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

• Date: Wednesday, December 9, 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: Food and refreshments and video games in the gallery
• Meetup link: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
• Etherpad: WikiWed-151209

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)

Chapter business

2016 budget: Grants on Meta

• 2016 Budget: 2016 plan
  • Meetups: 2016 Meetups
  • Metrics & Reporting Staff: Metrics & Reporting Staff
  • WikiConference Scholarship Program: WikiConference Scholarship Program
  • AfroCROWD 2016 Grant: 2015 Grant -- 2016 Grant to come

For reference:

• Art+Feminism: Art + Feminism Renewal

Check in - ongoing projects

• Recent edit-a-thons
  • Aphra Behn Society
  • Basquiat: Still Fly @ 55 @ MoMA
  • wikiD @ Seaport
  • Soviet Jewry @ Center for Jewish History
  • Women in Science @ New York Academy of Sciences

• Wiki-classes this semester
  • Race, Ethnicity, Class in Media @ WikiEdu at The New School
  • Haitian Creole in Context @ WikiEdu at NYU
  • Learning Places LIB-ARCH 2205 at New York City College of Technology

• Committee selection? TBD

New and upcoming projects

• Art & Law editathon @ School of Visual Arts (Saturday, December 12)
• Black Film Editathon: AfroCROWD @ Brooklyn Public Library (Sunday, December 13)
• meta:Wikimedia Conference 2016 - selecting chapter delegates before January
• Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 - 15th anniversary (Weekend January 17/18, 2016) - replacing WikiWednesday Salon in January
• AfroCROWD editathon @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Saturday February 6, 2016 - part of Black WikiHistory Month
• Art + Feminism 2016 @ MoMA - Saturday, March 5, 2016

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

Lightning talks

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

• Proposal for WM NYC to oversee a pilot which would issue 2016 press credentials to an established photographer and Wikimedia contributor. Described a bit at Wikipedia:Press pass.
• Give an overview of the dotNeighborhoods project and the city's OK for wiki neighborhoods. Can we get a prototype dotNeighborhood, e.g. JacksonHeights.nyc?;
• Wiki Loves Earth — I would like to talk about some thoughts I have for doing this in the springtime. Daniel Case (talk) 19:40, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page.

Likely attendees

1. Pharos (talk) 18:00, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
2. BrillLyle (talk)
3. Roman Spinner (talk) 14:02, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
4. Aliceba (talk) 18:35, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
5. Mozucat (talk) 18:49, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
6. Lange.lea (talk) 18:58, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
7. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:57, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
8. kosboot (talk) 00:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
9. Daniel Case (talk) 02:17, 3 December 2015 (UTC) My schedule works out this time![reply]
10. Tomlzz1
11. Shanluan (talk)
12. Fashionethics (talk) 19:46, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
13. Jim.henderson (talk) 20:35, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
14. DGG ( talk ) 01:45, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
15. Theredproject (talk) 00:27, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
16. Becksguy (talk)
17. Quantumavik (talk)
18. Ronald Sexton (talk)

Possible attendees

1. Ira Leviton (talk) 23:45, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
2. me. (will discuss later) -- 72.226.125.231 (talk)

Regrets

1. Netherzone (talk) 01:53, 9 December 2015 (UTC) I would like to attend but am taking a group of students to the UN COP21 event.[reply]
2. Librarianhelen (talk) 20:58, 9 December 2015 (UTC) Some other time[reply]

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

• Maoz Vegetarian tonight folks! We will be picking it up beforehand.
  • Menu
• Feedback tonight for future planning
  • A bit too much food, could reduce amounts by a bit (sides and desserts were too much)
  • Lay it out before meeting starts, but covered; then do new people / intros, then uncover food and continue with meeting...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2015-12 WikiWednesday‎.

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