Hi Everyone,

Happy New Year! Hope you are excited for a fruitful new year of Wikipedia :)

Major ​updates / activities for January-February 2018 ​

1. Wikipedia Anniversary Celebration (Boston) : ​ ​Wikipedia will be 17 year old in January 2018! We have hosted celebration parties in the past around Wikipedia Day and we can host another small celebration/meet-up in late January/February as per everyone's convenience. ​Kindly participate in the poll and let us know your availability - https://doodle.com/poll/ts3r7vwqsfp7v4mz

2. Data and Editing Workshop @ MIT ​: ​

SJ is organizing a workshop for people interested in writing about universities and their people+research, next Tues-Thurs. Hosted by the Media Lab, which has been leading the way w/ free-licensing policies. This is part of MIT's inter-activities period, and open to the public; but requires an RSVP for lunch. Details and RSVP here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/2018_ Data_and_Editing_Workshop ​You may reach out to SJ if you are interested in being a mentor for an hour on one of those days. ​

3. ​ Wikipedia Anniversary Celebration (New York) ​​ : ​ ​ The Wikipedia Day 2018 NYC will be an all day celebration and mini-conference on Sunday, January 14, 2018, hosted by Wikimedia New York City at the Ace Hotel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Hotel in Manhattan. This Wikipedia Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day celebrates Wikipedia's 17th birthday and we expect more than 150 people joining conversations about Wikimedia and allied projects presented by Free Culture Alliance NYC https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_Alliance_NYC partners. ​More information : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2018

​4​ . Wikimedia Conference and report writing: ​ After successful report submission - t he New England ​ ​ Wikimedians ​ ​ user group ​is eligible​ to send ​two ​ representative ​s​ to the Wikimedia Conference taking place from ​ ​ 20 to 22 April, 2018 in Berlin,Germany. ​ ​ We ​ ​ ​ need to update our user group repor ​t in order to qualify​ . I have updated previous 201 ​6​ /201 ​7​ reports ​Kindly have a look at the draft - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_England_Wikimedians/Reports ​ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_England_Wikimedians/Reports Apologies if I missed any events, feel free to edit the page. ​ ​ ​ After final report submission, we can talk about Wikimedia Conference representatives at our next ​event/meet-up. ​​ ​ Thanks for reading this far, and hope to see you soon at Wikipedia anniversary celebration event :)

Best ​ Regards​ , Abhishek ​ Suryawanshi, Your friendly New England Wikimedian ​