Introduction
Preface
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Overall Stats for 2016-2017
edit- >130 unique attendees
- >22 new articles
- 23 weekly workshops
- 9 major events
Programs and Events
Contributor to a global movementeditLocated in one of the most populous immigrant cities in the nation and a global hub for numerous technological, cultural, medical, and business interests, Wikimedia NYC has striven to develop types of activity not just useful for itself, but equally for other Wikimedia community groups. Project organizers in Wikimedia NYC host events with the intent to offer examples for future events here and around the world. This happens because NYC is a big city with 100+ public Wikipedia events every year, and because Wikimedia NYC includes a diverse base of about 50 people who have organized these event in the last year. This includes connecting regionally, including leading almost all of the public training sessions at WikiConference North America, as well as globally, like the WikiArte campaign which grew beyond the MoMA event to embrace Wikimedia affiliates throughout Latin America, modeled on some of longer-term work helping to support Art+Feminism locally and globally.
Salons and Wikipedia Dayedit
The base of Wikimedia NYC activities is the organization of Wikipedia events for the public. This includes Wikipedia edit-a-thons, which directly produce content and get more global attention, but also monthly Wednesday evening salons for broader discussion and engagement with the general public, as well as occasional workshops and presentations for specialized communities, and our annual Wikipedia Day conference, this year held at the Ace Hotel with Katherine Maher and other speakers. In the past year Wikimedia NYC participants have organized:
Cultural partnershipsedit
NYC is home to many institutions with both national and international influence. Wikimedia NYC has collaborations with many of them, and we have used this to leverage international wiki-collaborations. Organizations offer expert content and in return our community offers to help publish and distribute it through the Wikimedia projects. We have continued and amplified our traditional strength in the art world and with libraries of all kinds (public, academic, and institutional). More recently, we have worked to expand the GLAM model to focus on scientific institutions. In the past year Wikimedia NYC participants have organized:
Wikimedia NYC has collaborated with the following organizations in the last year -
University and College partnershipseditWikimedia NYC maintains a strong engagement with educators and other academics at universities in our city and region. We have helped lead presentations, faculty workshops, university-based editathons, and also student workshops for classes participating in Wiki Education Foundation and related assignment-based programs. The chapter has helped provide guidance to academics engaged with the Wiki Education Foundation programs, and has provided a local support network to those engaged in these projects, particularly from our chapter members who are themselves university faculty. Wikimedia NYC has partnered with fourteen universities and colleges, each of which has hosted more than 3 Wikipedia events in the past year:
The wiki pedagogy underlining the LaGuardia Community College projects were also examined in two scholarly articles by LaGuardia faculty. "Wikifying Science Fiction’s 'Grand Dame': The LaGuardia Community College Octavia E. Butler Project on Wikipedia" (on the long-term work of students and scholars on the Butler entries) is set to appear in the Modern Language Association collection Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler, edited by Dr. Tarshia L. Stanley, while "Connecting Wikipedia and the Archive: Building a Public History of HIV/AIDS in New York City" (on the student work at LaGuardia and Wagner Archives GLAM) is forthcoming June 2017 in the journal Wiki Studies.
TechnologyeditWikimedia NYC participants include software and tool developers as well as non-technical community members who pilot test the tools which developers produce. We have recently engaged more with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other MediaWiki-based technologists in our region, and have built a stronger basis for community tech development. We have championed the broader use of the Programs & Events Dashboard. Initially developed for the Wiki Education Foundation, we have used it for editathons and other chapter events as well as Art+Feminism and other global Wikimedia affiliates. Our adaptations have been supported by further tech development by the Wiki Education Foundation in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation. The chapter helped host the Enterprise MediaWiki Conference and a public tech event for the ‘Wikipedia Takes Manhattan’ photography contest with Open House New York. For the year of 2017, we are holding a monthly Sunday afternoon hackathon at the Ace Hotel, bringing together both tech and content contributors to find areas of connection for relevant tech development, ranging from templates to tools to bug-filing.
Cultural partnershipseditWikimedia NYC will continue to collaborate with the many local and international organizations that call New York state its home. Specifically, Wikimedia NYC plans to collaborate with the following organizations- University and College partnershipseditEducational programs via support for WikiEdu efforts will include 5 schools will participate in Wikipedia Educational Programs with workshops or classroom assignments, 5 course pages will be created documenting student and class participation, 50 students will join as new users, 50 articles will be edited by participants in the education program.
TechnologyeditGeneral: We will support 10 events a year of community tech hackathons and other initiatives, working with local editors, developers and universities and the Wikimedia Foundation technical collaboration team, channeling developing talent. We aim to develop new and improved tools and workflows for community-related projects, especially those that benefit underserved areas. Video documentation: We have an initiative to produce high-quality video of our events, and interviews/storytelling with our program participants. The goal of this is to show the human face of local wiki collaboration, with people from diverse communities and areas of experience, and encourage those interested in starting up in other regions. Wiki NYC will do this for 3 events in 2017-18.
Contributor to a global movementeditWe will support five international programs related to these program activities through hosting either main node or satellite events. Support entails creating event pages that often serve as the main event page for global nodes, outreach, networking, resource sharing. There is a particular budget for Wikipedia Asian Month. International events include:
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