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Wikipedia Day
16th Birthday Bash

When and Where
Date:	Sunday, January 15, 2017
Time:	10:00 am – 7:00 pm EST
Address:	Ace Hotel 20 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001

Thanks for a great event! ~230 attendees, ~40 people from outside NYC, ~100 people first-timers for a Wikipedia event! You made it happen!

RSVP: Ace HotelorMeetup.com

The Wikipedia Day 16th Birthday Bash NYC was a celebration and mini-conference that was held on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Wikimedia New York City at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan. The conference was also supported by fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC partners.

The New York City celebration was one of a number of Wikipedia Day worldwide.

• Date: Sunday, January 15, 2017
• Time: 10:00 am – 7:00 pm, after-party 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
• Location: Ace Hotel, Lower Level and Lobby, 20 W. 29th Street, New York, NY 10001 40°44′45″N 73°59′18″W / 40.7458°N 73.9882°W / 40.7458; -73.9882
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• Access: Please enter and use hotel entrance (not restaurant entrance)

• Participation: Participation (food and cake!) will be free, with room for ~100 participants
• 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.
• 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.
• Food: Ace Hotel will be providing breakfast in the form of coffee, bagels, fruit, etc. from The Breslin as well as a lunch consisting of quinoa bowls and some sides. #yum
• Facebook:
• Twitter: #Wikipedia16
• Video Livestream: Wikipedia Day NYC 2017
• Video archive: https://archive.org/details/wikidaynyc2017

Wikipedia Day 16 will be a modified unconference, with dedicated plenary sessions (organized on this wiki), lightning talks to the whole assembly, and open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so bring your ideas with you.

The event will be in four areas on the lower level of Ace Hotel New York:

• Liberty Hall, the main space where plenary sessions will be held etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDayLibertyHall
• Commons Bar, semi-detachable space in Liberty Hall (etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDayCommonsBar)
• Board Room (etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDayBoardRoom)
• Meta Room, adjoins Board Room (etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDayMetaRoom)

The upstairs Lobby is an additional option for break-out spaces for small groups.

All panels will be held in the Liberty Hall main space area. Questions about panels? Please contact Lane Rasberry, Panel Wrangler

Plenary Panel A: International / Multilingual Wikipedia Panel

• QuantumavikonBengali Wikipedia / উইকিপিডিয়া . We will compare and contrast the contributions to the Bengali Wikipedia in Bangladesh and in India (West Bengal) due to cultural variations.
• Krish DulalonNepali Wikipedia / विकिपीडिया and Hindustani Wikipedia / हिन्दी विकिपीडिया
• Yuri AstrakhanonRussian Wikipedia / Википедия
• Anne NelsononCuban Wikipedia participation; Spanish Wikipedia / Wikipedia en Español
• Alice Backer, Founder and Director, AfroCROWD on African and African Diaspora Wikipedia participation

Links: List of Wikipedias, AfroCROWD Wikipedias list includes Haitian, Twi, Igbo, Yoruba, and Garifuna Wikipedias

Plenary Panel B: Post-Truth Panel (livestream)

• Noam Cohen, Journalist (moderator)
• Katherine Maher, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation – Katherine (WMF)
• Tim Wu, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Multimedia / Tech Panel

• Yuri Astrakhan, marvelous things with graphs (i.e., PageViews, Kartographer extension) demo
• Katie Filbert, marvelous things with Wikidata tutorial

Documenting Activism Panel

• Ann Matsuuchi, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
  • Student team from the La Guardia and Wagner Archives GLAM project on HIV/AIDS and NYC history
• Shelly Eversley, Baruch College, CUNY & founder of the Equality Archive
• Linda Fletcher, AfroCROWD participant and editor
• Alice Backer, Founder and Director, AfroCROWD
• Sherry Antoine, Outreach and Project Manager, AfroCROWD

AfroCROWD Planning Lunch – Eventbrite

• All are welcome to join AfroCROWD for an informal planning lunch where we will welcome ideas and discussion about future activities for AfroCROWD
• The project focuses on recruiting and supporting editors of African Descent and growing contact related to African Descended communities

Links: AfroCROWD; AfroCROWDonWikipedia Meetup

Science Panel

• Lane Rasberry, Wikipedian in Residence, Consumer Reports (moderator)
• Samantha D'Acunto, Reference Librarian, New York Botanical Garden
• Esther Jackson, Public Services Librarian, New York Botanical Garden
• Ryan McGrady, Community Engagement Manager, Wiki Education Foundation
• Maryam Zaringhalam, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University, Women in Science at Rockefeller (WISeR)

Art Panel

• Heather Hart, The Black Lunch Table
• Paul Soulellis, Library of the Printed Web
• Ari Spool

Add your 5-minute lightning talk topic here!
Present a brief talk about wiki topics or anything Free Culture-related. Actual schedule for lightning talks will be determined the day of event. Lighting talks with active discussions can break out into Open Space sessions! Last-minute entries always accepted!

• Wikipedia for Rural Communities -- AbhiSuryawanshi (talk)
• Wiki.nyc: a potential new home for local projects beyond Wikimedia servers -- Pharos (talk)
• Pageviews Analysis Tools: Demo some of the lesser-known features of the Pageviews Analysis suite of tools -- MusikAnimal ^talk
• Governing A Neighborhood Wiki - We're using the MediaWiki software as the basis for our neighborhood wiki. The adaption of the Wikipedia governance model for a neighborhood will be discussed. Tomlzz1 (talk)
• Getting bullies & trolls off your back on Wikipedia: The site is well-known for being unfriendly to women and members of the LGBTQ community. This is for members from those and other marginalized groups to learn why not to panic when meta-edits (those messages placed atop and sit on an article), calls for deletion, and challenges to your writing or edits appear, and how to get administrators' involvement on help on particularly biased editors. --A21sauce (talk)
• Radical solutions to promotional paid editing DGG ( talk )
• Greening Wikipedia, or environmentally conscious contributing, Daniel Case
• Privacy VS Free Culture by the NYC Priv Board Advocacy, Sidepocket (Sidepocket (talk))
• Wiki movement in diaspora: How Nepali Wikipedia New York user group planning to coordinate with local wikipedia user groups and chapters to train interested native Nepali speakers to write articles in Wikipedia.-Krish Dulal (talk)
• Lesser known tools - XfD stats and RfA graphs, in case anyone wanted the links. Enterprisey (talk!)
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Add your open space topic here!

• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: the longest-running student led Wikipedia school project in the country. We host edit-a-thons for medical students, graduate students, and physicians at Mount Sinai -- Salubrious Toxin (talk)
• Regional outreach: New Jersey, Hudson Valley, Long Island, Upstate, Five Boroughs -- Pharos (talk)
• JacksonHeights.nyc: The city has licensed this neighborhood domain to a local nonprofit with which I (Tom Lowenhaupt) am associated. MediaWiki will enable a key feature of our effort, reframed as a resource directory. I'll discuss and look for help on adapting the 5 Pillars to a neighborhood/resource usage. -- Tomlzz1 (talk)
• University class Wikipedia assignments and Wiki Education Foundation -- Pharos (talk)
• Planning Action = History monthly wiki-hackathon series, at Ace starting in February. -- Pharos (talk)
• I would like to help guiding and assisting the participant and also involved towards various service which will help communicate with all. Ill show positive aspects of to the community, will share and care people who needs some assist. Identify issues and/or opportunities for collecting data. Explore organizational culture and help other follow the event privacy.Mohamedudhuman05 (talk)
• AfroCROWD in 2017: planning session for AfroCROWD -- Aliceba, Shanluan
• Paid editing: A case study of a con-game on Wikipedia -- Smallbones_(smalltalk)
• The Broader Community - OTRS and interacting with article subjects, readers, and other stakeholders outside our regular editing community. A discussion on what's working, what isn't, and how we can do better. I'm especially interested in hearing perspectives from members of the broader community. -- Rob₁₃^Talk
• Request - would someone volunteer to talk about Addressing community conduct challenges in volunteer settings? A talk mentioning any issues including mediating conflict, responding to harassment complaints, creating friendly events, and de-escalating tension would be helpful. Wiki is a diverse community and as membership and diversity increases, there are more challenges and even miscommunications which unnecessarily escalate to become more serious. -- Blue Rasberry (talk)
• Hardware Track--how to expand the reach of the WMF to communities that lack internet access: NYC Mesh has been working alongside Wikimedia-NYC to bring broadband access to low-income residents. We would like to have a participatory and open space for like-minded individuals (Wikipedians!) to get involved, learn more, and contribute to our process and structure conversations. If you're new to this and want to learn more, I will have introductory materials available and can answer any questions about extending the wiki-ethos to physical, community-owned infrastructure. -- charliemeyers (talk)

• 'Wikidata + Authority Control: A step-by-step overview of populating Authority Control on English Wikipedia via Wikidata. I would be happy to do this in mini-breakout sessions with individual and small groups of editors throughout the day. Librarians might be especially interested in this.... -- BrillLyle (talk)
• Outreach Dashboard demo -- BrillLyle (talk)
  • WikiEdu Grant for improvements – please review and endorse if you have time & interest!
• Anonymity, and paid editing, in relation to both harassment and promotional editing. (An exploratory session about alternative interpretations). DGG ( talk )
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Uncommon from Commons
An exhibition of highlights from New Yorkers' photography for Wikimedia Commons, including from the recent 2016 Wikipedia @ Open House New York weekend photo competition.

Write a short story about what's happening in these photos around the room!

Incorporate at least 5 images, add your name and email, and put them in the box near the paper schedule.

Prizes will be awarded to the top three entries!

Wikipedia Day New York After Party with DJ Ripley

• Where: Ace Hotel New York Lobby Bar
• When: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Free and open to the public! @acehotelnewyork

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  Signage
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  Wikipedia Day 2017
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  Multimedia / Tech Panel
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  Post-Truth Panel]
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  Noam Cohen, Moderator
  Post-Truth Panel
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  Katherine Maher
  Post-Truth Panel
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  Tim Wu
  Post-Truth Panel
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  Vermin Supreme
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  A discussion
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  Life on extra solar planets
  open space
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  NYC Mesh
  open space
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  Lightning talk
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  Unconference schedule
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  Lightning talks
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  Cake
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  Cake
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  Cake (close-up)
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  Ace Hotel stairs

• Mini-workshops on editing Wikipedia: At least two during the event -- BrillLyle (talk) and other WM NYC WikiFacilitators :-)
   Please add your name here: Outreach Dashboard
  • The five pillars of Wikipedia
  • Self guided introduction
  • Wikipedia Tutorial
  • Wikimedia Commons - getting images onto Wikipedia
  • Infobox template

Task list

✓ Please check with a WikiFacilitator before starting new pages – recommend beginners start editing existing pages vs. starting new pages

• "In an age of misinformation, these..." (Video). Elite Daily. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikipedia Day 16 NYC.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikipedia Day 2017 NYC videos.

• Wikipedia Meetup − NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City

For headcount purposes, please also sign up at Ace Hotel

1. Much to my regret, it turns out I must be out of town this weekend. I hope to see most of you at another event soon. Newyorkbrad (talk) 17:30, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
2. I am sick like dog and cannot attend. --CmdrDan (talk) 22:21, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
3. Jeff G. ツ (talk) 07:00, 15 January 2017 (UTC) — Sorry.

1. sheridanford (talk) 15:56, 1 January 2017 (UTC) (hope I can make it. Traveling a lot that week.)[reply]
2. Alansohn (talk) 22:57, 3 January 2017 (UTC) - I'll see if I can clear my schedule.[reply]
3. Daniel Mietchen (talk) 06:20, 12 January 2017 (UTC) — will try[reply]

1. Aude (talk) 14:17, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
2. Pharos (talk) 16:55, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
3. BrillLyle (talk) 02:26, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
4. Salubrious Toxin (talk) 02:35, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
5. Mozucat (talk) 20:33, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
6. AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 08:43, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
7. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:47, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
8. kosboot (talk) 18:55, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
9. ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 20:36, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
10. Levendowski (talk) 21:10, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
11. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:43, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
12. Arispool (talk) 21:40, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
13. Emjackson42 (talk) 03:02, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
14. Frenezulo (talk) 01:17, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
15. Magdalamar (talk) 16:55, December 19 2016 (UTC)
16. DGG ( talk ) 15:50, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
17. Jim.henderson (talk) 12:51, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
18. Sm8900 (talk) 01:32, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
19. MusikAnimal ^talk 18:12, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
20. Daniel Case (talk) 19:37, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
21. Tom Lowenhaupt Tomlzz1 (talk) 23:26, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
22. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:51, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
23. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 05:19, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
24. Heathart (talk) 22:19, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
25. Wlmg (talk) 15:34, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
26. Nwhysel (talk) 16:42, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
27. False friend (talk) 18:28, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
28. A21sauce (talk) 21:26, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
29. TrMendenhall (talk) 14:31, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
30. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:42, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
31. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 21:03, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
32. Megs (talk) 16:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
33. JoAsQueeniebee (talk)
34. PointsofNoReturn (talk) 04:01, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
35. Netherzone (talk) 05:59, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
36. Scientific29 (talk) 06:16, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
37. Librarianhelen (talk) 20:08, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
38. Hannah Silverman (talk) 17:39, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
39. Andrea Karina Burgueño 173.56.64.113 (talk) 23:07, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
40. Christian Smirnow 173.56.64.113 (talk) 23:15, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
41. Xiuxiusux (talk) 23:33, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
42. Becksguy (talk) 02:46, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
43. Dispenser (talk) 14:55, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
44. Sidepocket (Sidepocket (talk)) 14:21, 141 January 2017 (UTC)
45. Nancy Silberkleit 24.190.17.33 (talk) 22:08, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
46. Bill Finerman 24.190.17.33 (talk) 22:08, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
47. Brian Roach 24.190.17.33 (talk) 22:08, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
48. Joyce Roach 24.190.17.33 (talk) 22:08, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
49. Wwwhatsup (talk) 00:31, 15 January 2017 (UTC) - Joly MacFie, livestreaming as usual.[reply]
50. Quantumavik (talk) 01:02, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
51. Ajfeist (talk) 01:13, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
52. BlaueBlüte (talk) 04:59, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
53. Joseph Pesco (talk) 05:45, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
54. Shanluan (talk) 14:25, 16 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
55. Jeremyb (talk) 08:11, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Shanluan (talk) 18:47, 19 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• 209.201.52.210 (talk) 19:17, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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