Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2017-04

April 2017
Wikimedia NYC WikiWednesday

When and Where
Date	Wednesday, April 19, 2017
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 April 2017 NYC WikiWednesday salon with the Wikimedia NYC community was held Wednesday, 19 April, 2017, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

Details

• Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2017
• Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
• Location: TBD
• 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

• 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
• Meetup link: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
• Etherpad: WikiWed-2017-04

Agenda

Bring your own ideas!

• 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Introductions for visitors
• 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)

Check in - ongoing projects

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Recent edit-a-thons, etc.

Since last WikiWednesday

1. Black Power Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with AfroCROWD. Saturday, February 25, 2017 – part of Black WikiHistory Month
2. Action=History WikiSalon (February) with AfroCROWD @ Ace Hotel New York. Sunday, February 26, 2017 – part of Black WikiHistory Month
3. Black Lunch Table Black WikiHistory Month @ Creative Capital, NYC. Monday, February 27, 2017 – part of Black WikiHistory Month
4. International Women's Day, Art+Feminism @ FIT. Wednesday, March 8, 2017
5. Equality Archive @ Baruch College, CUNY. Thursday, March 9, 2017
6. Women in Science @ Rockefeller University. Thursday, March 9, 2017
7. Art+Feminism @ MoMA. Saturday, March 11, 2017
8. Art+Feminism @ Interference Archive. Sunday, March 12, 2017
9. Black Lunch Table co-hosts Art+Feminism @ Kickstarter HQ. Sunday, March 12, 2017
10. Art + Feminism @ School of Visual Arts Library. Saturday, March 18, 2017
11. Action=History @ Ace Hotel New York (March 2017). Sunday, March 26, 2017
12. Hack the Canon Edit-a-thon at Barnard College. Tuesday, March 28, 2017
13. WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at Queens College (CUNY). Wednesday, March 29, 2017
14. WikiD New York Writing Workshop at the Center for Architecture. Thursday, March 30, 2017
15. Wikimedia Conference 2017. March 31 - April 2, 2017.

New and upcoming projects

1. Wikimedia Foundation board elections upcoming! Nominations accepted now, voting 1 to 14 May 2017
2. WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art and image release to Commons

Upcoming events

1. Race and Gender Bias in Medicine @ Icahn School of Medicine. Friday April 28, 2017
2. Action=History @ Ace Hotel New York. Sunday April 30, 2017
3. Next WikiWednesday Salon. Wednesday May 24, 2017
4. Annual NYC Wiknic for "the picnic anyone can edit". 10th anniversary edition!
5. Wikimania in Montreal, and organizing an NYC wiki-train to get there. August 2017

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

Lightning talks

5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!

• Episode 2: Let’s Make It an Ontology! of the Wikidata mini-series
  by BlaueBlüte (BlaueBlüte (talk) 05:13, 11 April 2017 (UTC))

Food tonight

Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!

• pizza / Russian pies, maybe

External links

• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City
• Free Culture Alliance NYC

Sign up

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Regrets

1. Sorry, taking my Biology teacher certification exam that day. Bearian (talk) 00:49, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Possible attendees

• FULBERT (talk) 11:35, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Likely attendees

• BlaueBlüte (talk) 05:13, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
• Pharos (talk) 14:30, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
• Roman Spinner (talk) 20:36, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
• Jim.henderson (talk) 22:41, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
• kosboot (talk) 23:14, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
• Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:42, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
• — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 03:43, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
• Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:54, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
• Emjackson42 (talk) 17:22, 17 April 2017 (UTC) Will likely be a bit late; can't leave work in the Bronx until 6 :)
• Arthur.frick (talk) 19:11, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
• — Dispenser 02:09, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
• MusikAnimal ^talk 02:40, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
• Yurik (talk) 03:55, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
• Arglebargle79Arglebargle79 (talk) 21:20, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
• Lutzv (talk) 11:36, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
• sheridanford (talk) 22:28, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
• Becksguy (talk) 02:03, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

1. NewEnglandDoug (talk) 21:28, 23 April 2017 (UTC)