Wikipedia:Meetup
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Regular (or more spontaneous) face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians take place in cities around the world. This page is used as a starting point for Wikipedians organising meetups, and subpages are used for finalising the details once a meetup has been agreed. For meetings in other languages/places please use the interlanguage links from this page.
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Cities and countries hosting meetups around the world[edit]
Projects & events[edit]
Projects & initiatives[edit]
- AfroCROWD
- Art+Feminism
- Black Lunch Table
- wikiD: Women. Wikipedia. Design.
- Smithsonian APA Asian Pacific American
- Women in Red
International[edit]
- WikiCon (WikiConference/WikiConvention)
Categories[edit]
- Wikiday
- Wikimania
- Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiWednesday
- Wikipedia Takes The City
- WikiSym
- Wikiversity Meetup
Future meetups[edit]
Scheduled future meetups[edit]
Wikipedia Meetups
November 2015 +/- | |
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UW Seattle WikipediaLab: Pacific Northwest (Mondays) | November 2–30, 2015 |
Aphra Behn Society Editathon (Summit, NJ) | November 4, 2015 |
London 99 | November 8, 2015 |
Singapore 8 | November 8, 2015 |
Women in Science (world virtual Edit-a-thon) | November 8–29, 2015 |
Seattle | November 10, 2015 |
Basquiat: Still Fly @ 55 @ MoMA | November 10, 2015 |
Contemporary Glass Art 2015 @ Corning Museum of Glass | November 11, 2015 |
Chennai | November 14, 2015 |
WikiD: Women, Wikipedia, Design @ NYC Seaport | November 14, 2015 |
Birmingham 4 | November 15, 2015 |
Black Lunch Table - New Orleans | November 17, 2015 |
Feminist Collective of McGill Law Edit-A-Thon - Montreal | November 16, 2015 |
Brisbane 9 | November 21, 2015 |
Mumbai 26 | November 21, 2015 |
Women in Science @ New York Academy of Sciences | November 22, 2015 |
Soviet Jewry @ Center for Jewish History | November 22, 2015 |
East London 3 | November 24, 2015 |
Cambridge 29 | November 28, 2015 |
Tacloban 4 | November 28, 2015 |
Oxford 34 | November 29, 2015 |
December 2015 +/- | |
Catbalogan 1 | December 1, 2015 |
Catarman 1 | December 2, 2015 |
WikiWednesday @ Babycastles (December) | December 9, 2015 |
Black Film: AfroCROWD @ Brooklyn Public Library | December 13, 2015 |
Cascadia Wikimedians User Group annual meeting | December 13, 2015 |
London 100 | December 13, 2015 |
Full Meetup Calendar |
Procedure and advice[edit]
- Create the page
- Use or create a sub page of Wikipedia:Meetup to organize the meeting.
- Make it easy to sign up, with simple subsections like Likely attendees, Possible attendees and Regrets for signup lists, as at Meetup/NYC.
- See Wikipedia Meetups - A design pattern catalogue for advice about Locations, Timing, People, and Topics.
- Attract attendees
- Solicit invitations of geographically local Wikipedia users.
- Create a geonotice request.
- Create a list of Wikipedians interested in future and regular meetups for a given location where they can sign up (alternatively, userboxes with corresponding categories can be used).
- Use an info box like {{Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne/Invite}} for mass invitations.
- Use other media outside of Wikipedia to advertise to non-Wikipedia users
- Post a notice at the relevant page of wikipedia.meetup.com
- Post a couple of notices on Craigslist (free).
- Word of mouth is always an option.
- Don't be afraid to spam people: Make a big list like Meetup/NYC/Invite list from all people who have ever expressed interest in attending a meetup, as well as all people in categories like Category:Wikipedians in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia userbox and other regional categories.
- Don't manually post notices to all the editors who are listed in a geographical category. Simply post a request at WP:BOTREQ, asking for a bot owner to have a bot deliver the (specified) message to everyone in the category.
- Place notices at talk pages like Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philadelphia and even Talk:Philadelphia.
- Contact your local chapter - if you have one - who will be able to contact people in the local area, or help you in other ways.
- Organize event
- Organize location
- Organize eating arrangements
- Settle on a definite time and place, and don't change it. If someone is just bold, people will know about the date a few weeks in advance (instead of a couple of days), which will make planning easier for individuals. Getting input from everyone is good, but you don't need a formal vote on everything, which can delay the process.
- Consider whether you want any sort of agenda for the meetup (like a discussion on a specific topic, or forming a local chapter).
Past meetups[edit]
There have been many meetups in various locations across the globe.
Pictures[edit]
A gallery from many different cities can be found at:
Gallery[edit]
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First meetup
Dhaka, Bangladesh
July 14, 2007 -
Fifth meetup
Philadelphia, United States
November 11, 2007 -
First meetup
Vancouver, Canada
May 5, 2008 -
1st WikiMeetup
Mumbai
September 20, 2010 -
1st WikiMeetup
New Delhi
September 22, 2010 -
19th Bangalore Meetup
Bangalore
September 24, 2010 -
1st WikiMeetup
Kolkata
December 11, 2010 -
Bangalore Odia Wiki Workshop
Bangalore
March 6, 2011 -
Wikimedia Kenya meet up
Kenya
May 26, 2012 -
Third meetup
Chittagong
February 7, 2015 -
AfroCROWD Kickoff Event
Brooklyn, United States
February 7 and 8, 2015 -
2015 Art+Feminism @ MoMA
New York City, United States
March 7, 2015 -
Wikipedia Singapore Meetup 8 @ National Library, Singapore
November 8, 2015
Tools[edit]
See also[edit]
- Geonotice
- Meta Meetup
- WikiCon (WikiConference/WikiConvention)
- Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon
- Community of Wikipedia
- Program evaluation: edit-a-thons
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikipedia events. |
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