This page documents how to categorize a "meetup page" in Wikipedia for a Wikipedia:Meetup.
This is an experimental method proposed in February 2016 to meet needs of the time. This process might change. It is difficult to imagine categorize structures and what names are best to use.
This system is used by Wikimedia New York City, a chapter of the Wikimedia Community.
When there is a Wikipedia meetup, sometimes stakeholders in the event want to see outcomes. With this system, it becomes easier for stakeholders to browse event records and get information about when events have been presented and what kind of events have been hosted.
As an example, suppose that a Wikimedia chapter organizes an event on art at a library. Over time, that Wikimedia chapter, the library, and Wikipedians who organize art events might want to be able to find a record of this meetup and reference it for the precedent it set. With meetup categorization this becomes easier to do.
On the meetup page, apply any or all of these categories.
not functional as of February 2016 If anyone at the event took pictures or video and wished to share media files, then they may do so at Wikimedia Commons. On Wikimedia commons, create a Commons category with the same title as that of the English Wikipedia meetup page. Now apply the same categories used in English Wikipedia to this page on Commons.
One reason why every event needs its own category in Commons is so that if anyone shares photos, there is an obvious way to name a Commons category after the event, and an obvious way to categorize pictures uploaded to that category so that they can be found.
Categorization can be done anytime but is ideally done at the time of the creation of the event page. There is no need to create a Commons category if no one uploads photos from the event.
As of early 2016 there was not a clear process for categorizing events. Consequences of this were that it was difficult to track events and to sort pictures taken at events. An inability to track events was a problem for supporting organizations. Suppose, for example, that WP:AfroCrowd hosted an event at Museum of Modern Art to develop content about black artists. Organizations which would benefit from having a record of this, and which were keeping score of when such things happen, include AfroCrowd itself as a project, Wikimedia NYC, the Wikimedia Foundation, MoMA, WP:Art+Feminism (for the art connection), any projects promoting black culture, and perhaps the event organizers as individuals as they tracked their own history.
If there were a better way to organize things, there would be these restraints on developing a new process -
Wikimedia New York City provides the following guidelines for use of this process:
All of these are subcategories of Category:Wikipedia meetups. Another option was Category:Wikipedia events, which currently is being used in a different way to categorize broader events like the "year of science" or "institutional partnerships". Consequences of this arbitrary choice mean that "meetup" becomes solidified as the term for describing one-day Wiki events and also that any sort of wiki-event, like a Wikidata event, can still be called a "Wikipedia meetup".
This page documents how to categorize a "meetup page" in Wikipedia for a Wikipedia:Meetup.
This is an experimental method proposed in February 2016 to meet needs of the time. This process might change. It is difficult to imagine categorize structures and what names are best to use.
This system is used by Wikimedia New York City, a chapter of the Wikimedia Community.
When there is a Wikipedia meetup, sometimes stakeholders in the event want to see outcomes. With this system, it becomes easier for stakeholders to browse event records and get information about when events have been presented and what kind of events have been hosted.
As an example, suppose that a Wikimedia chapter organizes an event on art at a library. Over time, that Wikimedia chapter, the library, and Wikipedians who organize art events might want to be able to find a record of this meetup and reference it for the precedent it set. With meetup categorization this becomes easier to do.
On the meetup page, apply any or all of these categories.
not functional as of February 2016 If anyone at the event took pictures or video and wished to share media files, then they may do so at Wikimedia Commons. On Wikimedia commons, create a Commons category with the same title as that of the English Wikipedia meetup page. Now apply the same categories used in English Wikipedia to this page on Commons.
One reason why every event needs its own category in Commons is so that if anyone shares photos, there is an obvious way to name a Commons category after the event, and an obvious way to categorize pictures uploaded to that category so that they can be found.
Categorization can be done anytime but is ideally done at the time of the creation of the event page. There is no need to create a Commons category if no one uploads photos from the event.
As of early 2016 there was not a clear process for categorizing events. Consequences of this were that it was difficult to track events and to sort pictures taken at events. An inability to track events was a problem for supporting organizations. Suppose, for example, that WP:AfroCrowd hosted an event at Museum of Modern Art to develop content about black artists. Organizations which would benefit from having a record of this, and which were keeping score of when such things happen, include AfroCrowd itself as a project, Wikimedia NYC, the Wikimedia Foundation, MoMA, WP:Art+Feminism (for the art connection), any projects promoting black culture, and perhaps the event organizers as individuals as they tracked their own history.
If there were a better way to organize things, there would be these restraints on developing a new process -
Wikimedia New York City provides the following guidelines for use of this process:
All of these are subcategories of Category:Wikipedia meetups. Another option was Category:Wikipedia events, which currently is being used in a different way to categorize broader events like the "year of science" or "institutional partnerships". Consequences of this arbitrary choice mean that "meetup" becomes solidified as the term for describing one-day Wiki events and also that any sort of wiki-event, like a Wikidata event, can still be called a "Wikipedia meetup".