- See also Mitch's Notes
- Introductions
- Outreach projects
- The small institutions; Freeing content in archives
- Contacts with libraries
- County public libraries, Columbia Library
- Teaching Wikipedia usage and contributorship
- Treating libraries with more respect; attracting users to libraries
- NYPL
- Brooklyn Historical Society
- Contacts with museums
- Involve students from the community (Uni, HS level)
- Create a slideshow (or aggregate existing) for the purpose of introducing Wikipedia to wider audiences.
- Will IP user new page creation have a specific version of Special:Newpages specifically for IP users?
- Wikimania in future?
- Primary bottleneck: sponsorship.
- Structure: consensus against incorporation and formal structure for now. Not necessary for the baby step we envision in the immediate future.
- Next meeting: Sunday, January 13, 2008, 2:30p, @ 1402 Pupin Hall, Columbia University. Take the elevator to the 13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. Meeting to be held in the library at the east end of the hall.
- Photography contest (open to general public; free-content photos at a particular event or location or of a particular subject, winners get small cash prize)
- Post-meetup addendum: User:Pharos, User:Jeremyb, User:Chaser fortuitously ran into a technology representative from the Brooklyn Museum at the post-meetup, who expressed interest in a joint project
- Requested photos
- Hack a map showing geocodes of pages with reqphoto?
- Flyers for broad outreach at big public events and at libraries (for people who use Wikipedia regularly but don't understand that it's a wiki, that it's free-content etc.)