Hi Wiki-Americans,

We would like to do something special in NYC for next year's Wikipedia Day, to help kick off the year celebrating the 15th anniversary, on January 15 or thereabouts, and would welcome collaboration with North American and other cities by video link for that day.

for context, last year's Wikipedia Day in NYC-

Wiki page:

Videos page:

(especially see lightning talks, etc, which could be spread globally in bitesize chunks)

Besides NYC, I think WMDC is hosting a Diversity Conference about the same time that could be a part of this, and Cascadia was also I think considering an event in Vancouver.

Thanks,

Pharos

Wikimedia NYC