The February 2016 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community was held Wednesday, February 17, 2016, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

• Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2016
• 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: Food and refreshments and video games in the gallery
• Meetup link: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
• Etherpad: WikiWed-160217

Bring your own ideas!

• 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)

As always, Grants are on our Meetup page, "Projects & Grants" tab
Meeting notes are on our Meetup page, "About" tab

• WM NYC 2016 Annual Grant
  • Documents
    • Supplemental info: WM NYC APG – 2016 Supplemental information
    • Staffing plan: WM NYC Staffing Plan
    • Budget: Budget Template
  • WikiConference Scholarship Program: WikiConference Scholarship Program

• Recent edit-a-thons
  • Black Life Matters AfroCROWD @ Schomburg
• Wiki-classes this semester
  • Mozucat (talk) checkin:
    • January-June 2016: La Guardia and Wagner Archives Koch-era NYC project on history of AIDS
    • Spring 2016: Classes at LaGuardia Community College will start in March. At least 2 Wikipedia classes expected
    • February 27, 2016: Octavia Butler editathon at Spelman College
• Committee selection?
  • TBD / discuss at next month's WikiWednesday!

• Upcoming events:
  • #BRONX AFRICA Black Life Matters Edit-a-thon – Saturday, February 27, 2016
  • Art + Feminism 2016 @ MoMA - Saturday, March 5, 2016
  • Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Guggathon - Tuesday, May 3, 2016
  • MediaWiki Conference Community Night - possible Wednesday, May 25, 2016?
• Proposal: Require that WM NYC events have an event page procedure for categorizing events: event documentation
• Discussion: What kind of safety and safe space system should WM NYC have? See the new WMF team at Support and Safety

See Friendly space policy

• WikiEdu's Year of Science
  • Wikipedia:Year of Science

February - Zoology

March - Chemistry

April - Environmental science

May - Psychology

June - Astronomy

July - Plant biology

August - Sociology

September - Linguistics

October - Computer science, technology, and math

November - Medicine

December - Physics

• WikiProject Women scientists - Worklist (for reference, ties into Year of Sci)
• Press!
  • Knipel, Richard (February 12, 2016). "Connecting Wikipedia with the Guggenheim". Guggenheim Museum.

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

• Google Ngram Viewer - Becksguy (talk)
• Yaron Koren from WikiWorks talks about upcoming MediaWiki conference in May. WM NYC will be supporting this event as one of its WikiWednesdays. See SMWCon -- User: Yaron Koren

You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page.

1. Pharos (talk)
2. BrillLyle (talk)
3. Roman Spinner (talk)
4. Ronald Sexton (talk)
5. Shanluan (talk)
6. Becksguy (talk)
7. Katellington (talk)
8. Quantumavik (talk)
9. Jim.henderson (talk)
10. Mozucat (talk)
11. Poohlaga (talk)

1. I have a scheduling conflict this date but hopefully not for the whole evening. Newyorkbrad (talk) 21:15, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
2. DGG ( talk ) 05:54, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

1. kosboot (talk) 03:20, 18 February 2016 (UTC) - had a conflict I forgot about[reply]

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

• Hello folks! We are going to have food from Coppelia
  • Cubanos, empanadas, and a veg option
  • If a lot of vegetarians are coming please let us know!

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