The May 20 Wikimedia Minnesota User Group Meeting will be held on Sunday afternoon at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

• Date: Sunday, May 20, 2018
• Time: 4 pm – 6 pm, dinner afterward on Eat Street (Nicollet Avenue)
• Location: Art Research and Reference Library Reading Room, Target Wing at Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55404

RachelWex (talk) 19:09, 13 May 2018 (UTC) asks the following:[reply]

• Do we want to have a statewide User Group or a regional one? Reason for possible expansion: we have folx from Iowa and South Dakota who have connected with us and they struggle to build Wikipedia community in their own states.
• Currently our most visible Wikipedia community in MN is librarians. Once upon a time the MN community was non-librarians and it seems like these folx disappeared. If this group still exists, I would like to reach out to them to build a potential user group together.

• Wikimedia Minnesota User Group
  • Officially apply
  • Rapid Grant of up to $2,000, open July 1
  • Social media, mailing list, meetup pages, geonotice, mass messages (invite list), user group reports, WALRUS calls
• Recent editathons and recurring campaigns
  • January: #1Lib1Ref @ U of MN
  • February: To Wikipedia, With Love
  • March: Women's History Month edit-a-thon and Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
• Wiki Loves Pride 2018
  • June 30: Minneapolis Central Library editathon
  • July 28: Quatrefoil Library editathon
• WikiConference North America in Ohio, October 18-21, 2018

Definitely going

• Visiting from Wikimedia New York City for the weekend, glad to share my experiences there and as Wikimedian in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and with other educational/cultural collaborations.--Pharos (talk) 15:23, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Planning on it. Jonathunder (talk) 15:06, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• I will be there.(Sjacobsen1)
• Aye. -McGhiever (talk) 19:41, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• —innotata 21:51, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Mgblck (talk) 17:34, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• JLLurie (talk) 18:21, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• I can't make it by 4, but I should be there by 5. Ben the Bos (talk) 16:46, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Possible attendees

• I can make an effort to come to this. Shaded0 (talk) 15:31, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• A proud non-librarian — Phil wink (talk) 00:08, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• we shall see. the I94 closure is going to be a PITA. -- Aunva6^{talk - contribs} 01:06, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Regrets

• RachelWex (talk) 19:02, 13 May 2018 (UTC) I will be out of state and sorry to miss this![reply]
• I'll be working. gobonobo ^{+ c} 22:05, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• BoogaLouie (talk) 22:05, 16 May 2018 (UTC) I am also sorry to miss. Prior commitment that is hard to reschedule.[reply]
• paul2520 (talk): Unfortunately, I will be out of town. Thanks for the invite! Hoping I can make the next one.