Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Action=History March 2017

Boardroom at Ace Hotel, Wikipedia Day 2017

For the second of our monthly wiki-hackathon events, on Sunday March 26, 2017, the focus will be on building better edit-a-thon tools, and user-testing them with the community.

• Location: Ace Hotel, Lower Level and Lobby, 20 W. 29th Street, New York, NY 10001 40.7458°N 73.9882°W / 40.7458; -73.9882
• Access: Please enter and use hotel entrance (not restaurant entrance)

Transit details
Subway: to 28th Street to 34th Street to 28th Street to 28th Street MTA Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M7, M10, M20, M50, M55, M104 Car: Private parking garages are available

February 2017

Extended content

* Black WikiHistory Month-related concepts Querying artists and artworks - African American artists query Histropedia timeline tool African diaspora (Q385967) and global groups Wikidata Distributed Game: African Americans, and innovating on this as a tool Reasonator to make and add labels in Haitian Creole Add ideas here! Put projects worked on today on the Etherpad! Outcomes See also: talk page Regrets BrillLyle (talk) 06:44, 15 February 2017 (UTC) -- sorry, illin Possible BlaueBlüte (talk) 23:29, 24 February 2017 (UTC) Likely Pharos (talk) 13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC) MusikAnimal talk 17:55, 24 February 2017 (UTC) 207.237.149.238 (talk) 20:18, 26 February 2017 (UTC) Hannah Silverman (talk) 21:48, 26 February 2017 (UTC) ClareAndromeda (talk) 22:37, 26 February 2017 (UTC) Aliceba (talk)

March 2017

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For our second month, on Sunday March 26 2017, the focus will be on building better edit-a-thon tools, and user-testing them with the community. See meetup.com event.

Agenda

• Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/AceHackathon

• Tools to create or improve
  • WP:Meetup pages
  • Edit-a-thon pages
  • Enabling meetup campaigns like WP:Wiknic
  • {{Wikidata list}}
  • {{Preloaddraft}} -
  • Artworks in Wikidta list - User:Jane023/Self-portraits of women
  • Wikireporter.org and generating wiki-items on public gatherings in the news
  • mw:Content translation multilingual tool
• Other topics
  • mw:Code of Conduct adoption
  • Lightning talks
  • How to file a bug on Phabricator, and propose technical changes to Wikimedia sites
  • Pizza!

Sign up

Regrets

• Sorry, I am volunteering that day elsewhere. Bearian (talk) 22:59, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Likely attendees

• Shanluan (talk) 18:49, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
• Pharos (talk) 03:42, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
• Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:06, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
• Would love to talk about adding alt text as a way to contribute! Arthur.frick (talk) 16:53, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
• Becksguy (talk) 17:12, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

• Jim.henderson (talk) 13:09, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

• Yurik (talk) 20:48, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
• --DrX (talk) 14:43, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
• (probably) DGG ( talk ) 21:25, 25 March 2017 (UTC)