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| When and Where | |
|---|---|
| Date | Wednesday, August 17, 2016 |
| Time | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm |
| Address | Babycastles 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) 2nd Floor |
| City, State | New York City, New York 10011 |
The August 2016 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held Wednesday, August 17, 2016, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
Details
edit- Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2016
- Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Location: Babycastles. 145 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), Basement level, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011
40°44′18″N 73°59′55.6″W / 40.73833°N 73.998778°W
- Subway:
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 7th Avenue)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 8th Avenue)
- Bus: M1, M2, M3, M14A, M14D, X1, X7, X9, X10, X12, X17, X27, X28 buses
- Accessibility: Let us know if we should set up the manual elevator for this meetup.
- Hashtag: #WikiWednesday
- After the main meeting: Food and refreshments and video games in the gallery
- Meetup link:
- Etherpad: WikiWed-2016-08
Agenda
editBring your own ideas!
- 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Introductions for visitors
- Newcomer's Wiki Workshop!
- 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm: Meeting, Part I (roundtable on ongoing projects)
- 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Meeting, Part II (new project proposals and ideas)
Chapter business
editCheck in - ongoing projects
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New and upcoming projects
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Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions
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5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
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- WikiVerse (successor to WikiGalaxy) - presented by Owen Cornec
- Bringing Wikipedia to the Last Mile - present by NYC Mesh
- WM NYC's own Newyorkbrad on August 16, 2016 was offered an advisory seat on the Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer "Board Governance Committee". We will quickly review the relationship between chapters, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Requirements for affiliated events. DGG ( talk ) 14:28, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Food tonight
editComments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016-08 WikiWednesday.
- Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
- Wikimedia New York City
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- Headcount
- 44
Regrets
editLikely attendees
edit- kosboot (talk) 17:53, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- Roman Spinner (talk) 06:49, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- BrillLyle (talk) 14:28, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
- Pharos (talk) 21:23, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
- Jim.henderson (talk) 14:38, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
- Alexisclements (talk) 15:45, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
- Jfwhite nyc (talk) 16:41, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
- Becksguy (talk) 16:17, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
- MusikAnimal talk 00:23, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
- MainlyTwelve (talk) 16:03, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
- DGG ( talk ) 23:21, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
- Mozucat (talk) 20:10, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
- Aude (talk) 21:20, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
- Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:09, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
- Wlmg (talk) 20:19, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
- Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:16, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
- sheridanford (talk) 02:27, 17 August 2016 (UTC) fka kyraocity
- Lutzv (talk) 13:58, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
- Librarianhelen (talk) 16:06, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
- BlaueBlüte (talk) 22:48, 17 August 2016 (UTC)