Wikipedia talk:Meetup/San Francisco/Wikipedia Day 2016

These things have been done (or info established)

• Noon-6pm time is fine
• We will have an AV person on hand
• Building security will be out front
• We will be responsible for volunteers bringing people up. Stephen has a few, we should maybe solicit more.
• Stephen will be sure we have signs set up
• Set up GEONOTICE
• Create a registration doc
• SFBay Meetup page (Pete) [1]
• Facebook event Y (please share!)
• Finalize program (Tentative proposal: final program by Jan. 7) (finishing touches/coordination with NYC etc. needed, but it's basically ready)
• Local email lists: Wikimedia-SF
• WikiProject SF talk page - added it to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_California/San_Francisco_Bay_Area_task_force#Meetups_in_the_Bay

To-do list before the event

• Pete and/or Stephen: Put together a list of questions for facilities folks
• Food/drink arrangements -- Find one or more sponsors for dinner (and possibly lunch??) (Stephen is checking on WMF resources; Pete can pursue other options)
  • I'll see what we can do on January 4. Stephen (talk) 20:09, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
• Promotion:
• SF tech Meetup page
  • I think this would be good to hit. Although, technically this isn't tech-focused so it might not fit exactly... II | (t - c) 05:43, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
• SF invite list
• ...
• Slaporte (WMF): I just commented out the invitation for lightning talks. I hope that's not too bold -- but I think 8 will be a challenge in an hour, even without the coordination with other venues -- and I don't want to cut into the time of other sessions, or the possibility of a break. OK? -Pete (talk) 00:17, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Good move. Thanks! Stephen (talk) 07:48, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
• Post URL for YouTube live feed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Checkingfax (talk • contribs) 07:08, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Thanks Checkingfax! I did add the links ("Live Stream link" in each section of the schedule), but maybe there's a way to make them more prominent. Please feel free to tinker with it! -Pete (talk) 09:05, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
    • Pete - Facepalm. I saw the link after I posted this but forgot to strike my suggestion. Looking forward to Saturday. Be sure they turn on the A/C if it gets too warm. The first hour or more it got pretty hot tonight then it suddenly cooled down. The ice water got put away a little early too. Cheers! PS: Did the unsigned template add the "small" tag before my signature? If so, it did not close it, but I will now. {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:12, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks to the event organizers and all the presenters, I had a great time yesterday. I hope to see you all again sometime sooner than 15 years from now ;-) Legoktm (talk) 17:22, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the note, Legoktm. It was super fun, as much because of the great energy everybody brought, as because of anything we planned! Also, I'm not sure if we properly thanked the WMF Community Engagement Team, which provided the refreshments, and the Facilities Team, which handled all the logistics. Great contributions all around! -Pete (talk) 22:55, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Photos

I just uploaded a bunch of photos I took at yesterday's event to the Commons, in the category Wikipedia 15 in the United States. I didn't know everyone's name so feel free to edit captions etc. Funcrunch (talk) 22:23, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Wow, Funcrunch -- wonderful photos! Very impressed. I've moved them into a more specific category, commons:Category:Wikipedia 15 in San Francisco -- and also put my videos with each panelist (from before the event) in that category. Would love to see more photos from others -- and hopefully the videos from the event that are on YouTube now -- too! -Pete (talk) 22:57, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the kudos! I haven't used the Commons much so I'm still learning how to categorize etc. I've also put the photos on Flickr in case people want to share them from there. I'll probably write about the event on my blog after MLK weekend. Funcrunch (talk) 23:50, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Funcrunch. Excellent work. To add captions you need to create a gallery page. It is similar to a category page but without the colon. Then you can add photos and headings to the page just like a Wikipedia page.

Here is an example of a category page (it does not actually contain any files): Category:Michael Laucke

In a category your file name becomes the caption and it is uneditable.

Here is an example of a gallery page where you can add editable headings and editable captions to the files: Michael Laucke

Do an edit-source of that gallery page to see how a basic gallery is set up.

Notice that we only chose to put the "better" photographs from the category in to the gallery.

Let me know if I can assist. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 12:19, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Nice, thanks for the tips! Funcrunch (talk) 15:30, 18 January 2016 (UTC)