Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/May 2018 Minnesota User Group Meeting

Wikimedia Minnesota User Group.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

The May 20 Wikimedia Minnesota User Group Meeting will be held on Sunday afternoon at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Details

• Date: Sunday, May 20, 2018
• Time: 4 pm – 6 pm, dinner afterward on Eat Street (Nicollet Avenue)
• Location: Art Research and Reference Library Reading Room, Target Wing at Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55404

Agenda

Some of the participants

RachelWex (talk) 19:09, 13 May 2018 (UTC) asks the following:

• Do we want to have a statewide User Group or a regional one? Reason for possible expansion: we have folx from Iowa and South Dakota who have connected with us and they struggle to build Wikipedia community in their own states.
• Currently our most visible Wikipedia community in MN is librarians. Once upon a time the MN community was non-librarians and it seems like these folx disappeared. If this group still exists, I would like to reach out to them to build a potential user group together.

• Wikimedia Minnesota User Group
  • Officially apply
  • Rapid Grant of up to $2,000, open July 1
  • Social media, mailing list, meetup pages, geonotice, mass messages (invite list), user group reports, WALRUS calls
• Recent editathons and recurring campaigns
  • January: #1Lib1Ref @ U of MN
  • February: To Wikipedia, With Love
  • March: Women's History Month edit-a-thon and Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
• Wiki Loves Pride 2018
  • June 30: Minneapolis Central Library editathon
  • July 28: Quatrefoil Library editathon
• WikiConference North America in Ohio, October 18-21, 2018

Sign up

Definitely going

• Visiting from Wikimedia New York City for the weekend, glad to share my experiences there and as Wikimedian in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and with other educational/cultural collaborations.--Pharos (talk) 15:23, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
• Planning on it. Jonathunder (talk) 15:06, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
• I will be there.(Sjacobsen1)
• Aye. -McGhiever (talk) 19:41, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
• —innotata 21:51, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
• Mgblck (talk) 17:34, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
• JLLurie (talk) 18:21, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
• I can't make it by 4, but I should be there by 5. Ben the Bos (talk) 16:46, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Possible attendees

• I can make an effort to come to this. Shaded0 (talk) 15:31, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
• A proud non-librarian — Phil wink (talk) 00:08, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
• we shall see. the I94 closure is going to be a PITA. -- Aunva6^{talk - contribs} 01:06, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Regrets

• RachelWex (talk) 19:02, 13 May 2018 (UTC) I will be out of state and sorry to miss this!
• I'll be working. gobonobo ^{+ c} 22:05, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
• BoogaLouie (talk) 22:05, 16 May 2018 (UTC) I am also sorry to miss. Prior commitment that is hard to reschedule.
• paul2520 (talk): Unfortunately, I will be out of town. Thanks for the invite! Hoping I can make the next one.