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The September 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This will be the next in our main monthly series of "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events and editathons.

• Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
• 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: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery

• Etherpad link

Bring your own ideas!

Introductions / new users

• Introductions
• Focus on new users, questions, etc.

Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events

• Local Wikipedia Free Culture Alliance NYC projects
• Past, present, and future institutional partnerships with Wikipedia
• Recent editathons and projects
  • Smithsonian Asian Pacific American editathon @ MoMA - September 2

Chapter business

• Grants review
• Committees review
• Public broadcasting cooperation projects
• Tech/app/bot projects
• Reimagining WMF grants and annual plans
• Advance prepping for Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin

Future plans

• Monthly: Regular WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles (next: Oct 28), Editathons @ MoMA and timing
• Semester-long: Planning Fall 2015 WP:NYCEDU wiki-classes
• September: AfroCROWD Wikipedia Editathon @ Queens Library (Sunday, September 20) - Eventbrite RSVP
• October:

• WikiArte Latin American editathon with Iberocoop @ MoMA (Saturday, October 3)
• WikiConference USA 2015 @ National Archives in DC (October 9-11)
• Women in Architecture editathon @ Guggenheim (Thursday, October 15)
• Wikipedia Takes Manhattan Strikes Back (October 17-18)
• WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles (Wednesday, Oct 28)

• November:

• Afrocrowd Wikipedia Editathon @ MoMA returns (Tuesday, November 10?)
• Women in Science editathon @ New York Academy of Sciences (Sunday, November 22)

• January 2016: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 for the 15th anniversary (see Wikipedia Day NYC 2015)

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

Keynote

15-20 minutes

• TBA

Lightning talks

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

Likely attendees

• Pharos (talk) 21:43, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• BrillLyle (talk)
• Jim.henderson (talk) 20:43, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Aliceba (talk) 22:15, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• kosboot (talk) 15:37, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Shanluan (talk)
• Roman Spinner (talk) 22:47, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Hexatekin (talk) 18:35, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Becksguy (talk) 20:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Bluerasberry (talk)
• DGG (talk)
• Jeremyb (talk)
• Ronald Sexton (talk)
• Skigg (talk)
• Vmenkov (talk)

Possible attendees

• For the first time, I might actually get the chance to attend one of these meetups. I'll have to see what happens when I get to the city. -------User:DanTD (talk) 00:48, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Regrets

• Can't make it this time, but after last month I certainly plan on making a regular appearance! — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:48, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dirty Bird To Go

• Chicken fingers, chicken wraps, rotisserie chicken
• Vegetable selection including roasted kale with garlic and grilled zucchini

Comments / feedback / suggestions about tonight's food and/or for next month's food selection? Please let us know!

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2015-09 WikiWednesday‎.

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