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request new WikiMeetup event
[edit]hi. is it possible to schedule a WikiMeetup event in the near future, on a weekday evening, via Zoom? I feel this would be vital, as an important way to a reach a wider segment of the community, and to make it easier for people to participate. Sm8900 (talk) 18:21, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- hi @Rhododendrites, just wanted to get your input on this. thanks. Sm8900 (talk) 18:23, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Sm8900. Thanks for the ping, but I haven't been terribly involved with event planning for the past year. My personal take these days is that as long as people want a Zoom option to access live events, it's worth trying to make it happen, but that our events have always been most successful in-person and I don't know that we've really figured out how to do a really good hybrid events. If you're talking about a Zoom-only option, IMO that was a good fallback during COVID, and had the excellent effect of bringing in folks from outside the NYC area, but I don't know how much resources/energy WMNYC should put in when we're focused on local groups. Here's an idea for you, though: Zoom meetings as an activity coordinated by a North American hub. Perhaps that's a similar idea to meta:WALRUS (or perhaps WALRUS could just be revived)? Something with the intention of bringing people together across geographies. Anyway. $0.02. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 16:13, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia stopped their meat meetings during the Plague years and have not yet resumed. A year ago I had occasion to be in town, and breakfasted with one of the leaders, and again earlier this year lunched with both of them. Of course it's a much smaller market, but anyway they do Saturday Zoom calls every month. Generally four to eight of us participate, including a regular from DC, a recurring from Newark, and sometimes a newbie whom a regular has brought in. It's cozy, and often informative and otherwise productive. NYC also stopped our somewhat monthly WikiWednesdays with the plague, and afterwards we seem to have made each meeting a special occasion with not much regularity. Perhaps someone with Zoom powers would like to set up a regular NYC WikiWednesday session, online only unless we again attempt hybridizing. Jim.henderson (talk) 05:19, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Rhododendrites, ok thats helpful to know. good ideas. and thanks @Jim.henderson for that info, very good to know. thanks. Sm8900 (talk) 12:14, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- I would also prefer if there were online focused on supporting existing Wikipedia volunteers, possibly also more leadership-building and skill-building activities or job networking opportunities for experienced Wikipedians, as a lot of recent events focus on newcomers rather than the existing NYC volunteer community. Hexatekin (talk) 21:54, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- I think intro for newbies is most important, though perhaps my own successes in that direction, such as they are, have biased me. For insiders like us, there are two big events per year, the worldwide Wikimania and the continental WCNA. These involve air travel and hotels, so only the hard core attend. For specialties, there are talk pages, and sometimes a teleconference like the quarterly one of Commons Photographers, or for leadership various SWAN and WALRUS and I forget what other beasts. Perhaps these online specialty acts ought to be more numerous and more organized and calendared. Locally, the monthly WikiWednesdays used to be heavy on tech work for old-timers and the occasional Hackathon seems in part to be a resurrection of that. Nowadays half a dozen Wikibuddies sometimes get together for dinner and insider chatter, and I have been on railroad photowalks with fellow railfans, Wikkian or not. This coming Tuesday afternoon a few of us expect to meet at the Brooklyn Heights Library branch and talk mainly photography, a mix of oldies and newbies. At 7PM we'll walk down to the Park Plaza Restaurant for dinner and chatter where, last month, someone else joined us. Perhaps there ought to be a room somewhere, where a few specialized or experienced groups meet, each one approximately monthly and adding up to a weekly thing. Jim.henderson (talk) 12:06, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Hexatekin & @Jim.henderson I've relayed your insight and comments to the WMNYC board + Pacita. We are discussing these valid points and suggestions. Hopefully, we can bring some thoughts or proposals back to the community for feedback. Thanks for speaking your mind. - Wil540 art (talk) 15:35, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- Just to finish my recommendation, it would be leadership and organizing trainings for experienced volunteers to really scale up volunteers ability to facilitate learning activities, such as presentation best practices, design, nonprofit event planning, etc. Small grants to experienced editors with Wikipedia-related projects in NYC would also be a way to support the contributions of experienced editors in the area Hexatekin (talk) 22:50, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Hexatekin & @Jim.henderson I've relayed your insight and comments to the WMNYC board + Pacita. We are discussing these valid points and suggestions. Hopefully, we can bring some thoughts or proposals back to the community for feedback. Thanks for speaking your mind. - Wil540 art (talk) 15:35, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- I think intro for newbies is most important, though perhaps my own successes in that direction, such as they are, have biased me. For insiders like us, there are two big events per year, the worldwide Wikimania and the continental WCNA. These involve air travel and hotels, so only the hard core attend. For specialties, there are talk pages, and sometimes a teleconference like the quarterly one of Commons Photographers, or for leadership various SWAN and WALRUS and I forget what other beasts. Perhaps these online specialty acts ought to be more numerous and more organized and calendared. Locally, the monthly WikiWednesdays used to be heavy on tech work for old-timers and the occasional Hackathon seems in part to be a resurrection of that. Nowadays half a dozen Wikibuddies sometimes get together for dinner and insider chatter, and I have been on railroad photowalks with fellow railfans, Wikkian or not. This coming Tuesday afternoon a few of us expect to meet at the Brooklyn Heights Library branch and talk mainly photography, a mix of oldies and newbies. At 7PM we'll walk down to the Park Plaza Restaurant for dinner and chatter where, last month, someone else joined us. Perhaps there ought to be a room somewhere, where a few specialized or experienced groups meet, each one approximately monthly and adding up to a weekly thing. Jim.henderson (talk) 12:06, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- I would also prefer if there were online focused on supporting existing Wikipedia volunteers, possibly also more leadership-building and skill-building activities or job networking opportunities for experienced Wikipedians, as a lot of recent events focus on newcomers rather than the existing NYC volunteer community. Hexatekin (talk) 21:54, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Rhododendrites, ok thats helpful to know. good ideas. and thanks @Jim.henderson for that info, very good to know. thanks. Sm8900 (talk) 12:14, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
Lightning talks
[edit]Today's lightning talks were uniformly excellent and positive. Great job, everyone! Bearian (talk) 03:20, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
Draft:Wikimedia New York City
[edit]Improvements and talk page feedback welcome! ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:47, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
New Event namespace for organizing events
[edit]As of yesterday, Event registration is a newly launched feature. Check out Event:Sandbox for the new MediaWiki Campaign feature. What previous would be hosted as a plain Wiki page on Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/February 2025 could be hosted at Event:NYC/February 2025 going forward, with easier signup/promotion of events across the different Wikis (if relevant). You can find background how this feature was enabled on English Wikipedia over here. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 12:14, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
Meeting notes
[edit]I am requesting meeting notes for User Group meetings be published, with members' names anonymized, unless consent given. Notes should be published in the sake of transparency, for the membership to stay updated on the projects and budgets of the chapter. Hexatekin (talk) 17:57, 22 February 2025 (UTC)