Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2016

You can  register for the WikiConference  on googleforms here—which can also be linked as bit.ly/wikiday15.

The Wikipedia Day 15th Birthday Bash NYC is a celebration and mini-conference to be held on Saturday January 16, 2016, hosted by NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City and fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC partners.

The NYC celebration is one of a number of Wikipedia Day worldwide – see Wikipedia 15.

You can  register for the WikiConference  on googleforms here—which can also be linked as bit.ly/wikiday15.

Event details

 * Date: Saturday, January 16, 2016
 * Time: 10:00 am – 7:00 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 – After presenting photo ID, 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.
 * 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.
 * Twitter: @Wikipedia_15
 * Hashtag: #Wikipedia15
 * Meetup link: Wikipedia Day 2016 NYC
 * Etherpad: Wiki15NYC
 * Video Livestream: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016

Event format
Participation (and pizza and cake!) will be free, with room for ~100 participants, who should bring a photo ID for the door. All are welcome, and 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.

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.

There is wifi access, and we will give you the log in details on-site. Projectors will also probably be available for use by the various presenters.

Schedule of sessions (tentative)
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: Wikidata
 * Wikidata can be found at Wikidata as well as on Meta: Wikidata


 * Slides:
 * Wikipedia Day 15
 * Querying Wikidata
 * Emw aka Eric
 * Addshore aka Adam Shoreland
 * Frimelle aka Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Wikimedia Deutschland
 * See also: Wikidata Game!


 * Links discussed in panel
 * Wikidata Tour: Wikidata Tour
 * Reasonator: Reasonator
 * Timeline: Timeline
 * Ask Platyp.us: Ask Platyp.us – answers questions
 * Wikidata Browse: Wikidata Browse
 * Wikidata Statistics: Wikidata Stats
 * Wikidata Query Service: Wikidata Query Service (a SPARQL endpoint)

Panel Session B: Education and Edit-a-thons, moderated by Mozucat – Ann Matsuuchi, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY Education program: List of participating institutions, WikiEdu
 * Chanitra Bishop, Leon and Toby Cooperman Library @ Hunter College Library [take a look at this article for links to resources]
 * HullIntegrity – take a look at the course page for current semester Children's Literature class
 * Bluerasberry

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). Lighting talks with active discussions can break out into Open Space sessions! Last-minute entries always accepted!

Bulletin Board list I – 3 pm Bulletin Board list II – 4 pm
 * How to organize Wikipedia Day and similar-scale events in your hometown – Pharos (talk) 18:03, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Copyright and Plot Summaries Sorry – RoyGoldsmith (talk) 08:15, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The nature of "Wikipedian in Residence" jobs in the communication industry –  Blue Rasberry '  (talk)  17:24, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Automated prevention of spam, vandalism and abuse and how this protects the integrity of the encyclopedia so you can rely on it — MusikAnimal  talk  16:57, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Musings on arbitration/community sanctions enforcement as someone who used to do a ton of it and needs to get back to it again. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 21:28, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * GITenberg and the Git-flow approach to collaborative editing .--Openly (talk) 15:32, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I accidentally a poem: collaborative sonnets . --CassieTarakajian (talk) 17:27, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comparing Indian language Wikipedias and the English Wikipedia . --Quantumavik (talk) 00:40, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
 * From Low-tech to High-tech: Or, There and Back Again: Managing the Crossover in the Composition & Research Classroom HullIntegrity  \ talk / 22:54, 13 January 2016 (UTC) + Mozucat (talk)
 * The process for handling new articles. Pt. 1 What is supposed to happen  User:DGG/NYC2016-  DGG ( talk ) 16:03, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * The process for handling new articles. Pt. 2, What goes wrong --  DGG ( talk ) 23:42, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Introduction to Wikimedia Commons Frenezulo (talk) 19:34, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Wikidata and causality . Emw (talk) 20:58, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Power of Provincialism
 * 2) Opasnet: A Wiki for Decision Support
 * 3) The News of Record – News and Story as Annotation
 * 4) Gitenberg – Openly
 * 5) New Articles: 1. What works – DGG
 * 6) New Articles: 2. What does not work – DGG
 * 7) The wonderful world of AE/CS enforcement
 * 8) Korean server wipeout – Jean
 * 9) Wikimedia Commons – introduction
 * 10) Automated prevention of abuse – MusikAnimal
 * 11) poem: collaborative sonnets – Cassie T
 * 1) Wikidata and causality – Emw
 * 2) Good + Evil: Uncovering bullshit and avoiding becoming an Evil Minion
 * 3) Indian language vs. English Wikipedia
 * 4) SignPost and other Wikipedia media: What's popular, what's not, etc.
 * 5) LaGuardia Archive project
 * 6) Storychip
 * 7) FREEBASSEL – on the fate of Bassel Khartabil

Hello Wikipedia! – My Proudest Article

 *  Proposed time for session: Saturday January 16, 2015, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm NYC Time (21:00 UTC Globally – time conversion link ), to last about one hour.

Hello Wikipedia, I became an editor in 20xx, and my proudest article [or project] is _________, because of _________.
 * Hello Wikipedia! – My Proudest Article Global Teleconference Session – a micro-lightning talk event later in the afternoon:
 * At each participating location, alternately, a selection of Wikipedians will complete the following sentence (taking less than 30 seconds each) in the shared global video feed, progressing in groups by year since 2001, starting if possible with User:Jimbo Wales:
 * See also: Wikipedia 15

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!


 * Technological and social innovations for editathons – for Women in Red, Art+Feminism, Black WikiHistory Month – Pharos (talk) 17:50, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * "What's really on Wikipedia?" see pic at right – Smallbones( smalltalk )
 * Wikipedia in the classroom, using health classes as an example. Will include an introductory wiki-workshop for educators. –   Blue Rasberry   (talk)  22:18, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * How to Evaluate New articles and Drafts. How to evaluate with new articles and help their new users: a workshop using live examples  DGG ( talk ) 02:56, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Register and Get Started Editing – come learn one-on-one or as part of an open space session! --
 * WMF Grant Discussion & Workshopping – contribute to active grant applications for Wikimedia NYC annual grant and AfroCROWD's third (!) grant :-) --
 * Technical and Implementational Aspects of MediaWiki
 * Topics discussed in greater or lesser detail:
 * Installation and maintenance of MediaWiki, hosting services offering out-of-the-box wikis
 * Getting templates into fresh wiki installations
 * Semantic MediaWiki vs. Wikibase
 * Using Wikidata with stand-alone wikis
 * Merging datasets into Wikidata (while avoiding duplicates)
 * Main Conclusions
 * Developed the idea that there should be a “core set” of (most popular? most expected?) templates (automatically) derivable from the (here understood: English) Wikipedia with which to seed new MediaWiki installations
 * Concluded that the Wikidata UI, especially on query.wikidata.org, still needs a lot of work
 * (these notes contributed by BlaueBlüte (talk) 16:17, 17 January 2016 (UTC))

Sign up
You can  register for the WikiConference  on googleforms here—which can also be linked as bit.ly/wikiday15.

Likely attendees

 * 1) Pharos (talk) 19:07, 16 December 2015‎ (UTC)
 * 2) Mozucat (talk) 15:25, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 3)  nafSadh  did say 23:56, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Res Mar  20:54, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Smallbones( smalltalk )
 * 6) King of  &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:30, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) Sidepocket (Sidepocket (talk)) 22:16, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) Sumana Harihareswara 15:33, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 9) nycdi (talk) 18:35, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 10)  MusikAnimal  talk 18:38, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 11) Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:05, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 12)  DGG ( talk ) 04:00, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 13) DanielPenfield (talk) 19:41, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 14)   Blue Rasberry   (talk)  17:23, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 15)  Rhododendrites  talk  \\ 17:37, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 16) Shanluan (talk)
 * 17) Becksguy (talk) 18:35, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 18) Lange.lea (talk) 01:11, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 19) Masterknighted (talk) 16:57, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 20) Napplicable (talk) 17:23, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 21) This will be one crazy weekend for me, here's to starting it with a bang. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 21:25, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 22) Frenezulo (talk) 13:45, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 23) With no blizzards on the horizon, I think I can make it to this one.  Liz  Read! Talk! 18:44, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 24) Yanping Nora Soong (talk) 22:05, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 25) Emw (talk) 02:56, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 26) Frimelle
 * 27) Daniel Case (talk) 04:18, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 28) Nwhysel (talk) 15:01, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 29) Quantumavik (talk) 00:49, 13 January 2016 (UTC) Excited to participate in an unconference, while preparing for another research conference!
 * 30) Openly (talk) 15:05, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 31) Wlmg (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 32) Wwwhatsup (talk) 05:28, 14 January 2016 (UTC) (Livestream)
 * 33) CmdrDan (talk) 02:08, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 34) BlaueBlüte (talk) 01:04, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 35) Megs (talk) 14:49, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 36) Jim.henderson (talk) 17:37, 15 January 2016 (UTC) Probably late, surely slow
 * 37) mr.messner 15 January 2016, I'll be there
 * 38) Dispenser 01:59, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 39) DutchTreat (talk) 13:28, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 40) JeanL
 * 41) Tdik
 * 42) Wozniakjan
 * 1) JeanL
 * 2) Tdik
 * 3) Wozniakjan
 * 1) Tdik
 * 2) Wozniakjan
 * 1) Tdik
 * 2) Wozniakjan
 * 1) Tdik
 * 2) Wozniakjan
 * 1) Tdik
 * 2) Wozniakjan
 * 1) Wozniakjan

Possible attendees

 * 1) MichaelVernonDavis (talk)
 * 2)  ·addshore·  talk to me! 11:14, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) Aude (talk) 11:15, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Robert Greer (talk) 21:41, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Tanuyeiro (talk) 03:52, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Patrug (talk) 00:31, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) I can come in the evening. Eddie 13:46, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Regrets

 * 1) Theredproject (talk) 22:53, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) kosboot (talk) 18:26, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 3)  czar  22:06, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Netherzone (talk) 00:01, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Still dealing with medical bills. I'll be surprised if I can come up before the Summer of 2016. ---User:DanTD (talk)  00:56, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) WilliamDigiCol (talk) 14:21, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) RoyGoldsmith (talk) 22:07, 23 December 2015 (UTC) Something came up; sorry
 * 8) Aap1890 (talk) 20:08, 11 January 2016 (UTC) Wasn't able to come--sorry to miss out!

Webcast

 * The introduction, plenary sessions, lightning talks, some open space, and global teleconference were livestreamed:
 * Livestream
 * Livestream is segmented into sessions and individual lightning talks.

Food

 * Coffee will be available
 * Food will be provided. Please let us know if you have vegetarian or other dietary restrictions.

Lunch

 * Fairway Catering for sandwiches and salads :-)

Dinner

 * From Francesco’s Pizzeria. 140 W 4th Street (Avenue Of The Americas & W Washington Sq), New York, NY 10012 (212) 477-1161

Past events
See our past years' local celebrations
 * Wikipedia Day 2010 NYC
 * Wikipedia Day 2011 NYC
 * Wikipedia Day 2012 NYC
 * Wikipedia Day 2013 NYC
 * Wikipedia Day 2015 NYC