Come one, come all!
Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is Sunday November 15 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.
One big topic of discussion, out of many, will be preparing for our
ongoing 'Wikipedia at the Library' classes in planning for the
Wireless Harlem nonprofit (Spanish-speaking volunteers could help
here!) and at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Other topics will include the particular problems posed by Wikipedia
articles about racist and anti-semitic people and movements such as
the article 'Controversies related to prevalence of Jews in leadership
roles in Hollywood', and discussing other issues relevant to Wikipedia
and the other Wikimedia 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.
Remember, the agenda here is up to you! I encourage anyone who is
interested to sign up to give a presentation or suggest a topic for
general discussion at our wikimeetup page (given below).
---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 either the Chinese
restaurant Columbia Cottage, or the Kosher Moroccan restaurant Cafe
Nana (help us decide!).
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can officially 'sign up' at that page, and please add your ideas
to the agenda!
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:12:22 -0500 David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com>
writes:
> We need to try to set up a general calendar of some sort
> for related NYC activities to try to avoid conflicts like this,
> but there will be increasingly be so much going that it
> will be sometimes unavoidable.
It ain't easy when New York is a summer festival that doesn't quit when
the leaves fall off. Yesterday I had to forego a group bike ride to
Westchester, and most weekends there are photography shows, astronomy
meetings, history lectures or other events that force me to choose.
NYC cycling interests hold a "bicycle summit" every February to minimize
schedule conflicts among events such as the [[Five Boro Bike Tour]] and
the hundred mile rides of [[Transportation Alternatives]]. Small or
weekday events such as this Thursday's ride to the Tibetan museum in
Staten Island, probably attracting only a dozen people, are not included.
Perhaps a similar coordination among New York's non commercial Web
interests would be productive.
Yesterday we heard from a new user of Commons, coming from a photography
background rather than a Wikipedia background, who is having trouble with
our admittedly arcane upload procedures. Meanwhile my Wiki background
makes Commons easy; it's just that I seldom understand how to produce a
photo good enough to be worth giving away for free. Darn it, we need
peple like that. People like me can teach them our methods and hope to
get hints from their years of experience in the art of picture making.
There ought to be a specialized meeting, preferably in an Internet cafe
or other place that can give good connections and the ability to show
each other how to handle things.
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