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