Come one, come all!
Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is this Sunday June 1 at Columbia University.
This is a meeting for volunteers to the projects of the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation, and everyone else too, who has ever looked at
Wikipedia and wondered what's going on behind it.
Organizational issues on the agenda will include electing a board of
directors for the Wikimedia NYC chapter, and preparing for a "Wiki
Week" or "Wiki Conference" with Columbia Free Culture for the fall at
Columbia University
There will also be presentations from Wikipedians/Wikimedians on a
number of different topics in the projects.
We welcome all guests. If you support open education and free culture,
we are your people. If you have a project you want to work on with us,
this is a great opportunity to get acquainted. If you want someone to
give a talk or teach a class with an inside view of Wikipedia, meet
your volunteers. And if you just have any questions, we'd be glad to
try to answer them.
---Meeting details---
2:30 PM - 5:00PM:
Room 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.
5:00 PM onwards:
Meetup at Pupin Hall, and then walk together to The Symposium, a local
Greek restaurant with an oddly appropriate name. After the restaurant,
we can return to Pupin Hall for an observing session with the
telescopes on the roof, weather permitting.
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can also officially 'sign up' at that page if you want to.
Thanks,
Pharos
Hi all,
Our Wikipedia Takes Manhattan photo event (the first of its kind
anywhere) was held on April 4, and we now have all photos online and
illustrating articles.
We got photos for 92 specifically requested sites (90 separate
articles), nearly half of the 188 on our list.
Check out these links:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan
(general report on the event)
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Gallery
(our cool gallery of all the photos taken)
Also, we have a report on our WikiNortheast blog at
http://wikinortheast.blogspot.com/ (this is a regional blog geared
toward fellow Wikimedians in the Northeast US; if anyone wants to
contribute a guest post on something, pop me a personal e-mail)
Thanks,
Pharos