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March 2016 NYC WikiWednesday

When and Where
Date	Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Time	7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Address	Babycastles 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) 2nd Floor
City, State	New York City, New York 10011

The March 2016 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

• Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2016
• 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-2016-03

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

As always, Grants are on our Meetup page, "Projects & Grants" tab
Meeting notes are on our Meetup page, "About" tab

• WM NYC 2016 Annual Grant
  • Documents
    • Supplemental info: WM NYC APG – 2016 Supplemental information
    • Staffing plan: WM NYC Staffing Plan
    • Budget: Budget Template
  • WikiConference Scholarship Program: WikiConference Scholarship Program
  • meta:Affiliate-selected Board seats/2016/Nominations - public vote on candidates who should be included in Wikimedia Foundation board elections

Check in - ongoing projects

• Recent edit-a-thons
  • #BRONX AFRICA Black Life Matters Edit-a-thon – Saturday, February 27, 2016
  • Art + Feminism 2016 @ MoMA - Saturday, March 5, 2016
• Wiki-classes this semester
  • Mozucat (talk) checkin:
    • January-June 2016: La Guardia and Wagner Archives Koch-era NYC project on history of AIDS
    • Spring 2016: Classes at LaGuardia Community College will start in March. At least 2 Wikipedia classes expected
• WMF legal research for us
  • meta:Copyright of Political Speeches
• Committee selection?
  • TBD / discuss at next month's WikiWednesday!

New and upcoming projects

• Upcoming events:
  • Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Guggathon - Saturday, April 30, 2016
  • Library event in association with Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Red/10 - April?
  • MediaWiki Conference Community Night - Wednesday, May 25, 2016
• Media opportunity At the Wednesday 13 April WikiWednesday a videographer will be present to record 1-3 minute videos of Wikipedians saying anything about Wikipedia. Videos will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and YouTube. With the time we have, anyone may present a video. Rehearse your talk before you come. You may share an experience, give a lesson, make a presentation, or say what you like. The audience might be anyone searching for videos of Wikipedians talking about Wikipedia. This will be an amateur effort.
• Proposal: Some people participate in programs that direct them to volunteer a certain number of hours. Such programs include student groups and government-managed community service programs. If such people report editing Wikipedia as community service, under what circumstances, if any, should Wikimedia NYC review and sign-off on their volunteer hours? People in such programs typically need for a registered nonprofit to confirm that they spent time volunteering, and that their actions advanced a nonprofit mission.
• Proposal: Require that WM NYC events have an event page procedure for categorizing events: event documentation
• Discussion: What kind of safety and safe space system should WM NYC have? See the new WMF team at Support and Safety

See Friendly space policy

Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

Lightning talks

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

• Wikidata session with User:Aude!
• Possible OCLC collaboration, videochat with User:Merrilee
• Regina and Nebraska A+F – editathon problems

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

• Moaz Vegetarian - menu

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016-03 WikiWednesday.

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

You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page.

Possible attendees

1. Becksguy (talk) 20:34, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
2. Anarchyshake (talk) 21:19, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
3. OtterNYC (talk) 00:19, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Likely attendees

1. Pharos (talk)
2. BrillLyle (talk)
3. Mitchazenia (talk) – I'm home!
4. DGG ( talk ) 17:54, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
5. varda (talk) 18:24, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
6. Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 23:17, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
7. Lange.lea (talk) 02:48, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
8. Jim.henderson (talk) 11:19, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
9. Aude (talk) 11:55, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
10. BlaueBlüte (talk) 19:12, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
11. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:08, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
12. Becksguy (talk) 21:43, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
13. Theredproject (talk) 01:49, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
14. Jdubbleu (talk) 22:08, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
15. Shanluan (talk)
16. Tleeditor (talk) 01:00, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]