The August 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, August 19, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This was the third of hopefully a series of approximately monthly "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events and editathons.

• Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2015
• Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (feel free to come by early as 6, stay later for social hour)
• Location: Babycastles. 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), 2nd Floor, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011 40°44′17.5″N 73°59′54.5″W / 40.738194°N 73.998472°W / 40.738194; -73.998472
• 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
• Hashtag: #WikiWednesday

• After the main meeting: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery

• Etherpad link

Bring your own ideas!

Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events

• Local Wikipedia Free Culture Alliance NYC projects
• Past, present, and future institutional partnerships with Wikipedia
• Recent editathons and projects

• Black Lunch Table edit-a-thon @ The Museum of Modern Art Library - July 13
• NYCers share experiences from Wikimania 2015 @ Mexico City - July 15-19
• Great American Wiknic @ Prospect Park - August 2

Chapter business

• Recap of Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City in July
• Grants review
• Committees review
• Public broadcasting cooperation projects
• Wikipedia app and photo upload campaigns
• Use of Pywikibot to cross-post announcements
• Possible collaboration on instructional videos with Simpleshow, e.g. - File:Basics of photography – how you learn to shoot better photos.webm
• Should we experiment with the use of VisualEditor in editathons / outreach projects?
• Introducing Afrocrowd Project Manager Sherry Antoine
• NYC Media Lab - September event -- would this be something Wikimedia NYC might be interested in participating in?
  • NYC Media Lab registration info: http://tickets.nyu.edu/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=1986

Future plans

• Monthly: Regular WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles, Editathons @ MoMA and timing
• Semester-long: Planning Fall 2015 WP:NYCEDU wiki-classes
• September: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American editathon @ MoMA (Wednesday, September 2)
• October: Multi-city editathon with Iberocoop @ MoMA (Saturday, October 3)
• October: WikiConference USA 2015 @ National Archives in DC (October 9-11)
• October: Women in Architecture editathon @ Guggenheim (Thursday, October 15)
• October: Wikipedia Takes Manhattan Strikes Back (October 17-18)
• January 2016: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 for the 15th anniversary (see Wikipedia Day NYC 2015)

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

Keynote

15-20 minutes

• TBA

Lightning talks

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

• A suggestion of how everyone can help the GLAM community - kosboot ( talk) 21:01, 7 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• FamilySearch: Wikipedia Citations and FamilySearch - BrillLyle ( talk)
  • Slideshow: "FamilySearch: FamilySearch + Wikipedia": PowerPoint + PDF

• Promotional Editing - DGG

Likely attendees

• Pharos ( talk) 15:18, 13 July 2015 (UTC) reply
• Rumayor1 ( talk) 23:34, 13 July 2015 (UTC) reply
• BrillLyle ( talk) 01:51, 14 July 2015 (UTC) reply
• Ronald Sexton ( talk)
• Jim.henderson ( talk) 12:15, 7 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• Mozucat ( talk) 16:27, 11 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• Newyorkbrad ( talk) 17:41, 11 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• Aliceba ( talk) 20:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• DGG ( talk ) 00:10, 12 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• Shanluan ( talk) 18:41, 12 August 2015 (UTC); reply
• PeterLFlomPhD ( talk) 18:58, 18 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• Becksguy ( talk) 19:32, 19 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• Omar sansi ( talk)

Possible attendees

• — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 21:04, 8 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• I'm flying to the West Coast the next day so it's unlikely...but anything is possible. ;-) Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:35, 11 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• PeterLFlomPhD ( talk) 18:57, 18 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• I'm not a member of the Wikimedia NYC community and don't even live on the continent, so I can't really participate in the meeting itself, but since I'm visiting NYC and meeting Wikipedians would be cool, perhaps I could come to say hi during the social hour afterwards if that's ok? -- KFP ( contact - edits) 01:04, 19 August 2015 (UTC) reply
  • KFP: Yes, you'd be more than welcome to join for all parts of the meeting. Perhaps you'd even like to share your Wikipedian experiences from Finland as a "lightning talk" :)-- Pharos ( talk) 14:54, 19 August 2015 (UTC) reply
    • • Thanks for the hospitality! It was nice to meet, and interesting to hear about all the projects and collaboration you guys are doing. Keep up the good work! -- KFP ( contact - edits) 15:16, 20 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Regrets

• Rob T Firefly ( talk) 22:23, 11 August 2015 (UTC) Sorry to miss it, I'm working. Have a good time! reply
• Robert Greer ( talk) 16:18, 12 August 2015 (UTC) reply
• PointsofNoReturn Will be on vacation. Good luck at the event. PointsofNoReturn ( talk) 00:24, 15 August 2015 (UTC) reply

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