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April 2016 NYC WikiWednesday

When and Where
Date	Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Time	6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Video hour starts at 6:00 pm
Address	Babycastles 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) 2nd Floor
City, State	New York City, New York 10011

The April 2016 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community was held Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm (video hour at start, 6-7pm) at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

• Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2016
• Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm (video hour at start, 6-7pm)
• 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
• 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: April 2016 WikiWednesday Meeting Notes Thanks so much Mozucat!

Bring your own ideas!

• 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Mini-Video and social hour
• 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)

Video opportunity

• For this meeting, a videographer will be present to record 1-3 minute videos of individual Wikipedians saying anything about their Wikipedia projects. Videos will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and YouTube. With the time we have, anyone may present a video. Rehearse your talk before you come. You may share an experience, give a lesson, make a presentation, or say what you like. The audience might be anyone searching for videos of Wikipedians talking about Wikipedia. This will be an amateur effort.

6:00 – 7:00 pm video hour

Sign up here if you'd like to do a video from 6:00 – 7:00 pm, before the regular meetup:

1. Mozucat ( talk)
2. Pharos ( talk) 10:53, 6 April 2016 (UTC) reply
3. kyraocity ( talk)

7:00 pm or later video in side office

Sign up here if you'd like to do a video at 7:00 pm or later video in the adjoining room, on the side of the regular meetup:

Chapter business

Check in - ongoing projects

• Annual Plan Grant update -- We are funded for the year!

Discussion of Action Plan to implement the grant and committee selection.

• 2017 WM NYC Strategic Plan - outline / planning stage
  • see 2011 WM NYC Strategic Plan for reference
• Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan 2016-2017 is up for review
• Recent edit-a-thons
  • Women of African Disapora @ Hunter College
  • Writing+Feminism @ Barnard
• Wiki-classes this semester
• TBD / discuss at next month's WikiWednesday!
• Wikimedia Affiliate-Selected Board Nominations: Public vote on our chapters's final choices for the Wikimedia Foundation board elections. Please read candidate information in advance if possible! :-)
  • Maybe start with a straw poll where each person selects their top three candidates, then broach a larger discussion

New and upcoming projects

Upcoming events:

• Library event in association with Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Red/10 - April
  • AfroCROWD Black Women Writers Wikipedia Editathon @ Brooklyn Public Library (Sunday, April 17, 2016) part of Women in Red
• Middle East and North Africa (MENA) #guggathon (Saturday, April 30, 2016) part of Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative
• Science Outreach Working to Inspire the Next Generation @ Simons Foundation (Tuesday, May 31, 2016) part of Wikipedia Year of Science
• WikiWednesday Salon + Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Community Night (May) @ Babycastles (Wednesday, May 25, 2016)
• Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon @ Center for Jewish History (Sunday, June 5, 2016) – Tentative

See Friendly space policy

See also Babycastles Safer Spaces Policy

• Wiki Loves Earth 2016 photo competition - May 2016

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

Lightning talks

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

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

• New York-style pizza - traditional regional cuisine

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016-04 WikiWednesday.

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

You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page.

Regrets

1. BrillLyle ( talk) 00:41, 19 March 2016 (UTC) reply

Likely attendees

1. Pharos ( talk) 13:05, 18 March 2016 (UTC) reply
2. Mozucat ( talk) 22:30, 25 March 2016 (UTC) reply
3. Roman Spinner ( talk) 19:59, 26 March 2016 (UTC) reply
4. Baebobae ( talk) 00:50, 28 March 2016 (UTC) reply
5. Jim.henderson ( talk) 11:59, 29 March 2016 (UTC) reply
6. Imc00ln0treally ( talk) 23:54, 3 April 2016 (UTC) reply
7. Hannah Silverman ( talk) 14:23, 6 April 2016 (UTC) reply
8. 69.120.89.217 ( talk) 16:28, 6 April 2016 (UTC) reply
9. Palimpsestic 23:50, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
10. Magdalamar ( talk) 02:02, 7 April 2016 (UTC) reply
11. Becksguy ( talk) 13:33, 10 April 2016 (UTC) reply
12. Quantumavik ( talk) 19:06, 12 April 2016 (UTC) reply
13. americasroof ( talk) 19:06, 13 April 2016 (UTC) reply
14. DGG ( talk ) 18:58, 13 April 2016 (UTC) reply
15. Kyraocity ( talk) 23:00, 13 April 2016 (UTC) reply