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February 2017
Wikimedia NYC WikiWednesday

When and Where
Date	Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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

32 people in attendance! Thanks for a fun night.

TheFebruary 2017 NYC WikiWednesdaysalon and skill-share with theWikimedia NYC community will be heldWednesday, 15 February, 2017, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm atBabycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street /Union Square in Manhattan.

• Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2017
• Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
• Location: TBD
• Location:Babycastles. 145 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), Basement level, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011

40°44′18″N73°59′55.6″W / 40.73833°N 73.998778°W /40.73833; -73.998778

• Subway:
  • ​​ to14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 7th Avenue)
  • ​ to14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
  • to14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
  • ​​ to14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
  • ​​​ to14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
  • ​​ to14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 8th Avenue)
• Bus:M1,M2,M3,M14A,M14D,X1,X7,X9,X10,X12,X17,X27,X28 buses
• Accessibility:Let us know if we should set up the manual elevator for this meetup.
• Hashtag:#WikiWednesday
• After the main meeting: Food and refreshments
• Meetup link:WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
• Etherpad:WikiWed-2017-02

Bring your own ideas!

• 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Introductions for visitors
• 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)

A. Outreach, Partnerships & Programming

• GLAM: La Guardia and Wagner Archives:Ed Koch Archives atLa Guardia and Wagner Archives
• Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan Museum of Art and upcoming release of 375k images
• Health science school partnerships: Update
• Wiki Loves the Dominican Republic, a collaboration of Columbia + Mount Sinai medicine: Should WM NYC endorse?
• World Science Festival: Proposed a partnership. No clear suggestion yet, but possible June event in NYC

B. Proposals

• Tracking program outcomes - Should WM NYC be an early adopter of this experimental program management software provided by the Wikimedia Foundation?
  • Programs & Events Dashboard on Meta
• Keeping wiki friendly - should WM NYC be an early adopter of draft friendly space policy provided by the Wikimedia Foundation?
  • Keeping events safe
  • Online harassment
• Time to purchase insurance

C. Staffing

• WM NYC Metrics and Reporting Assistant Position 2016: Position filled
• Perhaps we could use a paid professional presentation on addressing conduct issues at events

D. Grants & Funding

• We get donations by Paypal and in other channels. How should we respond?
• Press Pass Pilot Program: Update on pilot program
• WMF Grant UPDATE
  • Winifred Checkin: Tue, January 10, 2017, 8pm – 9pm
  • 2016-2017 Grant Final Report: Final report is due 30 April 2017
  • 2017-2018 APG Grant (1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018): Start APG in January or February 2017?

Recent edit-a-thons

Since last WikiWednesday

1. TO COME

1. TO COME

1. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros: New GLAM project
2. DOITT: January 2017?
3. Gitmo editathon: January 2017?
4. Broadly workshop
5. Monthly wiki-workshop/hackathon series at Ace Hotel: starting February 2017
6. BedStuy or Die Rapper editathon outreach
7. AfroCROWD BlackWikiHistory Month: Updates? Schomburg possibly? February 2017
8. Art + Feminism planning? March 2017

Upcoming events

1. TO COME

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

• Update on wiki.JacksonHeights.nyc (Tom Lowenhaupt) p.s don't go thee yet!
• GetOrganizedBK potential project: Can we automate checking citations from unreliable sources? talk about the Daily Mail policy anyone? The Daily Mail Song - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TIHannah Silverman (talk)17:55, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• meta:Stewards/Elections_2017 Wikimedia Steward elections are open till 28 Feburary. Blue Rasberry(talk)18:51, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Episode 1 of what might conceivably be aWikidata mini-series
  byBlaueBlüte (talk)23:20, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• More...

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

• TBD

Wikimedia Commons has media related to2017-02 WikiWednesday.

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

1. BrillLyle (talk) - apologies, conflicts with new job schedule
2. sheridanford (talk)00:43, 10 February 2017 (UTC) Conflict. I will be at U of Michigan giving a talk on Black Music Matters and my protesting in NYC.[reply]
3. Emjackson42 (talk)21:57, 13 February 2017 (UTC) - so sorry, have a scheduling conflict[reply]

1. Pharos (talk)04:16, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
2. kosboot (talk)04:28, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
3. Mozucat (talk)20:43, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
4. Roman Spinner (talk)08:24, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
5. Jim.henderson (talk)23:25, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
6. Tomlzz1 (talk)17:31, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
7. Netherzone (talk)22:32, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
8. Nwhysel (talk)23:30, 9 February 2017 (UTC) - I may be a bit on the late side (splitting time between two events) but want to talk about an event I'm planning, hopefully with Wikimedia Vancouver and ASIS&T in March.[reply]
9. Joanaz (talk)00:42, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
10. Paige lothlorien (talk)03:12, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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17. Jooojay (talk)22:28, 13 February 2017 (UTC) (virtual attendance)[reply]
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19. Hannah Silverman (talk)19:59, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
20. DieMeilen (talk)21:37, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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22. Megs (talk)23:21, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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