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.

Cities and countries hosting meetups around the world[edit]

Projects & events[edit]

WikiConference USA 2015

Projects & initiatives[edit]

AfroCROWD
Art+Community
Art+Feminism
Black WikiHistory Month
Black Lunch Table
Black Women Intelligentsia
Wikimedia User Group China (中国维基媒体用户组)
Florida Librarians of Wikipedia
Kentucky Wikimedians User Group
Smithsonian APA Asian Pacific American
Wikimedia United States Coalition aka 'Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States' (WALRUS) committee WP:WALRUS
- Wikipedia Day US (January)
- Great American Wiknic (June)
- Wikipedia Takes America (September)
- Wikipedia Loves Libraries (October/November)
Wiki Loves Pride
wikiD: Women. Wikipedia. Design.
Women in Red

International[edit]

WikiCon (WikiConference/WikiConvention)

Categories[edit]

Future meetups[edit]

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the Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, in Chicago on February 1, 2014

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Video narrated by Jimbo Wales which can be used to promote meetups.

Scheduled future meetups[edit]

Wikipedia Meetups

June 2016 +/-

Cambridge 31	June 4, 2016 (2016-06-04)
Women in Jewish History @ CJH	June 5, 2016 (2016-06-05)
Kuala Lumpur 1	June 5, 2016 (2016-06-05)
Moscow 48	June 10, 2016 (2016-06-10)
Kolkata 16	June 11, 2016 (2016-06-11)
Environment and American Art	June 11, 2016 (2016-06-11)
London 107	June 12, 2016 (2016-06-12)
New York Botanical Garden	June 15, 2016 (2016-06-15)
WikiWednesday NYC (June)	June 15, 2016 (2016-06-15)
GLAM Wiki Boot Camp 2016	June 14–16, 2016 (2016-06-14 – 2016-06-16)
AfroCROWD/Americorps VISTA PAVE	June 17, 2016 (2016-06-17)
Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2016	June 17–18, 2016 (2016-06-17 – 2016-06-18)
Oxford 40	June 19, 2016 (2016-06-19)
AfroCROWD Editing Lab @ BPL	June 19, 2016 (2016-06-19)
Darwin 1	June 25, 2016 (2016-06-25)
Mahidol University 2	June 25, 2016 (2016-06-25)
Christchurch (NZ) Women's edit-a-thon	June 26, 2016 (2016-06-26)
AfroCROWD Central Brooklyn Culture Walk	June 26, 2016 (2016-06-26)
Wiki Loves Pride @ MoMA	June 29, 2016 (2016-06-29)
July 2016 +/-
San Diego Wiknic	July 9, 2016 (2016-07-09)
Great American Wiknic @ Central Park	July 10, 2016 (2016-07-10)
London 108	July 10, 2016 (2016-07-10)
St. Louis Wiknic	July 10, 2016 (2016-07-10)
Edinburgh 11	July 14, 2016 (2016-07-14)
Glasgow 8	July 16, 2016 (2016-07-16)
Seattle Wiknic	July 16, 2016 (2016-07-16)
Oxford 41	July 17, 2016 (2016-07-17)
Wikipedia data visualization (Seattle)	July 22, 2016 (2016-07-22)
Full Meetup Calendar

https://www.facebook.com/events/1692575964349364/

April 14, 2016 Brookdale Community College

Procedure and advice[edit]

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The 2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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).