Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

Welcome
Welcome to the Nashville meetup page! Listed here are both past and future meetups. Basically, interested people (mostly Wikipedia editors) occasionally get together at various meeting places around the world to meet each other and have some fun. Not only does it provide an opportunity to meet other Wikipedians face-to-face, but also to share what we know in a more relaxed and personal setting. Overall, a meetup is an excellent opportunity to meet new friends. If you are interested in Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects&mdash;regardless of your level of experience or involvement&mdash;or if you are otherwise involved with free content, you are invited and welcome.

Invite list
An invites list was created in May 2017, with the intent that invites for upcoming events will be sent to it. Feel free to add yourself to the list!

Details

 * Where: Vanderbilt University, Virtually on Zoom
 * Date: January 18th-22nd, 2021
 * Time: 5:00-7:00 PM CST 18th and 19th, independent contributions welcome throughout the week!
 * Food: BYOB
 * Why: The WoV group was inspired to host this event after finding out about the Nobel Prize winner for Physics, Donna Strickland, who was denied a Wikipedia page in 2018.

Come out and use your research and writing skills to help improve existing articles and add new pages about women in science & engineering. Due to the pandemic, this event will be hosted virtually on the Zoom platform this year. We will have two sessions from 5:00-7:00 PM CST on January 18th and 19th (Monday and Tuesday), but the platform will be open all week so everyone may contribute at their leisure. Check out more details and RSVP at Women of VISE Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Spring 2021

Details

 * Where: Vanderbilt University, Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium (Featheringill Hall 134)
 * Date: 29th March, 2019
 * Time: 5:00 - 9:00 pm
 * Food: Pizza, beer and wine
 * Why: The WoV group was inspired to host this event after finding out about the Nobel Prize winner for Physics, Donna Strickland, who was denied a Wikipedia page in 2018.

Come out and use your research and writing skills to help improve existing articles and add new pages about women in science & engineering. Please bring your laptop and charger and set up your Wiki account before the event. Food and drinks will be served. (Bring an ID with your birthdate on it - 21+ only). Check out more details and RSVP at Women of VISE Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Spring 2019

Details

 * Where: Vanderbilt University -- Location tbd
 * Date: January 2019
 * Time: tbd
 * Food: cake! (have another suggestion? let us know!)
 * Why: to celebrate Wikipedia Day and Public Domain Day

Plans are underway to celebrate Wikipedia's birthday in style. Keep an eye on this page, where we'll post all the details before December 1st.

Attendance

 * CatonMA2 (talk) 19:25, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Vanderbilt Asian Month 2018 Edit-a-thon
Join us in Nashville as we participate in Wikipedia Asian Month by creating articles on Asian-related topics!

On November 14, Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Library will be hosting a Wikipedia Asian Month edit-a-thon. Wikipedia Asian Month is a global month-long event, where hundreds of Wikipedians from all around the world create thousands of articles on Asian topics. We plan to participate in this event through our edit-a-thon at Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.

Breakfast, coffee and tea will be available. Anyone with an interest in the cause and editing is welcome to join - no prior editing experience is required!

Event information

 * Date: Wednesday, November 14
 * Time: 9:00am - 11:00am
 * Location: Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Cohen Hall, 1220 21st Avenue South, Nashville TN 37202
 * Who should participate:
 * Everyone is welcome! While this event takes place on campus and is run by a university student organization, you do not have to be affiliated with Vanderbilt University to attend. We welcome students, faculty, staff, and Wikipedians from all around the area to join us, regardless of skill level.
 * What to expect:
 * The goal of this event is to edit and create articles related to Asian topics, whether it be people, art, companies, geography, technology, plants, animals, and so on.
 * The event will begin with a presentation of Wikipedia a quick guide to editing - previous editing experience not required!
 * You don't have to attend the whole time - if you've got somewhere to be or will arrive late, no problem!
 * Food and caffeine will be provided.
 * Please bring a laptop with you!

Improve

 * Shadi Beg
 * Post-1500 Southeast Asia Archaeology
 * List of Tibetan writers
 * China National Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble

Editing resources

 * Writing an article
 * Biographies of living people
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Verifying reliable sources

Participants - Sign Up Here!
Sign here to help us learn more about how users interact with Wikipedia! If you sign up, we can observe how your username uses the Wikimedia projects during and after this event. This will help us to better measure the effectiveness of this event and similar programs. This means that your publicly available activity and the information you share with us during this event may be processed by the Wikimedia Foundation and the organizers of the local event, and may be transferred to or from the US and other countries that may not have the same level of privacy regulation that your country does. However, we will not share your information with third parties or publicly unless it's in aggregated or anonymized form.

Prior to the event:


 * 1) Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
 * No? Create a Wikipedia account
 * Yes? Go to Step #2
 * 1) Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page

Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!

Attendees

 * 1) CatonMA2 (talk) 20:10, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Past



 * Nashville's first meetup was a two-day event held on Labor Day weekend 2009 (September 5–6). It included a Saturday dinner at Blackstone Restaurant & Brewery, and a Sunday lunch at Jackson's Bar & Bistro. Unfortunately, the scheduled Play in the (Centennial) Park was rained out.


 * Nashville Wiknic was held on June 25, 2011, at Centennial Park. It was one of many events around the globe for the Great American Wiknic.


 * The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University hosted the Wikipedia "Buildings at Vanderbilt University" Edit-a-thon in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on November 16, 2013.


 * The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University hosted the "Global Exchanges: Using Wikipedia to Create Worldwide Connections" Edit-a-thon in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on November 1, 2014.


 * The Nashville Public Library hosted the First Annual "Our Story Matters" Edit-a-thon, which focused on the civils rights movement in Nashville and throughout the southeastern United States, on February 7, 2015.


 * The Nashville Public Library hosted a Superheroes Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on June 13, 2015.


 * The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University hosted the Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on October 15, 2015.


 * The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University hosted the "CITATION NEEDED!" Edit-a-thon in the third-floor computer lab of Peabody Library at Vanderbilt University on October 23, 2015.


 * An ART + FEMINISM Edit-a-thon was supposedly hosted in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on March 14, 2016. (There does not appear to be a meetup page for this event.)


 * The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University hosted the 2016 Nashville Architecture Edit-a-thon in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on October 25, 2016.


 * The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University hosted the Second Annual "Our Story Matters" Edit-a-thon, which focused on "Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memory", in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on November 15, 2016.


 * The Nashville Public Library, in partnership with the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University, hosted the Third Annual "Our Story Matters" Edit-a-thon, which focused on "Black Education: People and Places that Inspired African American Education", in the Special Collections section on its second floor on February 11, 2017.


 * Another ART + FEMINISM Edit-a-thon was hosted in the Special Collections section on the second floor of Central Library at Vanderbilt University on March 14, 2017.


 * The Vanderbilt University Libraries and the Vanderbilt Digital Humanities Center hosted a communal editing event, which celebrated Open Access Week and focused on this year's "Open In Order To" theme, at the Vanderbilt Digital Humanities Center, 344 Buttrick Hall on October 24, 2017. Kelly Doyle was present. The Wikipedia Library participated with a viral, microcontribution campaign called #OAwiki.
 * Twitter: https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/922529464898043904
 * blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/24/open-access-week/