Wikipedia:Wiki NYC/2017

Annual Report for 2017

Introduction • Programs and Events • Acknowledgements • Administration

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 Introduction

Preface
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Overall Stats for 2016-2017

 * >130 unique attendees
 * >22 new articles
 * 23 weekly workshops
 * 9 major events

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Contributor to a global movement
Located in one of the most populous immigrant cities in the nation and a global hub for numerous technological, cultural, medical, and business interests, Wikimedia NYC has striven to develop types of activity not just useful for itself, but equally for other Wikimedia community groups.

Project organizers in Wikimedia NYC host events with the intent to offer examples for future events here and around the world. This happens because NYC is a big city with 100+ public Wikipedia events every year, and because Wikimedia NYC includes a diverse base of about 50 people who have organized these event in the last year.

This includes connecting regionally, including leading almost all of the public training sessions at WikiConference North America, as well as globally, like the WikiArte campaign which grew beyond the MoMA event to embrace Wikimedia affiliates throughout Latin America, modeled on some of longer-term work helping to support Art+Feminism locally and globally.


 * Calendar
 * 1) January - Wikipedia Day
 * 2) February - Black History Month
 * 3) March - Art+Feminism
 * 4) April and May - community organizing and grassroots activism, including International Workers' Day
 * 5) June - Gay Pride Month
 * 6) July - Wiknic
 * 7) August and September - regional Wikimedia engagement, including Wikimania and more local conferences
 * 8) October - Open Access Week
 * 9) November - Wikipedia Asian Month
 * 10) December - holiday meetups and annual reporting

Salons and Wikipedia Day

 * Stats
 * 34 participants
 * 113 edits
 * 11 new articles
 * 5 new drafts
 * > 25 articles improved

The base of Wikimedia NYC activities is the organization of Wikipedia events for the public. This includes Wikipedia edit-a-thons, which directly produce content and get more global attention, but also monthly Wednesday evening salons for broader discussion and engagement with the general public, as well as occasional workshops and presentations for specialized communities, and our annual Wikipedia Day conference, this year held at the Ace Hotel with Katherine Maher and other speakers.

In the past year Wikimedia NYC participants have organized:
 * 20+ salons and lectures, including a monthly WikiWednesday, a Wikipedia Day conference, and presentations at academic conferences
 * 10+ specialized workshops for professional contributors including educators, librarians, and museum staff

Cultural partnerships

 * Stats
 * 34 participants
 * 113 edits
 * 11 new articles
 * 5 new drafts
 * > 25 articles improved

NYC is home to many institutions with both national and international influence. Wikimedia NYC has collaborations with many of them, and we have used this to leverage international wiki-collaborations. Organizations offer expert content and in return our community offers to help publish and distribute it through the Wikimedia projects. We have continued and amplified our traditional strength in the art world and with libraries of all kinds (public, academic, and institutional). More recently, we have worked to expand the GLAM model to focus on scientific institutions.

In the past year Wikimedia NYC participants have organized:
 * 100 Wikipedia editing events for 2000+ editors

Wikimedia NYC has collaborated with the following organizations in the last year -


 * Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * New York Academy of Sciences
 * United Nations
 * Metropolitan New York Library Council
 * Guggenheim Museum
 * Consumer Reports
 * Brooklyn Public Library
 * New York Public Library
 * Westchester Library System
 * New York Botanical Garden
 * Museum of Modern Art
 * Center for Jewish History
 * MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts)
 * National Archives, New York City
 * Interference Archive
 * CommendNYC
 * Center for Architecture

University and College partnerships
Wikimedia NYC maintains a strong engagement with educators and other academics at universities in our city and region. We have helped lead presentations, faculty workshops, university-based editathons, and also student workshops for classes participating in Wiki Education Foundation and related assignment-based programs. The chapter has helped provide guidance to academics engaged with the Wiki Education Foundation programs, and has provided a local support network to those engaged in these projects, particularly from our chapter members who are themselves university faculty.

Wikimedia NYC has partnered with fourteen universities and colleges, each of which has hosted more than 3 Wikipedia events in the past year:


 * CUNY (LaGuardia Community College, Baruch College, The Graduate Center, New York City College of Technology, Hunter College, Queens College)
 * La Guardia and Wagner Archives (at LaGuardia Community College)
 * Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY
 * Barnard College
 * School of Visual Arts
 * Rockefeller University
 * Fordham University
 * New York University
 * Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

The wiki pedagogy underlining the LaGuardia Community College projects were also examined in two scholarly articles by LaGuardia faculty. "Wikifying Science Fiction’s 'Grand Dame': The LaGuardia Community College Octavia E. Butler Project on Wikipedia" (on the long-term work of students and scholars on the Butler entries) is set to appear in the Modern Language Association collection Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler, edited by Dr. Tarshia L. Stanley, while "Connecting Wikipedia and the Archive: Building a Public History of HIV/AIDS in New York City" (on the student work at LaGuardia and Wagner Archives GLAM) is forthcoming June 2017 in the journal Wiki Studies.

Technology
Wikimedia NYC participants include software and tool developers as well as non-technical community members who pilot test the tools which developers produce. We have recently engaged more with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other MediaWiki-based technologists in our region, and have built a stronger basis for community tech development.

We have championed the broader use of the Programs & Events Dashboard. Initially developed for the Wiki Education Foundation, we have used it for editathons and other chapter events as well as Art+Feminism and other global Wikimedia affiliates. Our adaptations have been supported by further tech development by the Wiki Education Foundation in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation.

The chapter helped host the Enterprise MediaWiki Conference and a public tech event for the ‘Wikipedia Takes Manhattan’ photography contest with Open House New York. For the year of 2017, we are holding a monthly Sunday afternoon hackathon at the Ace Hotel, bringing together both tech and content contributors to find areas of connection for relevant tech development, ranging from templates to tools to bug-filing.

Cultural partnerships
Wikimedia NYC will continue to collaborate with the many local and international organizations that call New York state its home. Specifically, Wikimedia NYC plans to collaborate with the following organizations-


 * Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * New York Academy of Sciences
 * United Nations
 * Metropolitan New York Library Council
 * Guggenheim Museum
 * Consumer Reports
 * Westchester Library System
 * New York Botanical Garden
 * Museum of Modern Art
 * Center for Architecture

University and College partnerships
Educational programs via support for WikiEdu efforts will include 5 schools will participate in Wikipedia Educational Programs with workshops or classroom assignments, 5 course pages will be created documenting student and class participation, 50 students will join as new users, 50 articles will be edited by participants in the education program.


 * CUNY (LaGuardia Community College, Baruch College, The Graduate Center, New York City College of Technology, Hunter College, Queens College)
 * La Guardia and Wagner Archives (at LaGuardia Community College)
 * Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY
 * Barnard College
 * School of Visual Arts
 * Rockefeller University
 * Fordham University
 * New York University
 * Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
 * Columbia University

Technology
General:

We will support 10 events a year of community tech hackathons and other initiatives, working with local editors, developers and universities and the Wikimedia Foundation technical collaboration team, channeling developing talent. We aim to develop new and improved tools and workflows for community-related projects, especially those that benefit underserved areas.

Video documentation:

We have an initiative to produce high-quality video of our events, and interviews/storytelling with our program participants. The goal of this is to show the human face of local wiki collaboration, with people from diverse communities and areas of experience, and encourage those interested in starting up in other regions. Wiki NYC will do this for 3 events in 2017-18.
 * Example event - Art+Feminism 2017 - Commons:Category:Art and Feminism March 2017 at MoMA oral history, stories from 25 participants

Contributor to a global movement
We will support five international programs related to these program activities through hosting either main node or satellite events. Support entails creating event pages that often serve as the main event page for global nodes, outreach, networking, resource sharing. There is a particular budget for Wikipedia Asian Month. International events include:


 * Wikipedia Day
 * Art+Feminism
 * Wiknic
 * Wiki Loves Pride
 * Wiki Loves Libraries/Open Access Week
 * Wikipedia Asian Month
 * Wiki Loves Monuments
 * Black WikiHistory Month


 * Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * New York Academy of Sciences
 * United Nations
 * Metropolitan New York Library Council
 * Guggenheim Museum
 * Consumer Reports
 * Westchester Library System
 * New York Botanical Garden
 * Museum of Modern Art
 * Center for Architecture

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 * 1) Wikipedia and Food @ Mount Pleasant Public Library (Westchester). Wednesday, January 11, 2017
 * 2) Wikipedia Day 2017 @ Ace Hotel New York. Sunday, January 15, 2017
 * 3) #1lib1ref @ Westchester Library System. Wednesday, January 18, 2017
 * 4) Plants and People @ NYBG. Wednesday, January 25, 2017 − part of Plants and People week
 * 5) #1Lib1Ref @ Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Friday, January 27, 2017
 * 6) Her Girl Friday + Lenny Letter Women Journos Unconference & Editathon @ ThoughtWorks. Saturday, January 28, 2017
 * 7) April 2017 Science Interest Group (SIG) @ METRO. Thursday, April 6, 2017
 * 8) WikiWednesday (February) @ Babycastles. Wednesday, February 15, 2017
 * 9) Black Power Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with AfroCROWD. Saturday, February 225, 2017 – part of Black WikiHistory Month
 * 10) Action=History WikiSalon (February) with AfroCROWD @ Ace Hotel New York. Sunday, February 26, 2017 – part of Black WikiHistory Month
 * 11) Black Lunch Table Black WikiHistory Month @ Creative Capital, NYC. Monday, February 27, 2017 – part of Black WikiHistory Month
 * 12) International Women's Day, Art+Feminism @ FIT. Wednesday, March 8, 2017
 * 13) Equality Archive @ Baruch College, CUNY. Thursday, March 9, 2017
 * 14) Women in Science @ Rockefeller University. Thursday, March 9, 2017
 * 15) Art+Feminism @ MoMA. Saturday, March 11, 2017
 * 16) Art+Feminism @ Interference Archive. Sunday, March 12, 2017
 * 17) Black Lunch Table co-hosts Art+Feminism @ Kickstarter HQ. Sunday, March 12, 2017
 * 18) Art + Feminism @ School of Visual Arts Library. Saturday, March 18, 2017
 * 19) Action=History @ Ace Hotel New York (March 2017). Sunday, March 26, 2017
 * 20) Hack the Canon Edit-a-thon at Barnard College. Tuesday, March 28, 2017
 * 21) WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at Queens College (CUNY). Wednesday, March 29, 2017
 * 22) WikiD New York Writing Workshop at the Center for Architecture. Thursday, March 30, 2017
 * 23) WikiWednesday @Babycastles April 2017
 * 24) Race and Gender Bias in Medicine @ Icahn School of Medicine April 2017
 * 25) Action=History: Sunday Hackathon @ Ace Hotel April 2017
 * 26) Wiki Loves the Dominican Republic @ Columbia University May
 * 27) Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative May
 * 28) Faculty Technology Day 2017 on 22 May, 2017
 * 29) WikiWednesday @ Babycastles May
 * 30) Action=History: Sunday Hackathon @ Ace Hotel May
 * 31) Hip Hop Hacks @ Monthly Music Hackathon May 2017
 * 32) Touro Librarians workshop @ Touro College. Wednesday, June 7, 2017.
 * 33) AfroCROWD @ Allied Media Conference, Detroit Michigan. Sunday, June 18, 2017
 * NY strategy salon with media experts, Tuesday, June 20, 2017.
 * 1) Wiki Loves Pride 2017 @ MoMA. Thursday, June 22, 2017
 * 2) Dalit History Month 2017 @ Asian American Writers Workshop. Sunday June 25, 2017
 * 3) Action=History: Sunday Hackathon @ Ace Hotel. Sunday June 25, 2017
 * 4) ArtAndFeminism Edit-a-thon + Wikidata Hackathon @ Artsy, Saturday July 8, 2017
 * 5) Great American Wiknic: Annual Wiki-Picnic @ Governors Island Sunday, July 9, 2017
 * 6) Global STEM Alliance Summit @ New York Academy of Sciences. Wednesday, July 19, 2017
 * 7) WikiWednesday @ Babycastles, Action=History @ Ace Hotel Sunday, July 30, 2017,
 * 8) AfroCROWD BLERD City Wikipedia Editathon Sunday, July 30, 2017
 * 9) [[Wikipedia:United Nations in New York City/2017 Summer Youth Assembly at the United Nations|2017 Summer Youth Assembly @ the
 * 1) AfroCROWD DEFCON 201 r00tz Digital Securities Conference Wikipedia Editathon Saturday, August 5, 12:00pm-5:00pm in @ The Newark Museum
 * 2) WikiConference North America 2017 August 9-10 2017, Montreal (WikiTrain!)
 * 3) Wikimania 2017 August 11-13 2017, Montreal
 * 4) Action=History @ Ace Hotel, Sunday, September 24, 2017
 * 5) WikiWednesday / Chapter Annual Meeting @ Babycastles, Wednesday, September 27, 2017
 * 6) Design studies @ Parsons School of Design, Tuesday, October 3, 2017
 * 7) Open Access Week editathon @ Stony Brook University in Long Island, Tuesday, October 24, 2017
 * 8) City Tech NYC Editathon, Wednesday, October 25, 2017
 * 9) WikiWednesday @ Babycastles, Wednesday, November 15, 2017
 * 10) Wikipedia Asian Month editathon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sunday, November 19, 2017
 * 11) World AIDS Day 2017 editathon @ The Center, Thursday, November 30, 2017
 * 12) Wikidata training @ Fordham, Friday December 8, 2018

 Acknowledgements
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 * Institutional partners


 * Rockefeller University is hosting the event
 * Consumer Reports sponsors some of the training at events
 * New York Academy of Sciences encourages universities in New York to contribute to Wikipedia
 * Wikimedia New York City is the local volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community
 * Wiki Education Foundation provides software to report impact of Wikipedia editing at events like this one
 * Art+Feminism provides support for wiki outreach to women in all contexts


 * Consumer Reports sponsors the outreach and presentation.
 * Touro College students and faculty are the participants and the event is hosted at Touro.
 * Cochrane remains available to provide access to Cochrane publications or talk with Wikipedia contributors about using good sources.
 * Wikimedia New York City is the local volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community.
 * Wiki Project Med is the international volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community supporting the development of Wikipedia's medical coverage.
 * Wiki Education Foundation provides support for professors in assignment design and students as they navigate editing Wikipedia for the first time, and software to report impact of Wikipedia editing by groups of students.


 * Thanks Wiki NYC for presenting the event!
 * Thanks Wikimedia LGBT+ for managing the global Wiki Loves Pride 2017 campaign!
 * Thanks thebody.com for publicizing the event to local people and LGBT+ organizations!
 * Thanks La Guardia and Wagner Archives for bringing in researchers from the Ed Koch Collection research project!
 * Thanks AfroCROWD for inviting your community of Wikipedia editors!
 * Thanks Black Lunch Table for inviting your community of Wikipedia editors!
 * Thanks Art + Feminism for helping to organize art-related Wikipedia events in NYC and beyond!


 * Consumer Reports sponsors the outreach and presentation.
 * Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is providing review of medical information and many other types of support in this project.
 * Choosing Wisely is the outreach health campaign on which this Wikipedia outreach program is based.
 * Cochrane remains available to provide access to Cochrane publications or talk with Wikipedia contributors about using good sources.
 * Wikimedia New York City is the local volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community.
 * Wiki Project Med is the international volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community supporting the development of Wikipedia's medical coverage.
 * Wiki Education Foundation provides support for professors in assignment design and students as they navigate editing Wikipedia for the first time, and software to report impact of Wikipedia editing by groups of students.
 * DocGraph is providing analysis of Wikipedia use by medical students. Please consider opting in to participate.

 Administration

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January 2017
Voters at the 14 September 2016 annual meeting elected this board:
 * President: Pharos
 * Secretary: BrillLyle BrillLyle to 03/2017
 * Treasurer: Becksguy
 * Vice Presidents:
 * Aliceba
 * DGG
 * DrX
 * Jim.henderson
 * kosboot
 * Lange.lea
 * Megs
 * Mozucat
 * Newyorkbrad
 * Non-elected advisors:
 * Aude
 * Bluerasberry
 * Jeremyb
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September 2017
Meetup/NYC/September-2017
 * President: Megan Wacha Megs
 * Treasurer: Peter Hess Becksguy
 * Secretary: Jeremy Baron Jeremyb (non-board position)
 * Vice presidents:
 * Bob Kosovsky kosboot
 * David Goodman DGG
 * Ann Matsuuchi Mozucat
 * Richard Knipel Pharos
 * Alice Backer Aliceba
 * Jim Henderson Jim.henderson
 * Ira Matetsky Newyorkbrad
 * Loren Koenig BlaueBlüte
 * Katie Filbert Aude
 * Ryan McGrady Rhododendrites
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