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| When and Where | |
|---|---|
| Date | Wednesday, December 21 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 December 2016 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held Wednesday, 21 December, 2016, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
This will be the holiday party! Celebrate a December holiday with us, or in wiki-fashion, edit the calendar itself and join us to celebrate any holiday of your choice regardless of when it usually happens.
This will also be a good opportunity to prep for the upcoming Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2017 on January 15.
Details
[edit]- Date: Wednesday, December 21, 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: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
- Etherpad: WikiWed-2016-12
Agenda
[edit]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)
Chapter business
[edit]- A. Outreach, Partnerships & Programming
- GLAM: La Guardia and Wagner Archives: Ed Koch Archives at La Guardia and Wagner Archives
- Health science school partnerships: Update
- Wiki Loves the Dominican Republic, a collaboration of Columbia + Mount Sinai medicine: Should WM NYC endorse?
- World Science Festival: Proposed a partnership. No clear suggestion yet, but possible June event in NYC
- B. Planning
- Encouraging lightning talk and open space ideas for Wikipedia Day on January 15
- Photo exhibition at Wikipedia Day: Call for photos
- C. Technical interfaces
- Programs & Events Dashboard on Meta: Should WM NYC use routinely?
- D. Staffing
- WM NYC Metrics and Reporting Assistant Position 2016: Position filled
- Perhaps we could use a paid professional presentation on addressing conduct issues at events
- E. Grants & Funding
- Press Pass Pilot Program: Update on pilot program
- WMF Grant:
- Winifred Checkin: Tue, January 10, 2017, 8pm – 9pm
- 2016-2017 Grant Final Report: Final report is due 30 April 2017
- 2017-2018 APG Grant (1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018): Start APG in January or February 2017?
Check in - ongoing projects
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- Recent edit-a-thons
Since last WikiWednesday
- New York Textile Month @ FIT. Tuesday & Thursday, September 27 & 29, 2016 – part of New York Textile Month
- AfroCROWD New York Black Librarians Caucus @ Brooklyn Public Library. Sunday, October 2, 2016
- Gender Equality @ National Archives New York City. Thursday, October 13, 2016
- CommonsLab @ NYU. Photo scavenger hunt OHNY wrapup and hackathon, Sunday, October 16, 2016 − part of Wikipedia @ Open House New York (OHNY) 2016 Weekend Photo Competition Saturday & Sunday, October 15 & 16, 2016
- WIKIarte 2016 @ MoMA. Saturday October 22, 2016
- Wikipedia and Psychology @ Fordham. Wednesday, October 26, 2016
- Art and Art History @ Zabar Art Library, Hunter. Thursday, October 27, 2016
- Fordham 175th Anniversary Editathon @ Fordham (Bronx). Wednesday, November 2, 2016
- Women-In-Science Edit-a-thon II @ New York Academy of Sciences. Saturday, November 12, 2016
- Indigenous People's Justice @ Interference Archive. Sunday, November 13, 2016
- Black Lunch Table @ Weeksville Heritage Center. Wednesday, November 16, 2016
- Accessibility Hackathon @ Babycastles. Saturday, November 19, 2016
- Grey Literature Edit-a-thon @ New York Academy of Medicine. Thursday, December 1, 2016
- Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim. Saturday, December 3, 2016 – part of Wikipedia Asian Month
- Black Lunch Table @ BRIC House Stoop, Brooklyn. Saturday, December 10, 2016
- Wild Facts: Women In Avant-Garde Music @ CommendNYC. Sunday, December 11, 2016
- Black Lunch Table @ Forward Union Fair. Saturday, December 17, 2016
- AfroCROWD Elected Officials of the African Diaspora @ Brooklyn Public Library. Sunday, December 18, 2016 – End of year celebration!
New and upcoming projects
[edit]- Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros: New GLAM project
- DOITT: January 2017?
- Gitmo editathon: January 2017?
- Broadly workshop - tentative
- Monthly wiki-workshop/hackathon series at Ace Hotel: starting February 2017
- BedStuy or Die Rapper editathon outreach
- AfroCROWD BlackWikiHistory Month: Updates? Schomburg possibly? February 2017
- Art + Feminism planning? March 2017
- Upcoming events
- Wikipedia and Food @ Mount Pleasant Public Library (Westchester). Wednesday, January 11, 2017
- Wikipedia Day 2017 @ Ace Hotel NYC. Sunday, January 15, 2017
- Plants and People Editathon @ New York Botanical Gardens. Wednesday, January 25, 2017 − part of Plants and People week
- #1Lib1Ref @ Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Friday, January 27, 2017
- Her Girl Friday + Lenny Letter Women Journos Editathon @ ThoughtWorks. Saturday, January 28, 2017
Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions
[edit]5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!
- Report on library meetup at Fordham by TrMendenhall
- Shared structured data demo by Yurik
- More information, see Facebook Wikipedia Weekly posting
- From Facebook
- I know many people were waiting for the shared structured data... well, it's on. Store the data once, use it everywhere. A formal announcement will go out soon, but for now, a few demos.
- An interactive weather history viewer - try selecting ranges at the bottom, switch to Fahrenheit, or mouse over for info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_barchart
- This is a simple historical heatmap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_heatmap
- And the same data shown as a well established enwiki climate table using a lua script: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/WeatherDemo
- All above pages are generated from a single data page on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Weather/New_York_City.tab
- Per state GDP viewer, with selectable history range: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:US_Map_state_highlight
- A simple static population history graph with annotations: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Population_history
- A highly reusable lines template https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Lines
- Documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tabular_Data
- Use Data:Sandbox/... to experiment - commons only. Don't forget .tab extension.
- Update on plans for a JacksonHeights.nyc resource wiki by Tomlzz1
Food tonight
[edit]
Comments / feedback / suggestions about food and/or for food selection? Please let us know!
- Stolle: Delicious savory and sweet Eastern European pies
- We will have holiday treats to celebrate the holidays and all of the Wikimedia New York City events this year!
External links
[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016-12 WikiWednesday.
- Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
- Wikimedia New York City
- Free Culture Alliance NYC
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Regrets
[edit]- I am sick in bed. Happy holidays everyone! Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:09, 21 December 2016 (UTC) -- You were missed Lane! Feel better soon!!! Xo Erika
- Bluerasberry Missed you too, hope you feel better. Gave the obligatory shameless plug about Jan 11, looking forward to it! ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 06:06, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
Perhaps
[edit]- BlaueBlüte (talk) 06:59, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:44, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Likely attendees
[edit]- Pharos (talk) 03:37, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
- Shanluan (talk)
- Mozucat (talk) 20:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- BrillLyle (talk) 17:14, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Roman Spinner (talk) 23:03, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 23:40, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
- Yurik (talk) 01:30, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
- Emjackson42 (talk) 03:01, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
- WikimedianRomel (talk) 19:45, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
- Joanaz (talk) 00:45, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- Tomlzz1 (talk) 02:47, 19 December 2016 (UTC) With a 5 minute update on our plans for a JacksonHeights.nyc resource wiki.
- Aude (talk) 03:49, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- JoAsQueeniebee (talk) 03:49, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- Jim.henderson (talk) 21:18, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- PointsofNoReturn (talk) 20:24, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
- ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 05:35, 22 December 2016 (UTC)