Jump to content
 







Main menu
    


Navigation  


●Main page
 ●Contents
 ●Current events
 ●Random article
 ●About Wikipedia
 ●Contact us
 ●Donate
  



Contribute  


●Help
 ●Learn to edit
 ●Community portal
 ●Recent changes
 ●Upload file
  







Search  

































●Create account

●Log in
 









●Create account
 ● Log in
  



Pages for logged out editors learn more  


●Contributions
 ●Talk
  


















Contents

   



(Top)
  


1 Basics for beginners  




2 Projects and events  


2.1  Projects, initiatives, user groups  




2.2  International  




2.3  Categories  




2.4  Related pages  






3 Procedure and advice  




4 Pictures  




5 Tools  




6 See also  




7 External links  













Wikipedia:Meetup






●Alemannisch
 ●العربية
 ●Aragonés
 ●অসমীয়া
 ●Azərbaycanca
 ●বাংলা
 ●Башҡортса
 ●Беларуская
 ●Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
 ●Български
 ●Bosanski
 ●Català
 ●Чӑвашла
 ●Čeština
 ●Dansk
 ●Deutsch
 ●Ελληνικά
 ●Эрзянь
 ●Español
 ●Esperanto
 ●Euskara
 ●فارسی
 ●Français
 ●ગુજરાતી
 ●한국어
 ●Հայերեն
 ●हिन्दी
 ●Hrvatski
 ●Bahasa Indonesia
 ●Íslenska
 ●Italiano
 ●עברית
 ●Jawa
 ●ქართული
 ●Қазақша
 ●Latina
 ●Latviešu
 ●Лезги
 ●Lietuvių
 ●Livvinkarjala
 ●Magyar
 ●Македонски
 ●മലയാളം
 ●मराठी
 ●Bahasa Melayu
 ●閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄
 ●Nederlands
 ●日本語
 ●Norsk bokmål
 ●ଓଡ଼ିଆ
 ●Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча
 ●پښتو
 ●Plattdüütsch
 ●Polski
 ●Português
 ●Ripoarisch
 ●Română
 ●Русский
 ●Саха тыла
 ●Shqip
 ●سنڌي
 ●Slovenčina
 ●Slovenščina
 ●Ślůnski
 ●Српски / srpski
 ●Suomi
 ●Svenska
 ●Татарча / tatarça
 ●ไทย
 ●Тоҷикӣ
 ●Türkçe
 ●Українська
 ●اردو
 ●Vèneto
 ●Tiếng Việt
 ●Winaray
 ●中文
  
Edit links
  








●Project page
 ●Talk
  
















●Read
 ●Edit
 ●View history
  







Tools
    


Actions  


●Read
 ●Edit
 ●View history
  



General  


●What links here
 ●Related changes
 ●Upload file
 ●Special pages
 ●Permanent link
 ●Page information
 ●Get shortened URL
 ●Download QR code
 ●Wikidata item
  



Print/export  


●Download as PDF
 ●Printable version
  



In other projects  


●Wikimedia Commons
 ●Meta-Wiki
 ●Wikidata
 ●Wikiversity
 ●Wikivoyage
  















Appearance
    

 





From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  

Wikipedia Meetups
   June 2024 +/-
Exeter June 8, 2024 (2024-06-08)
Los Angeles Wiknic June 8, 2024 (2024-06-08)
London 205 June 9, 2024 (2024-06-09)
Cascadia Wikimedians
general meeting		 June 9, 2024 (2024-06-09)
Bay Area Wikipedians June 13, 2024 (2024-06-13)
Oxford 101 June 16, 2024 (2024-06-16)
BLT Office Hours June 23, 2024 (2024-06-23)
Perth 81 June 23, 2024 (2024-06-23)
Edinburgh 16 June 29, 2024 (2024-06-29)
   July 2024 +/-
London 206 July 14, 2024 (2024-07-14)
BLT Office Hours July 28, 2024 (2024-07-28)
Full Meetup Calendar • Events calendar on Meta
For meetups in other languages, see the list on Meta

Wikipedians and other Wikimedians organize meetups to socialize and collaborate around the common goal of sharing information. Anyone can organize a meetup. Although it helps to plan a bit and have some awareness of how Wikipedia works, no one needs permission to have a meetup and there is no requirement for anyone to have a meetup in a certain way.

Some meetups are in person but online programs and events are great too. Some meetups are for discussing Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, while others have the goal of convening people to edit. Many meetups have at least one experienced Wikipedia editor present, but lots of meetups have organized and accomplished their goals without an experienced editor attending.

This page is used as a starting point for Wikipedians organising meetups, and subpages are used for finalising the details once a meetup has been agreed. For meetings in other languages/places please use the interlanguage links from this page.

Basics for beginners[edit]

There are lots of ways to organize a Wikipedia meetup. There is no need to request anyone's permission. Feel free to publicly advertise that you are hosting a Wikipedia meetup for anyone who wants to edit the wiki with the community of volunteer editors.

Although there are not particular requirements, for anyone who wants orientation, here is a proven model that works. As you plan your event, start here and modify this plan as appropriate for your situation.

  1. Get commitments from a few people, each of whom will serve one role and not be responsible for the other roles:
    1. Wikipedia editor – it is very useful to have at least one person who has edited Wikipedia before. At the very least, consider having someone take an online tutorial, make a few edits, and know how to ask questions in Wikipedia's help forums.
    2. Venue host – there has to be a place to meet. If the meeting is in a coffeehouse then someone should reserve a table. If the meeting is in a community center, like a library, museum, college, or similar, then confirm with a host that everyone has a space to meet.
    3. Subject matter expert – Wikipedia is a summary of information from reliable sources. To edit Wikipedia, someone has to curate and suggest reliable sources to summarize and cite. For example, if a Wikipedia event is in a library, then get a subject matter expert to select some books in advance – perhaps around a common theme for the meetup – and make them available to the event participants
    4. Community organizer – this is the person who invites people to the event. Since the event is for the benefit and enjoyment of the participants, then the person who can recruit participants to the event is typically also the person who sets the theme of the event. Common themes are local history, biographies of a certain group of people, or some set of social topics.
  2. Consider whether you want a record of outcomes
    1. If anyone involved in presenting the event is part of an organization, then typically they will want "outcome metrics" or "proof of impact".
      1. Organizations which support wiki events like getting evidence that participants actually accomplished something useful
      2. In general, a useful outcome is a list of what Wikipedia articles everyone edited and perhaps a record of how many people read those articles
    2. While there are many ways to get outcomes, the most popular way is to have participants sign up to the "Programs and Events Dashboard"
      1. Hopefully a new user can set up a program page in the dashboard in 10 minutes
      2. To use the dashboard, share the weblink with all attendees. If they register Wiki accounts, then they can join the dashboard participant list with a click
  3. Consider whether you want to connect with the broader Wikimedia community
    1. If you want a referral, then perhaps ask at Wikipedia:Pump
    2. Advantages:
      1. If you collaborate with others then you can join discussions about what you are doing
      2. If you are doing something similar to others then everyone shares in the outcomes toward a common goal
    3. Disadvantages
      1. Some people want to get started immediately without planning in advance
      2. Everyone is a volunteer, so probably to collaborate you have to join a global campaign like Wiki Loves Monuments, Art+Feminism, or some other project which rallies around a particular theme. If the themes match what you want, then great. If not, then those communities may not be available.

Projects and events[edit]

WikiConference USA 2015
Art and Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon, Chicago, February 1, 2014
Video narrated by Jimbo Wales that can be used to promote meetups

Projects, initiatives, user groups[edit]

International[edit]

Categories[edit]

Related pages[edit]

Procedure and advice[edit]

2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon

Pictures[edit]

A gallery from many different cities can be found at:

Tools[edit]

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikipedia events.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Meetup&oldid=1227788209"
Categories: 
●Wikipedia information pages
 ●Wikipedia culture
 ●Wikipedia meetups
 ●Wikipedia events
  


●This page was last edited on 7 June 2024, at 20:03 (UTC).
●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.


●Privacy policy
●About Wikipedia
●Disclaimers
●Contact Wikipedia
●Code of Conduct
●Developers
●Statistics
●Cookie statement
●Mobile view


Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki