Wikipedia:Meetup
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A Hello badge designed for Wikipedia Meetups, which includes an illustration representing various Wikipedians of all different persuasions, the heads of which are a caricature, or stylized cartoon of the Wikipedia logo
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 hosting meetups around the world[edit]
Future meetups[edit]
Scheduled future meetups[edit]
Bangalore Odia Wiki Workshop[1]
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Wikipedia Meetups
| March 2015 +/- | |
|---|---|
| Art and Feminism Paris 2015 | March 7, 2015 |
| Art and Feminism San Francisco 2015 | March 7, 2015 |
| Art and Feminism Lower Hutt 2015 | March 7, 2015 |
| Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY | March 7, 2015 |
| London 91 | March 8, 2015 |
| Project Continua Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon | March 8, 2015 |
| International Women's Day, San Francisco, CA | March 8, 2015 |
| Art And Feminism - MoMA, NYC | March 8, 2015 |
| Art And Feminism - Babycastles, NYC | March 8, 2015 |
| Seattle area monthly meetup, Bothell, WA | March 10, 2015 |
| NUIG Women in Irish History Editathon Part 1 | March 10, 2015 |
| Art And Feminism - Worcester, MA | March 13, 2015 |
| Cambridge 26 | March 14, 2015 |
| Oxford 26 | March 15, 2015 |
| Dublin 1 | March 20, 2015 |
| Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 | March 22, 2015 |
| Eastside edit-a-thon (Seattle area) | March 24, 2015 |
| Represent African American Artists, Philadelphia, PA | March 25, 2015 |
| #WikiTurgy UMD | March 30, 2015 |
| April 2015 +/- | |
| Chapel Hill, NC: American Indian History in NC | April 1, 2015 |
| Pittsburgh | April 3, 2015 |
| Chapel Hill, NC: African American Soldiers in US Wars | April 8, 2015 |
| NUI, Galway: Women in History | April 10, 2015 |
| San Diego | April 12, 2015 |
| London 92 | April 12, 2015 |
| Glam Café, Philadelphia, PA | April 14, 2015 |
| Chicago 12 at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library | April 18, 2015 |
| Oxford 27 | April 19, 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:
See also[edit]
- Geonotice
- Highly Active Users
- Meta Meetup
- WikiCon (WikiConference/WikiConvention)
- Wikiday
- Wikimania
- Wikinews Meetup
- Wikipedia Takes The City
- WikiSym
- Wikiversity Meetup
- Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon
- Community of Wikipedia
- Program evaluation: edit-a-thons
- Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiWednesday
References[edit]
External links[edit]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikimedia meetups. |
- Flickr photos tagged wikipedia & meetup – photos probably of Wikipedia Meetups
- meta:WikiMeet
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