 * Maira Liriano (talk) - Associate Chief Librarian, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
 * Recent event: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Black Life Matters Editathon
 * Video: Schomburg Center Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon from Innovation Trail


 * Jacqueline Mabey (talk) - Independent Curator & Art Worker; one of founders of Art+Feminism, see Art+Feminism Meetup page
 * Recent event: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism/MoMA 2015
 * Video: Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon at the Museum of Modern Art March 7, 2015
 * Training videos: Art+Feminism training videos that includes "Introduction to Editing Wikipedia Lesson Plan," "Intermediate Level Lesson Plan"
 * See also Art+Feminism's YouTube channel, which has more training videos

Lightning talks

 * Add your 5-minute lightning talk topic you can personally present, about wiki topics or anything Free Culture-related. (actual schedule for lightning talks will be determined the day of). Last-minute entries always accepted!


 * State of the WALRUS (Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States) -- Pharos (talk) 19:41, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia in Medical Education: Student Group to Course -- Mjbailey and Salubrious Toxin (talk) 20:32, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Medicine on Wikipedia
 * Slideshow: "Wikipedia in Medical Education: Student Group to Course" (Google doc presentation)
 * WikiProject Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Commons
 * RefToolbar - Cite "button" Gadget of Awesomeness :-) -- BrillLyle (talk) 20:07, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Slideshow: "RefToolbar - Cite: Usage, Tips & Tricks": PowerPoint + PDF
 * Authority Control - template (tentative) -- BrillLyle (talk) 20:24, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * A brief intro to AfroCROWD, its work so far and its goals this year -- Aliceba (talk) 12:03, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Contributing writing to the Signpost -- Res Mar 17:20, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * My initial impressions of arbcom --  DGG ( talk ) 22:40, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * OpenSource movement in Asia and India -- AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 05:40, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Nationality:Wikipedian -- AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 06:38, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia DC's trip the the White House (almost) -- Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 16:59, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * See event listing Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/African Americans in STEM


 * Reflinks 2.0 — Dispenser 17:50, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Guild of Copy Editors (GoCE) -- DThomsen8 (talk) 12:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Flagging content with   template to have Guild members clean up entries
 * What's going on at the Wiki Education Foundation? &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  (User:Ryan (Wiki Ed)) \\ 03:40, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Website: Wiki Edu
 * Training materials: link
 * Wikipedia:Training/For educators (includes a training module)
 * Presentation: "What’s going on at the Wiki Education Foundation?"
 * The DavisWiki / LocalWiki and New York's dotNeighborhoods -- Tom Lowenhaupt
 * Example project: Davis, California wiki
 * Wikipedia's Reference Desk -- its relation to library RefDesks, and its role in Wikiverse -- Anarchyshake (talk) 23:34, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Niche or Big? The Wikipedian's Dilemma AstroCog (talk) 01:32, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * FemTechNet and FemTechNet Wikipedia Committee: assists in coordinating efforts toward editing Wikipedia, from university class sessions to workshops to local edit-a-thons. Vaparedes (talk) & Deckdeckdeck (talk) 12:07, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Meetup page: Wikipedia:Meetup/FemTechNet
 * Websites:
 * About FemTechNet
 * FemTechNet Resources about Teaching Wikipedia
 * Archive of former FemTechNet Commons (active for 2013-2014 academic year) hosted at The New School
 * Freedom of panorama. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 18:47, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * - GLAM/Barnard College
 * Course example: The Worlds of Shange (Spring 2014) - course on Ntozake Shange
 * JavaScript gadgets -
 * Wikipedia:User scripts#Scripts


 * encourages the Wikipedia community to engage with the Flickr community to ask for licensing.
 * Nafsadh is also willing help build sweet & tiny tools for different languages, like his Bengali IPA and transliteration tools.


 * Citizen media vs. social media
 * Wikimedia Incubator: Where potential Wikimedia project wikis in new language versions of Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wiktionary and Wikivoyage can be arranged, written, tested and proven worthy of being hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Open space sessions

 * Add ideas you will bring for open space and sign up below (actual schedule for open space will be determined the day of). Last-minute entries always accepted!


 * Mini-editathon on some topic to be determined! -- Pharos (talk) 19:42, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Internet Security -- Becksguy (talk) 12:44, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Although I cannot give this talk, I am interested in a session on the state of Wikipedia mobile apps, Wikipedia Zero etc. -- Aliceba (talk) 12:03, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia NYC College Educators Network -- Introduction for educators, and review of Spring 2015 wiki-classes
 * How cross-cultural editing made me a better Wikipedian -- Daniel Case (talk) 22:01, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Paid editing,and conflict of interest --  DGG ( talk ) 22:38, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I am also interested in this topic. I am doing an editathon Wed March 18th as part of an Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) event that was suggested because of misunderstandings about CoI Nwhysel (talk) 17:22, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Wiki-Editing for Beginners – Learn by Doing, including: how to fix a simple typo error, how to get registered, a word about inline citations, how to insert a sentence without citations, how to add citations to that sentence, etc. Bring your computers and/or suggestions for other mini-projects -- RoyGoldsmith (talk) 16:27, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * What are the big public policy issues facing the Wikimedia movement? -- Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 17:29, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The Signpost (contributing writing redux, and what's ahead) -- Res Mar 03:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Future of Wikipedia: using Wikipedia internationally -, Wikipedian visiting from India

Edit-a-thon track

 * A specialized section of the Open Space Sessions for people who'd like to get right into Wikipedia editing.


 * A mini-editathon track on themes building from recent Black WikiHistory Month events, and other undercovered topics. Perhaps with a special focus on the works of Ntozake Shange, whose papers have recently joined the collection of the Barnard Archives.
 * This session if combined with the intended AfroCROWD (Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia) session, should also include the list of AfroCROWD articles with a focus on the languages and notable personalities of the African diaspora including Africa, Afro-Latinos, Black-America, the Caribbean, Garifunas, Haiti and its diaspora, etc. with open arms to those who wish to edit in languages such as French, Garifuna, Haitian Kreyòl, Igbo Spanish, Twi or Yoruba to name a few.
 * See our evolving list here:
 * Lis atik pou edite yo / List of articles to edit
 * AfroCROWD:  Ayiti ak dyaspora li yo / Haiti and its diaspora
 * WikiProject Haiti:  Lis ki bezwen fèt / To do list
 * -- Aliceba (talk) 11:59, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, all of these should be included -- Pharos (talk) 17:48, 3 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Template:MetMuseum - was an outcome from the recent Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - MoMA 2015 that was created with assistance of IRC help channel user
 * An example of this tool used in Imogen Cunningham:
 * I would love feedback and assistance from any GLAM folks on approaches to expanding the template category Category:Museums external links templates to include more collections within the GLAM space for entities that publish digitized content with unique identifiers. These links might enhance articles and provide additional references, citations, and Works and publications information to Wikipedia entries. I have found that the material is already part of citations, but the link to digital collection -- similar to Magic words ISBN and/or OCLC templates -- is not established. And like adding ISBN and OCLC links, would increase engagement and quality of articles
 * Also: The category name seems to be limited to only Museums -- was hoping for feedback on if it should be more inclusive to GLAM all members (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums)
 * See also The Milkmaid (Vermeer) and Walter Liedtke
 * See also Category:External link templates, Template:Google books, Template:NYPL Digital Gallery image
 * -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 12:10, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 12:10, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Attendees
If you are able, please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).

If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day of.

The following Wikipedians/Wikimedians have expressed an interest in attending:


 * 1) Pharos (talk) 06:11, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Mozucat (talk) 15:50, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) Mitch 32 (I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance)  22:07, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:55, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) kosboot (talk) 04:34, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) Becksguy (talk) 21:28, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) Jim.henderson (talk) 16:39, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) Megaugust (talk) 23:35, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 9) Nwhysel (talk) 01:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 10) Mjbailey (talk) 02:40, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 11) Megs (talk) 19:48, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 12) Aliceba (talk) 20:22, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 13) BrillLyle (talk) 22:04, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 14) Salubrious Toxin (talk) 14:33, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 15) Theredproject (talk) 01:11, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 16) Platypus J (talk) 14:24, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 17) Ssilvers (talk) 16:57, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 18)  /  19:12, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 19) Mackensen (talk) 22:37, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 20) Res Mar  17:08, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 21) King of  &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 02:11, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 22) Jweiss11 (talk) 00:06, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 23) DThomsen8 (talk) 19:01, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 24) Ronald Sexton (talk) 20:01, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 25) –  nafSadh  did say 01:15, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 26) Daniel Case (talk) 15:49, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 27) AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 22:03, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 28) Invertzoo (talk) 14:09, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 29) Dispenser 05:31, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 30) Breena Clarke 12:11, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 31) Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 01:23, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 32) AnshumanF (talk) 05:29, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 33) Anarchyshake (talk) 13:14, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 34) Deckdeckdeck (talk) 13:36, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 35) AstroCog (talk) 19:17, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 36)  DGG ( talk ) 22:38, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 37) DrX (talk) 13:11, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 38) RoyGoldsmith (talk) 16:29, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 39) Amy E Hughes (talk) 11:18, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 40) CmdrDan (talk) 20:53, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 41) Repersecian (talk) 18:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 42)  HullIntegrity  \ talk / 01:58, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 43) T. Canens (talk) 20:10, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 44) Vaparedes (talk) 00:09, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 45) &mdash;Elipongo (Talk contribs) 01:43, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 46) Cshanesimpson (talk) 13:55, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 47) APerson (talk!) 16:15, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 48) Fashionethics (talk) 20:42, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Webcast
Grateful thanks to Wwwhatsup (talk) for his amazing Livestream of Wikipedia Day 2015!
 * Event link: https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/wikidaynyc15/
 * 'Hashtag: #WikiDay''
 * There were around 18 online viewers at any one time. We had a cume of 375 views. I have segmented the video into an archive as below. I could further break out the lightning talks if wanted. Wwwhatsup (talk) 02:03, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Livestream archive of Wikipedia Day 2015

 * Welcome & Introduction (2 mins)
 * Panel Session A - Education and Wiki-Classes (61 mins)
 * Open Space Session: The future of Wikipedia in developing countries (22 mins)
 * Panel Session B - Editathons and Cultural Engagement (51 mins)
 * Open Space Session: Paid editing, and conflict of interest (21 mins)
 * Lightning Talks (78 mins)