The October 2017 NYC WikiWednesday salon with the Wikimedia NYC community was held on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

• Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2017
• Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
• Location: TBD
• Location: Babycastles. 145 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), Basement level, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011

40°44′18″N 73°59′55.6″W / 40.73833°N 73.998778°W / 40.73833; -73.998778

• 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
• Meetup link:
• Etherpad: wikinyc Oct 2017

Bring your own ideas!

• 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Introductions for visitors
• 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)

Recent edit-a-thons, etc.

Since last WikiWednesday

• LaGuardia Community College Translatathon 2017 Wednesday, October 11, 2017
• Wikipedia @ Open House New York / Weekend Photo Competition - concluding "upload party", Sunday October 15, 2017
• Partnership with OCLC for continuing online training for librarians at public libraries, with update from User:Vizzylane

• meta:Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Direction
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• The SAPG grant process. Becksguy (talk) 23:36, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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

• pizza

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

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