Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2016-05

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Enterprise MediaWiki Conference /
May 2016 NYC WikiWednesday
Community Learning Night

When and Where
Date	Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Time	6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Address:	Tisch School of the Arts New York University 721 Broadway (Waverly and Washington Place) 4th Floor New York, NY 10003

The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference / WikiWednesday Community Learning Night with the Wikimedia NYC community was held Wednesday, May 25, 2016, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm, hosted by NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts.

We met and shared with the MediaWiki software development community.

• Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016
• Time: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
• Location: Tisch School of the Arts. New York University. 721 Broadway (between Waverly and Washington Place), 4th Floor, New York, NY 10003 40°43′45.2″N 73°59′37.6″W / 40.729222°N 73.993778°W / 40.729222; -73.993778
  • Access information: There is an elevator – go to the 4th floor
• Subway:
  • ​ to Astor Place (exit at Astor Place)
  • ​​​ to 8th St. (exit at 8th Street)
• Bus: M1, M2, M3, M5, M8, M14A, M14D, X1, X7, X9, X10, X12, X17, X27, X28
• Parking: Two commercial garages, one block north at 445 Broadway.

Bring your own ideas!

• 6:00 pm: Introduction, pizza
• 7:00 pm: MediaWiki tutorial, community involvement and extension ideas, novel uses of wiki technology
• 8:00 pm: State of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia / Wikimedia community
• 9:00 pm: Monthly WikiSalon in San Francisco video-link, casual bicoastal chat

Potentially up for discussion: Metrics reporting Hiring Committee progress

• See proposed job descriptions for two positions proposed by committee.
• Committee also prepared to propose hiring timeline.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016-05 WikiWednesday.

• Enterprise MediaWiki Conference
• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City
• Free Culture Alliance NYC

You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page.

Possible attendees

1. Netherzone (talk) 20:40, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
2. Newyorkbrad (talk) 14:21, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
3. Aliceba (talk) 20:03, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Likely attendees

1. Pharos (talk) 21:54, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
2. Mozucat (talk) 22:39, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
3. DGG ( talk ) 20:46, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
4. Tom LowenhauptTomlzz1 (talk) 13:29, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
5. Naylarodrigues (talk) 15:15, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
6. Roman Spinner (talk) 21:43, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
7. LexSMW (talk) 11:23, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
8. Ronald Sexton (talk) 17:24, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
9. Tomlzz1 (talk) 16:33, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
10. 24.42.82.185 (talk) 14:09, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
11. False friend (talk) 14:19, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
12. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:33, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
13. Tleeditor (talk) 19:34, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
14. LoreMariano (talk) 15:18, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
15. Becksguy (talk) 15:52, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
16. Nwhysel (talk) 20:03, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
17. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 15:54, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]