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)

• 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.

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)

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:

• 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

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

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

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

You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page.

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