Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 was a celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday,* on Sunday March 22, 2015, hosted at Barnard College starting at 10:00 am, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City and fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC partners.
The event was held at Barnard Hall at Barnard College, 2987 Broadway, 4th Floor, James Room, on Sunday, March 22, 2015, from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm EST.[1]
Please note that Barnard Hall is the building straight ahead as you enter the main Barnard College gate, just north of West 116th Street on your left at 2987 Broadway.
Subway option (up then down): In order to get to 116th Street station, take a 1 train to 137th Street station and transfer to a South Ferry-bound train to 116th Street.
Subway + Bus option (minimal walking): Take the uptown 1, 2, or 3 subway lines to 96th Street (Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line) and exit. At 96th and Broadway, take the M104 bus from 96th Street up to 116th Street
Subway option (includes walking): Take the uptown C or D subway lines to the Cathedral Parkway – 110th Street (Eighth Avenue Line) subway station at 110th Street and Central Park West (at the top left corner of Central Park), exit and walk west (away from the park) 3 short avenues to Broadway and continue uptown 6 blocks to 116th Street
Note this service disruption only applies to uptown trains -- downtown trains are not affected
Participation: Participation (and pizza and cake!) will be free, with room for ~100 participants, who should bring a photo ID for entrance.
Welcome: All are welcome. We are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from cultural institutions interested in developing Open Education projects.
Format: In addition to the party, the event will be a modified unconference, with dedicated plenary sessions (organized on this wiki), lightning talks to the whole assembly, and of course open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so it will be good to bring your ideas with you.
Wikipedia Editor Jacket
Wifi: There is wifi access, and we will give you the log in details on-site. N.B. Projectors will also probably be available for use by the various presenters.
* FYI: January 15 is known as Wikipedia DaytoWikipedians. On this date in the year 2001, the wiki-based Wikipedia project went public after spending five days on Nupedia.
The event will be a modified unconference, with dedicated plenary sessions (organized on this wiki), lightning talks to the whole assembly, and of course open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so it will be good to bring your ideas with you.
Lightning Talks - Tabula RasaLightning Talk Signup At Event EndRefToolbar Lightning Talk
Add your 5-minute lightning talk topic you can personally present, about wiki topics or anything Free Culture-related. (actual schedule for lightning talks will be determined the day of). Last-minute entries always accepted!
Add ideas you will bring for open space and sign up below (actual schedule for open space will be determined the day of). Last-minute entries always accepted!
Wiki-Editing for Beginners – Learn by Doing, including: how to fix a simple typo error, how to get registered, a word about inline citations, how to insert a sentence without citations, how to add citations to that sentence, etc. Bring your computers and/or suggestions for other mini-projects -- RoyGoldsmith (talk) 16:27, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
A specialized section of the Open Space Sessions for people who'd like to get right into Wikipedia editing.
A mini-editathon track on themes building from recent Black WikiHistory Month events, and other undercovered topics. Perhaps with a special focus on the works of Ntozake Shange, whose papers have recently joined the collection of the Barnard Archives.
I would love feedback and assistance from any Wikipedia:GLAM folks on approaches to expanding the template category Category:Museums external links templates to include more collections within the GLAM space for entities that publish digitized content with unique identifiers. These links might enhance articles and provide additional references, citations, and Works and publications information to Wikipedia entries. I have found that the material is already part of citations, but the link to digital collection -- similar to Magic words ISBN and/or OCLC templates -- is not established. And like adding ISBN and OCLC links, would increase engagement and quality of articles
Also: The category name seems to be limited to only Museums -- was hoping for feedback on if it should be more inclusive to GLAM all members (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums)
There were around 18 online viewers at any one time. We had a cume of 375 views. I have segmented the video into an archive as below. I could further break out the lightning talks if wanted. Wwwhatsup (talk) 02:03, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
