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The April 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community was held on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This is the first of hopefully a series of monthly "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events.

Details

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  • Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
  • Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (feel free to come by early as 6, stay later for social hour)
  • Location: Babycastles. 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), 2nd Floor, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011 40°44′17.5″N 73°59′54.5″W / 40.738194°N 73.998472°W / 40.738194; -73.998472
  • Nearest subway stations: 14th St. (1, 2, 3, F, M, and L trains), Union Square (4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, and R trains)
  • After the main meeting: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery.
  • Hackpad

Agenda

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Bring your own ideas!

Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events

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Chapter business

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Future plans

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Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions

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Keynote

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15-20 minutes

  • Lady Librarians & Feminist Epistemologies - Shannon Mattern

5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!

Notes

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Introductions

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Recaps and Announcements

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  • ArtandFeminism Edit-a-thons
  • Wikipedia Day
  • AfroCrowd Edit-a-thons
    • Kicked off in February, events in March, April
    • Next event: AfricaCROWD in May, train-the-trainers on June 6th, Edit-a-thon on June 20th
    • WMNYC is the fiscal sponsor of AfroCROWD - we are interested in being the fiscal sponsor for other projects
  • Wikipedia Educators Network - WP:NYCEDU
  • 3-Day Wikipedia Conference in Washington D.C. (Columbus Day weekend in October), at the National Archives
  • Dilettante Army - doing an event on June 13th, interested in getting funding, Oracle Club in Long Island City
    • Edit-a-thon announcements (see Meetup page)
    • Should Wikimedia NYC have a staff person?
      • What would a staff person for WMNYC do?

Keynote

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"Lady Librarians & Feminist Epistemologies" - Shannon Mattern Link to Shannon Mattern's blog post of talk: Wikipedia Feminist Epistemology Take 2 at Babycastles

  • What are the epidemiological differences between Edit-a-thons - at MoMA and Babycastles?
  • Megan Prelinger of the Prelinger Library (SF) - from San Francisco to Outer Space
  • Suzanne Briet - making the case for 'grey literature'
  • What does it mean to be a Wikipedia subject? How does Wikipedia have meaning?
  • How does Wikipedia's aesthetics / architecture shape the way history is written off Wiki?
  • How to infuse feminist sensibility in non-content development ways?
  • How can Wikipedia show ways that ideas / history is developed collectively? [shoutout to linked Jazz project]
  • Q: What would feminist theory on the encyclopedia be?

Lighning talks

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Sign up

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Likely attendees

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Possible attendees

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Regrets

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