Wikipedia:Meetup/St. Louis/17

Want to Write History? Join seasoned Wikipedians in our regular meetups of St. Louis area Wikipedia editors and be introduced how you too may edit the world’s collection of Knowledge. Emphasis will be placed upon articles on Wikipedia of the region, reviewing the status of the St. Louis WikiProject, and identifying knowledge gaps in current articles.

This is the 17th Wikipedia Meetup! We will be meeting in the room called Chuck Berry from 7-8 pm. Please join the discussion to set the direction of the monthly meeting.

Event information
4240 Duncan Ave (Second Floor check-in), St. Louis, MO 63110
 * Date: Thursday, October 9, 2018
 * Time: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
 * Location: Venture Café, RED ROOM
 * Cost: Free!
 * Please bring a laptop if possible or tablet or editing wikipedia device :)

There is free parking at Venture Café after 3 pm in the visitor parking lot, the surface lot on Duncan Avenue and at another surface lot at the corner of Sarah St. and Duncan Ave. There is also metered parking on the street. Or take MetroLink to the newly opened Cortex station. Upon arrival into the building front continue back all the way to the elevator and go to the second floor. Upon exit of the elevator, go left to see the big mass of people at the cafe. After you check in, you are allowed up to three free drinks. Our meetup will be in the room called Chuck Berry. Please ask a Venture Café staff where this is located if you do not already know.

What to expect
No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. This event is aimed at bringing together the Wikipedians in the St. Louis area and then also helping others learn howto edit Wikipedia. The event is guided by seasoned Wikipedians, so please do not be shy.

Event Structure

 * Introductions
 * Wiki Loves Monuments
 * Every September
 * 10k photos this year, last year 8k
 * WikiMonuments better organized, try more for next year :)
 * Wiki Conference North America
 * NEXT THURSDAY!
 * Columbus OHIO! 20th-21st Oct
 * Anyone can go, airbnbs are going
 * Question about export tool
 * If have a lot of time, then go to meetup, or columbus
 * If need something faster, business, PAY for CONTRACTORS
 * https://tools.wmflabs.org (trick or treat)
 * Made some short link for meetups for time-being:
 * https://enwp.org/WP:STLMU17
 * how can we have people dial in in future? hangouts? better option?
 * good way keeping together is telegram group for more realtime chat, even during events
 * GO FOR IT, SHARE IT
 * DONE: https://t.me/MissouriWikipedians
 * Next one will be https://enwp.org/WP:STLMU18
 * Completed Articles (Anyone Add Interesting Ones)
 * Cortex Innovation Community
 * learned to declare COI on talk page, ahead of time if there are conflicts
 * Art Hack Day
 * did an event last year, Art Hack Day Eclipse in stl, also DECLARED COI on talk page (learning ;)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Art_Hack_Day
 * Regional Arts Commission
 * SAVED! Had full on deletion process, but toughed it out with sources :)
 * Was proposal on Talk page to update Cahokia article for Indigenous Peoples' Day by verbisword
 * Good way to get edits to avoid conflicts, go onto talk page, explain to others your source, or suggestion and let someone else update
 * Discuss Status User Group application See Jackie’s sandbox
 * FOR NEXT MEETING
 * USER GROUP STATUS
 * Carl Idea
 * WikiLife: Why did you make an article?
 * Discuss planning an early 2019 edit-party
 * Update from WALRUS call on 8 Oct

Attending

 * Jon Phillips
 * Strictly Business
 * Jackiekoerner
 * Verbistheword (talk)
 * Add your name! :)

Event Invite

 * Template:STL_meetup_invite_17

Prepare

 * If possible, please register a Wikipedia account before the day of the event!
 * If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you can get a head start with this this training module.
 * Wikipedia markup cheatsheet

Proposals

 * Create page for Cortex Innovation Community Jon Phillips (talk) 21:55, 10 September 2018 (UTC) (DONE)
 * Review current alerts on our project: WikiProject_St._Louis/Article_alerts Jon Phillips (talk) 21:58, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Please discuss the event on the event talk page: Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/St._Louis/17