Wikipedia:Meetup

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Regular (or more spontaneous) face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians take place in cities around the world. 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.

Cities and countries hosting meetups around the world[edit]

Projects & events[edit]

WikiConference USA 2015

Projects & initiatives[edit]

International[edit]

WikiCon (WikiConference/WikiConvention)

Categories[edit]

Future meetups[edit]

File:Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, February 1, 2014.webm

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the Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, in Chicago on February 1, 2014

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Video narrated by User:Jimbo Wales which can be used to promote meetups.

Scheduled future meetups[edit]

Wikipedia Meetups

April 2016 +/-

Pier21-Edit-a-thon	April 2, 2016 (2016-04-02)
Chapel Hill: NC Folk Heritage Award Winners	April 5, 2016 (2016-04-05)
Chapel Hill: Women + Graphic Novels	April 6, 2016 (2016-04-06)
Black Lunch Table @ New Orleans	April 6, 2016 (2016-04-06)
ART+COMMUNITY @ Pratt Institute	April 6, 2016 (2016-04-06)
Women in Science & Engineering @ ASU Tempe	April 8, 2016 (2016-04-08)
London 104	April 10, 2016 (2016-04-10)
Black Lunch Table @ Charlotte	April 11, 2016 (2016-04-11)
WikiWednesday NYC (April)	April 13, 2016 (2016-04-13)
Take Back the Night at UVA (April)	April 13, 2016 (2016-04-13)
Amon Carter Museum of American Art - EaT2	April 16, 2016 (2016-04-16)
Oxford 38	April 17, 2016 (2016-04-17)
AfroCROWD Black Women Writers #WiR	April 17, 2016 (2016-04-17)
Chapel Hill: Art + Feminism	April 20, 2016 (2016-04-20)
U of Idaho Library Open Education Week	April 20, 2016 (2016-04-20)
Glasgow 7	April 30, 2016 (2016-04-30)
Middle East & N Africa (MENA) #guggathon	April 30, 2016 (2016-04-30)
May 2016 +/-
Wiki Loves Earth 2016	May 1–31, 2016 (2016-05-01 – 2016-05-31)
Art+Feminism @ AGO Toronto	May 4, 2016 (2016-05-04)
Edinburgh 10	May 5, 2016 (2016-05-05)
Day of Service @ Houston Yale Black Alumni	May 7, 2016 (2016-05-07)
London 105	May 8, 2016 (2016-05-08)
Cyprus edit-a-thon	May 12, 2016 (2016-05-12)
Oxford 39	May 15, 2016 (2016-05-15)
Frederick County History 2	May 15, 2016 (2016-05-15)
Year of Science @ Simons	May 31, 2016 (2016-05-31)
Full Meetup Calendar

https://www.facebook.com/events/1692575964349364/

April 14, 2016 Brookdale Community College

Procedure and advice[edit]

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The 2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Create the page
- Use or create a sub page of Wikipedia:Meetup to organize the meeting.
- Make it easy to sign up, with simple subsections like Likely attendees, Possible attendees and Regrets for signup lists, as at Meetup/NYC.
- See Wikipedia Meetups - A design pattern catalogue for advice about Locations, Timing, People, and Topics.

Attract attendees
- Solicit invitations of geographically local Wikipedia users.
- Create a geonotice request.
- Create a list of Wikipedians interested in future and regular meetups for a given location where they can sign up (alternatively, userboxes with corresponding categories can be used).
  - Use an info box like {{Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne/Invite}} for mass invitations.
- Use other media outside of Wikipedia to advertise to non-Wikipedia users
  - Post a notice at the relevant page of wikipedia.meetup.com
  - Post a couple of notices on Craigslist (free).
  - Word of mouth is always an option.
- Don't be afraid to spam people: Make a big list like Meetup/NYC/Invite list from all people who have ever expressed interest in attending a meetup, as well as all people in categories like Category:Wikipedians in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia userbox and other regional categories.
  - Don't manually post notices to all the editors who are listed in a geographical category. Simply post a request at WP:BOTREQ, asking for a bot owner to have a bot deliver the (specified) message to everyone in the category.
- Place notices at talk pages like Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philadelphia and even Talk:Philadelphia.
- Contact your local chapter - if you have one - who will be able to contact people in the local area, or help you in other ways.

Organize event
- Organize location
- Organize eating arrangements
- Settle on a definite time and place, and don't change it. If someone is just bold, people will know about the date a few weeks in advance (instead of a couple of days), which will make planning easier for individuals. Getting input from everyone is good, but you don't need a formal vote on everything, which can delay the process.
- Consider whether you want any sort of agenda for the meetup (like a discussion on a specific topic, or forming a local chapter).